Meanwhile, Jiang Xun, who had no idea the trending topics had already gone wild, was crouching beneath the Jujube Tree, staring blankly at a bowl of water.
Duan Qizhao poked his blue-haired head out of the main room. When he saw Jiang Xun staring motionlessly at a bowl of water, alarm bells immediately went off in his head.
Oh no. Had that high fever really fried his brain?
He darted over and waved a hand frantically in front of Jiang Xun's eyes. "Are you okay? Want me to put another Little Bear Fever-Reducing Patch on you? There's still one left-"
"Get lost." Jiang Xun slapped his paw away.
Duan Qizhao refused to give up. He crouched beside him and followed his gaze into the bowl.
There was only half a jujube leaf spinning in the water and a small reflected patch of sky. It was so clean that not even a microorganism could be found.
"...What exactly are you looking at?"
"I'm researching a scientific problem," Jiang Xun said solemnly.
Duan Qizhao immediately perked up. "What problem? My grades weren't great, but I did at least go to high school-"
"How to make Shen Wangjing smile."
Duan Qizhao's face instantly fell. He stood and walked back toward the main room without looking back. "That's beyond the syllabus. I suggest you just skip the exam."
Ignoring his desertion, Jiang Xun pulled the Task Card, which he had crumpled beyond recognition, from his pocket and read it again.
Task two: make Shen Wangjing smile on camera.
He, Jiang Xun, had spent more than a decade matching wits with the orphanage director and trading verbal blows with Liu Wanying in the Jiang family. What storms hadn't he weathered?
How hard could it be to make someone smile?
Shen Wangjing was crouching beside the