Chapter 44

Nada blinks, and asks, "What are you doing calling an escort?"

 David rightly said, "If you don't give him his, do you give it back to me?"

 Nada: "..."

 Nada: "All people want is your phone number."

 "Huh? Want me to?" David said, "I've consoled what I should have consoled, I'm done talking to her ah."

 Nada: "..."

 David said seriously, "Don't worry, this aspect of the escort chat is a professional, he will be able to help the teenage girl out of the haze of lost love, rebuild the confidence of love."

 "..." said Nada, "You're so active in introducing business to professional escorts, he should be grateful, right?"

 David said, "Yeah, he's pretty broke right now, his family won't give him a dime, they're letting him fend for himself."

 Nada: "... Who is it?"

 David said, "One of my hairdressers."

 And to Nada pour a clear, "not Alex, I quite a lot of hair small, his name is Hua Rong, Hua Rong you know it? One of the 108 generals of the Water Margin, he is also called this name, his family are university professors, his family is not bad, his family is strict, they do not give him money, he can only earn his own."

 "But he's a good talker and a fast typist, so he's comfortable to talk to, and that sister's sure to have fun forgetting about that Tyler when she talks to him."

 When Nada heard this, he felt that there were still good kids around David, so he asked a few more questions about the situation, and David didn't realize his intention, he asked, so he said, "Nowadays, if you want to talk to him, you have to pay money, he doesn't recognize any of his relatives, and he only has money in his eyes! But if you have a problem, you can talk to him, I have a black gold vip membership with him, always renewed, you don't need to spend money to find him."

 Nada asked sensitively, "How much did you say the black and gold vip membership cost?"

 With a bright innocent face, David said, "Hey, I'm on a family rate, Flower Wing gave me a package price of three hundred thousand dollars."

 Nada: "..."

 His eyelids snapped up.

 "Five hundred dollars an hour, just tell me, three hundred thousand dollars a year, isn't that what I'm making?" David was still smug, "So I'll introduce him to a few more clients and support his career."

 Nada was silent for a long time.

 David was waiting for him to compliment him, but then he saw that he wasn't talking and got apprehensive, "Why aren't you talking?"

 Nada asks, "Are you going to inherit your family business later?"

 David remembered his earlier grandiose volunteering and hesitantly said, "Be, my dad only has me as a son."

 With a serious look on her face, Nada said, "I think your dad could try to have another son."

 David said, "I can't, my family is divorced, how can I have a baby?"

 Nada: "..."

 How come there are so many divorced kids around him?

 David had no qualms about it, and continued, "But my dad did try to remarry all along, and it just never worked out, my mom's that he was too busy, so I guess he had time to repair his relationship with my mom only after he was induced to retire."

 Nada listens to David say these things and starts to feel a little sorry for Adolf.

 It must be very distressing to be a father when you have such an heir son.

 Nada couldn't stop her eyelids from dancing when she thought about this escort chat thing.

 Paranoid that David would have to bring it up again, he said, "By the way, go back to Hua Rong's phone number later and write you one as well, you can talk to him about anything you want to say, it's free."

 Nada: "..."

 His eyelids fluttered again, and he spoke without expression, "What I want to say is enough for me to say to you, why would I want to say it to him?"

 David's heart heated up at the sound of that and his cheeks reddened slightly as he uttered, "Yes, yes oh, if you have something to say, you can totally say it to me."

 Nada twisted her head to look at him and said in a soft tone, "You too, if you have something to say, you can say it to me too, you don't have to go looking for a chaperone."

 David smiled, revealing a mouthful of sparkling white teeth, his eyes sparkling and flowing with happiness, "Yeah, oh, I can tell you what I want to say without having to go back to him."

 Nada said, "So go ask that hairy guy of yours if you can get a refund."

 David: "..."

 Nada's tone was gentle yet forcefully commanding, "Go."

 David: "..."

 It was as if he saw the shadow of his former son, Nada, kicking him out of his house to ask for money again in a trance.

 *

 David eventually got his money back, and Hua Rong didn't ask for much, simply paying him back and telling him thanks for referring clients to him.

 David muttered, "I'm sorry for him."

 Nada said, "Feel sorry for him, refer more clients to him, you don't have to, you have me, right?"

 With these words, David's cold white handsome face instantly reddened, his eyes glittered as he looked at Nada's beautiful face, wanting to say something, but too abashed to say it.

 Even he probably didn't know himself what he wanted to say now, and finally had to stifle a few words, "I'm going to go work on my questions."

 Nada was a bit silent as well, he felt a bit thirsty and couldn't help but pick up the juice on the coffee table and gulp down most of it before he stood up and followed David into the room piece by piece, "Exam is the day after tomorrow, no need to be so nervous, just review those few questions I mentioned earlier."

