Century City was just ahead, with the golden wings of the building's rooftop logo shining brightly in the sun.

The bus turned onto a street.

The downtown area was crowded with people, and pedestrians were weaving in and out of the road, causing the bus to slow down. Several minutes passed as the traffic lights alternated between red and green, and the golden wings were still visible at the other end of the road.

Xie Yu couldn't help but laugh at the message he had received.

This was beyond shameless; they had plenty of face, and their faces were huge. Their skin was so thick that even a bomb couldn't penetrate it.

"..."

The parking spaces were too narrow, and Xie Yu felt uncomfortable as he shifted his position. He accidentally stepped on the protruding design object under the front seat and couldn't help but mutter, "Idiot."

The bus was moving too slowly.

The honking outside was getting a bit annoying.

Xie Yu raised his hand and hooked his fingertips on the edge of his mask, pulling it down a bit to take a breath.

After a few more minutes, the bus finally resumed its original speed. The golden wings drew closer and closer, and the announcement sounded in the carriage: "Next stop, the terminal station Century City. Please prepare to exit from the rear door."

There were still more than ten people on the bus.

A few of them stood up early and walked towards the back door when they heard the announcement. They leaned against the handrails at the door, even though the bus hadn't stopped yet.

Xie Yu didn't move, he just pulled up his hood. He was wearing a loose black coat and a loose hat that covered half of his forehead.

With the addition of the mask, his entire face was basically covered.

Then Xie Yu moved his fingers and sent a message to "Battle King": I'm almost there.

Shameless described his outfit to Xie Yu in earnest.

Xie Yu chose to ignore the exaggerated adjectives, such as 'although this sweater has a simple style, it is not ordinary when I wear it, and my temperament is extraordinary...'

Xie Yu really wanted to cross the street and take the bus back without saying a word.

After holding back for a while, he couldn't resist anymore.

Xie Yu lowered his head and typed a line on his phone screen.

[jsdhwdmax]: ****** (sensitive words, automatically censored)

[Trivia King Battle]: ?

[Trivia King Battle]: Are you cursing at me?

......

Xie Yu felt that if they continued to chat, it wouldn't be as simple as cursing.

This place was too big, combining a shopping mall and an entertainment city in one, and even had a small amusement park in the central area, where the carousel slowly turned in circles.

A few little girls sat on top, while their parents squatted on the side taking pictures of their children.

Xie Yu walked through the amusement park, asking the "Trivia King" for specific directions while walking inside.

That idiot just said he was at the entrance of Century City, but Xie Yu only realized after getting off the car that there were four entrances to Century City. Which one?

Xie Yu was covered up tightly.

Wearing a hat and a mask, his face was not visible, but his tall and outstanding figure made him even more noticeable.

[`Trivia King]: I'm at Gate 3, what are you wearing?

[jsdhwdmax]: Mask, hat. Black.

[Trivia King]: Alright, hurry up.

[jsdhwdmax]: Did you bring the test papers?

[Trivia King]: Yes, a set of selected questions for the college entrance exam. You can choose which one to do later.

Gate 3, he would reach after going straight through the outdoor amusement area.

Xie Yu he took out the test paper from his pocket. This was the agreement he made with the idiot who wore an ordinary sweater with extraordinary temperament and held a set of "Selected College Entrance Exam Questions". They would randomly exchanged test papers and their answer time was compressed to half an hour.

Holding the test paper in his hand, Xie Yu instinctively looked for the idiot in the crowd, the one who wore an ordinary sweater with extraordinary temperament and held a set of "Selected High School Entrance Exam Questions".

There were many people at the entrance, coming and going, but there were not many who stood still waiting for someone.

Xie Yu scanned the crowd and eliminated those who were standing at the entrance one by one. Finally, his gaze passed over the cleaning worker who was bending down to clean and landed on the railing opposite.

A person was sitting arrogantly on the one-palm-wide railing.

The person was wearing a thick sweater on his upper body, with his long legs swinging in the air and a set of test papers placed beside him. The red cover was embossed with golden letters, with the words "Selected High School Entrance Exam Questions" written on it.

From Xie Yu's angle, he could only see the person's back.

He seemed to be quite tall.

Xie Yu took a closer look and the more he looked, the more familiar he became.

He looked quite similar to someone...in terms of temperament and physique, both were alike.

But then he thought it was impossible. His boyfriend, He Chao, was still in bed an hour ago. When he called, he even said he planned to go back to sleep later.

He even whispered in a sleepy voice, "I'll see you in my dreams."

[jsdhwdmax]: The one on the railing?

Xie Yu replied with a sentence, and the person lowered his head to look at his phone.

After confirming, Xie Yu walked over with the exam paper in hand and casually rolled it up. He tapped the person's shoulder from a distance and suddenly found himself face to face with the boyfriend he had agreed to meet in his dreams.

Meanwhile, He Chao's finger was hovering over the "it's me" message on the private chat interface of the "Trivia King Battle". The interface was quite eye-catching, with subject formulas scrolling in the small broadcast next to it.

But as soon as he turned his head, he was speechless.

"..."

Even with his little friend's face completely covered, he could still recognize him from the crowd. The aura of someone who should not be approached, the central air conditioning, and the walking bomb.

He Chao's phone almost slipped from his hand and almost fell off the railing.

The word "fuck" seemed so plain and unremarkable in the face of this long stare.

Xie Yu's hand was still stiff.

