Dedicated to studying, yet forced into a chaotic situation.

Chapter 13 A troublemaker? Arrogant? Physically aggressive? Insulting? Actually, I am one too.

Shi Sui sat in the car arranged by the Jiang family, wearing old wired headphones, listening to English listening exercises the whole way.

She had just opened her eyes this morning when the system gave her a big surprise.

The system downloaded a lot of English listening materials overnight, saying it was to train her ears.

The listening materials were mostly short news articles or short stories. For Shi Sui, there were many unfamiliar words in them, making reading them very difficult, let alone understanding them.

[Task 3: Memorize a short English passage. Reward: 100 yuan. There is no limit to the number of tasks.]

So Shi Sui got motivated and copied an English short article early in the morning, looked up the words and wrote down the Chinese translations, listening to it while reading it and silently reciting it in her mind.

The driver glanced at the adopted daughter that the Jiang family had brought from the countryside in the rearview mirror.

The girl sat there quietly, wearing headphones and holding a book in her hands. He had glanced at it curiously that morning and saw that it was all written in English.

It's ridiculous. What's with this country bumpkin pretending to be a good student? Can he even read English?

Jiang Tianyao also gave Shi Sui several disdainful looks. She was such a country bumpkin who couldn't stand up to scrutiny, and she was even wearing wired headphones that were about to break. How tacky!

As they approached school, Jiang Tianyao took out her cushion foundation to touch up her makeup. Looking at the small mirror on the foundation, she noticed that the country bumpkin was still wearing headphones.

Stupid.

Shi Sui was so engrossed in the seemingly incomprehensible English that she didn't notice her gaze. By the time they were almost at school, she still hadn't memorized the short English passage and suddenly felt that Task 3 had been a waste.

[System, you should give me a hundred more; this task is too difficult.]

[Host, this is simply because your English foundation is too weak. Practice more, listen more, and after that, you'll have a photographic memory, just like memorizing Chinese texts.]

A photographic memory? Well, let's hope for the invention of memory bread.

Shi Sui stopped arguing with the system and felt that she had wasted ten seconds of her time memorizing English.

After getting off the bus, Jiang Tianyao disappeared without a trace, carrying a delicate little bag. Shi Sui also took off her headphones, rolled up the headphone cord, and stuffed it into the small bag in her backpack.

Shi Sui has a good sense of direction. After wandering around aimlessly all day yesterday, she has become familiar with most of the campus, passing by various laboratories and gymnasiums.

Yesterday at noon, the news of Chi Yan's visit to the school spread like wildfire throughout Xinghua. After class, many girls pretended to casually pass by the International Class 1 and peeked into the classroom.

What drove the girls even crazier was that Chi Yan actually went to the gym to play basketball during the last class yesterday afternoon!

The stadium, which can hold over a thousand people, was packed to capacity. Girls watched the handsome guys, boys watched the game, and also wanted to see who would be utterly crushed by the "Great Demon King."

The 40-minute game went by quickly. Chi Yan made all 16 of his shots, scoring a whopping 31 points. It was like a one-man show, a one-sided massacre.

The unfortunate guy who was tortured to death wore a mask the whole time; I heard he was Gu Chenyi from the regular class.

After the match ended, some of the people who stayed behind saw Gu Chenyi limping back.

Not only did they lose the basketball game decisively, they were also thoroughly beaten.

Almost the entire Xinghua community is watching the drama unfold.

"Does Chi Yan know Gu Chenyi? How did Gu Chenyi offend him?"

"I heard that Gu Chenyi caused trouble in the international class yesterday at noon."

"He deserved to be beaten up; he probably thought he had too much time on his hands."

"Gu Chenyi definitely won't dare to come to school recently. He might offend the big devil, but he's not one to offend anyone else."

"Oh, by the way, I heard a transfer student sat next to Chi Yan. No one ever sits next to him. Did that guy get kicked out?"

"I'm not quite sure about that. Come on, let's go upstairs to use the restroom."

"..."

The international class was on the sixth floor. As soon as Shi Sui got off the elevator, she could see that the restrooms at the end of the corridor were packed.

Girlfriends going to the bathroom together?

She heard that girls like to go to the toilet in pairs because they lack a sense of security.

Shi Sui entered the classroom and had just sat down when she saw the group of girls from the restroom passing by the window, their eyes glued to her.

A big question mark appeared on Shi Sui's small head.

When Yan Ze arrived at the classroom, he saw the student behind him looking confused.

Honestly, the girl sitting behind him is really pretty.

I noticed her at the school gate yesterday; she's truly unforgettablely beautiful.

However, she was rather aloof. As soon as she entered the classroom, she sat down next to Chi Yan. Before he could even remind her, she fell asleep on the desk.

Once he wakes up, he focuses on the lesson, doesn't say a word, and is so quiet that he's practically invisible.

