You're my wife, don't doubt it!

They won't think of me when something good happens.

Life doesn't care about me.

Tao Tianyi thought.

For the first time, I had a beautiful female classmate, and my lifelong best friend finally returned to school. The two joys overlapped, and this double joy should have brought even more joy.

But why did the dreamlike, blissful time that Peach imagined turn out like this?

My female classmate was polite, courteous, and friendly to me, but she was always too polite and kept me at arm's length.

"With you like this, it's hard for my story to unfold," Tao Tianyi thought to himself.

As for Zhao Xiaomei, what exactly did she experience during the summer vacation? Why did her personality change so drastically? Or did she pretend not to know me? Or was she simply an imposter?

What I'm saying is what I don't understand; these things are too wondrous for me to know.

This quote comes from the Book of Job, which Tao Tianyi had never read, but a similar sentence flashed through his mind at that moment.

The monotonous school life was like being in prison, so Tao Tianyi always had to find ways to have fun, well, to find joy in hardship.

Think about it, is there anything good going on?

What good thing could possibly happen?

Well, there really is.

First of all, today is Friday, which means school can end early, and there's a two-day weekend.

Now I can go to the internet cafe to play games again.

Secondly, there is a physical education class in the afternoon, which is also a good thing.

Before lunchtime, Tao Tianyi received his third piece of good news.

Ms. Liu, who teaches English, is sick, so this period will be a self-study period instead.

Because the homeroom teacher, Mr. Lin, had to go teach "that class," there was no teacher supervising this class.

The pretty female class monitor with a ponytail was already sitting on the podium, starting to do her homework.

Tao Tianyi glanced at her, lifted the partition of his desk, and took out a thick, large-format official strategy guide for Chapter 4, "The Return of the King," of "Bloodline II."

Then, good things happened again.

"You play Bloodlines II too?" A soft, curious voice came from beside me.

"Yeah, right," Tao Tianyi looked at Xu Qingwei with surprise, "You play too?"

"Well, I've played it a little bit," Xu Qingwei replied after a moment's hesitation.

"What level are you? Which server are you on?" Tao Tianyi asked with great interest.

"Sector 2, Hilfat".

“I’m also from District 2, Hilfat.” Tao Tianyi’s jaw almost dropped.

“That’s normal,” Xu Qingwei said. “They say that Zone 2 is full of people from Shanghai, and people from Shanghai all choose Zone 2 because it’s Shanghai Telecom’s line.”

"That's right—what level are you?" Tao Tianyi asked again, "What's your profession?"

“My level isn’t high, and I don’t play much,” Xu Qingwei’s face seemed to blush slightly. “I’m an elven mage.”

"Oh, you haven't done your second job advancement yet? I'll take you after school." Tao Tianyi made a bow-drawing and archery motion: "I'm Eagle Eye, an archer, swish swish swish swish. By the way, I have a set of top-tier C-grade cloth armor for mages in my inventory, do you want it? It's all +3 or +4 enhanced."

Xu Qingwei covered her mouth and laughed silently.

"What's wrong?" Tao Tianyi asked hurriedly.

“You get all excited when you mention Bloodline II, just like him,” Xu Qingwei explained.

"Him?" Tao Tianyi asked alertly, "Who is it?"

“My boyfriend…the person I like,” Xu Qingwei replied matter-of-factly.

Is there something good happening?

They won't think of me when something good happens.

Life doesn't care about me.

Tao Tianyi thought.

"Oh, you have someone you like?" Tao Tianyi forced his voice to be calm, dashing, and composed. "Is it someone from our school or your old school?"

Xu Qingwei hesitated for two seconds: "It's you—from our school."

"This school?" Tao Tianyi pointed downwards at his desk.

"Mmm," Xu Qingwei nodded.

"???" Tao Tianyi was a little dizzy: "It's only the third day of school, and you..."

Wait, she plays Bloodline II too, and so does her boyfriend. Could they have met in the game?

Most likely.

"You didn't transfer schools because of him, did you?" Tao Tianyi blurted out.

"How could that be!" Xu Qingwei denied it outright.

"Hmm...?" Tao Tianyi narrowed his eyes, making a sound of doubt.

When she mentioned the boy she liked earlier, her eyes lit up, Tao Tian thought.

How pitiful! How pathetic! How jealous! How sorrowful! How bitter!

"Can I borrow your strategy guide?" Xu Qingwei asked, seemingly trying to change the subject.

“Sure, no problem.” Tao Tianyi, with a heart full of righteous indignation, pushed the Bloodline II strategy guide toward his deskmate Xu Qingwei.

"Thank you," Xu Qingwei said, expressing her gratitude.

"Please, students in the back rows, be quiet." The pretty female class monitor tapped the podium with a set square, her voice weak and listless.

I gave her the strategy guide, so what am I supposed to read?

Tao Tianyi thought for a moment, then took out a large-format book, "The Rebirth of the Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King's Son-in-Law in Online Games," ready to read it.

Although the printing quality of this book is extremely poor.

Although the entire document is riddled with typos and contains many missing or incorrect pages.

Although the paper was so bad that it was too stiff to even wipe one's bottom.

But it only costs ten yuan.

Ten yuan can only buy you five hours of internet time at an internet cafe, but it can buy you such a big book, a book that makes you feel completely satisfied.

The most striking feature is that he kills an entire family at the slightest disagreement—so satisfying! Decisive and ruthless! The arrogant and domineering young master Long! So satisfying!

In short, it's quite good in terms of cost-effectiveness.

Tao Tianyi watched with great interest for about twenty minutes when he suddenly noticed that his deskmate, Xu Qingwei, had stood up.

The boy looked up at Xu Qingwei in confusion—she was holding an envelope in her hand, and in front of the whole class, she walked around most of the classroom and threw the envelope on the desk of Wei Sidong, the "short donkey" who was sitting in the front row.

The class monitor stood up halfway, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't and sat back down.

"What are you doing?!" Tao Tianyi wondered.

Aren't you looking at the official strategy guide for Bloodlines II?!

Wait, that's not the point at all!!

The key question is, why did it have to be that idiot Wei Sidong?

What have I done to deserve this? What have I done to deserve this? How can I even live like this? How can I even play this game?

Wait, wait a minute...

calm down.

Tao Tianyi, think about it carefully.

Wei Sidong, he doesn't play Bloodline II at all.

A person of such low taste is someone who would kill a legendary character.

But what if he secretly starts playing Bloodline II during the summer vacation?

Then he has no reason not to tell us all, after all, sharing happiness is worse than keeping it to himself.

Unless this guy is a born schemer.

Just as Tao Tianyi was having a flurry of internal monologues, Xu Qingwei had already returned to sit down next to him with a "pat-pat" sound, and all sorts of whispers began to circulate among the boys and girls in the class.

"Isn't it? Isn't it?"

"I didn't expect Wei Sidong to actually be capable?"

"Even Wei Sidong can do that?"

"They managed to succeed like that?"

"She probably doesn't know what kind of person Wei Sidong is, does she?"

"After all, she's new here."