I'm a sophomore in college, what the heck is this "male god cultivation system"?

Chapter 126 Little Secret

"Hurry up, call me Teacher Lin, and I promise to teach you everything I know without holding back a single thing."

Lin Zhixi kept recommending herself, but of course, she wasn't the kind of person who liked to teach others. The reason she did this was simply to get Chen Yan to call her "Teacher Lin".

"I'm your brother, and you're playing teacher-student role-playing with me?" Chen Yan stepped back, looking at Lin Zhixi with a "shocked" expression, and said with disgust, "No, this is too perverted."

Lin Zhixi: o((⊙﹏⊙))o.
She stared blankly at Chen Yan for two seconds, seemingly trying to figure out how he could have said such a thing.

If this were a two-dimensional world, Lin Zhixi would probably be steaming by now... but unfortunately this is reality, so at most her face just started to turn red.

As for whether it was from embarrassment or from the flushed skin, Chen Yan had no idea.

"You're going to die!" Enraged, she punched Chen Yan on the shoulder. Chen Yan was already thick-skinned, and the punch had very little force, so he didn't feel anything at all.

On the contrary, the girl's rosy complexion made him laugh.

If it weren't for the fear of adding fuel to the fire, Chen Yan would have loved to take out his phone right now and record Lin Zhixi's expression.

"Stop laughing."

"I'm not laughing anymore... Hahahahaha."

"Do you want me to teach you?"

After thinking for a moment, Chen Yan was indeed tempted. He had been researching online recently and found that most of the qualified calligraphy training institutions in the vicinity offered large classes, while some one-on-one private tutoring programs required students to have certain prior calligraphy skills, such as some kind of certificate.

Chen Yan didn't want to attend classes with many students, but he didn't have a certificate. So having Lin Zhixi teach him was a good idea.

"Okay." He nodded in agreement.

"Then call me Teacher Lin."

“Teacher Lin,” Chen said sincerely.

Although Lin Zhixi's face was tense, Chen Yan still noticed a slight upturn at the corner of her mouth.

"When should I start teaching you?"

"Send me your class schedule first, and I'll start studying when I have time."

"Okay, I'll go to the official website and pull out the class schedule and send it to you later."

After chatting for a while, just as the two were about to finish their tennis training for the day after practicing for a bit more, a figure walked over from not far away. The moment Lin Zhixi noticed the figure, she subtly tugged at Chen Yan's sleeve.

"It's her."

"Who is it... Oh, it's your dramatic roommate." Chen Yan quickly realized who it was and turned to look.

After all, with only a barbed wire fence separating them and streetlights illuminating the area, Chen Yan's vision was quite clear.

After taking another look, he lost much of his interest.

She's too ordinary. Her looks are only around 70 out of 100. Her makeup and outfit can only be described as mediocre. She might stand out in a crowd, but Chen Yan has seen too many beautiful women lately and is almost numb to looks.

Someone who has just come across the "Xiao Mei" line obviously cannot attract him at all.

"How is it?" Lin Zhixi whispered in Chen Yan's ear.

"It's nothing special, just average." Chen Yan asked, "I noticed he's carrying a bag of water. What, did he decide to take the initiative after seeing that basketball senior completely give up?"

"I don't know, but we'll find out when we see."

The two had originally planned to play tennis for a while longer, but seeing the situation, they tacitly agreed to sit for a bit longer.

……

Xu Lan felt that her hard times had finally come to an end.

Since starting university, she has felt that everything is going wrong... In high school, because of her excellent grades and pretty looks, she was considered a "celebrity" at school. She received many confessions from other students, and her photos would occasionally appear on the school walls.

She considers academic performance and good looks to be her core strengths.

However, once she entered university, she found that everything had changed... In high school, she was one of the most outstanding students, but after she went to university, she found that she was not even mediocre.

Of the other three people in her dorm, two had better grades than her, and one of them even scored more than ten points higher.

Even in terms of looks, she was completely outshone by the girl with the highest grades. Whenever she stood next to her, Xu Lan felt like an ugly duckling next to a swan.

No, the ugly duckling still has a chance to become a swan.

During the first semester, Xu Lan still harbored some competitive spirit, but then she was dealt a harsh blow by reality.

Every morning she starts applying makeup forty minutes early, and every evening she spends half an hour on skincare. Despite this "diligence" and "effort," the gap in appearance between her and Lin Zhixi has not diminished at all.

The other person only uses facial cleanser once every two or three days...

If you're not good-looking, then work hard to catch up in your studies.

In order to surpass Lin Zhixi in the final exam, she gave up watching TV dramas, dating, and playing games, and listened attentively to every class. During the final week, she put in an effort comparable to that of the college entrance exam.

