Ambiguity is really something

Li Shiyan blinked her eyes.

These two felt like an old couple. She wasn't sure, she'd keep observing.

Shen Nian bared his teeth and poked Xia Yanchun's arm, his fingertips sinking into the girl's soft flesh. He smiled faintly, "Maybe it'll be fine in a little while."

"Why are you poking me?"

"It's fun to poke."

"I'll poke you to death!" Xia Yanchun was fuming. She jabbed her fingertips hard into Shen Nian's forearm, making him howl in pain.

...

During class.

Li Shiyan secretly popped a milk candy into her mouth, quietly leaned close to Xia Yanchun's ear, and spoke in a sweet voice.

"Does Little Chun's stomach still hurt?"

Xia Yanchun touched her stomach and shook her head. "It stopped hurting once class started."

"I thought you had food poisoning."

"I guess I just ate too much random stuff." Xia Yanchun thought of the skewers they had for lunch.

Although it didn't hurt that much to begin with, it was still uncomfortable. Fortunately, it was fine now, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to focus for the whole afternoon.

Ignoring the teacher who was still lecturing, Shen Nian tossed a note to Xia Yanchun.

The crumpled ball of paper rolled twice on the desk. Xia Yanchun furrowed her little brows and opened it to read.

'Does your stomach still hurt?'

Xia Yanchun quickly replied and threw it back to Shen Nian while the teacher turned around to write on the blackboard.

'It doesn't hurt anymore.'

'That's definitely my doing.'

Xia Yanchun didn't reply to him again. She stuffed the small paper ball into the trash bag and rolled her eyes several times.

I'm so speechless, sisters.

During the evening self-study session, not a single teacher showed up.

The classroom was a bit noisy. The class monitor sitting at the podium to keep discipline didn't say a word, keeping their head down to study their own things, only symbolically managing things when the school leaders came by.

Shen Nian was studying intensely in the back, entering a state of absolute focus. Studying in this focused state, his mind was more energetic than ever, and his thinking speed seemed to have increased to a certain extent.

In this state, he could already write out a perfect-score finale question in fifteen minutes.

The only flaw was that this state of absolute focus couldn't be maintained for too long.

He wondered if, by activating it more often, the [Glimmer Experience] would increase his proficiency, thereby reducing some physical consumption and extending the duration of the focused state.

A faint, pattering sound reached his ears. Shen Nian was startled and broke out of his focused state. He raised his eyes and lifted a corner of the curtain.

Ah, it was raining.

The sound of small raindrops hitting the window that he could hear just a moment ago disappeared as he left his focused state.

The rain wasn't heavy; it didn't even make a sound when hitting the window. Small water beads hung on the glass, and gradually, he finally heard the sound of raindrops pattering.

"Damn, is it raining?" Ma Mingfan, hearing the sound, quickly turned around to glance out the window. "I didn't bring an umbrella, crap."

"Crap, I didn't bring one either!" Chen Dong was about to vomit blood.

Shen Nian patted his backpack and said in a low voice, "I have one, I'll lend it to you guys later."

"Then how are you getting back?"

Ma Mingfan had just asked the question when he figured it out himself before Shen Nian could even speak.

He usually went to and from school with the class monitor, so there was a ninety-nine percent chance he would share an umbrella with her.

The romantic tension is so strong!!

Ma Mingfan was crying out of envy. In the past, saying he didn't want to date was all fake; when he actually saw others dating, he was incredibly jealous.

Damn it, these overpowered guys are just too much.

"What's wrong, you're not happy about me lending you an umbrella?" Shen Nian asked casually, seeing Ma Mingfan spacing out.

"Who said I'm not happy? Damn it, you really deserve to die!"

"??"

"I'm definitely going to use the hell out of your umbrella!"

Shen Nian was completely confused. What was this idiot babbling about?

Lending him an umbrella and still deserving to die, isn't that ridiculous?

Shen Nian didn't pay it much mind. Since they were still in class, he waved his hand to tell Ma Mingfan to turn back around.

Summer was always humid, and it would rain from time to time. It wasn't unusual for it to rain non-stop for two or three days.

By the time school ended, the light rain had turned into a heavy downpour. Although there was no thunder, a flash of lightning would occasionally streak across the sky, which was just as intimidating.

"Then we're off. Don't catch a cold, otherwise, I'll feel bad and will have to treat you to a cola."

"No need, just treat me tomorrow."

"I'll treat you to air tomorrow. We're out of here." Ma Mingfan and Chen Dong ran out of the classroom.

Shen Nian also looked at Xia Yanchun and tilted his chin up.

Xia Yanchun pouted, didn't say anything, and turned to walk out of the classroom.

On the ground floor hallway, Shen Nian came up close, his shoulder pressing against hers. "Are you holding the umbrella later?"

"I'm only holding it for myself. A single-person umbrella can't cover two people."

"We can squeeze. Chunbao is the best."

"Even if you say things like that, you'll still get wet later," Xia Yanchun grumbled.

Only if you call me big sister can you share the umbrella with me.

"Anyway, once we get to the school gate, I'll grab my raincoat and ride home. We'll just squeeze together for the walk there."

"I give up on you. You knew I had a single umbrella and you still lent yours out." Xia Yanchun's little mouth didn't stop. "You should have lent mine out like last time so the two of them could squeeze, and then the two of us could share your umbrella."

"It's fine, Chunbao. As long as we're fast enough, the rain won't catch us."

"Idiot. Let's go. You hold the umbrella. If I get wet, just wait for me to scold you!"

The umbrella was shoved into Shen Nian's hand.

Shen Nian quickly opened the umbrella, stood behind Xia Yanchun, and grabbed her shoulders as they walked slowly.

Step by step, as their shoes left the ground, rainwater refilled the spots they had stepped on.

Sharing a romantic umbrella wasn't romantic at all to hold; it was even a bit awkward. But Shen Nian's front-and-back holding method eliminated that trouble.

It was just that walking like this was a bit weird, like penguins.

Xia Yanchun didn't get wet at all, and his upper body was still dry too. His backpack, however, was a bit miserable, with its surface getting somewhat soaked.

"Are you doing okay?" Xia Yanchun couldn't see Shen Nian's face; she could only feel him pressing close from time to time, as well as his obvious breathing.

"I didn't get wet. See, if Chen Dong and Ma Mingfan shared a single umbrella, both of their shoulders would probably get soaked, unless they did it like us."

Xia Yanchun imagined Chen Dong and Ma Mingfan pressing back-to-front like she and Shen Nian were doing right now, and immediately felt a chill of disgust.

That was something for fujoshis, but she wasn't a fujoshi.

"A lot of guys aren't used to bringing umbrellas. If no one lends them one, do they just dash back to the dorms like that?"

"Yeah, they just take a shower when they get back."

"Aren't they afraid of catching a cold?"

"How could you catch a cold if you shower quickly? I've been soaked before too, and it doesn't necessarily mean catching a cold. If it was a stormy and windy day, then maybe you'd get a cold and a fever."

"Hmph, it's not a hassle to bring an umbrella. Why is everyone so lazy?"

"They don't carry backpacks when they go out. If they brought it back to the dorm last time it rained, it's easy to forget to bring it out again." Shen Nian grinned. The position of his hand shifted, moving up from her arm to her shoulder, his fingertips gently caressing the girl's soft face.

"That's still just being lazy."

"Hehe, whatever Chunbao says is right."

"I'm your older sister."

"Right, whatever Chunbao says is right."