Divorce Revenge System: Knowing the Future in Advance
Chapter 389 - 339: It’s Time to Forget the Origins

Chapter 389: Chapter 339: It’s Time to Forget the Origins

In the pot, there was a bubbling boil with steam rising.

The pale green garlic chives were thrown into the pot for a test, small pieces of yellow rice cake of moderate thickness were tightly piled together, and the soup was golden yellow.

"Is it ready?" Qianqian poked her head in from outside the kitchen.

Her voice was gentle, completely unlike her usual demeanor.

Qianqian’s appearance interrupted Jiang Nian’s motion of reaching for his phone. He tossed the phone into his pocket and glanced at the boiling rice cakes.

"It’s ready."

Green leafy vegetables were tumbling in the pot.

The aroma, accompanied by the scorching steam, instantly filled the kitchen.

The soup also gradually took on a thick, creamy texture due to the rice cakes themselves. A bit of chili powder was sprinkled, the flavor was adjusted, and it was ready to be served.

After it was served, the two sat opposite each other at the dining table.

The TV was on in the living room, but the soundproofing of the house was excellent. Even if there was some noise at night, the neighbors likely wouldn’t hear it.

"Thank you." Qianqian took the chopsticks, obedient and polite.

When people are hungry, even their temperament can change.

Jiang Nian had little appetite. After smelling the smoke in the kitchen, he was already full. Holding a small bowl, he ate just a little and was satisfied.

"You’re just going to say thank you, huh?"

"Then what else do you want?" Qianqian took a few bites, her taste buds greatly satisfied, feeling it was time to pretend she didn’t owe him.

"Call me brother once more, let me hear it." Jiang Nian propped his head on his hand.

"Dream on, you old geezer." Qianqian quickly pretended she owed him nothing.

In the living room, the lights were softly glowing.

Lv Xuan stared at her phone, frowning.

The other party was slow to reply, not just once or twice. Of course, they weren’t obligated, but she had put in effort.

Why is he so excessive!

A person shouldn’t, or at least not be so shameless! After he’s finished watching her, now he doesn’t even send a message back.

She paced around the living room with her brows tightly knitted.

Until the phone dinged, and Lv Xuan quickly turned her head. She hurriedly walked to the table and swiped open her phone to check the message.

I really want to see someone else’s progress bar.

The last time she was so restless was when she was searching for gossip about a variety show couple on Xiaohongshu, staying up all night.

Regardless of whether it’s true, as long as it benefits dopamine, just believe it first.

However, the message was from Sheng Zeyang.

"Did you ask?"

Lv Xuan glanced at it, thinking to herself how a guy could be so gossip-minded. Just as she was about to turn off the screen, another message popped up from him.

"I have first-hand news, you want it?"

Her fingers paused in mid-air.

"What news?"

"I saw him at the karaoke last night, he seems to have a girlfriend." Sheng Zeyang said, "She’s very strict with him, it’s probably Li."

"No way, I’ve checked." Lv Xuan immediately denied it, "It doesn’t seem like it, their relationship seems ordinary."

"What if... they’re a secret couple?" Sheng Zeyang’s message popped up, "Also, that Jiang Nian is quite strange too."

Lv Xuan stopped replying, she didn’t care about what Sheng Zeyang said.

Believe first, question later.

Before she went to sleep, she finally received Jiang Nian’s reply.

"?"

A question mark, which broke her composure.

...

The next day.

Jiang Nian woke up feeling refreshed.

Last night, he didn’t write any test papers, and today was entirely for adjusting his state. Doing a few questions to keep the feel was enough.

Since the joint exam is tomorrow, today was basically all self-study.

In six subjects, there were a total of fifteen sets of test papers, but none were distributed. All of them were with the class representative, waiting to be handed out after the weekend exam.

Suddenly having free time left some people without a study plan feeling lost.

Sun Zhicheng, after getting stuck on a question, started to eagerly read the science section at the bottom of his physics workbook.

