Pre-enrollment tour
Su Mingke had dyed his hair blonde, which rustled in the air conditioning. In this foreign land, he constantly tried to fit in.
"You already know that special admissions students are divided into levels, right?"
"Although there are different levels, the dormitory conditions are the same, and the meals are the same for everyone."
"It's just that the treatment is different when socializing."
“Nobles and wealthy children do not live in the school. That is generally the case. However, if they need to live in the school, they also have their own palaces and villas, but they do not necessarily live there every day.”
"Look, those are your dorm rooms." Su Mingke pointed with his chin. In the distance was a very beautiful garden villa. "However, the dorm rooms haven't been assigned yet, so I suggest you go early and try to snag a good one."
"There are various research institutes of all sizes in the school. If you can get in, life will be much easier, and even nobles won't dare to mess with the people in the research institutes. However, the people in the research institutes have to dedicate most of their time to the research institutes and have almost no time for themselves."
"Those who can't get into graduate school can work for professors to gain their support, or become lackeys of nobles, or band together with other specially admitted students for mutual support. But if it were you, you definitely wouldn't need to do any of these things."
"If anything happens, you can tell me."
"Although I don't have much influence among nobles, I can still help you in lower-class situations."
"Thanks."
Su Mingke scratched his head sheepishly: "Hehe, when you're traveling abroad, you have to ask people from your own country for help."
"There are many rules in the school, and I can't go through them all in a short time. You should take a walk around the school more often and get to know it, otherwise you'll easily get lost or be late. Being late will result in a deduction of credits. You can also ask me any questions you have; I know them all."
“You’re a freshman now, so you might feel a bit stressed. But it’s okay. When I first enrolled, I was so nervous that I couldn’t sleep well for several nights. I heard there was a welcome event where the upperclassmen were going to give the freshmen a hard time, and I was so scared that I was shaking in my blankets. But now, look at me, I’m pretty relaxed and at ease, aren’t I?” Su Mingke said, spreading his arms.
"I'm not under pressure."
"Huh?" Su Mingke was surprised to realize that he was the only weakling. "Alright then."
"Just study however you like. You can go to university anyway. There's no college entrance exam. It's just a matter of credits and your academic performance. You'll need letters of recommendation."
Su Mingke mimicked the professor, saying, "Practice makes perfect."
After driving around the school, Su Mingke asked Lin Xue if she wanted to open the window and let the breeze in.
After Lin Xue agreed, he rolled all the car windows down to the bottom and turned on the air conditioning as if it were free, letting the natural breeze from outside blow on him.
When it was lunchtime, Su Mingke asked Lin Xue, "Do you want to eat at school or eat out?"
Lin Xue chose to eat at school.
"You're still a freshman, and the cafeteria isn't open yet. Come with me to the orange-tier cafeteria."
Su Mingke brought Lin Xue along and swiped his card for her—rich kids of the orange rank have to pay to eat in the cafeteria.
They are Saint Ria's blood bags.
After ordering the food, Su Mingke went to buy two drinks.
Su Mingke stopped eating, glanced around to make sure no one was watching, and whispered mysteriously to Lin Xue:
"I have some good stuff, do you want to come to my dorm? I can share a few packs with you."
"I don't do drugs." Lin Xue immediately said no to bad temptations.
"It's instant noodles!"
"People from our foodie country suffer so much here in Silam! I lost ten pounds in the first month when I arrived!"
"You're so thin, you must be starving, right?"
"No, I think the bread here is quite delicious."
Su Mingke was silently weeping inside. Was this something a human being would say?
When the two finally parted ways.
"Be careful of everyone around you," Su Mingke warned in a low voice, "including me."
"Should I... also be careful?"
"Give me some class too, otherwise I'll lose face."
"Indeed, I didn't sense any threat from you."
"Is it really okay to be so honest? TAT"
——
The reporting day arrived quickly. Apart from a few unfortunate individuals who were sabotaged by jealous relatives and friends and failed to report on time, providing some juicy gossip, the reporting process was rather unremarkable.
Lin Xue went to the class assignment board and looked at her class.
He was assigned to Class F.
The grade badges have also started to be issued. His grade is F.
Subject: Freshman ratings are out? Does anyone know how the rating rules work? Why did Lin Xue get an F rating?
—How could that be? There must be a mistake, right? His rating is at least A, most likely S.
—Heh, I expected this. Didn't you notice that he didn't accept any of the nobles' offers? I've known this before: as long as you don't accept noble offers, no matter how strong your other abilities are or how good your grades are, you can only get an F grade, and your rating will plummet to the bottom.
—This rating system is really stingy.
—After all, it's a noble academy; only those who can be used by nobles have value. No matter how capable someone is, if they're unwilling to serve the nobles, they're even more troublesome than a useless person. At least a useless person won't create obstacles for the nobles.
