Was He Being Rejected?

Demon Hunter Academy, Mission Hall.

This was where the students usually came to accept and submit missions.

It was arranged like an office lobby. Aside from the counters where academy staff handled mission-related affairs for the students, there was only a bulletin board for posting all kinds of mission-related intelligence and information.

Other than the office counters and bulletin board, the hall contained only rows of tables and chairs for students to use.

So, on ordinary days, the Mission Hall was still quite lively. Either students about to carry out missions would rest and chat here, or groups would hold meetings or victory celebrations, ensuring that there was never a shortage of people.

Over the past few days, however, the situation had not calmed down at all. Instead, it had only grown more intense.

For the battle in Huaming District two days later, the students clearly had many things to discuss and much to prepare. They needed a place where they could conveniently coordinate and talk things over, and nowhere was more suitable than the Mission Hall.

Thus, early in the morning, the Mission Hall had already gathered a great many people. They occupied much of the available space, creating a scene reminiscent of a marketplace.

It was easy to see that many people here were still looking for companions to form teams with. Quite a few who had already formed teams were even trying to further adjust their team compositions, hoping to make a contribution during the coming battle.

Su Ming, Lei Hao, and Ye Bai had also entered the hall for the first time in a long while. They found a place in the Mission Hall and sat down.

Quite a few people nearby noticed the three of them, but after taking one look at Su Ming, they withdrew their gazes and went back to whatever they had been doing.

"Huh?" Lei Hao raised an eyebrow and said with a teasing smile, "Looks like these people recognized you."

Clearly, after the farce involving the two School Belles, Xu Qianqian and An Zijin, Su Ming had become widely known.

"Unfortunately, I'm not happy about it at all." Su Ming curled his lips. "As for you two, you've been hanging around with me and got dragged into this too. Tell me, aren't you angry?"

Ye Bai deeply agreed with him.

"Among those who looked over just now, quite a few should be people who haven't formed teams yet and are eager to find one, or people who haven't filled out their teams and are eager to recruit others, right?" Ye Bai said. "To them, everyone who comes to the Mission Hall should be a potential target. If not for you, there would definitely have been plenty of people coming over to ask us to team up. At the very least, someone would have invited us to join their team."

As the saying went, kings faced kings, generals faced generals, and soldiers faced soldiers.

With top students such as Xu Qianqian and the other elite students already having formed teams, each member being an outstanding student ranked near the top, those who had failed to join a good team could naturally only lower their standards.

Su Ming, Lei Hao, and Ye Bai had average grades and average performances at the academy, but being average at least meant they were not at the bottom.

A team formed by three students of average ability was still quite attractive to students of the same level or below.

In theory, people should have been coming over to ask the three of them to form a team.

But Su Ming had genuinely demonstrated what it meant for a winner in life to be hated by others.

Xu Qianqian and An Zijin's interactions with Su Ming had indeed made him rather irritating in the eyes of many people.

An Zijin in particular had been running to the boys' dormitory every few days to see Su Ming that week, infuriating the fan club and admirers of this popular goddess.

As a result, many people immediately abandoned the thought of forming a team with Su Ming the moment they saw him.

There was no other reason: the popular guy had to explode.

Even Lei Hao and Ye Bai had put it that way.

"I've considered switching teams."

"But the friendship we built over a year as classmates wouldn't allow it."

The two sighed as they said this. If someone who knew nothing about the situation saw them, they might even have been moved.

Only Su Ming exposed the shameless pair on the spot.

"You didn't stay because of your friendship as classmates for a year, did you? You clearly stayed because you're salivating over the three girls who are about to join our team!"

Su Ming had long seen through the faces of these two bastards.

Yet they still refused to admit it.

"Not me! I didn't! Don't make things up!"

As the pair of animals simultaneously delivered their solemn threefold denial, Su Ming silently prepared to pull the long, slender elastic steel sword from his backpack.

But someone appeared in time and saved the two beasts from their miserable fate.

"Brother Su Ming!"

When that melodious cry, sweet as wind chimes, rang out across the Mission Hall, the entire hall fell silent.

An Zijin was standing at the entrance with two people, waving excitedly at Su Ming.

As she waved, her adorable face was flushed with excitement, and her eyes were bright and limpid, making her look exactly like a beautiful, big-eyed anime girl.

The sight that made countless men excited caused quite a few of them to clutch their chests involuntarily, hearts appearing in their eyes.

"Ah! My goddess!"

Ye Bai shouted in an intoxicated voice from the side, making Su Ming's skin crawl.

