Your Place or Mine

"Tell me where you live," Yang Yang asked curiously.

Qing Chen glanced at the other person. This information was not easy to hide, because his classmate, the silver-haired girl, was his neighbor, and it would be exposed sooner or later.

But he still didn't really want to talk about it...

It wasn't that he was afraid the other person would freeload off him, but rather that he knew too little about the other person, so he felt it was somewhat unfair.

Qing Chen looked at the girl. "I think you should tell others your information before asking them questions?"

"Okay, I'll exchange my information with you," Yang Yang said with a smile. "My home is in Flowing Cloud Building, District 6, Unit 802. It's your turn to speak."

"How would I know if it's true or false?" Qing Chen said with a smile. "After all, you have a history of lying, so it's better if we don't trust each other too easily."

"Not honest at all!" Yang Yang pouted and said, "You were saying a few days ago with regret that your cultivation in the gravity chamber would be interrupted after arriving in the Inner World. Now that I've given you a chance to continue cultivating, you don't cherish it! See, I asked you where you live so I could help you cultivate!"

"Are you trying to help me cultivate?" Qing Chen said calmly. "I think you just want to save money on food!"

"Lots of people want to treat me to dinner, but I'm not interested."

The two started bickering in hushed tones during class, completely oblivious to the feelings of the other students.

To the other students, the arrival of Qing Chen, the eye-catching transfer student, was a novel experience.

The fact that the other person sat next to Yang Yang as soon as they arrived, and that they already knew Yang Yang, was even more surprising.

Some people secretly wondered, since this Qing Chen was sent over by the grade head and his surname is Qing, could he be a member of the Qing family?

Common sense dictates that Tuanzi would never attend school outside the Upper Third District, because the educational conditions are simply not on the same level.

But what if this transfer student came specifically for Yang Yang?

The Tuanzi transferring schools for a commoner girl—that's quite in line with the tropes of works of art!

Suddenly, Qing Chen became a mystery in the eyes of all his classmates.

The silver-haired girl looked at Qing Chen and Yang Yang talking in hushed tones, and thought of Qing Chen's surname and the extraordinary middle-aged man.

Suddenly I realized that all my previous guesses had been in vain.

When class started, the teacher walked into the classroom and spent 15 minutes reading through what they were going to learn that day, and then announced that self-study would begin.

Watching the teacher's departing figure Qing Chen asked, "Is this how they conduct classes?"

Yang Yang said expressionlessly, "The professional ethics of the public high school teachers here are worse than you imagine. This math teacher doesn't teach any substantive content in school, nor does he answer students' questions. If students want to learn anything, they have to attend his tutoring classes after school. So, every student in the class has two timetables, one for when they go to school and one for when they go home."

After the teacher left, the classroom gradually became noisy, with students whispering to each other.

Looking out the window, the distant steel forest appears gloomy and somber, while the nearby campus is peaceful and beautiful.

The campus was lush and green, and the students' march slogans were passionate and inspiring.

This place is like a paradise.

Qing Chen glanced around and suddenly thought:

Master always says that he lacks a bit of youthful spirit, but recently, because someone has been taking care of him, he has slowly begun to show the qualities that a young person should have.

So the other party deliberately arranged for me to be enrolled in a school, insisting that I attend school even in this dangerous world...

In fact, the master, who had put in a lot of effort, just wanted him to be a carefree student like other teenagers.

And there was the unbridled youth he never had in the Outer World.

Li Shutong was showing him through his actions: Don't always think about racing against time. Teachers should do their own things and make up for the life you've missed.

There were also girls.

Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating Qing Chen's face. Yang Yang, standing beside him, asked curiously, "What are you thinking about? Why the sudden expression?"

"What's with that expression?" the boy asked, turning around with a smile.

"I can't describe it," Yang Yang shook her head.

As the fourth school bell rang, before Qing Chen could even get up, he saw more than a dozen male and female students rush to the door of Class 3, Grade 11, waving excitedly at Yang Yang.

Qing Chen suddenly wondered if Yang Yang's transfer to Class 3 of Grade 11 at Luocheng Foreign Language School was also to make the class name easier to remember, so as not to get confused when attending different classes at different schools.

Yang Yang walked towards the door, and a female classmate took out a reader and said, "Yang Yang, more than thirty people signed up for the weekend parade this morning. They said they would meet us at Yunshang Square at 7 a. m. sharp!"

A male classmate explained, "Although half the people went there because of the free food, it's still progress. Yang Yang, you were smarter; you found sponsors first!"

The students' faces were beaming with smiles, and they looked exceptionally radiant.

At this moment, Qing Chen turned around and asked a male classmate behind him, "Excuse me, could you tell me Yang Yang's full name?"

