Chapter 17: Super Strong Intuition

  Let's not mention the open and secret struggles between Zhao Yuqin and Situ Jianying for now. Zhou Hao stayed in the hospital for three days before applying for discharge. On one hand, it was due to his incredible physical recovery ability; on the other hand, the old military doctor who had supposedly participated in a self-defense counterattack war was extremely interested in Zhou Hao's body. Zhou Hao was deeply afraid that he would become his experimental subject, so after confirming that his body was fine, he left the hospital early.

  The Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau indeed rewarded Zhou Hao 5,000 yuan as promised by Situ Li, and also gave him a silk banner. Zhou Hao kept 1,000 yuan for himself and handed over the rest to Yan Tong. At the same time, the stocks that Zhao Yuqin bought rose by more than 30% within two days, turning the $150,000 invested by Zhou Hao into $200,000. And Zhou Hao knew that before mid-December, the stock would continue to rise, and his investment would soon multiply several times.

  Zhou Hao thought to himself that he must accumulate enough funds as soon as possible, because his biggest goal at the moment was the impending 1997 Asian financial storm. Following in the footsteps of speculators like Soros, Zhou Hao believed he would surely reap a rich harvest.

  After being discharged from the hospital, Zhou Hao immediately returned to school because he really missed Li Ruolan.

  "Wow, our great hero is back!" As soon as he entered the classroom, his classmates swarmed around him, either inquiring about Zhou Hao's injury or curiously asking about his brave fight against the drug dealers.

  These two days, through the news reports of Xiangcheng TV station, plus the intentional publicity of Yuning Middle School, Zhou Hao's positive image has been widely spread in the school. The students of Class 1, Grade 7 are deeply proud and often boast to other classes, "Do you know that Zhou Hao who avoided the drug dealer? He is my classmate, we get along well!"

  Zhou Hao finally managed to extricate himself from the crowd and returned to his seat, where Gao Jingyi turned around and said to him, "You look so spirited, you should be fine now."

  Looking at Gao Jingyi's gentle smile and two shallow dimples, Zhou Hao's heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably. He also smiled and said, "It's okay, thank you for your concern." In fact, among the most beautiful women in Yu Ning Middle School, she and Li Ruolan were counted as one of them. However, her personality was relatively cold, and apart from Luo Hui, who sat at the same table with her, she didn't have any other close friends.

  "My dad has praised you several times." Gao Jingyi said: "He said that the drug trafficker was a member of a Yunnan-based trafficking group, who had been wanted for a long time but couldn't be caught. Unexpectedly, he ended up falling into your hands."

  "Your dad?"

  "My dad went to the hospital to see you just the day before yesterday." Gao Jingyi curled her lip, very dissatisfied with Zhou Hao's belated realization, "It was your Mayor Gao after all."

  "Mayor Gao?" Zhou Hao was surprised when he heard this. "So Mayor Gao is your dad."

  Gao Jingyi slightly glared at him, as if saying "you're only realizing this now?"

  Zhou Hao thought to himself that among the girls he knew, except for Wang Xijun, none of them came from ordinary families. The most prominent one was Zhao Yuqin, whose father was a central government official and brother was a military commander. And previously in Erzhong, the unscrupulous Situ Jianying had the simplest background.

  While Gao Jingyi was at home, she heard her father say that Zhou Hao had a fierce battle with the extremely vicious drug dealer and finally killed him. She was still shocked in her heart. Because in her impression, Zhou Hao was just an unknown student except for his good grades, and she didn't know why he suddenly became so brave, even killing someone. Now looking at Zhou Hao wearing school uniform, Gao Jingyi also found it hard to imagine how he had defeated the drug dealer back then.

  "Don't treat me like a panda, okay?" Zhou Hao faced Gao Jingyi's curious and suspicious gaze, suddenly feeling a bit unnatural. "You're looking at me like this, others will think you have a crush on me."

  When Gao Jingyi heard Zhou Hao's words, she immediately scolded him with a smile, "Please don't be so narcissistic, okay?" As soon as she smiled and scolded, her face was no longer as cold and distant as before.

  At this time, Zhou Hao saw Liu Shichao playing a guessing game with Luo Hui next to him. Luo Hui randomly drew a card from a deck of poker cards and let Liu Shichao guess it. If he guessed correctly, he could hit Luo Hui once; otherwise, he would be hit by Luo Hui instead.

  Liu Shichao's forehead was knocked by Luo Hui more than a dozen times, and finally he said to Zhou Hao with a bitter face: "Zhou Hao, if you are my brother, then save me."

  "Alright then, but if you lose, you'll have to let Jingyi hit you, okay?" Luo Hui immediately turned to Zhou Hao.

  Zhou Hao looked at Gao Jingyi as soon as he heard the sound, and Gao Jingyi immediately clenched her fist. "What are you looking at? Don't expect me to show mercy." Zhou Hao could only laugh and say, "Then if I guess correctly, can I also hit Gao Jingyi?"

  Luohui and Gao Jingyi exchanged a glance, and Gao Jingyi nodded, "Okay."

  Then Luo Hui excitedly shuffled the cards and drew one from the middle with the back facing Zhou Hao, "Okay, guess."

