Chapter 43 The Campus Genius Used as Cannon Fodder (Part 7) A little...
Ning Wenyuan, who had a bit of sense, looked at Shen Zechen's expression and originally wanted to refuse, but it could improve his acknowledgment!
Who could tolerate this?!
Just as he was in a state of great distress, Sun Chuanhao had already snatched his phone and handed it to Shen Zechen, saying, "Put it on for him. Good brothers should share the good times, right? We'll do it together later."
Ning Wenyuan watched helplessly as his phone was taken away, but ultimately didn't say anything to stop it.
After they finished eating, Shen Zechen carried the pot that Lin You had been eagerly waiting for back to his apartment. Before leaving, Sun Chuanhao said regretfully:
"If only our campus network had no speed limit, then you wouldn't have to move out, and we could exercise together."
Shen Zechen patted his shoulder meaningfully, turned around, and walked away without looking back, completely carefree.
Lin You felt extremely sorry for these three. Calling them "Fourth Brother" wasn't something to be taken lightly. Given Shen Zechen's temper, she wondered if they would end up crying and calling him "Brother Ze" in the future!
Ding Jie, who had always thought Shen Zechen was reliable, ate a normal meal for once. Not only that, he also specially started a live broadcast.
One meat dish, one vegetable dish, and one soup, plus two ounces of rice, and even a fruit platter after the meal—his indulgence caused an uproar in the live chat.
[Host, have you given up on your dreams?!]
[With so many calories, aren't you trying to maintain your figure to enter the entertainment industry?]
If you can't even control your diet, what are you talking about dreaming of becoming a star!
[Sister Ding, no! Hang in there!]
………
"I already told you, don't call me Sister Ding!"
Having finally satisfied his body's carbohydrate needs and feeling much more energetic, Ding Jie complained about the way he was addressed before explaining:
"I haven't given up on my dream. As you all know, I have a roommate who majors in computer science. He installed a mini-program for me today to remind me to exercise, and I'm going to start exercising tomorrow!"
His fans, who are well aware of his laziness, expressed disbelief and urged him to continue streaming even when he's sleeping, wanting to see exactly how he'd be reminded.
Just as Ding Jie set up his live-streaming equipment and started broadcasting himself sleeping, Lin You and Shen Zechen encountered Wen Yin, the transmigrated woman from the novel.
However, this was really just a chance encounter. Wen Yin, like many other students, was carrying books and heading to the library to study.
It was already late, and Shen Zechen was hiding in a dark corner, unnoticed by Wen Yin.
Looking at the youthful and beautiful girl with her high ponytail, Lin You couldn't help but ask, "Brother Ze, according to the rules of transmigration novels, she's the female lead, and she might have some kind of protagonist halo. Take another look, do you really not like her at all?"
Shen Zechen shook his head with a complicated expression. "I don't like girls who are older than me, taller, and stronger!"
Although Wen Yin is not as tall as Shen Zechen, she likes to wear high heels, so if they stood together, it would be hard to tell who was taller.
This was the first time Lin You had encountered someone looking for a partner based on specific criteria, and she couldn't help but gossip: "So, when you meet a girl you like, how do you pursue her?"
Ze Ge initially refused to answer the question, but he couldn't resist Lin You's persistent pleading. Of course, Lin You eventually agreed, and he only agreed to answer after Lin You had done five of the questions Chu Nanfeng had written.
"Isn't pursuing a girl just about writing love letters, sending roses, bringing her breakfast, and taking her out to dinner and movies?" Shen Zechen's answer was very much in the style of a straight man.
Lin You continued, "Then, if the girl you like is being pursued by someone else, would you feel unworthy of her and silently protect her?"
Although that's how it's written in Wen Yin's storyline, Lin You always felt that this character setting didn't fit Ze Ge at all.
"How could that be? How many people my age are better than me? Is there anyone I'm not good enough for?!" Shen Zechen's words were arrogant and unruly, with an attitude of "I'm the best in the world," although his appearance didn't quite match.
"Why have you been asking me so many questions about my girlfriend lately?" Shen Zechen frowned slightly as he watched Wen Yin disappear around the corner.
