Su You

"Great Nirvana," "Hong," "Thunder God," "Extreme Martial Arts Hall"...

"Swallowed Star!" Su You frowned slightly, his thoughts drifting away.

It is now May 2053. Although this is still Earth, it is not the Earth he was familiar with; he has arrived on the Earth from the novel Swallowed Star.

One night five years ago, Su You, curled up in his pink quilt reading a novel, fell asleep in a daze.

When he opened his eyes again, the whole world had changed, and he had become a twelve-year-old boy also named Su You.

He didn't have parents who died, he wasn't a martial arts failure, and there was no fiancée coming to break off an engagement.

Even the plot of Swallowed Star had been mostly forgotten, making him look nothing like a protagonist.

The only thing slightly special was that, perhaps due to the fusion of souls from two lives, he could easily multitask; his technique of drawing a square with his left hand and a circle with his right was quite proficient. Perhaps this could be considered a golden finger?

"Luo Feng seems to be in Jiangnan Base City. I don't even have the chance to cling to his coattails. This start is too difficult," Su You muttered.

After the Great Nirvana, only five major powers remained globally—China, India, the United States, the European Union, and Soviet Russia—along with 23 human base cities formed in regions like South America and Africa.

China has a total of six major base cities, and Su You's home is in Tianjin City, one of the eight satellite cities of Kyoto Base City.

In this era, the main mode of transportation between base cities and satellite cities is the train, and the ticket prices are extremely expensive; an ordinary person's annual salary might not even be enough to buy a single ticket.

As for traveling from Kyoto Base City to Jiangnan Base City, the ticket price is astronomical, something an ordinary family simply cannot afford.

Although Su You's family is not considered impoverished, they are nowhere near wealthy either.

His father, Su Yongyi, works as a chief physician at the Lubei District Second People's Hospital, and his mother, Gong Yanrong, works in the finance department of a company in Lubei District.

Although their combined annual household income exceeds 300,000, after deducting mortgage payments and necessary household expenses, their annual savings amount to only a little over 100,000 Chinese Yuan.

However, practicing martial arts is a money-guzzling beast, and most of the savings the Su family has accumulated over the years have been spent on his cultivation.

A large amount of money combined with excellent martial arts talent allowed Su You to reach the level of an advanced trainee at the martial arts hall at age fifteen, becoming a trainee a year early.

One must know that according to the regulations of the two major martial arts halls, one must be sixteen years old to study there. Su You being able to become a trainee early was only possible after the head of the Lubei District Extreme Martial Arts Hall nodded in agreement.

"Little Egg, time to eat."

A voice suddenly sounded from outside the door. With a "creak," the door to Su You's room opened, and a middle-aged woman who looked nearly forty was standing at the doorway peering inside.

"Mom, why aren't you knocking again!" Su You said helplessly.

His mother, Gong Yanrong, curled her lips and said bluntly, "It's early in the morning, you close the door right after practicing martial arts without even airing it out. Your room always has a strange smell."

Su You looked up at the ceiling, speechless, giving up on the idea of reasoning with his mother. After all, with bloodline suppression, logic was definitely not going to work.

After enduring his mother's nagging and finishing breakfast, Su You quickly left the house.

Just as he reached the entrance of the residential complex, Su You saw a graceful figure chasing hurriedly from behind. By the time she ran up to him, she was already panting.

"Brother Su You, you, you didn't wait for me again!"

The person chasing him was a tall girl with long, jet-black hair that was naturally slightly wavy, and a faint blush on her delicate face.

This girl's name is Tang Yongqing, the daughter of Su You's neighbor. She is only fifteen years old this year but is already in her third year of high school. In a sense, she is Su You's senior, and her academic performance is extremely excellent, consistently occupying the top spot in the third-year grade.

Ever since Su You helped her teach that stalker at school a lesson over half a year ago, she has had a crush on him, running to the Su house every day. She doesn't treat herself as an outsider at all and has become even closer to his mother, Gong Yanrong, than Su You is.

Sigh, another one lusting after my body. A boy must protect himself well when he's out! Su You thought to himself.

At the same time, he didn't respond to Tang Yongqing's complaints but asked with a smile, "Didn't Little Yuan follow you?"

Little Yuan is Tang Yongyuan, Tang Yongqing's fraternal twin brother. He is also in his third year of high school this year and ranks second in the grade, just behind his sister.

Tang Yongqing was stunned for a moment, looked back, stuck out her tongue, and then felt a surge of joy in her heart: the tag-along brother didn't follow. This is a rare world for just the two of them!

Tang Yongqing's eyes darted around. "Uh, Little Yuan has something to do today. Brother Su You, let's go too, we'll be late soon."

Su You nodded, and the two walked slowly side by side toward Lubei District Second High School.

On the way, Tang Yongqing stared at Su You and said, "Brother Su You, we haven't taken a walk together like this for a long time."

"Don't we go to school together every day?" Su You said subconsciously.

Tang Yongqing pouted, "That's not it. I mean, just, just the two of us."

Su You laughed it off and immediately changed the subject.

He had naturally understood the young girl's feelings for a long time and had even openly told her he didn't have feelings for her, but Tang Yongqing simply didn't believe it.

Of course, Su You didn't quite believe it himself. As a gentleman, how could he not have thoughts about such a beautiful girl?

It's just that, firstly, she is too young, and the two families are too familiar; he felt embarrassed to make a move. Even rabbits don't eat the grass by their own burrows, let alone young sprouts.

Secondly, Tang Yongqing's personality is a bit too obsessive; in the words of his previous life, she's a bit of a yandere.

Su You didn't want to give up the whole forest for this one tree. Once Earth enters the starry sky, he still wants to interact with beauties from various human races!

Lubei District Second High School is not far from the residential complex where Su You lives. After just over ten minutes, the two arrived at the school gate.

Lubei District Second High School has over six thousand students across three grades, and each grade is distributed in different teaching buildings, so they had to part ways at the school gate.

"Xiao Qing, I'm going to the martial arts hall this afternoon. You and Little Yuan go home first after school!" After Su You finished his instructions, he hurried toward the teaching building for the second-year students.

Tang Yongqing stood where she was, watching Su You's back, and clenched her fists. "Hmph, you can't run away."

At three in the afternoon, after the school bell rang, Su You left the school and maintained a speed of 20 meters per second, sprinting toward the Lubei District Extreme Martial Arts Hall.

20 meters per second, which is 72 kilometers per hour. In his previous life, the police would have likely issued him a ticket long ago, but this was merely the passing line for the speed assessment for an advanced trainee at the martial arts hall, just enough to barely let Su You warm up.