Chapter 2: The Perfect Person

The newcomer was his deskmate, a cute girl with shoulder-length hair, the class pet.

Why was she the class pet?

Because An Hexi always spoke to everyone with a faint smile.

Her calm voice made conversations feel like a spring breeze.

Combined with her delicate features, she was the typical white moonlight of school days.

But she didn’t get much trouble from the opposite sex because sitting next to her was Su Nian, a celebrity figure in the city.

He got full marks in the high school entrance exam and had a model-like appearance blessed by heaven.

He had been on the trending searches before, but had repeatedly refused to enter the entertainment industry or open social media accounts.

From the start of school, during military training, he was surrounded and watched, causing their classroom door to be constantly crowded.

It took multiple warnings from the school administration to calm things down.

But it only reduced the enthusiasm of upperclassmen.

Luckily, it was already a while into the second year of high school; otherwise, thinking about the junior girls made An Hexi afraid.

As one of the few girls in class who could talk to him, combined with her personality, An Hexi unwittingly became the Social King, because girls from other classes all came to proactively become friends with her.

Most people had arrived one by one, but morning reading time had already started.

Most people stood up, almost collapsing from sleepiness.

A few were outside the classroom: boys gathered eating breakfast, and a few girls were reciting from small notebooks alone in corners.

An Hexi tucked a strand of short hair behind her ear and glanced at Su Nian beside her.

He was staring blankly at a college entrance exam math paper, but as his deskmate, she knew this was just one of his special skills: he could complete the paper in the draft notebook in his mind without moving a pen.

An Hexi quickly snapped back without staring long.

She was the most “immune” person.

In the girls’ dormitory nightly chats, they had discussed who spent the least time staring blankly at Su Nian.

She ranked third on the list.

‘Ah, crap, this damn cat. Just in case, I need to change my future plans.’

Su Nian thought irritably.

For example, this year’s college entrance exam, he would not take it.

He had passed the Gifted Youth Program selection for two years and had the qualification to take the exam early.

Although he barely passed the line last year, he declined, citing the need to work harder.

But only Su Nian knew he did it for fun.

He had passed the preliminary rounds of three major competitions, and he couldn’t skip the semifinals.

He participated in math, physics, and chemistry simultaneously.

Last year, he got first prize in all three provinces, but he didn’t make it to the provincial team.

After all, he wasn’t a genius.

Sigh, it was all this stupid cat’s fault for suddenly disrupting his peaceful life.

He had originally planned to arrange a schedule that could handle both sides, but this useless demon was completely useless except for hiding in his desk drawer and sleeping soundly.

Suppressing this bit of restlessness, he continued with his plan for the day.

In order to realize his life creed, he lived firmly every day without change, because he was already an addicted prisoner.

……

Can the sky get drunk too?

In the pavilion, the young man leaned against the vermilion pillar.

From one wired earbud came the continuous sound of a female voice doing English listening, while the other earbud hung loosely on his chest, lazily resting with the clouds like the young man.

The afternoon rush to the cafeteria was part of most people’s youth, but the excitement was theirs, not related to Su Nian, who commuted.

But occasionally, he would be too lazy to go home and join the vanguard from his class to rush there.

After eating, he didn’t want to go to the dormitory to disturb his classmates’ rest, nor did he want to go home, so he often came to this pavilion.

“How can you be so relaxed!”

The clouds in the sky began to stagger messily.

Su Nian wondered if the sky was drunk for the flowers, or if it was because of the noisy little cat beside him, unlike usual.

“This is a doomsday crisis!”

Xia Li kept stomping hard on Su Nian to warn him of her seriousness, but Su Nian had seen in a video that this seemed to be “kneading dough.”

“Look at you, getting anxious again.”

Su Nian calmly pulled out a small notebook from his pocket—his brief planner.

Under each day’s date, there were two parts: the upper half listed the day’s learning tasks assigned by the teacher, and the lower half was his own arranged plans.

After a morning of classes, he had efficiently used class time to check off over half the page.

Xia Li had already mastered human writing.

She looked with Su Nian at the unfinished parts:

Physics competition circuits

Number theory

One set each of chemistry and biology for the college entrance exam

Redo last week’s wrong questions

Leg training

……

Xia Li was furious!

So where was the part about saving the world? This guy was treating her like a joke!

She unleashed her cat paws again, bombarding Su Nian.

“You’re really noisy tonight. Even though I was just passively listening to English, you’re seriously disturbing my afternoon nap.”

Su Nian helplessly picked up the half earbud wire and deliberately swung it in front of Xia Li like a cat teaser.

“The prophecy doesn’t say that! You should be following me nervously. We should go find the girls possessed by demons! Then, with my help, you’d enter their hearts, and together we’d subdue those demons and save the world!”

Xia Li hissed while unable to resist pouncing on the earbud that kept provoking her.

“You need to understand how to live life on a slow simmer. Is life in Hell too fast-paced? How restless.”

Su Nian picked her up and put away the earbuds.

In principle, phones weren’t allowed, but he operated outside the rules.

“Alright, I’ll take you for a walk. Oh, right—to find the doomsday factors with you.”

First Middle School was built near the suburbs, so it occupied a very large area with good landscaping—hills and water.

But Su Nian really had rarely walked around the school.

The reason?

Just like when he went to the cafeteria to eat, the boys in his class would surround him, but it still couldn’t stop the overwhelming stares and gossip.

“In theory, they should be appearing around you.”

Xia Li’s emerald green pupils dilated from their slit shape as she warily scanned the campus from Su Nian’s shoulder.

But during this nap period, there were only a scattered few students, the cleaning aunt, and the security guard urging people back to the dorm.

Although Su Nian was familiar with the security uncles, he felt embarrassed about flaunting privilege, so he quickly walked toward the teaching building area.

They had a huge square.

On either side of the fountain in the center were the teaching areas for the three grades.

Each grade consisted of four connected teaching buildings.

Their class was lucky—they were assigned to the building closest to the cafeteria.

Although there was a mandatory nap period and no one was allowed to stay outside the dorm, in practice, they only caught students playing basketball or badminton during that time.

In the teaching buildings, especially for the third year, there were always many students staying in the classrooms during the nap.

Just as they passed a classroom where someone was secretly watching videos on the whiteboard, Xia Li’s claws suddenly shot out, scratching Su Nian.

“I smell it! It’s nearby!”

Su Nian sighed.

He really hadn’t expected to find anything, but now he had to follow the little cat as she jumped off his shoulder.