Chapter 77 Chapter 77 We are in love.
The day we went to Ji Maili's house was the last time to relax before the final exam. After that, everyone entered the exam preparation mode. Ji Maili was dragged by Chen Lu to review every day. Although he was reluctant, he still learned a little.
In the past, he would stay at Shen Lu's house if he was late for review, but recently, for some reason, Liang Lin would call him at nine o'clock to urge him to go back.
Ji Kai looked at Liang Lin who had hung up the phone: "It's so late and he wants to stay at Shen Lu's house, just let him stay."
Liang Lin glanced at him: "What do you know."
Ji Kai was puzzled. Why didn't he understand? His son had been good friends with Shen Lu since they were young. Although they had a quarrel a few years ago, they were fine now.
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When reviewing, Ji Maili felt that time passed very slowly, but in the blink of an eye, the day of the exam arrived.
Ji Maili blocked Shen Lu's entrance to the exam room and warned him, "If you dare to go out and fight in the middle of the exam without telling me like you did last time, you're done for, you know that?"
It's been so long, and he still remembers it. Shen Lu pushed his shoulder and sent him back to the examination room: "I promise, if you don't believe me, you can come and check after each exam."
Ji Maili stared at him doubtfully, then suddenly said, "You know my birthday is coming soon, right?"
Shen Lu: "Isn't there still a month?"
Ji Maili said, "It's the 29th. Do you remember when my birthday is?"
Chen Lu rubbed his head and said, "What's the difference between twenty-nine days and a month? Don't make trouble. When have I ever forgotten your birthday? Are you talking nonsense because you're nervous?"
Ji Maili turned around and glared at him from the stairs: "I'm nervous? You must be kidding! I've never known what nervousness is!"
Ji Maili didn't admit it, but he was still a little nervous when he entered the examination room. In the past, it was natural for him to get the last place in the exam because he didn't study at all. But this time, Chen Lu had taken great pains to teach him for such a long time. If he still got the last place in the exam, he would be really stupid.
It was rare for Ji Maili to study the test paper carefully in the examination room. He didn't know whether it was because the questions were simple or because of Shen Lu, but he actually managed to understand some of them.
After finishing an exam, Ji Maili stood there in a daze. While others were checking their answers after taking the exam, Ji Maili couldn't remember what he had written at all. When Shen Lu asked him, he looked confused.
Tao Dacheng said, "It's over. I don't even know what I wrote." He patted Shen Lu's shoulder and said, "It seems that you have been working in vain during this period."
Chen Lu looked at Ji Maili, who seemed to be drained by the exam: "No, our Mai Mai is very smart."
Ji Maili didn't know where Chen Lu got his confidence from. He himself didn't dare to say that he was smart.
After the exam, Liang Lin and the others went home as usual. No one asked him how he did. During dinner, Ji Maili asked, "Aren't you going to ask me how I did?"
Ji Huan: "How can you score worse than the last one?"
Ji Maili used to ignore this, but this time he was unhappy: "Can't you hope for me to do well? I've been reviewing for so long."
Liang Lin said, "It doesn't matter what you do in the exam. Your father and I have already thought about it. If it really doesn't work out, we'll send you abroad."
Ji Maili didn't take it seriously: "I'm not going."
At night, Ji Maili dreamed that he got the last place in the exam again. His parents dragged him to the airport, stuffed him into a cage, and insisted on making him go abroad. He woke up in shock.
He prayed facing the window in the dark room, praying that he would not get the last place in the exam.
Because of this nightmare, he had two big dark circles under his eyes during the exam the next day. Shen Lu frowned and looked at him: "Did you play Landlord all night last night?"
Ji Maili: "I haven't played Landlord for a long time. I had a nightmare yesterday. I dreamed that my parents stuffed me into a pig cage and wanted to send me abroad. I was so scared."
Shen Lu: “…”
On the day the results came out, Ji Maili's school rankings were listed, and he wasn't in the bottom ten, not even in the bottom 20...
Tao Dacheng: "Fuck, sixty-third from the bottom?"
Chen Lu found Ji Maili's ranking, smiled, and then glared at Tao Dacheng: "According to you, you are 411th from the bottom?"
After Shen Lu finished speaking, he looked at Ji Maili: "What are you doing, are you stupid?"
Ji Maili stared at the list: "Three, three hundred and nine? Me?"
Shen Lu: "Well, you, I've already said that you are not stupid."
Ji Maili looked at Chen Lu, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses: "Fuck. I'm so awesome, how can I be so good? I actually got 390 points!"
It was so impressive that even the teacher of Class 10 was surprised. If the people sitting in front, behind, and on both sides of him had not occupied the bottom five places in the exam, the school would have suspected that he had copied the answers from others.
Ji Maili himself couldn't believe that he had actually escaped so far from the bottom of the list.
This was the first time Ji Maili had brought home grades to show off in her life, and Liang Lin was also surprised. After all, Ji Maili's best grade in her life was the second to last. Now that her grades had improved so much, she was a little uncomfortable.
