The morning sun filtered through the gaps in the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the asphalt road. The air was filled with the aroma of soy milk and deep-fried dough sticks.
Chen Zhi sat on a small folding stool at the breakfast stall, holding half a dough stick and bringing it to his mouth.
A flurry of hurried footsteps came from the entrance of the stairwell.
Lin Wanwan bounded down the last few steps, her backpack slung over one shoulder, her ponytail swinging in a lively arc behind her head with every movement.
She was still clutching half a bag of milk in her hand, a little grease smudged at the corner of her mouth.
Chen Zhi swallowed his last bite of the dough stick and clapped the crumbs off his hands.
He stood up, straddled the electric scooter parked by the road, and casually hung his helmet on the handlebars.
"Hurry up, we're going to be late if you keep dawdling."
Lin Wanwan clamped the milk bag in her mouth and mumbled an indistinct response.
Chen Zhi looked at the empty space behind her. "Where's your bike? Not riding today?"
"It's broken."
Lin Wanwan answered righteously. Without missing a beat, she swung her long legs over and straddled the back seat of Chen Zhi's scooter, adjusting her posture to find a comfortable angle. "The chain fell off, and the tires are flat. Anyway, it just won't move. I'm doing you a favor today by letting you escort this young lady to school."
Chen Zhi glanced back at her, his eyes full of suspicion.
It was perfectly fine after school yesterday. How did it get totaled overnight? Was the bike made of paper?
"What are you looking at? Let's go, we're really going to be late!" Lin Wanwan urged, reaching out to pat Chen Zhi's back. "If our names get taken down, it's your points that will be deducted."
"Alright, alright, hold tight."
Chen Zhi couldn't be bothered to expose her lie. He swallowed his remaining bun in one gulp and twisted the throttle.
The electric scooter zipped forward with a hum.
As soon as he accelerated, his waist suddenly tightened.
Two slender arms slipped around from his sides and tightly wrapped around his waist.
A warm sensation instantly transmitted through his thin school uniform shirt.
Chen Zhi's body suddenly stiffened.
The girl's body was incredibly soft, and the pressing sensation against his back made his heart skip a beat.
"Loosen up a bit, you're strangling me." Chen Zhi kept his eyes on the road, trying to keep his voice steady, pretending to be an emotionless driver.
"No."
Instead of letting go, Lin Wanwan pushed her luck and pressed her face against his back, tightening her arms even more. Her muffled voice came through, "The wind is strong, it's cold."
Chen Zhi's mouth twitched.
Big sister, it's September right now, and you're telling me it's cold?
But he didn't say anything else, just silently slowed down the scooter a bit so the wind would blow more gently.
The morning breeze carried a slight chill, messing up her loose hair.
Hiding behind Chen Zhi, Lin Wanwan revealed a sly smile at the corners of her mouth.
She wasn't stupid.
Ever since they started high school, the situation had become quite severe.
Chen Zhi went to Class Ten, not in the same class as her, but that Pei Ningxue was actually in Class Ten too! And they were desk-mates!
Not to mention there was also a covetous Li Zhiyi in Class One.
If she kept putting on airs and didn't take the initiative to strike, by the time the college entrance exams were over, there wouldn't even be bone scraps left of this childhood sweetheart she had raised since they were little.
Since they say the pavilion closest to the water enjoys the moonlight first, she was going to occupy this pavilion firmly.
As long as you swing the hoe well, there's no corner you can't dig up.
Besides, this corner belonged to her family in the first place.
Feeling the body heat behind him, Chen Zhi silently recited the Classic of Purity and Stillness a few times, forcefully suppressing those messy thoughts.
He looked straight ahead, trying his best to look like an emotionless driver.
...
Ten minutes later, at the gate of Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School.
The morning rush hour student flow was crowded, with bicycles and electric scooters crammed together.
Chen Zhi turned the scooter into the parking shed. Just as he kicked down the kickstand, before he could even pull out the key, a deep and somewhat majestic voice rang in his ears.
"You two over there! The one riding the electric scooter, and the girl on the back seat, stop right there!"
Chen Zhi and Lin Wanwan both froze and turned to look.
A middle-aged man wearing a gray jacket rushed out from beside the guardhouse.
This man sported a balding hairstyle, his belt buckled tight under his round belly. As he ran, the flesh on his stomach jiggled.
The Director of the Political and Educational Office of Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School, Xie Ding.
True to his name, the top of his head was shiny enough to act as a mirror.
Director Xie walked up to them in a few strides, his gaze sweeping back and forth over Chen Zhi and Lin Wanwan, finally locking onto Lin Wanwan's hand, which was still gripping the hem of Chen Zhi's clothes.
"Well, well! In broad daylight!"
Director Xie slapped the small notebook in his hand loudly, looking deeply pained. "You two are too arrogant! The school has repeatedly ordered a strict ban on intimate contact between male and female students, and strictly prohibited puppy love! Yet you dare to commit crimes against the wind, hugging each other while riding a bike. What kind of behavior is this!"
The surrounding students stopped in their tracks, casting gossipy glances.
The students parking their bikes nearby cast sympathetic looks, and many recognized Chen Zhi, starting to whisper among themselves.
"It's over, they got caught by Old Xie."
"Who is this guy? So brave, bringing a girl to school?"
"That's Chen Zhi! The top scorer of the high school entrance exam!"
Lin Wanwan shrank behind Chen Zhi and muttered softly, "What do we do? Caught again. Why does this scene feel so familiar?"
Chen Zhi sighed, patted the back of her hand to signal her not to be afraid, then turned around, looking calmly at Director Xie. "Teacher, she is my sister. We were just carpooling."
"Carpooling?" Director Xie laughed out of anger. "Your family carpools by grabbing waists? Stop being glib with me! I've heard every excuse over the years, I've heard this one eight hundred times! Both of you, come to my office!"
Director Xie waved his big hand and turned to leave, his back radiating the determination of someone ready to make an example out of them today.
Chen Zhi and Lin Wanwan exchanged a glance.
"Let's go." Chen Zhi shrugged. "Take things as they come. We have a pure relationship anyway."
Lin Wanwan stuck out her tongue and followed behind him. "Do you think he'll call our parents later?"
"Let him call them. It's not like they haven't been called before, what's there to be afraid of."
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
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!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
