Chapter 159: Weidong Has a Rival in Love

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On the first day of school following the National Day golden week, the atmosphere on the campus of Changqing No. 1 High School remained somewhat restless. Even as the finest key high school in the entire city, the majority of its students harbored a deep aversion to studying. The most fundamental problem of exam-oriented education lay in the way it crushed almost all students' desire to learn. Having endured the continuous and harsh torture of elementary school, middle school, and high school, students would suddenly be thrust into a laissez-faire learning environment upon entering university. This abrupt transition frequently caused domestic students to drift aimlessly through their college years. Twelve years of repression, once released overnight, drove most individuals toward inevitable degeneration. After all, those rare few who could constantly self-supervise and refuse to slack off amidst a comfortable and leisurely environment were few and far between.

Walking through the campus, Qin Anyi suddenly halted in his tracks. To his utter astonishment, he realized that for some inexplicable reason, the moment he stepped into the school grounds, he could vaguely perceive a stifling atmosphere shrouding the entire campus of Changqing No. 1 High School! Vital energy, aura, and various domains related to qi were fundamentally formless and intangible concepts, ones that many people remained skeptical about.

However, Qin Anyi knew that qi truly existed. It was simply that the aura of ordinary people was extremely weak, making it almost imperceptible unless targeted specifically. Yet, if someone stared intently at another person from a certain distance, even if the target was outside their direct field of vision, the person being watched would often sense it and feel deeply uncomfortable! Many people had experienced this exact phenomenon—that was the very existence of qi!

Yet today, upon stepping into the campus, Qin Anyi unexpectedly discovered that qi, which should have been formless and intangible, had actually manifested within his vision! Although somewhat hazy, Qin Anyi could entirely determine that the qi enveloping the entirety of Changqing No. 1 represented negative emotions such as irritation and oppression... This mass of qi was composed of countless similar, identical units of energy.

What on earth was going on? Why was this feeling getting increasingly mystical and bizarre...

Qin Anyi shook his head, walked to his classroom to put down his bag, and then headed straight for the sports field. The first day of the new term always called for a national flag-raising ceremony, a standing tradition in schools across the country.

Standing quietly within his class formation, Qin Anyi watched as the flag-raising ceremony concluded smoothly. In a rare occurrence, the closing speech was delivered by the principal of Changqing No. 1 High School himself. Radiating a beaming expression of pride, the vice-ministerial-level principal spoke at length about the magnificent feat of the Changqing No. 1 student delegation in boldly seizing the championship at the national key high school academic competition in Shandong Province, and publicly announced the rewards granted to the team members.

Simultaneously, he declared disciplinary actions against the two students who had dropped out of the delegation at the eleventh hour, which included formal disciplinary demerits recorded on their permanent files... Those two students, who had previously been prominent figures within Changqing No. 1, instantly turned ashen-faced. Naturally, regret gnawed deeply at their hearts, but it was already too late.

For students, a disciplinary record on their school file was the most unsightly blemish. Even if the penalty might be expunged later through good behavior, it did not mean the record of the punishment simply vanished into thin air. Instead, a supplementary note would be added stating that the demerit had been revoked on such-and-such a date... If one's future career path led into a private enterprise, or if one intended to start their own business, such archival records mattered very little. However, should one aspire to embark on a path within the civil service, these files became the single most critical factor.

Therefore, a person's individual capability often served merely as a foundational prerequisite. Ultimately, how far an individual could go in life depended entirely on the choices they made.

"Weidong, does your father have any free time recently? I'd like to see him," Qin Anyi said in a low voice, pulling Weidong aside once the flag-raising ceremony concluded. The surrounding students of Senior Three, Class Two instinctively cleared a small space around Qin Anyi.

Over the past month or so, Qin Anyi had completely conquered every single student in the class through his actions. Though none of them ever voiced it aloud, their hearts held a profound sense of newfound respect for him. This victory in the academic competition had only added an even more glorious stroke to his reputation, especially since he had single-handedly defeated all the other schools to clinch the championship, reducing his own teammates to the most leisurely spectators on the field, while forcing the Experimental High School to resort to despicable tactics that he had exposed on the spot!