Fu Ke has met many people with the same opinions as Xu Yu Sheng before. In his cla.s.s, several Alphas who preached the ‘survival of the fittest" and ‘natural selection" established a so-called ‘brotherhood" and invited many people to join. Fu Ke and Derek also received an invitation, but they both politely declined.
Xu Yu Sheng"s presence didn"t stir up any ripples in Ning An"s life. People who walked different paths would go their separate ways. They were in different cla.s.ses and different dorms, so they usually wouldn"t run into each other. Ning An quickly threw this not so pleasant meeting into the back of his mind.
The arrangement of their academic program seemed pretty relaxed, but in fact, it wasn"t as simple as Ning An had thought. Moreover, Ning An seemed to have simultaneously attracted the attention of his instructors Qin Zhao and Song Xing. One would always pick him to stand up and answer questions, and would constantly issue homework papers after cla.s.s. The other would drag him up to act as a demonstration model. Adding on the fact that he had training every night, every day when Ning An returned to the dorms, he was so tired that he didn"t even want to lift a finger.
“Your complexion looks really bad.” On the other side of the terminal, Ning Meng was wearing a face mask and painting her nails. “Your dark circles are very heavy and you also look very haggard. Brother, tell me the address of your dorm and I"ll send you some skincare products.”
“Do you think I still have the time to do skincare?” Paralysed on the bed, Ning An let out a big yawn. “It"s just dark circles, they don"t bother me.”
“Don"t yawn at me with your mouth open like that.” Ning Meng was a little disgusted and wanted to frown, but then remembered that she was still wearing a face mask and hence held it back. She then extended her fingers and gently blew on her freshly painted nails. “Didn"t you say you didn"t want to go to military school? How come you"re now putting in so much effort?”
“Because I want to be first in the grade.”
Ning Meng didn"t speak for a long time. “I think you either haven"t woken up yet, or you"ve just gone crazy.”
She had specially inquired about the military school"s exam contents. How could she not know what her own brother was like? Physical fitness was one of his biggest weaknesses. Rather than getting first in the year, Ning Meng felt that it would already be pretty good if Ning An could pa.s.s the exam.
“We must believe in miracles. Besides, I"m also your brother. Can"t you even encourage me a little?”
“It is exactly because you"re my brother, do you think I don"t know you well?” However, it was good that Ning An had enthusiasm, so she no longer rained on his parade. “Just be aware of your limits and take care of your health.” She was a little distressed when she saw that Ning An could barely keep his eyes open. “Brother, you should just send me your address. If mother sees you like this, she will be worried to death.”
“Ah, okay.” Ning An rubbed his eyes and sent Ning Meng the location of his dorm. “Didn"t you want to get your beauty sleep? You"re still not sleeping?”
What beauty sleep? It"s clearly you who"s tired to death. Ning Meng finished painting the nails on her other hand and faked a yawn. “Then let"s stop chatting. Contact me again when you receive my stuff tomorrow.”
Ning Meng and Ning An"s schools were both in the Capital Star. At most, these items would take half a day to be delivered.
“Alright, talk to you tomorrow.” After Ning Meng saw Ning An"s face disappear from her terminal screen, she let out a breath and turned her head towards her roommate who was sitting on the bed. “Fu Yue Yue, is your brother also in military school? Can you help me ask what the reward is for getting first in the year?”
Ning Meng thought over it and still felt that there was a problem.
“Okay.” Fu Yue estimated that Fu Ke should be in his dorm at this time and sent a message to confirm.
Receiving Fu Yue"s message, Fu Ke tilted his head and looked at Derek. “Is there any reward for being first in the year?”
“I think there"s a scholarship or something?” Derek held out a few fingers. “It"s also quite a lot of money.”
Neither of them had any thoughts on the scholarship. Fu Ke still truthfully replied to Fu Yue, also adding a sentence. [Why do you care so much about my school?] Last time was also like this. Fu Yue had asked about the school"s academic program arrangement and also the contents of the exam, making Fu Ke think that Fu Yue also wanted to sneak into this school.
