TRMP Chapter 125

Chapter 123: Extra – IF Route

Jiang Yifeng always felt that Xie Jingshen had been acting strangely ever since he went to the office.

When he came back, his face was gloomy. Before Jiang Yifeng could even figure out what was going on, Xie Jingshen grabbed Jiang Yifeng’s wrist and pressed it against his cheek, rubbing it hard.

Xie Jingshen’s nose and lips were pressed against Jiang Yifeng’s skin, a hint of ruthlessness evident in his heavy expression, and a thick malice almost impossible to conceal.

Jiang Yifeng was startled.

He didn’t dare move, letting Xie Jingshen hold his wrist, lowering his eyes and asking softly, “Are you not feeling well? Do you want to rest for a while?”

After speaking, he tilted his head and added, looking at Xie Jingshen, “I can keep an eye on the teachers for you, and won’t let them find out.”

Xie Jingshen shook his head.

He closed his eyes tightly, trying to suppress the rage in his chest. When his emotions had calmed down a little, he glanced sideways at Jiang Yifeng, “Don’t be lazy, study hard.”

Jiang Yifeng: “?”

Jiang Yifeng was at a loss, not knowing what Xie Jingshen was going crazy about.

“We have to go to college together in the future, the same college,” Xie Jingshen said with exceptional seriousness.

Jiang Yifeng opened his mouth, hesitating for a long time before asking, “You’re not planning to study anymore?”

He didn’t think he could get into a top university. Only a few students from the school manage to get in each year. Based on Jiang Yifeng’s current grades, the possibility of getting in without donating a building was zero.

So, for the two of them to attend the same university, there was only one possibility.

Xie Jingshen wouldn’t study.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Jingshen stared at Jiang Yifeng with a look of disappointment.

Jiang Yifeng felt like he might have said something wrong.

“You actually have such lazy and unmotivated thoughts,” Xie Jingshen scoffed. “I have to correct your thinking.”

Xie Jingshen pulled Jiang Yifeng to the corner of the corridor again. The next class was self-study, and the class was quiet. Except for the people in the back row, no one noticed that the two of them were gone.

But Jiang Yifeng was extremely nervous—during class time, the subject teachers and the head teacher would randomly wander outside the classrooms. If they were caught, it would be over!

Jiang Yifeng’s entire body tensed up.

He was pinned against the wall, and Xie Jingshen squeezed his cheeks again, forcing him to open his mouth, and put Xie Jingshen’s tongue between his lips.

His teeth pressed against his tongue forcefully, and his body was squeezed almost into his arms. The trembling sounds were all swallowed into his stomach.

The most terrifying thing was the loud heartbeat and the sound of footsteps coming from each floor.

Once someone saw them, it wouldn’t just be skipping class, but also dating—

Jiang Yifeng’s eyes were forced to tear up.

After kissing for a while longer, he couldn’t bear it and cried.

Xie Jingshen rubbed the tip of Jiang Yifeng’s nose, then leaned in and gently rubbed his nose against his.

“Punishment.” Xie Jingshen’s voice was completely hoarse. “Don’t say that again, understand?”

Jiang Yifeng quickly nodded.

He covered his lips, only revealing a pair of eyes staring straight at Xie Jingshen, his pupils filled with fear and confusion.

However, this action only accentuated those round, big eyes even more. The fluttering eyelashes were like scratching an itch in his heart, making Xie Jingshen’s teeth itch a little.

–He wanted to bite him.

Xie Jingshen thought.

He looked down at the time, it had been ten minutes since class started.

Xie Jingshen pulled Jiang Yifeng back to the classroom, then took out a thick stack of papers and stuffed them in front of Jiang Yifeng. “Homework.”

Jiang Yifeng’s face was blank: “But my… I haven’t done the homework the teacher assigned.”

“Why are you so slow.” Xie Jingshen put the papers in front of the desk, wanting Jiang Yifeng to finish the homework the teacher assigned as soon as possible.

