Genius Girl, Most Beautiful Campus Belle: Su Muyun!

7:50 AM.

First class of the semester: General Profession Studies.

The lecture hall on the first floor of the Career Theory Building.

This was a general course, a lecture for the entire grade level.

As such, all 800 freshmen of the first-year class were gathered in one massive lecture hall for the lesson.

By the time Ye Xiao and Fatty Wang arrived outside the lecture hall.

The hall in the Career Theory Building was already packed.

Eight hundred freshmen were divided into sections by class.

The Genius Class sat in the front rows, the Elite Class in the middle, and the Ordinary Class in the back.

The lines were as clear as the class divisions of this world, impossible to cross.

Sunlight poured in through the massive floor-to-ceiling windows, casting a grid of light and shadow across the wooden floor of the lecture hall.

On the blackboard behind the podium, the day's lesson was written:

<General Profession Studies, Lecture 1: The Origin and Essence of Professions>

Standing at the podium was an elderly man with graying hair and gold-rimmed glasses, flipping through his lecture notes.

His name was Chai Hongxi, an authority on career theory.

It was said he was once the mentor to a certain transcendent.

The students whispered among themselves, discussing the first university class about to begin.

When Ye Xiao walked into the classroom, the bell had not yet rung.

He wore a faded T-shirt and carried the old schoolbag he had inherited from his foster father.

The zipper on the bag was broken, held together by a safety pin.

He lifted his head and scanned the densely packed seats.

The Genius Class was full, and the Elite Class was full as well.

Only the last few rows of the Ordinary Class had a few scattered empty seats.

He walked toward the back.

As he passed the Elite Class section, someone deliberately stuck out a foot to trip him.

He stepped around it without looking down to see who it was.

A burst of laughter erupted behind him.

Fatty Wang glared angrily at the students who had tried to cause trouble.

Ye Xiao, however, paid no mind, continuing to walk forward until he sat down in the corner against the wall in the very last row.

In this spot, the sunlight couldn't reach him, and the blackboard was hard to see.

But it was the perfect vantage point to look out the window.

Outside, the spire of the Martial Arts Tower pierced the clouds.

People in the front rows were whispering:

"I heard there's an S-rank among the freshmen this year, in the Sword Cultivator department. Her name is Su Muyun."

"A girl?"

"Yeah, a girl. She's incredibly beautiful; she's already been unofficially crowned the school beauty of our freshman class."

"How beautiful can she be?"

"You'll see in a minute. She's sitting in the first row of the Genius Class."

"They say plenty of outstanding seniors from the third and fourth years are already pursuing her. I wonder who she'll pick?"

"Given how exceptional Su Muyun is, and with her supposedly heaven-defying family background, whoever she chooses as a boyfriend must be a dragon among men!"

"..."

While everyone was talking.

Su Muyun walked into the classroom.

The moment she entered, it felt as if all the light in the room converged upon her.

For a brief moment, the sunlight outside shifted past the window frame, falling diagonally across her and shrouding her in a pale golden halo.

Her skin was fair—a porcelain-like white, the kind that rarely saw the sun, yet it glowed with a faint luster under the light.

Her brows were like distant mountains shrouded in mist; she wore no makeup, yet possessed a natural radiance.

Her eyes were a rare, light amber, turning the color of transparent honey in the sunlight.

Her nose was high and straight, and her lips were a soft pink. She wore no lipstick, yet they were as full as flower petals covered in morning dew.

Her jawline was soft, yet defined with a crisp, clean edge, giving her face both the gentleness of a young girl and a hint of imperceptible stubbornness.

Her hair was the most eye-catching feature—waist-length, black as ink, neither permed nor dyed, simply draped over her shoulders.

The ends were loosely tied with a dark blue ribbon, swaying gently with her movements.

A few stray locks hung by her ears, lifted by the breeze from the window, brushing against her cheeks.

She stood there, as if surrounded by an invisible aura.

It wasn't the coldness that kept people at a distance, but a sense of purity that made one afraid to approach her lightly.

Like moonlight, like fresh snow, like a pool of still water in the deep mountains where no one has ever stepped.

When she arrived at the seating area for the genius class.

Lin Yun stood up, his face full of flattery.

"Su Muyun, you can take my seat, right in the center of the first row, the best spot in the entire classroom!"

But when she spoke, her voice was light and soft, like a spring breeze blowing through bamboo leaves:

"Thank you, but that won't be necessary."

She sat in an empty seat at the very edge, next to another girl.

Everyone could see it.

Lin Yun had a crush on Su Muyun and wanted to pursue her.

But even Lin Yun, with his SS-rank profession, was rebuffed by Su Muyun.

Many people became even more curious.

What kind of man would catch Su Muyun's eye?

"Can't even an SS-rank lightning prodigy like Lin Yun win her over?"

"It's understandable, though; Lin Yun is too young."

"It's said that among the upperclassmen in our school, there are even super geniuses with SSS-rank professions!"

"You have to realize, Su Muyun herself is an S-rank profession and a top-tier campus beauty; only a man with an SSS-rank profession would be worthy of her."

"I think so too."

"..."

Ye Xiao did not join the discussion ahead.

He simply looked out the window, waiting for the class bell to ring.

At eight o'clock sharp, the bell rang.

Chai Hongxi put down his lecture notes, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses, and scanned the room.

The noise gradually died down.

"My name is Chai Hongxi, and I will be teaching you General Profession Studies. This course has no practical component, only theory. But if you think theory is unimportant, you are wrong."

He paused, his voice not loud, yet it clearly reached every corner of the classroom:

"Because if you do not understand the history of the martial world, you will not know how the rules of this world came to be. If you do not know how the rules came to be, you will forever be a slave to the rules, rather than the one who makes them."

The room fell silent; no one spoke.

Everyone stared intently at Chai Hongxi on the podium.

Chai Hongxi turned around and wrote two large characters on the blackboard:

[Awakening]

"One hundred thousand years ago, the world underwent a great transformation, and spiritual energy surged. The first batch of humans began to awaken their professions. Some could control fire, some could communicate with Demonic Beast, and some could sever mountains and rivers with a single sword."

He turned back to face the students:

"From that moment on, humanity was no longer at the bottom of the food chain. We gained the power to contend with Demonic Beast, the capital to explore the void, and we gained..."

He paused, his gaze sweeping intentionally or otherwise over the corner of the last row:

His eyes landed on Ye Xiao.

For a full three seconds!

He said, with profound meaning:

"We gained class!"

He had been present at the awakening test hall yesterday.

Chai Hongxi had witnessed the entire process of what happened to Ye Xiao with his own eyes.

He had also heard the young man's unyielding vow.

"I need no one's pity; I can rely on my own two fists to make you beg me to join the genius class!"

From that moment on.

Among all the freshmen of this year.

Chai Hongxi's impression of Ye Xiao was the deepest.