novelslam Chapter 78 I'll Take You to the City Competition
Chapter 78 I'll Take You to the City Competition
"What do you mean, Luo Xiao? You're worried about your brother suffering, but you're also worried about your brother driving a Land Rover, right?" Luo Xiao, who was sitting on Lu Zhaoye's lap, said angrily.
Luo Xiao frowned, looking at Lu Zhaoye's eyes from the left, then at his mouth from the right, and finally leaning down to listen to his heartbeat.
"Xiao Ye, did you awaken some kind of system?" Luo Xiao asked, completely puzzled.
Lu Zhaoye slapped Luo Xiao's bottom hard, then pointed at her and said,
"Delete your Eggplant Novel right now! You're studying and reading novels? What, are you the reincarnation of the God of Literature?"
"Go to hell! How could you possibly know all of this? Tell me, did you copy it or not!" Luo Xiao said angrily, clutching her butt.
Lu Zhaoye was at a loss. Sure enough, ruins can't be rebuilt. Even if the ruins really turned into skyscrapers, everyone would just think it was a mirage.
"I'm not going to argue with you anymore. Anyway, I'm going to participate in the competition, and I'm going to aim for a math major!"
Luo Xiao slapped Lu Zhaoye's stomach hard, then angrily got off him.
"Never mind, you've always had talent, otherwise how could you have risen so quickly?"
Lu Zhaoye finally sat up, nodded smugly, and squeezed out a high-pitched, bubbly sound.
"Heh heh, this farce should end now. It's time to let No. 2 Middle School know my dominance."
Luo Xiao scoffed and said disdainfully,
"You're getting all worked up after just a couple of compliments. Don't think this math competition is easy. It's questionable whether you can even pass the school's qualifying rounds."
"What, you know quite a lot?" Lu Zhaoye asked with great interest.
He had heard of many such competitions, but he himself had never participated in one.
"Yes, my dad told me to participate in more competitions and win more awards, so I can use them in the future."
"Then tell me more about it, I've never participated in a competition before."
Seeing how interested Xiao Ye was, Luo Xiao put down her pencil, turned around, and said seriously.
"This competition is organized by our province and is a relatively prestigious mathematics competition, which is divided into city-level and provincial-level competitions."
"The city competition is next week, but for the provincial competition, we need to train in Yangzhou for a month first, and then compete for the provincial first prize."
"I heard that our school only has four spots to participate in the city competition. You saw how difficult this math competition was, right? It's all prepared for the city competition."
Lu Zhaoye nodded. No wonder Lao Zhang cared so much. This was not just a student's personal honor; if they could win an award, it would also be an honor for the school.
"These four spots will probably come from your science-focused intensive class. Guo Zichen from Class 1 and Zhu Zifeng from Class 2 are basically guaranteed to get in."
Lu Zhaoye's smile faded, and he rubbed his chin as he pressed on, asking,
"You're in the humanities class, surely your grades aren't good enough to qualify for the city-level competition?"
Luo Xiao shook her head and said bluntly,
"Don't worry about our liberal arts class, there shouldn't be many of us who can pass the school's preliminary round. As for my grades... forget it, even if I did go, my math score would only be a first-round exit, I wouldn't have a chance to make it to the provincial competition."
After saying that, Luo Xiao lowered her head in disappointment. Lu Zhaoye could tell that Luo Xiao actually wanted to go too.
From childhood to adulthood, no matter where he went, Luo Xiao was basically always by his side, he continued.
"Anyway, I want to go. Luo Xiao, do you want to go?"
Luo Xiao didn't speak, but her grip on the pencil tightened. Lu Zhaoye continued...
"Forget about all that, let's just ask if you want to go or not?"
Luo Xiao nodded immediately.
"I want to go."
Lu Zhaoye got off the sofa and sat down next to Luo Xiao, opening her math test paper.
"If you can say something nice, I'll teach you. Let's not talk about the provincial competition for now, but the city competition should be no problem."
If Lu Zhaoye hadn't deliberately controlled his score, he was absolutely confident he could have gotten a perfect score on this math test.
"Really?"
"My talent is undeniable; why don't you try to believe it?"
According to Luo Xiao, Lu Zhaoye believed he could definitely make it into the city competition. As for the difficulty of the provincial competition questions, he hadn't seen them yet, so he couldn't make a definitive conclusion.
"BB~~ Teach me, please~~~"
Lu Zhaoye brandished his knife and pressed it against Luo Xiao's mouth, saying in great fear,
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Do you really want Uncle Luo to kill me?"
Luo Xiao blinked, then stuck out her tongue and gently licked Lu Zhaoye's hand, scaring Lu Zhaoye so much he almost jumped out of his skin.
"Tch, all talk and no action. Didn't you tell me to shout?"
Lu Zhaoye was completely baffled.
Then I'll have to ask you, which head?
After joking around for a while, Lu Zhaoye started teaching Luo Xiao math, and Luo Xiao promised him that she would strictly control herself during this preparation period and would never do anything out of line.
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The next morning, both Lu Zhaoye and Luo Xiao went to school with dark circles under their eyes.
One of them did something outrageous after finishing his studies: he went back to his room and played a gold miner game.
The other one went back to his room to secretly write.
Lu Zhaoye's novel has already reached 50,000 to 60,000 words, and with the many outrageous things in the book and his unique writing style, he has gained quite a few fans.
In addition, readers also really like the three characters that I directly incorporated into the novel.
Readers rarely see authors writing about blind female protagonists.
Moreover, this was the first time they had ever seen Huangmei's appearance.
Lu Zhaoye was very happy last night as he saw that his readership was growing.
In his excitement, he wrote until 3 a.m., which made him drowsy and all he wanted to do was get to the classroom and lie down to sleep.
When Lu Zhaoye arrived at school, it was time for morning reading, and everyone was standing in their seats reciting their lessons.
He walked straight to his seat, but felt that his seat had become a little smaller. Xu Qingwan was sitting on the outside, making it impossible for him to squeeze in, whereas he could have squeezed in yesterday.
"Baby, move aside, I want to go inside to sleep," Lu Zhaoye nudged Xu Qingwan's arm to signal her to move aside.
However, Xu Qingwan didn't move at all. She stepped on Lu Zhaoye's shoe and then asked coldly,
Why didn't you reply to my messages last night?
Lu Zhaoye paused for a moment, blinked his double eyelids, and said weakly,
"I went back to prepare for the competition last night and forgot to call back, baby, don't be angry."
Upon hearing this, Xu Qingwan felt a pang of guilt. Ever since Lu Zhaoye added her as a friend last night, she had been constantly trying to chat with him.
Actually, Xu Qingwan applied to add him last Saturday after school, but Lu Zhaoye has not accepted her request.
So when Lu Zhaoye accepted her request last night, she was very nervous and, after thinking it over, just sent "Hello".
But to her surprise, Lu Zhaoye called her "baby" on the phone. Xu Qingwan was both surprised and delighted, and had no idea how to reply. After all, she couldn't step on her deskmate's foot or twist his waist on the phone.
When she came to her senses and tried to reply to Lu Zhaoye, he no longer responded.
Xu Qingwan waited and waited until she fell asleep holding her phone.
"Baby, I'm so sleepy, can I go in first?"
Seeing that Xu Qingwan was standing there in a daze and didn't react, Lu Zhaoye said another sentence in a very weak way.
He was really sleepy; his eyelids felt like they were drooping.
Xu Qingwan regained her senses and quickly stepped aside to let Lu Zhaoye in, then said very considerately,
"Go to sleep, I'll shield you. I'll wake you when the teacher comes."