The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

Shao Ming’s playful mode didn’t last long. Seeing his deskmate was speechless and staring at him in a daze, he accepted his bitter face as best as he could, sat up straight and said, “Which question can’t you answer?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

He silently pushed the math test paper over.

It is a function problem. Given a vector with this length, find the sine value of angle ɑ. 

Shao Ming raised his eyebrows lightly, “Bring me your draft paper.”

Zhu Tong handed him the draft according to his words.

Shao Ming took a pen and began to write the steps to solve the problem.

His fingers are long and slender, and when he bent them, his joints became more distinct.

Zhu Tong couldn’t help but glance at it twice, and stared back at the draft when Shao Ming started to talk about the topic.

Although Shao Ming’s speech was not in the right tone, his problem-solving was methodical. Every time he wrote down a step in the draft paper, he stopped and explained it in detail.

Zhu Tong followed his steps to solve the problem, his thoughts gradually became clearer, and his face gradually revealed a sense of enlightenment.

After solving the problem, Shao Ming put down his pen and said, “Try to solve it yourself.”

Zhu Tong nodded and brought back the draft. He turned over the page written by Shao Ming, and re-solved the problem on the new page.

“Well, that’s a good solution.”

“…”

Zhu Tong tilted his head and saw that his deskmate was supporting his head with one hand again, smiling lazily while watching him do the problem.

Zhu Tong felt a sense of accomplishment, his eyes seemed to be shining.

Shao Ming admitted, “You can remember the knowledge points, but you don’t know how to use them.”

Zhu Tong asked, “Then what should I do?”

Shao Ming: “Just do more questions. Practice more, something like that.”

Zhu Tong nodded and said, “Thank you.”

His attitude was very serious and his eyes were so firm that Shao Ming couldn’t help but smile, “You love studying so much, did you do this before?”

Zhu Tong smoothly answered, “I occasionally do it in school, but rarely in the hospital.” 

In his previous school, his whole class was full of rich second-generation students. He didn’t even have homework after class.

Not to mention in the hospital, eleven out of ten people who came to see him would tell him to take a good rest.

Academic performance? What is that?

No one cares.

So now, he had to learn it all again, to make up for the lost time. 

He sighed with emotion, but he didn’t notice that his deskmate’s eyes darkened.

—He occasionally does it in school, but rarely in the hospital. 

‘What about… at home?’

It sounded like Zhu Tong spent more time in the hospital rather than his own home. 

In just a few days of observation, he knew that Zhu Tong’s studiousness was not faked, but it’s also true that his test result was subpar at best. 

If this was because of his health issues, it would make sense.

‘What a pitiful boy.’ 

Outwardly, Shao Ming still smiled. “Don’t worry, there won’t be questions that you can’t finish in the future.”

—As long as you work hard, you don’t have to worry about your grades.

Zhu Tong: “…”

He glanced at the test papers of various subjects that had already piled up on his desk in the first few days since school started.

He couldn’t finish answering them all. 

After class, as soon as the class bell rang, the classroom began to be noisy.

Zhu Tong was not disturbed at all. He looked at the slowly increasing favorability bar on the system interface, and then looked at the math problems he had solved alone in the draft paper. He suddenly became even more motivated to study.

However, this state could not be maintained for a long period. After a while, he became a little discouraged. 

Because this favorability bar no longer moves. 

‘Why?’ Zhu Tong questioned in his mind. 

The system helplessly answered, ‘Maybe it’s because the favorability is saturated?’

Zhu Tong was puzzled: ‘What does it mean to be saturated?’

‘I’ll give you an example,’ The system continued, ‘It’s the first time you know that the white moonlight got 150 in the math test. How do you feel?’

Zhu Tong thought for a while, and answered, ‘Amazed?’

System 666: ‘If you knew that the white moonlight scored 150 in every math test, how would you feel?’

Zhu Tong: “…”

What do you think??

Get used to it?

It became… normal? 

Zhu Tong was stunned, speechless for a while, and said, ‘So you mean that… there’s no novelty?’ 

System: “…”

Isn’t this for you to understand better?

