Your Expression Is So Interesting, Junior

The next day.

With the night symbolizing the final calm coming to an end, the Academy District finally began its official operations.

Early in the morning, the doors of the Administration Building opened, welcoming teams made up of students one after another.

Quite a few students seemed unable to wait to earn Contribution Points. They had arrived at the Administration Building early in the morning and entered the Mission Hall to choose their missions.

Su Ming and the other five had likewise agreed to get up early, accept missions together, and earn enough Contribution Points as quickly as possible to avoid the risk of expulsion.

Thus, when the clock hands pointed to six, Su Ming's phone alarm rang and woke him up.

"Smack!"

Su Ming thrust a hand out from under the covers and slapped it down roughly on his phone, showing just how bad his morning temper was.

Even so, Su Ming obediently climbed out of bed, sleepily smoothed his hair, then staggered into the bathroom. After spending about twenty minutes washing up and getting himself presentable, he finally regained a little energy.

By the time Su Ming had gotten dressed, gathered his things, and left his room, the door to another room opened as well.

"Senior Su Ming?"

Jiang Wanyu walked out of her room with a dazed look. She seemed to have finished washing up too, but she looked completely lacking in energy.

"Morning."

Su Ming gave his junior a greeting for the time being.

"Morning." Jiang Wanyu replied hazily while giving a beautiful yawn. "Where's Zijin? What about everyone else?"

"No idea." Su Ming spread his hands. "They probably haven't woken up yet, right?"

At the very least, Lei Hao and Ye Bai probably had not woken up.

Ye Bai in particular was usually rather lazy. His morning temper was even worse than Su Ming's, so he was probably still battling his alarm clock with all his wits.

Lei Hao was actually quite good at getting up early. After all, he insisted on exercising every morning. However, before it was time to get up, he slept so deeply that it seemed like several burly men could carry him off in a coffin and he still would not wake up. If not for his earth-shaking snores, Su Ming had no idea how many times he might have been carried away as a corpse. One alarm clock would never be enough to wake him.

So, waiting for those two to come out would definitely take a little time.

"All right."

Jiang Wanyu nodded sleepily.

Last night, she and Yao Beibei had chatted until very late, so she was somewhat sleep-deprived too.

Thanks to that, Yao Beibei probably had not woken up either.

As for An Zijin, Jiang Wanyu knew very well that she was also someone who had trouble getting out of bed. One of her favorite things was getting a good, refreshing sleep. If she got up too early, she would probably be so groggy that she could not even find her way to the bathroom.

Because of this, Yao Beibei and Jiang Wanyu had teased An Zijin more than once, saying that all her cuteness had been slept into her and that she got more beauty sleep than anyone else.

All things considered, among the six, Su Ming and Jiang Wanyu were the first to get up.

"Let's wait half an hour for them." Su Ming glanced at the time displayed on his phone and spoke nonchalantly. "If they still haven't gotten up after half an hour, we'll just kick down their doors, enter their rooms, and pull off their blankets."

Was he really that violent?

Jiang Wanyu paused slightly in the middle of her yawn.

But soon, Jiang Wanyu looked at Su Ming warily.

"Senior, don't even think about barging into Zijin's room, okay?"

Jiang Wanyu spread her arms and stood in front of An Zijin's door, looking guarded.

".Your first reaction was actually that?"

Su Ming's mouth twitched as he looked at Jiang Wanyu's expression, which could not have been stranger.

Jiang Wanyu did not relax her guard at all.

"Who can blame me when my Zijin is so cute?" Jiang Wanyu said as though it were only natural. "With such a cute girl living under this roof, let alone a man, even a woman wouldn't be able to stop herself from barging into her room!"

"Is that so?" Su Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. "Then do you really want to barge into Little Zijin's room right now?"

"I don't need to!" Jiang Wanyu lifted her head and puffed out her chest, looking smug. "I'm Zijin's roommate to begin with. I don't need to barge in. I can just walk right in!"

So she still wanted to go in?

Su Ming stared at the smug Jiang Wanyu with dead-fish eyes. Then, as if he had thought of something, he suddenly smiled.

"I'm not going in."

Su Ming spoke to Jiang Wanyu with a kindly expression.

"Really?"

Jiang Wanyu was slightly taken aback, and the wariness in her eyes faded somewhat.

Not for any other reason, but because Su Ming's expression at that moment really was kind and amiable.

However.

"Have you forgotten?" The kindness on Su Ming's face turned teasing the next second, making him say, "I've shared a bed with Little Zijin countless times. We've even bathed together countless times. Why would I need to deliberately barge into her room?"

Boom—the words were like an invisible bolt of lightning striking Jiang Wanyu's head, freezing her entire body.

"You—you—you—you!"

Jiang Wanyu pointed at Su Ming with a trembling finger, looking furious.

"Hahahaha!" Su Ming laughed gleefully. "Your expression is so interesting, Junior."

