She Is Brighter Than the Stars

He Yunfei felt baffled, and was about to ask Lin Fang what he meant, when he was dragged by his classmates to sing the heroic song.

Playfulness was better than curiosity, He Yunfei didn’t continue to ask, and shouted while holding the microphone.

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The warm summer night breeze carries the smell of barbecue and beer far away.

Li Shubai carried Cheng Nian, driving under the umbrella-shaped broad plane tree.

There are very few vehicles on the road at this moment, and only a few taxis are occasionally seen passing by.

Cheng Nian took a deep breath and murmured, “Ah, I really want to eat skewers.”

Li Shubai said softly: “Didn’t you eat just now?”

Cheng Nian didn’t pay attention, and muttered, “That happened several hours ago.”

Li Shubai didn’t speak, and rode the bike to the back gate of the school and stopped.

Cheng Nian wondered, “What’s wrong?”

Li Shubai parked the car aside and said softly, “Eat.”

Cheng Nian glanced at the brightly lit snack street, and her stomach grumbled in response to the occasion.

They went to Li Ying’s booth and sat down.

Li Shubai asked his mother to cook a bowl of wontons, then brought Cheng Nian a bowl of sweet wine soup, and ordered a skewer from the stall next door.

In the past, Cheng Nian would probably be so moved to death, but now she only has food in her eyes.

Not long after the wontons came up, the skewers were ready too.

Cheng Nian held the spoon in one hand and the barbecue in the other, enjoying herself.

When there were only a few green vegetables left in front of her, Cheng Nian remembered that Li Shubai didn’t seem to have eaten anything and was helping Li Ying all the time, so she said embarrassedly.

“Well, what do you want to eat? I invite you.”

Li Shubai came over, “I’m not hungry, if you’re full, I’ll take you home.”

Cheng Nian felt that her ears were getting hot, and waved her hands again and again, “Ah, no need, this is not far from my house, I’ll go back by myself.”

Li Ying also came over, “It’s not safe for a girl to be out so late, let Shubai send you off.”

When Li Ying said this, Cheng Nian couldn’t refuse and politely responded.

Going forward, Cheng Nian pressed a 100 Yuan* under the wonton bowl.

[£12 / €14 /$15]

After sending Cheng Nian home, Li Shubai walked back to Li Ying’s stall.

The door was opened by the housekeeper, Su Huiyu and Lao Chengtou were still awake, but they didn’t see Li Shubai either.

They were already used to Cheng Nian coming home late, so they didn’t make a single call.

At this time, Su Huiyu was playing mahjong with a few good friends in the living room, and the Lao Chengtou was responsible for refilling their water and occasionally drawing two cards for Su Huiyu.

It’s okay to draw useful cards, but he will be whacked if he draws unbeatable cards.

Lao Chengtou didn’t get annoyed, and cheerfully waited on her.

Looking at this warm scene, Cheng Nian couldn’t help but smile happily.

Seeing Cheng Nian came back, Lao Chengtou asked a question.

“Niannian, do you want to eat? Your mother made braised fish last night, and half of it is in the refrigerator.”

Su Huiyu also said: “Your brother brought some hawthorn, which is also in the refrigerator.”

Seeing that he was talking to Cheng Nian, her eyes were still on the mahjong table.

Cheng Nian’s stomach was full, and she responded, “I’m not hungry, you guys should go to bed early, I’ll go upstairs to sleep first.”

“Okay, I got it. Hey, I want 30,000.”

Cheng Nian smiled, turned around and walked upstairs.

It’s rare for her to sleep well and slept until she woke up naturally.

The next day when she rushed to Li Shubai’s house with the buns, Li Ying was about to go out.

Seeing Cheng Nian coming, Li Ying took out the money that Cheng Nian had put on the bottom of the bowl last night from her pocket.

“Xiao Nian, your money.”

Cheng Nian hurriedly pushed the money back, “Auntie, what are you doing, this is last night’s meal money, just keep it.”

Li Ying waved his hand, “But it doesn’t cost this much.”

“Then you can find me the rest.”

Li Ying didn’t have any change on hand, so she was a little embarrassed.

Cheng Nian smiled and said, “Take it, it will be for the next meal.”

Li Ying still had to go babysit, so she didn’t refuse anymore, and repeatedly asked Cheng Nian to go to her stall for whatever she wanted to eat.

Cheng Nian responded, gave Li Ying the packaged buns and soy milk, bid her farewell politely, and walked into the house.

Li Shubai seemed to have just returned from a morning jog, and he hadn’t had time to pull off half of his shirt, revealing his thin waist and half of a mermaid line*.

[NSFW, search for: adonis belt / apollo belt]

Cheng Nian’s ears turned red instantly, and a strange feeling grew from her body. Her heart was pounding, as if it was about to fly out of her chest.

She hurriedly covered her eyes, took a few steps back exaggeratedly as if her eyes had been pierced by a strong light, turned around and said in embarrassment.

“Well, get dressed and come eat.”

Before Li Shubai came out of the room, Cheng Nian couldn’t help but spurn herself in her heart.

She touched it in her previous life, why now did she panic like a little chick looking at it for the first time, shame, shame!

Li Shubai came out wearing a black short sleeve, and sat down at the dining table with a calm demeanor, as if he was not affected by what happened just now.

Seeing him like this, Cheng Nian felt that there was no need for her to twitch, and she felt much calmer.

After she started studying, she completely forgot about this little episode.

After another two weekends, the last semester of the second year of high school is over.

Since she is a senior high school student, she has to study intensively for half a month after the final exam before she can take a holiday.

The day before the exam, Cheng Nian started to get nervous. The table was covered with various study materials and tutorial books, and she always felt empty in her mind and hadn’t memorized anything.

Seeing her flustered look, Li Shubai comforted her, “The papers are all the questions we usually do, just be more careful.”

Cheng Nian sighed, and complained: “I can’t do the usual questions, it’s uncomfortable. God damn Newton, why would he sit under the apple tree when he has nothing to do? It would be nice to sit under the durian tree.”

Li Shubai said softly: “It doesn’t matter who it is, the theorem will always be discovered.”

Cheng Nian lay down on the table depressed, and muttered unhappily, “I hate theorems.”

Li Shubai smiled lightly, and handed his pen to Cheng Nian.

Cheng Nian was taken aback, “Why?”

“You will use it to write papers tomorrow.”

“Why?”

“For good luck”

Cheng Nian smiled wryly, “Why don’t you just lend me your brain?”

People are willing to believe anything when they are extremely worried.

Although she thought it was meaningless, Cheng Nian still accepted the pen.

After all, this is also used by Li Shubai, who has been ranked among the best students all year round. Maybe she can become as smart as him if she uses it.

She didn’t know if the pen really worked, but when facing the test paper the next day, Cheng Nian actually felt like a god helped her.

Although there are many questions that are beyond the outline, she still can’t answer it, but most of them can use the knowledge she has learned to write the answers.

After the exam, the school gave the students a symbolic holiday of one and a half days, and the teachers were busy correcting the papers and recording the results.

When the school starts again, the scores and so on will basically be fixed.

In the first self-study class in the evening, the monitors of each class are responsible for dividing the papers and getting the grades.

After almost an hour of long waiting, Li Shubai finally walked into the classroom with a thick stack of papers in his arms.

“Cheng Nian, come and post the test results on the back blackboard.”