Then she couldn't surpass Lin Zhixi in any subject... Even though Lin Zhixi seemed to spend all her time playing and didn't seem to put much effort into studying, she easily won the highest-level scholarship. Because of this, starting from the second semester, her relationship with Lin Zhixi became noticeably distant...

In the first semester, they just rarely did anything together, but by the second semester, they would occasionally speak with veiled barbs.

What truly propelled their relationship to the next stage was something else entirely.

One evening, when she saw that the basketball team senior she had a crush on had sent her a friend request on WeChat, she thought her love was finally coming, and she eagerly accepted the request...

The first thing the other person said was a friend request.

The second round was: "Hi classmate, you must be Lin Zhixi's roommate, right? I'm here..."

After learning that Lin Zhixi had repeatedly and firmly rejected the basketball senior, Xu Lan felt she should be happy, since this would give her a chance...

But the senior she secretly admired was as humble as a lapdog in front of him... What she saw as a treasure was nothing but trash in his eyes.

From that day on, Xu Lan's negative feelings toward Lin Zhixi entered a new phase, and she would often start to speak sarcastically.

Some time ago, because Lin Zhixi had always ignored her, she thought the other party was weak, so she became more and more blatant, until the other party slapped her and wilted her.

Everyone was just arguing, why did you start fighting right away? That's not sportsmanship at all...

Fortunately, perhaps even God couldn't bear to see it anymore, and finally, the bitterness was over and the sweetness came.

During this time, the basketball senior never asked her about Lin Zhixi again. Even when she took the initiative to make some small moves to pursue him, the basketball senior gave her a certain response.

Just as Xu Lan was about to use the excuse of delivering water to get closer to the basketball senior, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in the tennis court, which was only separated from the basketball court by a wire fence.

'Lin Zhixi…' Xu Lan bit her lip. She knew that the other party had a habit of playing tennis, but hadn't she stopped playing for a while? Why did she suddenly appear on the tennis court today?

The next second, Xu Lan suddenly realized that there was a boy sitting next to Lin Zhixi, and judging from the distance between them, they were probably dating soon...

Xu Lan took a deep breath and subtly turned her head slightly so that she could catch a clear look at the two people out of the corner of her eye.

then……

The moment Xu Lan saw Chen Yan's profile again, the tension she had been holding in suddenly dissipated.

No wonder Lin Zhixi treated her crush like trash and avoided him like the plague; it turns out she already had such a handsome guy in her life.

Xu Lan suddenly felt a sense of "shattered resolve." If she hadn't already promised to bring him water that evening, she would have already turned around and gone back to her dormitory to get a good night's sleep.

……

Although they said they wanted to watch for a while longer, Chen Yan and Lin Zhixi quickly lost interest.

After all, the behavior of the two people opposite them was really too awkward.

The man was like a puppet, his every move giving off an awkward feeling; the woman was completely perfunctory, giving the impression of an employee forced to work overtime, simply dawdling and waiting to leave.

"It's getting late, let's go back." Chen Yan stood up and patted Lin Zhixi on the shoulder.

"gone."

……

After dropping Lin Zhixi off at her dorm, Chen Yan drove towards Wen Ya's house.

The traffic was pretty good late at night, not too congested. Chen Yan was driving slowly when, as he stopped at a red light and casually looked out the windows, suddenly…

"Hmm?" Chen Yan rubbed his eyes and looked at the left window again.

Outside the window, a short, stocky boy was walking out of a rather unpretentious-looking bathhouse.

"Damn." Chen Yan looked up at the bathhouse sign again. The deep purple light gave him a disorienting feeling. After a moment of silence, Chen Yan couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"No way."

He vaguely remembered this bathhouse; Shen Dong had mentioned it to him when they were chatting after lights out during their freshman year of college.

If Chen Yan remembered correctly, this bathhouse was probably not legitimate...

Of course, despite knowing about it, neither Chen Yan nor Shen Dong had ever been to this place.

Shen Dong has never lacked a partner, so there's no need for him to come to a place like this; while Chen Yan, who was still in puberty at the time, simply found it dirty.

If he wants to drive, he prefers to buy a new car and drive it himself; if someone else's car is a luxury car, he doesn't mind stepping on the gas a few times.

But let's forget about buses that have been ridden by who knows how many people.

Looking at Qi Li's cheerful figure, Chen Yan couldn't help but think of the scene where he was rejected after confessing his feelings to Qi Li last time.

'Could it be that his confession was rejected, and he's now locked away his heart, his heart set on the foot massage parlor?'

Chen Yan didn't think much of it, pretending he hadn't seen anything today. When the green light came on, he stepped on the gas and quickly pulled away.

(End of this chapter)