Still unaware of what had happened at home, Li Chen was angry and set a very childish goal: he would win over Ying Jiaojiao and then dump her.
Knowing that the system was with Li Chen, Ying Jiaojiao was probably a little anxious. A few days later, she confessed her feelings with a pink love letter. 001 suspected that the content she wrote was the same as the one she had written to Cheng Shuo before.
Li Chen agreed, and even kissed Ying Jiaojiao when she shyly asked for a kiss.
The students, who had been behaving themselves for a long time, were in an uproar again. The homeroom teacher rushed over upon hearing the news, his face as dark as hell.
They tried contacting the parents, but couldn't reach either side. In the end, they kept a close eye on other students in the class to prevent them from being swayed by romantic feelings and wanting to have a passionate and intense romance at this crucial time.
Li Chen started doing what every male protagonist in a tragic novel inevitably does to the female protagonist: psychological manipulation.
They say she's fat, ugly, not smart, and useless... but that it's her good fortune to accept her.
Ying Jiaojiao, who had never been told she was insecure in the past ten years, began to feel insecure and started to act like a heroine in a tragic novel, trying her best to please others, so that her classmates could watch her with amusement during breaks without leaving the classroom.
Some people thought Li Chen was being unreasonable, but Li Chen only gave Ying Jiaojiao a disapproving look, and the latter immediately jumped up to defend him. Over time, no one bothered to make a fool of themselves.
Time slipped by and the midterm exams arrived. Li Chen originally intended to just glance at the exam paper to get a general idea and then hand it in, but he found that he could only see the answers to the first few fill-in-the-blank questions at a glance, and cold sweat immediately beaded on his forehead.
Senior year of high school is essentially about constantly reviewing and consolidating previous knowledge, doing practice problems, and striving to know how to solve a problem at first glance.
This student pretended to sleep in class and then actually started sleeping. After class, however, he remained confident and never did any problems, successfully transforming from a "pretender" to a "real pig."
He asked Ying Jiaojiao for a pen, which made a fuss that displeased the teacher, but he didn't care at all. His attention was entirely on the test paper. He signed his name in a flamboyant manner and began to work on the test paper, but the more he did, the more flustered he became.
He suddenly pressed down on his trembling right hand, remembered the system, and asked it for the Intelligence Enhancement Pill.
001 was watching Di Xiu do his homework when he was interrupted. Speechless, she said, "Is this how you solve problems with increased intelligence? Intelligence and knowledge/experience are related, but they're not the same thing, okay?"
Can missing knowledge compensate for a lack of intelligence? They've only suppressed his aura, not his intelligence. His mind is still the same; he's just become unfamiliar with various kinds of knowledge and has started to forget and become confused.
Li Chen wanted to ask for the knowledge capsule, but then remembered that he hadn't planned to get a good ranking in this exam. He suppressed his panic, handed in his paper, and left.
Because she was called stupid, Ying Jiaojiao studied late into the night, but after less than a month, she made little progress. She racked her brains over the test papers, but could only answer a small portion of the fill-in-the-blank questions, and even then, she couldn't guarantee accuracy.
Seeing that Li Chen was about to leave, she paused for a moment, instinctively intending to follow, but she struggled to sit back down and insisted on finishing the exam.
She wanted to know how much progress she had made by studying hard during this period.
As for the ranking, forget about it. At best, there's Li Chen, who submitted a blank paper, at the bottom, making her go from the last to the second-to-last. There are other people in this school who paid to get in, but they are basically two or three points behind, not two or three hundred points behind.
After leaving school, Li Chen didn't touch his beloved basketball. He took a taxi back to his residence and found his books to read.
He was arrogant because he had a system and was a person with great SSS-level luck. He wanted to continue to show off. He still slept in class and skipped class as usual. He would work hard when he got back. 001 was speechless when he saw this.
Even though Ying Jiaojiao tried to control her diet, she still gained weight and developed acne that couldn't be covered up with makeup.
Li Chen asked the system and learned that she was originally a fat woman weighing over 300 pounds. She took slimming pills for a whole summer to lose weight. Out of curiosity, he looked up her old photos and was immediately disgusted.
When he remembered that he had actually kissed her, held her hand, and genuinely liked her, he immediately vomited up his dinner from the night before.
You can be fat and still look pretty and cute, but Ying Jiaojiao is not. The acne and oil on her face that have been there for years, as well as her chubby, almost squinty eyes, make her look even sleazy.
Li Chen spat out sour water, and began to admire Cheng Shuo, who had been confessed to five times by Ying Jiaojiao and still didn't flip the table and curse.
As November approached, Li Chen had accumulated a multitude of trivial tasks, and he was just a thousand points away from exchanging for a third-rate internal energy cultivation manual.
However, at this time, the decline of the Li family was becoming increasingly irreversible. Despite the objections of his wife and daughters, Ying Xingye forcefully dissolved the arranged marriage and severed ties with the Li family.
Actually, Ying Xingye's youngest daughter, Ying Xinyuan, is only fourteen years old, and Li Chen is two months away from coming of age. There is no need for the two families to arrange a marriage so early. In modern society, it is not customary to arrange a marriage before the age of fifteen.
However, it's also possible that this was a forced arrangement to create an opportunity for Li Chen to transfer schools and meet Ying Jiaojiao.
Li Chen's grandfather was old and couldn't withstand the series of shocks, so he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized.
Liu Pei finally let her beloved son know about these things and fired the last Filipino maid who stayed by his side.
Li Chen couldn't believe that such a large company could collapse so easily. He loudly questioned them on the phone why they hadn't told him sooner. If they had told him earlier... what could he have done?
He disliked his mother from a young age; she was always a fleeting presence in his life. The only people who stayed by his side were his grandparents and his father.
He strongly resisted everything his mother wanted him to learn, and although he was talented, he only knew the basics about the company.
He remembered the system and regained his confidence.
He didn't care about studying or Ying Jiaojiao; he didn't bring anything and went straight home, only to find a desolate house.
There was no security guard to open the door for him, no servant waiting at the door to say "Welcome home, young master," no kind butler, no gardener or cook...
The house reeked of strong, pungent alcohol. His father, who loved him dearly, lay unconscious on the sofa, surrounded by overturned wine bottles.
"System, 88, come out."
001 was busy with important business with the real host and only appeared several minutes later, saying irritably, "Are you trying to call back the soul?"
Li Chen sat next to his father, looking dejected like a drowned rat, and asked in a daze, "What should I do?"
"You're asking me? Who should I ask?"
"Aren't you omnipotent?"
"Yes, but you have to use points to redeem it."
"Are my current points enough to save my company?"
001 paused for about ten seconds, then replied in a strange tone, "It's enough, but you're not planning to save your grandfather?"
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