Rebirth of a Girl in a Boys' School

Lin Ruofei immediately took off running at lightning speed to the basket, ready to put the ball in. Zhang Yang was not to be outdone and quickly followed suit.

The basketball, carrying an important mission, bounced quickly onto the rim thanks to the rebound force of the backboard. After playfully circling the rim a few times, it slowly landed... of course, jumping from the rim to the ground.

"My goodness!" Lin Ruofei stood under the basket, unable to resist pointing at Gao Qiang, who was still standing blankly outside the three-point line, and shouted, "Look at you, you have to scare people half to death before you're satisfied with making a basket!"

Zhang Yang angrily kicked the basketball, which had already fallen to the ground, aside.

"Hey roommate, don't take your anger out on the basketball!" Lin Ruofei then looked at Zhang Yang with a smile and said, "You can only blame yourself for not being good enough!"

"You..." Zhang Yang was so angry that he couldn't even speak.

"Ah...it's getting late!" Lin Ruofei said, as if talking to herself, but also as if deliberately saying it to Zhang Yang: "It's definitely too late to move now. If you're late swiping your card in class, you'll lose credits. Let's 'fix' it after class!"

After saying that, Lin Ruofei turned around and ran happily towards Ding Yilin, who was standing on the stands, and shouted, "Little Dingding, quickly help me get my things, let's go to class first!"

"Hey...hey..." Gao Qiang called out to Lin Ruofei loudly, "You haven't claimed your bet yet!"

"Could you help me get it?" Lin Ruofei grabbed Ding Yilin and ran off the field without looking back. "See you at the restaurant tonight, it's on me! Oh, right..."

Lin Ruofei seemed to remember something, and suddenly stopped in her tracks, looking around before finally fixing her gaze on Ji Weihang, who was drinking water on a bench by the sidelines.

"Weihang Oppa! Weihang Oppa!" Ignoring everyone's stares, Lin Ruofei called out to Ji Weihang with a beaming smile, "Don't forget I'm treating tonight! See you tonight! Thanks for helping out today! Weihang Oppa, get out of here!"

While impatiently waving his hand to signal Lin Ruofei to hurry up and go to class, Ji Weihang couldn't help but mutter to himself, "I really should call the city government and ask if the wall of some mental hospital has fallen down!"

"How do you know that the wall of a mental hospital has collapsed?" A bespectacled man sitting next to Ji Weihang, waiting for his PE class, couldn't help but ask in a low voice out of curiosity.

"Otherwise, where would this silly kid who always talks nonsense come from?" Ji Weihang said, then took another big gulp of the mineral water in his hand.

Lin Ruofei spent the entire afternoon in excitement and anticipation. The thought of soon being able to have a good, restful sleep made her smile involuntarily. This caused many teachers to call on Lin Ruofei in class, telling her to pay attention and stop secretly smiling like an idiot!

As soon as the bell rang for the last class of the afternoon, Lin Ruofei couldn't wait to pick up her already packed backpack and head back to her dormitory to unpack her luggage.

"Lin Ruofei, are you planning to go back to your dorm to move your luggage?" Ding Yilin grabbed Lin Ruofei, who was about to rush out the door, and asked softly.

"Of course!" Lin Ruofei nodded happily. "The sooner you move in, the sooner you can enjoy it!"

Ding Yilin glanced at his watch and then suggested softly, "It's almost 5 o'clock now, the cafeteria should be starting to serve food. Why don't we go to the cafeteria first to eat, so we don't go too late and there won't be any hot food left? Then you can go back to the dorm and pack your luggage at your own pace, wouldn't that be better?"

After thinking for two seconds, Lin Ruofei nodded and said, "You're right! Getting dinner ready is the most important thing. That kid can't just renege on his promise because I moved late, can he?"

"No way!" Ding Yilin shook his head firmly and said, "Now almost everyone in the school knows that you two lost the bet on the game. If he tries to deny it again, wouldn't that be even more embarrassing than losing the game? Besides, there's the gambling king Feng Yongsheng to take over. I heard that as long as he's involved in the betting, no one is allowed to renege on their debts!"

"Exactly! Exactly!" Lin Ruofei nodded repeatedly. "If Zhang Yang ends up being chased for gambling debts by the 'Gambling King,' he'll have no face left to work at 'Yucai'!"

"Let's hurry up and get in line at the cafeteria!" Ding Yilin said, then took Lin Ruofei's hand and walked towards the classroom door.

“We should find Gao Qiang first and get my winnings back,” Lin Ruofei muttered, blinking her eyes. “He Shun said that with odds of 1 to 10, I would have 387 yuan. I don’t know if he helped me get it back.”

"Don't worry, it'll be fine!" Ding Yilin replied, "I've heard that this gambling king Feng Yongsheng never cancels a betting game. Even if the money you win isn't given to Gao Qiang at the time, he will definitely find a time to give it to you personally."

