"Illegitimate daughter?" A giant question mark popped up over Wang Defa's head as he scratched it.
"Are you for real? How come I don't know anything about this?"
"It might actually be true, come take a look. I feel like you two share a sibling resemblance."
"Yeah, come look, maybe your Uncle Wang has been messing around outside..."
The surrounding young masters and wealthy heiresses kept chiming in one after another, leaving Wang Defa a bit bewildered. Surely not? Since when did his dad have the guts to fool around outside behind his mom's back?
If his mom caught him, wouldn't she leave a massive lump on his head?
Oh, of course, that would be a burial mound.
Carrying a half-skeptical attitude, Wang Defa put down his pen, temporarily suspending his grand plan of copying homework, to go check out the matter of his old man's illegitimate daughter.
Soon, another head popped out among the cluster of heads in the flower bushes. Rows of heads stared wide-eyed at Xia Tongxin, who was standing not far away smoking a cigarette.
"Holy crap, she's mixed race too. But this mix is a bit too wild, isn't it? How did it turn pink? Could she be from the legendary vampire clan?" Wang Defa looked shocked, analyzing the situation with seeming logic and evidence.
The crowd was speechless.
Bro, is there a possibility that she just dyed her hair?
Damn it, no matter how big the world is, it's impossible to naturally mix a pink-haired person!
"Can you tell?" the people around asked Wang Defa.
Wang Defa nodded. "I can tell. This guy is smoking fake cigarettes. I've never even seen that brand, and the smell of the burning tobacco isn't right either. The kick is too weak, even a dog wouldn't smoke that!"
The crowd was full of question marks.
Badass!
Well, now they knew why the son of the dignified Chief of the Dahai City Public Security Bureau would come here to attend the same school as them instead of going to Dajing City for further studies.
With Wang Defa's behavior and thought process, going there would just be pure offense to others, right?
Who knows, maybe one day he'd accidentally trigger an instant explosion on his kindly old father at home, and with one order, his whole family could end up eating prison food...
How does that saying go?
Oh, right... your energy is beyond your imagination!
Although Wang Defa looked like his brain wasn't quite normal, after watching for a while, he still gave a fair assessment.
Wang Defa shook his head. "Impossible, my parents' genes aren't that good. They couldn't produce someone this pretty."
The crowd was speechless again.
The surrounding young masters and wealthy heiresses fell silent. They first looked at Xia Tongxin, who was acting like a bad kid happily puffing away not far off, and then looked at Wang Defa in front of them, who looked a bit like a pig's head... Hmm, it seemed he had a point.
"But fortunately, I'm the exception in our family. I look much better than my older brother and my dad." Wang Defa added this with utmost confidence.
The crowd was speechless.
Exception my ass! You look almost exactly like your dad and your older brother. Your family wouldn't even need a paternity test. It doesn't look like you were biologically born, but rather cloned, copy-pasted, a pure Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V combo.
Well, at least one thing was certain: she couldn't be Wang Defa's sibling or anything.
It was originally just a joke, but Wang Defa had actually taken it seriously and researched it with logic and evidence, which was pretty impressive in its own right.
"Wait, I feel like I've seen this person somewhere before. She looks a bit familiar!"
Just when the crowd was disappointed, Wang Defa dropped another bombshell, claiming he felt like he had seen Xia Tongxin somewhere before. The originally disappointed eyes around him suddenly lit up with excitement.
Under the expectant gazes of the crowd, Wang Defa spoke up.
"Never mind, I can't remember. I haven't finished copying my physics homework yet, let me copy that first!" After saying that, he hurriedly rushed back, threw himself onto the flowerbed, stuck his big butt in the air, and continued copying his homework.
He had absolutely no interest in Xia Tongxin's affairs. Homework was more important. If he couldn't hand it in and had the bad luck of being randomly checked, he might end up eating a ten-hit combo whipping.
He was already fat; taking a few ten-hit combos would just make him fatter.
The crowd was speechless.
They looked at Wang Defa with weird expressions. In their eyes, this Wang Defa was quite a character. He was at least a wealthy young master, yet he acted like a total loser all day. He wasn't old, just in his early twenties, but he had been smoking for almost ten years, a pure old smoker.
