"The top scorer of the City S college entrance exam..." Bella muttered to herself, casually rubbing her sore arm.
Although she had been an absolute straight-A student in high school, she had forgotten a lot of that knowledge by now. This system really thought highly of her.
However, complaints aside, her hands didn't stop moving.
Bella casually opened a math notebook, her eyes quickly scanning the formulas.
Truth be told, her foundation was still there. As long as she spent some time sorting out the logic, reaching the top again wouldn't just be a sci-fi fantasy.
As she kept reading, Bella frowned deeply.
She flipped to the table of contents and found the corresponding section. She had been careless; it seemed the world in this book wasn't exactly the same as her own world.
Looking at the unfamiliar formulas, Bella calmed herself down, occasionally spinning her pen in a beautiful circle.
It wasn't until the tempting aroma of food slipped through the crack of the door that she suddenly snapped back to reality. Glancing at her phone, she realized it was already past twelve.
"Since my goal is to be the top scorer, I should probably feed my belly first. I can only be an overachiever when I'm full."
Bella opened the door, running right into a girl with an incredibly stunning figure doing Pilates on a yoga mat in the living room.
She was wearing a tight crop top that revealed a shockingly narrow waist, and her long legs had unbelievable proportions. Her facial features were bright and gorgeous, though right now she was grimacing a bit from the exertion.
"Oh, you're awake?" Shen Wenjing flipped over and sat up with a swift motion.
"Uh, no, I've been reading in my room the whole time."
"Reading?" Shen Wenjing looked at her in surprise. "You guys have exams too?"
"Yeah, there's a placement test on the second day of registration."
"Haha, what a coincidence, me too. But I've already decided to just wing it and slack off."
Shen Wenjing coolly wiped away her sweat. "After all these years, I've long understood that not everyone can pull off last-minute cramming."
With that, she took off her earphones and casually connected to the Bluetooth speaker in the living room.
Bella walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge, planning to follow a tutorial on the Little Red app to make herself some braised chicken drumettes and stir-fried water spinach.
Just as she took out the chicken, a deep, magnetic male voice suddenly rang out behind her, carrying three parts coldness and four parts nonchalance:
"Man, you have successfully caught my attention."
Immediately after, another slightly youthful, exasperated boyish voice sounded: "Get lost, I'm straight!"
"Hmph, playing hard to get. Just a trick to attract me..."
Bella froze in front of the fridge, turning her head with her mouth wide open.
Seeing her expression, Shen Wenjing excitedly leaned over with a wicked grin:
"What do you think? Don't their voices sound so good they could get your ears pregnant? This is the most popular audio drama right now!"
"Uh... it does sound pretty good."
"Let me tell you, don't be fooled by this domineering CEO voice sounding like a total top; he's actually a massive bottom!"
Shen Wenjing looked thrilled. "You have to remember, a lot of tops are just bottoms in disguise. After all, cos(0)=1!"
Bella: "..."
"Hey, why aren't you laughing? This is a top-tier dad joke in our math community."
Shen Wenjing clicked her tongue in slight disappointment. Then, for the next half hour, she dragged Bella into a forceful recommendation session, detailing the love, hate, life-and-death separations, and various indescribable romantic tensions between the two male leads in the drama.
"Are they really popular?" Bella asked casually as she blanched the chicken.
"Explosively popular! Just the voice acting contract for this character alone is this much."
Shen Wenjing mysteriously held up a hand gesture for the number six. "It's a pity this drama is audio-only."
"Is there no comic adaptation?"
"No, the censorship boundaries are too hard to navigate. If drawn, it might end up as banned material, so no one dares to take it on."
"Don't even think about a live-action show. The casting alone in the domestic entertainment industry would get them roasted to death by fans."
Hearing this, the hand Bella used to hold the spatula trembled slightly, and her eyes suddenly lit up astonishingly.
Oh, her old profession!
Back when she was stressed out in high school, she relied entirely on drawing this kind of uncensorable stuff to relieve pressure, and her drawing skills were top-notch.
She had even accumulated quite a few fans. Later, after the college entrance exam, she would still draw occasionally on a whim.
Who would have thought that after coming to this book world, not only did she have to become a top scorer, but she also had to return to her old trade and sell drawings for a living.
Times were tough. She wondered if her quality would drop since she hadn't practiced in so long.
"How do you know the pay is that much?" Bella raised an eyebrow, looking at her suspiciously.
Hearing this, Shen Wenjing coughed violently twice, poked her two index fingers together, and looked a bit awkward.
She put down the earphones in her hand and even deliberately looked around before leaning in mysteriously.
"Let me tell you, but you absolutely cannot tell anyone else."
Shen Wenjing lowered her voice. "That domineering CEO voice... is actually my cousin. I found out from him."
Bella stopped stirring the water spinach, looking utterly shocked.
"One time I had an emergency and needed to find him, and I have the key to his place. Even though I messaged him a week in advance, he was probably recording so much he lost his mind and completely forgot I was coming over.
When I pushed the door open and went in, I caught him right in the middle of recording in his room..."
At this point, Shen Wenjing covered her face and let out a wail.
"Hearing those lines made me blush so hard. I only found out later that my brother was secretly doing this, though he himself is absolutely a super straight guy.
He complained to me that every time he reads those lines, he feels so ashamed he wants to ascend to heaven on the spot."
As she spoke, Shen Wenjing opened her photo album and held a picture in front of Bella, her face showing unconcealable pride:
"What do you think? My brother is handsome, right? He got a perfect score in math on the college entrance exam. He's a junior in college now, majoring in math."
Bella leaned in to take a look. The photo was probably a few years old, but it couldn't hide the fact that the man in the picture indeed had a highly deceptive face.
He had a classic hot nerd look. He wore thin black-rimmed glasses, had cool white skin, and a high nose bridge.
His hair was slightly messy, carrying a careless, ascetic vibe.
He was wearing a soft black sweater with the collar of a blue shirt folded over the outside, sitting casually in a chair.
His two long arms rested unevenly on the armrests, and he was holding a copy of Advanced Mathematics in his hand.
In the background behind him were two brightly lit computer monitors. The content was blurry, but she knew they were filled with complex formulas and charts.
It was hard to imagine that someone who looked like he could casually solve difficult calculus problems would secretly lower his voice to record cheesy pickup lines like "Man, you have caught my attention."
"He is pretty handsome," Bella evaluated honestly.
Looking at that perfect reference face in the photo, Bella's mind automatically placed this cousin into various unspeakable drawing poses.
Borrowing your brother's face to save my life.
Hehehe, isn't this a living, ready-made model?
Glasses, asceticism, contrast... Shen Wenjing, I am definitely going to earn this ransom money through your brother!
Here is the third chapter update for today~
