"Even I was the same."
"The same how?"
The cool, beautiful girl turned her head, her gaze falling on Su Wen's face. For some reason, she suddenly sensed a faint trace of melancholy in his tone.
Faced with the iceberg girl's keen instincts,
he merely smiled and lightly pinched her delicate nose.
"Like everyone else, I want to lie around at home playing games every day, then sleep until noon the next day.
"Better yet, have some rich woman support me."
Hearing his obvious joke, the girl could not help lightly hitting him, just like the little gestures they used to make beneath their desks when they had been deskmates in high school.
"You're saying things like that again.
"Then next time..."
Her voice grew quieter.
"I can work hard too."
But Su Wen did not dare let her. Knowing himself well, he added,
"If I really did that, wouldn't Teacher Jiang tell my dad and have him come back to straighten me out? Haha."
Without the Time Travel System, this was probably exactly how he would have planned to live. If one could lie around for a lifetime, who would want to work hard?
"Most people cannot even grasp the present, so how could they create anything?
"Just like those so-called clever people, who think they stand high above their era and gaze into the road ahead.
"In truth, they are merely standing on driftwood amid giant waves, watching the tide carry wave after wave of people who made different choices forward—or drag them into the sea."
Yet after hearing him say that, the girl unexpectedly stopped and waved a finger before him.
"Knowledge is a lamp, but it is not a compass.
"We may not necessarily choose the right road in the 'tide' we just spoke of.
"But