I Don’t Want to Win Lying Down

Chapter 23: Everything Happens For A Reason, And Everything Has Consequences

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Everything felt like a muddled dream. Xu Mang was in a state of confusion as he had been entered into the city-wide Mathematical Olympiad school team. When school returned to session after National Day, he would be joining the training with the school team.

Naturally, other than Xu Mang, this trickster, joining the team, Yang Xiaoman had also been drafted into the same team.

At the moment, it was time for Lin Yishan’s Politics class. He didn’t analyze each question in the paper, but rather, criticized the decline in the overall marks of the class.

“It’s a drop of an entire 5 marks as compared to the previous exam, is this how all of you are treating the university entrance examination?” Lin Yishan’s face was black as he delivered his lecture. “Many of you could have scored higher, but the end results were lower than I expected!”

“Of course…one student has made remarkable progress, and that is Xu Mang.” The moment Lin Yishan mentioned Xu Mang, his tense expression relaxed slightly. “From his dead-last position, leaping up to the 400th place!”

“Look at him, and look at yourselves. Do you still have any excuses?” Lin Yishan said, disapproval clear in his voice, “I don’t want to say anything further regarding this, in the mid-year exams, I hope to see more progress in all of you.”

All the students present grimaced as they felt the sting. Who knew what the hell had happened for this good-for-nothing student Xu Mang to suddenly stand out. Not only that, but this guy had also been selected to participate in the city-wide essay competition as well as the city-wide Mathematical Olympiad in December.

It had to be a joke…

Xu Mang?

Participating in this level of competition!?

It was like having a disabled person going headfirst against the boxing champion in the Olympics…practically begging for a beating!

However, unlike him, they didn’t even get the chance of getting beaten up.

What an awful feeling!

Next came the extremely boring process of discussing and analyzing the questions in the test papers.

Xu Mang sprawled out on his table, covered his head with his test paper, and slept. He had no clue what had transpired in class and was completely clueless.

When it was finally break time, Xu Mang was beaten awake by Yang Xiaoman.

“Hey! Why do you always make things so difficult for me?” Yang Xiaoman was full of anger toward Xu Mang.

First, he had appeared in the essay competition, and now, he had even entered the school team for the Mathematical Olympiad with her.

“Huh?”

“What do you mean by ‘huh’!?” Yang Xiaoman growled, resentment clear on her face. “Don’t pretend to be clueless, you must have some ulterior motives toward me!”

Xu Mang was silent, and he didn’t know what to do. After pondering over it for a while, he slowly said, “You know, hitting the wall is very painful, especially…”

Yang Xiaoman had a puzzled expression on her face, but after listening to Xu Mang’s elaboration on the action and position, her mind was filled with scenes that were quite shameful.

Goddammit!

He was implying that she didn’t have any meat on her butt!

Yang Xiaoman desperately wanted to give him a good beating but there were too many people around, it would destroy the image she had as a lady.

Eh?

Where was he?

When Yang Xiaoman finally came back to her senses, she realized that Xu Mang had disappeared. Looking around, she saw that he was holding his test paper, going around and showing off.

“Moron… No!” Yang Xiaoman shook her head. “He’s just a moronic insect.”

***

“Sun Xiaoxiao? Let me see how much you scored for this exam.” Xu Mang had with him his Maths, English, and Chinese paper. Finding Sun Xiaoxiao, he laughed cheekily as he said, “Did you flunk your exams? Hehe…don’t worry, you’ll flunk the next one too.”

Not bothering to wait for Sun Xiaoxiao’s retort, Xu Mang moved on to his next victim. It was the deputy monitor, Wang Liang. He was one who had mocked Xu Mang countless times and this hatred…Xu Mang would always remember it.

“What is this? Bro.” Xu Mang glanced at Wang Liang, an innocent expression on his face. “Why is there so much decline in your results in such a short time? Is it because your Goddess didn’t deem you to be significant enough?”

