Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey seemed to have caught a lifesaver, trembling with excitement.
What was this? This was called walking right into a trap!
"Principal! Principal!" Zhao Lei, as if pumped full of adrenaline, pointed a trembling finger at Chen Zhi. His voice was filled with extreme excitement. "Look at him! Look at the two of them! This is ironclad proof! Now you can't say I'm just chasing shadows!"
Skinny Monkey chimed in, "Yeah, Principal, they're hugging! If this goes unpunished, then what's the point of the school rules!"
The two of them looked at Principal Wang with hope, waiting for his thunderous wrath to descend upon Chen Zhi.
The principal frowned and turned his head, following the direction they were pointing.
In his line of sight, Chen Zhi's electric scooter happened to be driving past the security guard's booth.
Chen Zhi seemed to notice the commotion over there too. He squeezed the brakes slightly, supported himself with his long legs, and stopped less than two meters away from the principal.
"Yo, Principal Wang, you haven't gotten off work yet?" Chen Zhi greeted with a cheeky smile. "What did these two guys do? They look familiar."
Lin Wanwan poked her small head out from behind Chen Zhi, blinked her big eyes, and called out obediently, "Hello, Principal."
This "Hello, Principal" was so sweet and crisp that it could melt anyone's heart.
Principal Wang's gaze lingered on the two of them for two seconds. Especially when he saw Lin Wanwan's hands tightly wrapped around Chen Zhi's waist, the corner of his eye twitched slightly.
Zhao Lei held his breath, his heart pounding wildly. Scold him! Hurry up and scold him! Expel him!
However, the next second, Principal Wang turned his head, and his expression instantly switched from the gentle elder facing Chen Zhi back to the King of Hell mode.
He roared at Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey, "What are you looking at! Still not behaving! They are doing that for safety! There are so many people after school, what if she falls because she isn't holding on tight? Can you two have healthier thoughts!"
"???"
Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey's expressions instantly cracked.
For safety?
The hell it was for safety!
Who rubs their face against someone's back for safety! Who smiles so sweetly for safety!
"No, Principal..." Zhao Lei felt his worldview collapsing. "That's puppy love! Didn't you just say..."
"What did I say?" Principal Wang glared, full of imposing manner. "Chen Zhi is the top scorer of the high school entrance exam, and he ranked first in the grade in this week's test. His mind is all on his studies! Unlike you two, who fool around all day and act like spies watching your classmates! Do you still want to go home today?"
Chen Zhi almost laughed out loud listening from the side. This Old Wang was being too obvious about protecting his own. Was this the privilege of a top student? He loved it.
He sighed deliberately, looking heartbroken. "Alas, students nowadays are just too jealous. Principal, please calm down, don't ruin your health over this. We'll be leaving first, we still have to go back and review our lessons."
After saying that, Chen Zhi twisted the throttle.
"Sit tight, Wanwan."
"Mhm!" Lin Wanwan replied sweetly, not forgetting to turn around and make a face at the dumbfounded Zhao Lei.
The little electric scooter shot out with a "whoosh", leaving only its taillights visible.
Principal Wang watched their backs disappear around the corner, turned his head, and gave the two petrified boys another severe scolding. "Look at them! Even after school, they know to race against time to go home and study! What about you? Call your parents in tomorrow! You must reflect deeply on this!"
"I..." Zhao Lei opened his mouth, only feeling as if something was blocking his throat, unable to utter a single word.
Skinny Monkey looked even more desperate. His phone was confiscated, the photos were deleted, and he even had to call his parents.
The surrounding students cast sympathetic glances at them.
Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey stood rooted to the spot, looking at the golden signboard of "Jiangcheng First Middle School" shining in the setting sun.
The sunset that was golden just a moment ago rapidly lost its color in their eyes.
Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey exchanged a glance, both seeing a deep sense of powerlessness in each other's eyes.
The sky over Jiangcheng First Middle School had turned dark.
Zhao Lei looked in the direction Chen Zhi had disappeared and muttered to himself:
"In this world... is there still justice?"
"Is there still law?"
...
The next day.
The door to the Student Union office was pushed open.
Chen Zhi looked down and adjusted the armband on his left arm, which had the word "Discipline" printed on it.
He reached out and gently smoothed the wrinkles on the armband, his movements as gentle as if he were caressing a lover's face.
Was this the taste of power?
Chen Zhi took a deep breath, the air seemingly filled with a sweet fragrance.
Thinking of Xu Min's expression in the office just now—a look of "I call bullshit" yet having no choice but to stamp his paperwork—Chen Zhi couldn't quite suppress the laughter bubbling in his chest.
"Hehehe."
A villainous cackle echoed in the empty corridor.
Since he had received an imperial decree, he had to do some actual work.
Chen Zhi took out his phone, opened WeChat, and found the chat box with a cat avatar.
[Chen Zhi: Bro, how's the frontline intel? Have those two monkeys respawned their gear yet?]
[Pei Ningxue: ...You mean Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey?]
[Chen Zhi: Yep, who else but those two crouching morons and hidden idiots.]
[Pei Ningxue: They bought them. Zhao Lei bought a secondhand phone, and Skinny Monkey bought another secondhand Android. They're cursing up a storm right now. Why?]