After waiting for a while without receiving a reply from Lin You, Shen Zechen couldn't help but start guessing:
"Is it related to the plot that Wen Yin knows? You said the male lead is someone else, does that mean I'll become a supporting male character who silently protects the female lead in that plot?!" The female lead I like is a naive and innocent girl? Shen Zechen couldn't help but shudder, feeling his scalp tingle just thinking about it.
Seeing that Lin You remained silent, seemingly agreeing, Shen Zechen felt utterly humiliated.
"That's impossible. Could there be some uncontrollable plot twist that makes me inexplicably fall for someone? Didn't you say there's some kind of protagonist's halo?"
"There's no such thing as a protagonist's halo. That's just a joke. You said this is the real world. We're not some game NPCs who are forced to follow the storyline!"
Lin You offered a few words of comfort, but the effect was still not very noticeable. This incident also left Shen Zechen with some lingering effects; he would instinctively avoid delicate and frail girls, regarding them as if they were monsters.
After returning to her apartment, Lin You started practicing her math problems. She had a good understanding of the system's rules and regulations, so even though Chu Nanfeng's problems were interconnected, she could solve one in a whole night.
At her current speed, she can already finish three problems in one night, and her progress is quite obvious.
After hearing Lin You's boast, Shen Zechen readily complimented her a couple of times, and then said that next time he would assign homework, he could assign three times the amount of homework as before.
Lin You: ………
Shen Zechen, you're a real dog!
At 10:30, Shen Zechen, who always liked to reverse day and night, went to bed. Lin You was fine in other aspects, but she liked to nag about his diet and routine.
He just angered someone today. If he doesn't rest on time, Lin You will definitely grumble about him in the middle of the night about staying up late and making things like he won't grow taller or will go bald.
Seeing how self-aware he was, Lin You pouted with a hint of regret and continued working on her problems. Chu Nanfeng must have been prepared all along!
Knowing that she would most likely refuse if I gave her the question in advance, I wrote it down at the last minute as a parting gift, so that she wouldn't be able to refuse it!
That guy must have thought of these questions a long time ago, otherwise who could produce hundreds of questions in such a short time like a printing press?!
While Shen Zechen had fallen asleep and Lin You had finished one of her practice problems, Ding Jie was still interacting with fans in the live stream in the dormitory.
This was his first time livestreaming himself sleeping, and he was quite embarrassed: "If you hear me snoring or grinding my teeth, please don't unfollow me, it's not something I can control."
Their dormitory beds are the kind where you sleep on the top bunk and there's a desk and wardrobe underneath. There are two beds on each side of the walls.
Next to Ding Jie was Sun Chuanhao's bed. Hearing this, he couldn't help but chime in:
"Don't worry, you don't snore or grind your teeth when you sleep. Just be careful not to fall to the ground like before."
Ning Wenyuan from next door chimed in, "Even if you put a mat next to your bed, it will still hurt if you fall from that height."
The two were acquaintances in Ding Jie's live stream. When the fans heard this吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical comments), the chat was filled with laughter and mockery. Ding Jie joked around for a while until 1 a.m. before finally closing his eyes to sleep.
Many fans were curious about the notification, so they didn't turn off the live stream. Some were night owls who stayed up all night to wait, while others simply fell asleep with the sound on.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the three cell phones in the dormitory suddenly started reading aloud at the same time. The voices were loud and solemn, and the volume almost exceeded the maximum decibels that the cell phones could produce. The content was the key points of the law that Ning Wenyuan was going to memorize.
Not only were the three people in the dormitory awakened at the same time, but most of the fans who were sleeping with their phones on in the live stream were also startled awake. Even the night owl was jolted awake and almost threw his phone away.
Fans could turn the volume down, but the three people in the dorm had no way to control the volume, let alone turn it off.
It's fortunate that their school's dormitories have good soundproofing, otherwise they probably would have woken up half the building.
The piercing sound lasted for a full five minutes before Ning Wenyuan finally saw the notification on his phone.
He shouted, "If you stand in place for 200 steps while holding your phone, the sound will stop."
The three of them hurriedly got off the bed, and Ding Jie, with the spirit of a news anchor, turned the camera around.
He watched the other two start marching, then operated his phone in front of the camera to show that there was no way to turn off the bizarre alarm before he started exercising.
The live stream chat went from initial skepticism to a chorus of "Wow!" from viewers, with some even joining in the fun and saying they wanted to get up and march in with them.
