"Lin Li, you really came to the competition too. You got First in Grade on the Midterm Exam—pretty amazing."
The second student from another class to greet Lin Li was Yao Qiaoqiao, who had arrived rather late.
"Thanks." Lin Li, who had been whispering with Chen Yuying, looked up at that. After giving a somewhat perfunctory thanks, he saw that Yao Qiaoqiao had no other girls with her, so he pointed behind him with his thumb and passed along some information about Chen Tianming. "Tianming's in the back. You can sit with him."
Chen Tianming owed him a kowtow now, and Lin Li was keeping track for him.
"Chen Tianming came too?" Yao Qiaoqiao looked a little surprised. She raised her head and looked toward the back, then presumably spotted him and waved at Chen Tianming.
It seemed Chen Tianming hadn't told her in advance that he was coming.
"But no need. I want to sit in front. Classmate, is anyone sitting next to you? If not, can I sit there? Thanks."
Yao Qiaoqiao then asked a girl in the first row. After receiving an answer, she sat in the empty seat beside her.
Seeing this, Lin Li curiously turned around and looked toward the last row.
Sure enough, Chen Tianming was clasping his hands together and worshipping Zhang Haoyang like Buddha, his expression pleading as he occasionally pointed at other seats in the Multi-purpose Hall.
Though Lin Li couldn't hear him, he was probably calling him Dad.
From this day onward, Chen Tianming was no longer his brother. He was his grandnephew.
Meanwhile, Zhang Haoyang glared coldly at Tianming's pointing finger, rolling his eyes so hard they nearly reached the sky, completely unmoved.
Satisfied, Lin Li turned back, ready to continue whispering little secrets with Chen Yuying—
Wait.
When