Jiang Yifeng began to do his homework with a stiff expression, feeling that his beautiful life had come to an end.

With Teacher Xie’s guidance, Jiang Yifeng finally gradually began to understand those exercises that he couldn’t solve before.

Moreover, because Jiang Yifeng’s learning progress always couldn’t keep up with Xie Jingshen’s arrangements, he was always caught and brought back to be kissed, his eyelashes full of tears, and his whole person was dizzy from being kissed. Sometimes his ears and shoulders would be bitten.

Jiang Yifeng’s original attachment to Xie Jingshen gradually evolved into resistance—which student wouldn’t resist studying?

But his father, who was still receiving conservative treatment in the hospital, the carrot dangling in front of his eyes, and the teachers’ indulgence, made Jiang Yifeng have no choice but to rely on Xie Jingshen.

But when his grades gradually improved, from being able to occasionally get into the top 100 to gradually stabilizing in the top 50, Jiang Yifeng spent half a year.

His daily routine was doing problems to get candy, and if he didn’t finish, he would be kissed, slowly catching up in a chaotic motivation.

Until the day news came from the hospital that his father had not made it.

Jiang Yifeng was already a high school student. The school had just held a rally 450 days before the college entrance examination a few days ago.

Jiang’s father had been discharged from the hospital midway, but somehow his condition suddenly deteriorated again.

Jiang Yifeng spent the most dangerous time with Jiang’s father in the hospital. During this period, his father, who could hardly speak, kept saying that he wanted to see Jiang Yifeng happy and wanted to see him go to college, but soon Jiang Yifeng couldn’t hear anything.

People were sent to the operating room several times, and money was spent like water.

In the following two times, Jiang’s father was sent to the ICU as soon as he left the operating room. Jiang Yifeng never saw him open his eyes again.

Until he passed away.

Jiang Yifeng’s whole mood was extremely broken down.

When he knelt on the ground crying, Xie Jingshen stood beside him.

Jiang Yifeng thought that Xie Jingshen would again use various reasons to make him study, just like how he had been constantly coaxing him for more than half a year, pulling him forward.

Xie Jingshen is a monster without empathy.

Little Jiang Yifeng thought.

However, Xie Jingshen did nothing.

He squatted next to Jiang Yifeng, put his hand on Jiang Yifeng’s shoulder, and said nothing.

Xie Jingshen accompanied Jiang Yifeng to ask for leave.

He didn’t mention studying anymore, just told Jiang Yifeng that if he wanted to cry, he could hug him and cry, and if he was cold on the early spring night, he could also hug him to keep warm.

When they stayed in the hotel at night, Xie Jingshen curled up and hugged Jiang Yifeng, their limbs entangled in the quilt as if they would never be separated.

Jiang Yifeng sent away his last relative.

Xie Jingshen heard that Jiang Yifeng had no family anymore. His mother had passed away early, and his father’s side had severed contact with relatives. Even the funeral was held by Jiang Yifeng alone.

Jiang Yifeng was depressed for a long time. For almost a month, Jiang Yifeng didn’t read. Xie Jingshen just quietly stayed with him, saying nothing.

Suddenly one day, Jiang Yifeng suddenly said to Xie Jingshen: “Xie Jingshen, I want to study.”

Xie Jingshen smiled.

He handed Jiang Yifeng what he had sorted out in the past month: “You used to be the weakest in this part of knowledge. In a month, the part you forget the fastest must also be this part.”

“You can still remember which part I’m the weakest in?” Jiang Yifeng widened his eyes in surprise.

Xie Jingshen didn’t speak, just held Jiang Yifeng’s head and gently kissed him.

“Will remember.”

Jiang Yifeng didn’t speak.

His lips trembled, and finally he took the initiative to hug Xie Jingshen and kissed him.

Jiang Yifeng didn’t know if he was crazy, but he really completely regarded Xie Jingshen as a life-saving straw.

Kissing, hugging.

