The First Order

Xu Zhi, who was the president of the student council at Qinghe University, had returned from the black market after unsuccessfully waiting for Zhou Yingxue there.

Now that a major event was being held in school, he would have to show up. Furthermore, he was the moderator of this debate session.

“Oh, I remember now.” Zhou Yingxue said, “We saved him once. He paid the reward money and transferred it into my account promptly.”

This time, she mentioned it very softly. But as it was very crowded, everyone was standing in close proximity to each other. In the end, a few people still overheard her.

Someone looked at Zhou Yingxue and wondered what nonsense she was babbling about.

“Let’s go,” Ren Xiaosu said. He was afraid Zhou Yingxue would continue speaking carelessly in public.

Moreover, Ren Xiaosu had become uninterested in Qinghe University. He wondered why Li Shentan had said that to him. Could it be that he wanted him to come and listen to the debate so he would go and persuade the Qing Consortium to give up their nuclear weapons?

Since when had Li Shentan, the demon from the Southwest, become so compassionate?

That couldn’t be possible, right?

Just as they turned around to walk away from the crowd, Xu Zhi suddenly saw Zhou Yingxue’s back from the stage. Her back was way too familiar to him!

While the debate was still ongoing, Xu Zhi suddenly jumped off the stage, leaving the debaters dumbfounded.

Xu Zhi tried hard to break up the crowd in his attempt to find Zhou Yingxue, but she had already disappeared.

Someone asked, “What are you looking for?”

Xu Zhi asked anxiously, “Did you guys see a woman and a hooded young man around just now?”

Everyone looked at one another as though they had some inkling of the described people. “Two people were standing here just now, but it felt like they were looking down on us. They only listened to the debate for a bit before leaving. Why are you looking for them?”

Xu Zhi did not have time to explain further. “They saved me once.” After that, Xu Zhi rushed off in search of them.

The commotion gradually turned into an uproar. It was known throughout Qinghe University that Xu Zhi had been kidnapped and that a mysterious young man with a maidservant had saved him. This news even caused quite a commotion and attracted the interest of many people.

Those two actually appeared here on the Qinghe University campus? Someone muttered, “Could Xu Zhi have mistaken someone else for them?”

“No.” A girl who was standing next to Zhou Yingxue earlier said, “That woman also said it herself just now that they saved Xu Zhi!”

Eventually, no one paid attention to the debate anymore. As for whether humans should possess nuclear capabilities or not, that was no longer important. A lot of people had gone after Xu Zhi as they wanted to see what those two legendary figures were like.

Xu Zhi ran all the way out of the school, but he still could not find Ren Xiaosu and Zhou Yingxue.

Xu Zhi could only stand there on the road with a blank and depressed look on his face.

In a classroom somewhere else on campus, Yang Xiaojin was sitting at a desk next to the window. A girl in front of her suddenly turned around and asked, “Xiaojin, I heard there’s a debate going on at Zhengde Square. The topic is about whether humans should use nuclear weapons or not. Should we go and have a listen together after class?”

Yang Xiaojin was taken aback for a bit. Although this girl was her classmate, Yang Xiaojin had always been a loner and did not know her well. Why did she suddenly invite her to attend a debate?

Yang Xiaojin only took a second before tactfully turning her down. “Don’t have the time.”

The girl in front of her said, “True, I guess the topic of nuclear weapons isn’t really relatable to us. There isn’t really a point in going to listen to the debate.”

There weren’t really any changes in Yang Xiaojin’s expression. The topic of nuclear weapons truly had almost nothing to do with the average Qinghe University student, but it was not so for her. As a matter of fact, she had participated in two strikes to destroy the Li Consortium’s nuclear test sites, and both of them ended in success too.

Her life experience meant she and these university students did not have much in common.

After the girl was turned down by Yang Xiaojin, she turned back to face the front. At this moment, the bell for the end of class went off. When the girl heard the pealing signaling the end of class, she was startled. Another girl next to her whispered, “Why did you suddenly invite her to go watch the debate together? You should’ve known that you’d be rejected.”

That girl also whispered in confusion, “Yeah, why did I invite her?”

Li Shentan and Si Liren were sneakily crouching in the bushes under the lecture hall. Li Shentan was so anxious he said, “Why did the bell have to ring now of all times? The hypnosis has been interrupted!”

“Brother Shentan, your hypnosis is a little wonky this time,” Si Liren also lamented.

“This time, I only managed to exchange one glance with the subject.” Li Shentan sighed and said, “So this hypnotism method is still a little unstable.”

“We won’t get to see any drama then.” Si Liren looked at Li Shentan helplessly.

“It’s fine, there will definitely be a chance in the future….”

Li Shentan and Si Liren had come to Qinghe University early in the morning to set up a “chance” encounter with Yang Xiaojin’s classmate to hypnotize them. The two of them thought of using this method to get Yang Xiaojin and Ren Xiaosu to bump into each other, but it ended up failing.