 David looked sadly at the paper and said, "I'm afraid I won't get in, and then you'll go to Harvard and where will I go?"

 Nada said, "No it won't, the questions Jack and I bet on together, not to say a hundred percent accuracy, at least half of them can be won, as long as you hold on to that half, the remaining seventy points can be made up."

 David nodded and said cruelly, "If I don't get in, I'll just repeat! You wait for me over there for a year."

 Nada reassured him, "It won't, don't worry."

 By the end of the night, David was still tense, and Nada heard his sometimes shallow, sometimes heavy breathing and whispered, "You're still awake."

 David was silent for a moment before saying, "I can't sleep, so you're punishing me for getting up and doing the paper."

 Nada says, "No offense, hasn't it been a long time since you've hand flushed? Since you're nervous, try doing this."

 David was no longer such an impulsive teenager after these two months of learning and refining, he listened to Nada's words with indifference, "No, I'll forget all my knowledge by the time I mess up."

 Nada: "..."

 Oh, forgot that it's only a few of his handles that are brains.

 Nada said, "Then forget it, if you can't, just force yourself to sleep."

 David let out a "hmmm."

 Nada closed his eyes, he couldn't sleep either, he had no problem with his own grades but was just as worried about David, he was afraid he wouldn't pass.

 Even begin to rely on the fact that a miracle will happen.

 Nada was restless, and after a moment, he opened his eyes and asked in a low voice, "Did you sleep?"

 David did not respond.

 Nada was quiet for a moment, moving in the direction David was, hearing his steady breathing.

 Nada reached out and touched the light to turn it on and took a look and saw David had slept like a dead pig.

 Nada: "..."

 Is he the only one who's too nervous to sleep?

 *

 No matter how nervous the two of them were, the exam came on schedule.

 When we left in the morning, a very cautious Nada checked her pass and test supplies at least three times or more, and only when everything was secure did she go with David to the test center.

 Instead of being nervous by this point, David really looked at the weather and said, "Why does it look like it's going to rain today?"

 As soon as Nada heard that, she ran to the store outside the school and bought two more folding umbrellas and put one of the handles in David's book bag.

 David said, "I'm just saying off the top of my head that it's not necessarily going to rain."

 Nada said seriously, "It's better to be prepared, if you get caught in the rain and get cold, it will affect the rest of the exam."

 David said, "Okay."

 Nada reassured him, "Don't be nervous, if you really don't know how to do it, just leave it blank, don't waste time on questions you can't do to the point of delaying doing the ones that follow."

 David nodded, "I know, don't worry."

 Nada is actually not too worried that David will be anxious to do the problem, probably because of the character, David's learning mind is very good, to do not know the problem will not panic, this is very critical in doing the problem, as long as do not panic, always calm, and can be calm, then the time will be maximized efficiency.

 That's why David is progressing so quickly.

 Instead, he seemed to have been a little nervous.

 Nada felt a little funny that he would be more worried about David than himself.

 Mignon saw them and repeatedly asked, "Do you have your pass with you? Check it while there's still time, don't be sloppy."

 The students all checked and said in unison, "I have them all."

 Mignon breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

 The place where they took this exam, the school they drew from coincidentally, was the Fifth Middle School, and a part of the students of the Fifth Middle School also took the exam in this exam room, also coincidentally, Nada saw Tyler again, and he also saw him, but his face was full of depressed color, and he didn't dare to meet with him, and he quickly lowered his eyes.

 Nada's eyes flicked to the side, and sure enough, he saw Asma and Mason, who surrounded Tyler and didn't even notice him.

 Nada thought to herself, "It's just fine for now.

 The whistle blew, the school gates were slowly opened by the security guards, the candidates entered in turn, and the exam, now began.

 The first test was in language, Nada got her paper, scanned the questions and her lifted heart slowly fell into place.

 David's language is the worst, and based on his vastly different brain circuits, his reading comprehension is poor as well, but he's built up so much now that he's done all of these questions and shouldn't get too many of them wrong.

 The afternoon test was math, Nada got his paper and a surprise welled up in him, many of the questions he felt were going to be on the test, and David focused on them, he shouldn't have dropped the ball.

 Both are relatively solid, not to mention Science and English, which David also excels at.

 Nada, now completely unworried about David, gripped his pen tightly and set his heart on his future.

 At the end of the two exams, Nada saw David at the door, and he walked quickly over to him, a smile on his face, and asked, "How did you do?"

 David exclaimed, "I can do it all!!!"

 As soon as Nada heard that, the smile on her face became much brighter, "Really?"

 David says, "Really! I wrote it all the way down and it flowed exceptionally well!"

 Nada was really relieved, "So you should be okay for Science and English tomorrow, right?"

