Chapter 66: With his current score, he should only be able to go wash dishes for these school cafeterias.

Yu Fan hadn't cried for a long time, crying was a sign of weakness, showing weakness and losing face. So realizing that he was shedding tears, he immediately held back a bit.

But Chen Jingshen's hand was like flicking a switch, and Yu Fan couldn't hold it in any longer.

So he was rubbed in his hair, weeping and ashamed.

...... It's a fucking disgrace.

The summer rains come and go quickly, and the movement of the rain barrier is gradually diminishing. Yu Fan is bored on Chen Jingshen's t-shirt, giving up on himself and waiting for the fabric to dry before getting up.

Squeak--

There was a muffled, light sound, and Yu Fan felt like jumping, immediately bouncing off Chen Jingshen.

He braced himself against the stair railing and tilted his head in panicked alertness. The old ladder stretched upward, dark and dead.

"What's wrong?" Chen Jingshen looked up as he did.

Yu Fan listened in silence for a long time, the short sound of movement did not sound again, and no one came downstairs. Yu Fan was stunned and spoke: "Did you hear any sound?"

"No."

Did he mishear?

Yu Fan had lived in the building for more than ten years, and the noise just now sounded like the struggle of an unoiled door shaft rubbing together.

But only a very light one, so light that he himself couldn't tell if it was real or a hallucination.

Yu Fan hesitated, but went halfway up the stairs to look, and the door to the second floor was closed, and everything was just as he had come down.

"What did you hear?" Chen Jingshen asked in a low voice, trying to follow Yu Fan up the stairs, but Yu Fan blocked him after two steps.

"Nothing, misheard."

Yu Fan was yanked out of his emotions by the sound, finally realizing that this was the downstairs of his house, surrounded by densely populated residential buildings, where others could see them without approaching.

After making sure the hallway was empty, he breathed a sigh of relief, blinking hard at his dry eyes.

He grew up like this, and when he cried, his eyes were so swollen and red that it took a long time for the swelling to go away. So when Yu Kaiming used to beat him up, Yun Shan would not only dress his wounds, but also his eyes.

Chen Jingshen stared at his reddened eyelids for a couple of moments, and the next second, Yu Fan raised his hand and covered his eyes.

"What are you looking at?" Yu Fan yanked him by his shirt and said indifferently, "Let's go."

As the rain subsided, Chen Jingshen's big black umbrella could barely fit two boys.

Yu Fan couldn't help but look back as he exited the neighborhood, one of his hands still covering his eyes as he tilted his head high.

The second-floor window lights were dimmed and no one was there.

"See the road?" Chen Jingshen swept a glance at his pack-heavy boyfriend.

"Nonsense." Yu Fan turned his head back around and looked down at the road in front of him, "I'm not blind."

Chen Jingshen : "Should I buy eye candy ......"

"Shut up, Chen Jingshen," the hand in front of his face clenched into a fist and unclenched, "or I'll punch you until you lose your memory."

Chen Jingshen tilted his umbrella forward a little, covering his face as well.

"Laughing beats you too." The man next to him added coldly.

Chen Jingshen said, "Where are we going?"

The summer library was very much in demand, and there were definitely no seats available at this hour. Yu Fan took Chen Jingshen to the same Internet cafe he frequented. It was near the old neighborhood, and much more ramshackle than Cool Boy.

The two of them hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch, Chen Jingshen went to the next two stores to hang around, holding up two cups of kanto boiled rice to go back to the machine, when he saw his boyfriend crossing his legs, was squinting and frowning, staring at the computer screen with a face full of displeasure.

He put down his things and scanned the screen, seeing a line of large letters: the admission scores of the universities in Jiangcheng.

Although Yu Fan hadn't seriously considered which university he would go to in the future, he knew that with Chen Jingshen's grades, he would definitely rush to those top institutions in Jiangcheng.

Chen Jingshen picks up a bunch of white carrots and passes them to his mouth. Yu Fan stares at the computer screen and inclines his head to take a bite.

"Chen Jingshen," Yu Fan said without expression as the mouse scratched to the bottom, "not eloping."

"Why?"

"Can't pass the exam." Yu Fan calculated that with his current score, he should only be able to go wash dishes for the cafeterias of these schools.

Chen Jingshen reached out, stopping a few centimeters away from the screen, and tapped a few of the school names, "These ones will do."