He had been trying to find an opportunity to talk to her, but she had a domineering attitude. Girls who are too beautiful can make people feel that they are not easy to approach. If Chi Yan hadn't suddenly come to the school yesterday, Yan Ze thought that they would never have spoken until she left the international class.

Oh, I forgot, the person I talked to at the desk behind me yesterday was Brother Chi, not him.

She smiled at Chi Yan yesterday and didn't seem like a cold person, so Yan Ze mustered up his courage: "My name is Yan Ze, and your name is Shi Sui, right?"

"Hello, yes." Shi Sui smiled politely.

The beautiful woman smiled at him, and Yan Ze's mood immediately brightened. He couldn't help but start talking: "Do you know why so many people are looking at you outside the window?"

"Why?" Shi Sui asked curiously.

"Because your deskmate is Chi Yan," Yan Ze said in an extremely exaggerated tone.

"Oh, I know, I saw him yesterday." I even bought him water and made 80 yuan.

Seeing her calm tone, Yan Ze added, "He never used to have anyone sit next to him; you're the first one."

"Oh, that's my honor."

"But since Brother Chi has agreed to let you sit, just sit here comfortably. No one will make things difficult for you."

"Yes, I am very grateful to him."

She seemed to have a knack for killing conversations, but Yan Ze wasn't discouraged. He then thought, "Why didn't you come watch us play ball yesterday afternoon?"

Shi Sui was puzzled; his tone seemed to imply that he absolutely had to watch them play.

She remembered the empty classroom during yesterday's self-study period and suddenly realized that all her classmates had gone to watch them play ball, and she was the only one who hadn't gone. This behavior was considered unsociable.

“I’m sorry, I…” Shi Sui hesitated for a moment, then lied, “I don’t understand basketball.”

The girl's voice softened, and Yan Ze thought she was feeling inferior. Knowing that she came from a remote rural area in the southwest, he did not doubt the truth of her words.

It just makes me feel sorry for them.

"It's alright, it's alright," Yan Ze said. "Then come watch me play ball this afternoon, and I'll teach you how to watch."

Do I even need to teach this? Can't I just sit in the audience and take a look to figure out how the scoring works?

Shi Sui nodded, thinking it best not to spoil his mood, because judging from his expression, he really needed an audience.

"By the way," Yan Ze asked again, "do you know who we played against yesterday afternoon?"

"Who?"

"Gu Chenyi".

"..." This name seemed to haunt her, and Shi Sui didn't really want to hear it.

"Yesterday, our Brother Chi really crushed him in the game." Yan Ze's mind was filled with images of Chi Yan playing basketball, and the more he thought about it, the more handsome he seemed. He said with a bit of a crush, "It's been so long since I played basketball with Brother Chi. His skills have gotten even better."

"..." Please, wipe the drool from the corner of your mouth, I'm starting to question your sexual orientation.

"And then," Yan Ze paused for a moment.

"And then?" Shi Sui was taken aback.

"Then we beat up Gu Chenyi. You have no idea how cowardly he is. His legs go weak like tofu when he fights. He doesn't even fight back. He's just a piece of trash who can be easily manipulated. There's no point in fighting with someone like that. It's boring. We beat him up a couple of times and then left."

Is he really that weak?

"So weak."

Shi Sui was in a good mood, thinking that she could send Gu Chenyi flying into the sky with one punch, provided that he provoked her.

If everyone keeps to themselves, she won't initiate a fight.

Yan Ze then revealed an expression of admiration: "Of course, it's also because our Brother Chi is too strong. In a one-on-one fight, no one in our school can beat him."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the girl in front of him with a smile on her lips and eyes full of laughter. He suspected that this was love, and that Shi Sui loved Chi Yan even more.

也是，池哥为了她揍人，这没人会不爱吧？

"However," Yan Ze warned her, "you absolutely must not fall in love with Chi Yan. He's a troublemaker, extremely arrogant, and prone to making people angry. He'll never hold back when he's verbally or physically abusing you, and he won't show any mercy just because you're a girl..."

Yan Ze listed Chi Yan's shortcomings one by one, although Shi Sui didn't think they were shortcomings at all, because—

She's pretty much the same kind of person.

"He only agreed to let you sit here because he doesn't come to school, and yesterday afternoon he beat up Gu Chenyi only because Gu Chenyi caused trouble in our class. Please don't misunderstand anything," Yan Ze concluded.

He didn't notice Shi Sui's change in expression at all. His mouth was dry from talking, so he turned around and went to get water from his desk.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw the arrogant troublemaker he had mentioned who never came to school standing right behind him.

"Yan Ze, I never imagined I was this kind of person in your eyes." Chi Yan smiled, her beautiful eyes narrowing dangerously. "A troublemaker? Arrogant? A fighter? A swearer?"

Shi Sui could clearly see that Yan Ze's back would tremble with every word he uttered.

That scary?

Shi Sui silently raised her English textbook to shield herself.