Zhu Tong looked at the stagnant favorability bar.

So the favorability level has not increased, was it because Shao Ming already understood his learning attitude, thus no longer feeling it was something special anymore? 

Because Shao Ming thought it’s natural for him to study hard?

‘Then what should I do now?’ 

The system replied, ‘You can only find another way.’

Zhu Tong: ‘How?’

The system: ‘Didn’t you say that you want to know more about the white moonlight?’ 

Zhu Tong: “…”

He was so busy studying that he forgot about it a long time ago.

Why didn’t he think that only gaining favorability by studying wouldn’t be saturated? Zhu Tong propped his head on one hand, mulling in a daze.

‘This task is really difficult…’

Suddenly there was a soft sound. Tian Man in the front seat passed by Tang Nuan to go back to her seat, and accidentally bumped into the neatly stacked books on the back table. A math textbook slipped from the pile of books, and fell to the ground along the corner of the table.

Zhu Tong glanced down, and the book dropped at his feet.

Without knowing who it belonged to, Zhu Tong subconsciously bent down to pick up the book. He took out a bottle of disinfectant from his desk’s locker, and sprayed it on the place where the textbook touched the ground. He wiped it clean with a paper towel, full of careful and meticulous movements.

Shao Ming watched his textbook being cherished like a treasure by Zhu Tong. He stretched out his hand with complicated eyes.

“Maybe I should say thank you to you?”

Zhu Tong put the wiped books on his stack, turned his head and asked, “What?”

Shao Ming said, “You seem to be wiping my textbooks.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

He looked at Shao Ming, then at the textbook he hadn’t let go of, with a confused look on his face.

Shao Ming raised his eyebrows and said, “Has all this… studying liquefied your brain? You’ve lost your mind?” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

He quickly took down the book, “Sorry.”

Not everyone could accept the sharp smell of disinfectant. Just as he was thinking about whether to wipe it again with an odorless saline solution, Shao Ming had already taken the book back, saying, “If you love learning, you should also be moderate. It is important to combine work and rest.” 

“…” 

“How about we go outside to eat? Together?” 

Shao Ming stood up from his seat. Then, he asked Luo Suo to book a table from an off-campus restaurant.

After meeting by chance at the hot soup restaurant that day, they would occasionally eat together.

Zhu Tong paused for a while, then nodded decisively. His reaction was so delayed that Shao Ming couldn’t help but smile.

‘If you continue to study like this, you will really become stupid.’

Luo Suo booked a restaurant called “Lao Yang’s Canteen”, and he was not surprised to see Zhu Tong entering the restaurant with Shao Ming

Walking over, Shao Ming heard Luo Suo complaining to them, “This newly opened store is really booming. If I come a minute late, there will be no seats.”

Shao Ming dealt with him very considerately, “Well, you’re amazing. I will give you the title of ‘little seat grabber’.”

Luo Suo: “…”

A slight smile escaped from Zhu Tong’s lips. 

“What do you want to eat?” Shao Ming handed him the menu.

“Hm…”After browsing for a while, Zhu Tong ordered braised pork and tofu fried rice.

At the dinner table, Luo Suo suddenly said, “By the way, Ming-ge, what are your plans for the weekend tomorrow?”

Shao Ming said casually while eating, “Part-time job.”

Probably because his schedule was very fixed every weekend, Luo Suo was not surprised. He turned his head and said, “What about you?”

Zhu Tong: “I…”

‘Host, this is an opportunity!’ Just as Zhu Tong was about to speak, the system suddenly sounded in his head.

‘What opportunity?’

‘Of course it’s an opportunity to get to know the white moonlight.’ 

“…”

Yes, tomorrow was the weekend.  The best time to establish revolutionary friendship among classmates!

Zhu Tong turned to look at Shao Ming: “You…”

He wanted to ask Shao Ming where he worked, but suddenly a few people gathered around the empty seats at the round table.

“Someone’s milk tea shop is about to close down. How can they still have money to eat? Our savings are so rich, how about helping a fellow brother?”

The person closest to Shao Ming gloated, full of himself.