Yu Fan turned around to look at him and said woodenly, "Chen Jingshen, I'm more than a hundred points away from their admission line."

"Well, there's a year left." Chen Jingshen poked him another pill.

Yu Fan quietly locked eyes with him for a moment and lowered his head to bite the pill over.

After a rare visit to an internet cafe, Yu Fan filled his stomach and picked up his cell phone to find someone in the group to play the game.

It took time for the others to go online, and Yu Fan leaned back in his chair and waited lazily, his eyes drifting unconsciously to the computer screen of the person next to him.

Yu Fan: "......"

Chen Jingshen looked at the list of rooms for rent that matched "Jiangcheng, double bed, convenient transportation, quiet and spacious", and just wanted to click into a pretty good house to take a look, but the mouse moved on its own. It was moved to the top right corner of the page, and clicked on the X.

Yu Fan let go of his mouse and turned his eyes back to his own computer screen, informing him with a hard red ear.

"Chen Jingshen, I fucking live in school."

After a day at the Internet cafe, Chen Jingshen returned home when it was already late.

He looked down and flipped out the person who had placed the top and opened the door as he tapped on the word. Pushing the door open his fingers lurched slightly when he saw the light showing from the house inside.

"Really? That's great, I've been mulling this over the last few days and was thinking of taking the time to make a trip to you ...... need a parent's signature to finalize it? Okay, no problem, of course I'm willing to sign. Then please let me know when it's finalized."

The exquisite chandelier in the living room illuminated the whole room, Ji Lianyi was sitting on the sofa, and her years of habit made her maintain an elegant sitting posture even when she was talking to someone on the phone. When she heard the sound, she glanced towards the door, then smiled faintly, "Okay, next time I'll contact you then."

Hanging up the phone, Ji Lianyi got up from the sofa, "Where have you been, coming back so late. Did you have dinner?"

"Eat." Chen Jingshen put his cell phone in his pocket.

"I asked my aunt to leave some soup, so have some later before you go to bed."

"No," Chen Jingshen said, "why are you back, didn't you say you'd be busy until next week?"

"It's over early." Ji Lianyi rubbed her brow, "Almost all of the company's business has been transferred to China, and your father and I are officially divorced, so for the rest of the time, there's no need to fly out of the country if there's nothing that needs to be taken care of."

Chen Jingshen stood there quietly for a moment before asking, "Is everything alright?"

Ji Lianyi froze for a moment before nodding, "It's fine, it's all being handled quite well."

Because it was the other person who cheated on her, and even had a child out there who was a year older than Chen Jingshen, she got a lot more than she expected from this divorce.

"It's going to be your most crucial year soon, Jingshen, mom can finally be at home with you." Ji Lianyi said, "Mom has already looked after a house in Jiangcheng, when you pass the exam later, Mom will follow you--"

"No, I'll rent my own room." Chen Jingshen interrupted her faintly.

Ji Lianyi paused for a moment and said, "No, renting is not safe or clean."

In the past, Chen Jingshen should have just let her go, it was always like this between them, she made the request, Chen Jingshen complied in silence, even resistance was rare.

"I rent my own room." Chen Jingshen repeated.

"......"

The smile on Ji Lianyi's face slowly drew down as mother and son faced each other in silence for a while.

Facing her senior year of high school soon, she couldn't afford to start a conflict with her child at this time. The minds of seniors are fragile.

It's about a year away, so we'll talk more slowly after the exam.

"We'll talk about it later." Ji Lianyi's face tensed and loosened as she said, "Right, school starts next week, right? Mom will send you to report then."

-

Yu Kaiming remained at home after the fight, probably because there was no physical altercation.

The two still treated each other like air until the day before school started, when Yu Fan came back from picking up a delivery, entered the house and kicked the couch where Yu Kaiming was lying.

Yu Kaiming looks at the ball without lifting his head: "What for?"

"Are you still in touch with her?"

Yu Kaiming naturally knew who he was talking about, "No shit, get up, it's blocking my TV."

Yu Fan didn't believe him and asked him to take out his cell phone to check. After going through the messages one by one, Yu Fan breathed a sigh of relief and threw the phone back.

"Grass, threw broken you buy me one ah? Said no no, don't believe ......" Yu Kaiming drummed the cell phone for a while, suddenly said, "Why don't you go out lately?"

