Chapter 6 Are you jealous?
Number one in the city?!
Peng Chengyi was stunned for a moment, her first reaction was that he was joking with her.
After all, he didn't even get into the experimental class.
Those top students admitted through the experimental class will also participate in the subsequent unified examination.
There is no situation where he has no opponents ahead of him.
"I'm so sleepy, I'm going to sleep for a while longer." Chen Yubai yawned lazily and dragged his feet toward his room.
"..."
Peng Chengyi finally came to her senses and hurriedly grabbed his hem: "You really are number one?"
Why would I lie to you for no reason?
He glanced at her sideways, his eyelids drooping lazily, showing absolutely no air of a top student.
"So what score did you get?" Peng Chengyi asked, still unable to believe it.
"682."
"..."
With a total score of 700, and given that the questions were relatively difficult and most people scored quite low, he only lost 18 points?
He scored more than 20 points higher than her.
Peng Chengyi opened her mouth, but was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a moment.
During the mock exams, the two students didn't have such a big difference in scores.
His performance was absolutely extraordinary!
Seeing that she was still standing there, staring at him intently, Chen Yubai reached out and lightly flicked her forehead: "What's wrong? Did I get first place and you're stunned?"
"I didn't!" Peng Chengyi covered her forehead unhappily. "I was just wondering if you stepped in dog poop before the exam and that's why you had such good luck and got first place."
Chen Yubai chuckled and said leisurely, "Is it possible that this is my true strength?"
"Heh, what are you so proud of that you didn't even get into the experimental class? I think you just got lucky." Peng Chengyi curled her lips and couldn't help but say sourly.
Chen Yubai smiled noncommittally and said lightly, "Perhaps there was some luck involved. If the questions had been as easy as in previous years, I probably wouldn't have even been able to beat you, let alone get first place."
"..."
Although based on previous mock exams, he did indeed outperform her when the math, physics, and chemistry questions were easy.
Because their scores in math, physics, and chemistry were similar, and her Chinese score was better than his.
But the way he said that made it sound like he was showing off that he was smarter than her.
Peng Chengyi couldn't help but feel a little annoyed and casually pinched his waist.
The boy's waist was much firmer and more toned than she had imagined.
She simply couldn't pinch his flesh.
But Chen Yubai's back still tensed up suddenly, and he lowered his eyes slowly: "I already admit that I was lucky, why are you still not satisfied and want to fight?"
"Is that an admission? That's showing off!" Peng Chengyi pinched him twice more angrily before calming down a bit and asking, "Would you consider going to No. 4 High School? Did their admissions office offer you any incentives?"
Chen Yubai rubbed his lower back: "There are scholarships worth tens of thousands of yuan, but I'm not considering them. I'm not short of money."
"..." Peng Chengyi's lips twitched, feeling like she had been shown up by this dog again.
"What, you still want me to go to No. 4 Middle School?" Chen Yubai glanced at her complicated expression.
“A little,” she said honestly.
“Then we won’t be in the same school anymore. Who will help you deal with strangers then?” he reminded her.
“It’s not that I can’t interact with strangers, it’s just that I don’t like it.” Peng Chengyi paused, then added, “Besides, I’m going to high school now, and I might make some new good friends, so I won’t need your help.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Yubai raised an eyebrow and said in a lukewarm tone, "Peng Chengyi, I didn't realize you were so fickle?"
"Do you have a problem with that?" She raised her chin.
“Yes,” he said, staring into her eyes.
"What right do you have to have a problem with that? You have more than just me as a good friend," she retorted defiantly.
Chen Yubai paused slightly, then his drooping lips curled up gently again: "Are you jealous that I'm playing with other people?"
Unexpectedly, he interpreted it from this angle. Peng Chengyi was also stunned for a moment, then scoffed and said, "Why would I be jealous! Don't talk nonsense. I just want to make more friends."
The corners of his lips curved into a smile: "Yeah, I was just talking nonsense."
She turned her face away angrily: "Anyway, you can play with whoever you want, go to whichever middle school you want, I don't care at all."
Chen Yubai smiled noncommittally: "I'm going back to sleep."
