Chapter 378 She’s a Succubus

Overwhelming applause erupted, as fervent as firecrackers during the New Year.

“Welcome, Great Emperor Jiang Nian! Eat the Qilin’s elixir of immortality and live a second life!”

“From now on, it will be the Era of the Heavenly Emperor!”

Jiang Nian felt a bit uncomfortable, thinking things shouldn’t be this way. Why was everyone so focused on his 400 points?

Was this right?

Alright, I’m going to do something awkward.

If I were to blurt out, “This isn’t a dark past; this is the path I took to get here.”

These people would explode.

However, after a brief thought, he abandoned this explosive idea. Given the abstract nature of Class Three, after he finished saying that sentence,

what awaited him might not be applause and glory, but…:

“Path Brother!”

“Yo, yo, yo, isn’t this Path Brother?”

“Damn, where’s my path? Oh, Path Brother walked it all. Never mind then. Did Path Brother retrace his steps today?”

The wild dogs of Class Three were like this; they loved to bark.

Words that seemed inspiring to a boy would become a sharp sword for his friends to attack him. You’d have tears in your eyes, while your brothers would be laughing so hard they cried.

He could only remain silent.

So, amidst the wave of applause and the boys’ jeering, Jiang Nian was like a quail,

completely afraid to move.

Li Hua patted him, laughing as he asked,

“Nian, that’s awesome! In this situation, don’t you want to say something?”

Jiang Nian forced a smile and shook his head.

“Dad is the dad of eight points.”

“You bastard!” Li Hua quickly broke down, repeatedly having old wounds reopened by him. “Eight points, you’re going to talk about it for a month, aren’t you!”

“Next month, I will definitely redeem myself.”

Hearing this, even Jiang Nian, who was trying to maintain some composure, couldn’t help but reveal a very obvious smile, his lips curling up to the sky.

Heath Ledger needed repeated preparation to get into character as the Joker. But Li Hua, he could switch to Joker mode at will.

The applause lasted for a full minute.

Since the haters couldn’t catch Jiang Nian in a moment of showing off, they slowly got fired up by the atmosphere of the girls’ praise.

Maybe, I can too.

First, score 400 points, so Old Liu can get a few good nights of sleep.

Then, suddenly jump to 560 points, directly witnessing the elixir of immortality and Nirvana. Living a second life, dominating all ages.

Public opinion, at this moment, completely reversed.

“Speaking of which, Brother Nian is like this (thumbs up).”

“Indeed, 400 points, it’s impossible to imagine any way out, but Jiang Nian directly pulled it up to over 500 points!”

“Honestly, going from a vocational college level to a semi-985 is truly inspiring.”

“Why is everyone so serious? Dig up some of his dark past!” Li Hua was anxious. “You guys, are you playing face-changing?”

Clearly, Li Hua’s plan had fallen through.

Jiang Nian’s dark past was in Zhou Yuting’s hands. But Brother Zhou currently had no intention of unleashing the power of jealousy.

All her arrogance had been worn away by repeated setbacks. Even if resentment still lingered in her heart, she had no desire to act on it.

Yu Tongjie’s Ascension made her completely give up and surrender. Even if their grievances were hard to separate, they were no longer opponents on the same level. It was even less likely that she would stab Jiang Nian in the back at this time.

Amidst the tidal wave of applause from the entire class, Zhou Yuting seemed to see herself scoring 600 points, and couldn’t help but feel a little dazed.

What if I were the protagonist?

In the parallel class, she never lacked applause. But once she entered the Olympiad, it was like a deep sea, and she lost her name from then on.

No one remembers a 500-point wild dog; only 600 points qualified one to contend in Class Three.

Honor and praise all turned into smoke. All that remained was overwhelming pressure and the unreachable Jiang Nian.

The gap was so great that she could barely see his back anymore.

Xiamen University… will it win?

It was two o’clock in the afternoon.

The last ray of sunlight passed through the window and lingered in the classroom, falling precisely in the middle of the second large group, casting a faint golden halo on Jiang Nian’s hair.

His upright back and smooth profile lines, illuminated by the afterglow of the sun, resembled a poplar tree bathed in sunlight.

