Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After receiving special training, Cheng Qingyu had returned to China not long ago.

His parents had also told him the same beforehand. Before even meeting Qin Ran, he already had no good impression of her.

Everyone who came to Beijing University was the same. Why should she be treated especially before she even came?

Preferential treatment, eh?

He liked to treat the people under him “especially.”

The standard circumference for the inner circle of the sports field was generally 400 meters per round. Two rounds weren’t particularly tough for the group of students, but they would indeed suffer a little bit.

After he finished speaking, the group of boys in the Automation Department who wanted to ask if the girls could be excused immediately swallowed their words.

They knew that this instructor wasn’t easy to mess with.

Several other classes were also running on the track. Class 1 originally gathered together, but the gap got bigger and bigger the further they ran.

Qin Ran kept pace with Nan Huiyao, who was confidently running fast in the beginning and was even chatting with her.

“The most handsome guy is our temporary class monitor, Chu Heng. The assistant teacher told us in the class group yesterday. Oh yeah, you haven’t joined the group yet, right?” Nan Huiyao was slightly panting at the moment. “The guy beside him is Xing Kai…”

Beside her, Qin Ran said very calmly, “You should stop talking.”

Nan Huiyao was now struggling to speak. She immediately shut up and started gasping for breath.

Her pace also began to slow down.

Obviously, she didn’t exercise frequently. She couldn’t keep up the pace for two rounds, and at the end of the run, her face was pale and she was almost walking. Qin Ran basically followed her pace throughout.

The two lagged behind everyone else in the class. A few other guys’ paces weren’t much different from her.

The group of people lagged behind.

Cheng Qingyu stood at the sports field watching them. He looked slightly away when he noticed Qin Ran and Nan Huiyao falling behind.

It was just ordinary training for college students and wasn’t comparable to special training, so Cheng Qingyu didn’t really pay much attention to how many minutes they took to run two laps. However, the physical fitness of those lagging behind was too poor.

“Why don’t you look tired at all?” Nan Huiyao sat on the training spot of Class 1 and gradually caught her breath. “Thank you for accompanying me.”

Qin Ran sat down next to her, neither flushed nor breathless. “I used to take morning runs.”

“No wonder.” Nan Huiyao accepted this statement.

Not far away, Xing Kai took two bottles of water and handed them to the two girls.

Recovering a bit of strength, Nan Huiyao unscrewed the bottle cap and gulped down the water. “Thank you.”

“It’s nothing much.” Xing Kai knelt down and took off his camouflage cap. Smiling at Qin Ran, he introduced himself. “Classmate, I’m Xing Kai, a local.”

“Qin Ran.” With the sun shining overhead and shouting voices filling her ear, Qin Ran was feeling a little impatient.

However, she still took out her thin black phone from her pocket and exchanged numbers with him.

Before, her hands had been stuck in her pockets. But now that she had taken out her phone, her hands appeared even more slender and white. Her bony fingers reflected a cold light under the sun.

Xing Kai didn’t disturb them after getting her contact information. He added Qin Ran into the class group and officially introduced her to the class by tagging her.

In an instant, more than a dozen people became friends with her.

“She’s so indifferent, it’s a completely different style from Nan Huiyao’s.” Xing Kai walked over to Chu Heng and lowered his voice. “The character Qin from the Qin Dynasty and the character Ran from elapse. Strangely, I feel so familiar with this name.”

Everyone had paid attention to her name when the instructor called the rolls.

They knew her name, but they didn’t know which Chinese character it was. Only now did Xing Kai figure it out.

“Familiar?” Chu Heng glanced at Qin Ran thoughtfully. “How could you not be? She’s the national college entrance examination’s top scorer, have you forgotten?”

The enchanting score of 747 points had set off a huge storm on the Internet.

Most people still couldn’t find information on “Qin Ran,” so two months later, most of the college entrance examination candidates had forgotten the name of the top scorer. They only remembered her as the evildoer who had scored 747 points.

At this moment, after hearing Chu Heng’s reminder, Xing Kai suddenly remembered this evildoer he had discussed heatedly with his classmates before. “What the f*ck?! It’s her?!”

Beijing University…

Weren’t all made of geniuses.

Xing Kai was a local, and his score was lower than that of the other provinces and cities. He had been admitted into Beijing University with 603 points. Of course, he himself knew that his score was at the bottom of the Automation Department…

He had been hung up on the 747 points for a few days. Who knew that this person would end up in the same class as him?!

**

After the five-minute rest period, Cheng Qingyu blew a short whistle.

He stood straight as a ramrod in front of them, wearing a sea-blue camouflage uniform. He had taken off his hat, exposing his buzz-cut head.

A buzz cut tested one’s facial features, but obviously, Cheng Qingyu’s features were outstanding.

