Chapter 91 – Yang Yi is a B*stard
Qiu Xiaotong was the class monitor of Class 2, 3rd year senior middle school[1] of Wuhu No. 1 Middle School. Although it was already summer vacation, because of entering the third year of senior middle school, the students in this grade have not been able to enjoy the holiday properly. He stayed at home for less than ten days and then returned to school again.
As a girl who grew up in the military region, Qiu Xiaotong has a sunny and healthy complexion, that is, suntan, and has a carefree character! She didn’t care about other students talking behind her back that she had dark skin, that she was fierce and would hit people, that she was tall but had no boyfriend, and that she would never get married in the future…
After all, she was too straightforward, helped her teachers with discipline, and stood up and upheld justice when she saw anything wrong or unfair, which made her often offend others and become the public enemy of female students!
Why only female students and no male students?
Because Qiu Xiaotong was not only tall, but also a valiant and beautiful girl. Even if she was a little fierce, the male students couldn’t dislike her…
Today, during the break, Qiu Xiaotong discovered a new situation. Several male students gathered around and muttered something, then got excited for a while, got depressed for a while, and got angry for a while.
Qiu Xiaotong furrowed her brows. She felt that the situation was very similar to the previous Qingming Festival’s holiday, when these male students stay behind and discussed going to an Internet cafe to play games. Last time, Qiu Xiaotong was passing by to buy sanitary products for girls, and happened to run into them, threatening to tell the teacher before letting these daring guys go back to study hard.
“Hey, Geng Li and Jing Guisen, what are you doing?” Qiu Xiaotong walked over and said, “You’re not going to sneak off to the Internet cafe to play games again, are you?”
Geng Li’s body shook and drew back his hand, trying to hide the East XC[2] in his hand.
Jing Guisen also cooperated with him. He stood up and blocked Qiu Xiaotong’s line of sight. He said with a simply smile, “Sister Tong, how could that be? How can we still want to play games? We’re already in the third year of senior middle school! We should study hard.”
“We were talking about literature.” Another male student next to him had an idea and said.
“Yes, we were talking about literature. We were talking about literature!” Jing Guisen and Geng Li quickly agreed.
“Discussing literature?” Qiu Xiaotong frowned. She didn’t believe these guys’ nonsense. If they really liked literature, would they have made a mess in their Chinese exam?
Qiu Xiaotong, who was skeptical, looked at them carefully and immediately found something fishy: “Geng Li, what’s that in your hand?”
“Ah? Nothing…” Geng Li’s face looked like a bitter gourd.
“Take it out! Otherwise, I’ll ask a teacher to collect it!” Qiu Xiaotong threatened.
Geng Li had to obediently take out the smartphone he had hidden in his hand. He knew that although Qiu Xiaotong was fierce, she was actually quite kind. She would confiscate it and educates him at most, and then she would give it back after school. But if a teacher confiscates it, perhaps his parents will be notified!
“You play games on your mobile phones?” Qiu Xiaotong took the mobile phone and said, “Why are you not concentrating on your studies?”
“Sister Tong, we were really discussing literature!” Geng Li argued aggrieved, “If you don’t believe it, we’re talking about a novel!”
“What novel?” Qiu Xiaotong opened it suspiciously… “Drawing Sword? What kind of novel is this?”
“You don’t even know ‘Drawing Sword’? This book is so popular!” A nearby male student couldn’t help saying.
They seemed to become a chatterbox and talked all at once, “Drawing Sword is a novel about war. Li Yunlong is so awesome. He…”
In their chaotic description, Qiu Xiaotong was able to somewhat understand why this novel was so popular and why it could make these male students so excited. It must have its unique splendor.
” Sister Tong, I think you should take a look” Jing Guisen’s voice was so loud that he suddenly overwhelmed other’s voices and said, “Sister Tong, don’t you belong to a military family? You will definitely like this kind of military novel!”
“I think Sister Tong may not like it. The author has killed off the female lead!” Geng Li said weakly.
