Cognitive Bias Chapter 7 - Joy After a Disaster

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After a short journey back to the classroom, Li Zimo's footsteps were light, and the feeling was similar to the kind of joy one feels before a disaster.

Lu Xiao's reputation in this school is really bad.

The new transfer student had a sense of existence for the first time in the class as a "person remembered by Lu Xiao".

The news of a trivial event among high school students can be spread quickly.

After a unanimous discussion, everyone came to the conclusion that Lu Xiao wanted to teach her a lesson.

This probability is very high.

The school is full of descendants of famous people from the upper society, but Lu Xiao is very special.

He is very rich and powerful.

He has many advantages, but these two are the most prominent advantages - maybe the ‘handsome’ part is one of the two.

He has the same number of shortcomings, such as bad temper, bad mood, and grumpiness.

The most widespread rumor about him is that he forced someone to drop out of school.

She heard that the other party had four broken bones and was finally forced to drop out of school. This matter was supressed by the school and his family and ino one even dared to record it on his file.

In this school, bullies often uses silent psychological warfare. At most, they brings people into corners without surveillance cameras, pushes a few times, gives a few slaps, and stuffs their heads into the toilet.

Ordinary people need to pay a high admission education fund to enter the school.

Students with excellent grades and ordinary families can be exempted from this fee and can receive scholarships according to the ladder to cover the high tuition fees. These children can enjoy the best quality teaching and connections at a relatively low price, at the cost of a little discrimination and school bullying.

This is an early exercise for the thickness of the skin. Those who get used to it can throw away their excess self-esteem in advance, harvest the future and interpersonal relationships, or respect and lick the boots of the rich until they spend a few years of high school in peace; those who can't adapt leave the scene, and no one in the school will remember their names.

Although it sounds terrible, in fact, the school has a close monitoring of school bullying. This is for the sake of both sides. Most of the powerful children in the school will inherit their families' high positions in the future. It is not a good thing to be exposed of school bullying in their school days when they are in a high position, so the teachers guard against it.

— Except for Lu Xiao, who doesn't act according to common sense.

Xia Tang comforted Li Zimo 800 times and told her that she would be fine.

"Maybe he has a crush on me?" She said half jokingly.

No one believed this. Li Zimo thought she was laughing at herself and looked even more guilty.

Xia Tang would never fear Lu Xiao.

The two of them have known each other for more than ten years. She has rich experience in how to deal with Lu Xiao. Just the night before yesterday, she had s*x with him in the laundry room.

It would be more strange if she really gets afraid of him.

After school, Xia Tang took the bus as usual and got off at the next stop, but the black car waited in front of the station. The window rolled down, revealing Lu Xiao's face: "Get on the car."

Xia Tang sighed and opened the door of the back seat to get in the car.

The interior of the luxury car was spacious enough for him to straighten his legs, his school bag was on the ground.

Of course, the driver was an acquaintance. Xia Tang greeted him first when she got in the car, and the driver also nodded to her from the rearview mirror.

Lu Xiao directly pressed the button beside him, the window between the driver's seat and the back row was closed, and the back row became an independent closed space.

Xia Tang pulled the screen and looked out of the window, and the car drove in a completely different direction from the way home.

"Where are you going?"

Lu Xiao looked calm: "Go to the city center."

"Why are you going downtown?"

"To shop."

His answer gave her a headache as usual.

Xia Tang fell back and leaned on the leather seat. She was so tired that she didn't want to move: "Just ask someone else to accompany you if you want to buy something. I’m tired and I have to do my homework when I get home."

Lu Xiao looked at her sideways. Her summer school uniform was light and thin. Xia Tang untied the tie that was in the way on the bus and loosened the button of the shirt, revealing a fairness  extending downwards from the neckline.

In the closed room, you can easily smell the fragrance of the shower gel on her body. It is very familiar. It is a smell buried deep in the tip of his nose.

The not so long ago memory emerged immediately. The air conditioner in the car was running normally but he suddenly felt hot and he clenched his fist.

Xia Tang suddenly looked sideways, and Lu Xiao suddenly looked into her eyes and saw his face in her eyes.

She didn't feel anything: "You haven't done your homework either, have you?"

Her sentence was both a question and a statement.

Lu Xiao folded his legs and said, "Why do I need to do that?"

It is indeed his style.

Xia Tang made a suggestion: "Why don't you do it? Either you let me go back to do my homework, and you can find someone else to accompany you; or, I will accompany you back to review your homework and finish our homework together."

This is a typical psychological strategy.

When you want the other party to do something he doesn't want to do, give him a worse option, so that he will choose the first option.

Lu Xiao thought for a few seconds, and then asked the driver to turn back first.

The car was parked in front of the yard. Xia Tang got out of the car. Lu Xiao followed her and got out of the car, carrying two school bags in his hand and closing the door. The car continued to drive into the garage.

Xia Tang looked at him. She came back and took her schoolbag in his hand: "I’m not going to ask you to do my homework."

He looked like he was reluctant to accompany her.

But he still chose the first option.

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