Chapter 013: The Elegant Campus Belle's Proactive Date

After returning home, Lin Feng put the matter of Wang Jun sending people to teach him a lesson out of his mind. In his view, Wang Jun was just a student. Since Li Haidong, whom Wang Jun had found, had backed down, Wang Jun probably wouldn't cause him any more trouble.

"Xiao Feng, you're back?"

Both Lin Jingye and Yang Huiru were home. They both seemed to be in good spirits. When they saw Lin Feng return, Yang Huiru greeted him with a smile.

Lin Feng responded, feeling somewhat suspicious. His parents weren't usually this careful around him, were they?

Soon, Lin Feng figured out the key point. His parents must have thought he failed the math test and had been expelled from school. To avoid hurting his self-esteem, they were being extra cautious.

Lin Feng kept his composure and pretended to remember something. "Oh right, we had a math test today. I passed."

"Ah?"

Lin Jingye and Yang Huiru looked at each other, then joy appeared on both their faces.

Although they no longer expected Lin Feng to get into a good university, they didn't want him expelled from school either. Lin Feng was at a rebellious age—if he were expelled, his wounded self-esteem could lead him to give up on himself entirely, sinking deeper and deeper into a muddy path.

Back in his bedroom, Lin Feng's expression grew somewhat heavy.

His parents had spent so much to get him into Qinglan Middle School. Even after thinking he'd been expelled, they still cared for him and protected him. This touched him deeply.

With the Peach Blossom Manual, getting into a top university shouldn't be too difficult, right?

Thinking of his parents' increasingly hunched backs, Lin Feng felt it was time to lighten their burden.

These past few days, Lin Feng had been thinking about how to use the Peach Blossom Manual to earn his first pot of gold. He firmly believed the manual could bring him boundless wealth.

Looking at his remaining 1 Peach Blossom Point, Lin Feng casually opened the Peach Blossom Manual. After flipping through a few pages, a strange gleam appeared in his eyes.

With 1 Peach Blossom Point, Lin Feng could master artifact authenticity appraisal techniques.

There were quite a few antique markets in the city. If he could accurately distinguish authentic artifacts from fakes, couldn't he make some discoveries at the antique markets?

If he got lucky and stumbled upon an antique, wouldn't he strike it rich?

Without hesitation, Lin Feng placed his palm on the Peach Blossom Manual.

A moment later, Lin Feng felt his mind fill with all kinds of artifact appraisal knowledge. The remaining Peach Blossom Points in the manual also dropped to zero.

Without any Peach Blossom Points left, Lin Feng felt somewhat empty inside.

But there was no other way. There were only two methods to obtain Peach Blossom Points: one was completing randomly triggered tasks from the manual, and the other was winning the heart of his destined love from each of his nine lifetimes. He didn't know about the first eight lives, but in this life, his destined love was Bai Yichen. However, winning Bai Yichen's heart—how easy could that be?

The next morning when he woke up, Lin Feng really wanted to go to the antique market, but he'd never skipped class before. Plus, with Tian Mengqian by his side, Lin Feng resisted the urge to go to the antique market.

Just as he entered the campus, Lin Feng saw Wang Jun again.

Over the past two years, countless people had been rejected by Bai Yichen, but Wang Jun kept persisting. Many times, Wang Jun would take the opportunity to talk to Bai Yichen when she was going to or leaving class.

"Yichen, tomorrow is the weekend. Let's go on an outing!"

Not every girl wanted to be surrounded by admirers. Bai Yichen frowned slightly and looked at Wang Jun coldly. "I've already given someone else a chance."

"You mean Lin Feng, right?" Wang Jun laughed self-deprecatingly. "Don't lie to me. I know you're just using him as a shield. Besides, how could someone like him possibly be worthy of you? Don't tell me a flower planted in manure is more nutritious—that's just self-deception."

In the past, when encountering such situations, Lin Feng would have endured it and let it pass. He'd heard plenty of mockery and ridicule—being put down by Wang Jun a few times was no big deal.

But now it was different. Bai Yichen was the other half heaven had arranged for Lin Feng in this lifetime. How could a man act like a coward in front of his woman?

"Hey, whether I'm worthy of her or not isn't for you to decide, is it?" Lin Feng stepped forward with a cold expression, looking at Wang Jun with warning eyes.

Bai Yichen's expression showed surprise, clearly not expecting Lin Feng to step forward on his own initiative.

She didn't believe Lin Feng truly liked her that much. Someone who really liked her—how could they write such boring, meaningless love letters?

Moreover, she also believed Lin Feng wasn't as simple as he appeared on the surface. An ordinary student who could beat over a dozen thugs with his bare hands until they begged for mercy on the ground?

She had also studied the test paper the math teacher gave her yesterday. She believed that with her grades, she could get into any university in the country. But after seeing that perfect score answer sheet, she felt that her mathematical knowledge was hardly worth mentioning compared to his. This proved that Lin Feng's mathematical ability had reached an inconceivable level.

True wisdom appears as foolishness? Or playing pig to eat the tiger?

Bai Yichen turned to look at Lin Feng. "Tomorrow is the weekend. Do you have time in the evening to go see a movie together?"

"I'd be delighted." Lin Feng shrugged.

These words sounded as if being invited by Bai Yichen to see a movie was his honor, but the expression on his face showed no sign of being flattered. Instead, it carried a hint of playfulness.

Lin Feng felt he could fight rivals for Bai Yichen, but he couldn't accept Bai Yichen treating him like a fool. Love without dignity—even if the other party was a goddess, he'd rather not have it.

"Tomorrow evening at six, at the school gate." After Bai Yichen finished speaking, she turned and left.

"I'll be there." Lin Feng waved his hand casually.

Wang Jun's face turned iron-blue. After Bai Yichen walked away, he looked at Lin Feng with contemptuous eyes. "Do you have any self-awareness? Can you even afford movie tickets?"

"Is that any of your business?" Lin Feng shot back without backing down.

"Lin Feng, some people aren't ones you can afford to offend. One day, you'll understand what I mean." After Wang Jun finished speaking, he turned and left angrily.

Lin Feng didn't take Wang Jun's threat seriously.

However, Wang Jun saying that Lin Feng couldn't afford movie tickets made Lin Feng feel somewhat embarrassed.

His family circumstances weren't well-off. His parents scrimped and saved to support his studies at Qinglan Middle School. They couldn't give him much allowance. After renting novels online, he had very little left. Two movie tickets would cost at least over a hundred yuan. Girls liked to eat snacks—if he added drinks and popcorn, a movie would cost at least close to three hundred yuan.

Asking his parents for money—Lin Feng couldn't bring himself to do it. Having Bai Yichen pay—Lin Feng couldn't afford to lose that face.

"Brother Xiao Feng, here." Just as Lin Feng was in a dilemma, Tian Mengqian handed him several hundred yuan.

"What are you doing?"

"Aren't you going to see a movie with Bai Yichen tomorrow?"

Tian Mengqian lowered her head slightly.

"I can't take your money."

"It's okay."

"I have my own." Because he was feeling irritable, after speaking, Lin Feng turned and walked toward the teaching building.

Tian Mengqian stood behind Lin Feng, staring blankly at his retreating figure, inexplicably feeling an unprecedented sense of confusion and a faint loss.

Because he had things on his mind, Lin Feng didn't sleep very soundly during the morning.

As soon as class ended, Lin Feng hurriedly said goodbye to Tian Mengqian and rushed to the antique market closest to the school.