Rebirth after the college entrance examination

Chapter 168 Neither Up nor Down

Xia An carried Le Ning all the way out of the school gate, and the two went to the hotel hand in hand.

Le Ning went upstairs first, and Xia An followed closely behind. As soon as the door closed, Le Ning hugged Xia An.

"My mom is asleep, so you can speak a little louder."

Meeting her drawn-out gaze, Xia An chuckled, kissed her ear, and whispered, "We should at least wait until your mother passes away; she deserves the respect she's due."

Seeing Le Ning nod with a pout, looking somewhat reluctant, Xia An laughed even harder, "Why do you seem more anxious than me?"

Le Ning glanced at him, said nothing, covered his mouth, pushed Xia An to the bedside, and then squatted down.

A few minutes later, when they were halfway through, he pressed Xia An down onto the bed again.

"Lie down and don't move!"

She turned to the side and hugged Xia An, resting her head on his arm.

"Sing that song from this morning again."

Xia An hummed "Hibernation" softly, and Le Ning followed suit.

"Your voice is very beautiful, why don't you dare to sing?" Xia An smiled.

"I haven't sung much, so I'm a little embarrassed to sing."

"Let Teacher Xu mentor you more; you'll be a co-lead vocalist in the future."

Actually, Xia An has some basic plans for the band Le Ning. Next year, he plans to create a special program, firstly to promote Zuo You, and secondly to develop the video website.

If Xiao Le Ning has plans to develop in this direction, it wouldn't be a bad thing for the two sisters to get closer... hey.

Le Ning hummed in agreement and drew circles on Xia An's chest through his clothes.

She said, "If I keep clinging to you like this, won't you get annoyed?"

Xia An stroked her hair and said, "You'll know once you try."

After several minutes of silence, Le Ning asked him, "What are you thinking about?"

"A man's sage time."

"What 'post-coital time'?"

Xia An explained, but Le Ning rolled her eyes, spat, and remained silent.

What about you? What are you thinking about?

"You really want to know? Then I'll tell you, but don't take it personally."

Xia An tilted her head and bit her two cherry-red lips, savoring them for a moment before saying:
"There's only one heart; you can't have more."

"I still have the same idea: I want to do something."

"Are you scared of me because I'm so amazing?"

Le Ning nodded sincerely, "I'm even more scared than a few days ago."

Xia An didn't pay much attention when it was mentioned last time, but this time she thought about it carefully and seriously.

Then I asked, "Do you have any specific ideas? Not counting bands."

For example, what kind of business do you want to start at the school?
Or perhaps you could pursue further studies in areas other than music?

Le Ning pondered for a moment, then shook her head and said, "Actually, I've thought about this a lot when I'm alone, but I don't really understand it and don't have any good ideas."

She suddenly sprawled onto Xia An from under the covers.

Their lower bodies touched, their pubic hair rubbing against each other...it felt warm and cozy.

"Can you help me think of something?"

hiss~
She's being coquettish, the female knight is being coquettish.

They were not shy at all when they were being affectionate, but blushed immediately when she said something coquettish.

With her delicate, rosy cheeks and fragrant hair hanging down, Xia An couldn't resist kissing her again.

After a moment of intimacy, he rested his head on his arm, looked at the ceiling, and said, "I've been busy with a few things outside, and right now we really don't have enough manpower, especially in management and finance. We're so short-staffed that it's driving us crazy."

Of course, I'm not saying this to force you to move in this direction, and you shouldn't deliberately give up your hobbies for my sake.

I'm saying this to tell you that starting a business and working for someone else are two completely different paths. One is about employing people, and the other is about playing to your strengths and being employed by others.

"Our mom's in business too, she understands things."

Hearing him say "our mom" made Le Ning both amused and sweet.

"Her business is nowhere near yours."

Xia An used her other hand to knead the soft dough underneath the blanket, shook her head and laughed, "Businesses, regardless of size, operate on roughly the same principles."

I think you can start from this point and expand from your hobby. For example, since your current profession and hobby are both music, you could either seek personal advancement, music education, instrument sales, or, to specialize further, move into the entertainment industry and work in music production.

His hand reached into the valley, first touching one spot, and Le Ning shuddered. Then he touched an even smoother spot, and Le Ning weakly leaned on his shoulder, biting his ear.

Xia An subtly inserted her fingertip and said, "Making a hobby your career will make you happier."

Le Ning's breathing became heavier, her eyes already half-dazed. "Is being happy enough?"

Xia An said, "I just want you to be happy. If you can achieve something great while being happy, you'll be even happier. My dear, don't overthink it, okay?"

Xia An gently brushed his lips against her smooth cheek and whispered, "Youth only comes once. I want to see you enjoy this time happily. Don't put pressure on yourself or make yourself feel worthless, because even if you want to give up after graduation, I won't let you. By then, I believe I'll have quite a business to manage, and you'll definitely be my good wife."

What could be more touching than this kind of rational pampering?
I don't ask you to have great abilities to match me; I only wish you peace and happiness, and that you do what is appropriate for your age.

Le Ning nodded emphatically and gently sat down.