Meanwhile, Lin Dong was writing questions while chatting on his phone.

His persona was that of a bad boy from Yuyu High, with gambling parents and a sick sister. Since he didn’t have a sister, he bragged confidently.

And his broken self.

"I’m in class, I can’t take calls."

"Just try, my boyfriend wants to see what your Yuyu looks like. (tears of laughter)"

Lin Dong: "(smile) you bastard."

He deleted the person smoothly, took a deep breath, and started with the next person.

A morning passed.

Near the end of school, Jiang Nian finally lifted his head. He glanced around, seeing Li Hua picking at his pimples and Zeng You reading a novel.

He turned again and saw Zhang Ningzhi putting in eye drops.

Immediately, he found it intriguing and kept staring. The latter felt pressured and failed several times.

Zhang Ningzhi: "....Why are you looking at me?"

Jiang Nian thought for a moment, "I can help you with the eye drops. Seeing you miss so often, it’s not much, but this is a skill I’ve honed."

The precision of his drops was still being chased.

Gotta say, this skill was surprisingly practical.

He thought he should become a doctor instead of... never mind. The risk was too high, having accuracy without talent wouldn’t work either.

Zhang Ningzhi thought for a moment, it wasn’t impossible to give him a chance.

Mainly because her eyes were indeed a bit dry. If he kept messing around, it would be unnecessary to do it after school.

She deliberated for a bit, then nodded.

"Alright, then... could you please hurry? I’m... a bit ticklish, and this posture is quite weird."

Girl, your words are also odd.

There were so many people in the classroom.

Jiang Nian coughed, took the eye drops from her hand.

Actually, this operation didn’t require much skill. Just find the position, squeeze, and drop, though some people needed to pry open their eyelids.

After all, eyes have a self-protection mechanism and tend to close instinctively.

Zhang Ningzhi was already preparing to manually hold open her eyelids but was stopped by Jiang Nian. He signaled for her to tilt her head back, that was all she needed to do.

"Can you really do it?"

"Believe first, doubt later, tilt your head back." Jiang Nian said, swiftly and cleanly dropping the medicine into her clear eyes.

After it was over, Zhang Ningzhi was dumbfounded and suddenly discovered another function of Jiang Nian’s.

"Amazing."

....

At noon.

Just back from the canteen, Jiang Nian stood in the hallway with a paper in hand, facing the wind.

The overcast sky was covered in a thin mist that shrouded Qingmu Ridge.

"What are you looking at?" Chen Yunyun approached from a distance, curiously asking, "I saw you standing here from downstairs."

Jiang Nian turned his head, answering quite frankly, "Seventy percent thinking about the questions, forty percent thinking about naughty things."

"Huh? Doesn’t that add up to one hundred and ten percent?" Chen Yunyun was bewildered.

He nodded, "Yeah, why don’t you ask about the remaining eight hundred and ninety percent?"

"...What is it?"

"Naughty stuff," Jiang Nian answered truthfully.

Chen Yunyun: "..."

She did not refute Jiang Nian’s penchant for being naughty, even quite agreed, as he was occasionally... pretty perverted.

For example, if she pretended to lean against the railing and felt hot, then loosened her collar, someone would keep staring.

But doing that would be entrapment and not very indicative.

"What about the other person?" Jiang Nian asked.

Chen Yunyun knew the "other person" he referred to was Wang Yuhe, so she opened her mouth to explain.

"She heard there’s gossip and went to find out."

"Why don’t you go?" Jiang Nian asked.

"I don’t like listening to gossip, and I’m not interested in it," Chen Yunyun said without batting an eye.

In the past, gossip used to be her favorite thing to hear.

But preferences change, naturally her mind wasn’t on gossip. She didn’t need gossip to kill time, which was why she came upstairs.

The two chatted for a while, waiting for Wang Yuhe to appear from the stairwell.

After a few minutes, Wang Yuhe ran up the stairs, panting heavily, and stopped in front of them from the corridor.

"Something big happened!"

