Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

Chapter 681 Freshmen
Li Zhuangsheng's school has also started. As he walks around the school, he sees the senior students from the Anime Research Institute still out there scamming students, selling phone cards and daily necessities to naive younger students.

Although he bought a car, Li Zhuangsheng still rode an electric scooter to and from school every day, since the school was not far from his residence and the scooter was more convenient. However, he coerced and bribed Li Xiuyu to drive every day, his initial intention being to improve Li Xiuyu's driving skills, since experienced drivers are made by accumulating mileage.

After school started, life finally got busy. Li Zhuangsheng didn't go to the company every day, mostly communicating online or by phone. Hu Mengdie, who lived close to the company, went there more often than him. After Li Zhuangsheng gave Hu Mengdie a raise, he suddenly remembered that he was the only one in the entire company who wasn't receiving a salary.

When they have free time, Li Zhuangsheng and Zhu Zhixue will do some of the sports they like. But Zhu Zhixue is quite ambitious now and spends all her time seriously learning about Hanfu (traditional Han clothing), so she's not as clingy as Li Zhuangsheng had imagined.

Of course, this was also thanks to Li Zhuangsheng's encouragement. He complained to Zhu Zhixue that the animation company was losing too much money and wanted to do a collaboration on Hanfu to recoup the losses, but he didn't know much about it, so Zhu Zhixue volunteered to "help" him.

Lin Yuehua still writes in her journal every day, and Li Zhuangsheng likes it daily. However, since their relationship has become official, Li Zhuangsheng also comments on the content after reading it. Sometimes Lin Yuehua is too busy and writes an entry every two days, and Li Zhuangsheng would tease her, asking if their feelings have faded and that she's starting to be perfunctory. Then Lin Yuehua would complain that he doesn't even update his novel that frequently.

Xie Jiangqing and Yao Xingyu would sometimes chat with him, but it usually involved moral attacks and urging him to stop before he went astray. Li Zhuangsheng would agree, saying, "You're right, but you're right." Actually, Li Zhuangsheng sometimes thought that these two were truly tireless, knowing he wouldn't change, yet they still patiently tried to persuade him.

Yi Yunshui would occasionally contact him. As a homebody, she rarely talked about school, mostly focusing on her gaming experiences and insights. She spent most of her time playing games. Li Zhuangsheng bought her an ASUS gaming laptop with a 1070 graphics card, enough to run most games smoothly. She immersed herself in Steam and played League of Legends less. But she would come over to meet Li Zhuangsheng on weekends. After eating and drinking, they would make love and then chat for a long time about games.

She genuinely has a passion for game design. Every time she plays a game, she combines it with discussions on forums and online communities to write analyses of its genre, selling points, gameplay shortcomings, etc. She writes at least several thousand words for each game. Moreover, her typing speed is incredibly fast; sometimes you can even see afterimages. This is the first time Li Zhuangsheng has ever seen a girl type so quickly. No wonder she's a gaming pro. Li Zhuangsheng suspects that Yi Yunshui honed this skill by arguing with people while playing League of Legends.

After all, in League of Legends, slow-handed weaklings are destined to be severely humiliated by fast-handed Zaun players.

As for Hu Mengdie, she is still in the stage where Li Zhuangsheng is trying to win her over with his cold face. However, if Li Zhuangsheng does not take the initiative to contact Hu Mengdie one day, she will definitely take the initiative to find him the next day and question him about why he did not contact her for a whole day: Don't think that no one in our school is pursuing me!

She immediately sent a screenshot of the friend request to Li Zhuangsheng and asked him which one she should accept.

Li Zhuangsheng woke up in bed again, his lips itchy. Li Xiuyu would kiss Li Zhuangsheng every morning. At first, she had to be careful that Li Zhuangsheng wouldn't wake up in the middle of the night, but later she didn't care anymore.

Li Zhuangsheng suspected that the other party had been doing this all along, but from that night onwards, she stopped hiding it.

Saying that he would no longer hide it wouldn't be accurate. Li Zhuangsheng could wake up, and even talk back, but he absolutely couldn't open his eyes. Once he did, Li Xiuyu would immediately end the game as if nothing had happened. It was like playing some kind of rule-based game.

Despite the fact that the two had already been intimate, Li Xiuyu still insisted on maintaining their original relationship. Although the reason seemed sufficient, it felt far-fetched, almost like self-deception. Yet, he couldn't bear to give up that relationship, so he could only test the waters and play a dangerous game.

Li Zhuangsheng silently closed his eyes and slightly opened his mouth to suckle. After a while, Li Xiuyu finally got off Li Zhuangsheng.

Li Zhuangsheng finally opened his eyes, acting as if nothing had happened: "Good morning... The club is recruiting new members, right?"

"Yeah, freshman military training is over." Li Xiuyu wiped his mouth casually.

"Time flies so fast."

Li Zhuangsheng sighed. The price had been rising uncomfortably since early morning. Li Xiuyu was truly a master of killing without any regard for the consequences. A bit unethical.

"Stop complaining, get up quickly, you have class later!"

"Then why did you kiss me for so long!" Li Zhuangsheng wanted to complain. Although he himself was reluctant to end it either.

Since Li Xiuyu didn't have class, Li Zhuangsheng rode his electric scooter alone to class. He met Zhu Zhixue in class, who had arrived first and even saved a seat for Li Zhuangsheng in the last row.

During class, Zhu Zhixue also mentioned the club's recruitment efforts to Li Zhuangsheng. The president of the anime club hoped that she could cosplay anime characters to attract new members to the club.

"Who do they want you to cosplay?" Li Zhuangsheng asked.

“Icarus, or Rem…” Zhu Zhixue said, “Isn’t Rem quite popular lately?”

“Although I want to say that it should be your decision… I don’t want you to wear it for others to see.” Li Zhuangsheng held Zhu Zhixue’s hand and said with a smile, “So, don’t go.”

"Yeah, I didn't really want to go in the first place," Zhu Zhixue said with a smile. "The Hanfu club also asked me to help them recruit new members, so I'd much rather go there!"

"Hmm, the Hanfu club is great. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Then come today, I actually wanted to show you something! Oh, by the way..." Zhu Zhixue asked softly, "Do you like Rem? Do you want me to cosplay for you?"

"I don't really like Rem. I prefer Ikaros or Angewomon."

"So you just like angelic girls with wings, right?"

"Yes, I like angels like you."

Zhu Zhixue smiled sweetly and kissed Li Zhuangsheng on the cheek.

"Cough cough!"

The teacher lecturing below coughed and gave him a reproachful look. It's one thing to not listen to the lecture, but don't be all lovey-dovey in public!

Zhu Zhixue blushed and quickly shrank back like a quail. Luckily, they were used to sitting in the last row, and apart from her roommates sitting nearby, no one else saw her.

Li Zhuangsheng smiled and tapped Zhu Zhixue, playing with her hand.

"It's finally gotten a bit cooler lately," Zhu Zhixue said softly. "This summer has been unbearably hot."

She dislikes summer the most. In summer, her chest becomes more prominent, and her chest gets wet with sweat in no time after going out. She is also prone to developing prickly heat if she is not careful.

Although Li Zhuangsheng would personally apply talcum powder to her... the weather is finally a bit cooler now!
"Oh, by the way, Yao Xingyu contacted me recently," Zhu Zhixue added.

(End of this chapter)