Volume 1: Classmate Youth Chapter 6: Mysterious Ability

  "It's all over..."

  Sulin in the bathtub stared at this number surging up in surprise.

  "If my previous speculation is correct, and this pause ability of mine has a limit that depends on the size of these bright red numbers, then now that this number has almost reached one hundred, does it mean I have regained my pause ability?"

  Thinking of this, Su Lin's heart was excited. He originally found Ye Xingzhu to study his own mysterious ability to pause time. Now that the numbers have come back, and even exceeded the previous ones by a lot, Su Lin thought about trying it out again, and silently muttered in his heart: "Time pause."

  Sigh...

  It was that familiar feeling again, time had stopped, really stopped for a second time. Su Lin even saw a crystal clear water droplet suspended in mid-air after falling from Zhu Jiejie's hair.

  Time really seemed to have stopped, and at the same time, the bright red number in the upper right corner also began to decrease second by second.

  102……

  101……

  …………

  The numbers that had risen for some reason began to decrease again, Su Lin treasured these numbers dearly. Since the experiment was over, he quickly muttered to himself once more: "Time reversal."

  Suddenly, time returned to normal. The argument between Ye Mu and Ye Xingzhu was still ongoing, but Ye Xingzhu didn't say much because Su Lin was there, instead it was Ye Mu who kept talking tirelessly.

  "Zhu'er... Anyway, mom won't say more. Mom has supported you for so many years, it's not easy. Now that you're working and can support yourself, mom doesn't worry about anything else, just your lifelong event. These days, mom has already talked to the colleagues at the factory, asking them to take a look around their relatives, if there are any good young men, they'll introduce him to you..."

  Ye Mu stood up, pulled up his pants and said with a serious tone.

  However, Ye Xingzhu seemed to be quite disgusted and retorted with a pout: "Mom! I don't want to go on a blind date. It's the 21st century now, I'll take charge of my own marriage."

  "Come on... take charge of yourself, you've been working for two or three years now, and I haven't seen you bring anyone home. Look at Lili next door, she's already changed partners several times this year, and each one is better than the last..."

  Su Lin quietly listened to the conversation, it was obviously a topic that Ye's mother and daughter often quarreled about. Although Su Lin now wanted to say a few words for Zhu sister, as soon as he spoke, he would completely expose himself.

  "Alright, stinky girl, mom won't say anything to you anymore. From now on, take care of your own affairs yourself. If you still can't find a decent boyfriend by the end of this year, mom will arrange a blind date for you. Mom is going to cook, hurry up and get ready, finish getting ready and come out to eat before going to work..."

  She tossed out a sentence and didn't even wait for Ye Xingzhu to respond, then opened the bathroom door and went to the kitchen to cook on her own.

  "Mom, you..."

  Ye Xingzhu wanted to explain again, but Ye's mother had already left. Ye Xingzhu looked down at Su Lin with a bad smile and blinking eyes, pretending not to have heard anything, feeling both ashamed and angry, saying: "Little brat, what are you looking at? Want to find trouble? Don't hurry up and leave while my mom is cooking in the kitchen?"

  "Oh... okay... but, Sister Zhu, this one... do you still want it?"

  Su Lin swung the cucumber in his hand, with a mischievous grin on his face. As soon as Ye Xingzhu saw this, her face turned bright red, and she snatched the cucumber from Su Lin's hand. Then, with one push, she pushed Su Lin away: "Little brat, you didn't see anything today, you didn't hear anything, hurry up and get out of here."

  "Is it necessary to be so petty? Eldest sister, between you and me, who's counting?"

  Reluctantly, Su Lin poked his head out of the bathtub and found himself soaked from head to toe. The wet feeling was uncomfortable with his clothes clinging to his body, but being able to see Zhu Jie's beautiful appearance and even sharing the same bathtub made it all worthwhile.

  "Don't look! Not allowed to look."

  When Su Lin stood up, he stared at his own body. Ye Xingzhu quickly wrapped a towel around her body and slowly got out of the bathtub. The misty steam, wet hair, and a unique girly scent in the air made Ye Xingzhu look like a water lily, leaving Su Lin drooling.

  Wrapped in a white bath towel, it seemed a bit short, so it could only barely wrap around Ye Xingzhu's three-point area. But even with this half-concealing and half-revealing, it made Su Lin's imagination run wild, his eyes fixed on Ye Xingzhu without blinking. He imagined the tightly wrapped towel, the loose hem inside was empty, but hollow, Su Lin was directly stunned.

  "Little brat, turn around, sister is changing into work clothes, you... are not allowed to peek, got it?"

  She glared at Su Lin fiercely, then picked up the clothes hanging in the bathroom, which was her nurse uniform for the night shift at the hospital. As soon as Su Lin saw these clothes, a white chest shirt, lace-edged small underwear, and a snow-white nurse suit, he could only reluctantly turn around.

  "Don't sneak a peek, if you dare to look, sister will dig out your two eyes and use them as cannonballs."

  Softly and quietly, after Su Lin turned around, Ye Xingzhu slowly untied her bath towel, wiping dry the places on her body that still had water droplets, then shook her hair, starting to put on her undergarments and lace-trimmed panties.

  But for Su Lin, it was a huge torture and an extreme pleasure. With his eyes closed, his ears became more sensitive, listening to the rustling sound of Ye Xingzhu's clothes, Su Lin's heart felt itchy! But he couldn't scratch it.

  Turn it over? Not turn it over?

  Or use time pause? Su Lin thought wickedly in her heart, but that pause time was precious, and Su Lin didn't want to use it so casually.

  She slightly turned her head, looking at the dresser mirror beside her. Su Lin felt a thrill of excitement because from the reflection in the mirror, she could vaguely see the shadow of Zhu Jiejie's figure. However, due to the steam, the mirror was blurry and only showed an outline.