“But didn’t another female lead appeared again later?” Said a male student next to him.
“But would girls like such an unfaithful male protagonist?” Geng Li said, “Last time, I told Lele about this book, and she didn’t like it very much.”
“Where is our Sister Tong an ordinary girl?”[3]
They quarreled again by themselves…
It has to be said that although she hasn’t read it yet, but after they made such a noise, the name of the book “Drawing Sword” was planted into Qiu Xiaotong’s mind.
…….
At night, Qiu Xiaotong returned to her home in the Jiangnan military region. She was indeed born into a military family. Her parents served in the border areas, so Qiu Xiaotong lived with her grandfather. Although her grandfather retired, but as a senior general, he still has the treatment of a senior general, a small building, a garden, and specially equipped guards.
After finishing her homework, Qiu Xiaotong couldn’t help thinking of “Drawing Sword” that several male students said. Curious, Qiu Xiaotong turned on the computer and connected to the website given to her by Geng Li.
“Drawing Sword” written by Yang Yi.
Qiu Xiaotong noticed that the author also wrote a novel called “Soldiers Assault”.
She was in no hurry to read the book, so she browsed through the book review area first.
This is actually a bad practice, because the book review area could easily show spoilers, and it is easy to be misled by some comments. But the book review section of “Drawing Sword” was magical, with fans posting a lot of comments saying “Don’t let Li Yunlong be persecuted.”
(PS: about the plot behind “Drawing Sword”, Xiaohan will not describe it any more. After all, it’s a bit shocking. It can only be said that it is very touching and cruel. I have not read the book, and only seen the TV series. I suggest that you read the book, and the TV show has almost cut its content by half.) (Author’s note)
This made Qiu Xiaotong even more curious. Looking at the book reviews, she knew that the book was about to end, but why did the book fans pleadingly to the author?
No matter how many, Qiu Xiaotong started to read from the first chapter.
…….
The next day, Qiu Xiaotong went to school with dark circles under her eyes. When she arrived at school, she gritted her teeth and beat Geng Li and Jing Guisen.
“Sister Tong, why are you beating us?” Geng Li yelled pitifully.
“it’s all your fault. You recommended that book to me, which made me lost track of time and I only got to bed by midnight!” Qiu Xiaotong said angrily.
It wasn’t that “Drawing Sword” wasn’t good to read, but that it was too good to read. Qiu Xiaotong was fascinated by the chapters’ tight battles. She didn’t want to give up at all, but by the time she came to her senses, it was already very late!
But even so, she had only read half of it by midnight, and there was more to come.
So, after school ended in the afternoon, Qiu Xiaotong did not stay behind to study with her classmates. Instead, she went home early, hurriedly finished his homework and continued to read.
What Qiu Xiaotong didn’t know was that “Drawing Sword” ushered in the finale today. Yang Yi didn’t make any announcement or even hinted about it and directly released the last chapter with the ending.
But Qiu Xiaotong could not help reading it for several hours and saw the end.
“Wuuwuu…” Seeing the scene of Li Yunlong shooting himself, Qiu Xiaotong, a strong girl who never shed tears, began to cry. [4]
“Xiaotong, what’s the matter? Why are you crying?” Qiu Xiaotong’s grandfather, Qiu Weiguo with a cane, knocked on his granddaughter’s door and asked loudly, “Who offended our Xiaotong? Tell Grandpa and Grandpa will send someone to beat him to death!”
“Wuu… Wuu… it’s Yang Yi… He is a b*stard!”
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[1] For those who didn’t know, like me, or were curious: Schooling in China consists of three years of kindergarten, six years of primary school, three years of junior middle school (also known as secondary school), and senior middle school (high school). After completing these years of schooling, students then have the opportunity to continue to higher education.
[2] This maybe a model of a phone.
[3] I couldn’t form a question form of “Our Sister tong is not an ordinary girl”. Maybe: “How can you compare our Sister Tong to ordinary girls?”
[4] After the author suggested to read the novel in his author’s note, he spoiled the ending here.
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