Chapter 126
On the third day after Jiang Yunuo entered the Earth Elemental Ability Graduation Class, Qiao Yisen suddenly heard a rumor—
"Do you know? That genius who just skipped a grade and was promoted to the graduating class, yes, the one with white hair, she has a little-known quirk!"
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The red-haired boy heard the rumor in the crowded South Canteen in the early morning. Jiang Yunuo was not going to have breakfast with him today. The other party had gotten up early and rushed to the multi-purpose building to study, so Qiao Yisen came to the canteen alone and found a table to have breakfast. Unexpectedly, he happened to meet the people at the next table talking about Jiang Yunuo's gossip.
What kind of quirk does Jiang Yunu have that is still unknown to the public, and even unknown to his own brother?
Joyson found it strange no matter how he listened. He couldn't help but look at the next table several times, which attracted the attention of the people at the next table.
"Do you want to hear gossip too?" The people at the next table obviously didn't know Qiao Yisen, and had no idea about his relationship with Jiang Yunu.
The more people there are around, the more lively the gossip becomes. People are surprisingly generous with information when spreading rumors.
Noticing the red-haired boy's frequent glances towards him, the student at the next table waved, "Come on, come on, my friend! If you want to listen, come closer. Let's all chat about the latest campus legend together!"
“…”Joyson was silent for a moment.
Then he went to sit at the next table.
"You are talking about the genius who surpassed his level, the one with white hair. Are you talking about Jiang Yunu?" Joyson asked.
The people at the next table immediately frantically made a zipper gesture with their mouths and kept saying "shh".
"You can't call someone by their full name," the student who spread the rumor said sternly. "We only use code names and adjectives to refer to them."
However, how many students can skip a grade and enter the graduating class and have white hair? Saying these two characteristics is no different from directly reporting Jiang Yunu's resident ID.
But Joyson could at least be sure that they were really talking about Jiang Yunu.
"What's her quirk?" the red-haired boy asked.
The student at the center of the rumor had a sly look on his face, raising a finger in a playful manner. He lowered his voice, choking it like a horror story teller on an old radio station, and slowly said, "It's said that on the first day of graduation, during the class ice-breaking ceremony, this genius revealed her extreme concern for her appearance, even using her face to pressure others with a question..."
Someone asked, “What’s the problem?”
The student said, "'Do I look good?'
He spoke these four words in a gloomy tone, as if it were an urban curse that should not be spoken aloud.
Joyson: “…”
"Then that evening, someone reportedly ran into her again in a dimly lit corner of the school. She was standing under a flickering streetlight, allowing only a passing student to see her from behind. When the student glanced at her a few more times, she turned around and asked in a mysterious tone, 'Am I pretty?'"
"At this time, students passing by must not hesitate! If you hesitate, she will come closer, put her face close to you, and ask again, 'Do I look good?'"
Joyson: “…………”
"I heard that every night in the girls' dormitory building, she would look in the mirror at midnight and ask herself, 'Do I look good?'"
The student who spread the rumor was very confident in his statement.
The students around him all looked sympathetic.
Only Joyson: “………………”
The graduating class's class schedule is much tighter and busier than that of the first-year students, and the class location is no longer the main teaching building. Instead, they have to go to the element classroom, which is a "small building area" away from the main teaching building across a school road. The classrooms are all two-story stand-alone buildings, and different element arrays are set up at the base of the walls.
These elemental arrays can absorb the elemental powers that students accidentally release during practice, reduce the frequency of accidents in power application classes, and avoid high risks.
Joyson had just started his first class on supernatural power manipulation. The result of his last class was that he conjured a small water ball the size of a little finger joint, and the water ball soon spread out and wet his hands.
With his level of supernatural power operation, he is not yet qualified to enter the advanced element classroom area.
So that evening, the red-haired boy waited on the school road outside the element classroom area.
He waited until Jiang Yunu walked out of the elements classroom with a group of senior students after class.
"elder brother?"
As soon as Jiang Yunu saw Qiao Yisen, he walked straight towards him.
Her call attracted the attention of several senior students, and they all looked at Joyson.
Fortunately, Qiao Yisen was no longer the Qiao Yisen who had just enrolled last semester. He was no longer so easily affected by social anxiety. He withstood these unfamiliar gazes and, with a normal expression, welcomed Jiang Yunu to his side: "Is get out of class over? Let's go eat together."
There were two girls among the senior students who were eager to invite Jiang Yunu to have dinner together, but they stopped because the red-haired boy invited them first.
Jiang Yunu didn't care about these details anyway. When she heard Qiao Yisen calling her to eat, she immediately said happily, "Great! Let's go! I want to go to the cafeteria in the teaching area tonight."
There are two cafeterias in Enge Junior School for Special Abilities, one closer to the dormitory area and the other closer to the teaching area. However, throughout the first semester of his first year, Jiang Yunu basically ate in the South Cafeteria near the dormitory area and had rarely been to the one near the teaching area.
Now that she has been admitted to the graduating class, she spends less time in the dormitory and more time in the teaching area and the multi-purpose building. The cafeteria in the teaching area has gradually become her regular eating spot.
Joyson had no objection to Jiang Yunu's choice.
Sitting down in the cafeteria in the teaching area, the red-haired boy finally had the chance to ask, "You haven't had any unusual behavior in the past few days, have you?"
Jiang Yunu: "Hmm?"
Joyson's sudden question left Jiang Yunu bewildered.
Joyson made an expression as if he had a toothache: "I heard a rumor about you this morning when I was eating in the South Cafeteria."
"Ah?" Jiang Yunu opened his eyes a little wider. "What rumor?"
