Chapter 104: The List of Targets for Elimination Keeps Growing

As soon as the college entrance exam ended, everyone relaxed and it was normal for them to change significantly. But Zhang Wuyong never expected that the top student of the Honors Class, Tongtong, would suddenly become tsundere the moment the exam was over.

Zhang Wuyong lowered his gaze to look at Tongtong.

Her coffee-colored dress was brand new and beautiful, a style he had never seen before.

Between the hair on her left ear, she had a delicate pink hairpin.

“Did you buy this tonight? It looks great!” Zhang Wuyong smiled. “Did you wear it just to show me here?”

“Wh-wha... how could that be?” Tongtong’s cheeks flushed red. Despite her joyful expression, she still pursed her lips and snorted, turning her elegant face away. “I told you, I just happened to be going out. Who would go out just to show you? Dream on.”

She twisted the corners of her mouth, trying hard to look disdainful.

She absolutely could not let him think she couldn't live without him.

She wanted him to know that if he didn’t value her, she could walk far away at any time.

But why did he seem even more excited?

“I’m going home!” She put her hands down, lifted her proud face, and walked toward her door.

“Tongtong! You look great!” Zhang Wuyong called after her with a smile.

“I told you... I’m not deliberately showing off for you.” Zhao Yutong couldn’t keep up the act anymore. Joyful and extremely happy, she fled awkwardly back inside.

After Zhang Wuyong went back and showered, although it was late, he still didn’t sleep.

He stayed up playing games!

Almost dawn before he felt a bit exhausted, he shut down "Baldur’s Gate 3" and went to bed.

He slept until nearly two in the afternoon.

At noon, his mother had called him several times but couldn’t wake him, so she stopped trying.

When he got up, Zhang Wuyong found a long list in the system taskbar.

It was a list of people he needed to "silence" who had returned last night, mainly those who had gone with him to the Honglian nightclub.

Suddenly, the list ballooned, including both men and women.

The system urged him to eliminate these disciples of the immortal sect who suspected he was the hidden leader of the demonic path, to protect his covert identity as a demon.

For each person silenced, the system rewarded him with ten points.

The key was the list kept growing, right before his eyes.

What on earth were those guys saying in the QQ group? Zhang Wuyong was dumbfounded.

He didn’t even bother to open QQ on his computer anymore.

Before closing the taskbar, one last glance showed the name “Yao Xueqin” also on the list.

His head was spinning! He had played it straight at No. 2 Middle School for three years, and now at the end, he had become some kind of gangster?

Stepping out of his room, no one was home. The rice cooker had hot food.

After eating, he called his mother to tell her he was going to buy a smartphone.

“Great!” his mother said. “There’s no cash at home. What price range are you thinking? I’ll transfer money to Tongtong, you can take her with you.”

After hanging up, Zhang Wuyong changed clothes, tidied up, and went next door.

He rang the doorbell, and shortly the door opened.

Zhao Yutong was in pajamas, holding her blue phone case, looking up at him.

“Did my mom tell you to come with me to buy a phone?”

“She just messaged me on WeChat!” Zhao Yutong said arrogantly. “But I’m telling you, this is my aunt’s idea, not that I want to go with you.”

Zhang Wuyong teased her, “What if my mom hadn’t asked you—would you go with me?”

Tongtong’s cheeks flushed red.

He bumped her shoulder gently. “So, will you come or not? Just say yes or no. Even if it’s just me wanting you to come, would you?”

“Stop it!” Tongtong was starting to crack, heading into the bedroom.

Zhang Wuyong followed in. “You still haven’t told me. If it’s not my mom asking you to, but me wanting you to, would you go?”

“Don’t come in!” Tongtong turned and glared at him.

“Oh no!” Zhang Wuyong acted wounded. “I used to be able to come into your room every day, and now after the exam you’ve turned cold and ruthless, not even letting me in once?”

“I’m changing clothes, dummy!” Zhao Yutong grabbed his arm, forcing him to turn around, then pushed him out the door. “Aren’t we going shopping? Wait for me outside!”

...

For the past three years, Zhao Yutong had studied hard and kept improving.

She rarely watched anime, read online novels, or played computer games, mostly staying at home.

The closest boy to her was Zhang Wuyong, and he always treated her as the brilliant academic queen she was.

She thought what Ye Zhihui said made sense, but on the other hand, she wanted to be with someone.

So on one hand, she put on an arrogant front, making it clear she wasn’t centered on him; on the other, she didn’t want to truly push him away.

But she didn’t know this awkward attitude was called “tsundere,” an outdated trait no one really cared about anymore.

Zhang Wuyong played on the computer, read comics, played Genshin Impact, and liked the patched versions of characters like Sun Shangxiang and Xiao Qiao.

Though he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was known as a school bully, he was secretly a bit of an otaku.

He thought Tongtong knew about this trait, and now that the exam was over, she was indulging herself by playing this new role with him!

Honestly, though tsundere was old-fashioned, it still felt quite fresh in real life.

The two walked together on a sunny afternoon street.

It was warm, but not too hot in mid-June to make people reluctant to go out.

Zhao Yutong wore the coffee-colored dress from last night; the white blouse-like lining above the chest was actually part of the dress, with coffee-colored straps lifting at the front.

It was a somewhat Western-style dress.

In the daylight, sunlight fell on the plaid pattern, making her look even more spirited.

“The school bully of No. 2 Middle School... who once secretly took down a dozen thugs alone to protect his classmates... the big boss at Honglian nightclub calls him ‘Brother Sheng’... because he was unbeatable in the city, he found gang life meaningless, washed his hands clean, focused on studying, and rose rapidly to become the school’s top student... What the heck?”

She gripped her phone with both hands, turning to her childhood friend.

“Yeah, what the heck?” Zhang Wuyong tried to act clueless as to whom she was talking about.

And in a sense... who was this really about?

“What did you do last night?” Tongtong looked suspicious.

“Nothing at all!” Zhang Wuyong looked up at the sky.

Tongtong wasn’t even in their class group chat.

Since she suddenly brought this up, it seemed their Honors Class group chat was discussing it too, and somehow the rumors had been exaggerated.

He didn’t even want to open the system to look at the surely expanding “silence” list.

“Both top student and school bully?”

Zhao Yutong’s eyes sparkled as if full of stars, her face glowing brightly in the sunlight.

Yet she still lifted her chin arrogantly and curled her lips. “Hmph! Big deal?”

So cute!

He really wanted to feed her!

Zhang Wuyong glanced quickly around and spotted a vendor selling candied hawthorn.

It was the old lady who often stood by the gate of their neighborhood selling sugar-coated fruits!