Amidst the grand applause, Chen Yunyun’s gaze merged with the sightlines of the entire class. Her eyebrows softened, and her lips curved into a smile.

She had never experienced such unified praise, but she had seen Jiang Nian standing in the light before.

Therefore, she too was illuminated within the crowd.

Amidst the overwhelming applause.

Li Qingrong, as usual, rested her head on her hand, sitting in one of the closest positions to the eye of the storm, looking at Jiang Nian at the front desk.

Her expression was indifferent, her gaze calm.

Seeing him act so uncharacteristically, completely afraid to be unruly, displaying this ostrich-like posture, her lips unconsciously curved into a slow smile.

Honestly, it was a little funny.

Jiang Nian suddenly wanted to sing a song, to show off a little.

However, with jackals and tigers surrounding him, Nian dared not easily expose his true nature. Otherwise, he would already be standing on the podium.

He would calmly say, “The past cannot catch up to me; the noisy distractions along the way have all disappeared, leaving only noise.”

“Noise Brother!” (Holds up a sign!) “(Idol!)”

Damn, Class Three is too abstract.

It’s not like it was originally this abstract, so it had nothing to do with him. Ever since he came to this class, he keenly noticed that

the root of the abstraction lay with Old Liu!

With Li Hua, and with all the loyal subjects of Class Three.

“Alright, ahem.” Old Liu cut off everyone’s attention on Jiang Nian. “I hope everyone can learn from Jiang Nian.”

After speaking, he paused again.

“Of course, I’m referring to the spirit of continuous effort and perseverance. I’m not telling you to score 400 points;

that’s not encouraged.”

As soon as his words fell, the class immediately burst into thunderous laughter.

Jiang Nian’s reaction, on the other hand, was that the expression on his face instantly vanished. From grinning to not grinning, then to shock.

Old scoundrel! How dare you repeatedly insult me like this!

Blue Silver Grass Entanglement!

However, since Jiang Nian didn’t have a martial soul to Awaken, the entanglement only existed in his imagination, so Old Liu on the podium was safe and sound.

“400 points, 400 points.” Li Hua marveled, “If I just step on the answer sheet, I’d get 500 points.”

“red stone!” Jiang Nian immediately transformed him into himself.

Zhang Ningzhi stammered at the side, wanting to say something but couldn’t interject.

Good, another traitor!

As the saying goes, if loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. Immediately kicked out of the Nian Party, revoking Zhizhi’s Nian membership.

“Also, Jiang Nian, remember to go to the administrative building during the first evening self-study session.” Old Liu reiterated, clearly helping him show off.

At this moment, the class once again let out ‘oh oh oh’ dog barks.

At the same time, some other people in the class with equally high scores were somewhat dissatisfied with Old Liu’s repeated praise.

“Old Liu, you have no heart!”

“After all, I’m disliked, not like other brothers who made great progress. Oh well, perhaps a 600-point score that never dropped to 400 doesn’t deserve it.”

“Your praise is exclusively for him, so I might as well die.”

Jiang Nian also took the opportunity to forgive Old Liu’s rudeness; showing off was truly satisfying. A second blooming, completely draining all attention.

He was starting to like Old Liu a bit.

He could slightly, just slightly, acknowledge Old Liu’s status as a famous teacher now.

After class.

Everyone in the class lay down to sleep; the afternoon was truly exhausting.

Jiang Nian, who had briefly activated 【Healing】, was smiling and writing his chemistry test. Recalling the scene from the last class, his face was almost splitting from laughter.

And so, two classes passed.

After the third class, the last short self-study session. Yao Beibei invited Zhang Ningzhi to the restroom for a double-queue, inadvertently glancing at Jiang Nian.

“Bro, why are you still smiling?”

“Huh?” Jiang Nian slowly turned his head, a faint smile on his face. “Huang Beibei, how did you know I…”

Yao Beibei felt that Jiang Nian, this scoundrel, was getting more and more despicable. He was the kind that made you explode just by looking at him, making you want to unleash a fierce attack on him.

Meaning, to beat him up severely.

She tilted her head, saying indifferently,

“Is your 600 points very high?”

The expression on Jiang Nian’s face froze. He hadn’t expected Huang Beibei to drop such a bomb in front of him, like an insult under the crotch.

