Chapter 60

Wang Yi, a top student at Haicheng High School.

Originally, if everything went as planned, she should have been participating in the world-renowned AAPT PhysicsBowl competition in the United States on March 30th of next year.

Then, she would smoothly be recommended to a prestigious university in the country or go abroad to study at an Ivy League school.

If it weren't for wanting to be closer to Liu Dezhu, she should have transferred to become a science student.

However, Wang Yi now, in order to get closer to Nan Gengchen and Qing Chen, deliberately chose a simple geometric sequence problem, but was seen by the other party as a poor student at the bottom of the class.

Her pride couldn't handle this!

Just as Wang Yi was about to argue with Nan Gengchen, Bai Wan'er timely held her back and whispered, "If you can't endure the small, you'll ruin the big plan. Have you forgotten what Xiao Niu said? Endure it!"

"Endure it," Wang Yi took a deep breath and sat back in her seat.

At this moment, Nan Gengchen was still muttering to Qing Chen, "Do you think she asked me to explain the problem because she likes me?"

Qing Chen had no intention of continuing this conversation and suddenly asked, "Have you been exposed to the hacking industry in the Inner World? Otherwise, why are you always holding a programming book?"

"No," Nan Gengchen said guiltily, "It's just a hobby, learning for fun."

At this moment, Qing Chen suddenly realized that he should also learn something.

Although the technology in the Inner World far surpasses that of the Outer World, this doesn't mean that knowledge is completely useless in the Outer World.

For example, chess was his key to entering Prison No. 18.

Wait a moment, Qing Chen suddenly thought of what he should learn: Japanese.

In the Inner World, he mysteriously gained a new background, and to understand what the other party was saying, he had to rely on translation.

Over the past ten years, Qing Chen had always maintained a thirst for knowledge, wanting to change his fate and sever ties with his past.

This habit wouldn't change even with the arrival of the Inner World.

He first opened his phone and searched for basic Japanese learning materials, and bought four books on Taobao in one go.

At this moment, Qing Chen seemed to remember something and impulsively searched for "Shinzo Kyou" on the internet.

He was stunned.

The Shinzo Kyou who had a marriage contract with him in the Inner World... was actually a time traveler from the Outer World!

This was too surprising; he had never thought such a thing would happen.

The other party might have thought he was a native of the Inner World, so she didn't hold back when speaking Japanese.

However, the problem was that his identity in the Inner World was becoming increasingly confusing.

Moreover, why was this girl, Shinzo Kyou, so fluent in Chinese? Was it because she grew up in China, or did she have Chinese family members?

He scrolled down the information and found out that she was of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent. Her father was Chinese, and her mother was Japanese.

Wang Yi, who caught a glimpse of his phone out of the corner of her eye, curiously asked, "So you like this Japanese girl, huh? You've been staring at her for so long."

Qing Chen looked up at her, "No."

Wang Yi thought he was just being stubborn and didn't continue the conversation.

However, Qing Chen's heart was churning. He had searched for Shinzo Kyou out of curiosity, but he didn't expect to actually find her.

The girl from the Shinzo family who was silent with him in the interrogation room.

In the photo, the girl was running in a sunflower field under the sunlight, her long hair fluttering as she turned her head, smiling radiantly.

This smile was charming, pure, innocent, and as clean as a mountain stream.

The information showed that the girl's father was of Chinese descent, and her mother was Japanese.

No wonder she spoke two languages fluently.

She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Japanese Film Academy Awards last year for her role in "Fusang Flower," and this year she starred in "Aoi," directed by Iwai.

Although she mainly acted in niche art films and wasn't well-known overseas, she was already being hailed as one of the "three pillars of the future film industry" within Japan.

Qing Chen often browsed Weibo and news to stay informed about social trends, but he hadn't paid much attention to the Japanese entertainment industry, and she wasn't particularly famous at the time.

So he hadn't seen her before.

Now, after seeing the search results, Qing Chen was dazed. He couldn't understand how he had become involved with such a person.

At this moment, Wang Yi was secretly watching him and thought, "If you don't like her, why are you staring at her for so long?"

However, a boy from a small city like Luocheng would find it hard to have any connection with a Japanese girl.

Wang Yun had seen "Fusang Flower" and "Aoi," so she knew that Shinzo Kyou was quickly rising in the Japanese entertainment industry and was likely to become a representative of the "mori girl" aesthetic.

Such a girl was too far removed from a boy from a small city.

At this moment, Qing Chen was thinking that, based on the information he had, the Shinzo family wasn't isolated from other families by the sea.

After all, Uncle Li had said that the entire sea had become a forbidden zone. If the Shinzo family was on an island, it would be impossible for them to cross the sea to the mainland.

So, would a time traveler from Japan and a time traveler from China end up on the same continent?

Qing Chen hadn't seen the map of the Inner World yet, but he could ask Lin Xiaoxiao for it the next time he crossed over.

Class was over, and Wang Yi and Bai Wan'er went to the corridor to meet Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen.

Hu Xiaoniu asked, "Any new developments?"

Wang Yi shrugged, "Nan Gengchen and Qing Chen are both acting like fools. Nan Gengchen is no surprise, but Qing Chen spent the whole class looking at the profile of a Japanese actress."

Bai Wan'er was puzzled, "Didn't the teacher say Qing Chen was a good student? How can he act so unlike one and even chase after stars..."

"Who knows," Wang Yi sighed, "Many good students start to have hormonal surges in their second year of high school and then fall behind in their studies. Haven't we seen this before? Remember the two academic gods at our school who fell from grace after they started dating?"

At this moment, Hu Xiaoniu frowned, "What did we say yesterday? Put aside your pride. If you keep thinking of them as fools, how can you make friends with them?"

Wang Yi was a bit unhappy, "Then let's switch classes. I'll deal with Liu Dezhu, and you can be friends with Qing Chen?"

At this moment, the study committee member Yu Junyi suddenly ran up from downstairs. He arrived at the door of Class 3, Grade 2 and said to Qing Chen, "Qing Chen, the foreign teacher wants to see you."

"Okay, I'll go right away," Qing Chen replied.

Luocheng Foreign Language School had foreign teachers, but they only gave one class a week. The class content was not very substantial, just chatting and playing the guitar with the students.

This was considered a "face-saving" feature of Luocheng Foreign Language School, with no real educational value.

After Qing Chen went downstairs, Hu Xiaoniu suddenly asked Yu Junyi, "Hello, what did the foreign teacher want with Qing Chen?"

The study committee member Yu Junyi laughed, "How would I know? They are friends. Qing Chen used to practice speaking with the foreign teacher. Later, only Qing Chen could have normal conversations with the teacher, and they gradually became familiar. The teacher often brings him small gifts from abroad. I've even eaten the chocolate the teacher gave Qing Chen."

Hu Xiaoniu and the others were stunned. This alone was enough to prove that Qing Chen's spoken and listening English was flawless, not at all like what they had imagined!

Hu Xiaoniu took a deep breath, "I now suspect that he is also a time traveler! I need to confirm again, did he eavesdrop on your conversations?"

Bai Wan'er thought for a moment and said, "First, we can confirm that he was indeed doing math problems and didn't eavesdrop."

"But that doesn't rule out the suspicion," Hu Xiaoniu said calmly, "I need to find a way to confirm it."

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