A Different Challenge

"My dear little brother, thank you for the twenty thousand you gave your big sister! I finally got the Five-Star Combat Technique!"

In a small, shabby old apartment two li from Shengteng Academy, Zhang Manqian's face was alight with excitement as she held up the storage device in her hand.

"Borrow nine, pay back thirteen. Remember to pay me back later!"

Zhang Xuezhou waved a hand lazily.

No sooner had the joking words left his mouth than he suddenly remembered his relationship with Wu Chao.

He had taken Wu Chao's supplies to cultivate the Technique Within the Clouds, while Zhang Manqian had taken his scholarship money to buy the Five-Star Combat Technique.

He had been joking with Zhang Manqian, but Wu Chao really did expect him to borrow nine and pay back thirteen. He might even have to pay with his life.

Zhang Xuezhou tapped the table rhythmically with his right hand, his gaze turned toward a window.

Several li in the direction of that window lay Canglan Academy.

The final days of the year had passed amid the pleasant surprise of the fifty-five-thousand-yuan prize, and now the opening day for Canglan Academy's new students was drawing near.

Zhang Xuezhou pondered the academy he had yet to enter, and the middle-aged face he had found online.

If nothing pressing came up in his life, his next task would be to win Ren Yisheng over, until the man treated Zhang Xuezhou's mental illness for free.

But getting Ren Yisheng to treat him would not be easy.

Ren Yisheng was a professor at the psychology college, and Zhang Xuezhou was a student.

Zhang Xuezhou could open his heart to a doctor he did not know, but he found it hard to speak of his illness to a teacher at school.

If Ren