by Dragon King
Poor Hao Ren. He wasn’t there for half of the lecture. How could he answer any questions? He had to be scolded by the teacher helplessly.
Class President Xie Yujia turned her head and looked at Hao Ren with pity in her eyes.
After the lecture was over, Hao Ren, Zhao Jiayin, and the others returned to the dorm. Gu Jiadong and others came up immediately and asked about the Mercedes-Benz pickup incident.
Hao Ren simply said his relative from overseas came and picked him up for a meal. He covered it up and didn’t want to talk about it anymore.
“You haven’t been yourself lately. Did you get rejected?”
When Hao Ren was copying homework at night, he received a text message from the Class President Xie Yujia.
“Nah… I’ve been busy lately.” Hao Ren didn’t expect her to send him a text. He thought about it and replied her.
Di, di, di, di… The phone that Hao Ren put on the desk suddenly rang.
It was a call from Xie Yujia, so he had to pick it up.
“What happened this morning?” Xie Yujia asked over the phone.
“Oh, my relative returned from overseas and treated me to a meal. He gave me a surprise, and that’s why I didn’t know about it in advance.”
“Where are you?” Xie Yujia asked.
“I’m in my dorm room,” Hao Ren answered.
The other side of the phone was silent for a few seconds before she suddenly asked, “Do you want to go for a walk? The moonlight is pretty right now.”
Hao Ren got butterflies in his stomach because he didn’t expect an invitation like this.
In his mind, the Class President Xie Yujia was a very popular girl. Not only many guys in his class liked her, but also many upper-year students went after her.
If Zhao Jiayi and others didn’t go behind Hao Ren’s back and confessed to Xie Yujia on his behalf, the relationship between Hao Ren and Xie Yujia wouldn’t be so awkward.
“Nevermind. I am alright, really. I have quite a bit of homework to do. Another time,” Hao Ren struggled for a moment and said over the phone.
“Umm… If you have any questions, just ask me,” Xie Yujia said. After a moment of pause, she continued, “No matter what, I am your Class President. I need to take care of you. Isn’t that right?”
“Haha, thank you for your concern.” Hao Ren couldn’t think of anything else to say.
“No worries.” Xie Yujia hung up the phone.
Hao Ren put down his cellphone and felt a little excited.
“Who called?” Zhao Jiayi and other two dormmates rushed through the door with midnight snacks in their hands as they yelled at Hao Ren.
“Nothing.” Hao Ren smiled.
“You have been mysterious lately. Not sure what you’ve been up to!” Zhao Jiayin came up and punched Hao Ren lightly as he said in a joking tone.
Hao Ren took the attack from Zhao Jiayin and thought, “If someone sees the Class President and I walk together privately, not sure what they will think… Shouldn’t Xie Yujia be concerned about this?
In the middle of the night, Hao Ren sneakily crawled down from his upper berth when Zhao Jiayi and the others were in deep sleep. Then, he opened the door and walked out to the balcony.
The moonlight was bright.
Hao Ren took out Lu Qing’s name card and looked at it for a while before putting it back in his pocket.
“Might as well give it a try…”
After Hao Ren’s stance was steady, he faced the silent sky and thought about the cultivation technique in his mind.
The golden scripts emerged in Hao Ren’s mind. Hao Ren tried to comprehend the meaning of the technique word by word and concentrated on his meditation as instructed.
He finished a whole set once, returned to his room sneakily, and found out that two hours had passed.
He actually stood outside for two hours… Hao Ren surprised himself.
He wasn’t sure if it was a psychological effect or not. After practice, he felt the swollen part of his arm had returned back to normal.
“Whatever, I’ve done my part. Time to go to bed.” Hao Ren suppressed all the other thoughts and fell asleep very soon.
In the next few days, life had become as dull as flowing water. Everyone’s attention paid to an ordinary classmate like Hao Ren had decreased, but Xie Yujia would still glance back at Hao Ren when she talked to the girl who sat behind her.
