In 2010, this was indeed a huge sum of money for a student.
"No, Principal's wife, Yan Ge lent this money to me."
Hearing that Li Zhiyan had lent Li Shiyu so much money, Jiang Xian couldn't help feeling a trace of curiosity.
"Li Zhiyan, did you take on a part-time job?"
Jiang Xian knew about how Li Zhiyan had been cornered by her husband for failing to give a gift because of his impoverished family background. She had told Yan Zhengjin many times not to treat Li Zhiyan like that, saying that a single-parent family really had it rough.
Yet Yan Zhengjin had stubbornly carried on just as before, completely ignoring her, and she could do nothing about it. After all, she couldn't very well fall out with her own husband over a student.
"Principal's wife, my Yan Ge is amazing! He taught himself French, worked as a translator, and earned over a hundred thousand yuan!"
Li Zhiyan: "……"
They had agreed on tens of thousands; how did it suddenly become over a hundred thousand? His total savings right now were only 130,000.
"French!"
The look Jiang Xian gave Li Zhiyan took on a hint of fascination. Li Shiyu was an honest, straightforward fellow and certainly wouldn't brag.
At eighteen years old, Li Zhiyan could earn over a hundred thousand yuan—and through French, at that. It was simply too talented, something she had never noticed before.
"Li Zhiyan, do you really know French?"
"Yes, Principal's wife, I taught myself. I recently went and worked as a translator for a while."
"Xiaoyan, you really are amazing."
Jiang Xian's tone grew noticeably warmer. Looking at this student, she figured she ought to chat with him on QQ whenever she had free time; earning over a hundred thousand at eighteen meant his future prospects were boundless.
After Jiang Xian left, Li Shiyu said earnestly, "I think your head teacher is your enemy, too."
"Why don't you go after the principal's wife as well? This is the best chance to get back at that dog bastard!"
Li Zhiyan couldn't help smacking him on the head. Ever since he took him upstairs at the bathhouse, this "Bath Emperor's" true spirit had genuinely returned!
If you were to open up his brain, there probably wasn't a single brain cell inside.
Just pure RMVB files...
"So whoever I have a grudge against, the best way to get revenge is to take down their mother or their wife, right?"
Li Shiyu nodded in earnest.
"I think so, because that inflicts the maximum psychological damage on your enemy!"
"Besides, I genuinely think the principal's wife is gorgeous."
"If you don't make a move, it's such a waste!"
"Yan Ge, make your move and take down the principal's wife!"
Is this kid seriously trying to feed me?
The more Li Shiyu talked, the more abstract he got.
Yet somehow, Li Zhiyan felt that what he was saying actually made a lot of sense.
Taking down an enemy's mother.
Wasn't that pure magic damage plus a critical hit?
No wonder the two of them were best friends.
"Alright, pack your money away properly and stop making a fool of yourself."
"Didn't you want to buy a Nepalese kukri?"
"Go buy it."
At this, Li Shiyu was somewhat dumbfounded.
"Huh?"
"A Nepalese kukri costs a hundred and fifty a year—isn't that way too extravagant?"
"I told you to buy it, so buy it. Stop nagging."
The next day, Li Zhiyan was back at the internet cafe playing games with Li Shiyu as usual.
In the afternoon, he popped off the cover and battery of his VIO mobile phone, inserted the newly purchased SIM card, and sent a text message to Liu Huan's wife.
"Mrs. Liu, your husband Liu Huan plans to get a woman named Rao Shiyun drunk in Private Room 999 at Phoenix Restaurant tonight and take advantage of her. Please be advised."
After sending the message, Li Zhiyan switched back to his original SIM card and slipped that other SIM card into his pocket.
In this era, getting a SIM card was quite simple; it didn't require an ID card, you just went straight to a telecom service hall to get one. Accordingly, an unregistered SIM card, once lost, was truly gone forever.
After that, he opened QQ and sent a message to Rao Shiyun.
"Aunt Rao, what are you up to?"
That afternoon, Rao Shiyun was sitting in her bedroom, playing mini-games on Tencent Home on her phone while waiting for the evening dinner party.
To her surprise, QQ suddenly chimed.
People of her age mostly didn't chat on QQ, and Rao Shiyun was no exception. Her QQ only had a few relatives and friends on it, apart from Li Zhiyan, whom she had just added.
Opening QQ on her phone, Rao Shiyun felt a flutter of anticipation.
Could this message be from that kid Li Zhiyan?!
Sure enough! Upon opening QQ, Rao Shiyun saw the message Li Zhiyan had sent her.
This filled her heart with pleasant surprise.
Deep down, Rao Shiyun genuinely liked this kid Li Zhiyan.