"Okay, that puts my mind at ease!" Lin Ruofei nodded.

The two had already walked out of the teaching building while they were talking. Just as Lin Ruofei and Ding Yilin were about to head straight for the cafeteria, someone suddenly grabbed Lin Ruofei's backpack from behind...

Lin Ruofei turned her head and saw that the person pulling her schoolbag was Gao Qiang!

"You're so slow! I've been waiting for you for ages!" Gao Qiang said, pulling out a wad of bills from his bag... all five-yuan and ten-yuan notes. "He Shun gave you four hundred yuan. Count it and see if it's correct."

"Huh? Didn't he say I should win 387 yuan? Why did he give me more?" Lin Ruofei took the wad of change and glanced at it.

“He Shun said you helped him win money, so he rounded it up for you,” Gao Qiang whispered. “He said he bet 500 yuan on Zhang Yang to win based on the odds given by gambling king Feng Yongsheng…”

"Since you bet on Zhang Yang to win, how can you say I helped him win money?" Lin Ruofei asked, puzzled.

"I haven't finished speaking yet, why are you in such a hurry?" Gao Qiang rolled his eyes at Lin Ruofei and said disdainfully, "It's not a big deal if a person is stupid, but if they don't listen to others, they're beyond saving!"

Upon realizing that Gao Qiang implied she was stupid, Lin Ruofei's face hardened, and she said coldly, "Can't you even talk? If you don't, I'm leaving!"

"Say it, I'll say it now!" Seeing that Lin Ruofei was a little angry, Gao Qiang didn't dare to make a fuss anymore and said directly, "After betting 500 on Zhang Yang to win, He Shun bet 500 on you to win."

“If Zhang Yang had won this match…” Ding Yilin muttered softly, “He Shun would have broken even, but Lin Ruofei won this match…”

"That means this kid still has four thousand left after deducting his initial investment!" Lin Ruofei exclaimed in sudden realization. "If everyone bet like this, wouldn't the gambling king Feng Yongsheng go bankrupt?"

“Gambling King Feng Yongsheng isn’t short of money. He doesn’t care about winning or losing money when he runs gambling games; he’s just doing it for fun. Besides, not everyone who gambles can casually pull out a thousand dollars like He Shun!” Gao Qiang said indignantly, “With odds like this, even the dumbest person would know that betting like this is a sure thing!”

"If you hadn't told me, I really wouldn't have thought of it..." Lin Ruofei thought to herself.

"I only have thirty or fifty yuan of pocket money in my pocket. Even if I bet, I won't win much. What's the point..." Gao Qiang muttered to himself.

Lin Ruofei understood very well what Gao Qiang meant: students like her who didn't have much money would really face a lot of helplessness at Yucai School!

"Here you go..." Lin Ruofei took out half of the money in her hand and handed it to Gao Qiang.

"What do you mean by that?" Gao Qiang asked, puzzled.

"Without your help today, I wouldn't have been able to participate in the game at all, let alone win!" Lin Ruofei said with a smile, "So you should get a share of the money I won!"

"I'm not helping you to ask you for money!" Gao Qiang refused to take the money and said seriously, "I'm helping you so that you'll agree to join my group during the school anniversary season."

"Actually, Zhang Yang and I didn't bet on football to win money," Lin Ruofei quickly explained when she saw that Gao Qiang's expression was a little off. "I really felt that I couldn't dampen the morale of my own people, so I placed the bet. Actually, I mainly wanted to stay in his dormitory."

"If you want to be my true friend from now on, then put the money away!" Gao Qiang said righteously.

"I'm sorry, I understand!" Lin Ruofei quickly put the money into her pocket, looking awkwardly at Gao Qiang who remained silent.

“Oh… um… it’s getting late,” Ding Yilin, who was standing to the side, quickly tried to smooth things over, “Lin Ruofei, didn’t you say you were going to treat us? Let’s hurry up and go to the cafeteria to line up!”

"Oh right! Oh right!" Lin Ruofei hooked her arm around Gao Qiang's with one hand and took Ding Yilin's hand with the other, then said with a grin, "To thank my old friend Ding Yilin who has been treating me to meals and my new friend... Gao Qiang, I'm treating you to a big meal at the cafeteria!"

"Hmph! Why go to the cafeteria if you want a big meal?" Gao Qiang glared at the cafeteria standing not far away and said angrily, "That's just a machine for the school to exploit our parents' hard-earned money!"

"Where do you want to eat if we don't go to the cafeteria?" Lin Ruofei asked, puzzled. "The school gates are closed, so I can't invite you out to eat!"

"Let's go," Gao Qiang suddenly whispered mysteriously to Lin Ruofei, "Come with me to 'Qianji Mountain'!"