He had no interest in women, only loved smoking. He often went to his old man's place to snag a couple of cigs when he had nothing to do. Of course, he could steal a bit more, but how could things between a father and son be called stealing?
It was borrowing, just borrowing without returning.
Wang Defa wrote furiously, completely uninterested. The group of young masters and heiresses watched for a while, and after having enough of the spectacle, they snapped back to reality and also started copying their homework.
While copying, they would occasionally gossip about Xia Tongxin. After all... it was their first time seeing such a fierce person who stepped on every single one of the school's red lines.
Her background must be incredibly tough, hard enough to chop down trees if written on paper.
Not far away.
The female student council member who went to check and verify returned.
"It's been confirmed on our end, this is indeed the case. However, it's morning right now, and today is the peak time for the remaining grades to report in. Please wait for half an hour. Traffic will be cleared for you to proceed after half an hour."
The girl spoke to the head maid while glancing at Xia Tongxin, who was smoking nearby... Hmm, there was no smell of smoke, but rather a fruity scent?
The head maid frowned. "Half an hour?"
"Can it be any faster?"
Half an hour was indeed a bit too long. Their young lady hadn't eaten breakfast yet, and the villa in the school hadn't been cleaned for a long time. They needed to get there early to clean it.
The girl shook her head. "This is already the fastest solution our president could offer. Alternatively, you can get out and walk. You can go in right now, but the cars... cannot."
The girl looked at the massive motorcade and shook her head.
The head maid furrowed her brows. The situation was much trickier than she had anticipated. This wasn't Da'ao City, and a mighty dragon cannot crush a local snake. Moreover, these people in Dahai City weren't just simple local snakes; there were quite a few true dragons among them.
Before coming here, they had already checked the targets they needed to watch out for. Aside from the Dongfang, Du, and Shen families... those super local snakes that couldn't be confronted openly, there was also the rather special Tang family, which absolutely could not be touched.
Others might be snakes, but that one was a dragon...
Their young miss's special status was like paper in front of them; if they decided to deal with them, they wouldn't even dare to show a hint of temper.
Except for these few troublesome ones above, the rest didn't matter.
But as coincidence would have it... it was like gathering Dragon Balls in this school. They were all here, the ones you could provoke and the ones you absolutely couldn't, all gathered together.
Having thought it through, the head maid took a deep breath. "Alright, I understand."
The girl from the student council nodded and went back to her post at the school gate, paying no further attention to the head maid, Xia Tongxin, and their entourage.
It was true that their status was special, but this was Dahai City. If you picked up a rock and threw it, you were bound to hit someone with a special background!
The head maid had no choice but to return to Xia Tongxin's side and patiently explain why they couldn't drive in just yet. Xia Tongxin pouted, looking rather displeased, and asked with a hint of uncertainty,
"Are you absolutely sure that no one is allowed to drive into the school?"
The head maid nodded. "Yes, it would be too dangerous with so many people around right now. How about we wait a little later until the crowds thin out before we go in, Miss? Or, we could leave the cars here and walk onto the campus..."
As the head maid continued to explain, Xia Tongxin listened and was successfully coaxed.
"Oh, alright then..." Xia Tongxin pouted, looking somewhat huffy, but she still nodded, acting inexplicably obedient.
"Miss, you are truly so sweet..."
Before the head maid could finish her sentence, a black car bearing the Shen family crest appeared in the gap in the middle of the motorcade. The crowd automatically parted to make way for it as it drove straight toward the gate. The boom barrier lifted automatically, granting it entry.
The entire process was incredibly smooth. The student council members on duty at the gate didn't find it strange, nor did the crowd of wealthy young masters and heiresses who had stepped aside. Only the head maid and Xia Tongxin were left completely dumbfounded.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, Xia Tongxin's face flushed red with rage. Her small hand trembled as she pointed at the departing luxury car carrying the eldest miss, and she shrieked,
"What is that!!!"
"Liar!!!"
Head maid: "..."
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lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
