Chapter 11: Does It Hurt?
“Beep, beep…”
“This old man…”
Su Jiu hung up the phone expressionlessly, took out another strawberry lollipop from her skirt pocket, leaned against the base of a tree, and looked at Bai Qianyu, who was truly like a bright star chasing the moon over there.
The butterfly effect had already occurred. Bai Qianyu’s first awakening was not in the hospital but in public. She didn’t know if those maggots from the Ancient God Sect would take a fancy to her, especially since Bai Ming had been targeted because of his Bloodline.
However, in a small place like Huayang City, the level of the Ancient God Sect was also very low. At most, there wouldn’t be high-level Battle Generals… With the Principal’s strength, she should be safe, right?
“Good girl, I didn’t expect you to hide so deeply. Do you pretend to play with your phone every day, but in reality, you’re learning how to coagulate blood and diligently refining your bloodline cultivation at home?” Lu Nan walked to Su Jiu’s side after finishing his class’s wrap-up work and said with great relief.
“No, I was really watching anime.”
Upon hearing this, Su Jiu tilted her head slightly, looked into Lu Nan’s eyes, and said very sincerely.
“But your bloodline concentration is so high…” Lu Nan’s mouth twitched slightly.
“Is there a possibility that I’m naturally intelligent, and I’m just better at eating, sleeping, and playing games than others?” Su Jiu fell silent for a moment, then gave Lu Nan a 45°C oblique sun smile, her expression extremely earnest, with a hint of modesty on her face.
“?”
Lu Nan’s eyelids twitched. He couldn’t hold back anymore. This Su Jiu was as heartbreaking as ever. Damn it, why did he think she would get better?
Believing this was worse than believing a ghost climbing a tree.
But he had something else to say. He slightly adjusted his glasses and said with some melancholy, “Tomorrow we’ll test attributes and reassign classes based on performance. Try your best to get into Class A. Judging by your appearance, your attributes shouldn’t be low…”
“Hehe, Old Lu, it’s indeed not low. I feel like I can directly fight a Scarlet Flame Wolf head-on now.”
Upon hearing this, Su Jiu lowered her head with a blush, said modestly, then tilted her head up slightly and winked at him.
“Scarlet Flame Wolf? You probably haven’t even seen its true appearance. Pfft, with your tiny size, you probably can’t even knock it down with a slide tackle.”
Lu Nan suddenly burst out laughing. He found that this student did have some merits, at least she was quite interesting to talk to.
He then looked up at the darkening sky and said softly, “You didn’t seem right today. Go back to the dormitory and rest early. There have been strange people appearing around the school recently, don’t wander around like a bum.”
“Okay, okay, Old Lu, you’re busy. I’ll scurry back to the dorm to watch anime.”
He chuckled sinisterly, waved goodbye to Lu Nan, and headed towards the dormitory. She happened to go back and ask Bai Qianyu about her awakening situation to use as a reference.
“Get lost!”
…
“Not right…”
At the awakening area of Grade 12 Class A, Huang Fusheng held a darkened awakening stone in his left hand and another still luminous awakening stone in his right hand, his brows furrowed.
“Principal Huang, what’s wrong? Is there a problem with our class’s awakening stone?” Lu Nan came to Huang Fusheng’s side and asked confusedly.
“Can the first awakening drain the awakening stone?” Huang Fusheng put down the two awakening stones and muttered to himself.
“Drained? How is that possible.”
Seeing the other party didn’t believe him, Huang Fusheng threw Class A’s awakening stone over. A faint light appeared in his eyes, and he murmured, thinking about something, “Old Lu, you’ll know when you see it yourself.”
“This… it’s empty?!”
Lu Nan took the awakening stone and his expression immediately became incredibly surprised after a slight sensing. Holding the awakening stone, he was speechless.
“During the first awakening, there’s only one reason for this situation…” Huang Fusheng looked up, saw that no one was around, and then continued slowly, “A certain super bloodline has descended.”
“Like Bai Qianyu in the next class?” Lu Nan was a little startled.
“No… much more terrifying. What we need to do is to hide all of this for her. Go ask your old friends in the military for a half-used awakening stone to use as a replacement for the submission.”
