Translated by : a0132
Chapter 6: Calculating Desires
“I’m back… What are you doing?” He felt a slight burn on his
face. Every time he heard this nickname, it was like a cut on his face. The
roommate was nice enough to not add another adjective in front of prince.
“Dude, are you still dreaming? It’s time for the morning
exercise.” The guy on top of the bunk bed jumped down.
“Morning exercise? Aren’t we seniors already?” Zhang asked
with surprise.
“…”
The room fell into silence. The guy washing face stopped,
the guy brushing teeth stopped, the guy making his bed stopped. They looked at
each other. No one thought of this question after coming back to school for a
few days. They didn’t need to do morning exercises anymore. What did seniors
mean? It meant goofing around and not having to do anything.
Everyone dropped their items. The guy wiped the bubble off
his face, and lay back on the bed…
The room was back to quiet again. Zhang opened his mouth but
couldn’t say a word.
He also closed his eyes. But in just a minute, he sighed and
got up. Even though his body wanted to rest, his mind felt like being
controlled by a strange force. A strong desire to go out and exercise. It
seemed like one of the memories had the habit of exercising early…
“What are you doing?” The other guys said at the same time.
“Morning exercise.”
“…”
He walked to the door and glanced at the open window. He
suppressed the desire to peep and walked out. Wasted such a nice summer morning.
Zhang stretched by himself within the crowd. Though it was
quite nice. The September breeze was cool. The sky was lit and gave people a
refreshing feel.
There were many new faces in the field and many old faces
gone. Zhang took a deep breath. “Good to be a senior. No more getting bullied
by someone a year higher.” He felt lucky that he was found out at the right
time, right before summer break and the seniors graduated. Or his school life
would have been darker.
“Hu…Huu… So tired.”
He ran two laps after some stretching. He never liked to
exercise and the month of lying in the hospital made his body worse. He could
barely catch his breath.
The fact was, he came out to confirm if he inherited the
stamina from those memories. But it was obviously not. His body was still so
weak, actually worse than before.
“Sleep. Sleep.” He felt bored and began jogging back to the
dorm. He always looked forward to the senior life but then it was boring when
he got it. He actually didn’t know what to do in the morning. Zhang sighed.
Xx school was an extremely strange third tier school. When
seniors from other schools were looking for jobs, students in this school were
still motionless. Of course, the reason was it was pointless to look for jobs
being students from a garbage school. Since they weren’t going to get any, they
might as well just wait it out. Perhaps some no name companies would pick them
near their graduation.
Don’t be mistaken though. This school was third tier but
admission applications were full every year. The environment was elegant and
had a rather long history. The school never worried about a lack of students.
Many black sheep tried to get themselves in for the beauties and environment.
“Zhang Yang?” Someone shouted as he was thinking.
“Ah…”
He was surprised to see that at least forty pairs of eyes
turned to him. Most of them belonged to girls. Of course, those were tender nor
love but hatred.
Run… or I will get torn to pieces!
Zhang saw a lot of movies. Experience told him that girls,
especially beautiful girls were extremely dangerous when they were thinking
without reasons.
He couldn’t be bothered to look at who called him. He covered
his head and ran. He was gone before the girls could react.
Pa!La! He ran into a girl holding books as he reached the
men’s dorm. The books scattered on the ground.
“I am sorry. I am sorry.”
Zhang quickly got down to help her pick up the books. He couldn’t
even dare to look at her face in case she recognizes him and assumed he just
wanted to take advantage of her. The only ones that didn’t know about him was
the freshmen. His photo from freshmen was shown in the newspaper and uploaded
to the internet. That was how the girl on the train recognized him but he
didn’t know her.
This girl had long hair and a slender figure. She was going
to curse but then seeing the guy apologized and began picking up the books, she
became quiet. It wasn’t convenient to get down in skirts so she waited for
Zhang.
His hand suddenly froze in mid hair as he stared at a book
on the ground.
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and
Methods, a world famous mathematics book. It contained many classical ideas and
concepts. Both math majors and enthusiasts could read it. It was also a great
reference for middle school teachers, high school and college students.
Zhang felt a shock as he stared at the book. He heard about
it long before but he never liked math. Even though he was a senior in college,
he couldn’t even figure out high school math. Yet, he had an intense urge to
read this book. So intense that he couldn’t control himself. It was like a
strong force was governing his mind…
Zhang put down the books on his hand and carefully picked up
this mathematics book. He felt a summon from deep within himself. The intensity
made his fingers tremble.
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