"By the way, Principal, you said earlier that you could introduce your daughter to me as a girlfriend..."
"Get out!"
"You got it!"
Zhou Fan obediently left the principal's office.
He happened to see Lin Qianqian approaching from the opposite direction.
They both noticed each other, but neither spoke.
Zhou Fan casually glanced at Lin Qianqian.
He had to admit that, as the Campus Belle, Lin Qianqian's looks were flawless.
With her fair, rosy skin and exquisite face, she was as beautiful as a porcelain doll.
Of course.
Her flaw was that she was also like a porcelain doll-cold and unfeeling.
Like an iceberg.
So.
Despite her beauty, Zhou Fan had no particular interest in her.
Nobody would fall for an iceberg.
Unless that iceberg would melt just for them.
But Zhou Fan didn't think he had what it took to melt the iceberg that was Lin Qianqian.
They passed each other without exchanging a word.
Knock, knock, knock!
Lin Qianqian knocked on the principal's office door.
"Come in."
"Xixi, you're here." A kindly smile appeared on Wang Daochuan's face.
Just seeing Lin Qianqian made him happy.
She was his precious S-Rank student!
The only student with an S-Rank Superpower their school had produced in all these years!
She was also his greatest achievement this year.
Perhaps next year, he could kick that old geezer at the Esper Bureau out of his position.
"Principal, you wanted to see me?" Even facing Wang Daochuan, Lin Qianqian's expression remained calm.
"Xixi, you performed brilliantly today."
"You're our school's only S-Rank Esper. Your future is limitless, and you're sure to become one of the finest Espers in Xia Country!" Wang Daochuan opened with a few words of praise.
A prized student needed to be coaxed along.
With a genius like her, there was no need to guide her training.
He just needed to make her feel appreciated.
Lin Qianqian said, "Thank you."
Wang Daochuan: "..."
His praise didn't seem to have made Lin Qianqian feel anything.
So he could only get straight to the point. "By the way, Qianqian, let me ask you something."
"What do you think of Zhou Fan?"
"Zhou Fan?"
Lin Qianqian recalled Zhou Fan, whom she had just passed, as well as his performance during Combat Training.
"He's... pretty good."
That was the only assessment she could offer.
She didn't know Zhou Fan very well herself, so she couldn't say much more.
"He defeated four mutant beasts during Combat Training just now. He did very well."
"But you're S-Rank, and I believe you weren't showing everything you had earlier, either. You could easily take on five or six mutant beasts."
"So there's no need to feel pressured." At first, Wang Daochuan's words sounded as though he were reassuring Lin Qianqian.
In reality, he was trying to put pressure on her.
An S-Rank Superpower was certainly powerful.
But Zhou Fan's performance had been even more impressive than Lin Qianqian's.
If Zhou Fan could make Lin Qianqian feel pressured, it would push her to keep working hard and improving.
An S-Rank genius was already formidable.
If that genius also worked harder than everyone else... there was no telling how terrifying she could become!
"Mm, I don't feel pressured." Lin Qianqian didn't take the bait at all.
And she genuinely felt no pressure.
Zhou Fan had indeed performed very well.
But she had her own reasons to be confident.
An S-Rank Superpower!
A C-Rank Superpower simply couldn't compare.
No matter how powerful Zhou Fan's C-Rank Superpower was, it couldn't possibly surpass hers.
Besides, she had a system!
Zhou Fan was the first comparison target her system had assigned to her.
Everyone knew the first boss in a game was a freebie for beginners. There was never any real difficulty.
And this was her system, after all.
Lin Qianqian didn't believe her system would deceive her.
Since the system had assigned Zhou Fan as her first comparison target, there definitely wouldn't be a problem!
Wang Daochuan also realized that his words hadn't seemed to have any effect.
"All right, then. Keep training hard. If you run into any problems with your training, you can come to me anytime."
"Okay. Thank you, Principal."
"If there's nothing else, I'll head back now," Lin Qianqian said.
"All right... off you go."
Wang Daochuan was completely at a loss with her.
"That girl's far too cold. Will she even be able to find a boyfriend?"
"I wonder who could melt that iceberg."
"Zhou, what did the principal want to talk to you about?" Zhao Qiu had been waiting for Zhou Fan at the school gate and asked curiously.
"Nothing much. The principal just saw how awesome I was and called me over to praise me a little," Zhou Fan said.
"Holy shit! I knew it! You're so awesome, Zhou, you definitely deserve some praise!"
"And you know what? You've gone viral!"
"You're all over the trending searches right now!" Zhao Qiu said.
"I'm trending again? Let me see."
Zhou Fan took out his phone and opened the Douyang app.
The number-one video on the trending list was about him.
[Shocking! A C-Rank Superpower takes on four at once-even an S-Rank Superpower admits defeat?]
The video showed him defeating four mutant beasts single-handedly during today's Combat Training.
The account that had posted it was the official Tianhai No. 1 High School account.
The video already had over ten thousand likes.
But the comment section was crawling with all sorts of weirdos.
"AI is so advanced these days. Who knows whether this is real or fake?"
"C-Rank is stronger than S-Rank? Put them together and you've got a BS combo."
"Holy shit, that's awesome!"
"One look and you can tell it's fake!"
"If I saw this in real life, I'd say it was awesome. Unfortunately, this is the internet, so all I can say is: you still need more practice!"
Lots of people were discussing it.
Zhou Fan also earned quite a few Emotion Points.
[Shock +1] [Admiration +1] [Shock +1]
Although the video had plenty of views, many people didn't really believe it and showed no significant emotional reaction.
Online, it was hard to tell truth from fiction. It was nowhere near as impactful as witnessing it in person.
Zhou Fan also noticed something.
Although the online discussions could generate Emotion Points, almost every reaction yielded only one point.
How many Emotion Points a person generated mainly depended on the intensity of their emotional reaction and how powerful they were.
The stronger their emotional reaction and the more powerful they were, the more Emotion Points he received.
When Zhou Fan had successfully taken on four opponents at once today, it had provoked strong emotional reactions from everyone present, earning him over three thousand Emotion Points.
But now, content about him had already reached number one on the trending list.
So many people had liked it.
Yet he'd only earned 3,600 Emotion Points.
"Looks like it's hard to earn many Emotion Points online."
"Still, these 3,600 Emotion Points, added to what I already had, bring me up to 7,320. That's enough to redeem the Advanced Fire Release Gift Pack."
Just then, the system suddenly chimed.
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on earning Emotion Points from a cumulative total of 10,000 people!] [System Lottery unlocked!]
Zhou Fan raised an eyebrow.
The system had actually been hiding another feature he hadn't unlocked?
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