Shen Juan curled his lips into a faint smile and said, “My eyes are the measuring stick. You should drink more papaya milk, little sister.”
“Who are you calling little sister, you shameless pervert!” Wen Li’s face flushed instantly, a vivid red spreading across her cheeks. She could feel his gaze lingering on a certain part of her body, and the heat that followed made her whole body burn.
She glared at him fiercely, then turned and ran without looking back. As she ran, she didn’t forget to curse, “You pervert! If you didn’t have dirt on me, I would’ve bitten you to death already!”
“Where would you bite?” Shen Juan’s voice suddenly came from behind her. He had appeared silently, as if out of thin air, startling Wen Li so badly that she jumped.
“When did you get here? Don’t you make any sound when you walk? You’re like a ghost!” she snapped, still shaken.
Shen Juan only smiled faintly and said nothing as he walked away.
With the Sprint Skill, even walking at a normal pace made him feel like he was moving swiftly through the wind, light and effortless. Not only was he fast, but he didn’t feel tired at all.
It really was a good thing.
Every autumn, Christie Business School held a mountain-climbing festival. The overall champion would receive a prize of 300,000 yuan, which was enough to cover an entire quarter’s tuition.
Shen Juan decided to sign up this year and give it a try, just to see how effective the Sprint Skill would be while climbing.
As for the prize money, he no longer cared much about it.
The system was far more generous than the school.
“Shen Juan, the principal wants you in his office,” the counselor said as he found Shen Juan, then patted his shoulder with a serious expression. “It’s about your tuition again. The school won’t allow you to keep delaying payment any longer. Shen Juan, some things you have to accept. We all sympathize with your situation. Before, we suggested raising funds for your tuition, but you refused. Now you still can’t pay it yourself, so the school has no choice but to take action.”
With the original host’s memories now in his mind, Shen Juan naturally remembered everything that had happened.
The original Shen Juan cared too much about face. Falling from a wealthy young master to a poor student who couldn’t even afford tuition, he had refused donations but also refused to drop out, leaving things at a deadlock with the school for over a month.
“Alright, I understand,” Shen Juan said calmly, his expression composed and indifferent.
The counselor sighed. Seeing Shen Juan like this, he assumed the young man had already given up, ready to be expelled without resistance. After all, Christie Business School was a prestigious institution, and the annual cost ranged from 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 yuan.
Any random student here came from either wealth or power.
As for Shen Juan, his biological parents were said to be ordinary farmers from the countryside. There was no way they could afford such high tuition.
“Shen Juan, actually, besides our school, you could consider other ordinary universities. Their tuition isn’t high, and they don’t care about background. With your current family situation, Christie really isn’t suitable for you anymore,” the counselor continued, clearly overstepping his bounds. “You probably don’t know this yet, but Shen Tianyi is about to enroll here. If you don’t leave soon, it’ll be awkward when you run into him.”
It wasn’t without reason that Wen Li had punctured his car tires before. This counselor, Huang Zhiteng, was infamous for his sharp tongue.
“Shen Tianyi is enrolling?” Shen Juan’s eyes lit up.
Originally, he didn’t really care whether he stayed at Christie or not. However, the moment he heard Shen Tianyi was coming, he immediately decided to stay.
The system had already told him that Shen Tianyi, as the protagonist of the original novel, was a wildly overpowered “dragon” type male lead, rising step by step while showing off and gaining cheats, eventually reaching the pinnacle of life in a dazzling, unstoppable manner.
Aside from his indispensable protagonist halo, he also possessed countless advantages.
For example, luck… and all kinds of miraculous opportunities.
Miracles that ordinary people would never encounter in a lifetime would somehow fall into Shen Tianyi’s hands. Like a dragon plunging into the sea, the favored son of fate—wherever he went, he would dazzle countless beauties and leave people in awe.
Classic.
Absolutely classic.
A faint smile rose on Shen Juan’s lips.
Now, he had decided to follow the plotline properly.
For a cannon-fodder male supporting character like him, who was destined to exit early with a miserable end, since he was already here, how could he not live up to his identity as a villain and seize the protagonist’s luck?
“Shen Juan, what kind of expression is that? Why do you look happy about Shen Tianyi enrolling?” Huang Zhiteng asked, completely baffled.
Shen Juan ignored him and turned to head toward the principal’s office.
“Big sis, do you think the principal is calling Shen Juan to persuade him to drop out?” Wen Li whispered. She and her sister Wen Wan had been nearby the whole time and had heard the entire conversation.
“Who knows? Whatever. It’s better if he drops out,” Wen Wan said with a cold face. A trace of anger flickered in her beautiful eyes. Even in anger, her expression was captivating, enough to move any man—but at this moment, she was glaring fiercely at Shen Juan’s departing figure.
She was still angry.
Shen Juan had gone too far today.
He had actually mistaken her for someone else!
Did he leave his brain at home this morning?
If Shen Juan dropped out because he couldn’t pay tuition, it would only benefit her.
After all, that shameless scoundrel held leverage over her.
If he left, there would be no one left to threaten her.
But when she thought about how she might never see Shen Juan again at this school, she felt a strange, indescribable feeling in her heart.
He was bad… but also a little interesting.
Once the month was over and Shen Juan deleted her video, he would no longer be able to control her. At that time, she would settle both old and new grudges together and take her revenge properly.
But if he left before that… it would be too boring!
Shen Juan, you’d better hold on and not give up.
If you leave, who am I supposed to tease for fun in a month?
A sly, almost mischievous smile appeared on Wen Li’s otherwise innocent face. Her small, sharp canine teeth gave her a faintly dangerous charm, like a beautiful yet venomous creature… or a vampire.
“Principal, you wanted to see me,” Shen Juan said as he knocked and walked into the office.
“Shen Juan, you’re here,” the principal replied.
The principal, Qi Junshan, was nearly sixty years old. His temples were already graying, but his eyes remained bright and sharp.
He got straight to the point. “It’s the same matter as before. If you still can’t pay your tuition, we’ll have to proceed with expulsion. The maximum grace period I could secure for you has already passed. You still can’t gather the money, right?”
Qi Junshan adjusted his glasses and picked up a document from the desk. “Given your situation, there’s really no other option. Even as the principal, I must follow the rules. Take a look at this withdrawal application. If everything is fine, fill it out and we’ll process it as soon as possible.”
Shen Juan didn’t even glance at it.
“How much do I owe?”
“Our school charges by quarter. One quarter is 300,000 yuan.”
Shen Juan nodded. “Alright.”
Right in front of the principal, he took out his phone, found the school’s financial account he had saved earlier, confirmed it, and transferred 300,000 yuan.
After the transaction went through, Shen Juan took a screenshot. The system prompted that the electronic receipt would be available for download in a week.
“Principal, take a good look. I’ve already paid the tuition.”