Hao Ren went to the balcony to “practice” every single night but didn’t discover any refreshing effects. His strength even started to decrease to normal, and he was again no match for Zhou Liren in arm wrestling.
The name card of the vice principal was hidden by him. It wasn’t a good feeling when a vice principal had his eyes on him.
Thursday was here in the blink of an eye. It was an exciting day for all the guys studying Mechatronic Engineering.
It was because of a compulsory course for second years — Weak Optical Signal Processing.
“Hurry up! Hurry up! Go occupy the seats in the front row.” Coming out of the classroom of Advanced Mathematics, Zhou Liren dragged Hao Ren and ran crazily towards the direction of another big classroom.
“Zhou Liren, save two seats for us!” Zhao Jiayi and Cao Ronghua yelled from the back.
Zhou Liren came to the classroom almost as fast as the speed of light, but he was still disappointed as he found out that first fifteen rows were occupied by other guys.
“We’re still too slow!” Zhou Liren said angrily. He picked the seats that were closer to the middle, dragged Hao Ren with him, and saved two seats for the other two guys.
“Sh*t! It’s so far behind!” Zhao Jiayi and Cao Ronghua ran in breathlessly and were dissatisfied when they saw the location of their seats.
“Those people skipped classes to get those seats. What can I do?” Zhou Liren said innocently.
“Didn’t you claim that you must marry her? Don’t even have the guts to skip class…” Cao Ronghua mocked him.
“True. You were excited since yesterday for her lecture today,” Zhao Jiayi followed and said.
“Weren’t you guys the same? Running so fast!” Zhou Liren rebutted.
Boom, boom…
At this time, another group of guys rushed into the classroom for good seats. However, they ran slower than Hao Ren and could only sit in the back.
Soon after, the only few girls in the same major came in late and saw the front seats occupied by the guys. They didn’t have a choice but to sit at the very far back.
Xie Yujia was one of the girls. She made eye contact with Hao Ren but didn’t say anything.
“You’ve been having quite a few eye contacts with Xie Yujia lately. Are you guys secretly dating?” Cao Ronghua felt something and asked Hao Ren.
“I’ve been with you all day. Where’s the dating part?” Hao Ren rolled his eyes.
The classroom was filled with noises. Other than Hao Ren’s class, there were four other classes here as well. Everybody was talking, especially the guys.
Ding, ding, ding… the bell rang.
A pair of graceful legs dressed in high-waisted shorts stepped in.
All the guys gasped.
The light sky-blue high-waisted jean shorts was decorated with military style buttons. The top was a shirt with a laced V-neck and flounce trim. A super beauty with handouts clipped under her arm entered the classroom.
“Lovely and mature, mature and pure…” Zhou Liren stuck his tongue out and commented.
As the guys gasped, Hao Ren couldn’t help but raise his head to observe. Indeed, Su Han was still so dazzling, delicate, and good-looking. Even when she didn’t wear revealing clothing, she could still raise any male’s blood temperature.
Su Han walked to the front of the dais slowly in her high heels.
All the eyes of the males were tightly locked on her. Even Hao Ren was staring at her despite the fact that he had practiced Concentration Cultivation Technique.
“Today we are going to talk about the third mo
dule. Everybody, open your textbook to page number seventy-three.” The angelic tone traveled from Su Han’s mini-microphone in front of her chest to every corner of the classroom.
“I’m in heaven…” Zhou Liren was drunk on her voice, “It would be so pleasant to have this kind of lecture every day.”
“She’s really pretty…” Hao Ren looked at her and thought.
“Her body figure, appearance, and makeup are all impeccable. What kind of boyfriend would this type of women look for?” Hao Ren thought to himself.
Even though everybody only had a few lectures since the beginning of the semester, all the men’s hearts were conquered by her.
In addition, Su Han’s lectures were clear, organized, and easy to understand. Even the girls in the class had to admit that and admire her for those reasons.
The ninety-minute lecture ended. All the guys were still immersed in Su Han’s beauty and couldn’t control themselves.