After the exams, it was time for vacation. Uncle Ji Maili's son came back from abroad. Last year, uncle helped Liang Lin deal with Ji Kai's affairs. Now that Ji Kai is fine, the two families can finally sit down together for a meal.
When Ji Maili's grades were mentioned during the meal, his uncle said, "He's going to graduate in a year. With Maimai's grades, he can't get into any good universities in China. It would be better for him to go abroad with Tan Ming so they can look after each other."
Ji Kai: "Send him out in half a year."
Ji Maili paused, raised his head and said, "I'm not going."
My uncle just mentioned this briefly. As for whether to go or not, that was their family's own business. My uncle didn't want to get involved, and no one mentioned it again at the dinner table.
Ji Maili also thought that the matter was over. On his birthday, Ji Kai called him into the study and gave him some information about foreign design schools for him to choose from.
When Ji Huan came back, he saw only Liang Lin downstairs: "Where are Ji Maili and Dad?"
Liang Lin's expression was a little strange: "Upstairs."
Ji Huan was about to ask her what was wrong when the door upstairs suddenly slammed against the wall. Ji Maili shouted, "I'm not going!"
Ji Kai didn't indulge him: "If you don't go, what do you want to do? With your poor grades, which school would want you?"
Ji Maili: "Love or not, I won't read it anymore!"
Ji Maili ran down from upstairs and was stopped by Liang Lin: "Mai Mai, let's talk it over."
Ji Kai followed and said, "There's no room for negotiation on this matter. You have to go whether you want to or not."
Ji Maili became stubborn. He shook off Liang Lin's hand and glared at Ji Kai: "I'm not going, unless you kill me!"
Ji Kai rushed down, but was stopped by Liang Lin: "Didn't you promise me that you would talk to him properly?"
Ji Maili suddenly looked at Liang Lin: "Mom, what do you mean, you want me to leave just like Dad?"
Liang Lin didn't know how to tell him that it was actually her idea to send him abroad.
Ji Maili looked at Liang Lin, then at Ji Kai, and finally at Ji Huan: "You know that too, right?"
Ji Huan had seen Ji Maili act stubborn countless times since they were little, but this was the first time she had seen him look like this, as if he had given up everything and was ready to go all out. She suddenly felt a little panicked and grabbed Ji Maili's arm: "What do I know?" She looked at Liang Lin and Ji Kai: "Where are you going to send him? You're not really going to let him go abroad, are you? He's a lazy boy, can't even tell the difference between crops, and can't speak English. He'll starve to death if he goes out."
Hearing that Ji Huan stood on his side, Ji Maili loosened his clenched hands.
Ji Huan was panicking: "Dad, didn't Mai Mai do well in the exam this time? There's still a year left. If he tries harder, maybe he can..."
Ji Kai: "Very good? A score of over 200 is considered good, you say? You don't know what kind of person he is. He's a flash in the pan. One day he's willing to study, but tomorrow he's gone off to cause trouble. What good school can he possibly get into? Even if he doesn't go abroad this year, he'll still have to go next year. There's no room for negotiation."
Seeing that Ji Kai insisted on sending him abroad, Ji Maili also said: "I say again, I won't go!"
Ji Kai wasn't being unreasonable. He asked, "Why don't you go? Didn't we agree to go abroad in two years when we graduated from junior high school? Why are you changing your mind now?"
Ji Maili remembered that he had indeed said this when he graduated from junior high school, but at that time he agreed to go because he had quarreled with Chen Lu and Chen Lu disappeared, and he was sad and upset.
"because......"
Ji Huan suddenly grabbed Ji Maili's arm and interrupted, "We're not leaving tomorrow, can't we discuss this matter slowly?"
"No need to discuss it," Ji Maili said, "I won't go. I won't go."
Ji Maili knew that if he didn't give them a firm reason not to leave today, they would not give up. In his mind, Chen Lu told him not to tell his family about their relationship on impulse, and he also remembered that Li Jun told him to keep it a secret and not to tell anyone unless it was absolutely necessary. But now... it was already a last resort.
What could be more desperate than separating him and Shen Lu?
Ji Maili thought, this is also good, Shen Lu has told Uncle Shen, why can't he say it?
Ji Huan felt Ji Maili's tense arms suddenly loosen their strength. She nervously whispered behind him, "Ji Maili, stop talking nonsense!"
This tone seemed to be reminding her of something. Ji Maili glanced at her and said, "Chen Lu is right. You saw it."
Ji Huan panicked and covered his mouth with her hand, trying to drag him away, but she forgot that Ji Maili was no longer the little brat whom she could kick off the bed with one kick. No matter how hard she tried, Ji Maili still stood there motionless.
Ji Maili pulled off Ji Huan's hand that was covering his mouth and looked at Liang Lin and Ji Kai: "I said I was willing to leave because Shen Lu was gone, and now I don't want to leave because of him."
Ji Huan shouted: "Ji Maili!"
Ji Maili pressed her hand as she struggled to pull his hand away, and insisted on finishing her words: "Dad, Mom, Chen Lu and I are together, we are in love."
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