After Differentiation, I Marked My Arch-nemesis - Chapter 75

It was already 10:30 p.m. when Jiang Youli and Lu Yaoyi returned from the beach.

The air was filled with the fragrance of the night.

The two of them walked under the moonlight in the small alley on their way home, each lost in their own thoughts.

The entire alley was so quiet that all they could hear were their own footsteps.

Lu Yaoyi looked down at the roses in her arms, couldn’t help but savor the kiss she had with Jiang Youli on the Ferris wheel, and a faint, lasting smile remained on her lips.

Her passionate heart felt as sweet as if it were soaked in honey.

She was so, so happy.

The gentle night breeze brought a hint of coolness.

Soon,

The two of them walked to Lu Yaoyi’s doorstep, facing the night breeze.

Lu Yaoyi stopped and looked up at Jiang Youli. Her beautiful, smiling eyes reflected Jiang Youli’s image. “Jiang Youli, I’m home.”

Jiang Youli: “Mhm.”

She lowered her head to meet Lu Yaoyi’s gaze. “I should go back to sleep, too.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Wait a minute.”

Jiang Youli: “What’s wrong?”

“Did you forget that we took a picture together at the beach just now?” Lu Yaoyi raised her arm and casually shook the hand holding the small gift box. “I haven’t given you the photo yet.”

The photo…

Jiang Youli’s gaze fell on the small gift box in Lu Yaoyi’s hand.

She almost forgot that they had taken a picture together.

“The lady selling the headbands took two pictures for us,” Lu Yaoyi said, taking a step forward to close the distance. “Let’s each keep one as a souvenir of Valentine’s Day.”

Jiang Youli did not refuse. “Okay.”

Lu Yaoyi carefully opened the small gift box and took out one of the photos.

Then she handed the photo to Jiang Youli. “Here you go.”

“Mhm,” Jiang Youli took the photo from Lu Yaoyi. “Then I’m going back.”

Lu Yaoyi nodded slightly. “Mhm.”

Jiang Youli glanced at Lu Yaoyi and then turned to leave.

Lu Yaoyi suddenly remembered something and quickly called out, “Jiang Youli.”

Jiang Youli immediately stopped and turned back. “Is there anything else?”

Lu Yaoyi smiled charmingly. “Thank you for celebrating Valentine’s Day with me today.”

Jiang Youli’s heart rate suddenly quickened as she looked at Lu Yaoyi’s smiling eyes.

She awkwardly looked away and weakly retorted, “I’m not celebrating Valentine’s Day with you. I only agreed to go with you to watch the fireworks show at the beach.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then do we have a chance to watch the fireworks show together again next year?”

Jiang Youli was slightly stunned.

Next year…

“If we’re still in our partnership next year,” Lu Yaoyi looked directly into Jiang Youli’s clear eyes and asked tentatively, “will you still go watch the fireworks show with me?”

Jiang Youli: “…”

Today’s Valentine’s Day isn’t even over yet.

Lu Yaoyi was already thinking about Valentine’s Day next year?

She finally understood.

Lu Yaoyi was not only a narcissistic person who would take advantage of her at every turn.

She was also very greedy.

Wait a minute.

Did Lu Yaoyi’s words mean that she wanted to be in a partnership with her until next year?

Lu Yaoyi: “Jiang Youli.”

Jiang Youli: “Huh?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Go watch the fireworks show with me next year, too.”

Jiang Youli didn’t want to refuse Lu Yaoyi, so she said, “We’ll talk about next year, next year.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then I’ll take that as a ‘yes’.”

Jiang Youli: “I didn’t say I agreed.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then…”

Jiang Youli: “What?”

Lu Yaoyi: “Then I’ll ask you again on Valentine’s Day next year.”

Jiang Youli: “…”

She nervously squeezed the photo in her hand. “Whatever you want. I’m going back.”

With that, she turned and left.