[Chen Zhi: Nothing, just caring about my classmates' communication needs. By the way, hide your phone well, preferably stuff it in your underwear, it's not convenient for me to strip-search you.]
[Pei Ningxue: ??? Get lost!]
Chen Zhi put away his phone, the smile on his face growing even brighter, even carrying a bit of benevolence.
...
Class 10, Grade 10 classroom.
It was currently the break time before the evening self-study session, and the classroom was noisy.
In the corner of the back row, a low-pressure gloom shrouded the Liu Xiaoyan Nice Guy Squad.
Zhao Lei sat on the desk, playing with the secondhand Android phone with a somewhat scratched screen in his hand.
"Damn it, it's all that jinx Chen Zhi's fault!"
Zhao Lei gritted his teeth, jabbing his finger hard at the screen as if it were Chen Zhi's face. "My Fruit X! I just bought it less than half a month ago! It can't even be repaired!"
Beside him, Skinny Monkey also looked utterly depressed, holding a peeling old phone in his hand. It was an eighteenth-hand Android phone he had bought with money he had saved up for a long time.
"Brother Lei, don't even mention it."
Skinny Monkey sniffled, looking wronged. "I'm the miserable one. My phone went straight into the principal's safe. He said he won't return it to me until graduation."
"I can't swallow this anger!"
Zhao Lei slapped his thigh fiercely, but he used too much force. The secondhand Android phone lagged for a moment and then completely froze.
He was so angry that he almost smashed this crappy phone too.
"You have to swallow it even if you can't."
A boy with a face full of acne beside them sighed. He was Zhao Lei's new lackey. "Chen Zhi is the principal's favorite now, and he's the top scorer of the high school entrance exam. How are we supposed to fight him?"
Before he finished speaking, a terrified scream suddenly came from the classroom door.
"Holy shit! The Student Union! Someone is here to check for phones!"
The noisy classroom fell dead silent for a split second, only to erupt into absolute chaos.
The clattering of desks and chairs, the thud of dropping books, and the frantic zipping of bags echoed throughout the room.
Everyone scrambled desperately for cover, stuffing their phones into piles of books, up their sleeves, and even down into their socks and shoes.
Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey were caught off guard as well, frantically searching for a place to stash their brand-new phones.
Before they could manage to hide them, the front door of the classroom was shoved open.
"Freeze! Hands off the desks! Everyone, stand up!"
The stern reprimand brought the entire room to a standstill.
Mr. Li from the Disciplinary Office marched in with a stony expression, wielding a long black device in his hand—a metal detector.
Right behind him trailed a figure that made everyone in the class grit their teeth in sheer hatred.
Wearing a bright red armband on his left arm and carrying a metal detector of his own in his right hand, Chen Zhi swaggered into the room.
He swept his gaze over the panicked students, letting his eyes linger intentionally on Zhao Lei and his crew in the back row for a couple of seconds.
Seeing his former enemies looking as if they had just seen a ghost, Chen Zhi felt an immense sense of satisfaction, as if every pore on his body had opened up in pure bliss.
"Heh heh heh."
Unable to hold it in, he let out another low, eerie chuckle.
Mr. Li glanced back at him, somewhat baffled, but since the student had been sent by the Student Council to assist with the inspection, he refrained from saying anything.
"Everyone, up! Form two lines, step forward for inspection one by one, and then wait out in the hallway!"
Mr. Li waved his hand and issued the command.
Looking utterly devastated, the students of Class Ten stood up, their heads hanging in defeat.
Chen Zhi stood by the door, metal detector in hand.
"Beep—"
"Clear. Next."
"Beep—"
"Coins? Take them out. Next."
Chen Zhi's inspections were completely perfunctory; for most students, he just gave a symbolic wave of the wand.
That was, until Zhao Lei and Skinny Monkey walked up.
Zhao Lei glared daggers at Chen Zhi. If looks could kill, Chen Zhi would have been sliced into a thousand pieces by now.
"What are you looking at? Keep staring and I'll gouge your eyeballs out and pop them like bubble wrap."
Smiling cheerfully, Chen Zhi swept the detector all over him, paying extra special attention to his crotch and chest areas.
"You're abusing your power for a personal grudge!" Zhao Lei growled under his breath.
"I'm just doing my job."
Chen Zhi shrugged. "Now get out of here, stop holding up my work."
Once all the students of Class Ten had been herded out into the hallway, the classroom was left completely empty.
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
ine. During your journey, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her elder brother】 【You rely on each other, becoming each other's support】 【At the end of the simulation, you shield the now-grown girl with your life, sacrificing yourself to block numerous demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in the girl's eyes fades】 …… 【Second Simulation: You are transported to a world where steam and magic coexist】 【You immerse yourself in the study of magic, obsessed with its research. One day, while out, you encounter a half-blooded demon girl wandering the streets. You take her in as your student】 【You teach the demoness what it means to be human, show her the beauty of the world, and nurture her into a miracle that surpasses even the gods】 【At the end of the simulation, you die of old age in front of the nearly immortal demoness due to your mortal lifespan】 …… One simulation after another, one encounter after another. Xu Xi suddenly felt something was off: "Wait, you said you're coming to the real world to find me?"