Yu Fan was just about to go back to his room when he sniffed and looked back at him suspiciously.

Yu Kaiming was silent for two seconds, "...... It's annoying to be in front of old me every day."

Yu Fan lazily ignored him and slammed the door of the room.

Chen Jingshen's mom has been running around for the past six months, and when she came back this time, she was arranging dinners with her relatives every day, and occasionally inviting people to her home for dinner, and every time Chen Jingshen had to follow her and couldn't find the time. So they only went to the library this week, and the rest of the days went back to the old video lectures.

But school starts soon too, so it doesn't matter.

Yu Fan unwrapped the package, took out the camera inside, and began to patrol the locations where it could be installed.

This is the thing that everyone else uses to watch their cats and sends alerts to his cell phone whenever it senses an object moving around in the room.

Ever since the last time Yu Kaiming went through his stuff, he's been keeping an eye out. School is about to start, and he can't go to class without it.

There was no difficulty in setting up the thing, Yu Fan confirmed with his cell phone several times, and then lay down on the bed to continue to rummage through the software in the background that had not been shut down.

Someone who had said categorically that he wanted to live in a dormitory that day could not help himself when he got home and searched the house as well.

The further back Yu Fan flipped, the tighter his frown became, and his hand couldn't help but grip the broken hair on his forehead.

Why is rent so expensive in Jiangcheng?

He tossed his cell phone aside and stared at the ceiling calculating his savings. His mom hadn't worked in a long time when she left home, leaving him with not much really, and he'd been living off the money his grandfather had left him for the past few years.

Yu Kaiming used to be addicted to a kind of once-a-minute gambling/gaming, losing money like water, and could not be persuaded to come back, so his grandfather thought that it was hopeless, plus the relationship between father and son was also very stiff, and before leaving, he left almost nothing for Yu Kaiming, and secretly stuffed all of them to Yu Fan.

But it's not a huge amount, and it's been pretty much used up over the years.

Yu Fan closed his eyes and tsked, rubbing his face in regret, he should have known to smoke less, cigarettes are so expensive ......

He was thinking about going to college while working part-time when the cell phone on his futon suddenly buzzed and vibrated several times in a row.

It's that annoying discussion group that's dating a class basketball game for the first day of school.

Zuo Kuan: It's a deal. The losing class will treat the winning class to spicy hot pot, and I'm going to order 40 dollars a piece.

[Wang Luan: No problem, just wait, let's see if Yu Fan doesn't dunk the rim of your class tomorrow.]

Zuo Kuan: Don't let Chen Jingshen defend me if you can!

Wang Luan: Are you okay? Is the school bully there to defend you? That's the position he's playing!

Wang Luan: @ Yu Fan @ Chen Jingshen Two big brothers, first think ahead of time what to put in the spicy hot pot haha, eat them down].

Yu Fan was worried about money, suddenly the sky dropped white food, nice. He tapped the keyboard and typed out a sentence: you can make more appointments ......

Just about to send it, a new message popped up.

[s: I'm leaving after the fight with Yu Fan, I'm not eating.]

Yu Fan: "?"

[Zhang Xianjing: ......]

Wang Luan: Huh? What are you two doing?

[s: Appointment for something else.]

Yu Fan: "?"

Yes? What's the appointment?

You can't ask him to go back to class and do the questions after the game.

Yu Fan stared at the screen for a while and suddenly got up from the bed, red-faced with red ears, and stuffed a few sticks of gum into his packed school bag.

There's still a lot of chatter in the group--

Wang Luan: It's okay, then the two copies for Yu Fan and the school bully, pass them on to Sister Jing and Ke Ting.

Zuo Kuan: Fuck you, you're not taking any shit, are you? Who's going to play the remaining two positions in your class?

[Wang Luan: Wu Cai and Gao Shi.]

Wu Cai: Huh? What are you talking about? I just saw it.

Wang Luan: We're talking about tomorrow's game. I've signed you up, so fuck them after school tomorrow!

Wu Cai didn't say another word, probably went to read the chat log.

Wang Luan and Zuo Kuan had been talking smack to each other for a while, and the group was just about to move on to the topic of borrowing homework to copy, when Wu Cai's avatar suddenly popped up--

[Wu Cai: ......]

Wu Cai: A class ball game? Then I can't participate with the school bully.

[Wu Cai: Don't you guys know yet? The school has reinstated the top class.]