"Get lost," Peng Chengyi snorted coldly.
A moment later, he remembered and said, "Wait a minute, have you finished practicing your guitar? I've already done it."
“Once you’ve practiced enough, you can go ask the Great Sage for a lesson.” Chen Yubai paused, then turned back and added, “And I can set the metronome to 100 bpm now.”
"You're just bragging. I bet you're lucky if you can get 80, given how late you sleep in every day." Peng Chengyi stared at him suspiciously for two seconds, then grabbed his left hand and turned it over with the palm facing up. "Your fingertips aren't even red or swollen. Look at mine, they're almost blistered."
As she spoke, she raised her left hand in front of him.
Chen Yubai glanced down at her reddened, slender fingers and said with a faint smile, "Didn't you ever think that it's because I practiced more than you that my fingers have developed calluses and won't become red and swollen again?"
Peng Chengyi was stunned for a moment: "How is that possible?"
"Even if I sleep in late in the morning, I still have plenty of time in the afternoon and evening, don't you believe me? Just feel it."
Chen Yubai extended his outstretched hand towards her again.
His fingers are long and slender with distinct knuckles, making him look perfectly suited for playing the guitar.
Peng Chengyi subconsciously envied him for two seconds before gently squeezing his fingertips.
The slightly rough texture glided over her fingertips, which did indeed have a thin layer of calluses.
Unexpectedly, he, who was dragged by her to learn guitar, practiced even more diligently than she did.
Peng Chengyi's mood became complicated, and her hands unconsciously continued to knead.
Chen Yubai chuckled lazily, "You've practically rubbed the skin off my hands, and you still haven't figured it out? Or are you trying to take advantage of me?"
"..."
Peng Chengyi snapped out of her daze, abruptly released his hand, and glared at him awkwardly: "Your calluses are too thin, you can't feel them unless you touch them a few times! And who would take advantage of you! You're not some handsome guy."
"Don't you think my face is handsome?" Chen Yubai slowly lowered his body, bringing his well-defined face close to hers.
To be fair, ever since he started puberty in his third year of junior high school, his baby fat cheeks have faded and his facial features have gradually become more defined.
His face has become much more handsome.
Especially up close, his striking features are truly impressive.
The narrow double eyelids make the eyes appear even deeper, as if they could draw people in.
But perhaps she was too familiar with him and felt that he lacked that striking, captivating quality that comes with being a handsome man at first glance.
Moreover, she didn't want to admit that he was handsome now.
Otherwise, he'd be so arrogant.
"Just average," Peng Chengyi said after a few seconds of eye contact with him.
"Me? Just an ordinary person?" Chen Yubai turned his face away, scoffed, and straightened up unhappily. "I suggest you go see an ophthalmologist when you have time. You're strangely blind."
"Then I suggest you go see a neurologist when you have time. You're so narcissistic." Peng Chengyi sneered and turned to leave his house.
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After telling Zhou Lifen and Peng Weiguo about Chen Yubai getting the top score in the city, Peng Chengyi, as expected, heard them praising Chen Yubai for being so smart.
“If he were really smart, he wouldn’t have failed the exam for the experimental class. I think he just got lucky this time,” Peng Chengyi couldn’t help but retort.
Peng Weiguo: "Luck is also a part of ability; otherwise, why don't you have as much good luck as others?"
"...Because I didn't step in dog poop during my high school entrance exam!"
Unwilling to listen to their praise any longer, Peng Chengyi decisively closed his room door.
Zhou Lifen was stunned for a moment, then looked at Peng Weiguo and said, "Huh? Xiaoyu stepped in dog poop during the high school entrance exam?"
"She probably just meant that Xiaoyu got lucky..." Peng Weiguo smiled helplessly.
Zhou Lifen couldn't help but shake her head: "This child is not willing to humbly admit that others are better than her."
...
Actually, she wasn't unwilling to admit that others were more capable than her.
It was Chen Yubai, and none other than that.
The two were bound together from the moment they were born.
Therefore, during the process of growing up, it is inevitable that children will be compared by their parents.
In kindergarten, she received more red flowers than he did.
