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Today, Lu Xing had suffered the first Waterloo of his eighteen-year life, which had been smooth sailing until now.

It left him withdrawn all morning.

How much longer could he hold on to the title of Brother Xing?

Wu Hao and Zhao Feifei, meanwhile, were having a blast with Ji Chuxing in the back row.

Ji Chuxing hadn't been particularly interested in playing with this bunch of chuunibyou kids, but what could she do when she could make money playing a game?

Pass up money, and heaven would strike you down with lightning.

And so, using Wu Hao's trash account, she carried Zhao Feifei and several boys with their trash accounts to victory. Later, she simply registered her own game account and started from the beginner level.

Wonderful. She liked this kind of life.

Even Zhou Sixue took the initiative to fetch water for her.

At noon, the group was eating in the cafeteria. Wu Hao was still talking animatedly about the game in his booming voice when they suddenly heard people nearby discussing something.

"The people next door have gone too far. They came to our school to cause trouble again, right out in the open. I heard they beat someone so badly they were seriously injured."

"I heard it was someone from the Set Sail Class. They're in trouble now. Of all the people they could have picked, why did they have to go after someone from the Set Sail Class?"

"Damn! The vocational school's at it again!"

Wu Hao's temper flared the moment he heard that. "Damn it, those turtle grandsons! Their scars have healed and they've forgotten the pain. They dare hurt people on our turf? Do they think Brother Xing is just for show?"

Lu Xing, who had been eating in silence, glanced at him.

Wu Hao scratched the back of his head and chuckled twice. "Don't worry, Brother Xing. I'll take the guys and settle the score!"

Ji Chuxing looked at them, speechless for a moment.

Seeing her confusion, Zhao Feifei offered an explanation. "God Ji, don't mind those two. Their hands are just itching for a fight."

Ji Chuxing said, "Oh." She hadn't planned to get involved, but remembering what had happened that morning, she couldn't help asking, "What's the feud between you and the people next door?"

"God Ji, it's more than a feud. You didn't know this before, but those scumbags used to harass the girls here all the time. Even girls in our class were harassed. Brother Xing caught them at it and taught them a lesson. They lay low for a while, and now they dare come back?"

Wu Hao sneered. "Even though they went after the Set Sail Class, which indirectly got revenge for you, boss, even if there's revenge to be had, it should be our own people who take it. What gives them the right to cross the line and attack people on our turf?"

Lu Xing, who hadn't said a word for a while, clenched his fists until his knuckles cracked. "It had to be Zheng Kuan. I'm going after him!"

Ji Chuxing asked, "Zheng Kuan? Brother Kuan?"

Wu Hao froze, and Zhao Feifei stood up. "God Ji, did they give you trouble?"

The group looked ready to kick down the doors of the others' den right then and there.

Ji Chuxing leisurely took a sip of red bean soup. "Oh, then it probably wasn't him. I just beat him up this morning."

He probably still couldn't get out of bed.

The chopsticks in Wu Hao's hand clattered to the floor.

Then he gave Brother Xing a sympathetic look.

Brother Xing really couldn't cut it anymore. Every time he'd fought Zheng Kuan before, he'd come away with injuries too, but now God Ji looked as if nothing had happened.

At first, this had just been something they'd overheard in the cafeteria. Although Lu Xing planned to take people to find the ones who had caused trouble, that afternoon, a post exploded on South City No. 1 High School's forum.

The school forum was a hub for campus gossip. Although the internet was well developed these days and everyone had long since started using things like Weibo, places with gossip were still lively, and South City No. 1 High School's forum was no exception.

The first post to go viral on the forum at that moment had a fairly straightforward title-

[Viral] The inside story behind the injured Set Sail Class student! She's the one who brought this on them. Someone like her should get out of South City No. 1 High School!

The Set Sail Class was special to begin with, and the injured student had drawn considerable attention from the school. Everyone was concerned about it now, even the parents.

The post's title had been highlighted in red and bolded, then pinned to the top of the forum's front page. It already had twenty thousand views and over a thousand comments.

Inside were several photos.

That morning, in the alley.

Ji Chuxing and Zheng Kuan faced each other with swords drawn and bows bent.

The person who took the photos had captured her face clearly.

One look at the pictures was enough to tell what had happened.

The poster was anonymous and gave a rough account of what had happened.

"I didn't want to expose this, but it concerns the Set Sail Class, and I really can't stand by and watch. Those people next door are all scum, but they didn't come looking for trouble for no reason. The pictures taken this morning make it obvious that a personal grudge provoked that bunch of lunatics, and the Set Sail Class got caught in the crossfire. Oh, right, this girl is Ji Chuxing, formerly of the Set Sail Class. She transferred out after a conflict with the class, and who knows what she's up to? Honestly, I don't understand how South City Middle School can allow someone like her to stay."

The post gave a general explanation for why the person from the Set Sail Class had been injured.

Before long, the comments below rose like floodwaters, shooting up in an instant.

There was plenty of abuse, too.

"I knew it! The Set Sail Class is the best class at South City No. 1 High School. Why would they ever provoke the people next door? It's all Ji Chuxing's fault!"

"If it weren't for her, why would anyone come after the Set Sail Class? It's the Set Sail Class this time; who knows who it'll be next? She's a bomb at South City Middle School!"

"She has no shame! Who knows what she did with those people from the technical school? I propose we make her get out of South City No. 1 High School!"

"Right, someone like her doesn't deserve to be at South City No. 1 High School!"

"Ji Chuxing, get out of South City No. 1 High School!"

When Zhao Feifei saw the post on her phone, she couldn't help cursing.

"Damn! They've gone too far!"

"Haozi, stop playing and get on the forum. Help God Ji!"

The group stopped playing and opened the school forum together. "They dare insult the boss? They're asking for death!"

While they were fighting online for Ji Chuxing, she was assembling a computer.

The parts were ones she had bought from the underground casino the day before.

She didn't care for the preassembled computers on the market. They weren't what she needed, so she could only try her luck at the underground casino.

Although she hadn't found what she wanted most, the result was pretty good for now.

Once she had put it together, it booted up without a hitch. The laptop's desktop had just one gray English-language icon in the upper right corner, against a background of vast stars.

Ji Chuxing thought for a moment, then her fingertips flew.

The girl was alone in the corner at that moment. If anyone had been there, they would certainly have been astonished: her little screen wasn't displaying a website, but was filled with lines of code.