Lu Yaoyi looked at Jiang Youli’s retreating back and slightly curled her lips.

Next year…

She believed that she would definitely have another chance to ask Jiang Youli again next year.

She would definitely celebrate Valentine’s Day with Jiang Youli again next year.

Night had fallen.

Jiang Youli came out of the bathroom after taking a shower and sat down on the edge of her bed. She stretched and her gaze suddenly fell on the cat ear headband on her nightstand. She then looked at the photo next to the headband. It was the first photo of her and Lu Yaoyi together in all the years they had known each other.

Whenever Li Henian wanted to take a picture of her and Lu Yaoyi since they were little,

She would always find all kinds of reasons to refuse.

She stared at it for a few seconds.

Then she walked over and picked up the photo from the nightstand.

In the photo, she was hugging Lu Yaoyi, and they were so close that they looked like a real couple, not a couple who had gone on a date to celebrate Valentine’s Day because of a signed agreement.

Lu Yaoyi was holding the bouquet of roses she had given her, and she was smiling so brightly and beautifully that it made her heart flutter.

She stared at Lu Yaoyi in the photo.

The corners of her lips turned up.

Lu Yaoyi had told her that she still wanted to go watch the fireworks show with her next year.

Next year…

She had already agreed to Lu Yaoyi in her heart.

She was willing to be with Lu Yaoyi.

After the Lantern Festival, schools across the country started to resume classes one after another.

On the first day of school,

Jiang Youli had planned to sleep in a little and then go to school, but Jiang Xiyuan mercilessly pulled her out of bed. Just as she was about to leave, she received a message from Lu Yaoyi.

—Jiang Youli.

—Do you want to be my desk mate or not?

She thought about it.

Lu Yaoyi wanted to be her desk mate for no other reason than to study with her.

She knew Lu Yaoyi was doing it for her own good.

But she was a person who genuinely didn’t like to study.

She would get a headache just by looking at those questions.

And…

It would be strange if she were Lu Yaoyi’s desk mate. How would she explain it to her friends? Tell them that she was Lu Yaoyi’s desk mate because Lu Yaoyi wanted to study with her? Wouldn’t that make it seem like she was very obedient to Lu Yaoyi?

No, that was too ridiculous.

So she refused.

—Forget it.

—I don’t like to study.

She didn’t want anyone to know that her relationship with Lu Yaoyi had changed.

The weather was great today.

Jiang Xiyuan personally drove Jiang Youli to Jiangcheng No. 1 High School early in the morning.

On the first day of school at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, every class had a homeroom meeting. When Jiang Youli arrived at the classroom, there weren’t many students yet, but she saw Chen Huaian at a glance.

Chen Huaian was sitting in the last row by the window.

He excitedly waved at Jiang Youli. “Boss, come over here quickly.”

Jiang Youli walked over. “Why are you here so early today?”

Chen Huaian: “I came early to save a spot.”

Jiang Youli: “Save a spot?”

Chen Huaian: “Mhm.”

Jiang Youli took her backpack off her shoulder and hung it on the chair. Then she pulled out the chair, sat down, and looked at Chen Huaian strangely. “Chen Huaian, what are you saving a spot for?”

“Boss, I’m saving a spot because I don’t want Lu Yaoyi and Jin Rubing to sit behind us anymore,” Chen Huaian put his hands on the desk and said with a smile. “Anyway, on the first day of school, it’s first-come, first-served for seats. You know that our grades are terrible and there’s no way we can beat Lu Yaoyi, so I can only use this method to save our original seats.”

Jiang Youli then understood why he was saving a spot. “Oh…”

She and Chen Huaian could indeed only keep this seat on the first day of school.

Chen Huaian: “Boss, do you think they’ll sit in front of us?”

Jiang Youli: “I don’t know.”

“I really don’t know why they sat in the last row last semester, but with how good Lu Yaoyi’s grades are, it doesn’t matter where she sits,” Chen Huaian said, then put his head on the desk and let out a satisfied sigh. “It really feels safer to sit in the last row…”

Jiang Youli didn’t say anything.