In elementary school, she joined the Young Pioneers before him.
In junior high school, she won many more awards than he did.
But at this crucial moment of the high school entrance exam, he lost to him.
How could she willingly admit it?
No, she needs to study harder and make sure she beats him again when school starts.
Thinking of this, Peng Chengyi took out the math textbook that Peng Weiguo had borrowed for her and began to look through it carefully.
It wasn't until noon, when Zhou Lifen called her out for lunch, that she closed her textbook and left the room.
Seeing the exceptionally plentiful food on the table outside, including her favorite stir-fried shrimp and boiled pork slices, Peng Chengyi's mood instantly improved.
Just as she picked up her chopsticks to sit down, Zhou Lifen's voice came from the kitchen again: "Chengcheng, go and call Chen Yubai to come and eat with us. This child did so well on the exam, but there's no one at home to celebrate. Your Aunt Lin has gone out of town for further studies again."
"……oh."
No wonder there was a braised pork dish on the table besides her two favorite dishes, which was Chen Yubai's favorite.
Peng Chengyi, still in a bad mood, put down her chopsticks and went to the next room.
It wasn't that she didn't want to celebrate with Chen Yubai, but if he came, the dinner table would definitely turn into a praise session for him.
It's somewhat annoying.
So she symbolically knocked twice on the door, but when no one answered, she didn't care whether he was still asleep and hadn't heard her, and went straight home: "Chen Yubai isn't here."
"Wasn't he home this morning?" Zhou Lifen asked, serving rice.
"Who knows where he went to play again." Peng Chengyi closed the door and sat back down at the dining table.
"Never mind then, let's eat by ourselves." Peng Weiguo brought the last dish of tomato and egg soup to the table.
"Mmm." Peng Chengyi picked up a slice of boiled pork and put it in her mouth.
For some reason, I remembered the day she came back, and the bowl of bland instant noodles left on his coffee table.
The chewing motion gradually slowed down.
Finally, she looked up and said, "Mom, how about packing this braised pork in a lunchbox? I'll ask Chen Yubai on WeChat when he's coming back, and I'll bring it to him."
“Okay.” Zhou Lifen nodded.
As it turned out, after dinner, a WeChat message revealed that Chen Yubai had indeed gone out with Zhang Yang.
Seeing the photos of McDonald's fried chicken and hamburgers he sent, Peng Chengyi angrily opened the lunchbox he had prepared for him and stuffed a piece into his mouth.
She shouldn't have felt even the slightest bit of sympathy for that dog!
Chen Yubai: "What? You need something from me?"
Peng Chengyi took a picture of the lunchbox: "See? My mom was supposed to prepare this for you, but now I'm eating it all!"
Chen Yubai: "...Not tall, but has a big appetite."
Peng Chengyi: "Don't mess with me.jpg"
Peng Chengyi: "Smash your dog's head.jpg"
Despite venting her frustrations, she genuinely couldn't finish the entire box of braised pork.
In the end, it was given to Chen Yubai when he returned.
Chen Yubai glanced at the overflowing lunchbox and raised an eyebrow: "Didn't you say you ate it all?"
Peng Chengyi smiled and said, "It's too greasy and not suitable for people to eat."
"You're calling me inhuman, huh?" He glanced at her with amusement.
“I didn’t say it, you said it yourself.” Peng Chengyi shrugged, still very unhappy that he had gone to McDonald’s behind her back. “I’m going back. I have class with Dasheng at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Don’t oversleep.”
"So early? Can we meet up if you don't have time this afternoon?" Chen Yubai asked.
“Yes, but I don’t want to.” She turned around abruptly and walked towards her front door.
Chen Yubai stared at the back of her head, which was full of displeasure, for a moment, then sighed almost inaudibly and called to her as she was about to open the door.
Peng Chengyi.
"What else do you want?" Peng Chengyi turned around with a hint of annoyance.
Chen Yubai patted his pocket, held out his hand to her, and opened his palm: "Here you go."
Peng Chengyi paused for a moment, then lowered her eyes—
On the boy's large palm lay the Chopper toy that McDonald's had sold out that day.
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