Chapter 41

As the exams got closer and closer, Nada got tighter and tighter on David, and when the results of another test came out, David was able to score six hundred points.

 Such progress would have been unthinkable for the original David.

 But a score like that is still a long way from Harvard.

 With less than twenty days to go, it looked as if you couldn't make up the remaining 70 points in that short period of time anyway.

 Ekin is right, the poorer the base the more room for improvement, but, the higher up you go the harder it gets.

 David was a little worried himself, but Nada was completely unfazed and reassured him, "Even if we can't catch up in a short time, we can still speculate."

 David asked, "What do you mean?"

 Nada said, "If you bet on the questions, if you bet correctly, then you can get a few more points on the exam when you could have gotten 600."

 David couldn't help but wonder a little when he saw that he wasn't nervous, but only himself.

 When did one make taking Harvard a must-do?

 Hey, for Nada's sake, he's got to do it anyway.

 At night Adolf calls him, and he asks for Nada before he picks up.

 Adolf was not worried about his son's exams, after all, there is nothing to worry about, but after his son said he wanted to take the Harvard exams and worked so hard, Adolf cared about it.

 He cared about David's life first, heard that he could only sleep six hours a day, smiled, and said, "Isn't that not bad, it's okay to sleep a little less at a young age, it's your father and I who need to sleep eight hours a day."

 David thought of his hair loss and warned, not so politely, "Dad you should stay up less late in the future, you'll lose your hair if you stay up late."

 Adolf was impassive, he was still a handsome middle-aged man in the prime of his life, completely unafraid of the hair loss plague, "Don't curse me."

 David thought about it and didn't know what to say to Adolf, he was now feeling panicky about wasting time talking on the phone any longer.

 Adolf said, "You work hard and if you get into Harvard, Dad will buy you an island and then you can bring your classmates over to play."

 David didn't care much about that, even if he didn't get into Harvard, his eighteenth birthday present was an island surrounded by greenery, he cared about something else, he coughed and whispered, "Dad, don't tell anyone that I'm going to get into Harvard just yet, or else it's a shame that I didn't get in."

 Adolf also lowered his voice and said quietly, "Don't worry, I knew you were hanging, so I didn't say anything in the first place."

 David: "..."

 Not so distrustful of him?

 David couldn't help but say, "Actually, it's still a good idea to have a word, so you can tell Uncle and the others that I can get six hundred in my grades now, and that there's no problem getting into a prestigious university on my own anyway."

 Adolf replied, "Don't go to all that trouble, wouldn't it blow their minds if you just took the test?"

 Both father and son simultaneously fantasized about the image of those relatives being impressed with them, and a contented smile spread across their faces.

 The fantasy ended, Adolf coughed a few times and said, "Hey, anyway, you work hard, don't be too stressed if you didn't pass the exam, you have to know that you could only study in a three-book college, now you can go to a first book, do you know how big the gap is? Anyway, no matter whether the test did not get in, I have to thank you for that classmate."

 David said, "Pay him, I'll pay him, he doesn't even want it, you pay it then."

 He thought for a moment, "Give it ten million dollars!"

 Adolf subconsciously, "... Is this too much?"

 David said sharply, "Where's the extra, he deserves it! He's been working very hard these past two months! He's worked so hard these past two months! He's worked so hard for 10 million dollars, Dad, you're not going to be so stingy, are you?"

 Adolf: "..."

 He explained, "This is too much, your classmate has a strong nature, he won't accept so much, if it's less, the elders give it, they will accept it, you understand?"

 David: "Huh? Won't you take it if you give too much?"

 Adolf felt a bit of a headache when he heard this from him, "Even if you give money, you have to look at what kind of character he is, if he likes money, it doesn't matter if he's happy when you give more, of course there's certainly no one who doesn't like money, but your classmate obviously has high self-esteem and has clear boundaries, and if you give him too much, he might feel that his self-esteem has been dealt a blow."

 David: "..."

 The previous generation, Nada, had confiscated all his property without mercy.

 Confused in his mind, David asked, "What if he married me and confiscated all my money?"

 Adolf: "?"

 Adolf: "... You want to marry him?"

 David responded, immediately covering up, "I was just assuming!"

 Adolf says, "Oh, hypothetically, if that's all it is, it rather suggests that you have few boundaries between you and are as close as we are."

 David: "..."

 David asked in a trance, "So that instead means being close to me?"

 Adolf said, "Depends on the person, if it's that classmate of yours, if he's ... well, married to you and confiscated all of your money, instead, it's a good sign that he thinks of you as someone close, so confuse that sense of boundaries."

 David said, "... like this."

 Adolf asked politely, "You don't want to fall in love early, do you?"

