The System Says My Childhood Sweetheart Is My Future Blind Date - Chapter 34

[Mission Completed!]

[Over the next week, accumulate 24 hours of diligent study. Currently completed: 24/24h. Reward: Memory Enhancement. (Completed)]

Shen Yuan looked at the math test paper in front of him.

His memory was already good, and he didn’t know to what extent the system’s memory enhancement would enhance him.

But now was not the time to think about that.

Shen Yuan decided to take a shower first.

Shower and sleep, tomorrow would be another day of getting up early to study like a lazy bum.

Hehe.

Young, this is the time when you can study the most.

At 18, you’re full of energy, plus the system’s reward of abundant energy, it would be difficult for Shen Yuan to sleep in.

Of course, if he wanted to stay in bed, that was another matter.

After showering and petting the cat a couple of times, Shen Yuan went to bed.

The next morning.

As Shen Yuan was putting on his shoes, he saw Li Zhi’s door open.

The two exchanged a glance.

Li Zhi frowned: “Rolling dog.”

“That word doesn’t seem very believable when describing me, does it?”

“I’m the King of Rolling, a human being.” After saying that, Li Zhi squatted down to put on his shoes.

“Damn, this joke is stuck in my head, isn’t it?”

“Then you get 600 on the test, I’ll be embarrassed to say you’re my son when we go out.”

Li Zhi looked up and suddenly found Shen Yuan standing in front of him, startled.

“Why are you so close!”

“To hang myself in your room.”

Shen Yuan said seriously, “I’ll wrap test papers into a rope, write my weekly test score on my face in red pen, and stick the test papers to my hands with superglue.”

Li Zhi imagined the scene and felt a little numb.

“Okay, okay, don’t say it, I won’t mention it.”

“What if you mention it again?”

Li Zhi opened his mouth: “If you mention it again, I’ll treat you to dinner.”

Shen Yuan snapped his fingers: “Then it’s settled.”

Breakfast was bought on the way.

Shen Yuan didn’t eat egg pancakes today, but steamed buns instead.

Four steamed buns the size of the back of his hand. Two vegetable buns, two meat buns,

and a cup of savory tofu pudding.

Teenagers burn a lot of calories and eat a lot.

Li Zhi glanced at the breakfast in Shen Yuan’s hand, feeling that she could only manage half of it.

“Can you finish this?”

“Do you want some?” Shen Yuan held up the bag of buns.

Li Zhi looked at the buns in Shen Yuan’s hand, pursed her lips, and finally couldn’t resist the temptation.

“Half, a vegetable bun.”

Shen Yuan quickly ate the bun from both ends, then tore it open, checked the amount of filling, and gave the extra one to Li Zhi.

“Careful, it’s hot.”

Li Zhi took the bun and ate it in small bites.

“It tastes good, but I still think the shop from when I was a kid was better.”

“Childhood sweetheart.”

Human memory is selective; the brain tends to downplay painful experiences and reinforce positive emotions.

Childhood troubles are easily faded by time, while happy memories are repeatedly recalled and reinforced.

Li Zhi thought the shop from her childhood was better, but Shen Yuan didn’t.

Because Shen Yuan had argued with the owner of that shop.

The old man overcharged him for a steamed bun!

One steamed bun, that’s one yuan and fifty cents!
That’s the price of three lollipops! If it were the kind that cost ten cents each, that would be fifteen lollipops!
One yuan and fifty cents could also buy three packs of spicy strips!
Damn it!
I’m still angry thinking about it!

Mentioning the shops from his childhood, Li Zhi suggested, “Hey, how about we go for a stroll in the old street this weekend?”

Shen Yuan immediately shook his head: “What’s so great about the old street now? It’s completely lost its old charm.”

“You don’t like it anymore now that that musty smell is gone, huh?”

Shen Yuan couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

In his memory, the old street had always been associated with dirt and disorder. A few years ago, it underwent renovations, and the overall environment did improve considerably, becoming more in line with the street’s development.

However, Shen Yuan always felt that this wasn’t the old street anymore.

Or rather, it wasn’t Shen Yuan’s old street anymore.

Shen Yuan’s old street was the one that flooded on rainy days, with potholes and water splashing everywhere when electric bikes and bicycles passed by.

It was the one with yellowed walls, moldy corners, and moss-covered surfaces.

Although, in that sense, the old street didn’t exactly inspire any desire to go there.

But it was the place Shen Yuan had walked as a child.

He had walked every road and alley of the old street, and remembered them all clearly.

Countless childhood memories were hidden within those complex alleyways.

“I want to eat rice cakes.”

Shen Yuan shook his head. “Wait until the holidays. They’re all the rage now, people line up to buy them every day. If you go at 8 o’clock, they’ll be gone.”

Li Zhi sighed. “Never mind, I still want to sleep on the weekend.”

“Why don’t you ask a classmate from town to bring one? There are day students too.”

“What are you thinking? All the classmates in our class who live in town are boarders.”

Shen Yuan shrugged. “Then there’s nothing I can do.”

Li Zhi frowned in dissatisfaction. “Can’t you be a simp for once?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Zhi saw Shen Yuan leaning closer.

“Did you just say ‘dog’?”

“Simp! I said simp!”

Shen Yuan warned with a husky gesture. “A simp is still a dog. Buy me lunch.”

“You really are…”

Li Zhi suddenly shut her mouth.

The expectant light in Shen Yuan’s eyes disappeared.

“Hmph! I’m not talking to you anymore!” The pretty girl tossed her ponytail and walked quickly towards the school.

Back in the classroom, Shen Yuan had already finished the steamed buns and tofu pudding in his hand.

He even felt a little unsatisfied.

“That half-eaten bun shouldn’t have been given to me, I didn’t get to enjoy it,”

Shen Yuan muttered before lowering his head to open his book.

Still doing math.

The system’s reward was called memory enhancement; while it wouldn’t have a huge effect on math, it was better than nothing.

It would at least help Shen Yuan memorize a few more question types.

Even a few points would be good.

Last week’s test, he was only 3 points away from 600!

It was already Thursday, and the weekly test was probably starting tomorrow or the day after. Shen Yuan vowed to avenge his defeat!
…

“Avenge my ass!”

It was Friday afternoon, and the math weekly test had just ended.

Old Zhou had specially set aside the afternoon self-study period to torture the students before school ended.

Shen Yuan was exhausted, both physically and mentally.

“I’m so stupid, really. I only knew I was bad at solid geometry, I didn’t realize I was bad at functions too,”

Zhou Shaojie laughed at Shen Yuan’s words.

A-Jie patted Shen Yuan on the shoulder, comforting him, “Yuan, there are vectors too.”

A-Ze, sitting in the front row, also turned to comfort Shen Yuan, “Yuan, there are curves too.”

Ai Muyu also smiled and turned to comfort Shen Yuan, “Yuan, there are sequences too.”

Shen Yuan felt like dying; he felt he was going to fail the weekly test again.

He was really going to fail.

Not the kind of student who says they did badly but then suddenly scores 140 or higher.

However, such students were relatively rare in Class 15.

Li Tiandi’s score-based pronouncements suppressed the entire Class 15.

What’s the use of being good at only one subject?

Shen Yuan’s English was among the best in the class, but wasn’t he still just a nobody?
Want to rebel?
He’d have to beat her first.