Chapter 180

Ever since Jiang Yunu came to the Golden Uriel Academy in the second district, she had not had much contact with Su Xiuchun from the seventh district branch of the Linglu Psychic Association.

——Of course this doesn’t mean that they kept in touch frequently in the past.

When the admission notice of Golden Uriel College was issued, Su Xiuchun took some time out of her busy schedule to send a message to Jiang Yunu to congratulate him on his admission. Her words revealed that she really had a good eye for talent and that recommending Jiang Yunu to take the skip-level exam was the wisest move of the year.

Jiang Yunu is so smart and a qualified little flatterer, especially towards people of the same sex.

So when Jiang Yunu received the private message from Coach Su, he immediately replied with a short essay, thanking the other party for the opportunity in a long-winded but serious manner.

Perhaps seeing that the little girl was getting the point, and Su Xiuchun unfortunately being busy again, and not having time to review the essay carefully, he gave Jiang Yunu a "thumbs-up" emoticon.

The one that comes with the system.

From then on, until today when Pei Ya suddenly asked her if she knew Su Xiuchun, Jiang Yunu had no private contact with the other party.

"I know him." Jiang Yunu admitted frankly.

Her acquaintance with Coach Su was no secret, not to mention that her current status as a student at Golden Uriel Academy was due to Su Xiuchun's support. He was considered her mentor.

But what does this have to do with the family motto of Senior Ye Li’s family?

Jiang Yunu looked at Pei Ya with an expression that said "I don't understand". Pei Ya looked around first, as if to confirm that there were not many people in the public lounge at the moment. There was no one within a radius of five or six meters between her and Jiang Yunu who could "happen" to overhear their conversation.

"Senior Ye Li's family motto is said to be closely related to this Su Xiuchun." Pei Ya sat down next to Jiang Yunu. "The version of information I heard is that the current head of the Ye Li family once instructed all Ye Li family members, especially those who are still in school or have just joined the Ability Association, to do so."

"Patriarch Ye Li has instructed these young members to absolutely, absolutely stay away from anyone and anything related to 'Su Xiuchun'."

Jiang Yunu: "..."

Jiang Yunu: "Wow."

This was the first time Jiang Yunu had heard such personal defensive remarks.

Now that things have come to this, what is the conflict between Su Xiuchun and the Ye Li family?

Pei Ya knew how confused Jiang Yunu was about the distribution of the aristocratic families in the top three districts, and she also knew that the little girl next to her might not even know which families were the "leading boss" and "local tyrant" in each of the top three districts.

So Pei Ya told Jiang Yunu by the way that "Yeli" is a big surname in the upper three districts.

Because the Ye Li family has many members, they are primarily distributed in the First and Second Districts. The Ye Li family's headquarters is in the First District, but relatively few members have made it there, leaving the majority of the family members primarily living in the Second District. Of course, the younger members of the family primarily focus on studying and participating in association activities in the Second District. Those who manage to enter the "Three Major Association Headquarters" in the First District are considered rare within the family.

As Jiang Yunu listened, a guess suddenly emerged in his mind.

This guess may not be correct and sounds a bit strange, but it appeared so suddenly.

"Pei Ya." The white-haired girl, imitating her friend's lowered voice, whispered quietly in her friend's ear, "Patriarch Ye Li is so opposed to family members getting close to Su Xiuchun and anything related to him. Could it be that... their family had a rare talent qualified for the First District Association headquarters, and then, because of Coach Su, they left the headquarters?"

Pei Ya paused.

Pei Ya said, "How do you know?"

How did Jiang Yunu know?

Because Jiang Yunu happened to have met a "Big Ye Li".

Pei Ya was not sure how close Jiang Yunu and Su Xiuchun were to each other, so she just told them everything she had heard.

"About eight years ago, the Ye Li family had a rare genius whose abilities far surpassed those of his peers. Before he even graduated, he received offers from three major associations. In order to get him to join their own association, two of them promised to keep him at the headquarters of the First District. He thus became the first person of that generation in the Ye Li family to enter the First District."

"Moreover, within the next three years, he will be the only one among the younger generation of the Ye Li family to take root in the headquarters of the First District."

"Then he ran away with Su Xiuchun three years later."

"...What does 'ran away' mean?" Jiang Yunu asked.

"Ye Lijia's original words were 'Su Xiuchun kidnapped him,'" Pei Ya said flatly, "but judging from the gossip and the job change announcement, I think he took the initiative."

It was said that in order to catch up with Su Xiuchun, this rare genius in the Yeli family would take the initiative to run away whenever Su Xiuchun's position changed, and when Su Xiuchun was promoted or demoted to a new position, he would immediately insert himself by Su Xiuchun's side.

Like a magnet chasing after its significant other.

To put it bluntly, it's a bit of a dog-skin plaster.

