The Buggiest System

58 - Call (1)

Unbeknownst to Zhou Lei, his novel had already reached the top 100 novels in the popularity rankings of Webnovel.com.

However, this was when the rise slowed down and eventually, the novel settled down on 99th place, just above the novel Battle For The Heavens.

.....

Zhou Zhenya finally finished chiseling the tiles to decorate her brother's floor with. She stood up from the corner and started to place the tiles down one by one.

Zhou Xiang and Zhou Jiahao were secretly watching from the sides, very confused as to why their daughter kept decorating their floor.

Meanwhile, Zhou Lei got tired of drawing.

He flicked his wrists repeatedly as he sighed. "Drawing sure is harder than I thought..."

He wasn't even halfway through the first chapter, and yet his hands were already tired. Not to mention that he still needed to color it...

"Haah..." He stood up and put his phone down, turning the power of the computer off before leaving the room.

He didn't take heed of both Zhou Zhenya and his parents since this was routine now.

He headed straight for his room and lied on his bed, thinking about what would happen the next day.

"Hmm... Oh, that's right, I need to get my parents' permission to go home later tomorrow..." Zhou Lei had just remembered the matter about his teacher.

He still didn't want to do it, but he couldn't do anything about it.

.....

Zhou Zhenya finished tiling the floor. However, looking at the wallpaper on the walls, she couldn't help but shake her head.

"These wallpapers... don't match these tiles!"

It seemed that she had also absorbed an Interior Designing book...

Hearing these words of Zhou Zhenya, Zhou Xiang and Zhou Jiahao immediately rushed to restrain their daughter.

"No, no, no... you should stop first!"

"Yeah, you've done our whole floor today..."

Zhou Xiang and Zhou Jiahao spit out many words in an effort to make their daughter stop decorating the house. She was visibly tired, evident by the bags under her eyes.

Zhou Zhenya only glanced at her parents for a second, before escaping from their grasp and walking closer to the wall.

'That wallpaper... look, it even has tears in that area!' Zhou Zhenya looked at the wallpaper in disdain.

With her arms crossed, she looked down and closed her eyes. She shook her head while clicking her tongue multiple times.

The parents could only look at this with a wry smile. No matter how much effort they put in into stopping their daughter, it would only be futile.

For today, their daughter has resolved herself. She... has become responsible.

"I raised that girl!" Zhou Xiang said as she pointed to her daughter while looking at her husband proudly.

"Yes. Yes, you did." Zhou Jiahao nodded slowly as he bit his bottom lip. He was extremely proud of their daughter as well.

Looking at the wallpaper with tired eyes, Zhou Zhenya yawned and said, "I guess I'll work on this tomorrow." She left the room with her palm covering her yawning mouth.

"Cough, cough!" Zhou Xiang felt a sudden uncontrollable urge to spit blood.

It was at this moment that their son, Zhou Lei, returned. He encountered his little sister on his way here.

"Dad, mom, I've something to ask you..." He reluctantly uttered these words.

Having just recovered from the urge to spit blood, Zhou Xiang weakly responded, "W... what is it?"

"I need to... I need to go home late tomorrow because of some matters..." Zhou Lei quietly said these words, hoping that they didn't hear him, but at the same time, hoping that they did hear.

"Hmm? Why?" Before Zhou Xiang could open her mouth, Zhou Jiahao already spoke up.

"Umm, it's like this. There's this project that I need to do." Zhou Lei had prepared this excuse beforehand.

"Ah, let me call your teacher first. What subject is this?" Zhou Jiahao spoke as he reached to his phone.

"It's, umm... it's for Math!" Zhou Lei went quiet before responding confidently.

"Who is your teacher in Math?" Zhou Jiahao said as he browsed through the contacts on his phone.

"It's Teacher Wen." Zhou Lei responded matter-of-factly.

"Right here..." Zhou Jiahao tapped on Wen Hui's profile on his phone and contacted her.

At this point, Zhou Lei had no worries anymore. Of course, while she's not informed about why my parents are contacting her, she should catch on quickly.

Ring, ring!

.....

At Wen Hui's room.

She was in front of the computer, her hands tapping keys on the keyboard. The gap between each tap slowly got wider as she got more tired.

"Zhou... Lei..."

Finally, her hands stopped tapping the keyboard. After a long time, the monitor automatically went into sleep.

Wen Hui was sitting there with her eyes closed, obviously about to fall asleep.

Suddenly, her phone shone brightly and vibrated as it rang loudly!

Ring, ring!

"...Ah!" Wen Hui struggled to stay on balance as she almost fell down from the chair. This caught her off-guard!

She flipped the hair covering her face towards her back and adjusted her seat, all the while reaching out to the loudly ringing phone.

"Hmm?" Wen Hui reached out to her phone, which was beside the monitor on her desk.

As soon as she saw who was calling her, she got confused.

It... was Zhou Jiahao? Who was this again?

Ah! It's Zhou Lei's father...

Maybe he's come to explain why his son has been absent for so long?

While all these thoughts crossed her mind, Wen Hui simply tapped "Accept" and put the phone beside her ear.

"Hello?" Wen Hui's clean voice went through the phone.