"Chen Yang Yang," the classmate said matter-of-factly. He even felt a little strange that this transfer student didn't even know Yang Yang's full name, yet he was chatting with Yang Yang so enthusiastically.

You know, Yang Yang and Qing Chen had been whispering to each other all morning!

Qing Chen, who was sitting in the front row, laughed. In the Outer World, Yang Yang never said her full name, and even her classmates didn't know her surname.

However, things are different in the Inner World; any classmate there knows her full name.

Just as Qing Chen was about to ask something else, Yang Yang turned around and saw that Qing Chen seemed to be probing her secret, so she smiled and waved to him, "Qing Chen, come over here."

Then, Yang Yang turned to the classmates who had come to see him and said, "Let me introduce you. This is a student who just transferred to our school. He's my new parade advisor. He's very smart and can give us a lot of guidance!"

In an instant, more than ten students looked intently at Qing Chen.

So much so that Qing Chen, who was just getting up, suddenly froze.

He looked at Yang Yang with an expression that seemed to say, "You've really messed this up! What do you mean by becoming a parade advisor? Is there even such a position?!"

Qing Chen couldn't understand it. He already had to go to school after coming to the Inner World, but how did even going to school turn into a story of two big liars outwitting each other?!

He hesitated for a moment before walking to Yang Yang's side, only to hear more than ten classmates looking at him with admiration and saying, "Welcome to join our cause, classmate. Is there anything we can improve in this parade?"

Qing Chen sighed inwardly, but said calmly, "Actually, everyone is doing very well now. There's no need for me to give any advice. I'm just one of the many people involved in this grand undertaking..."

Yang Yang looked at him and said, "That's not right. You said this morning that you had an idea to share with everyone."

Qing Chen was about to vomit blood on the spot. Why was he being targeted and tricked so relentlessly?

When do I start having an idea?

Seeing the expectant looks on everyone's faces, he suddenly said to Yang Yang, "My idea isn't mature enough yet, so I need to think about it some more. By the way, this morning you told me you wanted to compose a song for this parade. You said that a powerful, inspiring chorus during this massive march would not only uplift the marchers but also infect the onlookers."

Yang Yang's face also looked unwell. When did she say she was going to write a song? She's never studied composition!

Yang Yang thought for a moment and said, "I did have that idea, but I really don't have the talent for it!"

Qing Chen said, "You sang it for me this morning, it was really beautiful, but I can't quite remember it. Why don't you sing it for everyone?"

Yang Yang looked at Qing Chen with a half-smile. The two big liars looked at each other in silence, enjoying the fun of tricking each other...

At this moment, to avoid being tricked further, Qing Chen quickly said, "Um... you guys continue chatting, I have to go home from school first."

As he spoke, he walked out of the classroom and quickly crossed the corridor.

But then Yang Yang said, "Wait for me, let's go together."

The crowd suddenly fell silent, all looking at Qing Chen in quiet contemplation.

They watched the boy's back; his white tracksuit was spotless, and his posture was exceptionally upright.

As everyone recalled Qing Chen's face, it seemed that he did indeed match Yang Yang quite well.

However, after Yang Yang finished speaking, Qing Chen did not stop. Instead, he walked faster and faster, as if he wanted to run!

Seeing this, Yang Yang said to everyone, "Sorry, I'll be going now too. I still have something to discuss with him!"

As she spoke, Yang Yang took off after him, her long black hair swaying behind her.

At the classroom door, all the students silently watched the two figures from behind. A strange scene unfolded in the corridor, and everyone felt like they were just background figures in this scene.

Yang Yang ran up to Qing Chen and walked alongside him. The girl's voice drifted from ahead. "Your house or mine?"

The students looked at each other in disbelief, and in everyone's field of vision, they saw the expressions of shock spreading across the faces of others.

What kind of development is this? Did someone press the fast-forward button on the world?!

Moreover, it seems that Yang Yang is more proactive between the two of them.

Some of the female students looked around, observing the expressions on the boys' faces, and it was as if they could hear the sound of hearts breaking in the air.

Beside Qing Chen, Yang Yang, with her hands in her hoodie pockets, said with a smile, "Don't be so impatient, come join the parade. You'll never see anything like this in the Outer World."

"I'm not going," Qing Chen shook his head.

Yang Yang said, "Don't you think it's interesting? Compared to the high school students here, all the high school students in the Outer World know how to do is practice problems."

As they spoke, the two boarded the light rail train parked at the school gate.

Yang Yang was taken aback for a moment, because Zheng Yi, the silver-haired girl from her class, was already on the train. "Hi Zheng Yi, are you also taking the No. 21 light rail home?"

"Yes," Zheng Yi nodded, then looked at Qing Chen and said, "He and I are neighbors, we live across the hall from each other."

When Qing Chen saw Yang Yang's eyes suddenly light up, he immediately knew that it was all over.