Seizing Dreams [B1]

Chapter 75.1

Translated by: DMlations/Zryuu
Edited by: Amelea, FistFullOfDollars and Juurensha

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Yu Hao gasped for breath as he followed Zhou Sheng and rode a full 30 kilometers. Zhou Sheng would even stop to wait for him now and then. In the end, Yu Hao arrived at their college in second place.

Yu Hao, "I......can't do it anymore."

Zhou Sheng said, "Okay, the card's yours."

"I didn't even win!" Yu Hao exploded.

"I said, 'win', which meant 'if I win', the card is yours!" Zhou Sheng said triumphantly, "I omitted an 'I'."

Yu Hao, "......"

"Then I'll keep it for you ba." Yu Hao had watched Zhou Sheng cycle in front of him the entire way, stopping to occasionally wait for him to catch up, then continue to ride again. He could only feel that this road vaguely resembled the relationship between them.

"Aren't you gonna see how much money you have?" Zhou Sheng smiled.

"I won't! Yu Hao said, "I'm determined to never see it! Stifle you to death!"

The dormitory was thoroughly cleaned, even the black tiles were washed until they gleamed with a white luster. The wooden cabinet doors and wooden tables had also been waxed and now looked as if they were brand new furniture. New cotton four-piece sets had replaced the old ones on their beds. The bookshelves and wardrobes were neatly arranged; their bathroom had new bathroom curtains, and their light bulbs were replaced with 60-watt ones. An extra mobile air conditioner had been added as well. On one side of the balcony, there was a small refrigerator filled with ice, drinks, and beer, and there were even two reclining chairs on the balcony. On the other side of the balcony was a flower rack and potted plants on the rack.

Now there was both cold drinks and air-conditioning. No wall-mounted air-conditioning was allowed in the dormitory, so the exhaust hose of the small mobile air-conditioner led outside the balcony. Although its cooling effect isn't as strong as wall-mounted air-conditioning, it had resolved the problem of their stuffy dormitory.

Yu Hao held his forehead with one hand. He felt like he had entered someone else's house.

"He got someone to renovate it ba." Yu Hao said, "It must not have been easy to do all this in one afternoon."

"Didn't he know to buy a washing machine......" He hadn't finished speaking when a "bang" sounded - Zhou Sheng had accidentally bumped into the balcony's landing window. He said angrily, "Why did they make it this clean?! This is attempted murder!"

At night, Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng lay in bed and spent the first day of summer vacation with nothing better to do than to idle about. Zhou Sheng brought Yu Hao along to play games for awhile. Yu Hao recorded two songs, but he wasn't satisfied with either, so he deleted them. He thought that the money from his translation was about to be completely depleted, so he had to find a part-time job. Fortunately, he would have the scholarship next semester, so he would be relatively more financially well-off.

It wasn't easy to find good translation and writing work; there were too many fraudulent ones. Yu Hao spent a long time looking through the translation forum, and a lot of people on it were cursing about how they got cheated out of their scripts, which made him feel a little frightened. It was easy to move from a thrifty to an extravagant lifestyle, but difficult to do so vice versa; after his translation job, he wasn't very willing to do manual work anymore. Sure enough, it was most productive to do skilled work, so having a specialized skill was particularly important.

Of course, both him and Chen Yekai were passing their days relying on their specialized skills, but in the face of a capitalist like Zhou Laichun, they would turn into slags within seconds.