Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation

Subsequently, at 8:10 p.m., a male student entered the bike shed, dressed very fashionably.

The trendy guy saw his own mountain bike toppled over and burst into a rage, he yanked Yang Sheng's mountain bike and started kicking it furiously.

After half a minute of kicking the mountain bike, feeling it wasn't enough, he leaped onto the bike, bouncing up and down on it. Finally, he pushed his own damaged bike and left with a sense of accomplishment.

After the recording ended, Yang Sheng was uncontrollably angry, trembling all over.

Director Wang said, "This young man has quite a temper."

Jiang Ning steadied Yang Sheng's shoulders, releasing a gentle "Spiritual Power":

"Take it easy."

Yang Sheng slowly calmed down, feeling a comforting warmth on his shoulders.

Jiang Ning asked, "Director, we can find the person, right?"

Director Wang, confident in his stance, replied, "Don't worry, he can't get away."

"I have a colleague who is good at tracking people down; he's off work now."

"It's also getting late, and the student has gone home. Here's what we'll do: you guys come over after morning self-study tomorrow, and I'll take you to that kid's class."

"Don't bother taking the bike for repairs yet. Let that kid pay for it tomorrow. By the way, do you guys have money for a cab?"

By this time, there were definitely no buses left. Director Wang pretended to pull out his wallet.

Yang Sheng said, "No need, Director, I have money."

"Alright, be careful when you head home tonight," Director Wang said, showing concern for a moment, his face losing its usual fierceness.

"Thank you, Director."

They left the small office.

Yang Sheng first commented, "Director Wang is actually quite nice."

"Yeah, indeed," Yuantong agreed.

Before, they had only heard about how fierce Director Wang was; meeting him today showed a surprisingly kind side of him, he even cared about whether they had cab fare.

After discussing Director Wang, Yang Sheng coldly remarked,

"Tomorrow, when we catch that kid who messed with my bike, I'll make sure he regrets it. Always playing dirty tricks."

What a hassle she had caused.

Jiang Ning went to the bike shed and pushed his bike, heading out of the school gate while Yang Sheng, without her mountain bike, followed to the gate.

Reaching the intersection, Yang Sheng's bike broke down, unable to accompany Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning had already taken Yuantong on his bike, which couldn't accommodate another person. Surely Yang Sheng couldn't sit on the bike rack?

Besides, they were just going along the same way, not to the same destination.

Seeing Jiang Ning hesitating to leave, she thought he felt awkward and chuckled,

"What are you dawdling for? Get a move on."

"Um, we're leaving."

Jiang Ning pedaled forward, and the mountain bike surged ahead while Yuantong hurried along behind.

Yuantong bidding farewell, "We're heading off now."

Yang Sheng watched the two of them as they moved out over twenty meters, then she waved and shouted,

"Thanks for today."

Jiang Ning didn't look back, "It wasn't a big deal."

Yuantong, sitting sideways, looked towards the lonely figure of Yang Sheng at the crossroads:

"Bye-bye."

Watching the two, Yang Sheng gave a soft laugh then turned to the road, ready to hail a cab home.

...

At the intersection, northeast direction, inside a spicy hot pot restaurant.

There were two plates on the table with deep-fried skewers, sausages, meat on the bone, enoki mushrooms, vegetarian chicken, and chicken cutlets, all topped with a layer of chili sauce and sprinkled with some cumin powder.

Although not healthy, they were really delicious, and high school students with strong stomachs weren't afraid.

Ma Shicheng held a skewer, devouring it happily.

As high school students were in their growth phase, eating four meals a day was easy, especially after evening self-study around ten o'clock, they were really hungry.

In the middle of winter, having a bowl of spicy hot pot and several plates of fried skewers was simply too enjoyable.

At that moment, the owner brought over another dish:

"The deep-fried bananas are ready."

The deep-fried bananas steamed with heat, coated with honey sweet sauce and sprinkled with a layer of breadcrumbs.

Guo Kunnan handed over a piece, "Brother Ma, give it a try."

