Resolve

After returning from the venue, Wang Yi's relationship with the girls seemed to have quietly changed without him realizing it. They had yet to break through that final barrier, but though none of them said anything, the relationship between them had already become exceedingly subtle.

Dusk.

It was still that residential lawn, still that young man and woman, and still Wang Yi serving as a punching bag...

"Ring, ring, ring..."

The phone Wang Yi had placed on the grass suddenly rang.

"Wait a moment, I need to take this call." Wang Yi spoke to the maiden across from him, who was growing more and more excited and reluctant to stop.

"Fine." Gao Yurong stopped, a faint sheen of sweat glistening on her fair forehead while a captivating blush colored her cheeks.

"Dad, what is it?"

Wang Yi picked up the phone and answered it. After listening for a few moments, his expression immediately changed.

"What? Mom's in the hospital?"

District People's Hospital.

Wang Yi found his mother's ward and saw that Li Lan had already awakened. She lay beneath a blanket on the pristine white hospital bed. His father was not there; instead, the familiar Xiao Yan was keeping his mother company.

"Mom, are you okay?" Wang Yi quickly walked to the bedside and asked worriedly.

"I'm fine, just a minor problem..." Li Lan had been talking with Chen Yan when she suddenly saw her son arrive with a beautiful, refined-looking girl. Her eyes widened slightly. After casually answering her son, she turned her attention to Gao Yurong. "Son, this is..."

Before Wang Yi could answer, Gao Yurong stepped out from behind him and said with a smile, "Hello, Auntie. I'm Wang Yi's friend, Gao Yurong. You can call me Yurong."

"Oh, oh." Li Lan blinked in slight confusion, then looked at her son again.

This girl was pretty and sensible. Son, where did you kidnap her from?

"Mom, Dad said on the phone that you suddenly fainted. What exactly happened?" Wang Yi asked.

"It's nothing. Work at the factory has just been busy lately, so..."

Wang Yi felt both anxious and angry. His mother had never been in good health and had even been hospitalized before. She was older now, and her daytime job was already exhausting. It was not as though Wang Yi had never urged her to find an easier job, but Li Lan had refused.

Wang Yi's father walked in from outside, with a doctor in a white coat following beside him.

"...After the hospital's various examinations, we have confirmed that the patient suddenly fainted and had to be hospitalized due to excessive exhaustion, severe lumbar muscle strain, and serious mental overload," the doctor said proficiently. "The patient is getting older, so she should remain in the hospital for observation for a few days. If her condition does not worsen, she can be discharged. Afterward, she must get plenty of rest, avoid overexertion, and pay attention to proper nutrition. Then there should be no further problems."

Wang Yi looked toward the hospital bed. His mother was talking with Gao Yurong and Chen Yan, and she looked very happy.

Wang Yi suddenly remembered that Lin Youyu would probably arrive soon. It would become even livelier then.

Whatever. As long as his mother was happy.

Wang Yi could not be bothered to think too much about it now.

He was thinking about something else.

The reason his mother would rather refuse to change jobs and endure exhausting overtime was for this family.

In the end, it was because they lacked the means to let his parents live a comfortable, carefree life.

Originally, Wang Yi had planned to wait until July 1st to take the Quasi-Warrior Assessment, attract the attention of the Limit Martial Arts School, and then be successfully recruited under special admission.

The treatment for special admission was different from that of ordinary Martial Artists joining the school.

The greater one's talent and potential, the more the Limit Martial Arts School valued them, and the more generous the benefits it offered.

When ordinary Martial Artists joined the school, aside from receiving a villa, they were given one million Huaxia Coin in startup funds.

Wang Yi clearly remembered that after Luo Feng first successfully cultivated Gene Energy, his astonishing talent and potential led Yangzhou City Hall's Head Instructor, Wu Tong, to directly recommend him to the Jiangnan General Association above. He caught the eye of Supervisor Zhuge Tao and signed a special contract. The benefits offered at the time were—"Besides a villa, he could be reimbursed for Secret Manuals worth less than 100 million free of charge, as well as receive 20 million in startup funds."

The Limit Martial Arts School had always been committed to cultivating talent and had always been generous toward geniuses. The treatment was astonishingly lavish, worthy of the one-in-a-hundred-million aptitude Luo Feng had displayed at the time.

If Wang Yi could display sufficiently powerful talent and potential during the June 1st Quasi-Warrior Assessment, he would definitely attract the Limit Martial Arts School's attention. When that happened, his treatment certainly would not be poor.

Wang Yi remembered that after Luo Feng signed the contract, he had been allowed to move into a villa in the Warrior Residential Area ahead of time without undergoing the Warrior Combat Assessment.

Of course, that was also related to the strength Luo Feng had displayed. When Luo Feng first cultivated Gene Energy, his punch strength had already reached 3,100 kilograms!

