CHAPTER 7 : ADDICTED
“Can you lend it to me?” Zhang Yang held the book close to
him, and looked up to the girl.
“What.. The …?” Zhang Yang saw the girls face, his whole
body jumped in fierce like a spring, before the girl could react, his figure
had disappeared up in the stairs. “My book! My book…! d.a.m.n you perverted,
peeping maniac!”
Fleeing from the scene to the fifth floor, Zhang Yang could
feel his heart in his hand, beating violently, and with the sound of the girl
yelling from downstairs, he realized that he was still holding the math book.
Naturally, Zhang Yang did not dare to go below the stairs because he knew that
girl, she was his greatest enemy at school. Among the hundreds of photograph
that he had uploaded before, more than half of the pictures were of that girl,
and furthermore there were several pictures that revealed a lot.
Allegedly that girl had once ruthlessly said that, as long
as she gets the hold of Zhang Yang, she would torture him to death.
The girl was not from an ordinary background, her name was
Xiao Yirin, a well-known family name. She had no parents, she only had a
brother whom she could depend upon. Rumor had it that the brother has quite a relations.h.i.+p
with the underground forces of the C city. Zhang Yang wasn’t quite sure whether
it was true or not but at any rate the students and his surrounding circle
believes in it so he was quite concerned that the brother would come find him
in the school.
After climbing the fifth floor Zhang Yang quickly closed the
door, the dormitory was still very quiet, some of the roommates were still
sleeping inside plus the room had a sweet fragrant. He could hear the “bang”
“bang” sound of his heart beating while he lay down on his bed. It took him a
lot of time to recover from this panic attack. The girl’s brother was too much
of a pressure to him, his legend itself was more than enough to make people
tremble with fear. All those information concluded that Xiao Yirin’s brother was
a ruthless guy.
“d.a.m.n it! I will not take a step out of school, I don’t
still believe that you can come to school to kill…” After calming down for a
bit, his spirit came to life again, “A dead pig doesn’t fear scalding water”.
Zhang Yang thought of the math book, he was still holding it in his hands. The
book emitted a faint smell of ink, it was new, as he opened the t.i.tle page and
he could see Xiao’s signature and the purchase date,” Actually bought a new
book in August! Please take good care of her.” Looking at the book, all of a
sudden, the fear that Zhang Yang had was casted away and a strong urge to read
the book took all the troubles away from him.
In a matter of time, Zhang Yang was indulged in the
wonderful world of mathematics, needless to say, it was a very good book. The
entire field of Mathematics, its basic concepts along with the methods made a
profound as well as a clear explanation in the book. The time was elapsing
slowly, Zhang Yang could not help but pick up a pen and started to write and
draw, a number of iconic symbols, and occasionally writing his own ideas and
some several methods of mathematical operations on the blank pages. He’d
completely forgot about the owner of the book. The time was flowing in an
alarming rate, Zhang yang did not notice any of his roommate’s entry or exits.
He was completely drowned in this world of numbers, where, he was the master of
all, he was the general existence of G.o.d!
“Zhang Yang! Are you reading a novel? Common, eat
something!” One of his roommates entered with a lunchbox.
Astonis.h.i.+ngly, an extreme sense of fatigue and hunger hit
his heart, a sweet aroma overflowed from the lunchbox and pulled him out of the
addictive mathematical world at once. Zhang Yang felt like pa.s.sing out due to
weakness. “What time is it? I have not had any breakfast yet.” Zhang Yang
remembered that he’d actually forgotten to eat breakfast after he met Xiao
Yirin. “Breakfast?” his roommate looked surprised” Is this a time to have
breakfast? I’m already having dinner”. “” Ah. Dinner?” Zhang Yang jumped out of
the bed, picked up the lunchbox and rushed to the dining hall.
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To one’s surprise he was unconsciously lying on the bed for
the entire day with the book, without eating anything till dinner time, “d.a.m.n
it! From when did I became fond of learning?”
“Let’s take a look, what kind of erotic novel was our
peeping prince looking at…….. ‘The basic
concept and ideas’……. When did this kid started to learn, was he actually
looking at such profound Mathematics book all day?”The second Zhang Yang went,
the roommate picked up the book on the bed to read.
“Let me see.” The other roommate who was resting on another
bed took the book and turned a page. “Come here, take a look at this, he’s into
this girl, do you not see, the signature in the book is of Xian Yirin, and it
was bought in August…. Strange, strange…. “How?” “That guy and Xiao Yirin are
sworn enemies, when did they ever meet up? And this book was bought at the end
of August and now it is in Zhang Yang’s hand, you say, isn’t this surprising?”
“As a matter of fact, Zhyang Yang vanished for the entire
summer, he’d been working in the C city and living in school for three years of
summer vacation.”
“Well, it’s quite weird…” “Could it be … Is it possible that
their relations.h.i.+p transcended from enemy to a friend…? Is Zhang Yang not
afraid of Xiao’s brother slicing him up??”
“Over the past three years I haven’t seen a single person who dares to
chase after Xiao Yiran.”
Their dry gossip, literally raised from the problems of
Mathematic books to Zhyang Yang and Xiao Yirin’s ambiguous relations.h.i.+p.
These gossips were making false statements, meanwhile Zhang
Yang was running towards the dining hall with the lunch box in his hand, but
only to run half way as he forcibly stopped as e remembered that he didn’t have
his wallet, the rice coupon was gone too, and most importantly, his ATM card
was also in the wallet.
“Should I look for the girl from the train?”
“Or find someone to solve my life’s problem first?”
After a little thought, Zhang Yang finally made a decision,
then went to the dormitory not to find the junior girl but to find Liu Biao to
solve his life’s problem first.
Liu Biao was the only friend he had in school, good for
nothing, arrogant and despotic, often found fooling around with the gangsters
outside the school, in addition to chasing after girls. Everyone was weirded
out with the bizarre combination of Zhang Yang, a cowardly timid introvert and
then an orangutan mixed together.
Zhang yang had an eccentric personality, more likely a
loner, Although sometimes, he’d talk with others for borrowing money for meals,
but still he would rather try to find Liu Biao to open up and unwilling to
approach the roommates and cla.s.smates.
In the three years of University, if Zhang Yang hadn’t shocked
the entire nation with his greatest involvement on the peeping event, the
entire XX College if Art and Sciences, it was unlikely that not more than 50
people would recognize him, in fact Zhang Yang’s cla.s.s itself had more than
forty students.
Even if Zhang Yang’s social circle appeared small, in the
three years duration of University, along with normal school work, he would
slash his head to find some part time jobs in the C city even in Sat.u.r.days and
the Sundays. If there was nothing else to do, he would spend his time lingering
in the Internet Café outside the campus grounds.
Addicted to the network, this is where he made a connection
with the gatekeeper Uncle w.a.n.g.
“Uncle w.a.n.g, please lend me a phone call”. Zhang yang
slipped into the doorman’s room, with a whole hearted facial expression. There
were no cell phone in the entire school, except with few and Zhang Yang was
precisely one of them.