 David nodded confidently, "I can!"

 They were talking when this time someone wailed from the side, "That last question on the second page of math is so hard, I can't do it."

 Then Nada saw David say with a horrified look on his face, "What? There's a second page of math? Isn't there only one page of questions?"

 Nada: "..."

 Nada: "????"

Nada asked very slowly, "You're not kidding, are you?"

 David still looks horrified, "Is there really a page two in math?"

 Nada: "..."

 His whole body fell silent.

 David looked at him and suddenly blurted out, "SURPRISE!"

 When Nada looked at him, David no longer had a look of shock on his face, but instead smiled and said to him, "How was it! Surprised? Surprised?"

 Nada: "..."

 Nada blinked slowly and asked in a calm tone, "So just now, you were indeed joking with me?"

 David said, "Yeah, I see you look like you're nervous, so ..."

 As an afterthought he felt Nada tense as if she wasn't tense anymore, but as if she was a little angry? He says cautiously, "You're not mad are you hahahahahahaha?"

 Nada gave a soft smile, "How could I be mad, so did you finish the problems on page two of your math?"

 David said, "Yeah, I wrote it, and I made a point of checking it a couple times, and I didn't miss anything."

 And accusing Nada of being a thief, he said, "You don't trust me, how could I forget to do the questions on the second page! I'm not a fool."

 Nada nodded with a leathery smile, "It was my mistake, I shouldn't have distrusted you."

 David graciously said, "It's okay, just don't do it in the future."

 Nada: "..."

 How dare he?

 Nada said in a gentle tone, "So you're okay with the next science and English, right?"

 David said, "No, don't worry about it!"

 Nada nodded and said, "Then do well on your exams, I'm sure you'll do well on both."

 David naturally obliged, and Nada whispered, "I'll give you a SURPRISE too, when the exams are over."

 David looked surprised, "Really?"

 Nada nodded, "It's a surprise, you'll see when the time comes."

 David grinned up at once with a bright smile, "I'll be waiting then."

 A cool smile appeared on Nada's face.

 *

 The following day, Nada was still up early, and although she didn't bother to wake David up, the biological clock that had developed over two months still allowed David to wake up at the point of four-thirty.

 Nada, who was reading with a nightlight, saw him roll over and sit up and said, "You can sleep a little longer; the exam isn't until nine, so you can sleep until seven."

 David said in a muffled tone, "The biological clock is at this point, and sleep is not coming."

 Nada asks, "Does it make you nervous?"

 David thought for a moment and said, "A little bit."

 He actually felt okay, but nervousness as such was contagious, and he could clearly feel it radiating from Nada, so he was that much more nervous too.

 David looked at the English booklet in his hand, "It's an exam and you're still memorizing words? And don't be nervous, or let's chat?"

 Nada says, "Talk about what?"

 David thought for a moment, "Your dream?"

 Nada thought for a moment and said, "The word dream is still too far from me."

 David thought again and got stuck, not knowing what to ask Nada.

 Nada took the initiative to ask him, "Are you going home after your exams?"

 David reacted, yes, after the exam, he must be going home.

 But he's gone home. What about Nada?

 Nada doesn't have a home now!

 David asked him, "Do you want to come back with me?"

 Nada said, "What am I doing following you back when you go home?"

 David said, "Well, what are you going to do when I'm gone?"

 Nada put down her English vocabulary book, turned off the nightlight, and laid back down with David, "I'm going to get a part-time job for the summer."

 David had no way of imagining Nada going to work odd jobs for other people, he was heartbroken, "You'd better come back with me, my dad knows all about you, he even said that if I get into Harvard he's going to give you a ten million dollar bonus, but I know you won't accept that much money, so I turned it down for you."

 Nada: "... You know me so well, huh?"

 David said modestly, "Well, it's been so long, can we not know you?"

 Nada smiled, "No need for money, you've already helped me a lot, thanks to you I've gained a lot of weight in the past two months."

 "Putting on weight? Why didn't I notice? Where did you gain weight?" David asked.

 Nada says, "Face, body, all fat."

 In the darkness, David reached out his hand and touched Nada's cheek with precision, his palm was warm while Nada's face was a bit cold, Nada subconsciously winced under such a touch.

 David's broad palms wrapped around Nada's cheeks and squeezed them with abandon, commenting, "It's fat, lots of flesh on the face."

 Nada: "..."

 David suddenly turned his body sideways, becoming extra close to Nada, his warm breath spraying on Nada's earlobe, and as he let his hands loose, he said in a shallow voice, "Your face is so nice to touch, soft and tender, it feels so good to the touch."

 Nada was inexplicably a little nervous and her ears, which were tainted with the scent of David's breath, became a little itchy and hot, "Have you touched it enough?"

