Chapter 19: Don’t Show Off for Your Sworn Brother, Okay?

“See, I told you I wasn’t lying,” Guo Zihang’s final words brought silence to the entire group chat.

Now, no one dared to speak, not even Qin Zi’ang, the type of idiot who would loudly offer to pay for everyone’s meal in the cafeteria.

To be honest, at this moment, they would rather believe their eyes were playing tricks on them than accept that what Guo Zihang, Huang Ying, and Yang Shu’an said was true.

Three hundred thousand yuan was not an amount high school students could fathom.

They’d be over the moon to have a measly ten yuan in their pockets, but with three hundred thousand, they might just shoot past the Milky Way from excitement.

But then again, it was normal for Guo Zihang to brag on Jiang Qin’s behalf since he was Jiang Qin’s lackey. He was like this back in school too. However, there was no reason for Huang Ying and Yang Shu’an to help Jiang Qin boast.

So did that mean everything Guo Zihang said was true?

But we feel distressed even buying a measly yellow diamond membership, so how dare that thief Jiang Qin spend three hundred thousand?

Did we all fucking go to the same high school?

The most shocked among them was actually Chu Siqi. She never imagined Jiang Qin had done so many things over the summer vacation, each more unbelievable than the last.

While everyone else was still at home chatting online, racking up hours sunbathing, stealing vegetables in Happy Farm, and fretting over puppy love, Jiang Qin was already doing business deals worth hundreds of thousands.

But he never bragged about it, as if hundreds of thousands weren’t even worth mentioning.

Thinking of this, Chu Siqi suddenly felt Jiang Qin had become distant, giving her an unsettling sense that he was now out of reach.

So he wasn’t absent because he was afraid of losing face.

He was truly doing business.

While others were wasting their youth and trying to prove their maturity through drinking, he transformed into someone who amazed the entire class.

After a moment of absentmindedness, Chu Siqi suddenly felt a bit angry.

How could Jiang Qin not tell her about something so important? Even Guo Zihang knew, but he purposely kept it from her. This was too much. He used to like sharing everything with her!

“Guo Zihang, be honest. Where did his money come from?”

“I already said it at the previous gathering. Jiang Qin has been doing business all along, so he must have earned it.”

“What kind of business can make three hundred thousand?”

“Well, I don’t know. If I did, wouldn’t I have made three hundred thousand too?”

“But didn’t you say the business was selling lunch boxes? I saw you guys selling lunch boxes before!”

Guo Zihang typed out a string of ellipses. “Lao Gan Ma used to sell wontons, but did that stop her from starting a company?”

Qin Zi’ang couldn’t sit still anymore. “Impossible. Even I don’t have three hundred thousand. Where did he get it from? Bullshit!”

Guo Zihang sent a smiley face. “Don’t compare yourself to Jiang Qin. Relying on daddy isn’t a skill.”

“What are you guys talking about?” Wang Huiru suddenly emerged from lurking.

Chu Siqi: “Huiru, they said Jiang Qin spent three hundred thousand to rent half a bar!”

“Huh???”

“Do you also find it hard to believe?”

After hesitating for a while, Wang Huiru replied, “It’s not that unbelievable. I saw something even more incredible about Jiang Qin a few days ago.”

Chu Siqi instantly sent a shocked emoji. “What else happened?”

“…”

“Huiru, did you disconnect?”

“No, no. I was just joking earlier.”

After much deliberation, Wang Huiru still didn’t mention the situation between Jiang Qin and Feng Nanshu.

Three hundred thousand was indeed shocking enough, but in the end, it was just a string of numbers. People would be astonished, but at most they’d marvel at how large the sum was. But Feng Nanshu was different from three hundred thousand. She was a living, breathing goddess. If this got out, the group chat would explode, and within a night, the whole school would know.

Actually, Jiang Qin was also watching the group chat at this time, mainly because the QQ messages were too annoying. He tried several times but couldn’t figure out how to block them. He wasn’t sure if the 2008 version of QQ had this feature yet.

If it were Qin Zi’ang, he would have eagerly jumped out to show off.

Yeah, yeah, it was me. I’m just that awesome!

But Jiang Qin disdained doing this and didn’t have that much desire to show off.

Jump out and brag, and even give up a dozen free bar seats? Am I fucking bored?

Also, he felt it was necessary to tell Guo Zihang – I’m not showing off because I find it too childish. Can you fucking stop being a mouthpiece for your sworn brother?

Turn off the phone.

No, I still want to see.

I have to say, having someone show off on my behalf does feel a bit nice.

Jiang Qin long-pressed the power button, waited for the screen to go dark, then picked up a bag of snacks and walked into the Jizhou City Library.

Half a month had passed in the blink of an eye since returning from the hot springs town. He hadn’t seen the young rich girl again, and they had barely chatted on QQ. Since the bar hadn’t opened yet, he took the opportunity to come and see.

As soon as he reached the second floor of the library, he saw the young rich girl’s figure.

She was wearing a white lady’s dress with a little black bow tie today, quiet and well-behaved, holding a thick book in her hands. But her gaze wasn’t on the book – it was out the window.

Actually, Feng Nanshu had come to the library every day since returning from the hot springs town. She wanted to finish the last part of “The Foresighted Girl Peggy Sue.”

This part was said to be the most interesting in the entire series.

It described a terrible disaster on the planet Kandata.

A monster that had been slumbering underground for hundreds of millions of years awoke from its sleep. Using countless tentacles, it frantically searched for crevices, snatching away children sleeping in their rooms.

And as time passed, this monster grew larger and larger, causing asphalt roads to crack everywhere and cities to collapse one after another.

After investigating, Peggy Sue and her companions were shocked to discover that this planet was originally an egg – an egg that had been incubating in the universe for hundreds of millions of years. The life that had accidentally been born on this planet were the outsiders.

Before, Feng Nanshu would have been utterly engrossed.

A 396-page book like this, she only needed three afternoons to finish it.

But…

But it had been half a month, and she hadn’t even read half of the content.

Even the parts she had read felt hazy when she thought back on them now.

Feng Nanshu looked out the window at the bright sunlight and the lush branches and leaves, suddenly sensing a hint of indescribable loneliness in her heart.

At this moment, the chair across from her was suddenly pulled out.

Feng Nanshu turned back in alarm and saw Jiang Qin sit down without a word, gently placing his bag of snacks on the table.

“I’ve been so busy these past few days, I’m about to die. I finally have time to rest. Little rich girl, how have you been lately?”

“Jiang Qin, I think I might be a bit lonely.”

A trace of confusion flashed through Feng Nanshu’s cool eyes.

Reading alone was originally her most basic state of life, and Jiang Qin’s appearance was just an accident in her life. It was like a peanut suddenly mixing into a pot of rice – if you pick out the peanut, shouldn’t it still be a pot of rice?

But she couldn’t understand why life had suddenly become lonely.