  Zhou Hao gazed at the back of the poker card, and suddenly a subtle feeling emerged in his heart. He opened his mouth and said, "Plum Blossom Ten."

  Lu Hui and Gao Jingyi's faces changed, while Liu Shichao eagerly snatched the poker card from Lu Hui's hand to take a look. It was indeed the ten of clubs. He immediately exclaimed excitedly: "Haha, Zhou Hao guessed it right, you guys lost!"

  The two girls did not expect Zhou Hao to guess correctly, and Luo Hui shook her head repeatedly. "This round doesn't count, let's play again." She stared at Zhou Hao with wide eyes, "Let's play another round, dare you?"

  Zhou Hao shrugged his shoulders, and Luo Hui washed the cards again and drew one out, "Okay, guess again."

  He focused his mind again on the back of the poker card, and Zhou Hao's intuition appeared once more, "Is it the black spade Jack?"

  Luo Hui and Gao Jingyi were really stunned this time, Gao Jingyi looked at Zhou Hao in surprise, "How did you guess it?" Luo Hui also turned over the poker card, and indeed it was a black spade jack.

  Looking at the black peach jack, Zhou Hao was also shocked in his heart. He had previously thought that his intuition was very accurate, but he didn't expect it to be so sharp. He secretly thought: "I didn't have such a strong intuition before? Is this also an ability?" He said to Luo Hui and Gao Jingyi: "Let's try again, I don't even know how I guessed it."

  This time Gao Jingyi personally shuffled the cards and drew one out, saying to Zhou Hao: "Come on."

  Zhou Hao looked at the poker card and thought it was a square king in his heart, but he deliberately said: "It's a red peach A."

  Gao Jingyi smiled and turned over the card, "Hehe, you guessed wrong."

  But that poker card was actually a King of Diamonds!

  "This is too mysterious." Zhou Hao exclaimed in his heart, but his face didn't show a hint of surprise. Instead, he smiled at Gao Jingyi and said, "It seems that what happened earlier was just a coincidence."

  Gao Jingyi smiled and said, "Since you lost this time, let's just call it even. You don't have to hit me and I don't have to hit you." After that, she didn't wait for Zhou Hao to speak up and turned back to prepare for class.

  At this time, Zhou Hao didn't have the mood to joke with Gao Jingyi either. He secretly thought about whether his super strong intuition was an ability or not. To test it, he borrowed a deck of cards from Luo Hui, shuffled them several times, and then concentrated on looking at the back of the top card, guessing what it was in his mind before flipping it over to look at its front face.

  As a result, Zhou Hao tried dozens of times in a row, but only got it wrong three or four times. The accuracy rate of his intuition was actually over 90%.

  "Awesome, too powerful!" Zhou Hao thought to himself. However, this was also a beneficial and harmless thing for him, at least in the future when encountering earthquakes and the like, he would be able to sense them beforehand, and his life would have an extra layer of security.

  Soon, Mr. Ke arrived, and Zhou Hao hastily put away his poker cards and listened attentively to the lesson.

  After school in the afternoon, Li Ruolan found Zhou Hao and said, "Zhou Hao, you weren't at school for these two days. The school is planning to have the junior high department also start evening self-study sessions. Are you going to participate?"

  Zhou Hao only then remembered that in his previous life, the school also had junior high school students attend evening self-study sessions around this time. He had participated back then for the sake of learning. However, to him now, knowledge from middle school to university was no longer challenging, so attending evening self-study sessions was unnecessary. He didn't want to waste his own time on it. So he said: "Teacher Li, I don't want to attend this evening self-study session anymore."

  "I won't force you then." Li Ruolan said, "However, I hope you can return to school tonight, I want to help you make up for the lessons of these two days this evening."

  "In class?"

  Li Ruolan shook her head, "It will affect other students in class, go to the office and find me, I'm on duty there."

  Then, Zhou Hao went back home for dinner and came back to school. He didn't go to the classroom, but directly went to the English office to find Li Ruolan.

  It was already 7 o'clock in the evening when Zhou Hao arrived, and some of the other teachers had gone home, while others were leading their own classes for evening study. In the staff room with over a dozen office desks, only Li Ruoshan sat alone.

  "Have you eaten, Teacher Li?" asked Zhou Hao, sitting beside Li Ruolan.

  "The teacher has already eaten, thank you for your concern." Li Ruolan brushed the hair on her temples back, and her quiet face was very charming. "In the past two days, other subject teachers have mainly been reviewing, only my English class has opened a new lesson, and the content is not much." As she spoke, she took out the textbook and her notes for preparing lessons to tutor Zhou Hao.

  The two of them sat in front of the office desk, Zhou Hao and Li Ruolan were very close, the fragrance of perfume on Li Ruolan's body occasionally drilled into Zhou Hao's nose, mixed with her own body scent, giving a kind of refreshing feeling. The knowledge content that Li Ruolan was talking about, Zhou Hao didn't listen to at all, his mind was filled with Li Ruolan. At this distance, Zhou Hao could even see the fine down on Li Ruolan's face and the snow-white delicate skin on her neck.

  Li Ruolan didn't notice Zhou Hao's small movements at all and diligently helped him with his homework.