"Auntie is at home. Are you thinking of asking Auntie to be your godmother?"
Li Zhiyan: "Let's forget it. I've already called you 'Mom' once, I suppose that's enough."
Rao Shiyun: "Hehe, I was just joking with you."
Li Zhiyan: "Aunt Rao, could you please not use the word 'hehe'?"
Rao Shiyun: "Why?"
Li Zhiyan: "Because it sounds like cursing."
Lying against the headboard of her bed, Rao Shiyun was a bit puzzled.
Like cursing? Doesn't everyone use "hehe" when chatting with each other? How did that get mixed up with cursing?
Rao Shiyun: "Fine, then Auntie won't use it anymore."
"Right, you little brat, Auntie has a dinner party tonight."
"Want to come along? Auntie will take you to eat something good."
"Lobster, abalone, they've got everything."
Sitting in the internet cafe, Li Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief. Aunt Rao had invited him of her own accord.
That way, he wouldn't have to awkwardly bump into her at the restaurant—which saved him some trouble, so to speak.
The troublesome part of the task, however, was still kissing Aunt Rao's mouth.
Aunt Rao had always wanted to adopt him as her son, so wanting to kiss her lips—wasn't that a bit too wicked?
Still, for seventy thousand yuan, he would just have to go all out!
Once he pulled off this task, his savings would officially surpass two hundred thousand.
Li Zhiyan: "Okay, Aunt Rao."
Rao Shiyun: "Kiddo, what are you up to right now?"
Li Zhiyan: "I'm at an internet cafe."
Rao Shiyun: "Studying programming?"
Li Zhiyan: "No, Aunt Rao, I've already learned programming."
"Just playing some games today."
Rao Shiyun: "Let Auntie come pick you up."
"Just in time to come over to Auntie's place for a bit."
"You've never been to Auntie's house before, have you?"
Seeing Rao Shiyun's invitation, a strong wave of curiosity stirred within Li Zhiyan.
He had been to Aunt Gu's house before because when he was pursuing Yu Sisi and walking her home, he had bumped into Gu Wanzhou.
She had invited him inside and talked to him at length about Yu Sisi.
As for Rao Shiyun, he had only met her after his rebirth; in his past life, he hadn't even remembered that Liu Zifeng had such a voluptuous, stunningly mature mother.
He truly had never been to her house.
Li Zhiyan: "Alright."
Rao Shiyun: "Which internet cafe are you at? Auntie will come pick you up."
Li Zhiyan: "Dream Internet Cafe."
Rao Shiyun: "Okay."
After finishing his chat with Rao Shiyun, Li Zhiyan began chatting idly online with Gu Wanzhou.
Li Shiyu noticed that Li Zhiyan was constantly chatting with women, which filled him with envy. A capable man really was different; someone like him probably could only whisper heart-to-hearts with masseuses when his time was up.
Still, that wasn't bad either, actually.
...
Putting down her phone, Rao Shiyun opened her wardrobe and selected an outfit.
In the end, she chose a light blue, one-piece, thin gauze-textured short dress.
Looking at her snow-white, voluptuous beautiful legs and her pretty face brimming with mature charm in the mirror, Rao Shiyun was quite satisfied with her image today.
I wonder if Li Zhiyan will like it? For some inexplicable reason, she thought of how Li Zhiyan had pursued Gu Wanzhou.
The deep impression Li Zhiyan had left on her had started when she ran into her son's female classmate and heard her talk about how Li Zhiyan had publicly confessed his love to Gu Wanzhou at a class reunion.
Back then, she had been amazed at the kid's courage, but hadn't thought much else of it.
It wasn't until she got to know Li Zhiyan that she truly grew fond of this exceptionally talented boy.
"Li Zhiyan must have some sort of maternal fixation."
"He just likes women old enough to be his mother. Does he have feelings for me, then?"
Rao Shiyun's mind wandered with wild thoughts.
The image of her hugging Li Zhiyan last time couldn't help but surface in her mind again. Even though Li Zhiyan had tried his absolute best to bend over backward, she had still clearly felt it!
The kid had obviously reacted to her!
"Does this child really want to eat my..."
A strange thought welled up in her mind, and Rao Shiyun's face flushed red.
She looked particularly enchanting and mature. Having experienced the baptism of those events, her feminine charm had long since reached its peak.
Especially when an ultimate mature beauty like Rao Shiyun was blushing, it possessed a fatal killing power over someone like Li Zhiyan, who had a thing for mature women.Then she silently scolded herself for letting her mind wander.
"An instinct... that's just an instinct between a man and a woman."
"It doesn't mean anything..."