"The Ye Li family probably couldn't accept that a rare genius could go mad like this. They've made 'Su Xiuchun' a forbidden word in the family, and in recent years, when cultivating young members, they've repeatedly warned them to stay away from Su Xiuchun to ensure a smooth and successful life."

Jiang Yunu just wanted to find out why Senior Ye Li treated her so strangely, but she ended up hearing a piece of old gossip - the people involved in the gossip were all her acquaintances.

The feeling of unexpectedly hearing gossip about an acquaintance is really... magical.

So exciting!

Inspector Ye Li sounds like the "rich young man" in this gossip story, while Coach Su sounds like the "wild lady" who is equally talented but has a worse family background and likes to stir up trouble, making the "rich young man" run away at night for love.

"That's pretty much it," Pei Ya concluded. "The Ye Li family is very sensitive to anything and everyone associated with Su Xiuchun, let alone you being a human, a girl, and a commoner genius from District Seven."

Pei Ya did not finish the rest of her words, however, Jiang Yunu immediately realized what Pei Ya had left unsaid.

——Okay!

——She didn’t even know who the current young generation of the Ye Li family was, and she had just spoken to “Little Ye Li” from the same school for the first time a few days ago.

——As a result, her information was collected early on, and her family treated her as a "yellow-haired reserve"!

Jiang Yunu was really shocked.

It was hard not to be shocked.

"Excuse me," the white-haired girl said with a complicated tone and an even more complicated expression, "How dare they assume that there will be someone among their younger family members who I'm 'interested' in?"

Pei Ya shrugged. "I don't know. Perhaps this is also a kind of self-superiority of the three great aristocratic families."

Jiang Yunu tried to understand: "Perhaps this is an excessive example of once bitten by a snake, one becomes afraid of the rope for ten years."

After a moment she found it still too difficult to understand.

"I don't understand." The white-haired girl shook her head repeatedly. "I don't understand at all! I hope there won't be a day when I have to stand in front of the head of the Ye Li family and point at Ye Li-senpai and yell, 'I have absolutely no interest in him.'"

Pei Ya tried to imagine the scene.

Then she shuddered.

“It’s horrible,” Paya said. “It’s like hell.”

It must be the same hell for Senior Ye Li himself.

Jiang Yunu finally figured out the reason why "Little Ye Li" in school treated her strangely, and untied a knot in her heart. Next, her attention naturally turned to the registration of contestants for the third round of school competition.

When talking with senior Jin Qing about the self-selected players for the third round of the competition, Jiang Yunu and the senior both focused on the Golden Uriel Academy team.

When she looked at the contestant information column with three empty places, Jiang Yunu realized that she had missed an important person - Linette Nagu.

Jiang Yunu once thought that Miss Nagu would come to her during the second round of competition when she had to choose her opponent, but she didn't see her at all during the second round of competition.

At that time, she was still wondering whether she had to wait until she made it to the third round before Miss Nagu would feel that she was qualified to fight against the "Nag heir"?

But now, the list of qualifiers for the third round has been announced, but Lynette Nagu has not made any move yet.

Where are the young lady’s people?

Since the "Challenge Cup" school competition was launched again this semester, it has been more than a month since the start of school and the competition. Jiang Yunu recalled when she last saw Linette Nagu outside the classroom, and found that it might have been back to the end of winter vacation. On the day of returning to school, she passed by the eldest lady on the campus road.

——The two didn’t even say New Year’s greetings to each other!

Jiang Yunu didn't care whether Linette Nagu greeted her or not, but she cared about the declaration of war that was still with her.

"She can't be waiting for me to take the initiative, right?" Jiang Yunu muttered uncertainly.

The third round is the last round in which players can choose their opponents independently. If Linette Nagu still does not choose Jiang Yunu together in this round, then in the fourth round, they will have to accept the automatic matching of the intelligent system.

It's not certain whether the two people can match up.

Jiang Yunu is a person of action. She suddenly thought of the eldest lady who had been silent for a long time and decided to take the initiative herself.

Before going to find Linette Nagu, she was very cautious and even opened the official website of the "Challenge Cup" school competition to confirm that Linette Nagu's name was on the list of qualified players.

Only after making confirmation did Jiang Yunu go to look for someone.

Or to be more precise, her behavior was more like "blocking people."

Lynette Nagu had just walked out of the school's study building. She had paid to rent a practice room in the building for long-term private use. The room was equipped with a specially reinforced energy overflow screen and a number of human ability value monitoring facilities.

She practices her supernatural powers here.

There was a set of long stairs leading from the building's lobby to the outer campus. Dragging her tired body after practice, Lynette Nagu still tried her best to maintain her etiquette and walked down the stairs step by step with an upright posture.

In the shadow of the neighboring wall in the side area below the steps, someone suddenly called out to her, "Good evening, Miss. When are you ready to have another match with me?"