Chapter 93.2 - Premeditated (1/2)

Ch93.2 – Premeditated

For being so set on dying, you sure prepared a lot of things.” Zhou Sheng was full of sarcasm as he said, “Well, aren’t you troublesome?”

“In case I didn’t die, I needed to leave myself a way out ma. And see, didn’t it come in handy now?” Ou Qihang laughed.

When he heard this, Yu Hao just thought that Ou Qihang’s IQ probably far exceeded what he had guessed.

There was a knock on the door. Huang Ting came in, and the two of them got up to leave.

“I’ve already told you all that you wanted to know.” Ou Qihang said, “Good luck.”

“Good luck.” Zhou Sheng said lightly, “You’re still too inexperienced, wise up after your setbacks and learn your lesson ba.”

Ou Qihang’s face suddenly changed, becoming as pale as dying embers. Yu Hao noticed the anomaly and asked, “What is it?”

Zhou Sheng smiled mischievously and draped his arm around Yu Hao as they left.

Huang Ting was waiting outside, frowning silently.

“It’s over?” Zhou Sheng said.

Huang Ting nodded.

“How’re you gonna thank me?” Zhou Sheng said.

“I’ll treat you and Yujun to a meal the day after tomorrow?” Huang Ting said, “Pick a place, I’m about to die a sudden death. We’ll talk after I sleep, and if I oversleep, then you guys just eat by yourselves ba. Just place the whole black and white photo on the dining table, I’d like to thank you two honourable ones for your great kindness.”

Yu Hao, “……”

“What did you mean by your parting words yesterday?” Yu Hao kept feeling that something was strange when Zhou Sheng left.

The next day, he, Fu Liqun, and Zhou Sheng went to sign up for the three-person basketball match. Zhou Sheng measured his height — 187cm.

Fu Liqun stood up and measured his height. 193cm, he grew 1cm.

Yu Hao went to measure, still 178. He was practically on the verge of crying without tears.

Zhou Sheng, “Why? It’s just 2cm. Don’t you like it if I’m a bit taller? This just means that your private property is rising in value ah.”

Fu Liqun whose HP -25 said, “It’s not good to have too big of a difference. Your sis-in-law says that every time we kiss, she feels like she’s performing a sword swallowing act on the street.”

Yu Hao, “Don’t grow anymore. If you grow to 1.9m like Gege, it’ll be troublesome.”

“What do you have against 1.9m?!” Fu Liqun instantly blew up, “Did 1.9m eat your house’s rice?!”

“Yeah.” Yu Hao said.

Fu Liqun, “……”

“Ok then, whatever you say goes. I’ll stop growing.” Zhou Sheng stepped off, satisfied.

Preliminaries were at the end of the semester, and finals during winter vacation, so there was still a long time before then. The competition was mainly sponsored by one brand, and the champion team would get 30,000 yuan as prize money as well as three pairs of limited edition basketball shoes. Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, “Let’s go, I’ll take you to go buy shoes.”

“I’ve resolved to never go to that shop again.” Yu Hao said, “It’s not like we’re participating in a fashion show, why buy such good ones?”

“It won’t cost more than 2,000, alright?” Zhou Sheng said, “I’ll take you to another shop, we won’t go to the one with 9,600.”

Yu Hao had refused to buy basketball shoes. Zhou Sheng has already spent too much money on him this semester — skateboard, clothes, shoes, laptop, couple watches……Fu Liqun and Zhou Sheng were also reluctant to wear their most expensive shoes during trainings, and would only wear them for important occasions. Yu Hao wasn’t particular about the aesthetics of basketball shoes. Zhou Sheng even wanted to buy a camera for Yu Hao, basketball shoes, an engraved couple bracelet from Tiffany, and…… Yu Hao was on tenterhooks every day as he was really afraid that Zhou Sheng would suddenly buy him something.

Zhou Sheng said, “Well, we can’t be the only ones wearing AJ while we let you wear something cheaper? We’re a team ah. Everyone should wear AJ together every step of the way. When we think back on this time in the future, how wonderful would the memories be?”

Yu Hao said, “So if I casually wear a normal pair onto the court, the memory won’t be wonderful anymore? What kind of logic is that?”

Zhou Sheng cried bitterly, “We’ll buy it first, then I’ll go work and earn it back next time, okay? Could you stop feeling so conflicted?”

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng started to quarrel again as they walked. Fu Liqun could only follow behind them, bored stiff. Recently, Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng would occasionally argue. Every time Yu Hao would only be a little angry and ask Zhou Sheng not to spend money, so Zhou Sheng couldn’t interject and would patiently wait for a while before giving in.

After talking so much about money, Yu Hao would also feel annoyed and a bit depressed. Sometimes he felt like he was rambling on about it a little too much and even found himself irritating.

He knew that there has always been a significant disparity between his and Zhou Sheng’s values and perspectives on expenditures. Perhaps there was a monster in the arena they hadn’t encountered yet that represented Zhou Sheng’s values. But after the occasional reflection, Yu Hao understood in his heart that he was a little too thrifty sometimes. He was used to living in poverty and liked to exchange his time for money.

But Zhou Sheng was different. Even after his parents divorced, his mother never shortchanged him on his material needs. On the contrary, she was secretly competing with Zhou Laichun and would give Zhou Sheng more in the name of pocket money, to prove that ‘you’re not worse off with this old woman than that white-eyed wolf’. The only thing that would annoy Zhou Sheng a lot was that his mother would always ask all sorts of questions whenever he wanted to buy something and use it to compete with his father.

This effectively shaped Zhou Sheng’s value of ‘the happiness of me and my wife would be difficult to buy with even a thousand gold’. When they started dating, he would come up with all sorts of ways to buy food and other items for Yu Hao and spend some money to help him broaden his horizons. Sometimes, temperament really was built with money. There were a few times when Yu Hao told him not to be so wasteful that he felt extremely uneasy too; but he was used to living a thrifty life, and now that there were two of them, he couldn’t always get Zhou Sheng to follow him and also lower his quality of life ba?