The physical requirement for a Quasi-Warrior was only 900 kilograms!

When most Quasi-Warriors first succeeded in cultivating Gene Energy and absorbed it to enhance their physical fitness, they generally gained only a few hundred kilograms of strength. Luo Feng had clearly crushed them. Thus, the Limit Martial Arts School was not worried that he would fail the combat assessment and had simply extended him a favor in advance.

Wang Yi's physical fitness was currently around 3,600 kilograms!

Moreover, thanks to the various rewards he had received from checking in, his physical fitness was actually far stronger than that of Martial Artists at the same level!

His Blade Technique and Body Movement had also reached a level comparable to some Martial Artists who had trained for many years!

With such strength, as long as he displayed it during the Quasi-Warrior Assessment, he believed it would immediately draw the attention of the higher-ups!

Wang Yi was only Eighteen Years Old. He had never received formal Martial Artist training, nor had he cultivated Gene Energy, yet he had already reached this level. He was practically a monster!

The Limit Martial Arts School would definitely offer him incredibly generous and favorable treatment.

Perhaps he might even have a chance to join the legendary Elite Training Camp.

As for worrying about other people's guesses and suspicions, Wang Yi could no longer care about that.

His own mother had been hospitalized from overworking herself just to make a living. If he still held back, cowered over baseless concerns, and kept shrinking away, he might as well smash his head into a wall and die instead of wasting this golden finger.

He believed that as long as his strength continued to improve rapidly, as long as he showed the potential of a genius and made the Limit Martial Arts School value him, even if others had thoughts of their own, they would be unable to do anything to him!

That was the deterrent power of the Limit Martial Arts School, one of the giants of this world.

As for the College Entrance Exam, he could take leave on June 1st to attend the assessment, while the exam would not begin until June 6th. There was still enough time.

Although the College Entrance Exam no longer held any real meaning for Wang Yi, it was still an account of his many years as a student.

After Wang Yi completely made up his mind, he felt much more at ease.

Wang Yi's father glanced at the three women talking together, then moved over to his son's side and lowered his voice. "Son, is that girl who just arrived your friend?"

Wang Yi's father was also very curious. It was not as though he did not know what his son was normally like. Aside from studying and training, he was like some legendary ascetic monk and had barely interacted with the opposite sex. Yet suddenly, a beautiful girl who was obviously no ordinary person had appeared, and she had even come to the hospital with his son. No matter how he looked at it, their relationship did not seem like that of ordinary friends.

Wang Yi said, "Dad, didn't I work as a tutor for a while before? She was the one I tutored. But we have a good relationship, and she's also my friend."

"Is that so?" Wang Yi's father was half-convinced. He was an honest man and could not understand what young people were thinking these days. After pondering it, he decided not to dwell on it and said sternly in a low voice, "I think both of those girls are quite good. Don't you go messing around, kid. If something happens, don't say I didn't warn you beforehand."

"What are you talking about, Dad? Do I look like that kind of person?" Wang Yi did not know whether to laugh or cry.

"That's good." Wang Shun patted Wang Yi's shoulder. "Still, you're older now. The College Entrance Exam is coming up, and after it, you'll be going to university. Finding a girlfriend then won't be a problem. Your dad is pretty open-minded. Back when your mother and I..."

Wang Yi rolled his eyes.

Just then, the ward door was pushed open again, and Lin Youyu poked her head in. She wore a white dress with a gray coat over it.

"Wang Yi?"

The three of them stared at one another.

Wang Shun's voice abruptly stopped. He looked at Lin Youyu, then his face snapped toward his son, his eyes already filled with suspicion.

It was as if he were saying, Son, explain this properly. Who is this now?

"Hello, Uncle and Auntie. My name is Lin Youyu, and I'm Wang Yi's classmate." Lin Youyu stood prettily at the ward entrance, her hands clasped before her lower abdomen. She spoke softly, sounding a little nervous.

"Oh, oh, good." Li Lan, still lying on the hospital bed, was the first to react. "Come, hurry over and sit."

Lin Youyu glanced at Wang Yi, and Wang Yi looked back at her. Lin Youyu lowered her head, gently bit her lip, and shuffled over to Li Lan's side.

Li Lan looked at the pretty and delicate girl before her, and the more she looked, the more pleased she felt. Yet she was also puzzled. How had her son suddenly met so many girls?

Chen Yan was understandable, since they lived in the same residential complex and knew each other well.

But these two before her clearly came from wealthy families. Her son had not done something to them, had he?

Li Lan felt worried.

Wang Yi looked at the four women gathered together, then exchanged a glance with his father. The two men quietly slipped out and carefully closed the ward door. Wang Yi had just let out a breath of relief.

Then he raised his head and saw his father's kindly face.

"..."