Chapter 72: Chapter 72: Ah, Yuan, What Do You Think is the Point of Being Alive?

A day off.

For third-year high school students, this wasn’t exactly a once-in-a-lifetime event.

But a full day’s break was still quite a long time.

Even with homework assigned.

So what if there was homework?

Go home, finish it, and you’d have time to play the next day, right?

Besides, if you couldn’t finish it, you could just copy it!

There were plenty of ways to enjoy a day off to the fullest.

After putting away his homework and moving his desk back to its original spot, Shen Yuan waited for Li Zhi to pack her things as usual.

"Let’s go home and drop our stuff off first. When it’s about time, my cousin will come pick us up."

Li Zhi nodded. "Okay, then let’s go home and do our homework first."

Hearing this, Ji Ningning, who was standing nearby, was instantly stunned.

’No way, girl... ’

’It’s a long break!’

’There’s no need to be such a try-hard, is there?’

Shen Yuan, however, didn’t take Li Zhi’s comment to heart.

As far as Shen Yuan knew her, Young Master Li probably wasn’t entering her Painful Sacrifice state right now; she had just unconsciously let out a bit of a deterrent.

However, when Li Zhi said she was going to do homework, she most likely really meant it.

Just when Shen Yuan thought that was the end of it, he saw Young Master Li flash a friendly smile.

"I’m coming over to pet the cats, and do homework on the side."

Shen Yuan’s expression froze instantly.

Question: If the Painful Sacrifice is doing homework in the room, what should the follower of the Painful Sacrifice do?

The answer, of course, is to be loyal.

In Shen Yuan’s study, two little kittens lay quietly on the desk.

Of course, they were both lying next to Li Zhi.

"You ungrateful little things. I, your daddy, scoop your poop and feed you every single day, and that’s not worth as much as her visiting you one time, is it?"

Shen Yuan sat on the other side of the desk, grumbling under his breath.

The next second, a gel pen landed on Shen Yuan’s head. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Do your homework quietly!"

"Oh."

Shen Yuan lowered his head and started grinding through his English homework.

Before long, Shen Yuan’s phone rang.

"My cousin’s calling."

"Got it." Hearing this, Li Zhi packed up her homework.

"I’ll go back and drop off my homework first, then..."

Before Li Zhi could finish, Shen Yuan’s bedroom door was flung open!

"Cellmate! What’re you up to!"

The moment Eldest Female Cousin entered, she saw Li Zhi holding her homework, about to leave.

The scene fell silent for a moment.

"Teacher Yang, I..."

"Sorry, sir! I didn’t see a thing!"

Yang Yishui turned, retreated from Shen Yuan’s room, and smoothly closed the door behind her.

Li Zhi stared at the closed door in front of her, feeling a strange sense of helplessness.

The beautiful girl felt as if something had just left her.

When Shen Yuan heard the commotion and came out of his room, he was met with Li Zhi’s reproachful gaze.

"Uh, I didn’t know she would just barge in like that."

Li Zhi said nothing, just feeling completely exhausted by the situation.

Outside the room, Yang Yishui looked at Zhang Yuyan in shock. "Auntie, when did those two get together? They hid it so well?"

Zhang Yuyan sighed and shook her head. "Yishui, do you really think Li Zhi would fall for Shen Yuan?"

Yang Yishui faltered, then nodded as if she half-understood.

"Right. With a brain like Shen Yuan’s, Li Zhi shouldn’t fall for him."

"Hey, hey, hey! I’m right here! Can’t you talk behind my back a little more quietly?!" Just as Shen Yuan opened the door, he heard Yang Yishui badmouthing him.

Eldest Female Cousin glanced at Shen Yuan, stuck out her tongue, and went, "Nyah nyah nyah," tauntingly.

Shen Yuan said to his mom, "Mom, set her up with someone to marry her off. Let her taste the suffering of marriage."

Zhang Yuyan rolled her eyes. "Get lost!"

Eldest Female Cousin, however, slammed a hand on Shen Yuan’s head, but just as she was about to lecture him, she realized something felt off.

