Chapter Sixteen: Strange Things Happen Year After Year

  The bus arrived soon, Hao Ren sat on the bus, opened the window, blew in the city wind, and slowly sorted out what had happened in the past few days.

  Currently, he has an uncertain fiancée and entered a circle that he was completely unaware of before, with some extra work and an additional identity.

  But today, while having dinner, he forgot to ask about Zhao Guang and their circle of friends, nor did he ask about the set of skills, but simply as a "son-in-law", came into contact with three people in Zhao Yanzi's family.

  Zhao Yanzi's father looks a bit cold, but he should be an upright person; Zhao Yanzi's mother is a gentle and talented woman... This is the impression that Hao Ren has of them.

  Is it true that from now on I have to go to their house for dinner every day... Hao Ren's heart was a bit messy, he thought about it and got off the bus three stations early.

  He went to Xinhua Bookstore and carefully selected some books in the junior high school teaching auxiliary book area, finally buying several books like "Junior High School English Dictionary" and "Compilation of Junior High School English Knowledge Points".

  Carrying three or four thick books out of the bookstore, Hao Ren couldn't help but feel a sense of nostalgia as he glanced back at the dense array of supplementary teaching materials, his body drenched in sweat.

  When continuing to the station to wait for the bus, Hao Ren suddenly thought that Lincoln's limousine had come to his dormitory at noon today, and it must have caused a stir among his classmates. If he goes back now, he will definitely be pestered by those guys asking questions nonstop. He was originally a low-key person and didn't want to draw too much attention, so after thinking for a moment, he simply walked to the opposite side of the road and took a bus home.

  The bus swayed slightly, and the night also slowly descended. Hao Ren held a pile of junior high school English materials, still feeling somewhat bewildered.

  Drip, drip, drip... His phone suddenly rang.

  "Ah Ren! Why haven't you come back?!" The phone connected, and Zhao Jiatian's roar came from inside.

  "I'm back home today, what's up?" Hao Ren asked with feigned ignorance.

  "You little scamp, you've really made a big show today! What's going on, we're all stunned by you." Zhao Jiayin asked over the phone.

  "Oh, nothing much, just that relative again, asking me over for dinner." Hao Ren replied calmly.

  "Do you still want to cheat us? What's going on with that so-called fiancée?" Zhao Jiayu asked loudly over the phone.

  Hao Ren's ears were almost deafened by the shouting, and he hastily pulled his phone away. Although Zhao Jiaxin was yelling loudly, he felt a little touched in his heart. He knew that the three brothers in the dormitory were actually worried about him, so they called him - after all, who would bring two black-clad bodyguard-like men to escort them when their relatives invited them to dinner?

  "It's just some trivial matters, I'll tell you when I get back on Sunday," Hao Ren said. He was also fed up with Zhao Yanzi and her family, who on the one hand hoped he would keep their circle's affairs confidential, but on the other hand did things in such a high-profile way that they attracted attention.

  But who would have thought that their identities were such strange ones. A hermit hiding in the city, if being too low-key and mysterious, would instead attract other people's attention. Hao Ren continued to think.

  "Alright, we'll wait for your return and interrogate you again." Zhao Jiayu hung up the phone.

  Hao Ren only then discovered that there were already several messages from his classmates on his phone, including some from Zhao Jiatian and others, as well as a query from Class Monitor Xie Yujia.

  He let out a sigh, deleted all the messages at once, and leaned against the bus window to doze off. When he returned home, it was already eight or nine o'clock in the evening. His grandmother saw her well-behaved grandson Hao Ren suddenly return, both surprised and delighted.

  Seeing his grandmother's unusually delighted expression, Hao Ren hesitated about whether to tell her the matter of his "future daughter-in-law", but after struggling secretly in his heart for a few minutes, he finally endured and didn't say it.

  Accompanying his grandmother for a quiet weekend, intentionally waiting for the craze in school to pass, he took advantage of Sunday night's darkness to return to school.

  It was a big pile of snacks, but this could no longer arouse the interest of Zhao Jiaxin and others. It was said that Hao Ren was back, and even several boys from the neighboring dormitory rushed over.

  "Wow! Awesome! Lincoln even sent a stretched limo to pick you up, and that Chen Ke from the reinforced class, whose family is said to be super rich, doesn't even have this kind of style!" Huang Jianfeng from the opposite dormitory patted Hao Ren's shoulder with envy and admiration.

  "We've all heard about your unmarried wife and whatnot, come clean!" shouted Yu Rong from the dormitory diagonally opposite.

  "Even the girls are talking about you, saying that your family is actually very wealthy. Hehe, Wang Jia, who used to look down on you, has been talking about you for the past two days."

  "You're not deliberately inviting people over to perform and cause a stir, are you?"

  "Oh, what was the name of that little loli from last time?"

  "You're a sly one, looking all quiet and reserved at school, but quite the ladies' man outside, huh?"

  The more they talked, the more absurd it became, and Hao Ren could only feel helpless.

  "Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense! It was just a friend of mine playing a joke on me. On Friday, I was also startled by them. I shouldn't have made such a big fuss, let me treat you all to dinner!" He stood up, blocking their chatter.

  When they heard about treating them to a meal, these guys naturally wouldn't be polite, pushing Hao Ren forward and rushing out of the dormitory building in a flurry.

  Although most of them had already eaten dinner, Hao Ren couldn't resist their enthusiasm for eating hot pot and could only spend some money to treat them as guests and apologize, suppressing the matter.

  A round of lavish and extravagant wining and dining, Hao Ren barely managed to get through it. And from these familiar male classmates, he also found out that his behavior this week had already caught the attention of some senior students, even among those in the same year but different colleges or classes, there were many who looked down on him because of these things.

  A tall tree attracts wind. Hao Ren didn't expect that these things would attract the attention and discontent of those big shots in school, it's really "pretentiousness gets struck by lightning".

  With full wine and a full stomach, this group of three or four dormitory brothers with good relationships, swaying and staggering, hooked their shoulders and backed each other as they returned to the dormitory.

  As they entered the dormitory area, they happened to run into Vice President Lu Qing and several other school leaders who were on patrol.

  The boys who were humming out of tune songs with a drunken swagger, seeing the vice principal walking towards them, quickly pulled themselves together - going out to drink at night wasn't exactly a good thing.

  Unexpectedly, Vice President Lu Qingming saw that they were full of wine smell, but he just smiled slightly and beckoned them over.

  Lu Qing brushed past with a few other school leaders, leaving behind this group of boys looking at each other in dismay.

  "Didn't I see it right, is the principal waving at us?" Zhou Liren, who had sobered up by more than half, hesitantly asked Zhao Jiatun.

  The other boys were also at a loss - what was going on?

  They originally thought that the principal would scold them for going out to drink, or at least ask which department and class they were from. Just as they were nervous and didn't know how to answer, they found that the principal just kindly waved at them and walked by as if nothing had happened.

  "Strange things happen every year, but this year is especially numerous." Zhou Liren let out a long sigh and said with emotion.

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