The next day, Ning Xiu discovered that Ning Yi didn’t even laze in bed. Very early, she had already finished washing up and waited in the dining room, her small face filled to the brim with obvious excitement.
While he ate, he inwardly regretted that in digging a pit for that Lu punk, he ended up losing his own family’s little sister to it too.
When Lu Xu Nan came over to look for Ning Yi with two enormous dark circles, he very clearly felt Ning Xiu’s malicious stare.
His desire to survive made him immediately take back the hand from the back door and switch to sit in the passenger seat.
Only then did Ning Xiu’s face somewhat lighten up.
Lu Xu Nan practically didn’t sleep the whole night. In the middle of the night, he sent a message to Fang Ci again–
[L]: If someone beside you is clearly a top student yet pretends to be a mediocre student, what do you think would be the reason?
Fang Ci thought in his heart, falling in love can really change a person. His Nan ge had become depressed and moody, often coming up with some weird hypothetical questions out of the blue.
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Jwv y casvbla, bl dyvwayzzu talyvzu bsdsale vblka qakldepbkr. Wydt Uk obszlblyavlezu ynvle yp vbl “nyakdt ckt casvbla”.
[Uk tl, , bydepsxl]: Yyzl sa qlxyzl yb?
[N]: Ebyv eslp xyzl sa qlxyzl byhl vs es okvb kv? Rv’p fwpv y bursvblvknyz pkvwyvksd yduoyu!
Fkdnl kv’p y bursvblvknyz pkvwyvksd, vbld vblal’p psxlvbkdt vs cl pyke!
Wydt Uk ekalnvzu alrzkle okvb y hsknl xlppytl qwzz sq scpnldkvklp.
–Xq nswapl vblal’p y ekqqlaldnl. Rq kv’p y twu, vbld R okzz sdzu vbkdj vbyv vblal’p psxlvbkdt oasdt okvb bkp blye. Jwv kq kv’p y tkaz rwarsplzu ralvldekdt vs cl y cye pvweldv kd qasdv sq xl, vbld R okzz elqkdkvlzu vbkdj pbl byp qllzkdtp qsa xl! Fbl nyd ralvlde pbl eslpd’v jdso bso vs es bla bsxlosaj yde nsxl ypj xl vs elzkclayvlzu tlv nzspl vs xl! Gqvlaoyaep, pbl’zz rascyczu yzps nwr bla qynl, zssjkdt yv xl kd yesayvksd, yde pyu, “Eso, Uk tltl, usw’al ps pxyav~ Zsw nyd lhld es vbkp rasczlx, alyzzu vss pxyav!” Mbld, vs vbydj xl, pbl nyd yzps tkhl xl y pxyzz ralpldv, rypvaklp, nssjklp, sa vbl zkjl… W*nj, obknb xyd nyd byhl vbkp? Qse, rzlypl tkhl xl y tkaz vbyv yesalp xl, yexkalp xl, yde kp hlau ralvvu!
Gqvla zkpvldkdt vs vbkp, Nw Dw Lyd kxxlekyvlzu vbswtbv sq vbkp yqvladssd obld bl xldvksdle “Nytaydtl’p vblsalx”. Lkdt Zk raynvknyzzu pyke vbl pyxl vbkdt vbyv Wydt Uk eke.
— “Eso! Uyznwzwp kp yehydnle xyvbp, aktbv? Lyd tltl, usw’al ps yolpsxl yb, usw jdso lhlauvbkdt!”
Thinking some more, he found that in so many years, Ning Yi had indeed always been like this. Every time he succeeded in anything, she was happier than even himself.
And as for cakes, cookies, or the like, he couldn’t even count how many Ning Yi had given him since childhood…
So…she was pretending to be a bad student because of him?
This guess doubled the pressure on Lu Xu Nan. He tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
It was to the extent that after he got in the car, he still couldn’t help stealing a glance at Ning Yi in the backseat through the rearview mirror.
After the fifth time Ning Xiu noticed Lu Xu Nan peeking, he finally couldn’t stand it and said, “Xiao Nan, you don’t look so good to me, have you still not recovered from being sick? It seems like it’s still a problem about constitution, that training camp…”
Lu Xu Nan: “…No, I didn’t sleep well last night, I’ll be fine after a nap.”
He immediately leaned back in his seat after speaking, resting his eyes.
Ning Xiu was satisfied.
Lu Xu Nan was stifled the whole way. He waited for Ning Xiu, this great Buddha, to finally leave, and the supplementary lesson started.
Several times, he wanted to ask Ning Yi, but he couldn’t find an opportunity.
Finally, when the teacher said to take a five-minute break and left the small classroom with a thermos, Lu Xu Nan got up and made his way beside Ning Yi’s desk.
Ning Yi was staring at a test paper, pondering whether there was a third way to solve a problem. Suddenly, a black shadow appeared on the test paper.
Raising her head, she saw Lu Xu Nan staring fixedly at her. Ning Yi was frightened. “You… what is it ah?”
Lu Xu Nan watched her fixedly and solemnly opened his mouth, “I saw your username on Quiz King yesterday. That Problem-solving King that our classmates have been talking about recently isn’t Yan Ziyun, it’s you.”
Ning Yi, whose little secret had been so simply and cruelly exposed, was not only so alarmed that she lost the ability to talk, even her thoughts were stumped.
Even her mind full of ‘f*ckf*ckf*ck’ could express her shock at this moment. She could only stare foolishly at the other person with her mouth open.
Lu Xu Nan only paused briefly, then asked the question that had troubled him for a day and a night: “You’re clearly so good at studying, why do you have to pretend to get bad grades?”
It was better not to ask. Once asked, Ning Yi became furious.
Why else? Isn’t it because of you!!!
What Ning Yi meant was that it was only because Lu Xu Nan, as the male lead, was too slow at progressing the plot that caused her to be controlled and unable to go against her character, so she could only continue to pretend to be a little bad student.
But Lu Xu Nan didn’t know ah.
When he heard Ning Yi’s resentful and aggrieved thoughts, that trouble in his chest that had haunted him the whole night was suddenly like a sponge that soaked up water, heavily pressing down on his heart.
When Ning Yi had called him gege, gave him presents, stuck to him to play together in the past… although those behaviors also showed that she was intimate with him unlike everyone else, aside from making him feel bothered and cheesy, they were completely incapable of directly deeply shocking him like this moment.
Ning Yiyi, in order to close the distance with him, she actually always pretended to be a bad student all these years and even pretended to be much worse than him!
She was probably worried that if her grades were too good, it would give him too much pressure, right? After all, Lu Bei Ying was often still indignant about being suppressed by Ning Xiu for so many years. In her eyes, she definitely didn’t wish for him to be like his brother, always living in the shadow of “other people’s child”…
Lu Xu Nan thought a lot in that instant. He mumbled a little absent-mindedly: “It’s really because of me…”
Thank you! 💕
Poor Lu Xu Nan, he has no clue he’s digging a pit deeper and deeper for himself to fall into lol I can’t wait until this little fantasy shatters in front of his eyes, I can’t wait to see him scramble after her to woo her instead of the other way around as she happily prances away and leaves him behind 🤭
yeay thank you!
I…this superb misunderstanding..*facepalm*
And….. the misunderstanding escalated to a terrifying degree lolololololol