 David immediately denied it, "No, don't be ridiculous, I don't like him!"

 Adolf said, "What are you so nervous about, it's not like I'm some unenlightened parent."

 And again, "When you talk about this confiscation of property, when your mom and I first got married, we also turned in all of our paychecks and bank cards."

 David, who had never heard Adolf talk about this before, hurriedly asked, "So how much does Mom pay you for living expenses?"

 Adolf says, "A couple hundred thousand to a hundred thousand a month, I think."

 David: "..."

 We're not the same.

 Hanging up the phone, David mulled over what Adolf had said and was inexplicably a little ticked off.

 So the former Nada was close to him by not taking his money?

 Does he like him?

 There's no way for David to know the answer now, and I should have known to toughen up and press him on what he really meant to him.

 David was inexplicably a little frustrated as he returned to his seat and couldn't help but look at Nada's beautiful sideways face.

 Nada this age, teenage sense is still very heavy, cheeks slightly rounded, eat well in his house, the white skin is also through a light pink moist, looks very healthy, lips are also more and more full and red, like a pomegranate, want to let a person bite a mouth ...

 Nada noticed him looking at him, raised her eyes and asked, "What are you looking at?"

 David subconsciously, "I'm looking at you."

 Nada: "... What are you looking at me for?"

 David muttered, "Look at you look good."

 Nada: "..."

 David didn't feel like he had said anything remarkable, and in his case it also seemed like he was just letting out his own sentiments off the top of his head.

 He sat down, and at that moment he did see with a sharp eye the ragged hole in Nada's cuff, and after a moment's silence, he suddenly said, "Can you give me a little more time?"

 Nada asked, "What do you want?"

 David said, "I want to buy clothes."

 Nada frowned, "What kind of clothes are you buying now?"

 David was too used to being rejected by Nada to say he was buying it for him, so he said vaguely, "I'd like to."

 Nada said, "No, buy it after the exam."

 Seeing that he was determined, David excused himself and said he had to go to the bathroom, expertly and self-consciously picked up the stopwatch on the table and pressed it, then ran out of the room and called out to Steward Lee, asking him to go and buy Nada's clothes for her.

 He was inspired by Adolf and made a point of saying, "Buy the good ones, use my dad's card, and cut off all the hang tags when you buy them so the stars don't see them."

 Steward Li couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he saw that he was so considerate, and naturally responded well on his face.

 David went back to his room, sat down and continued to write questions.

 I couldn't write for more than a few moments before I couldn't resist Nada again.

 Nada couldn't stand the sight of him, but didn't look up and asked, "What are you doing? Idle?"

 David spoke hesitantly, "I asked you a question, can you answer me truthfully?"

 Although his tone was solemn, Nada, who was used to David's drawing style, didn't pay too much attention as he said without lifting his head, "Go ahead."

 David organized his words, "Would you go along with having your partner give you his payroll bank card?"

 Nada's writing pen lurched and lifted her face, "Is that what you wanted to ask?"

 David said a little nervously, "Yeah, come on answer me."

 Nada said, "I should be the one to give the other person a paycheck card, right?"

 David: "..."

 He shuddered to think of the image of Nada giving him his paycheck card.

 Nada said, "After all, girls are meant to be loved."

 David: "... huh?"

 Nada said, "It's not that all men should give give their pay cards to their wives, but giving his pay card to his wife also shows that he's invested in the relationship and he wants to run the marriage."

 Looking at David again, his eyes twinkling slightly, he said softly, "Why do you always ask these kinds of questions? Do you want to fall in love?"

 David responded, "Wait, you mean girls? You like women, huh?"

 Nada looked at him and said, "What's wrong? Can't I like it?"

 As he said that, he remembered something and said in a light tone, "In your words, I'm also straight, so of course I'm going to marry a girl in the future."

 David: "..."

 He pressed in a small voice, "I don't believe it."

 Nada's pretty eyes flowed with a faint glow, "What don't you believe?"

 David was afraid to speak.

 Nada said, "Keep working on the paper."

 David picked up his pen and didn't write more than a few words before he stopped distracted and pressed again, "You really like girls, huh?"

 Nada: "Uh-huh."

 David: "... Could you be misunderstanding yourself?"

 In a serious tone, he said, "Don't repress yourself, it's not like I'm going to discriminate against you."

 Nada felt very much like a fool as he blinked slowly and said in a soft tone, "Are you trying to say I like women?"

 David was afraid to speak.

 Nada said, "I was responding to you before in front of Ekin, but I'm not into women, not gay."

 He thought for a moment and said in a very soft tone once again, "Even if I were, don't worry, even if the world were destroyed to the point where we were the only two women left, I wouldn't like you, you're safe."

 David: "..."

 He collapsed into a batch face.