"Don't talk to me! You're a bad senior!"

Jiang Wanyu trembled with rage, and all her drowsiness vanished.

Although Jiang Wanyu knew very well that the things Su Ming had mentioned had probably happened when they were children, whether the emotion was envy or anger, it still made her slender body feel as if it were about to split apart.

As if on cue, An Zijin's door opened at that exact moment.

"Ugh, so noisy..."

An Zijin was wearing extremely cute pajamas and holding a somewhat old stuffed toy in her arms. Her hair was a little messy, yet for some reason, she looked so adorable it was almost lethal.

The little girl was like a big child. She hugged the stuffed toy with one hand and rubbed her eyes with the other, simply too cute for words.

"Zijin~~~"

The instant Jiang Wanyu saw this scene, she clasped both hands together, hearts appearing in her eyes.

Even Su Ming felt as though his heart had melted. For a moment, he did not want this junior to become his younger sister and call him brother. Instead, he wanted her to become his daughter and call him Dad.

Who would not want such a cute little angel!?

He was done for!

"Brother Su Ming?"

Just as Su Ming's heart began gradually heading toward depravity, An Zijin seemed to notice his presence at last and called out to him in a daze, just like Jiang Wanyu had earlier.

But this time, before Su Ming could respond, An Zijin giggled.

"Heehee. I found Brother Su Ming."

Already completely lost in sleep, An Zijin slowly shuffled over to Su Ming, then nestled into his arms and leaned against him.

"Zijin! ∑(っ°Д°;)っ"

Jiang Wanyu screamed.

Unfortunately, An Zijin's eyes held only Su Ming.

"Brother Su Ming... like you. Mwah! (*╯3╰)"

An Zijin rubbed against Su Ming's chest, then puckered her little lips and pressed them toward Su Ming's astonished mouth.

Seeing this, Jiang Wanyu exploded.

"Stop right there! (〝▼皿▼)"

Jiang Wanyu charged forward.

Thus, a burst of chaotic commotion erupted in the hall, waking the people in the rooms one after another.

By the time Lei Hao, Ye Bai, and even Yao Beibei had been startled awake and rushed out of their rooms into the hall, what they saw was Jiang Wanyu pulling hard on An Zijin, An Zijin clinging tightly to Su Ming, and Su Ming struggling desperately to break free and escape. Together, they formed a human train that charged wildly across the hall.

"(◇)?"

Lei Hao and Ye Bai stared in blank confusion.

"(｀ω)--￣へ￣--(╬￣皿￣)"

Yao Beibei blinked, then looked bewildered. In the next moment, her little face fell, and she silently rushed forward as well, grabbing hold of An Zijin.

Early in the morning, Su Ming's team was already having an incredibly good time.

Perhaps this was a good omen?

"Hmph! ╭(╯^╰)╮"

At the entrance of the accommodation building, Jiang Wanyu walked out while still looking angry.

"What have I done?"

An Zijin had already woken up. After learning what she had almost done, she remained in a state that was equal parts embarrassed and delighted.

"Bad senior."

Yao Beibei held one of An Zijin's arms and, just like Jiang Wanyu earlier, unhesitatingly gave Su Ming a new nickname.

"I'm innocent!"

Su Ming maintained his position.

But Lei Hao and Ye Bai each hooked an arm around him and held him up.

"Everyone who commits a crime says that."

"Especially death-row criminals."

Lei Hao and Ye Bai spoke languidly, directly sentencing Su Ming.

Ye Bai in particular summed up all his feelings at that moment with the words "death penalty."

Su Ming was powerless to defend himself.

The three of them made their way to the Mission Hall in the Administration Building while bickering noisily, blending into the clamorous crowd.

Apart from some minor differences in arrangement, the Mission Hall here was largely no different from the Academy's Mission Hall.

Besides rows of seats, tables, and chairs, this place only had office counters, staff members, and several bulletin boards that were much larger than those at the Academy.

The information for each mission appeared on the bulletin boards, waiting for the students to accept them.

The students gathered there, carefully examining the missions and chattering among themselves. In the end, some remained where they were, hesitating, while others wrote down the mission numbers and went to the counters to have the staff register them as accepted.

Otherwise, aside from certain missions with unlimited participation, the students might clash after accepting the same mission.

It was worth mentioning that the mission system here was the same as the one at the Academy. Missions were divided into six difficulty levels: S, A, B, C, D, and E.

The highest-difficulty Rank S Missions and the high-difficulty Rank A Missions had not been posted.

Missions of this level involved matters of great importance, had an extremely wide-reaching impact, and were highly dangerous. Quite a few were even secret missions that could not be leaked, so the Academy naturally would not casually post them.

Therefore, the missions here only had four difficulty levels: B, C, D, and E.

"What difficulty should we choose?"

Su Ming asked.

Everyone immediately fell into deep thought.

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