Chapter 498: Qiao Mu Private High School

Undercurrents swell beneath the calm of everyday life, and people tread on the undulating waves as if they were on flat ground.

Under pressure from all sides, Qiao Mu Private High School had to issue a notice saying that it would take a week's early exam break, with no homework, to allow students to adjust mentally in the run-up to the exams.

As soon as the news broke, all students, whether they were involved in the furore or not, cheered wildly and some even started tearing up their papers in advance to celebrate.

Snow-white pieces of paper fell from the towering school building, and amidst the cheers of 'liberation', Bai Liu calmly turned his eyes back away from the window, returning his eyes to the big maths question he had only half written, and wrote the word 'solve'.

Everyone else in the class was rushing around packing up their bags, but it was as if it had nothing to do with Bai Liu, who continued to work on the big question indifferently.

Gradually, gradually, the students left the classroom, the bustling classroom grew quiet, the sky outside dimmed, and when Bai looked up again, the classroom had become empty.

Bai Liu spent half an hour on this big maths probability question, and just got the answer right.

He is getting a much higher percentage of questions correct than before, and his marks in the main exams are now consistently above 400.

"Bai Liu!" Fang Dian, wearing a shoulder bag, appeared at the door of Bai Liu's classroom in her sports uniform.

"Going back no?"

--The word "back" usually means back to Fang Dian, the little house.

Bai Liu looked around Fang Dian: " Where is Lu Yizhan? He's not with you?"

"He had some business and went back to the orphanage to deal with it." Fang Dian walked in naturally and sat in front of Bai Liu, she stared at Bai Liu's expression for a moment and suddenly narrowed her eyes sharply, "What's wrong? You don't want to come back with me?"

Bai Liu paused, "Wanted to stay at school and study."

This is not the real reason, of course, as Bai Liu's eyes sweep to the Spades that have just appeared in the corner, disappearing again as Fang Dian appears, and he purses his lips.

...... There are so many people gathered around him these days, people who are concerned about his coming Buming, teachers from the orphanage who have come to observe him, plus Hou Tong who has been watching him in class, Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan who come down to feed him almost every day ......

Bai Liu really doesn't have much time to spend alone anymore, which makes Spades' presence around him less and less frequent.

This seven-day holiday just ...... allows him to spend time alone with Spades.

"Lie." Fang Dian almost hesitated to expose Bai Liu's lie, as if she had sensed something, she came close to observe the expression on Bai Liu's face, and then hesitantly asked, as if to test, or confirm, " Bai Liu, you don't want to go back... ..."

"Is it someone at school who's in a relationship?"

Bai Liu did not answer, but he turned his face to the other side where Fang Dian could not see.

"Holy shit, no!?" Fang Dian surprised Bai Liu by pinching her chin and forcefully forcing Bai Liu to look at herself squarely as she smiled narrowly and teasingly, "Who is it? Who's that? Who's that? Who's that?"

"Do I know?"

"Which class is the girl from?"

"How tall is it? Is it good looking? When did you start talking? Have you held hands yet?"

Bai Liu looks up and gives Fang Dian a cold glance.

Fang Dian stopped her desire to gossip just in time as she held up her hands in a gesture of surrender, smiling, "Okay, one last question, you answer it and I'll never ask it again and I won't talk to Mr. Lu!"

Bai Liu paused for a moment, "What's the problem?"

"This person ...... " Fang Dian's tone and eyes suddenly became gentle as she rested her cheeks on her desk and inclined her head to look at Bai Liu, "is the person you want in your future, isn't it? "

Bai Liu was quiet for a moment, his eyes falling on the corner where the Spades had disappeared, and he gave a very soft mumble.

"OK." Fang Dian rubbed Bai Liu's head, making a mess of Bai Liu's regular hair before she stopped, then she looked down and opened her shoulder bag and took out a hundred dollars and put it in front of Bai Liu, "This is your commission for helping me with Lu This is the commission you got for helping me and Lu and Yizhan when we were in a relationship."

"I've been waiting for the right time to give it to you, and I think now is the right time."

Fang Dian smiled, "Take it for a spin this holiday!"

Bai Liu's eyes swept over the money and he paused: "Thanks, I owe you ......".

Fang Dian interrupted Bai Liu with a wave of her hand as she darted off with her shoulder bag on her back, her voice full of lightness, "At least progress me to smooch oh, newbie in love~bye~"

As soon as Fang Dian disappeared, Spades appeared, leaning over Bai Liu's shoulder and asking suspiciously, "What does it mean to smooch?"

Bai Liu: "......"

The meaning of the reward you ask for every day.

The following day, Sunday.

Bai Liu, in his school uniform and with invisible Spades, appeared next to one of the lively shopping streets.

Spades felt violently confused: "Where is this?"

"It's a street with a high flow of people and money." Bai Liu calmly replies, "There will be a lot of young people coming here to spend their useless energy and beat their useless time."