Some fans also complained that the recitation was quite pleasant to listen to, with a refreshing feeling that went straight to the top of their heads, and now they couldn't sleep at all.
After the alarms stopped, the three of them breathed a long sigh of relief. Even though they had gone to bed late at night, they were now completely refreshed.
The dormitory was quiet for a while before Ding Jie finally spoke: "From now on, I'm afraid we'll have to do this every day?!"
Sun Chuanhao let out a miserable wail, "What sins have I committed!"
Ning Wenyuan pushed up his glasses, which were about to fall off, and added, "It should be more than that. I wrote a mini program that sets an alarm for 7 a.m. on weekends and 6 a.m. on weekdays when I have classes."
Seeing the two looking utterly hopeless, he continued, "And this is just the beginning. My rules are that you must walk 3,000 steps and do ten questions every day, divided into time slots."
Ding Jie opened his phone, on the verge of tears, while Sun Chuanhao naively asked, "What's wrong with not finishing it?"
"It's nothing much, it just locked all the entertainment software, including the game we usually play." Ning Wenyuan saw his eyes glancing at the computer and added, "Don't look at it, Lao Si definitely locked the game account."
Ding Jie glanced at his first sport:
I walk from the dormitory to the seventh canteen for lunch, and then walk around the library back to the dormitory.
Sun Chuanhao did the same as him, while Ning Wenyuan went to the library to do three problems before returning to his dormitory.
The round trip is three or four kilometers, and including meals, it takes about an hour and a half, so the amount of exercise is neither too much nor too little.
This is quite considerate for people like them who don't exercise much.
After washing up, the three resignedly headed to the cafeteria. Sun Chuanhao comforted the other two, saying, "I heard that the steamed buns and shrimp dumplings at Cafeteria No. 7 are very delicious. We're in for a treat today."
Ding Jie was pressured by fans to continue the live stream, so he had no choice but to grab his camera and head out.
Although the road wasn't actually that far, the three of them, who lacked exercise, were still a bit out of breath when they arrived.
When they arrived at Cafeteria No. 7, they didn't get the xiaolongbao and shrimp dumplings that Sun Chuanhao had mentioned, because they were already sold out due to their late arrival.
The fans in the live stream were gloating over the three miserable-looking people, especially when they saw them staggering back to their dorm, they flooded the screen with "hahahaha".
Ning Wenyuan was left in the library to do practice problems, while Sun Chuanhao and Ding Jie returned to their dorm and found that their phones were finally unlocked.
The two were moved to tears and played games on their phones for four hours straight. Just as they reached a crucial moment in the game, their phones were suddenly locked again.
The exercise notification sounded again, but this time it wasn't a law reading, but an English listening exercise. The two looked at each other and saw three words in each other's eyes: "Snatch the bamboo shoots!"
The two resignedly continued their training, while Ning Wenyuan was not having an easy time either. Shen Zechen had come up with some kind of question that was not only tricky in its angle but also full of pitfalls. Even their professors couldn't come up with such a bizarre question!
Ning Wenyuan finally realized where he had been doing his practice questions and why he was in the library. He had flipped through twelve law books in a row and even called his professor for help before he was finally able to finish the questions.
Just as he finished, the next notification sound rang out. Fortunately, Ning Wenyuan wasn't that obsessed with games, so he resigned himself to continuing to work on the questions.
As for the inspiration for Shen Zechen's questions, it was naturally the homework Chu Nanfeng assigned to Lin You. When Lin You heard that he was creating questions for a mini-program, she was very helpful and recited hundreds of questions.
They even brought out the questions that Chu Nanfeng had once set. Although the content was different, the logic was the same, so they were of great reference value.
Shen Zechen applied this knowledge to other situations, and there are currently a total of five hundred legal questions in Ning Wenyuan's mini-program.
At that time, Lin You heard him exclaim, "Brother Chu is indeed exceptionally intelligent and resourceful."
One person, who enjoys helping others, was doing his own thing while simultaneously running Ding Jie's live stream, treating it as a mini-program test.
"Brother Ze, how many workout sessions did you set up for them in total?" Lin You watched as the two of them ran three laps around the artificial lake, almost collapsing from exhaustion. Just as they returned to catch their breath, her phone rang again, this time switching to moral education.
