After The Honest Person Was Discovered For Simultaneously Pursuing Three People - Chapter 33

Chapter 33: He Quite Likes This Taste…

The system was stunned. Tao Ning was also a little confused. Oksen College publicly stated that it focused on the comprehensive development of students, so the final grades were divided into two parts: one was the overall cultural score, and the other was the individual score. The two accounted for 80% and 20% respectively.

The total individual score for each semester was only ten points, which assessed the students’ moral character.

For transfer students, if their final individual score was less than three points, not only would they not be able to become official students, but there would also be a risk of being asked to leave. The person in charge of deducting points was the school student union, which Oksen had established to be more like a regular school. As the president of the student union, Xu Jun had the right to deduct a student’s individual score at any time and under any circumstances—as long as the deduction was reasonable.

“But…” Tao Ning called out to the man who was about to leave. “I’m a new transfer student. I don’t have a school uniform.”

“Then how did you get in?” The man stopped and turned around. The eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses were as cold as snow. As everyone knew, private cars from ordinary wealthy families were not even allowed to enter the school. They were only allowed to enter after the passengers got out and put on their school uniforms.

“I came by car.”

Xu Jun looked him up and down. The boy was standing still, wearing thick black-rimmed glasses, looking both dense and clueless. He was dragging a suitcase and carrying a large backpack. His clothes were ordinary and even a little worn out, and his shoes were an unknown brand. There was no sign that he came from a prominent family, let alone that he was allowed to drive in.

The surrounding students smelled gossip and swarmed over, chattering about it. “He came in by car?” “He doesn’t look like it.” “He’s so unlucky. He ran into the president on the first day…”

Tao Ning wanted to explain, but he heard this person who disliked the entire Earth say blandly, “If you have an issue with the deduction, you can go to the Student Affairs Office, room 305, to find me.” After saying that, he didn’t listen to the people around him or Tao Ning’s explanation. He got into the elevator and left.

Seeing that the gossip didn’t continue, the students dispersed, finding it boring. Only Tao Ning was left standing there, feeling down. Of course, he knew that Oksen College’s final grade calculation was different from regular schools. This individual score was related to his final grade. He did a quick calculation and found that the 0.5 points deducted were equal to a loss of 7.5 points on his overall grade.

He hadn’t even started taking exams yet, and he had already lost 7.5 points.

Tao Ning was even more upset. He walked and asked the system: Are we in the same dorm?

Yes.

Then he would have to explain everything to this target tonight and make things clear. But Tao Ning didn’t expect that this target, who seemed harmless on the surface, would be even harder to approach than Song Yuceng.

He arrived at the dorm and was surprised by how clean the floor was when he pushed the door open. Tao Ning had lived in a dorm when he was a child because Tao Yuan was too busy at the time and didn’t have time to take care of him, so she applied for him to live at school. At that time, seven or eight boys were crammed together. Underwear and socks were flying everywhere, and it was stuffy and smelly. The dorm became much cleaner after Tao Ning came, but it was still not spotless.

But the spacious double room in front of him had a floor so clean it was reflective. Every visible place inside was sparkling, and there was no dust to be seen. On the left and right were the beds, and the desks were separate. Tao Ning carefully dragged his suitcase in. Thankfully, he came by car, and the Song family’s residence and the inside of the dorm building were very clean, so the wheels of the suitcase had no dirt on them.

On the left bed, the quilt was folded like a tofu block. The sheets were light blue, and so was the pillow. The desk was unusually clean and simple, with only a few books and a water cup. The only spot of color was a pot of green succulents next to the water cup.

Tao Ning knew that was Xu Jun’s bed, so he went to the bed on the right. He laid out the quilt and put a Ultraman doll next to it, which A Yun had given him. Then he took out the bottles and jars of medicine and placed them on the desk.

Lastly, there was the phone. Tao Ning stared at it for a few seconds and put it under his pillow.

The dorm didn’t need any cleaning. It was very clean everywhere. Tao Ning found that this dorm not only had two separate bathrooms but also a small kitchen. It didn’t look like a dorm at all; it looked like a real house.

Before Tao Ning could mop the floor again, the door behind him opened. It was Xu Jun.

He glanced indifferently at Tao Ning, who was holding a mop. He didn’t seem surprised at all by his new roommate, whom he had just deducted points from, and he ignored him, put his books on the desk, and started reading.

