Summer night, at a barbecue stand.
"Elite? You mean you're an elite?" Tang Jing teased.
Cao Kun did not answer, but the pride between his brows was impossible to hide. An elite? He had always thought highly of himself.
At the neighboring table, Zhang Chi shelled a five-spice peanut and smacked his lips nonstop.
Though they had ordered cheap food, Pei Yujing treated every table equally and served each one a small snack.
As they chatted, many first-year students getting out of school passed along the street nearby. A few minutes later, the flow of people gradually dwindled.
Jiang Ning rode his Mountain Bike with Xue Yuantong on the back seat.
"Chuchu doesn't attend evening self-study. She gets out as early as elementary school kids in the afternoon."
Day students at Yuzhou No. 2 High School could apply to skip evening self-study. Xue Chuchu worried it would not be safe to go home at night, so she chose not to attend and usually studied by herself at home in the evenings.
"You could skip it too," Jiang Ning said. Tongtong's grades were in a league of their own, more than enough to qualify for an application.
Xue Yuantong said solemnly, "If I went home, what would you do? Leave you alone for evening self-study?"
"I could never do something so heartless. I can't abandon you!" She looked incredibly loyal.
But inwardly, she thought, Jiang Ning will definitely be touched and feel guilty toward me from now on.
That way, whenever they argued in the future, she would have one more advantage to rely on.
She would always have the upper hand and keep him under her thumb for the rest of her life.
Jiang Ning pedaled past a streetlamp. "Apply for me too."
"No way." Xue Yuantong rejected the idea.