Chapter 71 — He Got the Better Deal Anyway
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Shen Yushu went upstairs, pushed open the door to Gu Mengyao's room, and found her curled up on the bed with her knees drawn in, eating potato chips, an English tutorial book resting on her lap as she annotated it against today's exam paper.
"Too many snacks will stunt your growth, you know." Shen Yushu glanced at Gu Mengyao with a grin, and thinking of what had happened with Wei Zhao, her smile grew even wider.
"What are you laughing at?" Gu Mengyao felt baffled by Shen Yushu's laughter, thoroughly uncomfortable. She looked herself up and down but found nothing amiss—she had just eaten a bag of chips, hadn't she? Was that remark mocking her for having a smaller chest than Shen Yushu's?
"Yaoyao, let me tell you something fun! I've avenged you!" Shen Yushu plopped down slyly on the edge of the bed and snatched the chips from Gu Mengyao's hand.
"Didn't you just say snacks stunt your growth?" Gu Mengyao glared at her. "What revenge? Why so mysterious?"
"Hehe, my development is just fine—my height is quite proportionate, relatively speaking!" Shen Yushu said carelessly, fishing out a chip and popping it into her mouth. "Just now, after you left, I called Arrowhead Bro down to eat! Then I had him sit in the seat you'd been sitting in, and I told him I'd already served his rice for him, and so he just ate it..."
"What's so—wait, you're not trying to say he ate the bowl of rice I left behind, are you?" Gu Mengyao's eyes went wide.
"And he used your chopsticks too!" Shen Yushu said smugly. "Well? This time he's eaten your spit—that counts as avenging you, doesn't it!"
"What a load of nonsense!" Gu Mengyao shook her head at the sound of it. "Doesn't that just mean he got the better of her?"
"Well..." Shen Yushu thought to herself, so her taking his saliva means she lost out, and him taking hers means he gained? But on second thought, that really was how it worked. If it had been any other boy at school, he would probably have been secretly gloating.
"All right, let's not talk about him anymore." Gu Mengyao was feeling a little irritated and did not want to bring up Wei Zhao. "Aren't you going to go over the questions you got wrong on today's English test?"
"Yeah, I'll do it now." Shen Yushu stopped joking around and immediately dug out her test paper from her schoolbag, and she and Gu Mengyao began sorting through it together.
Though neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu lacked intelligence, intelligence alone was useless without hard work. Their families were well off, yet both girls still worked diligently, especially Gu Mengyao, who did not want anyone saying she had gotten into the elite class of a key high school on the strength of her family background.
After sorting out the English test paper, the two of them reviewed a few other subjects for a while. After all, they were already in their final year of high school, and the college entrance exams were fast approaching. Whether it was Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu, getting into a top university through their family connections would not have been difficult, but passing the exams on their own was, in the end, something altogether different.
Seeing that it was getting late, Gu Mengyao yawned, and Shen Yushu was feeling sleepy too. The two of them took a hot shower in the bedroom bathroom, lay on the bed watching an episode of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf on an MP4 player, and then went to sleep.
Wei Zhao, however, spent another whole night cultivating the Xuanyuan Dragon Taming Art. The stamina restored by a single night of cultivation was fully equal to several hours of deep sleep.
By the time Wei Zhao opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of turbid air, it was already past five in the morning. He went to the washroom, freshened up, and vowed that this morning he would not watch television no matter what.
Once he had the time, he would buy a laptop and hide away in his room, watching whatever he pleased.
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