Did someone call me big brother?

Qi Lin felt that Wang Ji had suddenly become a bit strange...

Perhaps she was being pretentious, or perhaps he was just a bit strange.

Previously, he had seemed very aggressive, a young man full of vigor, making it clear that he would definitely pursue her. Whether it was his considerate manner or his unabashedly cheesy sweet talk, it had indeed put a lot of pressure on her.

Although he had saved her life, and although he was a hero in her eyes, they had only known each other for too short a time, just a few days.

And added together, it hadn't even been three hours.

Although he was really handsome and quite likable, it wasn't like she could just agree to be with him just because he pursued her. At least she had to... maintain some reserve?

And also confirm whether she and he were compatible—whether she really liked him, or whether he was just acting on a whim?

Yes, even now, Qi Lin believed that Wang Ji's feelings for her were probably just a whim, perhaps a case of love at first sight, but it was hard to say whether it would last.

He was too young.

Only 18.

Eighteen was indeed the age when one's heart first opens, but he might not know what love is. He might not know if he really loved her.

What did he like about her?

From their brief interactions, in such a short time, Qi Lin could only think that he liked her appearance. She couldn't think of anything else.

Did he understand her? Did he know what she liked and disliked? Did he understand her inner self?

Probably not. Perhaps he had never considered it.

Or perhaps, he just wanted to play around... maybe he would get bored and let go.

At his age, would he consider the future? Would he consider that in a few years, when she was nearly thirty, she might want to get married?

He was only eighteen; he probably couldn't think about these things.

Although he was her savior, Qi Lin couldn't easily pledge herself to him because of that...

She didn't want to pledge herself to him because of that...

If one day she really ended up with him, she hoped it would be because they both loved each other, and she had truly fallen in love with him, rather than being coerced by gratitude.

She thought very clearly. Although she had felt a kind of joy, delight, fantasy, and shyness in her heart all day, she shouldn't rush things.

There was plenty of time ahead. In their daily life at the academy, perhaps they would hold hands one day, and then...

Ahem~ Ahem~ Or ahem ahem~

But there was one more point, a very important point, that she couldn't help but feel worried about—this kid wanted to be an emperor before.

So it was difficult for her to predict his true attitude towards love, especially after gaining superpowers, and with this uncertain future world...

Superpowers + wanting to be an emperor did make her feel apprehensive.

Who could guarantee that he wouldn't be a playboy? In fact, she felt that there was a high probability that he would be a playboy... like an emperor.

An age when his heart was hard to settle, conditions that attracted attention, and already obvious ambition.

She wanted to wait, to wait naturally, to see what his true character was like.

Or whether she would fall in love with him, even... even if he didn't seem trustworthy.

She thought that she would most likely end up with him in the end, not to repay a debt.

He really is good—good-looking, a superhero, quite gentle, considerate, self-reliant, motivated, should be considered kind, patriotic, and smart.

And no matter what, no matter how sentimental she was, he saved her, a second before her death, like a God descending to earth.

These past few days, she has been dreaming about him, and... she feels extremely lost about leaving him without saying goodbye, and a little... regretful?

Every second she was held in his arms after he saved her that night, would occasionally float into her mind, as if playing on repeat.

At night, in her dreams.

Hehe, there's really no way... this cheesy hero saving the beauty, is every girl's dream, and she's no exception.

Perhaps, she won't be able to hold on for much longer.

So when Wang Ji didn't cling to her in the afternoon, she felt a little relaxed and pleasantly surprised, feeling that he was quite considerate, could see that he had put some pressure on her, and knew to keep some distance.

It had a bit of a mature feel, which made her feel very good.

But gradually she felt something was wrong—why didn't he ask her to have dinner together? He was so passionate before, could it be that he was being overly self-conscious?

And it wasn't until almost eight o'clock that he finally appeared in this classroom to gather, and he just nodded to her normally as a greeting, without the previous fiery clinginess.

He greeted the others as well, with a similar attitude to her.