She also didn’t know why Lu Yaoyi had sat in the last row last semester.

She thought it might be because their relationship wasn’t good back then.

Lu Yaoyi sat in the last row purely to go against her, right?

But now, her relationship with Lu Yaoyi…

She felt…

It was so much better than before.

By the time Lu Yaoyi arrived in the classroom, half of the students were already there.

She walked into the classroom from the back door and glanced at Jiang Youli. Jiang Youli was indeed sitting in the last row by the window. She calmly walked past Jiang Youli and went to the second row in the middle of the classroom to sit down.

Jiang Youli looked at Lu Yaoyi’s back.

She felt a little complicated.

Actually…

She did want to be Lu Yaoyi’s desk mate.

A little while later, Jin Rubing took off her backpack and sat down next to Lu Yaoyi.

She put her backpack on the desk, moved her chair closer to Lu Yaoyi, and then took Lu Yaoyi’s hand and whispered, “Yaoyi, come here for a second. I have something to tell you.”

Lu Yaoyi turned her head to meet Jin Rubing’s excited gaze. “What is it?”

“I…” Jin Rubing said shyly, “I’m in a relationship.”

Lu Yaoyi was a little surprised. “Really?”

She had never heard Jin Rubing mention anything about being in a relationship.

Jin Rubing: “Mhm.”

Lu Yaoyi: “Why haven’t you told me before?”

Jin Rubing: “I just got into it yesterday.”

She leaned in and whispered in Lu Yaoyi’s ear, “Yaoyi, this is what happened. On the day of the winter break, a male Alpha from Class 3 named He Suixun added me on social media and said that he had liked me for a long time and wanted to pursue me. I met up with him a few times during the winter break, and I thought he was pretty good, so I agreed to date him yesterday.”

“Rubing,” Lu Yaoyi’s lips curved into a smile. “Congratulations.”

Jin Rubing’s face was a little red. “I’m an Omega with an Alpha now.”

When Lu Yaoyi heard this, her heart suddenly felt a mix of emotions.

Her eyes also became a little dim.

She also had an Alpha.

It was just that her Alpha wasn’t her Alpha yet.

The school bell rang.

Tan Yushan walked into the classroom from the front door with his lesson plan, right as the bell was ringing.

He walked up to the podium and faced the whole class. “Everyone, quiet down.”

The entire class instantly became silent.

“Everyone did pretty well on the final exams last semester. Looking at the whole semester, you’ve improved a lot,” Tan Yushan leaned forward and put his hands on the podium. “But there are still two students in our class who got a zero and are dragging us down.”

The students in Class 1, Grade 1, didn’t even have to guess who those two people were.

“Jiang Youli,” Tan Yushan deliberately raised his voice. “Chen Huaian.”

Jiang Youli and Chen Huaian immediately stood up and looked at Tan Yushan.

The atmosphere became a little strange.

Tan Yushan: “Can you get me at least one point this semester?”

Jiang Youli: “…”

Chen Huaian: “…”

Pfft—

Someone couldn’t hold back their laughter.

They didn’t expect their Old Tan to have lowered his expectations for Jiang Youli and Chen Huaian to just one point from his initial anger. It was both sad and funny.

There was no other way.

Jiang Youli and Chen Huaian were so thick-skinned that no one could do anything about them.

Chen Huaian smiled. “Teacher Tan, I’ll try to get more points this semester.”

“Okay,” Tan Yushan sighed helplessly. “You can both sit down.”

Jiang Youli and Chen Huaian looked at each other and then sat down.

“There’s a very important thing happening this semester,” Tan Yushan said with a serious expression. “That is the spring sports meet. The school-wide spring sports meet will be held in early March. Students who participate can go to the field to train freely starting from the last self-study session this afternoon. I hope everyone will actively participate in this spring sports meet.”