Chapter 17: All My Glands Are Clogging Up!

“Brother, you’re sweating buckets now, huh?”

“School Belle Lin has taken off on the spot. Your competitive pressure just got even bigger.”

“That experience bar you built up before has probably been wiped clean.”

Because he was standing in the front row, Li Jian’s face was dyed so Jian’s face was dyed so purple by the light that he looked like an eggplant.

He was both envious and a little worried.

He had read the saying that dragons do not dwell with snakes so many times in all kinds of novels that he was sick of it.

Lin Wanxing already had an outstanding figure and stunning looks, and now she had awakened an A-rank martial talent.

That was practically the same as having diamonds set all over her body.

She shone brilliantly.

Once a person’s status rose, their horizons naturally rose with it.

Not just anyone could qualify to be a simp.

Li Jian saw it very clearly. In the future, second-generation rich kids like Fang Qingchen and Li Jiangnan probably would not even be qualified to be Lin Wanxing’s simps.

Fang Qingchen merely shrugged indifferently.

What was this, really? He was already feeling pressure over a mere A-rank talent?

This kid probably did not know what real pressure meant at all!

In his previous life, Lin Wanxing with her S-rank talent had been the one who was truly dazzling.

Especially after she entered university, the number of suitors around her could practically stretch for miles.

And every one of them had an impressive background.

There were three or four people just like him—sons of half-step Martial Gods.

There had even been actual sons of Martial Gods who entered the fray to pursue her.

It had all become a complete mess.

But what Fang Qingchen could not understand was this: right up until the day he died in battle in his previous life, he had never heard any news of Lin Wanxing getting married.

“Great news! Great news!”

“Congratulations to Lin Wanxing of Class Seven for awakening an A-rank combat-type martial talent: Clone!”

The loud announcement boomed across the entire sports field.

Bathed in purple radiance, Lin Wanxing looked like a goddess.

She turned around, and the delicate beauty of her face now carried an even colder aloofness.

Even under the burning gazes of more than ten thousand students, she showed not the slightest stage fright.

With perfect composure, she waved to the crowd below.

That was the powerful confidence brought by an A-rank talent!

It was practically like the arrival of a queen.

Her overwhelming presence directly left all the boys below the stage staring dumbly.

It even made quite a few students feel an inferiority deep inside themselves.

Even someone as confident as Li Jiangnan, when he looked at Lin Wanxing glowing all over at this moment, felt deep down that he was not worthy of her.

He was nothing but a toad lusting after swan meat.

“Waaah! Oh my god, an A-rank talent!”

“Wanxing, you’re amazing!”

“You really are worthy of being my bestie.”

“Waaah, I’m definitely going to cling to your thigh now.”

The moment Lin Wanxing stepped down from the stage, Gu Tingting wrapped herself around her arm.

She was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, so close to her that the two seemed like a single person.

The two girls chatted and laughed as they returned to Class Seven’s group.

When they passed by Lu Qingqian, Lin Wanxing paused slightly.

She looked at her with a provocative gaze.

Even though they were about the same height, there was somehow a sense of looking down on her from above.

Seeing Lin Wanxing stop in front of her, Lu Qingqian also raised her head.

The gazes of the two girls collided in the air.

“The milk tea Fang Qingchen brought tastes good, doesn’t it?”

Lin Wanxing let out a light laugh as she looked at the cup in Lu Qingqian’s hands.

“What a pity. You’ll never get to drink it again after this.”

“Enjoy it slowly.”

A victor’s smile hung on Lin Wanxing’s face as she brushed past.

She knew that Fang Qingchen, that simp, was probably about to come and admit his mistake.

[Fang Qingchen, weren’t you acting so smug just now?]

[You rejected me in public!]

[I’d really like to see how you’re going to apologize to me later so that I can finally calm down.]

Lin Wanxing herself had not even realized it.

Her current mentality had already become twisted.

After awakening an A-rank talent, the very first thing that made her happy was actually the thought of seeing Fang Qingchen cry bitterly and apologize in front of her.

Just imagining it felt amazing!

After she walked past, only then did Lu Qingqian’s tightly drawn little face relax.

She felt that she had been targeted.

Usually taciturn and cold by nature, Lu Qingqian finally could not hold back anymore.

She launched what she considered to be the strongest possible counterattack.

Her plump lower lip stuck out.

Her willow-leaf brows squeezed together in the middle as she copied Lin Wanxing’s expression from just now.

Her adorable little head shook left and right, like she was making a face, and her lips moved silently into a mouth shape.

“Enjoy it slowly...”

It was exaggeratedly cute.

After making that face, she felt much happier.

She took a slurp of milk tea and then burst out laughing, amused by herself.

What she did not know, however, was that Fang Qingchen had taken in every tiny movement.

“I really didn’t expect Lu Qingqian to have such a girlish side to her.”

“Compared to her martial talent, it really is a huge contrast.”

“Heh, Lin Wanxing, Lin Wanxing. Do you really think awakening an A-rank talent means you can treat Lu Qingqian like some soft persimmon you can squeeze at will?”

Fang Qingchen looked at the haughty Lin Wanxing as if he were looking at an idiot, then shook his head inwardly.

When she saw Lin Wanxing return, Old Huang was the first to go up and greet her.

She was smiling from ear to ear.

“Good, good, good. I knew I hadn’t misjudged you, Lin Wanxing.”

“I always knew that among everyone in Class Seven, you would be the most promising.”

“But even though you’ve awakened an A-rank talent, you still mustn’t slack off.”

“Treasure your talent, diligently cultivate the martial path, don’t get distracted, and absolutely do not fall in love.”

Old Huang instructed her earnestly, especially emphasizing the final sentence.

She was practically pointing at Fang Qingchen openly with that remark.

After hearing it, Lin Wanxing merely nodded faintly.

She fully carried herself like a goddess.

Then she cast what appeared to be a casual glance at Fang Qingchen.

Deep inside, she desperately wanted to see regret, annoyance, and remorse on his face.

Unfortunately, she was disappointed again.

Fang Qingchen still could not even be bothered to look at her.

His hands were in his pockets, and he looked utterly carefree.

“So infuriating.”

“I’m obviously this outstanding. In Linjiang City this year—even in the whole of Jiangnan Province—there might not be anyone with a talent higher than mine.”

“Why is he still not apologizing?!”

Lin Wanxing felt as though every gland in her body had become clogged shut!

Yet she still had to maintain that cold and aloof expression on her face.

It was hard to describe just how miserable that felt.

She was practically about to explode!

If he would not come to her, then she would strike hard instead!

She had already made up her mind. Once Lu Qingqian and Fang Qingchen finished awakening their talents, she would definitely ridicule that “dog man and bitch woman” pair without mercy.

“Will Lu Qingqian of Class Seven... and the other ten students please come up to awaken their talents.”

After that brief frenzy, the awakening ceremony had to continue.

When Lu Qingqian heard that it was her turn, although she had long prepared herself, at this moment, her body still trembled in fear.

She wanted to step forward, but her feet felt incomparably heavy.

No matter what, she could not lift them.

She was too afraid.

Too afraid that she might fail to awaken a martial talent.

The burden of her family rested entirely on her frail shoulders, pressing down on her until she could barely breathe.

Only by awakening a talent, getting into a martial arts university, and becoming a martial artist could she earn enough money to treat her parents and support her younger sister’s education.

If she had no martial talent, then her world would probably never have another trace of light again.

Just as she felt she was almost suffocating—

SLAP!