But Chu Xiaomeng didn’t believe a single word of “Lei Aoxue’s” explanation.
“What kind of joke is that? You two are already a couple, walking around together openly, and you’re telling me there’s nothing going on!” Chu Xiaomeng was utterly baffled.
Huang Quan was speechless. He and Lei Aoxue had at most walked a stretch of road together—how had it turned into this in everyone’s eyes?
Then Chu Xiaomeng’s face filled with sorrow, and then she thought of something and said: “But he’ll be expelled soon enough, so you won’t be able to see him anymore!”
“Why?” Huang Quan blinked, then caught on: “You mean the written exam?”
“What else? Without an awakened companion weapon, he’s no different from an ordinary person. He scores a big fat zero on every combat exam, and he’s still hogging resources at our school. He’s got no backing—it’d be weird if the higher-ups didn’t move against him!” By this point, Chu Xiaomeng no longer held any resentment toward Huang Quan.
Once he left the academy, the gap between Lei Aoxue—with her identity and talent—and that good-for-nothing Huang Quan would only grow wider and wider.
By then, he’d realize the distance between himself and Lei Aoxue and quietly walk away.
“What if I pass? What reason would they have to expel me then?” Huang Quan asked.
Chu Xiaomeng found this question strange: “Aoxue, what are you talking about? Even if you gave the principal ten times the courage, he wouldn’t dare expel you!”
If he actually did that, Old Tiger Lei would probably skin him alive.
“Ahem—I mean Huang Quan. What if he passes this time?” Huang Quan cleared his throat, nearly forgetting he was in Lei Aoxue’s body.
“So what if he passes? The higher-ups have a thousand ways to expel him. Doesn’t he score zero on every combat exam? All they have to do is tweak the rules a little and they can still expel him,” Chu Xiaomeng said with a light laugh.
Of course Huang Quan knew what this “tweaking the rules” meant.
The school’s regulations stated that as long as a student passed either the written exam or the combat exam, they couldn’t be expelled. This was to ensure that humanity’s knowledge and achievements wouldn’t be buried.
And now these people were willing to go to any lengths to get him expelled—they’d even change the rules set by the Abyss Association.
“Is it just because I… no, because Huang Quan is close to Lei Aoxue that they want to expel him?” Huang Quan was completely confused. What kind of nonsense was this?
Although Chu Xiaomeng thought Aoxue was acting weird today, she still patiently explained: “I don’t think so. This kind of thing was already in motion before he disrespected you yesterday. It must have been planned long ago—and it wouldn’t be Ming Xuanyuan’s doing either!
After all, before yesterday, he was just a nobody with no achievements. Even if Ming Xuanyuan wanted to go after Huang Quan, it would definitely be from today onward.”
After hearing Chu Xiaomeng’s explanation, Huang Quan roughly understood. Then his brow furrowed.
Could it be that even before he’d crossed paths with Lei Aoxue, he’d already offended someone?
But that was impossible, wasn’t it? He followed the rules at school more than anyone—he was practically a model student with “Three Good Student” plastered on his face.
He was always polite even to the school bullies—he hadn’t offended anyone. So how had he gotten into trouble?
He’d also kept his other identities tightly under wraps. From what Leng Xue said, she’d been reborn several times and never discovered them—so the chances of anyone else finding out were even slimmer.
“Aoxue, you’re not worrying about that guy, are you?”
Chu Xiaomeng rolled her eyes, absolutely livid: “Don’t tell me you’ve actually fallen for him. I really don’t know what’s so great about him!”
Huang Quan rolled his eyes too. This concerned his own interests—of course he was worried!
Soon the class bell rang, and Chu Xiaomeng enthusiastically dragged “Lei Aoxue” toward the classroom.
The moment they entered, they saw Shengnan—using his body—stand up from beside a girl.
When Chu Xiaomeng saw who Huang Quan was chatting up, she sneered: “Aoxue, take a look. This is the man you’ve fallen for—his playboy nature is on full display. He’s even hitting on a girl as innocent as Lin Mu, someone so pure you can’t even muster any ill will toward her.”
When Huang Quan saw that the girl really was Lin Mu, his face instantly darkened. He was about to step forward and have a word with Shengnan.
But behind him came the voice of Old Su—the witch.
“Everyone back to your seats. The exam begins!”
Huang Quan had no choice but to return to his seat and wait for the exam to start. Su Ling cleared her throat twice on the podium and said: “The questions on this exam are not uniform, so some people shouldn’t think they can just copy answers from their neighbor!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the classroom erupted in groans. Random questions? Wasn’t that just a guaranteed fail?
Huang Quan frowned too, glancing instinctively toward Shengnan. That dignified, elegant demeanor—nine times out of ten, it was Leng Xue in control.
With his grades, no matter how hard the questions were, passing shouldn’t be a problem.
When Huang Quan received his test paper, he first scanned the questions and raised an eyebrow: “This easy?”
Within ten minutes, he’d finished all the questions. Then he stood up and tossed the paper directly onto the podium.
If he hadn’t been trying to mimic Lei Aoxue’s handwriting, he could have turned it in five minutes earlier.
The questions on the paper were like child’s play to him.
When everyone saw him hand in the test so quickly, they were surprised but not shocked.
This was Lei Aoxue, after all—the genius of both academics and combat in their class.
“That speed is way too fast, isn’t it? I just started writing and she’s already done?!”
“How can the gap between people be this big?”
“She probably got an easy set of questions…”
Su Ling glanced at the paper, then at “Lei Aoxue’s” retreating figure. The difficulty of this exam was supposed to be uniform—how could she have finished so quickly?
The Lei family really was terrifying.
After leaving the classroom, Huang Quan leaned against the wall outside, waiting for Leng Xue to come out.
He’d assumed that with her grades, she’d be out quickly. But students kept pouring out of the classroom in waves, and there was still no sign of Lei Aoxue!
This made Huang Quan suspicious. Why wasn’t she out yet?
Were her questions extremely difficult? The composition of high-grade abyss crystals? Or the smelting of level-seven equipment?
“Isn’t that Campus Beauty Lei? Why is she still here?”
“I remember she turned in her paper early, right? Who’s she waiting for? Don’t tell me it’s that Huang Quan!”
“Man, Huang Quan must have saved the world in a past life—even Campus Beauty Lei has fallen for him.”
Of course, some people took photos of the scene and, with plenty of embellishment, sent them to Ming Xuanyuan’s ears.
Time ticked by, second by second, until the dismissal bell rang. Only after the last person walked out did Huang Quan finally see Leng Xue’s figure. Their eyes met, and Leng Xue quickly looked away.
“Didn’t do well?” Huang Quan stepped forward and asked directly.
Leng Xue rubbed her temples and said: “The questions this time were too tricky—they went beyond my study outline. For example: In the defense battle of Tianlan City three years ago, a sudden abyss rift appeared—how many monsters emerged from it?
Among them, how many were flying monsters and how many were fast-moving ground monsters? How was I supposed to know that?”
