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“Oh!” Xiao Xiu quickly shook her head. “Can’t I not learn it? I truly don’t need to!”
“Mom, I’m begging you!”
She even resorted to a coquettish tactic she hadn’t used in ages.
“Absolutely not!” Zhuang Wenli declared firmly. “Xiao Xiu, this matter is non-negotiable.”
“Leaving aside the past, you’re a girl now, so you at least need to learn how to dress, do your makeup, and acquire basic common sense.”
“And…” She pointed at Xiao Xiu.
The young girl’s upper body was relatively neat, though her slender waist was exposed.
Her lower body, however, was a different story. It was unclear if she had tossed and turned carelessly during her nap.
–The white lace of her underwear was peeking out from the edge of her trousers.
She was also unconsciously splayed out, jiggling her foot, her fair, tender foot swaying back and forth.
“And learning how to protect yourself as a girl.” Zhuang Wenli added the final sentence.
Whoosh!
Those words struck a critical blow, instantly shattering Xiao Xiu’s defenses.
Her face instantly flushed crimson.
It was like a fiery cloud streaking across the sky, or the blush on a ripe apple, making one particularly want to take a bite.
“D-do I still have to learn *that* kind of thing?”
Xiao Xiu quickly waved her hand in protest, her golden bracelet rattling and flashing with dazzling light.
“I’m an Awakened individual, and I’m very strong. I can totally protect myself.”
Fearing her parents wouldn’t believe her, she specifically added, “I was the top scorer in Yunshang Province’s re-examination this year.”
“I could take on ten ordinary Awakened individuals at once.”
Zhuang Wenli sighed. “You truly have no self-awareness about your current appearance!”
“I wasn’t talking about strength.”
****
“Professor Yuan, how did it go?” Su Ming asked, quickly stepping forward as he watched Yuan Fei stride out of the contact point.
“No traces of the Black Tower were found.”
Professor Yuan brushed the dust from his clothes, stating calmly, “However, this place is a companion Void Realm.”
“So it’s *this* thing!” Su Ming’s brows furrowed instantly.
A companion Void Realm, as the name suggests, is a smaller Void Realm that exists by attaching itself to a larger one.
And since a companion Void Realm has appeared,
That indicates the larger Void Realm has already crossed the Sea of Void and Reality, reaching the edge of the Present World.
And large Void Realms… they are never easy to deal with!
“You’ve worked hard, Professor. Have some water.” A Jurisdiction Bureau employee, noticing the situation, promptly handed him a bottle of water.
Yuan Fei took it casually, took a sip, and said, “Let’s seal this place off for now and use it as an outpost.”
“Won’t there be a problem?” Su Ming asked.
“I’ve cleared out the inside and temporarily blocked the entrance from the Void Realm to the contact point. There shouldn’t be an issue for a short while.”
After speaking, Yuan Fei, carrying his water bottle, turned and walked towards his students. Soon, the four of them drove away in two cars.
With no trace of the Black Tower, he had lost all interest in remaining there.
“Let’s go inside and take a look!” Su Ming called out to his team members, and together they walked into the farmhouse.
The moment they stepped through the farmhouse gate, the layout, which had resembled a rural guesthouse, vanished instantly.
In its place stood a ‘once’ towering mountain peak.
Why ‘once’?
Because the mountain peak had been brutally snapped in half!
Starting from the mountainside, half of the peak was incredibly inverted, plunged into the ground like a pulled onion, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, completely upside down.
“So this is what they meant by blocking the entrance?” Xiao Bei swallowed. “It’s truly magnificent!”
Xiao Xiu, her face still burning with embarrassment from the conversation, retreated to her bedroom as if fleeing for her life after dinner.
Powerless to defy the commands of the two ‘big shots’—her parents.
At this moment, she could only hope her mother, being a busy and important person, would be forgetful, and forget about the incident at the dinner table.
‘Learning to protect myself…’ Xiao Xiu clenched her fist. ‘How laughable! Who could possibly bully me?’
She was a Level 3, having scored 910 points in the re-examination!
The second and third place individuals combined wouldn’t even be enough for her to defeat with one hand.
Lying on her bed, she casually crossed her legs.
The moment Xiao Xiu took out her phone, a flood of messages popped up.
There were high school classmates asking about her exam results.
And middle and elementary school classmates, who had somehow learned she made it to the re-examination, sent their congratulations.
She simply ignored messages from those less familiar friends—she had already decided to sever ties with her former identity.
If she didn’t reply to these people, after a while, they would most likely forget about her existence.
It was a simple matter to handle.
The real trouble, however, was… the idiot who had sent her 99 chat messages in just two days.
From asking how she performed on her exam to trivial matters like secretly going online after school and losing several dozen points in a game, he felt compelled to tell her everything.
Even when her mother went to school to retrieve her phone, Shi Lei had seen it and messaged her to ask what had happened.
‘This guy completely treats me like a sounding board!’
Xiao Xiu gritted her teeth. How had she never noticed that Shi Lei, that scoundrel, had the potential to be such a chatterbox?
However… thank goodness, his mental breakdown really was over!
A flicker of happiness crossed the young girl’s eyes.
‘I should probably reply at least once.’
If she kept ignoring him, there was no telling what silly things the idiot might do when he got anxious.
But replying too much wouldn’t work either.
Give him a spark and he’d light up like fireworks. Shi Lei was always like that.
Xiao Xiu had to carefully manage the extent of her replies.
–[The re-examination went pretty well (smile). But I’m about to attend a preparatory class, and the academic pressure will be intense, so I probably won’t have much time for games anymore (crying).]
This message not only answered his question but also indicated that she would be very busy in the future, setting the stage for her future coolness towards him and other classmates.
A perfect reply! She was practically a genius!
Xiao Xiu vigorously pumped her fist.
Ding!
Barely a second after sending her message, her phone chimed, and a new message immediately pushed its way onto the screen.
[Seventeen-Year-Old Diamond in District One: You actually replied! So today it really was your mom, Xiu Ge. I thought I saw wrong. Did you come back?]
Ding, ding, ding!
Three more chimes sounded, and messages flashed across Xiao Xiu’s phone screen like a storm.
Finally, one message remained visible.
[Seventeen-Year-Old Diamond in District One: Xiu Ge, I came to play with you. Come down and open the door.]
Xiao Xiu: ‘???’
‘Wait, did I see that wrong?’
Had Shi Lei seen her mom at school earlier? How did he teleport to her house downstairs the next second?
*Slap!*
Xiao Xiu performed a carp flip, rolling off her bed, then quickly pressed herself against the wall, silently standing as she parted the curtains with her hand.
Through the gap in the curtains, she could see the building entrance below.
A boy in a school uniform, carrying a backpack, walked back and forth downstairs, looking at his phone.
He seemed a bit bored, occasionally kicking stones on the ground.
He didn’t seem particularly bright.
As if sensing something, he looked up, startling Xiao Xiu, who quickly recoiled.
“Holy crap!” She rarely cursed, but quickly pulled out her phone to reply to Shi Lei’s message.
[Xiao Xiu: I’m not home. I’m still in Yanghai, discussing my future training plan with my mentor.]
[Seventeen-Year-Old Diamond in District One: Alright, I was hoping you were back, Xiu Ge, so we could hang out today.]
[Xiao Xiu: Next time for sure (smirking)]
After sending the message, Xiao Xiu waited a good while, then quickly glanced down through the curtains again.
She didn’t spot Shi Lei’s figure and finally let out a sigh of relief.
“Phew, I finally fooled him.”
She patted her chest, but the next second, her phone chimed again with a new message.
Miss Xiu, already fast, shuddered, nearly dropping her phone.