On the morning of January 10, Cheng Tian woke up rubbing his aching head and reached over to turn off the phone alarm that kept vibrating beside his pillow.
"Hiss... why does my head hurt so much... what happened last night?"
After staring blankly for a while, Cheng Tian finally remembered. He had gotten carried away messing around with the others last night and drunk too much...
"Sigh, I can't go fooling around with them again..." He checked the time. It was already seven.
"Hey! Bai Yun! Stop sleeping! You need to go!" Cheng Tian hurriedly woke Bai Yun, who was still snoring away.
"Mm... huh?" Still lost in dreamland, Bai Yun was a little dazed at being dragged back into reality. "Huh? Where did my Rikka go?"
"If you don't get downstairs for the gathering, Teacher Zhou will have Trevenant smack your butt into six pieces!"
"Holy shit! It's already seven?!" Bai Yun hurriedly started getting dressed. "A-Tian, don't just stand there! Hurry up and get ready!"
"Get ready, my ass! I have to stay in the room and write my self-criticism today, remember?"
"Oh, right. I think that did happen." Bai Yun got out of bed and opened the door, only to be startled by the beer cans in the living room. "Why are there so many beer cans?!"
"Because you insisted on challenging Lin Lin to a drinking contest last night," Cheng Tian said irritably. "You go ahead. I'll clean up."
"Okay, okay. Sorry for the trouble."
Cheng Tian spent the whole day fretting over how to finish his 3,000-character self-criticism. After racking his brains to scrape together just over 1,000 characters, he sank into thought as he faced the remaining 2,000-character gap.
"Aaargh! I can't write any more, Frogadier!" Frogadier, who was playing with Aron and