Li Shentan broke into laughter. “Those two clearly want to see each other again so much. They’re so close right now, yet they won’t get to see each other. It’s really interesting just thinking about that!”

Si Liren waved her little hands around cutely and said excitedly, “I’ve read such tropes in romance novels!”

At this moment, Yang Xiaojin was about to walk out of the classroom. She suddenly frowned and thought the incident earlier felt a little off, but before she could figure out what it was, a male student suddenly stopped her at the door.

This young man was a well-known and experienced playboy at Qinghe University. And Yang Xiaojin was an exceptionally outstanding female student, so many people admired her. This guy was one of them.

Over the past few months, Yang Xiaojin had probably rejected more men than she had killed. Although, this analogy sounded a little inappropriate.

The male student handed Yang Xiaojin a love letter. “This is the second time I’ve mustered up my courage to come and see you. Maybe the girls in your class have some misconceptions about me. I’m really not a player like they say I am, so please give me a chance.”

Yang Xiaojin glanced at the love letter he was holding in his hand and did not even bother taking it. She consoled the boy, “The girls in our class did not say anything about you. It’s just as you said, you’re not a player. Players need to be at least 1.8 meters tall.”

The boy in front of her was petrified.

Several girls in the classroom were a little jealous. After Yang Xiaojin arrived at the school, the male students around them only had eyes for her.

But Yang Xiaojin had already said she liked someone. However, she never brought him to school. She had to be lying, right?

A commotion broke out outside the lecture hall. A girl darted through the hallway and said to the others as she ran, “Did you guys hear? The young man and his maid who saved Xu Zhi have come to our school. I heard Xu Zhi is searching for them like crazy right now.”

“Really?” someone said in surprise.

“Quick, let’s go and look for them too!”

Then a crowd of students streamed out of the lecture hall, with the majority of them being girls.

Yang Xiaojin thought of something as she followed them. But right when she got downstairs, the crowd of students happened to bump into Li Shentan and Si Liren.

When one of the girls saw Li Shentan, she exclaimed, “Magician! You’re that magician!”

Everyone looked at Li Shentan and Si Liren, and someone muttered, “Could they be the two that saved Xu Zhi?”

Li Shentan was so handsome, and with the cute Si Liren by his side, she looked just like his maid. Although this did not quite tally with the rumors, the appearance of these two very unique people in front of them made it very easy for the students to relate it to what that girl had just said in the hallway.

Li Shentan was dumbfounded. What the fuck did this have to do with him?

But before he could say anything, many of the girls recognized him and ran over to ask for his autograph. Then he noticed Yang Xiaojin looking at him coldly apart from the crowd.

Just a moment ago, Yang Xiaojin wanted to see if it might be Ren Xiaosu they were talking about. But immediately after, she actually bumped into Li Shentan!

This disappointed Yang Xiaojin a lot. She was so disappointed she even wanted to shoot Li Shentan.

Li Shentan pushed aside the girls who had surrounded him and said with an embarrassed laugh, “Hahaha, I was just passing by!”

Yang Xiaojin looked at Li Shentan silently. Then Li Shentan took Si Liren’s hand and said, “We’re leaving right away!”

“Are you that afraid of me?” Yang Xiaojin raised her eyebrows.

“Haha, me? Afraid of you? What a joke.” Li Shentan said as he turned around and walked away, “I’m just afraid of that boyfriend of yours!”

The girls surrounding him wanted to chase after him, but Li Shentan raised his hand and threw a barrage of playing cards into the air. When the cards fell to the ground, Si Liren and he were nowhere to be seen.

Yang Xiaojin, who was standing right there, was deep in thought. Just as she was thinking of asking Li Shentan something, she could no longer see a trace of him.

The girls nearby all looked at Yang Xiaojin. There had already been rumors going around during this period that the magician who had recently arrived was a superhuman. Reportedly, the amazing magic he performed was actually achieved through his superpower.

How could that scene of him disappearing into thin air just now possibly be a magic trick? Simply thinking about it, it felt more like sorcery!

But for such a person to actually say he was afraid of Yang Xiaojin’s boyfriend, it made everything even stranger now. With just a few words, Yang Xiaojin became more mysterious to the surrounding students.

Some of the girls were bewildered. What kind of person was Yang Xiaojin’s boyfriend exactly?

Yang Xiaojin was still feeling indignant and wanted to go after Li Shentan. However, she froze just as she was about to move off again. She saw a woman wearing a black cap standing not far away in the distance.

Yang Xiaojin rushed over and asked, “Aunt, what are you doing here?”

The woman wearing a black cap helped Yang Xiaojin tidy up her hair. Then she said with a smile, “Something cropped up. I need you to make a trip to the Southwest with me.”