"What’s up?" Jiang Nian had already anticipated it, just waiting for the answer to reveal itself.

Wang Yuhe took a deep breath and said, "I heard someone organized cheating at the last eighteenth county joint exam, and some students were selling answers."

"Really?" Chen Yunyun appeared slightly surprised.

But it was only a slight surprise because Jiang Nian’s class exam was two months ago, and none of the three present were involved in the last joint exam.

"Yeah, a lot of people were dealt with," Wang Yuhe chatted away with excitement, her tone light and joyful.

The news came out before the afternoon break, and the disciplinary notice was posted on the wall outside the academic office after the break.

Jiang Nian took a look while using the restroom, and on the surface only a few students who led the selling were ordered disciplinary probation.

He saw Liu Feipeng’s name at the bottom. Besides probation, there was also a two-month suspension for self-reflection at home.

Logically, Liu Feipeng wouldn’t lack this money. But the fact that he sold answers was true; it only shows people are complex and contradictory.

In the afternoon.

The joint exam cheating issue spread like wildfire throughout the class.

Rumors even started to vaguely include some baseless speculations about Zhou Yuting. But since her weekly test scores were relatively stable, eventually, no one talked about it anymore.

"Help me with the drops, they say you’re quite the pro." Yao Beibei said.

Jiang Nian was speechless, he couldn’t hold back anymore.

"Who started this rumor?"

Due to his accurate eye drop technique in the morning, Li Hua and several others were very curious and wanted to try it out.

Originally, Jiang Nian was just idling and thought, why not.

But somehow, more people came by famous reputation. Huang Beibei was just one of them; most were boys.

On normal days, they wouldn’t be this idle. But today was the day before the big exam, an exception for leisure.

"What’s the big deal?" Jiang Nian was very speechless, "Can’t you apply it yourself? Pull open your eye, poke in the drops."

"Eww, stop it," Yao Beibei thought of the scene and felt creeped out, "Jiang Nian, you’re disgusting."

"Ah, scram." Jiang Nian was rather ungentlemanly.

"Cut, forget it then." Yao Beibei muttered, "I just wanted you to drop it accurately, I’ll figure it out myself."

Faced with Yao Beibei’s reverse blame, Jiang Nian was long accustomed to it.

If it were someone else, she wouldn’t say these things. But with her best buddies, she’d squeeze whatever value was left.

She’s truly an expert in in-fighting.

"Man, this is really fishing," Li Hua complained, "The morning was boring, won’t we just continue with self-study in the afternoon?"

The whole morning was basically self-study.

You could say today was the most leisurely during the entire round of review, no teachers lecturing or handing out papers.

They walked around the classroom, answering students’ questions.

Slacking off was not an option as the pressure of final recap exams was there, but the teachers also valued this Six Cities Joint Exam.

The three afternoon classes were literature, chemistry, and chemistry again.

Lao Liu walked into the classroom and with a snap of his fingers, spoke in one sentence.

"Ah, this class you self-study. If you have questions, you can ask. Let me also say a few things, first about the exam seating arrangement..."

Lao Liu rambled on, first about the seating arrangements, then mentioned the academic office’s notice about cheating.

"Ah, I’m reiterating the exam discipline problem, ah. If you’re caught cheating in the joint exam, you’ll first reflect at home for a month; nothing else to say, sent home first."

In the second chemistry class.

The chemistry teacher, quite elderly, also talked about the gossip about exam cheating and shared some unknown tidbits.

"I’ve heard... just heard, they’ve changed the test paper. The difficulty of the papers is said to be quite high, so be sure to read the questions carefully during the exam."

"Ah?!!!"

The classroom erupted in wails, with only Li Hua smiling coldly. His mouth slowly turned upward, gradually forming a hook shape.

"Oh no, he’s going to show off," Jiang Nian took a deep breath and said to Ma Guojun across the aisle, "Quick, tear his mouth!"

Li Hua laughed arrogantly.

"Three hundred points is just the paper’s limit, not mine."