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Chapter 540: Chapter 353: Hurry Back!
Monday, the sky was just beginning to dawn when Guo Kunnan woke up.
The noise of getting out of bed disturbed the neighboring bed’s Hu Jun. Hu Jun opened his eyes in confusion, "Brother Nan, why are you getting up so early?"
Guo Kunnan said solemnly, "I’m going to the classroom to study!"
Hu Jun, "Really?"
Guo Kunnan perked up, "What you do in April and May, you’ll see the results in July and August!"
Hu Jun, "?"
Guo Kunnan washed his face, brushed his teeth, and headed straight to the classroom.
The campus was unusually quiet in the early morning, and Guo Kunnan walked on the flower-and-grass-filled path, greedily taking a breath and enjoying the empty school grounds.
Guo Kunnan gazed toward the sunrise in the east, reflecting on his past life—a life of mediocrity, without ever living in the glory of flowers and applause.
Always the shadows of those more successful, he remained below the stage clapping, a mere backdrop.
Today, there was an exam, and he wanted good grades; he wanted to ascend the speech platform to receive awards and enjoy the gazes of all the students.
He thought of his good brother, Dan Kaiquan.
Dan Kaiquan’s rapid improvement, earning him a spot in the top ten of the competitive class 8, was because he worked hard, not only studying at school but also at night in the dormitory.
Guo Kunnan decided to work even harder.
What Kaiquan could do, he could do too!
Guo Kunnan really liked a phrase, "Without trying, you’ll never know how amazing your potential is."
He arrived at class 8’s door early, only to find that the classroom wasn’t open.
There were two keys to class 8, one with the class president, and the other with a hard-working but unnoticed girl.
Guo Kunnan had come too early and forgot about this fact.
"What do I do now?" Guo Kunnan stood at the door, utterly lost, his textbooks still inside the classroom.
At that moment, Shi Qianjin from class 9 came up the stairs swinging his keys. The two classes were close, and the dorms were not far apart, so Guo Kunnan had a decent relationship with Yan Tianpeng and could usually exchange a few words with Shi Qianjin.
"Kun Nan, up so early?" Shi Qianjin greeted.
Guo Kunnan, "Yeah."
He knew that Shi Qianjin’s grades were not bad and that he worked hard, to the point of wearing glasses from overstudying.
Now, Guo Kunnan and he were in the same boat!
Except, at this moment, Guo Kunnan was at a loss standing in front of the door.
Shi Qianjin opened his classroom door as usual and saw Guo Kunnan still at the door, "What’s wrong?"
"I forgot the key."
"Enter through the window." Shi Qianjin suggested.
Guo Kunnan’s mind clicked; he had been too rigid in his thinking, almost forgetting about the window!
Guo Kunnan aimed for a window, which was already open. He backed up a couple of steps, and with a push and kick, he leaped into the air.
He fancied himself like a muscular athlete, elegantly and coolly diving into the classroom.
"Bang!" There was a loud noise.
Guo Kunnan’s head hit the glass, his flying body shook fiercely, then he bounced back and "plop" fell to the ground.
He was dazed by the fall.
Sitting on the ground, Guo Kunnan held his head and moaned in pain, not getting up for quite some time.
"Hahaha!" Shi Qianjin doubled over in laughter, finding it ridiculously funny, having never seen someone so foolish before.
"Kun Nan, are you blind?"
Guo Kunnan’s head was buzzing, nearly concussed.
He looked up and finally realized that the window was actually closed, but because the glass was so clean, he had been mistaken.
Who the hell cleaned the glass so well?
It was probably Huang Yuzhu—the one most conscientious about chores in the class.
...
The boys’ dormitory.
Still half-asleep, Hu Jun heard some noise at the door.
He opened his eyes, "Brother Nan, weren’t you going to study?"
Guo Kunnan, clutching the lump on his head, replied in a bad mood, "The feng shui’s off today, not a day for studying."
...
As the exam approached.
The door to class 8 opened, and Cui Yu entered with boundless confidence.
His photo search and question-answering app was ready to go.
This time, he would show his classmates what high technology was all about.
Like bringing a gun to a knife fight, it would be a crushing victory. Dong Qingfeng, Chen Qian, and the rest were nothing but stepping stones for him, Cui Yu.
Cui Yu happily activated the search app, only to find out there was no internet connection.
He then realized that during the exams, Fourth Middle School turned on signal jammers.
All of Cui Yu’s hopes shattered:
"Damn Director Wang!"
Unlike the desperate Cui Yu, Shi Qianjin from class 9 was dying of laughter.
Whenever he thought of Guo Kunnan’s brilliant move, his face twisted in mirth.
"Here come my bros." Shi Qianjin laughed as he greeted Yan Tianpeng, Shen Xu, and Shen Xinli.
"Brother Shi, did you find money? You’re grinning as if you struck it rich," Shen Xu asked.
Shi Qianjin described, "Hahaha, I came to study early this morning and saw Kun Nan from the class next door trying to climb in through a window, and he hit his head on the glass!"
"That’s so dumb?" Shen Xu asked, amused.
Shi Qianjin, "I swear by my life, it’s true. Come with me to class 8, and you’ll see!"
Sure enough, upon reaching class 8 with the group, they saw that Guo Kunnan had a big lump on his forehead and sat at his desk looking miserable.
Shi Qianjin couldn’t stop laughing, finding it funnier the more he thought about it. His brothers, however, didn’t react as strongly, their smiles only slight.
This wouldn’t do; he had to convey the essence of the comedy to them!
Shi Qianjin stood outside on the balcony of class 8, pointing to the window, very seriously, "He did it like this!"
"Allow me to demonstrate for you all!"
With that, Shi Qianjin took a running start, vaulting into the air, and with the force of a cannonball, he struck the glass.
"Crash!"
The entire window shattered under Shi Qianjin’s impact, glass shards scattering everywhere. Shi Qianjin plunged to the classroom’s cement floor, akin to a defeated villain in a fight scene on television.