“This matter cannot be known by anyone else, you know that the white-robed cultists of the Ancient God Sect are everywhere.”
Huang Fusheng gently shook his head, placed the awakening stone down softly, and his eyes became like a falcon’s, penetrating the forest and looking towards the black shadows moving at the school gate in the distance.
“Whoosh!”
Then, several feathers appeared in his hand, and he calmly threw them towards the black shadows. Several white lights floated and pinned the black shadows firmly to the ground.
“Screech screech!!”
They were several young monkeys, but their eyes were ferocious, and their murderous intent was exposed.
“It’s going to be a bumpy ride…”
…
Entering the girls’ dormitory, Su Jiu suddenly saw the figures of a few “old friends.” Her lips curved slightly, she deliberately walked past them, then pretended to bump into them and said in a high-pitched voice, “Yo yo, who is this? Isn’t it our sister Luko? It seems someone said I wouldn’t awaken successfully, right?”
“Sister Lu, does it hurt?”
Then she lightly slapped her own small face in imitation, and secretly gave a middle finger, looking as natural as greeting an old friend.
As she left, Su Jiu felt much smoother, and her steps were lighter.
Luko watched Su Jiu’s jaunty retreating back, her eyelids twitching wildly. She felt like she had been hit with a full set of taunting skills that made her angry to the point of exploding, her chest feeling like it was about to burst.
Taking a deep breath, Luko told herself to maintain her image, to absolutely maintain her image. She couldn’t argue with this wild girl. She was a noble Divine Ape Bloodline, the legitimate descendant of a branch family of the Lu family…
“Not only did this little vixen awaken successfully, but her awakening strength is also so high. Damn it, she probably stayed up all night secretly cultivating; she’s really a dog… And what’s even more infuriating is that the next class has a Bright Bird and Bai Qianyu’s Black Dragon. My status as a Divine Ape Bloodline is completely overshadowed by them. I’m truly screwed!”
On the surface, Luko, who had a cool and mature demeanor, was practically spewing profanities in her mind. She had awakened so successfully, yet she couldn’t even show off.
Su Jiu returned to her dormitory and also felt the markedly different gazes of her roommates. Finally, she met Bai Qianyu’s eyes.
Su Jiu’s heart flinched. She had become famous in the school and forgotten about the Male Protagonist’s Sister. Had she been discovered?
“I…”
Su Jiu awkwardly touched her nose, wanting to say something, but before she could finish, she was interrupted by Bai Qianyu.
“You are Su Jiu, right? Su Xiao Yu’s sister.”
The other party stared at her quietly with her slightly amber eyes, her clear voice giving Su Jiu a bad premonition. She was indeed discovered.
“That incident…”
Taking a deep breath, Su Jiu gently closed her eyes, wanting to apologize and confess directly.
“I’m sorry about that incident involving your brother. Don’t worry, I’ll return the money to you as soon as possible.”
Unexpectedly, Bai Qianyu apologized first. Seeing the other party bow and apologize, Su Jiu felt a little lost. She clumsily grabbed the equally soft and white arm, raised it slightly, and said, “I should be the one apologizing to you… Don’t worry about the money, that brat Xiao Yu would send money to other women anyway, so consider it an investment for your brother.”
“Okay, we siblings will remember classmate Su’s kindness.” Bai Qianyu was not a sentimental person. She stood up slightly and said very seriously.
At this moment, Su Jiu saw Bai Qianyu’s delicate face. For some unknown reason, she mustered the courage to stand on tiptoe, lightly flick Bai Qianyu’s forehead, blinked her eyes, and smiled charmingly, “What classmate Su, call me Jiu Jie.”
“This…” Bai Qianyu looked troubled. She had called her Jiu Jie before because she thought the other party was an intern, and later because she thought Su Jiu was older than her.
Now, she knew Su Jiu was a year younger than her…
Seeing Su Jiu’s gradually puffed-up face, Bai Qianyu sighed, pursed her lips, and recalled Su Jiu’s heroic act of helping others that day. She seemed a little handsome. With a single opening and closing of her mouth, as if using all her strength:
“Jiu Jie.”
