"Lin Yu!!! Get up! The college entrance exam is almost here, and you still dare to sleep in class!!"
A piece of chalk flew with perfect accuracy toward a boy in the back row of the classroom!
"Hm????"
Lin Yu groggily raised his head and looked at the furious teacher on the podium, his mind a complete mess.
"Where am I?? Wasn't I hit by a car?"
Lin Yu shook his slightly muddled head. Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, his mind completely froze.
Lin Yu was an orphan. He did not know who his biological parents were and had grown up eating at different households while living in an orphanage.
Although he had never enjoyed a life of luxury, he never lacked three meals a day. Nor had he suffered through any melodramatic child-abuse experiences. Aside from not having his parents by his side, Lin Yu's childhood had been quite happy.
The orphanage director was an old-fashioned good man. Every day, he was either talking about how people were good by nature at birth or saying, "Do not refrain from doing good just because it seems insignificant." Over time, under the old director's influence, a great ideal slowly took root in Lin Yu's heart. Young Lin Yu made a grand vow: he would do one good deed every day! He would become a good person who contributed to society.
After graduating from college, Lin Yu was not some elite making hundreds of thousands or millions a year, but he still earned around ten thousand yuan a month.
Every month, Lin Yu gave half his salary to the old director to do his part for the younger children at the orphanage. At the same time, he had always kept his childhood vow in his heart and carried it through to the end.
He had thought that once he found a like-minded wife, his life would simply pass by like that. But one day, after helping an elderly person who had fallen, Lin Yu's life took a turn in a completely different direction.
The situation was just that absurd. The old person's family sued him, claiming that Lin Yu had knocked the old person down. Just like that, a good deed turned Lin Yu into the culprit. The sudden change in identity caught him completely off guard!
On the day of the trial, the old director came to sit in on the hearing. He believed the child he had raised was not that kind of person. The judge could also tell that things were probably as Lin Yu had described, but the place where it happened was a surveillance blind spot. Lin Yu had no evidence to prove his innocence, and the old person's family refused to let it go. With no other choice, the judge ruled against Lin Yu and ordered him to compensate the old person for medical expenses and more.
In court, Lin Yu's once-bright eyes dimmed. He did not know what had gone wrong with this world. It had clearly been a good deed, yet he ended up entangled in a lawsuit and even lost all the savings he had accumulated over several years.
In a daze, Lin Yu walked out of the courthouse with the old director.
"Director, was I wrong?" Lin Yu asked as he looked at the old director.
"Xiaoyu, you weren't wrong!! Your kindness was simply given to the wrong people!! This director is useless. I let you suffer such a grievance! Cough!"
The elderly director looked at Lin Yu's young face with heartache. Lin Yu, who had once been full of spirit, had become completely silent, his eyes dull and lifeless.
"Come on, child. Let's go home first!"
The old director, who had spent his entire life treating others kindly, did not know how to comfort him at this moment. His heart was filled with anguish and self-blame. He knew about Lin Yu's grand vow, because it was under his influence that Lin Yu had formed that ideal. Lin Yu had always been his pride.
Yet Lin Yu's kindness had been exploited by certain people with ulterior motives, and it had hurt him instead.
"Director, you go back first. I want to take a walk by myself..."
Lin Yu's voice had no vitality at all, filled with desolation.
"Xiaoyu, don't do anything foolish. You still have me, and you still have all those younger brothers and sisters at the orphanage. We'll be waiting for you to come back. I'll make your favorite braised pork when I get home!"
The old director spoke worriedly.
"Don't worry, old director. I'll just take a walk. Once I think things through, I'll be fine. You should head back first. Be careful on the way!!"
"Then I'll head back first. You have to come back by dinnertime. Your younger brothers and sisters are all waiting for you!!"
"Mm!"
The old director watched Lin Yu's departing back with a worried expression and let out a sigh.
Like a walking corpse, Lin Yu made his way to an intersection. The sun overhead was scorching, but his heart was ice-cold. Had the ideal he had held onto for more than ten years been wrong? Lin Yu felt lost, as if his life had suddenly lost all direction.
As the light turned green, Lin Yu lifted his foot and walked toward the other side. Suddenly, a deafening roar rang out beside him, and then he felt the world spin around him.
"(`皿´)?? Was I hit by a car??"
As Lin Yu flew through the air, he glanced from the corner of his eye and saw a red Ferrari stopped on the crosswalk. Inside sat a heavily made-up young woman, who was staring ahead in terror.
"Bang..." With a dull thud, Lin Yu crashed heavily into the middle of the road and rolled several times...
"Damn it!! (;｀O´)o, was this heaven's punishment for me??? I'm sorry, Director. Looks like I won't get to eat that braised pork after all!! You damned heavens, if there's a next life, I'm definitely not going to be any kind of good person!"
At death's door, one final thought flashed through Lin Yu's mind before he sank into boundless darkness.
Back in the present, Lin Yu shook his slightly swollen head and looked around. Before him was a classroom filled with around forty students in school uniforms, their faces still somewhat youthful. On the podium at the front stood a middle-aged man in his forties with a slightly receding hairline, glaring at him angrily.
Looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar scene, Lin Yu's eyes gradually widened. His previously foggy mind slowly cleared as well.
"Damn it, is this some kind of joke?? Did that female driver hit me so hard that I got sent through time????"
Still unwilling to believe it, Lin Yu viciously pinched his own thigh. The piercing pain told him that he was not dreaming and that everything before him was real.
"Hiss... I really traveled through time!!!"
Lin Yu muttered softly.
"Lin Yu, don't think that just because you're good at cultural subjects, you can afford not to listen properly. The Awakening Ritual will be held in two days. If your awakening fails, then no matter how high your academic score is, you won't be able to get into Martial University!!"
"Students, listen carefully! This awakening is your only chance to rise above the crowd. You must seize it properly. If anything goes wrong during your awakening, you'll be the ones who regret it later!!! Do you hear me!"
Lin Yizhong glared furiously at Lin Yu in the back row as he spoke.
"I know about the college entrance exam! But what the hell is this awakening?? And what kind of school is Martial University?? What kind of messed-up world did I transmigrate into????"
Lin Yu was completely dumbfounded by the teacher's words. He had gone through the college entrance exam in his previous life, so at worst, he would just go through it again. But everything the teacher said afterward left him utterly confused—Awakening Rituals, Martial University... this did not sound like any normal world, did it??
While Lin Yu was still in a daze, a sharp pain suddenly struck his head again. Then a flood of unfamiliar memories appeared in his mind.
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