Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One
Chapter 20: Taking a shower and brushing teeth every day is so annoying

Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Taking a shower and brushing teeth every day is so annoying

"This won’t do!"

Another noon, Chu River sat contentedly after finishing a large bowl of lotus root and pork ribs, once again full from lunch, chatting with a few academic underachievers who relied on her.

The innocent underachievers with an average mock exam score of 574: ...

Well... not as good as others, what else can you do?

Underachiever it is.

...

The sudden sigh from the Academic God left everyone curious:

"What’s wrong?"

Gao Tiantian asked puzzledly.

Looking again at the meal at noon, wasn’t it supposed to be good?

She had deliberately asked her parents for an extra 500 yuan allowance yesterday.

...

Gao Tiantian’s family ran a snack shop, generous to their child, yet Tiantian’s mom asked one more question:

"Didn’t I just top up 500 yuan recently?"

Gao Tiantian panicked inside but remained calm on the surface:

"Oh, I’ve been doing papers late at night recently, get hungry fast, so I eat more during the day."

These day students, to save time, had all three meals at school and at most had a night snack after going home at night.

Hearing this, the parents were heartbroken—the child had it so hard, what’s a mere few hundred yuan?

Say no more, here’s 1000! Eat to your heart’s content!

Before leaving, the backpack was stuffed with hunger-quelling braised chicken legs, braised eggs, and chocolate milk candy...

Mr. Gao earnestly instructed beside her:

"Daughter, don’t worry about getting fat, eat all you want, you won’t get fat during your growth spurt."

"I’ll stew lotus root and pork ribs for you again when you come back from evening self-study."

Gao Tiantian: ...

Actually, there was no need for all this.

But she quickly thought of a clever idea—

"Stew a bit more, I’ll pack it in the morning and take it to school to share with my classmates."

"The school’s meals aren’t as tasty as the ones you make, Dad."

How could a father refuse?

At this moment, he nodded repeatedly:

"Don’t worry, Dad will buy lots today, call a few more friends to join you—by the way, you’ve been burning the midnight oil studying lately, is the pressure getting to you?"

"Dad tells you, do your best, don’t push yourself too hard."

Gao Tiantian shook her head:

"No, the top student in our class, that Academic God, made a special note for me. I’ve been following the logic on it to solve problems recently, it feels incredibly efficient, I couldn’t help doing it at night."

"Oh!"

The father slapped his thigh:

"This is a good friend to have!"

"Is it that tall skinny girl I met at the parent-teacher meeting?"

During the college entrance exam, everyone keeps secrets, not sharing any tips, but this child of mine!

"Ask your classmates what they like to eat, bring anything we have at home. If not, tell Dad, I’ll give you money to treat your classmates."

After that, he nervously rubbed his hands:

"Maybe after your college entrance exam, arrange it so I can properly treat them to a meal?"

For now, it’s impossible, preparing for these last years, can’t waste even a little bit of this time.

Gao Tiantian stayed silent with a guilty conscience.

...

At this moment, looking at the empty thermal box (bowl) with not even a scrap left, and hearing Chu River’s sigh, she couldn’t help but hastily ask—

The saying "aiding the outsider against the family" referred to this exactly.

...

"Sigh!"

Chu River’s sigh was heartfelt.

"The days are passing so boring and miserable, what to do?!"

Upon hearing this, the four sisters almost cried!

Boring?

What’s boring about it?

Isn’t staring at the countdown on the blackboard while practicing problems intense and exciting enough?

Miserable?

What’s miserable about it?

You are the top of the grade, just enjoy the halo of the Academic God, isn’t that enough?

Mundane, so mundane!

The group dared not to speak out in anger.

And Chu River complained frustratedly:

"Every day I have to brush my teeth, wash my face, take a shower. The process is so troublesome, and even after washing my hair it won’t dry instantly, even if I borrow a hairdryer from the dormitory supervisor, it still takes ten to twenty minutes..."

An endless list of grievances waiting to be expressed.

"Don’t you all find doing these things exhausting every day?"

As soon as this was said, Little Curls and Little Glasses immediately felt the same way:

"Annoying! So annoying!"

"I don’t feel like washing my face, taking a shower, or brushing my teeth at all!"

"But we have a rule that if you don’t wash your socks or feet before going to bed, you’ll get beaten!"

The reason, probably because last term, a certain roommate had a pile of socks under the bed for a whole term retrieved by the dean—and the state of it was quite horrifying, from a materials science perspective, it was unrecognizable.

A hard, stiff pile, like it had developed a shell.

The entire dorm was dragged to write self-reflections for a month, and had to take turns reading them aloud at the school broadcast station...

It goes to show that Tianshui Second High School is a cold, ruthless, ironclad educational machine!

Not considering the self-esteem of us messy boys at all!

Not washing socks doesn’t affect college entrance exam scores.

Hmph!

Gao Tiantian and Chen Xinyue wore an indescribable expression.

At this moment, the two true sisters looked at Chu River in shock:

Isn’t it too much?

Who finds doing these daily tasks annoying, aren’t they just necessary?

Not washing your face or brushing your teeth, not washing your hair or taking a shower, isn’t it uncomfortable?

Does Chu River feel uncomfortable?

It’s because she feels uncomfortable that she has no choice but to do it, which makes it even more unbearable for her!

In the Star Sea Federation, only during vacation would people specifically enjoy the long process of personal skin care, bathing, and hair washing.

Most people have bathing home kits.

Even in civilian areas, they can afford the cheapest set of light-wave cleaning devices.

For brushing teeth, just open your mouth, take a sip of water, don’t swallow—it’ll take nano-robots 30 seconds to clean your teeth thoroughly.

Swallowing it doesn’t matter either, they’ll be quickly decomposed by digestive enzymes in the body.

For hair and body washing, the cleaning device activates, particles vibrate, and your body is cleaned thoroughly—there’s even a choice between dry and wet cleaning.

As for drying hair...

Previously, Chu River didn’t have so many gadgets in the army, but she knew that girls in daily life like to use hairstyle robots to create preferred styles themselves.

Just import the successfully selected design and place the device on your head, everything will be done in three minutes.

If it’s just to dry hair, it doesn’t even take a minute...

Therefore, being forced to manually do these things now, and having to do them every day, is truly unbearable for Chu River!!!

Why would anyone waste time on such things?

But these words couldn’t be said.

The Academic God General could only sigh again.

"Sigh!"

Seeing her not answering this question, Chen Xinyue considerately asked:

"You say repeating these tasks feels unbearable, so why do you feel bored? Are the problems too easy?"

As she asked this, Chen Xinyue’s throat caught a mouthful of old blood.

And Chu River answered unhesitatingly:

"Yes, these simple problems being done over and over, it’s frustrating, even if you let me nap instead..."

She suddenly recalled something and discussed it with a few of her peers—

"I’ve heard that when top students sleep in class, even the teacher thinks they’re too diligent and think about studying even while sleeping, right?"

Right or wrong, Chen Xinyue dared not answer.

But seeing Chu River’s self-assured look, she thought:

[Anyway, the homeroom teacher Old Chen certainly doesn’t think so.]