[In any case, it"s not like I want to go to military school. I"m just asking for a roommate. Alright, there"s nothing else. I"m getting my beauty sleep. Goodnight.] Fu Yue quickly sent back a message and then switched off her terminal. She told Ning Meng the matter regarding the scholarship and also teased:
“Ning Meng Meng, why are you so concerned about the military school? Could it be that you fancy someone there?”
“It"s all because of my worrisome older brother.” Ning Meng spread moisturising cream onto her face in front of the mirror. Actually, Ning An was very stubborn. He refused to say anything every time she asked. He also threw a fit when their father decided to sent him to military school. “It would be good if he could be as outstanding as your brother.”
Ning Meng studied in an inst.i.tute for Omegas. They secretly made a ranking list of the most eligible Alphas, and Fu Yue"s brother, Fu Ke, occupied the first place spot.
As soon as she matched the scholarship amount with the sum of money she had previously seen a few times in Ning An"s business plan, everything immediately became clear. As expected, it was this.
Ning An"s dream was to start from scratch and become rich. This dream was absolutely not the same as those dreams a teacher would ask children to write about.
Before going to military school, Ning An had used Elina"s ident.i.ty to register and invest in businesses, making a fortune. Although after Ning Xinbo found out about this, he was stopped and berated, Elina still gave that money to Ning An. Afterwards, Ning An also made a small amount of savings through part-time jobs and other things. From this, he collected all kinds of data to formulate a detailed breeding production plan.
Ning Meng heard her parents discussing this matter one night. Ning Xinbo had affirmed that he didn"t want Ning An to go down this business route and hence pushed Ning An into military school even at the expense of their relationship.
Although Ning An just made a few complaints and still went to military school after having a cold war with Ning Xinbo for most of the vacation, he clearly didn"t let go of the plan that Ning Xinbo had dismissed as ‘worthless". He had just hidden it even deeper in his heart.
Ning Meng also didn"t know if this was a good or bad thing. She intended to bring this up with Elina one day. After all, Ning An listened to their mother the most.
“Instructor, you are simply making me do extra labour. This is capitalist behaviour.” After eating, Ning An was once again called into Qin Zhao"s office. He loudly complained while making corrections to the spots that Qin Zhao pointed out in his paper.
“Who said that you"re working as a labourer. Rest a.s.sured, I will give you extra credits. It will count towards your final grades.” Qin Zhao sat very leisurely opposite Ning An with his legs propped up on the table. His eyes looked around before landing on the box Ning An had brought in. “What"s that? A gift from a girl?”
“My sister sent it. I don"t know what it is. Instructor, why don"t you open it and see what"s inside.”
Ning An didn"t need to say this as Qin Zhao had already tore open the box. Ning An conveniently took out a chocolate from the jar on Qin Zhao"s table and put it in his mouth. He had done this quite a few number of times, but Qin Zhao didn"t even bother with him.
“There"s a □□ in here.”
“Who would believe you?”
Qin Zhao had said this every time, but Ning An never showed the ‘look of fright" that Qin Zhao had wanted to see.
“Your little sister is really interesting.” Qin Zhao took out and looked over the things Ning Meng sent over, and then looked at Ning An again. He then noticed that Ning An"s complexion indeed wasn"t that good. He fished out a bag of chocolate biscuits from his pocket and threw it over. “Don"t just suddenly die.”
“Instructor, you actually hid this and wanted to eat it all by yourself!” Qin Zhao was not yet 30 and often liked to joke around with Ning An. Ning An"s courage also grew and he discovered that this person really liked chocolate.
“Well, didn"t I just give it to you?” Qin Zhao put all the items back into the box and closed it back up. “If you don"t want to eat it then give it back.”
“There"s no reason for me to give back what"s already given.” Ning An had already opening the bag and put a biscuit in his mouth. Eating sweets made him feel happy and work more efficiently. Just when he finished correcting his paper, Ning An received a message from Chen Siyu.
[He Xin is fighting with someone in the training room. Come quickly.]