 David said, "Let me touch you a little longer, you have such nice skin, you don't even get pimples."

 Nada's body tensed as she felt his hand go down, "What are you doing?"

 David said innocently, "I'll see if you've put on a little belly."

 Nada: "..."

 David's hand really reached into Nada's clothes and touched his abdomen, "... The meat on your stomach is a bit soft Oh, you need to exercise regularly, or you won't have six-pack abs like me."

 Nada felt like his palms were electrified, making his body tremble and inexplicably tightening his throat, "Okay, stop touching."

 David's hand slid to the side again and gently cupped the side of his waist, "Your waist is so thin, I can hold a good portion of it in one hand."

 Nada's heart missed two beats and a heat rose in her face, "... Okay, since you can't sleep, get up and do another science paper."

 David immediately withdrew his hand and said, "I'd better catch up on my sleep for a while then."

 Though his hand had left, Nada could still feel the warmth of his palm lingering with a faint tingling sensation.

 Nada reached up and touched her face, which was a little hot, and then moved down to do what David had done, squeezing the side of her supple, delicate waist.

 Is it really that thin? It's not like it's a girl.

 *

 When it was time to take the test, Nada sat in the exam room and got a little lost listening to the radio broadcasting the candidate code.

 I don't know how David's side is doing.

 He was more nervous about David than he was about himself.

 I hope he plays properly.

 The science questions were all pretty familiar as well, and a couple of them were all the same questions that I had done, just with the values changed.

 Nada scanned the science paper and was much more settled and a little puzzled at the same time.

 This year's exam seems to be a bit easier than any previous year.

 When the test was over, Nada ate the bento that Auntie had made for them and took a nap.

 The next is English, Nada is not worried about David's English, he found that even if the big family again scum, more or less still have some strengths, for example, David's English is very good, listening basically can get a full score, complete fill in the blanks reading comprehension can do very well, is the grammar will be a little wrong and omission, but after so long tutoring, this aspect of the problem is also no longer a problem.

 It finally started to rain that afternoon, and it got heavier and heavier, and the windows were thumped by the gusty winds, so the invigilator came over, pulled the curtains shut, and turned on the lights in the classroom.

 Nada finished her essay, checked it a couple times to make sure there were no answer cards left unmarked, no personal information left out, and glanced at the clock on the board with about ten minutes to go.

 The ten minutes felt like years, and finally he made it to the ringing of the bell.

 Nada lifted her book bag, handed in her test, and strutted out of the classroom.

 Because of the rain, he had caught a glimpse of David in the entry hall corridor of the Fifth Form School, a tall, handsome man who more or less stood out among the crowd of southern kids.

 Again, because of his prominence, there is no shortage of girls going to get contact information from him even at times like this.

 And of course he balked at all of them and asked her if she wanted an escort service.

 Nada: "..."

 Really persistent, too. That chatty hairdresser should have paid him a referral fee.

 He called out to David and walked over to him, David's attention immediately fell on him, regardless of the girl, "How did you do on the test?"

 Nada asked back, "How about you? How are you?"

 David murmured and was about to say something when he heard Nada say, "Don't joke with me, I don't like that kind of joke."

 David froze and looked down at him, seeing his expressionless face, he couldn't help but be snappy, "Of course I did well on the test, I have a feeling Harvard should be fine!"

 Nada asked, "Are you sure?"

 David said with less certainty, "I suppose."

 Nada sighed and said, "Go back."

 David looked out at the pouring rain and said, "I forgot my umbrella."

 Nada gave a lurch and pulled her umbrella out of her book bag, "Let's use it together."

 David took the folding umbrella, "I'm tall, I'll hold it."

 Nada let out a "hmmm".

 David took Nada's shoulder freely, "Let's go, go to the school gate, Uncle Liao is already waiting for us."

 Nada could feel the hard chest of David's body pressed against his shoulder, and it was as if his entire being was surrounded by David's scent.

 It's strange, Nada thought to herself.

 He raised his eyes to David, who was staring straight ahead, not noticing the look in his eyes, and Nada raised his eyes again, to the umbrella above his head, a not-so-broad umbrella that was tilted mostly in his direction, and David himself, who was drenched through most of his shoulders.

 It was so natural to take care of him, almost subconsciously as much as to protect him.

 Nada lowered her eyes, looked at her toes, and said as if nothing had happened, "You're all drenched."

 David laughed brightly with mixed unconcern, "It's a good thing you didn't get wet."

 Nada's heart moved, and before he could say anything else, he heard David say, "Isn't this all over, just in time to go back and take a shower and jerk off a few rounds hahahahahahahaha"

 Nada: "..."

 David cordially invited, "Want to join us?"

 Nada's face was expressionless: "Get lost."