“Sigh…You said that you could do it all, but you ended up being a bootlicker. Let your buddy give you a word of advice.” Xu Mang said, lowering his voice. “Lick and lick, continue to lick until there is nothing left.”

“F*ck off!”

Wang Liang glared at Xu Mang and said fiercely, “You are not qualified to talk to me!”

Xu Mang shrugged his shoulders and quietly went back to his own seat. In the past, Xu Mang might have retorted with a few more words, but it was different now. He much preferred speaking with facts, the results were so much more satisfying.

Wang Liang had dropped to the bottom of the elite group, and with his current situation, it would be impossible to return to his former glory. Being able to maintain his current position was already a miracle.

This was the sorrow of every elite student. Every step forward was a test, but the road in front of the average students was always bright.

“What did you do? He’s glaring at us.” Yang Xiaoman met Wang Liang’s eye, which held a trace of tenderness within the anger. Initially, there had been nothing, but once that moron had run forward and exchanged a few words, it suddenly changed to this.

“Ah? Him?” Xu Mang grinned widely and said, “Maybe he met with an accident on his happy road.”

Yang Xiaoman spared another glance and then turned back to him and asked, “If your Math is so good, why do you always act like an idiot? Are you dying from some sort of illness and you want to be an idiot before you die?”

This f*cker…

Listen to her, is that even something a person would say?

Even though he always used this sort of language to rile her up, she would just retort with her fists. This friendship should be strong and indestructible, but… the reality was so cruel!

It was not scary for strangers to hurt you, the more frightening thing would be your own close friends being the culprits.

“Sigh! We’ve known each other for a long time, is there any reason for you to curse me so?” Xu Mang said, his face unhappy. “If you fell in love with me in the future, would you also treat your husband this way?”

“Get lost! Even if I had to marry a pig, I would never marry you!” Yang Xiaoman said, exasperated.

Haha…

Women!

Clearly anticipating but pretending they didn’t care for it.

***

The days passed by, every day repeating the same routine as the previous days.

Senior students experienced going to school, brushing up on their questions, finishing school, self-study, sleep…The boring life had chased away many students including one classmate, Wang Liang, who suffered from depression.

Xu Mang personally witnessed his parents coming and packing his dorm up as well as his clothes, leading him to leave the school. The view of his lonely back made Xu Mang extremely sad. It wasn’t as though he was a bad person, he was merely disgusted with students who had bad attitudes toward learning.

That day, Xu Mang was depressed. When he saw the empty desk in the classroom, his heart felt heavy.

Everything happened for a reason, and everything had consequences.

Perhaps Wang Liang’s future had been determined the moment Yang Xiaoman had stepped foot into the school.

“Love…is always so hard to understand.” Xu Mang looked at the back of the flat-chested barbarian in front of him, letting out a sigh.

“Moron!”

When Yang Xiaoman heard Xu Mang’s mutterings, she couldn’t help but turn around to scold him. “The essay competition is next week, don’t be an ass and end up in the last place.”

“Che! The first place already has my name, don’t need to be an ass.” Xu Mang retorted disdainfully.

Yang Xiaoman didn’t know what to say. After all, this guy had not written a single essay during the training sessions. Now that she thought about it, he had only written an essay twice. Once for that one Chinese exam, and the other was in the monthly exam last month. Even though both were full marks…

There was no denying his talent, but without diligent practice, even the most powerful talent would end up in vain.

At this point, almost all the teachers and Yang Xiaoman had reached the same conclusion. They felt that Xu Mang had lost the qualification to obtain the first place because of his lazy attitude. He had not held on and grasped his talent.

Of course, there were always miracles that were sent down from the heavens. However, the teachers believed that miracles were reserved for people who were prepared. In this city-wide competition, the participants were all elites from all around. There wouldn’t be much difference in talent either, so in short, they had all lost confidence in Xu Mang.

He was just too lazy!