14: Chapter 14 The Hope of Growing Taller

"Report." Chen Fan stood at the doorway and said in a deep voice.

Li Bin, who was in the middle of lecturing, heard this, turned his head to look over, and asked, "Class has been going on for so long, where did you go?"

"Principal Chen just asked me to go move something."

Chen Fan had thought of this excuse when he arrived, and he believed that no teacher would be foolish enough to go check with the principal.

Upon hearing Chen Fan's reply, Li Bin glanced at him and said, "Alright, go inside."

After returning to his seat, Jiang Chen leaned over with a curious expression on his face, "What did you go move for the principal?"

"Moved a hammer~"

"Moved a hammer?"

Jiang Chen was stunned. After thinking for a few seconds, he suddenly realized, "You were lying to the teacher just now, right?"

Chen Fan did not speak.

"Holy crap." Jiang Chen couldn't help but whisper, "That's awesome, Brother Fan, to actually use the principal's name."

"You can try it next time too." Chen Fan glanced at Jiang Chen.

"I wouldn't dare." Jiang Chen shook his head.

Chen Fan understood Jiang Chen's reaction very well; after all, their mindset was still in their student days, where teachers were always a level above them, let alone the principal.

But Chen Fan was a reincarnated person after all. In his eyes, both teachers and the principal were equal, which was why he could naturally and boldly lie to the teacher.

Sitting in his seat, Chen Fan felt a bit bored for a moment. Since he hadn't pulled an all-nighter last night, he was very energetic during the day.

"Right." Chen Fan exclaimed inwardly, suddenly remembering that he now had over eight thousand wealth points and should check if the wealth store had refreshed with anything he wanted to buy.

During this period, Chen Fan would open the wealth store every day to take a look, and most of the time, it would refresh with things Chen Fan wanted to buy.

For example, the High School Subject Mastery worth 50,000 wealth points.

In these two weeks, it had already refreshed twice for Mathematics, once for Biology, and once for English.

Besides that, the system often refreshed other things—items that were just as attractive to him as the subject mastery.

[Talent · Fitness Saint Body]

[Culinary Mastery]

...

Every time these appeared, his heart would flutter, but due to his lack of funds, he could only sigh helplessly.

Opening the wealth store, Chen Fan began to check the items refreshed in the store today.

The first thing Chen Fan saw was the energy potion that had been refreshed before, costing 1,000 wealth points.

This still held quite a bit of appeal for Chen Fan. Although he didn't need to pull all-nighters every day now, occasionally doing so felt truly unpleasant, and having an energy potion would allow for quick recovery.

As Chen Fan moved his gaze to another item, he was immediately stunned.

[Secondary Bone Development] 500,000 wealth points.

His eyelids twitched.

What the heck?

Clicking on the details:

After use: The entire body's bones will enter a period of secondary development, lasting for two months. Height can break through genetic limitations, bone density will increase, skeletal proportions will be optimized, and the physique will tend towards perfection.

After seeing this description, Chen Fan froze for a moment.

For Chen Fan, his height was a sore point.

In his previous life, his height only reached 1.76 meters. Although not short, he was particularly envious of those who were over 1.8 meters tall.

After his rebirth, with the system, he believed that the system's magic would definitely be able to solve his height problem.

He didn't expect to see hope so quickly.

One could imagine his mood right now.

However, when Chen Fan's eyes saw the price listed below, his excited heart instantly calmed down.

500,000 wealth points; he couldn't afford it at all right now.

And by the time he could afford it, it might not necessarily refresh as an item again soon.

It seemed that wanting to grow taller would take at least several more months.

It was only a few months; Chen Fan could afford to wait. After all, he had lived through thirty-some years in his previous life, so what were a few months?

Although Chen Fan couldn't afford the [Secondary Bone Development] item for the time being, he didn't intend to return empty-handed.

The energy potion was 1,000 per vial; Chen Fan could still afford that.

He would buy one and store it first, then go pull an all-nighter tonight and test its effect.

As Chen Fan chose to purchase it, the [energy potion] that had been lit up instantly turned gray, making it unavailable for purchase again.

Seeing this, Chen Fan had some doubts and didn't know if items that had already been purchased would refresh again later.

Chen Fan guessed that since the [energy potion] was a consumable, the probability of it refreshing again should be quite high.

At this moment, he suddenly wondered where the potion he just bought was. After studying it, he discovered that the potion was still stored in the system; he could take it out at any time or keep it stored in the system indefinitely.

"The system is actually quite user-friendly." Chen Fan couldn't help but give the system a mental thumbs-up.

After exiting the system, Chen Fan didn't know what to do for a moment. He couldn't sleep if he tried, and listening to the lecture was even less possible.

Bored, he chose to observe his classmates.

Although he had been reborn for nearly a month, Chen Fan had been busy writing at night and basically sleeping during the day, so his memory of most of the classmates in the class remained in his previous life.

After taking a look around, Chen Fan was a bit disappointed. In his class of over fifty people, including nearly 20 girls, there wasn't even a class beauty. The best-looking one could only be considered pleasant to look at, and definitely not beautiful.

Chen Fan couldn't help but think of Lin Xi. Based on Chen Fan's perspective from later life, she would absolutely have no problem being the class beauty or even the school beauty, but unfortunately, she wasn't in the same class as him.

Sure enough, the novels that say every class has a beautiful class beauty are lying.

But thinking about it, it was normal; beautiful girls were a minority after all.

He rested his chin on his hand, his gaze landing outside the window.

Just enduring it like this.

Enduring until class ended, enduring until school was out.

Finally, as the bell for the last evening self-study session rang, Chen Fan rushed out of the classroom immediately.

Half an hour later.

Interstellar Internet Cafe.

This internet cafe was the one with the best environment in the county, and it even had various private rooms. Chen Fan directly opened a double private room.

Previously, because he lacked funds, he had to go to Red Forest. Every time he came, he had to endure the smell of smoke, foot odor, and various other smells, accompanied by all kinds of noisy sounds.

Now that he had sufficient funds, Chen Fan would certainly choose Interstellar, which had a better environment.

After starting the computer, Chen Fan began to write.

Because he had uploaded 300,000 words at once, his stock of manuscripts wasn't much. Adding what he had written over the past few days, there were only about 400,000 words of stock left.

So, the writing had to continue; the task was heavy and the road was long.

He opened Kugou Music, found Jay Chou's songs to play, and the prelude to "Rice Field" slowly began to play.

Da, da, da—

Chen Fan's fingers began to tap on the keyboard rhythmically.

The sound wasn't loud, but it was rhythmic. Accompanied by the melody in his headphones, he pushed forward chapter by chapter. With the full text in his mind, his hands just needed to move; this feeling was too good.