Returning to the dormitory building.
Jiang Wangzhi dragged her heavy steps and pushed open the door.
As soon as the door opened.
Someone was already occupying the other bed.
A short-haired girl was sitting cross-legged on the lower bunk.
Holding a tube of cheap strawberry-flavored nutrient fluid in her hand, she was biting the straw.
Hearing the commotion, the girl raised her head.
The two of them stared at each other in blank dismay.
The girl stared at Jiang Wangzhi for a full five seconds.
Suddenly, she put down the nutrient fluid and jumped off the bed.
"You are Jiang Wangzhi?"
Jiang Wangzhi nodded and put her bag on the table: "It is me."
"Are you really the one from the Jiang Family?"
Jiang Wangzhi was slightly taken aback: "Which one?"
The girl extended her finger and gestured.
"The one whose family owns three private spaceports."
"Thirteen resource planets."
"The eldest young miss of the Jiang Family who even holds shares in mecha manufacturing plants?"
Jiang Wangzhi sighed.
She did not want to bring up these sad matters at all right now.
Even if she brought them up, she could not go back.
"Pretty much," Jiang Wangzhi replied listlessly.
The girl gasped.
Her eyes instantly lit up.
She hurried over in a few steps and extended her hand.
"My name is Gu Zhaozhao."
"Coming from an ordinary background, physical stamina C, tactical rating B, everything is ordinary."
"I just want to ask one question."
Jiang Wangzhi looked at her enthusiastic appearance and was a bit stunned.
"What question?"
"Can I take a look at a rich person's suitcase?" Gu Zhaozhao pointed at Jiang Wangzhi's unopened metal storage box, her face full of curiosity, "I have never seen what kind of things a real tycoon uses in my entire life."
Jiang Wangzhi chuckled.
This new roommate had quite a straightforward personality.
She was much more normal than those lunatics on the Desolate Star who would draw knives and shields at every turn.
This was pure campus life!
"Go ahead and look."
Jiang Wangzhi readily pressed the fingerprint lock of the storage box.
"Click."
The box sprang open.
Inside were all the daily necessities that Butler Lin had personally packed for her before she reported to school.
Gu Zhaozhao cautiously leaned closer.
As if she were visiting some precious cultural relic.
She picked up a pure black silk eye mask from inside.
The fabric was as smooth as water.
"This eye mask feels so good! How much is it?"
Jiang Wangzhi took a glance and shook her head.
"I do not know."
Prepared by the butler, how on earth would she know the price?
Gu Zhaozhao put down the eye mask and picked up a neatly folded set of pajamas.
The fabric even carried a high-end, faint, cool fragrance.
Jiang Wangzhi continued to shake her head.
"I do not know either."
Gu Zhaozhao was left speechless.
She put the pajamas back into the box, folded her arms across her chest, and looked at Jiang Wangzhi.
"You do not know about the eye mask."
"You do not know about the pajamas."
"Then what on earth do you know?"
Jiang Wangzhi thought about it.
She answered very earnestly: "I know my balance."
Gu Zhaozhao froze.
"How much?"
Jiang Wangzhi generously raised her wrist and opened the asset interface of her personal terminal.
She turned the screen around, facing Gu Zhaozhao's face.
Gu Zhaozhao leaned in to look.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands...
Her gaze followed that long string of zeros, moving backward bit by bit.
Moving to the very end.
Gu Zhaozhao's breathing stagnated.
The entire dormitory fell into a death-like silence.
A full minute passed.
Gu Zhaozhao silently turned around.
Cautiously closing the lid of that metal storage box.
She even considerately wiped away the non-existent dust on the surface of the box with her sleeve.
Then, she stepped back two steps.
Returning to her own bed, she crossed her legs.
Her expression was extremely solemn.
"Classmate Jiang."
"Hmm?"
"After careful consideration."
"I think it is better for us to maintain a bit of class distance from now on."
Jiang Wangzhi could not hold it in.
She laughed out loud directly.
This Gu Zhaozhao was simply too interesting.
However, she still asked a question.
"Why did you not move in yesterday?"
Gu Zhaozhao was taken aback, then said sheepishly: "I was scared faint yesterday, so I made do for a night in a fellow townsman's dorm..."
Jiang Wangzhi chuckled inwardly, it seemed she was not the most timid one.
At least, she had not been scared faint.
...
At night.
Late-night chatting time in the girls' dormitory.
The lights were already out.
Only the terminal screens on two of the beds emitted a dim blue light.
Gu Zhaozhao was lying on the bed, her feet dangling in mid-air and swinging.
She was browsing the school's freshman forum.
As she browsed, she broadcasted the updates to Jiang Wangzhi in real time.
"Wangzhi, you are completely famous."
"Out of ten posts in the forum right now, eight are discussing you."
Jiang Wangzhi lay on the bed, applying a sky-high-priced facial mask.
Her voice was muffled.
"What are they discussing about me? Are they all scolding me?"
"There are those praising you, saying that those few commands you gave at the bottom of the pit were simply like a god of war descending to earth."
"Of course, there are also those scolding you."
"Someone said that you just relied on Pei Linchuan to carry you to victory, and that Pei Linchuan acts like a dog to you for money."
Jiang Wangzhi's eyes lit up.
Even with a facial mask pasted on her face, she could not conceal the joy in her heart.
"Right, right, right!"
"This person makes so much sense!"
"Zhaozhao, help me like this comment! It would be best if you could help me share it too!"
Gu Zhaozhao rolled her eyes.
"Do you have a masochistic tendency?"
"Others are scolding you, and you still like it?"
Jiang Wangzhi felt bitter inside.
You do not understand.
I wish nothing more than for all the teachers in the school to think I am a bum who buys scores and cheats.
That way the Academic Affairs Office can logically expel me!
"There is another one!"
Gu Zhaozhao pointed at the screen, her tone exaggerated.
"This one has the most likes, and was pushed straight to the number one trending spot."
"It says that since the Jiang Family is so wealthy, before you enrolled, they must have spent a huge sum to hire a retired senior commander to give you special tutoring every day."
"That is why you were able to perform so miraculously in the evaluation."
After listening, Jiang Wangzhi was immensely satisfied.
Fantastic.
Even the script has already been written for her.
Spending money to hire outside help, memorizing answers in advance, and guessing blindly in actual combat.
This logical closed loop was simply perfect!
"This one is written well!" Jiang Wangzhi sat up abruptly, "Simply a genius! The instructor will definitely read the forum too, and seeing this, they will definitely suspect my grades!"
Gu Zhaozhao looked at her excited appearance and sighed.
"Do not celebrate too early."
"Take a look at what the top-liked reply under this trending post is."
Jiang Wangzhi was taken aback.
"What did it reply?"
Gu Zhaozhao cleared her throat.
She read it out word by word:
"【Stop talking nonsense.】"
"【If the Jiang Family really spent a huge sum to hire a retired instructor to give her special tutoring every day.】"
"【Then what is up with her E+ physical stamina?】"
"【Does a senior instructor only teach her how to flap her gums and not how to run?】"
"【This physical stamina, at a glance, is a pure, all-natural, pollution-free good-for-nothing. It shows she has not undergone systematic training at all, and relies entirely on top-tier talent.】"
After reading it finished.
The dormitory fell silent.
The facial mask on Jiang Wangzhi's face dropped onto the quilt with a thud.
She sat blankly on the bed.
Her mouth half-open.
Her mind was buzzing.
This logic...
This damn logic, why is it so airtight?!
Why did my good-for-nothing physical constitution instead become the ironclad proof that I did not cheat?!
What on earth is wrong with this generation of netizens?
Can you guys please not be so rational!