Returning to Infancy with my Nemesis - Chapter 85

Tang Mian came out of the bathroom and saw Fu Shizhao still busy on his phone, probably texting.

Tang Mian thought Fu Shizhao might be replying to a message or doing something else on his phone.

Instead of going over, Tang Mian went back to his seat and quietly continued working on his math paper after taking a sip of his tea.

Since Fu Shizhao didn’t hide the messages but left them out for him to find, Tang Mian decided he didn’t need to rush to see what Fu Shizhao had replied. He could check later when Fu Shizhao wasn’t around.

And about this matter… Fu Shizhao seemed to know about it beforehand, even in the last life.

He wanted to change what happened in the past life,  this time, but it happened again.

Tang Mian believed Fu Shizhao wanted to help the girl.

He also believed Fu Shizhao could really help her.

So, he decided to wait and see.

Even if he got involved, he couldn’t help much.

It takes about two hours to finish a math paper, and with distractions, it might take three. After each question, Tang Mian remembered things that seemed odd about Fu Shizhao in this life.

For example, the first question was about Tang Wei pushing Fu Shizhao, leaving a scar.

Tang Wei was mean, but Tang Mian wasn’t really angry at that time. And it was Fu Shizhao’s injury that led to Tang Wei’s family being cut off.

The second question was about Fu Shizhao giving him a drawing board, which seemed too convenient.

And then there was the time Fu Shizhao won many toys from a claw machine, which seemed too lucky for a little kid.

Tang Mian also remembered other things, like when Fu Shizhao had a stomachache after buying goat milk and stopped hanging out with Wei Haifan.

Tang Mian realized he couldn’t really argue with Fu Shizhao anymore.

Fu Shizhao had everything planned out.

It’s just that Tang Mian didn’t expect Wei Haifan to be like that…

He thought Wei Haifan was just a playboy like Mu Zichen in the last life, but…

There’s nothing wrong with a person’s character or morals if they’ve been deceived, and it doesn’t affect their ability to be friends. After all, Wei Haifan appeared to be cheerful, generous, and sociable.

But he was deceived.

Wei Haifan turned out to be a cowardly scumbag without integrity.

So, why did Fu Shizhao fight with Wei Haifan in the last life?

It definitely wasn’t because of some basketball incident or because of this girl.

Could it be because of him?

Tang Mian’s heart started beating faster for no reason.

Although Tang Mian was angry that Fu Shizhao had kept his rebirth a secret, he had to admit that everything Fu Shizhao had done over the years seemed like an attempt to befriend him.

Fu Shizhao cooperated with him, slowly making up for regrets from the past life, and provided a lot of help to him and the Tang family. Tang Mian might be slow, but even after getting so much information, he still couldn’t see through everything. Fu Shizhao actually cared a lot about him and the Tang family.

Tang Mian looked at the first question of the fill-in-the-blank section and bit his pen tip subconsciously.

The first question was usually easy, almost like a freebie, and sometimes you could see the answer at a glance.

Tang Mian quickly wrote down a calculation formula on the scratch paper, wrote down the answer under the blank line, and continued to ponder.

He didn’t know how to ask Fu Shizhao.

Should he ask why Fu Shizhao grew apart from him in the last life, why he fought with Wei Haifan, and why he didn’t just come to him directly? How much else was Fu Shizhao hiding from him?

But since Fu Shizhao had been scheming for so many years… surely that included “confessing to him.” He waited, waited for him to start this part.

Waiting for this part to end, he would slowly deal with the rest. Tang Mian didn’t look at Fu Shizhao again until he finished the math paper.

Fu Shizhao sat on the carpet next to Tang Mian, leaning against Snowball, chatting with Zhan Wanqi, comforting her emotions, and secretly observing Tang Mian.

He must be angry.

But it’s uncertain what he’ll do after this anger. Fu Shizhao’s heart was always hanging.

It went very smoothly with Zhan Wanqi; her emotions stabilized under his comfort.

He juste needed to give her some more time; after all, it takes a lot of courage to stand up for this kind of thing, especially for a seventeen-year-old girl who hasn’t experienced much of the world.

He was not in a hurry, scums like Wei Haifan definitely won’t get away with it. What goes around, comes around.

Finally, Tang Mian put down his pen, glanced at Fu Shizhao lying against Snowball, met his eyes, and said lightly, “Check the paper for me.”

Fu Shizhao: “…Okay.” Fu Shizhao quickly got up, found the math paper Tang Mian needed from the folder he used to store the test papers, and handed it to him.

Tang Mian lowered his head again and carefully checked the answers on Fu Shizhao’s paper.

Since it’s an assignment that needs to be handed in, even if there are mistakes, Tang Mian didn’t plan to correct them directly on the paper. He’ll just mark them and think about them himself. If he can’t figure it out, he’ll usually go directly to Fu Shizhao for an answer, then listen again when the teacher explains it in class to reinforce it. It’s less likely to make mistakes next time when encountering similar questions.

But this time, after Tang Mian marked the wrong questions after getting the right answers, he closed the paper directly, yawned, got up straight, and walked straight to the bed.

Tired.

He didn’t want to look at the mistakes, or ask Fu Shizhao.

This paper, which has been written absent-mindedly for more than three hours, was really too long. Usually, he would strictly follow the 2-hour time for the math college entrance examination to complete a math paper.

It was also not early.

“Ge.” Fu Shizhao followed him like a little tail to the bedside.

Tang Mian had already opened the quilt and crawled in directly, his eyelashes trembling slightly, squinting at him like a little cat.

Still calling him “ge.”

Which younger brother calculates his older brother like this?

Tang Mian closed his eyes and curled up inside, yawning twice in a row. “Sleepy, turn off the light, go to bed.”

Fu Shizhao stood still for two seconds, then gave in, obediently turned off all the lights in the room, and lay down beside him. The room instantly went dark, and Snowball obediently curled back into his nest.

It was early summer, and intermittent insect chirping could be heard outside the window. Covered with the summer cool quilt, the temperature was comfortable in the early morning.

Tang Mian slept soundly, and in no time, one leg subconsciously rested on Fu Shizhao’s body.

Tang Mian still slept soundly.

Tang Mian’s reaction was quite different from what he expected.

He thought Tang Mian would be weighed down by this incident, unable to sleep, or continue to test him, but unexpectedly… he slept so deeply.

Suddenly, Fu Shizhao didn’t know what to do.

“Um.” Tang Mian suddenly turned over, changing from lying straight to lying on his side facing Fu Shizhao, placing his legs more comfortably on Fu Shizhao’s body, his eyelashes trembling slightly, but he didn’t wake up.

Although he was angry when he found out he had been deceived today, he also got some good news. Fu Shizhao, like him, didn’t die in that car accident.

That’s good.