However, everybody knew that this iceberg beauty never talked about anything that was unrelated to the course nor answered any question from students. She also wouldn’t stay a minute after the lecture. The second the bell rang, she would finish her last sentence, pick up the notes, and walk out of the classroom at the same time.
“If I could say one sentence to this kind of beauty, I would die with no regrets.” Seeing Su Han was about to leave, Zhou Liren dragged Hao Ren’s arm and sighed.
“That student, come to my office.” To everyone’s surprise, Su Han didn’t step out of the classroom when the bell rang. She raised her delicate hand and pointed in Zhou Liren’s direction as she said.
“Me?” Zhou Liren stood up. He was surprised and almost fainted from happiness.
“No, the guy beside you.” Su Han’s finger moved slightly to the right and pointed at Hao Ren.
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“Me?” Hao Ren looked confused as he pointed to himself.
Su Han nodded.
“Wow…” The crowd was shocked and screams emerged like a flood.
Having this extraordinarily beautiful teacher ask a student to go to her office was something that never happened before.
Therefore, receiving everyone’s attention, Hao Ren was pushed to the cusp of public opinion again. He walked up to the front of the classroom while all the shocked, envious, and jealous looks from all the guys in the classroom landed on him.
Su Han nodded at Hao Ren without saying anything else. Then she grabbed lecture notes and walked out of the classroom.
Hao Ren followed her, having no idea what on earth Su Han was going to do.
Walking through the hallways and passing the overbridge between the academic buildings, Hao Ren walked into Su Han’s office while a crowd of students looked at him with curiosity.
It was known that Su Han, who had just been in the university for one year, wasn’t only a celebrity at the Mechatronic Engineering Department, but also at the entire university. Everyone knew there was a teacher who had the beauty of a celebrity in the university but was still single.
Su Han took out a key and opened the office door.
A refreshing smell blew onto their faces.
There were six or seven pots of plants on the window sill. The wooden imitated-antique tables and chairs were widely different from those provided by the university. Apparently, Su Han bought them herself.
The decoration of the entire office was very elegant and graceful, making it seem like her own little world.
Having her own separate office while most of the teachers had to share with each other had well proved that Su Han’s status here wasn’t normal.
All those wooden chairs and shelves were quite pricey even though they weren’t real antiques. “It seems that Su Han’s family is pretty well-off.” Hao Ren thought as he observed the office.
Su Han closed the door and put the lecture notes down on the table. Then she pulled out a rosewood chair and sat down gracefully. She looked at Hao Ren and asked, “Where are you from?”
“Mechatronic Engineering,” Hao Ren answered.
Hao Ren looked around the office and thought that he was probably the first student who was lucky enough to get in Su Han’s office.
“Don’t try to avoid the point,” Su Han stared at Hao Ren and said.
“Em?” Hao Ren was quite confused. He was a student of the Mechatronic Engineering Department of East Ocean University. Where else could he be from?
Su Han seemed to have gotten annoyed. Although she had a frowny face on at the moment, her beauty was still beyond description.
Her every act and every move was so classic and elegant that it could never be imitated by any other beautiful lady. That was also why there were countless guys going crazy for her.
Su Han reached out her slim hand and grabbed Hao Ren’s wrist. Her action wasn’t fast, but Hao Ren had no way to avoid it.
“As I expected, it is the Water Element. Tell me where you belong, River, Steam, Lake, or Ocean?” Su Han asked casually.
Who knew how many guys would scream like a girl out of jealousy if they saw this scene.
“You…” Hao Ren looked at her with even more confusion.
“If you can’t answer me, I have enough reasons to kill you.” A chilling expression suddenly appeared in Su Han’s eyes, making Hao Ren’s entire body shiver.
“How did that happen? A normal human body like yours is giving out the sensation of a dragon. Where did you get the cultivation technique?” Staring at Hao Ren, Su Han paused after every word she said.
“It was… from Lu Qing.” Hao Ren hesitated for a moment and said.
“Oh? You are from the East Ocean?” Su Han frowned as she was a bit surprised.
