This World Was a Little Off!

June had arrived, and East Sea was already as hot as a giant furnace.

The sky was azure, without a single cloud in sight. The scorching sun hung high overhead like an enormous fireball.

East Sea No. 1 High School.

Five thirty in the afternoon.

"Ring, ring, ring..."

As soon as the dismissal bell rang, the entire campus seemed to awaken from sleep, instantly erupting into a clamor.

A moment later, crowds of students poured out of the various school buildings, walking toward the gates in groups of three or five, chatting and laughing.

"This weather is way too hot!" The sweltering heat made everyone irritable.

"Brother Wang Teng, let's go drinking at Rose Bar tonight."

A voice pulled Wang Teng back from his thoughts.

"Xu Jie!"

He looked at the newcomer. The face was familiar, and distant memories surged up from the depths of his mind. This was one of the friends from his high school circle.

"You guys go ahead. I won't be going tonight—I've got a bit of a headache," Wang Teng said.

Xu Jie anxiously said, "Don't be like that, Brother Wang Teng. There aren't many people in our little circle to begin with. It won't be any fun if you don't come. Besides, it's been a while since we last got together. How about another time? Tomorrow? The day after?"

Wang Teng shook his head and said helplessly, "Tomorrow night, then."

"Great! I'll let Xiao Wei and the others know. We'll get together tomorrow night," Xu Jie said with a happy grin.

The two had just reached the school gates when a commotion suddenly broke out ahead.

"Huh, what's going on up there? Why are so many people gathered around?" Xu Jie asked in confusion.

"I'll go take a look."

Before he finished speaking, he had already rushed over, squeezed through the crowd, and wormed his way to the front.

With both hands in his pockets, Wang Teng sauntered over. The moment several students saw him, they quickly made way, afraid of provoking him.

Young Master Wang's reputation really was that big!

Wang Teng could not help mocking himself.

Too bad it was not a good reputation.

When he reached the front of the crowd, he saw a girl in the open space who had beaten several street punks with yellow and green dyed hair to the ground. They wailed for their fathers and mothers, their eyes filled with terror as they looked at the girl.

Combined with the discussion around him, he roughly understood what had happened.

Right after school had ended, several yellow-haired and green-haired punks had run into He Manrong. Seeing how pretty she was, they could not resist stepping forward to harass her, spouting a few filthy remarks.

They had not expected He Manrong to be anything but a soft persimmon for others to knead at will. She was, instead, a rose with thorns.

In a fit of anger, she struck out and knocked them down in just a few moves, leaving them unable to get back up.

"Goddess He really lives up to her name as an Advanced Martial Apprentice. Those street punks really kicked an iron plate this time!"

A male student beside him waved his fists. The acne on his face had turned slightly red from excitement.

From the way he spoke, he clearly regarded He Manrong as a goddess.

"I'd heard before that He Manrong was a top student. I never expected her to be this good in a fight too. Could she have practiced taekwondo? A legendary ninth-dan black belt?"

"But putting that aside, those long legs really are rare. She's only in high school and already has such a great figure—what will she be like in the future!"

Wang Teng had been marveling at He Manrong's strength while casually admiring the beauty of the world when he suddenly heard the words "Advanced Martial Apprentice." His expression instantly froze.

He was a little dumbfounded!

Did I hear something wrong?

Well, he had just been reborn, and his mind was still a little dazed. Mishearing something was understandable.

At that moment, Xu Jie leaned over and said enviously, "There are only five Advanced Martial Apprentices in our school. He Manrong is the only girl among them, and she even comes from an ordinary family. She's truly a genius!"

"..." Wang Teng was speechless.

Advanced Martial Apprentice, my ass. It looked like he really had not misheard earlier.

But what was with a perfectly normal urban rebirth story suddenly throwing in some high-energy profession?

Was this even rebirth at all?

Wang Teng felt the malice of the entire world bearing down on him, his heart full of questions.

Seeing that she had drawn so many people, He Manrong frowned slightly. She stopped paying attention to the punks on the ground and left directly.

Once she left, the crowd naturally dispersed as well.

Wang Teng and Xu Jie went their separate ways at the school gates.

Wang Teng found the car that had come to pick him up. Amid the envious gazes of countless students, he got into the BMW parked by the roadside and sped away in a cloud of dust.

Inside the car, he stared blankly at the streetscape constantly receding beyond the window.

Only then did he notice that the trees along both sides of the street were exceptionally tall, and the vegetation was extremely lush.

These plants had been overfed, hadn't they? No wonder he had always felt that something was a little off at school.

The vegetation at school was abnormally lush as well, but he had been so absorbed in the fact that he had been reborn that he had not noticed it at all.

Along the way, everything Wang Teng saw and heard astonished him.

The clean, tidy streets, the cutting-edge fashion of the pedestrians, the prosperity of the businesses, and so on.

It did not resemble 2009 in the slightest. Even 2019, when he had been reborn, might not have reached this level.

There really was something wrong with this world!

Wang Teng's mind was a complete mess when he suddenly saw an elegant urban woman in her twenties walking down the street with a large, fluffy-haired dog on a leash.

There was nothing unusual about that, except the dog was far too large—about the size of a calf.

He could not help blurting out a curse.

"Holy shit, what breed is that dog? It's huge!"

He took a deep breath, calmed down, and rubbed his chin uncertainly.

"It looks like a Golden Retriever, but isn't it way too big?"

After that, he saw several more people walking their pets.

Those pet dogs were all enormous, their size completely beyond the norm. Some parents even let their children ride atop the large dogs while shopping.

Pet dogs had become mounts!

He even saw pet cats that had grown two tails, while others had grown just as huge, like cheetahs.

Yet they all appeared very docile. The passersby around them seemed perfectly accustomed to the sight and did not regard them as ferocious beasts at all.

Wang Teng was beginning to go numb.

This was definitely not his original world. Even if his classmates were still the same classmates and the school was still the same school, some things had clearly gone off the rails.

After driving for over twenty minutes, they arrived at Fuhua Villa District. After a series of twists and turns, the car finally stopped before a villa.

Fortunately, his home was still here.

Speaking of which, his family could be considered moderately wealthy.

Wang Teng's grandfather had four children. His father, Wang Sheng Guo, was the second eldest. He possessed considerable business talent and had struck out on his own, founding Star Teng Group, which was second only to Rong Sheng Group, founded by Wang Teng's grandfather.

Both Star Teng Group and Rong Sheng Group were major companies with assets exceeding one hundred million.

However, Wang Teng knew there were many such companies around the world. The Wang Family might be decent within this one mu three fen land, but before the truly massive conglomerates, they were nothing more than slightly larger ants.

In his previous life, the Wang Family had offended someone and been stripped clean to the bone. They had lasted barely a month before all their companies went bankrupt and shut down.

The Wang Family had been utterly destroyed, becoming a thing of the past.

Two companies worth over one hundred million sounded impressive, but in the end, they were not even enough to fill someone else's teeth.

It had to be said, it was a kind of irony!

Wang Teng had fallen from the heavens into the dust. Over the next few years, he lived worse than pigs and dogs, suffering endless suppression and humiliation until his rebirth... No, perhaps it was not rebirth!

This world had changed far too much. Who knew what the Wang Family would become?

Were even his parents still the same parents?

What if he walked through the door and even his parents had been replaced?

"They won't be! They won't be!" Wang Teng hurriedly reassured himself. His heart was anything but calm. Only after taking several deep breaths did he step through the villa gates.