  But it's just like this, even more tempting, even more ear-piercing and finger-tingling, can't help but be obsessed.

  In the dim mirror, Su Lin stared unblinkingly at Zhu Jiejie's snowy and delicate figure, slowly, slowly, putting on those clothes one by one, it was simply too enticing.

  Su Lin was stunned, and Zhu Jie had already dressed up. She patted his back: "Have you seen enough, you little stinker? Don't think I don't know you're using the mirror's reflection to sneak a peek."

  Just now in the bathtub, looking was seen through by Su Lin, touching was touched through by Su Lin, and "that thing" was also caught by Su Lin. Ye Xingzhu is a broken pot, where would she still care about Su Lin peeking at her with a mirror?

  "I wasn't sneaking a peek, Sister Zhu. I, Su Lin, do things openly and honestly. If I want to look, I'll look openly and uprightly..."

  Su Lin patted his own chest and turned around, only to find Ye Xingzhu stunned again.

  Too beautiful, wearing a nurse's uniform, bamboo sister, hair still wet and swaying to one side, the short skirt of the nurse's uniform is knee-length, especially fitted, especially the pair of small white rabbits on bamboo sister's chest, as if they are about to burst out of the nurse's uniform.

  Now that she had put on her clothes, Ye Xingzhu didn't avoid Su Lin's gaze at all. Instead, she even puffed out her chest and opened the bathroom door. She turned around to instruct Su Lin, "You little stinker, you stay in here and keep watch. I'll go to the living room and give you a signal when it's safe. When you see my signal, hurry back home... but whatever you do, don't let my mom see you... or you're dead meat."

  "Mmm... "

  Su Lin nodded like a chick pecking at rice, watching Ye Xingzhu walk into the bedroom, made a safe gesture towards him, and then Su Lin ran out of the bathroom without stopping, and directly from Ye's house back to his own home.

  His clothes were all wet, fortunately his parents had not returned yet, so Su Lin quickly changed into a new set of clothes. Just as he was about to throw the dirty clothes into the washing machine, his mother Liu Ai Zhen came back from work and buying groceries.

  "Mom, you're back? What's delicious for dinner today?"

  Seeing the delicious dishes in her mother's hands, Su Lin hastily and carefully took over the basket.

  "Little rabbit, if you don't study hard, all you'll know is how to play all day."

  Liu Aizhen gets annoyed whenever she sees her son Su Lin. Originally, Su Lin's grades were good enough to get into the best high school in town, but over the past three years of high school, he just doesn't know how to study hard. Now that it's his third year and the college entrance exam is approaching, his grades are still mediocre, and it's possible he won't even be able to get into a second-tier university.

  "Tomorrow is the last mock exam, Mom bought some ribs stew for you to eat. If you don't make me proud this time, after high school graduation, you'll end up like your cousins going to work in Dongguan Province..."

  Regretting the iron that didn't become steel, from elementary school to junior high school, Su Lin's grades were always good. Although her job was tiring and bitter, Liu Ai Zhen had something to be proud of in front of relatives and friends. There was also hope for the future, just waiting for Su Lin to get into college and make a name for herself. But when she got to high school, Su Lin's grades plummeted, and even Liu Ai Zhen couldn't hold her head up in front of relatives and friends anymore.

  "Going to Dongguan Province for work?"

  When Su Lin heard his mother's words, he also felt a thud in his heart. Although he had considered this problem before, now that the college entrance examination was less than a month away, if he really couldn't get good grades and only scored above the three-year undergraduate admission line, how could his family afford the high tuition fees?

  "Hey... Kobayashi, mom talked to your dad all night yesterday. You also know that grandma has been ill for a few years and spent a lot of money on medical bills. Although your uncle and several uncles shared the expenses, our family still spent a lot. Adding up the savings accounts, it's only around 400,000-500,000 yuan. If you attend one of those third-tier universities with annual tuition fees of 20,000-30,000 yuan, you'll still have trouble finding a job after graduation... your dad thinks that in this case, it's better not to go..."

  Changing her tone, Liu Ai Zhen sighed and said with a heavy heart, "You're not young anymore, from the time you were in high school, I've scolded you and beaten you, but in the end it's up to you how you do on the college entrance exam. If you can't get into a good university, you'll have no choice but to go work."

  Liu Aizhen was also helpless, who doesn't want their son to go to college and make a good life for himself? But with the Su family's financial situation, they simply can't afford such high tuition fees and living expenses.

  "No? I don't want to go to work..."

  Su Lin also realized the severity of the problem, he had been avoiding it all along, but now the college entrance exam was just around the corner. If he really couldn't get into a good school, he would have to go work in a factory. Moreover, Su Lin looked at his mother's already gray hair and thought about how she was still working hard every day at the factory to support the family at such an old age, and his heart suddenly felt a pang of pain.

  "Mom is cooking, don't talk about it anymore. You think carefully by yourself."

  Sitting on the sofa in the living room, Su Lin looked at her mother's busy figure in the kitchen and fell into deep thought.

  "With my current scores, even if I work extremely hard, I can only get over 400 points, which is barely enough to get into a third-tier university. But the tuition fees for those universities are so expensive... The college entrance exam is just over twenty days away, and no matter how hard I try, it's too late..."

  He himself knew how many catties and taels he had, Su Lin still knew that after wasting his studies for so long, it was impossible to suddenly soar to the sky in an instant.

  "Huh? No way... Normally, I thought it would be hard to improve my grades, but didn't I just get superpowers? I can pause time, so if I do that during the college entrance exams, how could I possibly not do well?"

  A flash of inspiration struck Su Lin, and his heart began to beat violently. With his incredible ability to pause time, wouldn't it be easy to get a good score on the college entrance exam?