Chapter Twenty-Four: Betting on Your Kiss

  On Friday after the last class, Liu Yifei couldn't wait to pack up his schoolbag and go home to reunite with his parents.

  "What are you doing?" Xu Guanghong looked at Liu Yifei in confusion.

  "Go home." Liu Yifei slung her backpack over her shoulder and headed out.

  "Go home, big brother, do you know what day of the week it is today?"

  "Friday? Did I remember wrong?" Liu Yifei carefully recalled and felt that he had indeed attended five days of classes in school, and he hadn't remembered incorrectly.

  "I'm telling you, big brother, you know it's Friday, so you don't have school tomorrow?"

  "Are we still having class tomorrow? Make-up class?"

  "Are you kidding me? You really are out of it, aren't you? Are you running a fever?" Xǔ Guǎng Hóng stood up and felt Liú Yī Fēi's forehead.

  "Why didn't you take a rest on Saturday?" Liu Yifei still hadn't turned around.

  "Off on Saturday? Are you abroad or something? Haha..." Xu Guanghong finally couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the people in the surrounding seats also turned their heads to look at Liu Yifei and laugh.

  Liu Yifei was slightly stunned for a moment, and finally understood what was going on. The two-day weekend started in May of the third year of high school, and at that time it was still one day off per week.

  "Liu Yifei, you're really dreaming, double rest days are too far away for us, just accept reality." The girl in front of the desk, Wang Tong, was a sharp-tongued girl who was now smiling and teasing Liu Yifei.

  "You're really something, I don't know if you just came back from Mars yesterday." Wang Tong's deskmate Zhang Yan also started giggling and covering her mouth.

  Liu Yifei looked at several people and suddenly showed a mischievous smile, saying: "How about we make a bet?"

  "What's the bet?" Several people showed interest.

  Liu Yifei smiled and said: "I bet that by this time next year, our country will have implemented a two-day weekend."

  "It's been a long time since you've gambled during Chinese New Year." The few people laughed again.

  Liu Yifei put down his backpack, sat down and said: "You don't know this, with the development of society, people not only have a great improvement in material life, but also have higher requirements for spiritual life. At the same time, technology is developing, and people's work efficiency is getting higher and higher. The original six-day workload can now be completed in five days, and having two rest days a week has become an inevitable trend. This has already been implemented in some developed countries such as Europe and America, why can't our country implement it?"

  "It's good to have a holiday, but can the country easily give workers an extra day off? I don't believe it." Xǔ Guǎng Hóng was the first to raise objections before anyone else had spoken.

  Wang Tong also shook his head and said, "Exactly, you're not a national leader, what you say can't just be done, who doesn't know that resting two days a week is good, but resting three days is even better? But implementing this always needs a process."

  Liu Yifei waved his hand and said confidently, "The process is definitely necessary, but how do you know that the country hasn't implemented this system yet? You can take a look at the news, some areas have already started implementing a five-and-a-half-day workweek, I think it won't be long before we switch to a five-day workweek and implement double rest days."

  A few people's discussion also attracted the attention of several other classmates, including He Yuanyan. Although she was a bit proud, she wasn't unsociable and liked to participate in her classmates' discussions. Seeing that there was a topic, she also came over and said: "Liu Yifei, why are you so sure that double rest days can be implemented within a year?"

  He Yuanyan's arrival further boosted the discussion atmosphere, and several girls also criticized Liu Yifei, "Yes, how can you be so sure that it can be implemented within a year?"

  Liu Yifei looked at He Yuexuan, who was tilting her head to look at him with a curious expression. He felt quite relieved in his heart, as He Yuexuan had never paid such attention to him before. He smiled slightly and said, "Don't ask me how I knew, just tell me if you dare to bet with me."

  "There's nothing wrong with that, it's just that a year is too far away, and by then everyone may have forgotten about this bet." He Yuer rolled her eyes, clearly disdainful of Liu Yifei's wager.

  "So many people are witnessing this, how can I possibly welch on the bet? He Yuanyan, not only am I betting that the two-day weekend will be implemented within a year, but I'm also betting that it'll start from Labor Day next year. Do you dare to take me up on this bet?"

  Liu Yifei suddenly pointed the spearhead at He Yuexuan alone.

  "What a big deal, who knows what will happen on New Year's Day? You dare to bet on which day it is, isn't that too ridiculous?"

  "Don't mind me being out of tune, if the two-day weekend isn't implemented starting from Labor Day during the Spring Festival, then I'll consider myself defeated. What do you think?"

  Looking at Liu Yifei's confident appearance, He Yuanyan also secretly wondered in her heart, but what Liu Yifei said was obviously too far-fetched, even if the State Council might not be able to decide whether May 1st is a double rest day.

  "Heyan, bet with him, he can gamble all day, aren't you afraid of losing?" Several girls in the crowd immediately goaded He Yuexuan.

  "Alright, I'll bet with you, but what's the stake?" He Yuanyan stared into Liu Yifei's eyes.

  Liu Yifei looked at He Yuexuan's tender face and suddenly had a strange thought. In his youth, he had dreamed of kissing He Yuexuan's face many times. Now that he had been reborn, if he didn't fulfill this wish, it would be too regrettable. With a sly smile, he said: "If I win, you'll... let me kiss you."

  Everyone did not expect that Liu Yifei would actually propose such a bet, and their eyes all turned to He Yuexuan at once.

  "You..." He Yanyan's face suddenly turned bright red with anger, her eyes filled with furious gaze.

  Liu Yifei smiled slightly, not looking embarrassed at all, and looked at He Yuexuan with a smile: "You don't need to be angry, for you... and other classmates, I just chose a day, it's like buying a lottery ticket with an extremely low probability, I'm afraid the probability of me winning is really too low, do you think I can win? The answer is obviously no, kissing you is just like an illusory fantasy, do you think it's possible to realize?"

  He Yuanyan's face was still flushed with embarrassment, and many people pursued her, but those classmates were all writing notes and things, He Yuanyan also never gave them a good face, but no one dared to say they wanted to kiss her like Liu Yifei, it really made her angry and ashamed, but her proud self-esteem couldn't let her admit defeat, she stomped her foot in hatred and said: "Okay, I'll bet with you, if you don't guess correctly, then you have to crawl on the ground for three circles and bark like a dog three times."

  "Alright! No problem!" Liu Yifei readily agreed, stretching out his palm with the center of it facing He Yuexuan, a faint smile playing on the corners of his mouth as he imagined what it would be like to kiss He Yuexuan's soft face.

  He Yuanyan glared at Liu Yifei and patted his hand, and this bet was settled.