Chapter 940: Chapter 438: Maybe I’m Not Human, but a Pirate Site

"Brother Cheng, I already felt your generosity, and I get the sentiment too, but I really can’t. My mom’s already cooked a whole table of dishes at home and is just waiting for me to go back and make up the numbers. It’s not that I don’t want to give you face, it’s really just bad timing."

Facing such a courteous and enthusiastic Little Cheng, Lin Li still declined, and he sounded a bit more serious than just now.

"All right then." Seeing how firm Lin Li was, Little Cheng nodded with some regret and watched Lin Li leave.

I’ll ask the coach for the guy’s contact later; I’ll treat him if I get the chance in the future.

...

Noon.

"Such a pity Lin Li didn’t want to come, I really wanted to thank him." When Little Cheng followed Yu Jian’an and Lv Gouguan into a restaurant, he sighed with regret.

Nothing went wrong because of that FLAG in the morning; Little Cheng passed subject four successfully, now he’s just waiting to get his driver’s license.

Hearing this, Yu Jian’an and Lv Gouguan both smiled and chimed in a few words.

The three of them sat down at a table in the restaurant.

They stopped talking about Lin Li. Little Cheng waved his hand in a big gesture, brimming with heroism, and said to the two of them, "Coach Yu, and Coach Lv, you guys order. I’m easy, I can eat anything."

"Old Lv, you do it then, I’m not picky either." Yu Jian’an handed the menu to Lv Gouguan.

Lv Gouguan didn’t stand on ceremony. After being stifled all morning, he had to release the tiger in a man’s heart right now.

"Okay, leave it to me then!"

"Let’s start with a bottle of Moutai, that’s the minimum! What’s the biggest abalone you’ve got here, lemme see—oh, three-head. Feels like we gotta have at least three of those! Fish maw, five-year-aged, get some of that too..."

Little Cheng: "(゜▽゜)?"

Listening to this ordering style, Little Cheng remembered Lin Li’s reminder from not long ago.

No no no no no.

He took out his phone, checked the number in his WeChat Wallet, then calmly smiled.

Yes yes yes yes yes.

Little Cheng simply opened NetEase Cloud, picked a song, and started playing it from the chorus.

"~You better come back~ I can’t handle this all by myself~ you better come back~ life’s only wonderful ’cause of you~"

"Coach Yu, Coach Lv, you keep ordering, I gotta go take a call." The moment he heard the song, Little Cheng immediately stood up and whispered to the two of them.

Then he tapped his screen dark and put the phone to his ear, talking as he walked toward the door: "Hello? Yeah, it’s me, I’m eating right now, yeah I passed the test..."

Seeing Little Cheng already on the phone, Yu Jian’an didn’t say anything, just nodded, made an OK gesture with his hand, then lowered his head to look at his own phone.

Two minutes later.

His phone vibrated. Yu Jian’an glanced at the notification bar that popped up; it was a WeChat message from Little Cheng.

"Little Cheng: ’Transfer 88 yuan’"

Huh? Why is he suddenly transferring me money?

Oh, I get it.

"Yu Jian’an: Little Cheng, why’d you suddenly transfer me money? Extra red packet? Haha~"

"’Little Cheng’ has enabled friend verification. You are not his/her friend yet. Please send a friend request. You can chat after the other party passes your verification."

Yu Jian’an: "(;☉_☉)?"

Eh.

Did I just get deleted?

Silence, silence, silence is tonight’s Kang Bridge.

When Yu Jian’an finally reacted and stiffly turned his head, Lv Gouguan beside him was still muttering away excitedly:

"Damn, off-season big roe hairy crabs, oho, never tried those before, gotta get at least two, right? Tsk, wild large yellow croaker, the biggest one, if we don’t order it people will think we can’t afford it, let’s go..."

Yu Jian’an: "(゜▽゜)?"

Not good! Old Lv knows my home address and also knows my family and friends; looks like I can’t just do a runner like Little Cheng!

Yu Jian’an took a deep breath—

"Yame ro!!!"

"Old Lv, for fuck’s sake stop ordering, stop for a sec, something urgent just came up, we have to pause right now—"

"Old—! Lv—!"

"Little Cheng! Gouguan and I were joking with you! I’ll pay for his food, okay!! Come back! Come back!"

~You better come back~ I can’t handle this all by myself~ you better come back~ life’s only wonderful ’cause of you~

...

Downstairs, after tossing his empty takeout box into the community trash can, Lin Li looked at his phone, a bit confused. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Little Cheng, who’d added him on WeChat this morning, had just sent him a really weird message:

"Little Cheng: Sorry, bro, I still didn’t get your deeper meaning. I’m just too dumb."

What the hell is this kid babbling about.

Did he go insane after passing the exam?

Lin Li couldn’t be bothered to dig into it. He replied perfunctorily with a couple of lines, then rode his bike to school.

The school gate was wide open, and even the fountain, for once, was on duty today.

Next time he sees the fountain working will probably be the first day of next semester. No, even that day it might not be on; there won’t be any new students, after all.

There were quite a few students coming and going at the gate, but they were all wearing Nansang uniforms.

It’s not that there were a lot of Grade One and Grade Two students taking this competition; most of these were Grade Three livestock—they were supposed to be in school anyway.

The exam wouldn’t officially start until 2:30 in the afternoon, so there was no need for the competition students, whether from this school or others, to show up this early.

Lin Li didn’t linger at the teaching building or the gate; he went straight to the boys’ dorm.

His godson, Chen Tianming, needed him.

As for Chen Yu Ying, maybe because Middle Man knew that in Class Four’s competition list his daughter was the only girl, and among the boys there was also a dangerous creature like Lin Li, since he had some free time today, he decided to personally see what time his daughter arrived at school.

He was even planning to pick Chen Yu Ying up after the exam to take her home for dinner, then send her back for evening classes.

Tsk tsk, he really doesn’t find that troublesome.

It’s like he’s scared that if he doesn’t come pick her up, Chen Yu Ying will go have dinner alone with some guy at night. Lin Li felt there’s no way that would happen—pure, textbook overthinking.