novellhall Chapter 30 It's time to get serious!
Chapter 30 It's time to get serious!
Three months have passed since the school incident.
The orphanage auditorium, New Year's Day performance.
After performing martial arts, Zhou Xiaobai was picked up by Zhou Wenqiong and taken home. At that moment, he was watching TV and waiting for the settlement—the system had tripped him up, saying that the settlement of 10,000 points would not be completed until the early hours of the next day.
He was eager to experience the power of this "one-click learning" feature, so he kept waiting.
After a period of hard work, with the cooperation of Zhou Xiaobai and An Qianqian, they finally accumulated 9990 popularity points.
During the National Day holiday, Liu Xiaoli encouraged him to perform a martial arts routine on the stage of the song and dance troupe.
After the performance, the system awarded him over 200 popularity points, which made him beam with joy as he discovered a quick way to rack up points.
In the past three months, in order to gain more popularity, he kept pestering Liu Xiaoli to take him on stage.
It's really not easy. Each time I go on stage, the popularity score I receive ranges from tens to hundreds, but it has never exceeded a thousand points.
The audience sometimes numbers in the hundreds or thousands, but it's common for only a few dozen people to actually benefit—not everyone loves martial arts performances, but rather thinks Zhou Xiaobai's moves are just for show.
He wanted to unleash a powerful move, like breaking a boulder on his chest, but the idea died before it even started—Liu Xiaoli threatened him, saying that if he didn't get smashed to death with a hammer, he'd be a guinea pig.
Anxixi teased him, saying that he had no skills other than his face.
After the joyful New Year's bells rang on television, Zhou Xiaobai felt a pang of emotion.
This time, the system acted very formally, announcing like a program: "Settlement successful, 100 popularity points gained, total system popularity points: 10090."
Ignoring Zhou Wenqiong's surprised gaze, Zhou Xiaobai ran back to his bedroom and brought up the system panel in his mind.
[Host: Zhou Xiaobai]
Popularity: 10090
[System Members: 1]
Lifespan: 8/80 years (One year can be redeemed for every million popularity points)
"Redeem 'One-Click Learning'," Zhou Xiaobai thought to himself.
"Deduct 10000 popularity points, leaving 90 popularity points."
"Redeem successful".
Zhou Xiaobai felt his mind become completely clear.
Without saying a word, he picked up the Xinhua Dictionary next to him and scanned it. The information on the page quickly appeared before his eyes: pinyin, letters, strokes, meanings... all of which were quickly stored in his mind.
He closed the book and shut his eyes to recall!
Before, I knew him by his words, but he didn't. Now, every word is like a pearl, and we understand each other.
He tried to memorize it and found that he hadn't made a single mistake, even remembering the punctuation marks perfectly.
"Ha~ha~ha..." Zhou Xiaobai burst into laughter.
Then he thought to himself: Little tyrant, little tyrant, I'm awesome now, let's see if you still dare to look down on me.
An Qianqian always teased him for being illiterate, but now that he's so powerful, how can he not skip a grade? Next semester, he'll distance himself from An Qianqian and get his revenge.
He never expected the whole family reunion thing to cause such a fuss. Could he really skip a grade without discussing it with An Qianqian?
As he was lost in thought, the door was pushed open, and a hand reached out to his forehead, interrupting his reverie: "Little brother, you don't have a fever? What were you yelling about just now?" Zhou Wenqiong wondered, was this child possessed?
"Well!"
Zhou Xiaobai stared at the older woman in front of him, thinking to himself: It's Chinese New Year, if you can't speak properly, then don't speak at all! I'm not going to argue with you, I'm having a great time today!
He smiled sweetly and offered his blessings: "Sister, you're another year older this New Year, I wish you become more and more beautiful."
"Hehe! You're a year older, so I'm a year older too. When are you going to help me with that too?" Zhou Wenqiong rolled her eyes, pointed to her cheek, and scoffed.
Thinking of how Liu Xiaoli would look a few years younger during the National Day holiday, she was filled with resentment.
This younger brother has been spoiled. He has such a good opportunity, but he doesn't even let his own sister use it. Instead, he uses it on outsiders—if he steals my precious child, then my cousin is an outsider.
After returning home, she pestered Zhou Xiaobai, wanting to get a massage too.
At that time, Zhou Xiaobai had used up all his popularity on Liu Xiaoli. He stammered and couldn't explain clearly, so he could only give her a real massage.
Unfortunately, it was all for naught, which infuriated Zhou Wenqiong.
Finally, out of desperation, he made up an excuse that he had run out of internal energy—he needed time to accumulate it, and he would definitely be able to do it again in the future.
After saying that, he pretended to be sickly, and the matter was temporarily dropped.
"Sister, it's only a little bit now, I'll massage it for you right away. After a while, when it's bigger, I'll give you a big one," Zhou Xiaobai flattered and promised.
He knew very well what parts of this older sister's body she was dissatisfied with.
Although my older sister can be unreliable at times, she's genuinely good to me.
He always thinks of himself when it comes to eating, drinking, having fun, and having all the good things, so that his older sister can be even more perfect and he can feel comfortable watching her.
We can't be stingy, so I'll give you the last 90 popularity points later, so you can see my magnanimity, just like my older cousin.
"Really?" Zhou Wenqiong's face immediately lit up with a smile.
"Okay! I'll do it now."
Half an hour later, looking at Zhou Wenqiong, who was radiant and in a deep sleep, Zhou Xiaobai had a thought and entered the space.
At this moment, there was an extra table and two chairs in the system space, which he bought secondhand with his pocket money.
This kind of quick-witted person can use it to copy homework—novels, songs, movies and TV shows… they have to copy everything.
He knew perfectly well that if the copying was successful, the system would correspondingly erase the possibility of these original authors publishing these works in the future.
This emboldened him greatly; all writing under heaven is plagiarism. If we don't plagiarize, perhaps other time travelers will.
In the past few months, he has become incredibly skilled at playing the guitar and piano.
Now I just need to learn the basics of composing with Grandma Wang in the next few days, and then I can write songs... no, I mean copy songs, copy the scores given by the system.
After several rounds of negotiations, the system agreed to let him copy once.
However, one must systematically learn how to compose music and how to distinguish instruments by sound; otherwise, one will surely perish if one does not study diligently.
In his opinion, as long as you grasp a few key points, you only need to learn commonly used musical instruments, composing, and directing.
Those jobs involving performing on stage were left to freeloaders like Fan Bingbing, Tong Liya, and An Qianqian.
If you want to live forever, you can't stop working; that's the rule.
I'm the big boss of the company, I should enjoy myself. Who has ever seen a big boss personally working in the fields?
At that moment, he felt that the future was bright, and the gloom that had been weighing on his mind for more than a year was swept away.
Now that everything is in place, it's time to go all out.
Just as he was feeling pleased with himself, a voice interrupted him, "How did it go? Did you manage to exchange it?" An Qianqian's voice rang out behind him, and before he could react, she pounced on him and grabbed his hand.
Although Anxi was excited, there was a hint of sorrow in her eyes.
Today is New Year's Day. Her mother took her to her father's house, but they had another unpleasant experience and had to leave early, returning to the dance troupe's residential building. After finally getting her mother to sleep, she hurriedly went online to ask what had happened.
"You've got it! Now I'm a top student, aren't you envious?" Zhou Xiaobai smiled and patted her head.
"Me, envious? I've always been a top student, I'm smart enough." Anxi pouted and slapped the hand on her head. "Ugh, don't touch my head, it'll stunt my growth."
The two chatted and joked as they arrived at the lake.