Find a spot and gently envelop him in warmth.

Immediately, the two of them gasped in surprise.

Xia An relied solely on reason to control her body; otherwise, she would have been in position with just a slight arch of her back.

Le Ning's starry eyes welled up with tears, and she chuckled sweetly as she asked him, "Is that so?"

Xia An nodded, "How about..."

Le Ning pulled herself up, making a splash and blushing bright red.

After straightening her clothes, she smiled and said, "It's getting dark, I need to take Mom out for dinner."

Xia An said, "Let's go together."

Le Ning objected and shooed him away, saying, "I need to talk to her about you. You can go back now. I'll take her to the small theater tomorrow morning to see you in the limelight."

Xia An didn't leave immediately; this time, she was truly stuck in a rut.

Then, with Le Ning's complaint, "You're all comfortable now, but what about me?", her hair was disheveled again within minutes.

Then he left.

After the snow was flattened, it became as slippery as ice. Xia An entered the school from the east gate with her hands in her pockets. After walking a few steps, she saw the owner of the flower shop shoveling snow in the backyard, while seven or eight stray cats watched her build a snowman in their cat house.

Her long hair was tied into a ponytail, and her face was red from the cold.

From a distance, the two nodded to each other, but passed each other without saying a word.

Back in the dorm, it was full.

Qi Buyang turned to Xia An, who was drinking water, and said, "Teacher Xu told the whole class this afternoon to gather in the small theater tomorrow morning for some kind of press conference. Xia, did she tell you?"

Xia An, amused, looked at him as he finished a bottle of orange juice with pulp and asked, "Didn't Teacher Xu tell you about a press conference?"

Lu Yao shook his head: "I hurriedly called Li Xiaoru and asked her to leave the keys with her so that the school could send people to set up the venue. She didn't say anything specific."

Looking at Lu Yao and recalling the scene at the lunch party that Le Ning had described, Xia An still felt there was no need to persuade him, nor was there any way to persuade him. He simply said, "You'll know tomorrow." He didn't intend to explain in advance, otherwise he would definitely be bombarded with questions.

Lu Fei, who was eating a pancake, interrupted him, asking, "Has Le Ning's mother left? Didn't you eat together?"

"The mother and daughter went to eat, and they probably won't leave for a week. They're looking for a storefront to open a shop."

Seeing that Lu Fei hesitated to speak, Xia An smiled and said, "Don't worry, I remember your matter."

Lu Fei grinned and handed over the bag of pancakes in a simple and honest manner, "Have a few."

……

Le Ning took Zhou Ting to eat dumplings.

There's a really good lamb dumpling place on the food street. Zhou Ting ate a few and was full, so she pushed the remaining half plate to her daughter: "You eat them all."

Le Ning asked curiously, "You said you were hungry and wanted to eat dumplings, so why did you only eat so little?"

Zhou Ting glared at her, pinched the bridge of her nose, and said, "I've been so angry these past two days that I have no appetite."

Le Ning smiled faintly. She was exhausted today, but she still ate one and a half plates of food.

Not in the mood for a walk, Zhou Ting took a hot shower after returning to his room. While Le Ning went to wash up, Zhou Ting stared blankly for a long time, seemingly lost in thought.

After lying down, Zhou Ting said, "I'm going back tomorrow."

Le Ning put down her phone, tilted her head, and asked, "Why? Are you closing the shop?"

Both mother and daughter had face masks on, and their voices were muffled.

Zhou Ting paused, sighed, stood up, took out a bank card from his handbag, and handed it to her.

"I went out at noon and deposited five thousand yuan inside."

Le Ning blinked in confusion, while Zhou Ting pouted, peeled off the face mask, and revealed a glowing, luminous face.

“That kid is a troublemaker. Although his family has some money, it's still not as much as ours. Now that you two are together, you can't always rely on his money for expenses, otherwise you won't even dare to complain if you get bullied.”

Le Ning suppressed a laugh as her mother continued to complain: "I won't tell you anything else, you won't like to hear it anyway. In short, everything should be done in moderation."

You're a girl, so don't blame me if you get hurt someday. Dating is one thing, but breakups and makeups are unpredictable. Before marriage, don't cross the line, at least..."

"Okay, I know," Le Ning said with a smile as she took the card.

Looking at her daughter's bright smile, Zhou Ting felt an indescribable awkwardness in her heart. She sighed softly, "We won't open the shop anymore. Now that you have a boyfriend, I can't just come over every few days and let him watch over me, thinking I'm checking up on him."

As she spoke, she held her daughter's hand and said earnestly, "You have a stubborn temper. If you two can't reach an agreement, don't argue with him. I don't think he's without a temper. Don't argue and then he might hit you. If you really can't get along, then it's best to part ways amicably."

Le Ning's eyes were already red, but she chuckled.

"Still laughing," Zhou Ting said reproachfully, "I never realized you were so carefree."

Le Ning rarely took the initiative to link arms with her mother and whispered, "Actually... I didn't sleep with him."

Zhou Ting: "..."