Sitting down in front of the vanity mirror, Rao Shiyun checked her makeup and began to touch it up.
She hadn't even realized that she had started paying special attention to her image in front of Li Zhiyan.
Does Li Zhiyan's family own an Audi A6?
After getting her appearance completely sorted out, Rao Shiyun looked at her reflection in the mirror until she was satisfied, then stood up and headed out the door.
Her son didn't seem to get along well with Li Zhiyan, but with her son not being home, at least it saved her a lot of trouble.
...
Li Zhiyan and his best friend were continuing to grind the Sky Tower dungeon of Dungeon & Fighter at the internet cafe.
Li Shiyu had been full of energy these past few days, planning to get all five of his alt characters up to level.
With nothing better to do, Li Zhiyan kept him company while waiting for Rao Shiyun to come pick him up.
However, instead of Aunt Rao, Li Zhiyan heard a somewhat familiar voice.
It belonged to the class monitor, Liu Yaolong, whose sarcastic tone could be recognized from miles away.
"Wang Xinyue, you really don't need to consider that loser Li Shiyu anymore. Day in and day out he carries around a broken second-hand phone with a cracked screen, and he still hangs around with that other loser Li Zhiyan."
"A couple of losers, all they know how to do is play games at the internet cafe every day. Isn't that just humiliating? If you get together with Li Shiyu, you can forget about having a good life in the future."
"In a few days, I'll ask my dad to let me take his Audi A4 so I can take you for a spin. I've already got my driver's license now."
Li Shiyu was a bit dumbfounded. Damn it.
He was just playing a game and still had to hear Liu Yaolong talking trash about him.
Li Zhiyan was also somewhat speechless; he had managed to get caught in the crossfire completely unprovoked.
Young people were just brainless, fond of showing off in cheap ways and saying tacky things.
If this were before his rebirth, he definitely would have gone over and thrown punches with him.
As the class monitor, Wang Xinyue, and a few classmates Li Zhiyan didn't recognize walked in, the atmosphere instantly became a bit awkward.
Liu Yaolong hadn't expected that while he was trash-talking these two guys, he would run right into them the moment he walked into the internet cafe.
Today, he had wanted to show off properly in front of Wang Xinyue, too.
He never imagined he would bump into the main subjects right at the door.
After a few seconds of awkward silence, Wang Xinyue smiled and said, "The monitor didn't mean it that way. We're all just calling ourselves losers, it's not like he was cursing."
Back in 2010, Tieba was wildly popular!
Baidu hadn't yet fallen to the status of its later obscure self.
And Di Ba within Tieba had a level of popularity across the entire internet that was simply exaggerated.
Netizens on Tieba all loved referring to themselves as losers.
Li Zhiyan used to like calling himself that, too.
Yet when such a word came out of someone else's mouth, it was clearly meant as an insult.
"That's enough. The monitor's mouth has always been this cheap, I'm used to it."
Ever since his trip to the bathhouse, Li Shiyu had grown noticeably more spine, and looking at Wang Xinyue, he no longer felt like playing up to her.
Only the young ladies who were bathhouse technicians could talk to you about matters of the heart!
"However, I admit that I'm a loser, but Brother Yan is a loser? Do you even deserve to be compared to Brother Yan?"
"Liu Yaolong, you don't actually think you're on the same level as Brother Yan, do you?"
"What kind of league are you even in?"
With Liu Yaolong coming right up to his face to output like that, Li Shiyu naturally wasn't going to back down.
Li Zhiyan glanced across at them. If the other side wanted to fight, it was a good chance to put them in their place.
In this feral era, if they wanted to be feral, he could be even more feral!
Seeing the tense, sword-drawn atmosphere on both sides, Wang Xinyue grew somewhat worried that a fight would break out. Everyone was an adult now; they no longer had the get-out-of-jail-free card of being minors. If a real fight happened, they would end up at the police station.
They were all classmates, and letting it go that far wouldn't be good.
With that, she spoke up to play the peacemaker.
Liu Yaolong and his group turned on some computers and went to the opposite side. Although Liu Yaolong lost a bit of face, he still held it in.
Once you're an adult, you really can't just go around fighting casually.
In the past, because he had tried to make Li Zhiyan go clean the toilets and Li Zhiyan refused, they had gotten into a fistfight.
Liu Yaolong stood at one meter eighty-three, yet he hadn't gained much of an advantage at all.
Earlier, Liu Zifeng had even rounded up a mob to beat up Li Zhiyan.
But Li Zhiyan and Li Shiyu had locked onto Liu Zifeng alone and wailed on him.
Even though they took dozens of punches to their own bodies, they stubbornly grabbed onto Liu Zifeng and refused to let go.
