You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

It would be so nice to find a quiet place to hide, so no one would bother her and A-Che anymore...

Su Qinghe greedily inhaled the lingering fragrance of the shower gel on the boy's body, then pressed her head even closer to his chest.

Jiang Che was oblivious to the little yandere's thoughts. He reached out and pinched her soft cheek, smiling helplessly, "What are you thinking, Qinghe? What's with hiding away?"

Even if Su Qinghe were really willing, he couldn't bear to let this delicate little girl suffer with him in a remote and impoverished place.

What he wanted to give her was a life that was aboveboard and affluent.

"What I mean is, we still want to go to Kyoto University, but... I'd like to try a different route."

Jiang Che gently ruffled Su Qinghe's hair and patiently explained his thoughts to her in detail.

"Look, I won the marathon today, so my spot in the special sports admission program at Peking University is pretty much in my pocket."

"But... Qinghe, have you thought about this? If I really take the special admission route for sports, I can only study sports-related majors after entering university."

"In a top university like Kyoto University, the threshold for a sports student to switch to science and engineering or humanities and business is ridiculously high. Well... it may not be difficult, but it is definitely not an easy thing for me."

"My family has such a big business, and they're all counting on me to take over and manage it. If I end up studying sports, I'll have to learn something else to take over the company later. Just thinking about it makes me feel exhausted."

Su Qinghe nestled obediently in his arms, blinking her clear and bright eyes as she listened quietly.

"Does A-Che mean... he wants to get in based on his academic scores?"

Jiang Che nodded: "Yes, if we focus on academic subjects, we'll have a lot more options when it comes to choosing a major in the future."

"I want to study business management or finance, as this knowledge will be of real help in managing the family business in the future."

"Besides, I have a top student like you, who is number one in the whole school, tutoring me every day. If I still have to rely on sports to take shortcuts, wouldn't that be too embarrassing for you?"

Su Qinghe was praised like that by her sweetheart. Although she had experienced this many times before, she was still a little embarrassed and buried her face completely in Jiang Che's arms.

After a few seconds, she raised her head slightly, revealed a pair of eyes, and blinked. "I won't embarrass myself... Ah Che is the best."

The girl's voice was soft and sweet, carrying a hint of undisguised infatuation and possessiveness. "Actually, A-Che, you really should consider my suggestion...why don't we find a quiet place where no one will bother us and live out our lives together?"

Su Qinghe, the little yandere, has not given up on her idea of ​​hiding Jiang Che in a place where no one can find him.

Jiang Che shook his head. From the moment he was born, he was destined not to live an ordinary and peaceful life.

Seeing this, Su Qinghe had no choice but to hide her somewhat dark thoughts. "Alright... even if A-Che doesn't get into Peking University in the end, we can apply to other prestigious universities, which aren't much worse than Peking University."

"As long as... as long as A-Che doesn't kick me out and lets me stay by A-Che's side, that's fine."

Wherever A-Che is, that's her whole world.

Deep down, Su Qinghe didn't care about the prestige of those famous universities in the eyes of the world.

As long as she could be with her A-Che, see him every day, and smell his scent, even if it meant begging on the streets with him, it would be the happiest thing for her.

……

For the next two weeks or so, life returned to a calm and uneventful routine.

Every morning, the two of them would go to school together in the morning light, and walk home side by side in the evening as the sun set. After dinner, they would huddle together at their desks in the bedroom to do practice problems.

Life is filled with heavy schoolwork, and logically speaking, such a routine life should be the most boring and tedious for high school students in their adolescence.

But Jiang Che enjoyed it and found that life wasn't as boring as he had imagined.

At school, Jiang Che and Su Qinghe continue to play the role of "ordinary friends" on the surface.

But no one knew that in those unnoticed stairwell corners, or in the unnoticed back rows of classrooms, the two would always find themselves secretly holding hands or something.

This clandestine, secret affair, kept hidden from everyone, actually added a touch of thrill to their otherwise mundane senior year of high school.

In addition, Zhao Wenyu would jump out every day at school to act as a free comedian.

This guy tirelessly hangs around in front of Su Qinghe every day, trying to show off his pitiful knowledge in various ways in an attempt to attract the attention of this ice queen.

Su Qinghe's attitude towards him remained icy, not even sparing him a single extra punctuation mark.

Jiang Che sat in the back and watched coldly as Zhao Wenyu performed like a clown, taking it as a bit of free fun in the boring senior year of high school.

As time went by, Jiang Che's academic progress was nothing short of miraculous.

With one-on-one tutoring from a master like Su Qinghe, coupled with his already high IQ, those challenging science problems that used to seem like gibberish can now be broken down into pieces by him.

In recent weekly tests, Jiang Che's scores have skyrocketed, from 450 or 460 points at the beginning to 560 or 570 points.

Ultimately, he steadily maintained his score at around 570 points, and his ranking in the grade jumped directly into the top 100.

Compared to his previous dismal scores, which made it difficult for him to even get into a non-top-tier university, his progress in just over a month is so remarkable that anyone who didn't know better would think Jiang Che was cheating in an online game.

Time flies, and Lincheng No.1 High School is about to face the most important battle of the first semester of senior year – the first mock exam for senior students in Lincheng City.

This mock exam was completely different from previous ones. Instead of allocating exam rooms according to the usual rankings, a computer system was used to randomly distribute the rooms.

Coincidentally, Jiang Che and Su Qinghe's exam numbers were next to each other, and they were assigned to the same exam room.

Unfortunately, Zhao Wenyu, that jinx, was also assigned to this examination room.

At 8:00 a.m., there was still more than half an hour before the first Chinese exam was scheduled to begin.

At this moment, the corridor outside the examination room was filled with candidates holding review materials, all making the most of their time for a final sprint.

Jiang Che and Su Qinghe were in the same situation, standing in a corner by the window outside the examination hall, supervising each other as they reviewed ancient poems and classical Chinese texts.

Just as the two were enjoying the pre-exam tranquility, a very unpleasant voice suddenly broke in—

"Qinghe? What a coincidence, you were also assigned to this exam room?"