"You punk, squat down a bit for me! You’re too tall!"

"No way, no way!"

While Shen Yuan and Yang Yishui were fooling around, Li Zhi returned home, still holding her homework.

The beautiful girl didn’t change her clothes.

To be honest, the school uniform was quite comfortable.

Not only did it save her the time of thinking about what to wear, but it wasn’t too ugly either.

Of course, the main reason was, why bother dressing up to go eat with Shen Yuan?

"Mom, I’m going out to eat with Shen Yuan."

Xu Chan glanced at her daughter. "You’re going in your school uniform? Not going to change?"

Li Zhi nodded. "Why bother changing?"

"Isn’t that dress we bought before really nice?"

"He’s not worthy."

Hearing this, Xu Chan smiled and shook her head.

"You two... alright, alright, do what you want!"

Regarding their daughter and Shen Yuan, both sets of parents actually felt the same way.

Let fate decide; don’t force it.

If they could get together, great. If not, then so be it.

By the time Li Zhi left her apartment, Shen Yuan and his Eldest Female Cousin had finished their roughhousing.

The three of them gathered at the elevator door, none of them speaking first.

Looking at the silent scene, Shen Yuan felt it was his duty to liven things up.

"Sis, Happy Teachers’ Day. I finished my English homework today."

A delighted smile spread across Eldest Female Cousin’s face. "Really? Did you really do your English homework? Thank you~ Teacher is very happy."

No emotion, all technique.

"Sister Shui is quite the veteran actress now."

Yang Yishui kept the same expression. "Oh, we teachers don’t care about gifts. As long as you study hard, that’s the best gift a teacher could ask for."

After saying this, Eldest Female Cousin’s expression immediately crumpled.

"Good thing you refused back then, Zhizhi. Otherwise, you’d be a veteran actress now too."

Back in her first year, Li Zhi also had the chance to become promotional material for Teachers’ Day.

But she turned it down.

Eldest Female Cousin, however, couldn’t refuse.

"The bitter life of a wage slave!"

Once in the car, Yang Yishui let out a complaint, but her expression quickly brightened again.

"But soon, the promotional material won’t be me anymore!"

"But you still have to go up and sing in English at the New Year’s Gala," Shen Yuan interjected, twisting the knife.

Eldest Female Cousin’s expression quickly darkened.

It was an old routine.

When Eldest Female Cousin first started working, she was actually quite happy to sing at the New Year’s Gala.

She was young, after all. Full of energy for anything.

But the school leaders thought the performance was pretty good, so they had Eldest Female Cousin sing again the second year.

After one time came a second, and then a third.

Eldest Female Cousin has been working for six years now.

After singing at the New Year’s Gala for six consecutive years, she had gone completely numb to it.

Just then, the car started.

Eldest Female Cousin gripped the steering wheel with both hands and sighed, "Ah, Yuan, what’s the point of being alive?"

Hearing this, Shen Yuan quickly hugged his seatbelt tighter.

"Sis, being alive is for being the straight man for a veteran actress like you!"

Shen Yuan said with a devout expression, "Or to go back and keep doing English homework. Loyalty!"

Eldest Female Cousin chuckled humorlessly. "In this life, you come with nothing, you leave with nothing. So what if I became a teacher and taught English? How many people even understood it? Tell me, do you think Zhou Shaojie can get a 75 on his English this time?"

Shen Yuan quickly said, "Sis, the two best English students in your class are in your car right now! If something happens to us, your entire English teaching career will be a total failure!"

Hearing this, Li Zhi rolled her eyes. ’Are those bullshit words of yours supposed to be comforting?’

"Sister Shui, make sure you take Shen Yuan to the cleaners later!"

At these words, Eldest Female Cousin immediately perked up.

"Alright! Let’s go! We’re having steak today! I’m ordering the 1,200-yuan one! I want to see what makes it so damn expensive!"

Shen Yuan: ?

’Even with a system, you can’t just burn money like that!’