Jiang Yifeng leaned completely in Xie Jingshen’s arms, unwilling to let go, and could only cling to Xie Jingshen with his fingertips, unable to even let go easily.

Xie Jingshen held Jiang Yifeng’s cheeks, gently sliding from his lips to the tip of his nose. The embrace made Jiang Yifeng have to hide completely in his arms as if offering a sacrifice.

“Study hard in the future.”

“Okay.”

“Listen to me.”

“Okay.”

“Like me.”

“…Okay.”

Xie Jingshen was satisfied.

The two of them returned to the classroom again, and Jiang Yifeng felt for the first time that studying was a happy thing.

His grades were already very good, and he could rank in the top five in the class, but he was still far away from the real prestigious schools—for students who already had very good grades, the gap between ninety points and one hundred points was more difficult than the gap from thirty points to ninety points.

They spent another month making up for their previous progress. When the school officially entered the college entrance examination preparation period, Xie Jingshen also formulated a strict study plan for Jiang Yifeng.

In order not to waste time, and because Jiang Yifeng’s house had already been sold, he simply gave up the rented house outside the school and moved into the school’s dormitory.

And Xie Jingshen also used his privileges to let him and Jiang Yifeng live in a double room with a private bathroom.

“Go to bed directly after evening self-study, no studying at night. Get up at 5:20 in the morning and go to the classroom on time, take a 30-minute nap at noon, and study the rest of the time.” Xie Jingshen didn’t stay up late and get up early like other students, but let Jiang Yifeng maintain good energy to cope with the day’s work.

Jiang Yifeng also understood Xie Jingshen’s good intentions.

When he was uncomfortable, he leaned on Xie Jingshen’s shoulder, or leaned over and kissed Xie Jingshen.

That was his only way to relieve stress, and it worked very well.

Throughout the entire senior year of high school, Jiang Yifeng was busy.

His grades really improved quickly, and even his Chinese, which was the most difficult to improve, rose by more than ten points.

In order to improve Jiang Yifeng’s foreign language scores, Xie Jingshen even communicated with him only in a foreign language for a period of time to exercise Jiang Yifeng’s spoken language until his reading level and vocabulary increased significantly before stopping.

But no matter how he improved, Jiang Yifeng couldn’t easily cross that score line like Xie Jingshen.

For a period of time before the college entrance examination, Jiang Yifeng was rarely a little tangled.

“Should I apply to a worse school?” Jiang Yifeng thought, even if he and Xie Jingshen were in the same city, the distance shouldn’t be far.

You should know that there are university towns in various regions.

“No,” Xie Jingshen frowned. “At worst, I’ll donate a building.”

Jiang Yifeng: “?”

As a simple and lovely child, Jiang Yifeng didn’t know how terrifying the power of money was.

He grew up under Xie Jingshen’s care. Even though he experienced the pain of his father’s death, Jiang Yifeng didn’t feel the strong corruption and degradation of money on people.

He just felt…

“Two buildings are really too expensive.”

“It’s okay,” Xie Jingshen rubbed Jiang Yifeng’s head.

Jiang Yifeng was still studying according to his daily schedule.

On the night before the college entrance examination, Xie Jingshen was more nervous than Jiang Yifeng.

It made Jiang Yifeng have to grab Xie Jingshen’s hand to comfort him: “It’s okay, we can still donate a building.”

In fact, what Jiang Yifeng was thinking was that he was already much stronger than when he first entered school. Whether he could fight for that position in the end, he accepted his fate—but he didn’t want to lack a Xie Jingshen in his life again.

When he came out of their respective classrooms after finishing the last subject, Jiang Yifeng saw Xie Jingshen’s eyes through the crowd.

Xie Jingshen was standing there with his schoolbag in one hand. His cold gaze looked over, turning into a puddle of water the moment it touched Jiang Yifeng.

Jiang Yifeng ran towards Xie Jingshen, and kissed him on tiptoe the moment he grabbed his arm.