He sat down freely, without doing anything special... and didn't sit close to her.

She was in the front row, and he was in the second to last row in the corner of the classroom, in front of a black windbreaker beauty, sleeping on the desk.

She felt like something was wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

Was it because she had never been in a relationship?

She couldn't help but look back, thought for a while, and was about to get up...

"Hey hey! Have you guys seen this news these past two days? Do you think the speculations online are true, are there really Aliens!" A red jacket and jeans guy sitting not far away suddenly spoke, with some nervousness on his face.

The news he was talking about was still being heavily broadcasted on the TV in front of the classroom:

A humanoid creature resembling a crocodile and unidentified armed forces suddenly descended from the sky in Tianhe City Commercial Street, and were later subdued by the Huaxia Military. Some people were injured in the incident, and the military has not yet made a specific response.

In fact, this news has been flying around since yesterday, with various speculations and judgments.

Plus the rumors that had been leaked before, that some people had seen large robots in the Airport Road terrorist attack, all kinds of speculations have emerged online in the past two days, and the hottest view is that these are all Aliens.

There were nine people sitting in the classroom, and probably no one hadn't seen or heard this news.

Before Wang Ji came, Qi Lin and the others were watching the rebroadcast of this news, most of them with worried and nervous expressions.

Terrorist attacks in peaceful times, and possibly monsters and Aliens, would make anyone uneasy, worried about a war breaking out and endangering themselves.

And...

"And Wang Ji... Wang Ji has superpowers, and we all seem to have superpowers, no, except for me." Zhao Xin said, pausing for a moment.

He didn't know if he had superpowers, he didn't think so before, but Du Qiangwei said that his Super Gene had already been activated, but he didn't feel it.

He carefully pointed to someone sleeping soundly at the back, someone whose style was obviously better than theirs, and everyone looked over with different expressions.

Some were doubtful, some were smiling, some were cautious...

"Since superpowers exist, aliens aren't impossible, right?" Zhao Xin thought this made perfect sense.

Ge Xiao Lun looked around, then looked at Zhao Xin, and said nervously, "I heard Qiangwei say that we were called here to fight aliens, and Qiangwei said that these were solved by her comrades... We should really be going to fight aliens, right?"

"I..." Zhao Xin was a little guilty, a little scared: "Are you kidding me? Really fighting aliens? Fight what? Just let Wang Ji go, isn't that enough? He's a Dou Wang expert, and my Battle Qi hasn't even awakened yet! Isn't this just sending me to my death?"

Du Qiangwei smiled, remembering the scene from the morning.

Dou Wang... more like a 'teasing king'~

"Damn it, am I here to fight aliens? I, I'm a mafia boss!" Just then, a rough voice came from the back of the classroom.

Ge Xiao Lun looked back and couldn't help but frown with worry. When he was watching the news before, how come he didn't notice that this scum named Liu Chuang was also here?

"Why are there gangsters?" Rui Mengmeng said softly, a little worried and scared.

As a former restaurant waitress, a child from a poor family at the bottom of society, she was most afraid of hooligans and gangsters, and she was also timid.

She didn't expect that there would be gangsters here, wasn't it said that this is a national unit, a military academy or something?

Liu Chuang sat crookedly, swinging his arms, crossing his legs, and fiddling with a chair in his hand.

Seeing the fearful and worried expressions of the group, a sense of pleasure arose in his heart, and the expression on his face became even more smug.

He just liked this feeling of being bossy, he wanted all these people to be afraid of him!

"At most, he's just an older social youth." Qi Lin frowned impatiently and said coldly.

As expected, a dog can't change its eating habits, this Liu Chuang is still not human here, wanting to scare others, yelling and shouting.

"Yelling?" Liu Chuang slammed the chair and said slovenly: "I'm a standard mafia boss! Don't you know that I have dozens of brothers outside?"

A pair of sleepy eyes suddenly opened in the classroom, revealing a look of doubt—he seemed to have just heard someone calling him big brother?