Hao Ren was feeling more puzzled.
“That’s weird, how could a normal person mix in with the East Ocean Dragon Clan…” She mumbled to herself and then asked again, “What is your relationship with Lu Qing?”
Hao Ren threw up his hands and answered, “I’m not sure about that. Who are you?”
Hao Ren couldn’t figure out the things that were happening to him these days. He felt like his head was going to explode.
“I am an “Inspector”, it seems that you do know nothing.” Rubbing her pretty head, Su Han seemed confused too. She waved at Hao Ren and said, “You can leave now, I’ll go talk to Lu Qing.”
The way she acted made her appear as if she was at a higher position than Lu Qing. However, Lu Qing was the vice-principal while she was just a teacher of the university…
Hao Ren was totally puzzled.
“But I need to warn you that I have enough reason to kill you if you dare to reveal any secrets.” Su Han added as Hao Ren walked out of the office.
Woosh… Hao Ren let out a long breath when he left the office.
He went back to his dorm in anxiety and fear. Then, seven to eight guys flooded to him immediately.
“What did Su Han ask you for?”
“Why did she look for you?”
“Did you go to her office?”
“Don’t try to keep anything from us dude, did you do anything that drew her attention?”
Hao Ren was surrounded tightly by them, but he didn’t leak any information as he didn’t forget Su Han’s warning.
Realizing they couldn’t get anything from Hao Ren, those guys decided to switch targets and asked Zhao Jiayi and the others since they were the closest to Hao Ren.
However, Zhao Jiayi and other guys didn’t know what Hao Ren did recently to catch Su Han’s attention. The four of them were always together when they were at the university, but they didn’t notice anything else Hao Ren did that would interest Su Han.
As a consequence, Hao Ren going to Su Han’s office had become a mystery among the guys. Hao Ren had brought them too much gossip and surprises these days. Gradually, people started to think that Hao Ren was someone special.
However, as the person involved, Hao Ren didn’t join in the conversation with the others. He was wondering what
they would think about him if they found out that he still had the name card of the vice-principal.
It was finally the evening after Hao Ren tried to avoid the unstoppable questioning from all the guys. The four guys in the dorm seemed way too excited to fall asleep.
Especially Zhou Liren, who kept asking Hao Ren what was with Su Han.
This matter could have been dealt with easily, but it triggered the crowd’s curiosity as Hao Ren refused to say anything about it. Hao Ren could make an excuse to fool others, but he thought it would be safer if he remained silent as thinking of the mysterious temper Su Han had.
“All the visitors are gone, and we are close friends. Hao Ren, Can you just tell us what Su Han asked you for?“Zhou Liren reached his hand to Hao Ren’s window and asked.
Cao Ronghua and Zhao Jiayi who slept on the lower berth straightened their ears hoping Hao Ren could reveal some information.
“Stop mentioning it and get some rest.” Hao Ren sighed and felt very helpless.
“That is so unfriendly of you.” Zhou Liren was deeply disappointed.
“Dude, you are so secretive recently.” Zhao Jiayi kicked the bed frame of the upper berth from underneath.
Hao Ren couldn’t help with the situation. He used to be able to talk about anything with his buddies, but in terms of these things, there was nothing he could do.
“But you seemed to have good luck in love these days,” Cao Ronghua said all of a sudden.
The lights were off at the moment; the four guys were talking in the dark excitedly and didn’t feel tired.
“Yeah, I think our Class President Xie Yujia is interested in you too.” Zhou Liren followed.
“How come…” Hao Ren yelled. He finally didn’t have to stay silent as there came a topic he could talk about.
“She kept looking back at you recently, don’t tell me you didn’t know about that,” Zhao Jiayi said.
“Make your move if you like her. What is the point of hesitating?” Cao Ronghua suggested.
“Don’t mess around. I think she was just caring for a classmate.” Hao Ren felt a bit panicky. He didn’t really care too much about these things.
He felt that he got involved in something he wasn’t supposed to. Now he was unable to get away from it and there would be danger waiting for him at any time.