—But for those who want to recruit him, this is good news. He was too popular before the start of the semester. It would be better to suppress his arrogance so that he would obediently bow his head.
Otherwise, he really wouldn't look down on anyone. Hmph, so what if he has some ability? Without nobles backing him up, he'd still be miserable in Saint-Lya.
We nobles don't even need to lift a finger; those specially admitted students will cause him trouble for us.
——
Lin Xue had anticipated her rating.
Heeding Su Mingke's advice, he arrived at the dormitory early.
Although he arrived just as the dormitory opened, there were still quite a few people waiting there.
Those people wore rating badges around their necks, their faces beaming with pride.
The dormitories for specially admitted students have very different rooms.
Some rooms face the sun, while others face the shade.
Some are on the first floor, and some are on the sixth floor.
Some rooms are at the end of the corridor, next to only one other room, so they are less disturbed by noise; some rooms are even at the stairwell, which are particularly noisy.
One student spoke up: "When it comes to assigning rooms in the dorms, everyone wants to choose the one they like. How can we do it fairly?"
“We students of St. Leicester are all highly educated and civilized people. We would never act like hooligans and fight over room assignments.”
"I think we can do it by rating. For rooms of the same rating, we can compare the scores. Whoever has the higher score can choose first. After that, if there are any special needs, we can freely switch rooms. What do you all think?"
A group of people chimed in: "That's right! That's exactly how it should be divided!"
Good resources should be given to high-value individuals!
"Those who have no value have no right to choose!"
A few people whispered their objections, but their quiet voices were quickly drowned out by the loud voices of the majority.
So, the student took out a dormitory room map and, like a leader, assigned rooms to everyone:
"The person with the highest rating goes first..."
Lin Xue ignored the group of people, went straight up the stairs, chose a sunny room at the end of the third-floor corridor, and put her nameplate with rating into the plastic shell on the outer door of the room.
He put his luggage away when there was a knock on the door.
He ignored him.
Then several people outside started banging on the door like ghosts, hysterically shouting, "Open the door! This is the room chosen by an A-level student! What right do you, an F-level student, have to occupy it?"
"We agreed that we wanted these consecutive rooms, so get out here!"
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're somewhat pretty! Those nobles only like you because you're good-looking! With such a terrible personality, they'll definitely despise you! Let's see how smug you'll be then..."
Lin Xue opened the door, tilted her head and leaned against the threshold, looking down at them.
He held a fruit knife in one hand and a half-peeled apple in the other.
The thin blade twirled between his fingers like a butterfly, finally pointing at the students' noses: "Tell me, what right do I have to occupy this space?"
The cold tip of the knife patted one of the people's faces.
Lin Xue revealed a contemptuous smile:
"Of course, it's based on strength. Do you think it's based on your incompetent and furious roars?"
With their leader in control, the students who had been so arrogant just moments before suddenly became like Chihuahuas seeing a large dog, too afraid to raise their voices. They simply uttered harsh words at eight times the speed of their mouths and then ran away as fast as they could.
Subject: A fight broke out in the dormitory of special admission students captured by surveillance cameras. Come and feast your eyes!
—My wife is so hot, she'll slap them hard.
—Did we give them face? Slapping them is a reward.
—A bunch of scumbags, I've been fed up with them for a long time. When I first enrolled, they banged on my door and harassed me, forcibly taking my dorm room and trying to kick me out. I was a coward then; I couldn't fight off so many of them, so I could only sheepishly move my things away. Someone should have taught these people a lesson a long time ago.
Taking advantage of their numbers to bully the few is a cancer in Saint-Lyria.
If they're so good at ganging up and bullying people, why don't they join a triad society?
—Evil people deserve to be punished by evil people. Lin Xue, this scheming green tea bitch who looks down on others but pretends to be high-minded and seduces people, still has some redeeming qualities.
—Oh my god, how did this hater infiltrate this thread? Don't you have eyes? Can't you see this is Xue Ge's fan thread? Come here, I'll give you some cockroach bait.
—I was worried that Lin Xue might be bullied now that she's only an F-rank. But your dad is still your dad.
Even if someone is rated A, they're still trash. A bunch of rabble.
The students who had just tried to escape were stopped by the dormitory supervisor.
"What the hell are you yelling for?"
The aunt was fierce and swift, slapping each student and throwing them out of the dormitory: "Shouting loudly and damaging property in the dormitory, points will be deducted first."
"If you harass or cause trouble again, you will be punished immediately."
Lin Xue received an invitation from Chloe, the family behind F1.
A gold-embossed invitation was placed in the mailbox, along with a colorful black violet made of rare vanadium metal.
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