"This is the last time. Their physical condition isn't very good, so we need to proceed gradually," Shen Zechen casually remarked before continuing to type on his computer.
"You talk like you're in such great physical condition. Why don't we run a few laps together?" Lin You suggested, even though she knew the chances of success were slim.
"To do a live stream like that with the two of them, watched by thousands of people?" Shen Zechen looked utterly disgusted; he'd rather run ten kilometers by himself!
The live stream camera followed Ding Jie the whole time, and Sun Chuanhao, who was traveling with him, would occasionally appear in the frame, of course with Ding Jie's permission.
In the mornings and evenings, Ning Wenyuan, who doesn't need to do practice questions, would also meet up with the two of them and appear together in the live stream.
The three's bizarre workout routine was spread by fans in the live stream who love a good spectacle, and Ding Jie actually became a minor celebrity, doubling his fan count to over 10,000.
For the sake of traffic, he gritted his teeth and persisted for three days, but eventually apologized to his fans and decided to find someone to uninstall the mini-program.
The viewers in the live stream weren't surprised, after all, this was a streamer who almost starved himself to death in order to avoid exercise; such a lifestyle is indeed hard to maintain.
Ding Jie bowed, sang and danced as compensation, and even held a very ceremonial mini-program uninstallation live stream.
The result was unexpected. He consulted three senior students majoring in computer science, all of whom said they were powerless to help. After hearing that it was Shen Zechen's doing, they even gave him some guidance.
If even the most brilliant professor in the school's computer science department can't help, then the only option is to beg that big shot for mercy.
Ding Jie and his two friends who had come with him looked at each other in disbelief. So, the academic genius was hiding right among them?!
Meeting a computer science professor is obviously not something that can be broadcast live. Fans waited for three hours, only to see a dejected Ding Jie.
"The professor failed to uninstall it. My fourth brother probably won't agree to me giving up halfway." Ding Jie sighed. "I'm afraid I'll have to try a different phone."
Sun Chuanhao suddenly interjected, "Don't even think about it. That mini-program seems to be linked to my identity information, so my spare phone won't work either."
Ding Jie and Sun Chuanhao exchanged a glance, both looking utterly hopeless.
The live chat exploded again:
I'm actually starting to feel a little tempted, what should I do?!
This seems to really help with weight loss, I want to try it too...
………
Ding Jie gave a thumbs-up to the comments section, "You guys are really brave!"
At that moment, all three phones simultaneously beeped with a notification sound, and a message was sent to the four-person group chat:
[Call me Brother Ze: If you don't fail any subjects in your final exams, the mini-program will automatically uninstall.]
[Call me Brother Ze: Otherwise...]
Shen Zechen's words, "Otherwise," startled the three of them. There were less than two weeks left until the final exams.
Ding Jie has reduced his live streaming frequency considerably, only streaming when he's exercising. The three of them are desperately cramming at the last minute, and even Sun Chuanhao has lost several pounds.
Wen Yin was also preparing for her final exams. She had transmigrated halfway through her life, and although she had the original owner's memories, she still found it somewhat difficult to study.
She didn't give up on the idea of latching onto Shen Zechen's coattails and planned to bump into him twice, but unfortunately, she wasn't lucky and didn't manage to catch him.
Watching Wen Yin leave disappointed with her lunchbox, Shen Zechen finally emerged from a corner.
He exclaimed in disbelief, "She didn't cause any trouble this time?!"
Is it really just as simple as delivering a bento box?!
"Brother Ze, I'll go take a look!" Lin You said, then curiously followed. She watched as Wen Yin made her way through a maze of turns, finally reaching a corner where she poured the bento into the stray dog's food container.
Then, the somewhat thin stray dog turned its head away with great pride.
Is this the legendary dish that's so bad even dogs wouldn't eat it?
Could this meal have been cooked by Wen Yin herself?
Looking at the rice that was slightly tinged with green light, Lin You was speechless. This girl's charm was still just as strong!
Shen Zechen was absolutely confident about the upcoming final exams. Not only did he not study hard, he even managed to find time to look at houses.
“You’re a girl, you should have your own room. I’m not short of money, let’s rent a bigger place.”
Shen Zechen looked at three- or four-bedroom apartments of over 100 square meters. In addition, he also looked at a lot of store information.
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