The person behind him quietly moved closer. He seemed to know he was a germaphobe and didn’t get too close. A sweet lemon scent was accompanied by a soft voice: “I came by car, so I didn’t go to the new student registration office to get my school uniform first. Can you not deduct my points this time? I promise I won’t make the same mistake next time.”

The enrollment documents for Oksen College stated that new students must go to the school gate to register and get the necessary enrollment items before they could enter. But Tao Ning never thought that the driver would take him directly to the ground floor of the dorm building, which made him think that he could put down his luggage first and then go to the school gate to get his things. He didn’t know that some families had special privileges at Oksen College. The driver was used to sending the second young master of the Song family to school and thought that the child staying with the Song family also had these privileges, but he didn’t.

Xu Jun didn’t even raise his eyes. “I said, if you have an issue with the deduction, you can go to the Student Affairs Office, room 305. But now is my break time. I’m not obligated to listen to your explanation.”

Tao Ning was even more upset. “Okay… okay.” It seemed that these 7.5 points were not coming back. Why was each target harder to approach than the last?

As the boy left, the sweet lemon scent also dissipated. The hand that was flipping the pages paused. Xu Jun frowned slightly and turned to a new page.

There was a landline phone on the wall inside the dorm. Tao Ning called Tao Yuan. The voice on the other end was pleasantly surprised. Her rough and bold voice could be heard throughout the dorm: “Ning Ning? Are you having fun in the big city? Is anyone bullying you?” A childish voice also sounded crisply from the other end: “Uncle! I miss you! When are you coming home?”

The boy’s low mood gradually eased after hearing their voices. He said softly, “It’s fun. The buildings here are very tall. No one is bullying me. I’ll be back in early June next year, Little Meng. You have to listen to your sister at home and don’t always go to the river to catch fish. Sister, don’t work too hard. I sent the money from my backpack back to you a few days ago. Remember to go to Uncle Liu to get it.”

“Oh, you brat, why did you send back the money I put in there for you? Liu Sanqi hasn’t had time to pay attention to me recently. You don’t know, but his wife just gave birth to a big baby boy, and he wants to invite us to dinner recently. It’s a shame you’re not here…”

Xu Jun stared at the words in the book. He didn’t turn to the next page for a long time. His ears were filled with the boy’s soft and sticky voice, and his nose was filled with his sweet lemon scent—he quite liked this scent. It was a full hour before the chattering sound stopped, followed by the sound of the door opening and closing. The sweet lemon scent disappeared.

The book page was turned again. Xu Jun composed himself, picked up a pen, and started doing problems.

A minute passed, and the dorm door was opened. The sweet lemon scent became even stronger. Xu Jun heard the boy breathing softly. He turned his head slightly, and his gaze solidified slightly.

He saw that the boy had changed into Oksen College’s unique black suit and was wearing a white tie. It wasn’t pure white; it had black diagonal stripes on it, which meant that he was not an official student of Oksen College. But the boy’s body was slender, and his waist was so thin that it was almost impossible to hold. The expensive suit propped up his thin body, making him look like a eye-catching, tall, and straight evergreen tree.

No, a lemon tree.

Xu Jun thought so. He looked for a few seconds and then retracted his gaze.

Tao Ning didn’t know what this target was thinking. This was the first time he had worn a formal suit, which made him feel a little embarrassed. He almost sped back to the dorm. System, do I look weird in this?] The boy was still a little timid from coming to a big city for the first time, but he didn’t have any friends to confide in, so he could only tell the system about the troubles and awkwardness of growing up.

The system said: [Little dummy, you look like a little prince in this suit. Of course, you’ll look even more like one if you take off your glasses and fix your hair.

But Zhao Jingqun won’t let me take them off.

As soon as that name came out, the system and Tao Ning fell silent at the same time.

Do you still miss him?

Tao Ning didn’t say anything. When he went to register, he asked a passerby and bought a small bowl of porridge at the school cafeteria. It was vegetable porridge and looked delicious, but after taking only one bite, he couldn’t help but stick out his tongue. “…It’s so salty.”

But he couldn’t take his medicine without eating, so Tao Ning could only get some hot water and put it in the porridge. He reluctantly ate half of it. After eating, he wrinkled his nose and slowly took the more than ten pills.

He put the remaining porridge back into the plastic bag and threw it into the trash can. A faint voice suddenly sounded next to him: “Don’t put food waste in the dorm trash can. It will smell bad.”

Tao Ning was stunned. He looked up and found that Xu Jun was wearing a blue apron and leaning against the kitchen door at some point, his gaze calm as he looked at him.

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