"Such a good brother!"

Ma Shicheng felt moved, as today's Guo Kunnan was truly generous.

A bowl of spicy hotpot cost six yuan, two bowls twelve, fried bananas three yuan each, two six, adding up to eighteen, plus two plates of fried skewers, tonight's late-night snack, forty yuan might not be enough.

Every time someone treated him to a meal, Ma Shicheng would always quietly calculate the cost, and now, it amounted to the living expenses of an ordinary student for two days.

So Ma Shicheng asked, "Brother Nan, didn't you say you had something to talk to me about?"

"Yes, just tell me, and I'll help you handle it."

Just for this meal, Ma Shicheng had to lend him a hand.

Guo Kunnan thought for a moment, had an idea, and took out his phone, observing the surroundings.

Only their table was in the restaurant, the skewer stall was at the entrance, a few students were waiting for their skewers, no one would notice their conversation.

So Guo Kunnan said, "Brother Ma, didn't I take your alt account a few days ago?"

"What's up, did you have fun with it?" Ma Shicheng asked, as that matter was just a trivial issue for him.

Guo Kunnan sighed, "Alas, I got sucked in."

"Got sucked in?" Ma Shicheng was confused.

Guo Kunnan decided not to hide anything, "I've been chatting with Manman these past days, I got sucked in, honestly, not hiding it from you, I like her and want to date her."

Ma Shicheng, holding a fried banana, was stunned, "Brother Nan, I let you play around, I didn't mean for you to take it seriously!"

Guo Kunnan let out a long sigh, "Fate, it's indescribable."

"I truly like Manman, recently I've been chatting with her till one in the morning before going to sleep."

"Brother Ma, do you think I have a chance?"

At this point, he unlocked his phone, opened QQ, and showed the chat history to Brother Ma.

"Give me some guidance."

High school students are still very naive and open-hearted, Guo Kunnan trusted Brother Ma enough to actually show him the chat history, an act that adults seldom do.

Ma Shicheng looked very seriously, and had to admit, looking at the chat history, there really was something there.

"You two are still in the ambiguous stage."

"To be precise, more than friends, less than lovers," Ma Shicheng repeated a popular saying of these days.

Guo Kunnan was excited, he and Manman were indeed in an ambiguous phase recently.

"Brother Ma, what am I lacking, I have a chance, right?"

Ma Shicheng looked at the excitement on Guo Kunnan's face, he was now conflicted, after thinking, he said:

"If you two could meet, you could make it work."

Guo Kunnan was initially delighted, "Is it that simple?"

Then he sighed, "It's tough to meet face-to-face."

He had always been wearing the mask of Huang Zhongfei while chatting with Manman, if they actually met and he took off Huang Zhongfei's mask, what would he become?

Just the plain Guo Kunnan.

"Alas, I wish I had been honest from the start." Guo Kunnan regretted it.

"If you were honest from the beginning, you wouldn't have had a chance," Ma Shicheng pointed out.

It was a dead-end, hard to turn around.

Ma Shicheng thought of a joke he had seen before, a rich second generation pretends to be a poor guy to date a girl, after succeeding, he reveals his rich identity, and the girl is unlikely to break up.

But a poor guy pretending to be rich to date a girl, after success and honesty, will likely lead to a breakup.

Now Guo Kunnan, was equivalent to an average looking student pretending to be a handsome one, if he wants to break out, he has to be more handsome than Huang Zhongfei.

How difficult could that be?

In the entire Fourth Middle School, Ma Shicheng had never seen a boy more handsome than Huang Zhongfei, including Jianhui from Experimental Class 1, who was somewhat less handsome than Huang Zhongfei.

Even in his short life, he had not seen a boy more handsome than Huang Zhongfei.

Yet, Jiang Ning could outshine Huang Zhongfei in terms of temperament.

So this path was just wishful thinking.

But, who was he?

'I, Ma Shicheng, will suppress all difficulties in this world!'

Ma Shicheng stared into Guo Kunnan's eyes and said one word:

"Delay!"