The Popular Transfer Student

The school bus soon stopped at the entrance to the campus.

The students filed off the bus.

Quite a few students' eyes were immediately drawn to the silver-white Bugatti sports car.

After all, among a sea of old pickup trucks, Jino's Bugatti stood out like a crane among chickens, catching every high schooler's attention.

What drove even more girls crazy was the figure standing beside the sports car.

Long golden hair, a tall frame, and a handsome face.

Jino's slender fingers rested on the shy Clark's shoulder. His teasing, irreverent smile, his uninhibited, flamboyant movements, and the faint outline of perfect abs beneath his white shirt made many restless adolescent girls' hearts flutter, their heartbeats quickening and blood pressure soaring.

Years of sunshine and the nourishment of wealth had given Jino a perfect temperament, a handsome face, and brazen confidence. He was undoubtedly a walking girl-killer.

Seeing so many students looking their way, Clark, who had never received such overwhelming attention, was at a loss for a moment. Like a puppet on strings, he was led toward the campus with Jino's arm around his neck.

"This feeling isn't bad, huh?" With their arms around each other's shoulders and their heads lowered, Clark and Jino walked into the campus. At the same time, Clark secretly glanced at the goddess Lana Lang, who was looking their way as well.

Although this new classmate was somewhat wild, in American schools, boys who hung around with cool kids were considered cool kids too. This feeling of being in the spotlight greatly satisfied young Clark's restless pride.

He felt incredible!

Meanwhile, over by the unlucky duo, Pete glanced at his best friend Chloe and said regretfully, "Looks like I guessed the worst-case scenario. This sports car guy is ridiculously handsome."

Chloe sighed, pulled five dollars from her pocket, and handed them to the young Black boy. "You won the bet."

She had already noticed quite a few girls who considered themselves pretty deliberately passing by Jino and Clark in groups, giggling on purpose to catch the blond heartthrob's attention.

"Looks like I don't stand a chance." Chloe sighed, but quickly pulled herself together. She eagerly asked Pete, "Do you think inviting him to join the school newspaper club would attract more talented people?"

Pete glanced at Chloe. "How could you ask such a stupid question?"

"This new student has practically become the school's hot 'star.' Those girls are practically drooling over him!"

"What you need to think about is how to get that big blond boy to join your newspaper club."

Chloe nodded in agreement. Looking at the somewhat shy Clark talking with Jino, she said, "Maybe we can ask Clark for help?"

"That blond boy seems to have a good attitude toward Clark."

So Chloe immediately took action.

"Hey, Clark."

The girl ran up in front of the two boys and blocked their path. Glancing at Jino, she said, "I didn't expect you to make such a good friend so quickly."

Clark awkwardly rubbed his nose. "Hey, Chloe, this is—"

"Jino. Jino Luthor." Jino cut off Clark's introduction and smiled at the girl. That was enough for them to be acquainted.

"So, the Luthor Family." Chloe wore an expression that said it all made sense. If he was from the Luthor Family, then being able to afford a sports car was nothing strange.

"Oh, shit, man, you actually have a Bugatti sports car."

Pete ran over as well and greeted Jino. "You're a new transfer student, right?"

Jino smiled and nodded. "That's right. My brother and I came to this town from Metropolis."

"I have to say, this place is much better than Metropolis. The air quality in that damn place is awful."

With just a few words praising their hometown, Jino had closed the distance between himself and the three of them. Proud expressions appeared on all their faces.

While they were talking, Lana Lang, some distance away, was also watching them.

The girl's gaze fell on Jino's face. She always felt that she had seen this guy somewhere when she was little.

"Lana, darling, what are you looking at?" Lana's boyfriend, Whitney, the tall, burly blond captain of the football team, noticed where she was looking.

He followed her gaze and saw Jino, wearing a wicked smile as he chatted merrily with the campus freak trio.

At once, jealousy boiled up inside Whitney. It seemed his girlfriend's attention had been drawn to Jino.

"Ha, that guy is the sports car kid from this morning. He's become quite the big shot on campus." Whitney said sarcastically by his girlfriend's ear, "That lunatic nearly crashed into our school bus."

Whitney relentlessly fanned the flames beside his girlfriend, wanting to lower her opinion of Jino.

"Huh? Oh, right, he is a little crazy."

Lana came back to her senses and gave her boyfriend a gentle smile. "I just think that transfer student resembles a boy I met when I was little. But maybe I'm mistaken."

"Come on, it's time for class." Lana picked up her backpack and headed toward the classroom.

Whitney shot a dark look at his girlfriend as she turned away, then looked at Jino's arrogant posture. Jino was also staring at Lana's retreating figure, and that punchable expression immediately made Whitney think of all sorts of NTR scenarios.

Before even entering the campus, he had heard plenty of students discussing this boy, saying he had a chance to become the new school heartthrob.

As the former school heartthrob, Whitney was naturally displeased by that. Combined with the earlier misunderstanding, he felt a fire burning in his chest.

Suddenly recalling the candidate the football team had chosen for their previous project, Whitney curled his lips into a cold smile. "Just wait, blondie."

"That list should have someone else on it!"

Jino had no idea he had landed on the former school heartthrob's blacklist. His gaze remained fixed on Lana as she entered the classroom.

From the moment he had stepped onto campus, he had felt something uncomfortable coming from that girl. Like a fish out of water or a traveler with a cold, it made Jino's body feel unwell.

There's something strange about that girl. I have to figure it out. Jino silently took note of it.

Lowering his head to check the time on his watch, Jino said goodbye to the three of them. "All right, guys, I'm going to report to the principal's office first. See you after class."

Jino bade the three farewell and turned toward the academic building.

Jino arrived at the principal's office. The vice principal of the town's high school was a middle-aged Asian man. A small gold nameplate stood on his desk, bearing the words "Mr. Guan."

"Hello, Mr. Jino Luthor." The middle-aged Asian man rose with a smile to greet Jino. "Welcome to our high school!"

Jino smiled and nodded. "I'm looking forward to my high school life here as well."

Regarding Kryptonite, I can give all you readers a hint. It just depends on whether you can guess how the protagonist will easily solve Kryptonite's effects.

1. Lex and Jino had been collecting the corpses of those modified by Kryptonite.

2. Lex witnessed Clark's powerful abilities and knew

Jino's evaluation of Clark.

3. Lex was a genius scientist.

4. In the comics, Lex once created something... to fight the Crime Syndicate.

Xiao Mo had many ways to let the protagonist use his Talent System to easily solve Kryptonite's effects. Anyone who carefully read my synopsis should be able to tell that when the protagonist replicated abilities again later on, it would be Superman Template + xxx Template = xxx Superman. So what the hell is Kryptonite?