Le Ning pursed her lips and whispered, "I was just teasing you. I was afraid you wouldn't agree, so I came up with this plan. Mom, do you know? This afternoon I was in the room across the hall with him..."

After hearing the first half, Zhou Ting was both pleased and angry; after hearing the second half, she was both annoyed and blaming.

"Even in front of me, you..." she turned to ask, "So, how far have you two gotten?"

Le Ning, being straightforward, said with a touch of shyness, "I have everything except that."

Zhou Ting, being an experienced person, understood immediately. She felt a little embarrassed, but patiently asked, "You do know what's going on. Since it hasn't come to that point, keep stopping him. I'm not afraid to tell you, if he can't have you, he'll always be thinking about you and trying to please you. But once he does have you, he'll get tired of you very quickly."

Le Ning pursed her lips and said, "It's not that I stopped him, it's that he said he couldn't come here in front of you for the next few days, it would be disrespectful to you."

Hearing that her own daughter was taking the initiative... Zhou Ting gritted her teeth and said, "Have you no shame!"

After thinking for a moment, he sighed helplessly, "It's not easy."

Le Ning chuckled, feeling that her two moves of advancing by retreating and then retreating by advancing over the past two days were truly brilliant, managing to completely control her own mother.

Zhou Ting glanced at her, then chuckled, understood the situation, and pinched her arm in an annoyed manner.

After a few playful moments between mother and daughter, Le Ning's large T-shirt revealed her cleavage. Zhou Ting noticed two conspicuous little hickeys growing in the white patch of her chest, and his eyes widened and his face turned red.

"I see it now. You lack self-respect and are always chasing after other people's beds. I can't watch you every second. Like I said..."

"Oh, I really know."

Zhou Ting stood there angrily with her arms crossed, not saying a word. She thought to herself, if that person really knew what was important, she should have a chat with her before leaving.

Le Ning rolled her eyes, leaned on her mother's lap, and said with a clattering sound, "Mom, I have something to tell you, then you won't look down on Xia An anymore."

Zhou Ting chuckled: "What's wrong with him now? What is it about him that I don't like?"

Le Ning said, "He's actually very rich; he's a multi-millionaire."

Zhou Ting sighed and rubbed her forehead, thinking to herself, "What a silly daughter of mine!"

“I heard from him that his family made some money in the stock market, but tens of millions…” Zhou Ting shook her head. “Daughter, boys tend to exaggerate when they’re dating. You didn’t see it for yourself…”

“I saw it with my own eyes,” Le Ning nodded, “He had more than 11 million in his bank account.”

Ignoring Zhou Ting's wide eyes and without waiting for her to ask, he took the initiative to explain: "During the summer after the college entrance examination, he and some people set up a website, which was a kind of telepathy project for college students. Some people invested a lot of money, and he said he cashed out some of it."

Agnes Chow: "I..."

Seeing her mother's stunned expression, Le Ning covered her mouth and laughed, "Also, you're coming to school with me tomorrow morning. I heard he's going to be interviewed by reporters."

Zhou Ting: "..."

Le Ning kept the news of the 300 million today a secret, leaving it for another small shock tomorrow.

A thousand words and countless questions condensed into one sentence in Zhou Ting's mind: "Summer vacation has only been over for a few months, and he's already made tens of millions?"

Le Ning didn't say much more, only saying, "I saw it with my own eyes. Besides, you'll know if it's true or not tomorrow. I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep."

Le Ning tossed the no-rinse face mask onto the bedside table, turned over, and closed her eyes.

Behind her, Zhou Ting, like a curious little baby, came over and kept shaking her daughter's shoulder, "Tell Mom in detail what happened, I'm in this... in-between situation."
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Early the next morning.

The students at Binhai University were stunned.

News of someone at our school making a fortune spread like wildfire, with various versions of the rumors circulating.

Some say that a classmate won a big prize, several million.

Some people say that so-and-so made tens of millions by investing in stocks.

Some say that so-and-so inherited a family fortune of several hundred million.

The version that she inherited the family fortune is the most widely accepted, after all, the news that Tang Wan became the boss of the group company has been circulating in the province for more than a month.

But starting at nine o'clock, the campus radio station began broadcasting from every corner, and the content of the broadcast immediately dispelled all the rumors.

[Good news!]

[Xia An, a student from the 06 class of the Department of Journalism Photography at our school, through diligent study and unremitting efforts, independently developed the XXX website, which was acquired by the American company XXX for US$3800 million, becoming the most valuable acquisition of its kind in the world.]

Who says youth is wasted? We, the young generation, should strive to be strong.

This morning at 10:00 AM, a press conference themed "Young Talents - The New Generation of Internet Pioneers," jointly organized by the Donghai Provincial Newspaper Group and our school, will be held at the LSP Mini Theater, the first student entrepreneurship project run by Xia An at our school.

[Those who excel first will be given priority; we encourage all students to attend and learn in person...]

Art School, Photography Class, Dormitory 515...

Those who knew Xia An were all numb and started asking around for information.

However, the person in question, Xia, was summoned to the principal's office at 8:00 AM to receive political guidance.

(End of this chapter)