Hmm… (thinking).

It wasn’t impossible.

But then again, he wasn’t really Zhennan Guinan. He couldn’t do something like wagging his tail for beauty.

“Yes.” Jiang Nian smiled. “Among them, eight points surpassed Li Hua’s eight points,

which is worth remembering.”

Li Hua, suddenly cued, instantly couldn’t stand it.

“red stone, you!”

“Oh, I think…” Yao Beibei said indifferently, scratching her face, “616 points, there’s no original problem-solving approach at all.”

A classic was uttered; the true King of Bragging appeared.

“It’s more like a score where subjects are balanced, then you got lucky and soared, and then you secretly gloat and

are smug about it.”

Every sentence mentioned scores, and every point was about him.

Jiang Nian listened, and instantly laughed out of anger.

“Haha, you bastard.”

Li Hua laughed heartily, gloating at the side. Just as he was about to agree with Yao Beibei, he noticed the woman was also looking at him.

What kind of look was that, a half-smile?

Damn, is she pointing at me too?

“No, Yao Beibei.” Li Hua said, full of reluctance, “You only have a few more points than me, are you that arrogant?”

Yao Beibei glanced at him and spoke.

“Your 608 points are like you fell asleep during the exam. Drool dripped onto the answer sheet, short-circuiting the machine to get it.”

Li Hua was dumbfounded, stunned by the aggressive words.

“Ah?”

Why is the King in Yellow so aggressive!

Jiang Nian did have a way to deal with her, but he was in the classroom now, and in front of Zhang Ningzhi, so it wasn’t good to directly seize Yao Beibei.

“No matter what, I have eight more points than Li Hua.”

Burying one’s head in the sand, transferring damage.

“I, I, I…” Li Hua was speechless, looking around his group and finding himself surrounded by people with higher scores than him.

One point, eight points.

At this moment, he understood what “born in sorrow, die in ease” meant.

“Let’s go, let’s go, practice!” Li Hua tugged at Jiang Nian, wanting to leave, but was dragged back. Turning his head, he saw Ji Ming had arrived.

After the grade group leader patrolled once, he slowly left.

After school.

Since there was no field and no way to take a team out to play soccer, the three could only go to the edge of the soccer field to practice a little.

With a bang.

Li Hua did a step-over past Ma Guojun, dribbled the ball to Jiang Nian’s front, and tried a feint to get past him, but the ball was precisely intercepted.

Jiang Nian stepped on the ball, a mysterious smile on his face.

“Noob.”

Li Hua immediately stopped grinning, then remembered something and spoke.

“Don’t you think Yao Beibei has been too arrogant lately?”

“No, she only attacks you guys,” Ma Guojun said. “You guys also love to show off a lot,

pot calling the kettle black.”

Jiang Nian looked up and said, “Ah?”

“Is that so?”

Hearing this, Ma Guojun immediately couldn’t hold back and pointed at him, “You’re the most pretentious one.”

Jiang Nian didn’t care about the remark. What’s wrong with showing off a bit when you’re young? You can’t do it when you’re old, what’s the point then?

“You’re right.”

Hearing this, Li Hua was dumbfounded.

“Damn, Nian, you’re really shameless.”

“Stop blabbering, let’s practice.” Jiang Nian was a bit speechless. “What’s the use of you doing step-overs all day?”

“When you actually play a game, you won’t use a single one. You’ll just repeat a wild dribble, crashing into people.”

“What do you know? I’m just being adaptable!” Li Hua felt a bit guilty; his fundamentals weren’t very solid.

If he had to compare, he was probably on the same level as Sun Zhicheng.

Ma Guojun didn’t have so many qualms; when practicing, he either served as a sparring partner or just stood there as a big goalkeeper.

“Our team is really trash; no one can play.”

Hearing this, Jiang Nian and Li Hua, feeling offended, both exclaimed “Hey!” at the same time. They turned in unison and pointed at the big Ma Guojun, Ma Guojun.

“You little rascal.”

“Damn, are you doing a group taunt?”

P

The three were still in a fantasy stage about winning the championship. The main idea was, even though it looked hopeless,

what if?

Falling into despair, shouting about friendship, the village, and such things. Getting inexplicably fired up, then sweeping the field.

