This humble Taoist priest wants to take the college entrance exam.

Chapter 49 Is this your study partner?
Around 7 a.m., when Yunqi No.1 Middle School started its morning exercises, Li Wanyin also woke up from her sleep.

Perhaps it was because Chen Shi'an had said last night that she had the appearance of great wealth and honor that my sister had a rare sweet dream last night. When she woke up, she was full of energy and enthusiasm.

Li Wanyin understood that nice words were nice words, and good dreams were good dreams; she was all too aware of the reality she was in.

"The future still depends on our own hard work!"

Li Wanyin looked at herself in the mirror in front of the dressing table and muttered to herself to encourage herself.

I opened the door and came out, only to hear the sound of the television in the living room.

Li Wanyin was a little curious. It was already past seven o'clock. Had Shi'an not gone to class yet?
When I went outside to take a look, I found that it was just the black cat lying lazily on the sofa watching TV by itself.

"Shimo, are you watching TV?"

"Meow."

"Okay, then you see... huh?"

Li Wanyin then realized that the cat was watching TV by itself so early in the morning, was that right?
Did Shi'an leave the TV on and forget to turn it off?

It couldn't be that the cat turned on the TV by itself!

"Shimo, is that the TV you turned on...?"

"..."

The black cat rolled its eyes at her. "I'm a cat, do you think I can talk to you? City people are so strange, why do they always like to catch cats and ask and answer their own questions and talk to themselves?"

Li Wanyin found it very novel, picked up the remote control next to the cat, pressed a button, and turned off the TV.

The black cat turned its head and glanced at her. It was just a cat, but she could almost see a look of confusion on its face.

She had just put down the remote control when the black cat shoved its paw down onto the power button, turning the TV back on.

"Shimo! It really is you who turned on the TV!"

"..."

"That's amazing!! You can actually turn on the TV!!"

Li Wanyin was stunned. She had only taught Shimo how to turn on the TV last night when she was bored, and she didn't expect it to actually learn it!
Ultimately, it was just a very simple instruction, but the fact that it learned it so quickly and turned on the TV on its own really surprised Li Wanyin.

"Shimo, you're so smart! You can use the toilet by yourself and even turn on the TV...! Can you even understand what's on TV...?"

"..."

"That's true, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it. My sister would also get bored if she were alone in the room."

"..."

Li Wanyin excitedly took out her phone, took a picture of the cat watching TV on the sofa, and then sent it to Chen Shi'an's WeChat.

Little Echo: [Photo]

Little Echo: [How amazing! The Ink Picker will turn on the TV by itself!]
Chen Shi'an is at school right now, and given his habit of using his phone, he probably won't see the message until after school.

Li Wanyin didn't mind; she just wanted to share this new thing with him, not to mention it was his cat.

After graduating and entering society, Li Wanyin found herself with fewer and fewer friends to share new experiences with. She realized that human joys and sorrows are not shared.

Just as she was about to put her phone away and go wash up, Chen Shi'an replied to her message.

Chen Shi'an: [Did the TV wake up Sister Wanyin? I'll beat it up when I get back.]
Little Echo: [No, no, Shimo is very well-behaved. Are you playing on your phone?]
Chen Shi'an: [I turned on my phone's vibration alert last night, and I received the message right after I finished my morning exercises. Isn't Sister Wanyin supposed to start work at ten? Why are you up so early?]
Little Echo: [I have an interview at nine o'clock, and then I'll go to my part-time job. You should focus on your class, I won't bother you anymore.]
Chen Shi'an: [Go, Wanyin!]
Little Echo: [Yes! You too!]
The sun was shining brightly today, and Li Wanyin was in a good mood.

She put down her phone to charge it, quickly washed up, and then went to the kitchen to cook a simple bowl of egg noodles.

The black cat, who was watching TV on the sofa, sniffed the smell and came running over.

"Meow."

"Shimo, you want some too? Didn't Shian give you any?"

"Meow……"

"Okay, okay, I'll give you all the eggs."

"..."

The black cat originally just wanted to mooch some food, but unexpectedly, Li Wanyin took most of the eggs from her bowl and put them into its cat bowl.

This made Shimo a little embarrassed to eat. It curled its tail, sat down, looked down at the egg in the bowl, and then looked up at her, who was busy slurping noodles in a hurry.

"Hmm? What's wrong, Shimo? Don't you like eggs?"

"..."

The black cat stretched out its paw, touched the edge of the cat bowl, pushed it towards her, and then looked up at her.

"Huh? Are you telling me to eat it?"

When Li Wanyin was a child, her family kept cats. Sometimes, when the cats caught big rats, they would put them at her feet as a pawn, but of course, she would never eat them…

"Meow."

Seeing that she was unmoved, the black cat stretched out its paw and pushed the bowl again.

Li Wanyin chuckled and naturally reached out to pat its head.

After touching it, she finally realized that this seemed to be the first time she had ever touched Shimo! This time, it didn't dodge!
"Eat up, eat up, Shimo, you eat. When your sister makes a lot of money in the future, I'll buy you delicious food every day."