"N-no wonder she's the School Belle junior who can rival my goddess. With that level of cuteness, if I weren't a firm member of Xu Qianqian's faction, I might have fallen for her too."

Lei Hao looked as if he had narrowly escaped disaster.

An Zijin ignored the gazes of the others. Pulling one girl with each hand, she walked toward Su Ming.

"I'm here, Brother Su Ming."

An Zijin happily said this to Su Ming, then sat down beside him without hesitation. She naturally reached out and wrapped her arm around his.

"Stare--→_→"

At that moment, Su Ming felt countless gazes converge on him, every one of them carrying killing intent.

Su Ming's eyelid twitched, and he instinctively tried to pull his arm away.

But An Zijin had no intention of letting go. With a forceful tug, she directly pinned Su Ming's arm in a soft place.

Su Ming lost all his strength.

Any man would lose his strength in that situation, right?

That wonderful sensation made Su Ming want to shout, "Could this be the hundredth and final form of Spiritual Art? It actually has such incredible binding power!"

In the face of such terrifying strength, it was perfectly normal that Su Ming could not break free, right?

But when had this girl developed to this point?

She had been so flat when she was young, yet she had already developed this far. The seventeen-year-old girls of this era were truly impressive.

"Ah, Senior Lei Hao, Senior Ye Bai, hello."

An Zijin had no idea what was going through Su Ming's mind. She politely greeted Lei Hao and Ye Bai, who were seated opposite them.

"Hello, Junior An."

Lei Hao responded in his usual carefree manner.

"Y-you came early! Hahaha!"

Ye Bai was somewhat flustered. He laughed loudly, unable to hide his excitement, and looked so restless that he resembled a country bumpkin who had never seen a beautiful girl before.

An Zijin did not mind. She only gave everyone a sweet smile.

"Let me introduce them to you. These are my two roommates."

An Zijin introduced the two girls she had brought along to everyone.

"Hello, seniors. I'm Yao Beibei."

The somewhat reserved girl sitting beside An Zijin spoke first and introduced herself.

"Hello, seniors. I'm Jiang Wanyu."

The girl sitting beside Yao Beibei, whose eyes darted about and who looked somewhat mischievous, also introduced herself.

"H-hello."

Faced with these two first-year juniors, Lei Hao and Ye Bai both became rather stiff and reserved.

Seeing this, Su Ming found it amusing, yet he could not help taking another look at Yao Beibei and Jiang Wanyu.

He had not expected An Zijin's two roommates to be so pretty.

Yao Beibei wore glasses and looked somewhat reserved and quiet, like an intellectual little sister. Her figure, however, was extremely voluptuous, stretching the academy uniform shirt taut over her chest. The buttons seemed liable to pop off at any moment, drawing people's gazes over involuntarily.

Jiang Wanyu looked like a cheerful and lively girl brimming with energy. Her skin was very fair, seemingly even fairer than An Zijin's and Yao Beibei's. Her figure was not as voluptuous as Yao Beibei's, but she had a pair of slender, long legs that she boldly exposed to the air, making Su Ming feel the urge to reach out and touch them.

In terms of looks, the two might not have been as stunning as An Zijin, who could overwhelm anyone at a glance, but they were still standard beauties.

If girls at the level of Xu Qianqian and An Zijin could score ninety-nine points, falling just one point short of being flawless representatives of humanity, then although these two beauties were not quite as exaggerated, they could at least score ninety points.

Moreover, each had her own physical advantages. Among certain groups of people, their scores might even surpass An Zijin's.

Su Ming truly had not expected An Zijin to have two roommates like this.

Lei Hao and Ye Bai clearly had not expected it either. That was why they had been caught completely off guard and had instantly become shy, like a pair of inexperienced boys.

Su Ming decided to tease these two innocent virgins properly after he returned. Only then did he turn and greet Yao Beibei and Jiang Wanyu.

"I'm Su Ming. It's nice to meet you."

Su Ming's greeting was perfectly conventional, with nothing to criticize.

However, Yao Beibei and Jiang Wanyu looked at Su Ming somewhat unpleasantly.

Jiang Wanyu in particular planted her hands on her hips and suddenly spoke.

"You're the Senior Su Ming who stole our Zijin away?"

Jiang Wanyu sized Su Ming up as she muttered, "There's nothing special about you. Why is Zijin so infatuated with you?"

She had gone straight for the sarcastic remarks.

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Su Ming blinked.

Was he being rejected?

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