“I have an idea.” Jiang Nian pointed at the soccer field ahead. “You two take off your shirts,

and we can occupy the field.”

Li Hua and Ma Guojun both turned their heads, looking at Jiang Nian with shocked expressions.

“???”

“Did he get too much sun? Did his brain break?”

“No field, what can I do?” Jiang Nian sighed. “A clever housewife cannot cook without rice. If we can’t practice, what’s the point of competing?”

“Stop beating around the bush!” Li Hua gave up. “I think you’re the biggest traitor; you don’t wish the team well.”

Jiang Nian kicked the ball out, just about to say something.

In a flash, he suddenly froze.

“Damn, how did she get here?” he mumbled, immediately hiding behind Ma Guojun. “I have something urgent.”

“What?” Ma Guojun was confused.

Li Hua also stopped his movements, turning his gaze towards Jiang Nian.

“Playing hide-and-seek?”

“No, I need to find a place to hide first.” Jiang Nian said quickly. “If someone asks for me later, just say I wasn’t here.”

“Huh?” Li Hua didn’t understand.

After Jiang Nian finished speaking, using the big Ma Guojun Ma Guojun as cover, he had already run off without a trace.

At the edge of the soccer field, Li Hua and Ma Guojun were left looking at each other.

“What’s he doing?”

“I don’t know, maybe he had to pee urgently.”

Half a minute passed.

The two noticed a girl wearing a short down jacket with a gray, full sweater underneath jogging over from not too far away.

With one look, it was obvious something was bouncing.

After just one glance, Li Hua determined that this girl was a cute girl, and a smile appeared on his face.

Hmm? Why is there a strand of green hair?

Never mind, don’t care.

The Green Angel has descended, hooray!

Han Xiao stopped, panting, and after taking a breath, hurriedly asked,

“Hello, excuse me… was Jiang Nian just here?”

In that instant, the expression on Li Hua’s face froze. Never before had his killing intent been stronger than now. Jiang Nian, die for me!

Damn you!

Ma Guojun still remembered what Jiang Nian had said and faithfully carried it out.

“He’s dead.”

“Huh?” Han Xiao was confused. She looked at the two. “No, I just saw him playing soccer when I passed by.”

“He just died, suddenly.” Ma Guojun said with a serious face. “Anyway, he’s already been taken to the hospital.”

“Alright.” Han Xiao sighed, thinking to herself that these boys were quite good at keeping secrets.

Li Hua’s heart shattered into pieces, and he asked mournfully,

“You are…”

“I’m his deskmate.” Han Xiao smiled brightly, waved at them, and left. “Bye-bye.”

A few minutes later, Jiang Nian returned.

He looked around for a while, and seeing that Han Xiao had indeed left, he let out a long sigh and turned to the two.

“Let’s continue practicing.”

“Practice my ass!” Li Hua grabbed his collar, gritting his teeth. “Honestly, what’s your relationship with her!”

“Not close, really.” Jiang Nian pushed his hand away and explained, “She’s just a succubus, always trying to assault me.”

As soon as his words fell, Li Hua and Ma Guojun simultaneously cursed aloud.

“Beast!”

“You damn dog that deserves to be struck by lightning.”

If Han Xiao’s appearance had only caused a little jealousy in the two, then Jiang Nian’s sentence completely turned that jealousy into hatred.

“You bastard, don’t flatter yourself.” Li Hua pointed at him. “Are you saying that cute, big-chested girl is pestering you?”

“And… and wants to do that to you?” Ma Guojun added.

“Isn’t it obvious? I’m practically running on all fours.” Jiang Nian spread his hands. “By the way, are you guys still practicing?”

“Jiang Nian.”

“Huh?”

“Die for me!” Li Hua immediately chased after him.

On the dimly lit soccer field, two boys, one fat and one thin, chased after Jiang Nian, who wished he had four legs to run away.

Night quietly fell, and the campus roads were bustling with people.

Cafeteria.

Jiang Nian paid for Li Hua and Ma Guojun’s meals, and only then was the matter settled. The Fruit Robo trio were reunited.

Money power, it’s so useful. “What do you want to drink? Just take it, swipe my meal card.”

“Okay, bro.”

“Thank you, sir.”