"Did you know?" Lu Chi had one hand tucked into his uniform pants pocket as he gazed out the window in profile. The magnificent sunset painted everything before him a dusky gold. "When I was little, I thought that if you pointed at fiery clouds with your finger, you'd wet the bed that night."
"What?" Zhuo Yue had not expected Lu Chi to suddenly say something so out of the blue, and he froze.
Lu Chi smiled faintly. "But clearly, pointing at fiery clouds has no necessary connection to whether you wet the bed."
He walked toward Zhuo Yue step by step. As he brushed past him, he said lightly, "In the final exams, I'll take first place."
"In every exam from now on, I'll take first place."
He turned to look at Zhuo Yue, the lingering sunset casting a faint halo around him. "But there's something you may have misunderstood."
"In my opinion, exams don't only come in the form of written papers. And in every exam I take, I give it my all."
Zhuo Yue froze at that. Then he suddenly turned and called after Lu Chi's retreating figure, "Will you still join the study group in the future?"
Without looking back, Lu Chi answered, "I will!"
Author's note:
The method for calculating lottery numbers in this story was something Lazy Eight made up after looking it up on Baidu, because Lazy Eight's IQ really wasn't enough to understand those professional materials. Please don't take it seriously.
Chapter 26
Although Lu Chi had never mentioned it to anyone, after fermenting overnight, the news that Zhuo Yue had gone to tattle to the teacher again still spread at top speed in the shortest possible time. So when Lu Chi returned to the basketball gym during lunch break, he found