The way those two brothers fought made him feel a bit cowardly. Although he had brought a few people with him this time, if a real brawl broke out, those two would definitely focus all their energy on beating him alone.
Since Wang Xinyue had provided a way out, he might as well take it.
"So childish."
"Looking at him, he still wanted to fight. Men who are adults need to be more mature; acting like a kid all day long isn't going to get you anywhere. In this society, what matters for a man is having money."
Seeing Liu Yaolong back down, Li Zhiyan didn't bother with him and went back to playing his game.
As for those childish remarks, he was already used to them. Back when he was young, his own level of childishness was actually much worse than this.
After all, he used to go around talking about his dream of becoming a millionaire every single day.
Meanwhile, Wang Xinyue's gaze kept drifting over to secretly look at Li Zhiyan.
She always felt that the current Li Zhiyan seemed somewhat different from before, though she couldn't quite put her finger on where the difference lay.
What did Li Shiyu mean when he said Liu Yaolong didn't deserve to be compared to Li Zhiyan?
Before long, Rao Shiyun's Audi A6 pulled up in front of the internet cafe, and she gave a tap on the horn.
She didn't get out of the car. Rao Shiyun really disliked places like this because unruly youths tended to gather here.
She strongly resented people coming to places like internet cafes.
Of course, Li Zhiyan was the exception; that boy came to internet cafes to teach himself programming!
"Li Shiyu, log my computer off for me in a bit."
After logging out of QQ and exiting the game, Li Zhiyan finally walked out of the internet cafe. With the internet cafe systems back then, if you didn't reboot, the second person to log in would still find QQ and games left active.
Li Zhiyan had once experienced the personal tragedy of having his hard-earned Sergeant-ranked AN94 weapon destroyed that way.
"You got it."
Watching Li Zhiyan open the front passenger door of the Audi A6, a wave of secret exhilaration surged through Li Shiyu's heart!
This must be Brother Yan being picked up to do French translation work!
It's great to have talent!
He had been feeling pent-up frustration inside, but now his mind felt completely clear and immensely satisfying!
And Liu Yaolong had witnessed with his own eyes Li Zhiyan getting into a black Audi A6.
His brain went somewhat blank.
Wasn't Li Zhiyan just a loser? How did he end up riding in an Audi A6 now!
His own biological father only drove an Audi A4!
Just a moment ago, he had been using an Audi A4 to show off, even saying that what mattered for a man was having money.
Yet in the blink of an eye, the boomerang he had thrown came right back to strike him, hitting him squarely in the neck.
Wang Xinyue didn't even have the heart to play Audition Online on the computer anymore. She truly had never imagined that Li Zhiyan would travel around in an Audi A6.
His family actually owned this kind of car?
When Li Zhiyan opened the door, Wang Xinyue caught sight of an elegant woman wearing sunglasses—she must have been Li Zhiyan's mother!
Could he actually be a hidden rich second-generation heir?
This car had way more prestige than any Audi A4.
It seemed Li Shiyu knew a thing or two about the situation; you could sense it from the dismissive tone he had used earlier.
He clearly believed that Liu Yaolong wasn't worthy of being compared to Li Zhiyan.
This Audi A6 clearly belonged to Li Zhiyan's family.
Back in 2010, ordinary families basically didn't own cars; an A6 delivered quite a heavy psychological shock to Wang Xinyue.
It looked like Li Shiyu really did know something.
Aunt Rao, let me drink it in your place
Closing the car door, the cool air conditioning inside blew across his face, making Li Zhiyan feel very comfortable.
"Aunt Rao, I've never been to your house before."
As for Rao Shiyun's bedroom, Li Zhiyan could say he was extremely interested in it.
"Then Auntie will take you to see Auntie's home right now."
"Fasten your seatbelt."
The more Rao Shiyun looked at the Li Zhiyan sitting beside her, the more she liked him.
Watching the Audi A6 drive away with her own eyes, Wang Xinyue walked over and sat down beside Li Shiyu.
"Li Shiyu, do you know something? Is this car actually from Li Zhiyan's family?"
Looking at the goddess of his past days, Li Shiyu suddenly felt a sense of utter insipidness.
Flat-chested, while the bathhouse technician young lady really had the real deal on her upper chest...
"Of course, this is Brother Yan's family car. He made over a hundred thousand during summer break alone."
He casually spouted the boast, yet it made Wang Xinyue's eyes flare with brilliant light.
He could make over a hundred thousand just during summer break? It looked like he had gone to do business with his family.
...
Upon arriving at Rao Shiyun's home, Li Zhiyan looked around in all directions.
So this was Liu Zifeng's home.
He definitely had to go check out his hometown.