There was no need to hide anything between family members anyway, so Joyce told them everything he had heard early in the morning.
Finally he asked, "Are you really fine these past few days?"
Facing Joyson's sincere inquiry, Jiang Yunu's response was: "——Hahahaha!"
When Qiao Yisen came to ask if anything unusual had happened, Jiang Yunu was completely bewildered at first, fearing something had happened in the past two days that she hadn't noticed. But after hearing his detailed explanation, she burst into laughter.
If it were the old Joeyson, he might have asked Jiang Yunuo to speak more quietly so as not to attract too much attention from those around him.
But the current Qiao Yisen had upgraded his ability to accept things in all aspects. He only needed to take one look at Jiang Yunu's reaction to understand immediately, "These are all rumors, right? Why would they spread such outrageous rumors to you?"
Jiang Yunu finished laughing, took a deep breath, and calmed herself down before saying, "I don't know, but it doesn't matter."
All in all, Jiang Yunu only had sex with a senior student on the first day of his promotion, and the cause and effect were all traceable.
As a result, once the rumor spread, she was demonized. By the end, she felt like she was almost becoming the protagonist of a campus ghost story.
Qiao Yisen was sure that it was all a rumor, and he was a little indignant: "These people are so boring. Why would they spread rumors about you when they are fine?"
Jiang Yunu was not affected by this kind of thing at all, nor did it affect her strong appetite.
After laughing, she became even hungrier. She bit into the barbecue provided by the cafeteria and swallowed the juicy meat. Then she said, "I don't know, but it doesn't matter. Just pass it on."
The white-haired girl has a free and easy attitude.
Rumors about her quietly circulated around the campus, and eventually spread to a wider and wider range, almost reaching the ears of all her friends.
Zhou Jinxue also came to find Jiang Yunu. Their "one-on-one" relationship did not end, even though Jiang Yunu was now a senior student.
Jiang Yunu took the initiative to apply to retain this pairing relationship, which should have automatically expired after she skipped a grade. However, she went to the Student Affairs Office and told the teacher on duty that she still needed the care and help of her senior schoolmates in her campus life. Losing this "targeted" care might be a big blow to her, making her unable to recover and continue to prepare for the entrance exam in the best condition.
So the school made an exception.
"Hehehe." Jiang Yunu laughed wickedly as the pairing relationship was confirmed. She said to Zhou Jinxue, "Senior, this is terrible! I've got you hooked! I'm the kind of little nuisance you can't shake off once you've gotten involved!"
Zhou Jinxue was very calm. She said, "Unless you voluntarily repeat a grade or fail the test, this 'little troublemaker' like you will automatically be promoted to a higher level in half a year."
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Jiang Yunu's evil chanting was interrupted by Zhou Xuejie's objective rationality.
She put on an honest face and looked at Zhou Jinxue, but Zhou Jinxue was unmoved by her evil or honesty, and patted her head very calmly.
In short, as long as Jiang Yunu is in school, Zhou Jinxue will still be responsible for taking care of her.
Senior Zhou, who had heard the rumors, quickly came over and asked Jiang Yunu a question: "Do you know why they spread rumors about you, and why they spread them in such outrageous ways?"
Zhou Jinxue's question seemed similar to what Qiao Yisen said in the restaurant that day, but also clearly different.
Because Jiang Yunu knew as soon as she heard it that the senior sister came to ask questions with answers.
She shook her head honestly and said, "I don't know."
Not only did the white-haired girl not know about it, she hadn't even thought about it seriously these days.
Zhou Jinxue sighed softly.
"They have to demonize you and add the most incredible fantasies and quirks to you in order to justify the fact that you are a genius who is far superior to everyone else."
Jiang Yunu's eyes were confused for a moment, and then quickly became clear -
Compared to stories about friends who originally had similar styles but suddenly stood out from the crowd and became far-leading geniuses, people tend to be more receptive to stories about people who were outstanding from the beginning and had special qualities and became geniuses.
"The stranger you are in the rumors, the further you are from the word 'ordinary'. When you perform amazing feats, people will find it easier to accept you and think you're meant to be that way."
Zhou Jinxue calmly reasoned with her junior. She didn't know how much longer she could continue to do so. Perhaps soon, her rapidly growing junior would absorb enough knowledge to no longer need a caretaker like her, a senior only a few years older than her.
But at least now, at this moment, as long as Jiang Yunu still depends on her and says with a self-proclaimed evil grin that she needs to take care of it, Zhou Jinxue will tell her everything she knows and what she thinks the other party needs.
Jiang Yunu held a piece of chocolate in her hand and thought for a long time, the chocolate melting a little bit at her fingertips.
"So," Jiang Yunu said, "Those who don't need to label me or make up weird rumors about me and can naturally accept my sudden transformation from an ordinary first-year student into a genius are all people I need to cherish."
The scope of this treasured list is neither too big nor too small, and the list is just enough for Jiang Yunu to quickly go through in his mind.
For at least the next half semester, rumors about her kept cropping up in the school. It seemed that if she did something small, as long as there were people watching nearby, they would spin all sorts of rumors.
These rumors were not malicious, but simply piled up to make her image more and more bizarre.
In such an environment, the entire "primitive tribe" - the students in the earth element ability class became closer to Jiang Yunu.
After all, they are the first observers of "Qizhen". They attend classes and review with Jiang Yunu every day, and know more about her than those who have never seen her.
In the middle of the semester, Jiang Yunu found a weekend when she didn't have to go back to Chat City. She dragged her body, which had been tortured by the review and supernatural power practice classes, and threw herself into the simulation cabin.
She desperately needed entertainment to heal her body and mind, which had been worn out by the constant burden of classes and homework.
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