Half of it was habitually tucked into his sleeve to avoid the cold, leaving only his fingertips exposed. The long strip of paper in his hand was the high school math test, with the title "Difficult Math Test A". It was facing He Chao, and the words were written clearly in black and white.

Xie Yu's mind went blank.

After a moment of hesitation, He Chao's past achievements came to mind one after another, reminding him that the person in front of him was the infamous zero-point essay writer, He Chao Fusiji. He had written the masterpiece "My Back View is So Damn Handsome" and had broken the record for the lowest score in math at Liyang No. 2 High School with a perfect score. He was always the top student from the bottom...

All of this information piled up in Xie Yu's mind, causing it to explode.

He Chao was also stunned. When he jumped off the railing, he felt like he was floating and almost stepped into thin air.

Then he coughed and delivered a very awkward opening line: "Friend...you look familiar."

Xie Yu replied, "Is that so?"

He Chao interrupted, "Looks a lot like my boyfriend."

Before He Chao could finish his sentence, Xie Yu calmly rolled up his sleeves.

It was just too annoying.

A bunch of question marks blocked his thoughts.

The nerdy overachiever with glasses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle suddenly became his boyfriend.

His boyfriend who he feared would only be able to operate a excavator after finishing his college entrance exams, and who couldn't even be helped with a miraculous wisdom capsule's 30-day treatment to raise his grades.

"You pick a place," Xie Yu said after rolling up his sleeves. "If you don't mind embarrassing yourself here, then here is fine too."

He Chao: "..."

He Chao was just one step away from dying on the spot.

If he hadn't heard a voice nearby asking, "Excuse me, may I ask where the entrance to the offline meeting of the Trivia King Battle is?" he might have really died.

Xue Xisheng looked like he had taken great care to tidy up, with a layer of slightly greasy hair wax on his hair, and he looked much more energetic. He wore black-framed glasses and a checkered shirt.

He also held several books in his hand. Xie Yu glanced at them roughly and saw "Beautiful Chemistry" and "Happy Physics."

Xie Yu: "..."

He Chao: "..."

After a pause, He Chao asked in a daze, "Are we running?"

"Running," Xie Yu said, "If we don't run, then are we supposed to go up and say hello?"

The elderly cleaner who was stopped by Xue Xisheng and asked for directions clearly didn't understand this activity: "Huh? What real dad competition?"

"The Trivia King Battle is a learning game, and today is our learning exchange meeting," Xue Xisheng explained.

The janitor shook his head and continued sweeping the floor, saying, "I don't know...all these things you young people do, I don't understand. I've never heard of it before."

"Thank you for your time," Xue Xisheng said before looking up and catching a glimpse of two figures moving in his peripheral vision. But before he could get a better look, they had disappeared through the side door.

Although they weren't quite sure what was going on, both Xie Yu and He Chao were determined to avoid the student committee representative and found the perfect opportunity to slip through the side door.

Inside the Century City, there were even more people than outside. Just waiting for the elevator was a circle of people, and it would probably take two or three trips before they could get on.

Thinking quickly, He Chao pushed open the door to the emergency staircase and started climbing the stairs.

Two people ran up the stairs, taking three steps and then two steps, holding onto the handrail. They ran so fast that they lost count of how many floors they had climbed, and the turns made them dizzy.

As the dizziness subsided, Xie Yu suddenly remembered a question he had searched on Baidu a while ago: What should I do if my boyfriend doesn't like to study? My boyfriend is always ranked second to last in exams, his achievements are unreachable.

Xie Yu remembered the image of 'Handsome He' with only a little bit of health left in his math class.

And the sentence 'I've been here before' that He Chao said at the Jianhang grocery store on the bus.

Going back even further, Xie Yu even remembered the sloppy "o" on the origami crane.

It was a zero.

Xie Yu stopped, panting, and lifted his hand to remove his mask. The mask hung down on the side of his face, and he leaned against the wall and said, "Okay...stop running."

Upstairs and downstairs in the safety corridor were quiet, as everyone would rather wait for the elevator. Even those who took the stairs rarely went up to such a high floor.

He Chao went straight down the steps and sat on the landing, intending to face the problem between them directly. He couldn't remember the jumbled mess of Xie Yu's in-game ID, so he could only ask, "What the hell is x?"

Xie Yu retorted, "You, you're shameless?"

He Chao scratched his head. He considered himself pretty good at handling things, but he was at a loss with this situation. He changed the subject, "Who is the class representative?"

Xie Yu couldn't think for the moment and casually said, "I don't know, it could be anyone."

Xue Xisheng was a member of the "Trivia King Battle" game, which wasn't surprising at all when you thought about it. Looking around No. 2, there was no one who could compare to him in terms of attitude towards learning and effort.

Usually, you would see him either memorizing vocabulary or practicing questions.

After the two of them finished speaking, they fell silent for a moment.

Then, Xie Yu suppressed all of his emotions and handed over the test paper in his hand: "Did you bring a pen?"

He Chao also had the same idea. Without doing a paper on the spot, it was impossible to believe in this bizarre coincidence.

This was just too fucking...

Too fucking.

He took the test paper and threw the book "Selected College Entrance Exam Questions" over: "I brought one. You...pick a set."

When Xie Yu left home, he never imagined that an hour later, he would be sitting in the safety passage of Century City writing a test with He Chao, who always ranked last in class. As they worked on the questions, He Chao remarked, "Your set of questions are too easy..."

Xie Yu couldn't help but roll his eyes and retort, "These questions are downright stupid."