Spades became more and more confused, "So why are we here?"

Bai Liu pauses.

This goes back to last night.

Bai Liu used the computer in the computer room at school to search for words and phrases such as [what is a good place to pick for a first date] and [what is a recommended place to go on a date within a hundred dollars].

You get responses like [a hundred bucks is a bit shabby to take your girlfriend out, bro].

[Don't, you may not have a girlfriend after the date, listen to my advice, break up and give me your girlfriend, I'll take her out to play.

[Nowadays, when you go out, a meal per capita is more than a hundred, right? ......]

But there are also more well-meaning ones: [The nearby xx shopping street is good, it's doing a lot of activities, if your girlfriend doesn't mind discounted goods and discounted activities, then you can take her there, the budget is enough.

Bai Liu was about to ask Spades if he minded discounted items, but after explaining, the man had only one message in his head - [going out for a good time].

So Spades spent half the evening staring at Bai Liu with a blank face, not listening to a single word.

It's a somewhat old-fashioned street of buildings, exceptionally well-trafficked, with lots of little shops and stalls around, none too expensive and, as that post says, all indeed on sale and having events.

But even so, Bai Liu has very few items that he can afford to spend on.

"You can talk to me if you like anything." Bai Liu said lightly, "But I can't always afford it."

Spades gave an oooh as he asked, "So what does it take to afford one?"

"Discounted." Bai Liu looked Spades straight in the eye as he pursed his lips, "See that red logo? [on sale], the ones with that kind of logo can be considered."

"But some of the lower-priced ones don't need to be discounted. ......"

Before Bai Liu could finish his sentence, Spades grabbed Bai Liu's hand and ran wildly, before stopping at a large arcade.

"Can I buy this?" Spades asked.

Bai Liu looks over and his eyes pause for a moment - it's a projected horror game of killing zombies with guns, the game bin is inside the arcade, hung with a dark green half curtain so you can't see inside.

The big game screen was placed outside the street, supposedly a newly introduced game machine that was in the promotional period, with a big on sale next to it - [Amazing price: $20!

"You like ......" Bai Liu's tone became subtle, "playing horror games?"

Spades hmmed without hesitation.

Bai Liu paused for a moment, "This one then."

The computer store owner gave Bai Liu a strange look when he walked in: "Are you sure you want to play the two-player version? But you're only one person?"

"I hit each other left and right." Bai Liu said with an expressionless face.

Arcade owner: "......"

Row bla.

"By the way, it's a new machine, and to promote it, the motor screen will be put up on a big screen on the street outside while you play, and you'll be mobbed." The arcade owner asked, "You don't mind, do you?"

Bai Liu: "I don't mind."

"Okay." The arcade owner collected the money and he lazily helped Bai Liu lift the curtain of the game machine and snorted, "Come on in."

"Just so you know, student, the games on this new machine are difficult and you have to play the two-player mode and play for a minute before you output, we don't refund your money."

Bai Liu's eyes glanced over the game notes posted behind the curtain, "You guys get a bonus for playing this game for more than thirty minutes?"

"There is, yes." The boss laughed out loud without much concern, "But you shouldn't be able to get it."

Bai Liu asks, "What's the reward?"

"If you play the double mode, then it's all a couple bonus." The boss said, "You can reward a couple with a movie ticket for thirty minutes or more, and a movie ticket plus a fifty dollar meal voucher for the whole street for 45 minutes or more."

"If you can get to more than an hour, it's a full couples' date package bonus, movie, drinks, balloons, flowers and a $300 meal voucher."

Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and his eyes were dark: "More than an hour is it?"

The boss was stunned by Bai Liu's glance, which he somehow felt carried a murderous aura of certainty, and he stumbled over his words, "Yes, yes, but the current record for two-player mode is thirteen minutes, and there's no reward yet."

"And there's only one chance for this challenge ......"

Before the boss could finish his sentence, Bai Liu lifted the curtain and entered. Through the curtain, the boss heard the distinguished-looking student calmly reply, "I only have one day off today, and I won't be coming back for a second challenge."

"Are the movie tickets and meal vouchers available today?"

"......" the owner was shocked by this grandiloquence, but replied, "It works when you win."

Does that mean he'll win it all at once today?

Why doesn't he believe it!

Twenty minutes later.

On the shopping street, the number of people surrounding a large gaming screen gradually increased, and there were constant exclaims of surprise.

"Holy shit, this operation is a riot."

"...... Both of these guys still have not consumed a single life, holy crap, is it really which one I'm playing?"

On the screen, two in-game characters carrying guns dart and march through an empty building. On the ground are wandering walkers, which are cleared away by the two players almost before the onlookers have a chance to get a good look at the walkers.

Both game characters' points bars, one left and one right, are climbing so fast it's like they're on.