"..." Seeing that she said that, the black cat finally stopped being polite to her, opened its mouth, and ate the eggs in the bowl clean in a few bites.

Li Wanyin was addicted to petting the cat and wanted to reach out to pet it again, but this time Shimo refused and ran back to the sofa to continue watching TV.

It was almost time. Li Wanyin tidied up the dishes, picked up her backpack, and checked how many copies of the resume she had left.

"Sister's leaving now. I'll bring you some dried fish when I come back tonight. Bye-bye."

"..."

The black cat on the sofa turned its head to look at her.

She waved to it as if she were really saying goodbye to a family member, and then gently closed the door.

The black cat looked away and continued watching TV.

She could faintly hear the sound of water dripping. She jumped off the sofa, ran to the kitchen, and stretched out her little paws to turn off the faucet that she hadn't turned off properly in her haste.

The black cat shook its paw as if it had been electrocuted when some unpleasant water stains appeared on its fur.

It ran back to the living room, turned off the TV, then ran to the balcony, leaped onto a nearby wall, and swooped down as if walking on flat ground…

Those who should be in school should be in school, those who should be in work should be in work, and it's time for it to go for a stroll.

……

bell--

When the school bell rang at noon, the classroom became lively.

Chen Shi'an exited the flow state and put away his seventh-grade math textbook.

After self-studying math in these two biochemistry classes, plus yesterday's learning progress, Chen Shi'an has finished learning all the math content of the first semester of seventh grade. After doing some more problems in the afternoon physics class and evening self-study, he will be able to fully understand the first semester of seventh grade math.

The speed was incredibly fast. As someone who had just started learning junior high school math, Chen Shi'an finished in less than two days what other junior high students learned in a semester.

This speed left Lin Mengqiu speechless.

You should know that ever since she was assigned to a humanities class in the second semester of her first year of high school, no one has been able to shake her position as number one.

Could Chen Shi'an really have overthrown her despite being so far behind in her schooling?!

If this had happened a few days ago, Lin Mengqiu would have thought it was a fantasy, but now, after witnessing Chen Shi'an's learning speed in math and English, she no longer dared to underestimate him...

However, the girl was a little happy that Chen Shi'an chose to study math instead of English in his biochemistry class.

Even Lin Mengqiu herself couldn't explain the reason for this little bit of happiness. Maybe it was because his study partner taught English, while she taught math.

In a class unrelated to math and English, Chen Shi'an didn't use the English materials her friend gave her to learn English, but instead used the workbook she gave her to learn math. This gave her a strange and unique sense of small victory.

Of course, she couldn't let him know about these girlish thoughts, and she even felt embarrassed when she realized that she was actually a little happy about such things...

God knows why I'm inexplicably interested in such strange things!

On the other side, Chen Shi'an had already gotten up from his seat.

Chen Shi'an is now very aware of his role as a 'deskmate' – whenever it's time to leave school, regardless of whether Lin Mengqiu intends to get up or not, he will stand up first to put away his chair and stand beside her to tidy up his own things, so as not to cause her any trouble coming and going.

The girl naturally noticed these details as well. It has to be said that, in all her years of schooling, Chen Shi'an was truly the most special deskmate she had ever met.

"Class monitor, we don't need to clean the classroom at noon, right?"

"Need not."

"Okay, then I'll just erase the blackboard..."

Before Chen Shi'an could finish speaking, Lin Mengqiu got up from her seat, walked straight to the blackboard covered with writing, and began wiping it with a rag.

Some teachers write in places too high to erase, so she will stand on tiptoe slightly.

Chen Shi'an blinked. In some things, Lin Mengqiu had her own stubbornness. For example, when taking out the trash, even though she was holding her breath and about to suffocate, she still insisted on holding the bucket with him to empty it; during the four classes in the morning, Chen Shi'an wiped the blackboard twice, and she also had to wipe the blackboard twice, refusing to take advantage of him even a little bit...

Since Lin Mengqiu was in charge of wiping the blackboard for the last class, Chen Shi'an had nothing else to do, so he left the classroom first.

The stairs were packed with people during lunch break.

Chen Shi'an followed the crowd down to the first floor and waited in an open space in the first-floor corridor.

After waiting for about five minutes, I spotted that pretty figure in the crowd on the stairs.

Now that she had a friend waiting for her to eat, Wen Zhixia didn't want to keep Chen Shi'an waiting. After class, she packed her things and quickly squeezed down the stairs from the fourth floor.

"Taoist priest!"

"Little Cicada is so fast today at noon?"

"Let's hurry! There will be a lot of people again soon! Do you want me to take you to try Cafeteria Number One today?"

"Okay."

The two walked briskly along the school path toward the cafeteria.

Lin Mengqiu happened to come out of the first-floor corridor, her gaze sweeping over the backs of Chen Shi'an and Wen Zhixia.

The girl's expression was indifferent; as the afternoon sunlight fell, she squinted slightly...

(End of this chapter)