If placed in the English Department or the Political Science and Law Department with mostly girls, he would definitely be very popular.

As one of the two girls in the Automation Department, Qin Ran had seen countless people better looking than him.

As for Nan Huiyao, she had a bunch of “boyfriends” and “husbands” as her idols. Her phone screensaver changed every week. Currently, it was a picture of Qin Xiuchen, the beauty of the entertainment industry.

“Our instructor is so handsome! Have you noticed?” She lowered her voice and whispered to Qin Ran.

“Yeah, he’s not bad.” Qin Ran lowered her head and stood upright, indifferently replying to her.

Nan Huiyao glanced at her and finally sighed. “Can’t you see that the girls in the other department are simply dying to stick to our instructor? Forget it. Since you’re so good-looking, everything you say is right.”

Although Cheng Qingyu was a real-life idol, Qin Ran was too cold and didn’t gossip with her, so Nan Huiyao held it back and waited to discuss with the others in the dormitory.

“The second girl in the first row, haven’t you eaten?!”

“The second girl in the first row, stand straight!”

“The second girl in the first row, step forward!”

“The second girl in the first row…”

Their entire day of training was basically standing at attention and practicing the goose-steps. Qin Ran had never received such orthodox training before. She only knew how to fight, the kind for life and death.

But to make her stand in place and repeat the same thing over and over again… this would have been a fantasy story in the past.

There had been such training in the first year of high school as well, but at that time, Ninghai Town’s management had been lax and loose, and the instructors very casual too. Thus, Qin Ran had skipped class for a week before signing up.

But now…

Although impatient, her actions were exemplary. She could tell that Cheng Qingyu seemed to be targeting her, and he seemed especially dissatisfied with her.

Because she was the second girl in the first row.

Nan Huiyao was the first in the first row.

After one day of training, everyone in Class 1 noticed this. A group of boys gathered around to ask her, and some people even advised her to take leave from the assistant teacher.

At nine o’clock in the evening, at the end of the day’s military training, Nan Huiyao sat on her computer chair and glanced at Qin Ran. “Did you offend Instructor Cheng?”

Yang Yi just came back and was pouring herself a glass of water when she heard this. “Maybe he wants to attract your attention?” she suddenly asked.

Nan Huiyao sat upright. “Yes! That’s right! It’s possible!”

While they were talking, Leng Peishan entered the dormitory. Instead of wearing a camouflage uniform, she was wearing a casual dress and holding a designer bag in her hand. Her long hair draped behind her head, and she even had on delicate makeup. Glancing at the three of them, she put her bag on the desk and asked, “You guys are back from the military training?”

As she entered, a faint perfume fragrance spread in the room.

She obviously hadn’t attended military training. Taken aback, Nan Huiyao replied, “We just came back. Didn’t you go to military training?”

They had gone out together in camouflage uniforms in the morning.

“It was too sunny, so I called my grandfather.” Leng Peishan smiled faintly, as if nonchalant. She reached out to open the closet and took out her clothes and a towel. “My grandpa talked to the Computer Science Department, so I don’t have to continue with the military training anymore.”

After speaking, she took her clothes and went to take a shower in the bathroom.

After she left, Nan Huiyao and the others returned to their senses. She whispered, “Wow, so there’s such an operation. Leng Peishan’s family background isn’t simple. She’s probably from a powerful family in Beijing. When I came, a senior also told me not to mess with people with these surnames…”

“I’m taking a call.” Qin Ran stopped listening and calmly walked over to the balcony to answer her phone.

**

Ting Lan Apartment.

Old Master Cheng was sitting on the sofa. “It’s so sunny today. I wonder if Ran Ran is used to the training. I asked Cheng Qingyu to take special care of her…”

Having said this, he turned to Cheng Juan and distastefully said, “Why did you let her go for military training? What if she injures herself?”

Cheng Mu was speechless as he handed him a glass of water.

Cheng Juan casually picked up his phone and pressed on it absent-mindedly. “She’s very used to it.” He sneered.

“I’m going upstairs.” He took his phone and directly left.

He didn’t say anything more.

Old Master Cheng looked away and glanced at Cheng Mu. “What are you looking at?!”

Cheng Mu: “…??”

Ting Lan Apartment wasn’t far from Beijing University. It was only a ten-minute drive away.

There weren’t many people at this time.

In the female dormitory.

After coming out of the shower, Leng Peishan coincidentally heard someone knocking on the door. It was a senior girl in a T-shirt.

“Senior Chen?” Leng Peishan seemed to know this person and immediately greeted her rather respectfully. “You’re here to…”

Senior Chen didn’t recognize her and just nodded at her. She glanced past everyone else and finally settled on Qin Ran, who had just entered from the corridor. “Qin Ran, right? Someone is looking for you downstairs.”