The arcade owner looked on in awe and rubbed his eyes - if he hadn't seen Bai Liu go in alone, he would have thought these were two top players coming in to practice.

"These two players have their life bars linked, isn't this a couple mode?" A boy who had been watching suddenly remembered and his expression became horrified, "Shit, there's not a female, is there?"

"????? Which dude's girlfriend is so strong?!"

"Grass, this operation are a few can abuse me, you tell me there are women?!"

The discussion below the big screen gradually skewed the topic as everyone went from being shocked by the godly player's manoeuvre to being curious about what the girl who pulled it off actually looked like, and all gathered around the doorway ready to wait for someone to come out and get a glimpse of the real thing.

Hou Tong, who also happened to be on holiday, was about to walk past the crowded arcade - she wasn't interested in it and had come here for Bai Liu to practise her horror games and was scared out of her mind in less than three minutes, causing her to hold a grudge against the place now.

"Eh!" The girl next to Hou Tong pulled her back and she excitedly shook Hou Tong's arm, "Hou Tong, wait! Look at the name of the player on the big screen, is it Bai Liu!"

Hou Tong turned his head in dismay.

Sure enough, to the left of that big screen, the nimble player with the name [Bai Liu] topped it.

"Wait, this is like a couple mode, right?" The girl sensed something was wrong and she glanced at Hou Tong, mentally screaming her head off, regretting that she had asked Hou Tong to stop.

Bai Liu is actually out playing couple mode with other girls!

Hou Tong shifted her gaze sharply as she looked sharply at the player's name to her right - [[Spades]].

?????

What kind of girl has that name?

An hour arrives, both game characters stop in their tracks and the game ends.

The crowd of onlookers instantly crowded over to the exit of the game machine, a group of mostly teenage boys who had been watching down, at a time of excitement and noise, saying as they squeezed.

"It's coming out it's coming out! Bet five bucks on whether this game master woman is a dinosaur or a beauty!"

"Dinosaurs!"

"Beauty!"

Under the colourful lights of the arcade, the dark green blackout curtain is lifted slightly by a long, white hand, and the dappled light and shadows along with the wind penetrate through this gap, blowing up the soft, light black hair of the person inside.

Everyone waited with bated breath for the man to walk out, and one boy gulped nervously.

His hair and collar were damp, he had sweated a little from the intense hour he had just spent, and his collar was open, revealing a thin, defined collarbone line, the soft line of his jaw, his lips so red and his complexion so white it was almost reflective.

Bai Liu looked up, "Boss, it's been an hour."

All the boys froze for a moment, a few even drew a cold breath, and one boy jumped right up and screamed, "I won the bet, I said it's a beauty!"

This look, appearing here, is just a little out of place.

The boss helplessly chased away the group of boys who had come to see the fun: "There's no pretty girl, he's a boy, he's just playing in two-player mode by himself, so disperse!"

"A man who plays in two-player mode?!" The boys' minds and bodies were shaken to the core. They stared straight at Bai Liu.

It was only at this time that a closer look confirmed that the man was indeed a boy.

Bai Liu gave them a cool glance before Old Xiang Board reached out, "My full couple's package."

The owner reluctantly gave Bai Liu the vouchers and said, "You didn't see your girlfriend with you, so you went to use these vouchers alone?"

Bai Liu paused: "Hmm."

He got the voucher and turned to leave, only to be stopped by the group of boys.

A boy rushed out incoherently and stepped in front of Bai Liu with an expression of reverence and admiration and delirium: "Beauty, no no! Handsome boy, handsome boy!"

"You might as well date yourself as me tonight, no no! It's us and one more game!"

"No more games." Bai Liu to go over the side.

A group of boys went along and blocked in front of Bai Liu again, their hands folded in prayer, their expressions looking a bit pitiful: "Handsome, handsome, take us for a game! Just one hand, you really played handsomely just now."

Sensing that the group of boys in front of her bore no ill will towards her, Bai Liu paused for a moment and made a random excuse: "My vouchers are all for tonight, they'll expire and go to waste if I don't use them."

"Use it, use it! Why not!" The group of boys fist pumped and their eyes shone, "How about we pay for a date with you and then you play games with us?"

"Who do you fancy us, you pick one and we'll go to the movies now?"

"Is it your turn to pay for a date with him?" Hou Tong's voice came coldly from behind, she walked up to Bai Liu with her head held high, looking down at him with condescension, but her eyes were clearly aggrieved, "You came to play alone and didn't even want to bring me."

Again(?) Seeing a big beautiful woman, the group of boys once again looked dumbfounded, and the gaze they turned to Bai Liu was already one of adoration.

Wow, you can do this dude, he dumped his girlfriend to play for the fun of it.

"Your girlfriend?" The guy Bai Liu had just spoken to had a complicated tone, "Just like you, she's a beautiful woman."

Spades stares straight at Bai Liu: "Girlfriend?"

Bai Liu: "......"