The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 743 Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 10
Moran had just sat down when the classroom door was pushed open again.

A girl with pigtails skipped in, glanced around the table, and went straight to the seat to Moran's right.

That position is where Lin Yue, who ranked second in the overall talent test this year, is located.

"You must be Moran?" Lin Yue sat down, rested her chin on her hand, and tilted her head to look her over. "I saw your name in the Deer Cry Daily this morning. You have perfect scores in both talents. You're really amazing!"

Her tone was lively, but there was a hint of scrutiny in her eyes.

As the daughter of Luming Real Estate, Lin Yue was among the first to stand on the testing platform yesterday.

She was very happy with her excellent score of 183, which was 85 points in innate spiritual power and 98 points in Mirror Detection talent. This was the highest score that Lu Mingjing had achieved in the past few years.

Many classmates congratulated her, saying that she was sure to be number one this year. But suddenly she was overtaken by an "unknown" orphan, which made her feel a little unbalanced.

Moran nodded slightly. "Thank you. You are excellent too."

Just as Lin Yue was about to say something more, the classroom door opened again.

A boy with thin-rimmed glasses and a calm demeanor walked in, his gaze sweeping calmly across the classroom. When he saw Mo Lan and Lin Yue, he didn't pause at all.

"Chen Xingye, your seat is over there!" Lin Yue pointed to the seat to Mo Lan's left with a smile, her tone familiar, clearly indicating that she had dealt with him quite a bit.

Chen Xingye glanced at her indifferently, without saying a word. His gaze remained unmoved as it swept over Mo Lan, as if she were merely a decoration in the classroom.

He walked straight to his seat, then took out a thick notebook from the storage mirror and began reading, immersing himself in his own world and completely ignoring everyone around him.

Lin Yue pursed her lips and muttered under her breath, "It's still the same as always, nothing has changed."

Moran didn't reply, but simply looked away.

She was familiar with this person.

For the past three years, Chen Xingye's name has almost monopolized the top spot in all subjects at Luming Middle School, with only physical training lagging behind.

In the first three years of high school, when most classes were theoretical, his total score was consistently far ahead of others, making him a true academic star.

His performance in yesterday's talent test was also outstanding. He scored 100 points in innate mental strength and 80 points in Mirror Exploration talent, ranking third in the overall talent score across the entire region.

Like the original owner, he disliked socializing, preferred to be alone, and his greatest hobby was immersing himself in the library to devour those obscure and difficult classics.

As a collateral descendant of the Chen family, the first family of scouting agents in the Donghua Alliance, Chen Xingye's background is enough to make anyone in the school look at him with respect.

In addition, with his aloof yet handsome face, even though he was even less sociable than the original owner, he still had a large following.

Seeing Chen Xingye immediately enter a "secluded" reading mode, Mo Lan suddenly remembered that her current persona was that of a "reclusive bookworm"!

So, she expressionlessly pulled a book out of the small round storage mirror and started flipping through it.

I should have saved one or two books to read last night!

After class today, she insisted on going to the library to borrow some books she hadn't read before.

Lin Yue: "???"

She stared wide-eyed as Chen Xingye intently studied an unknown notebook, not sparing a glance for anyone else; Mo Lan held a book titled "Skill System and Skill Combinations," reading it with a serious expression.

Wait, what's going on with these two?!

Lin Yue's lips twitched, and she couldn't help but mutter under her breath, "Hey, do you two have to be so in sync? It's the first day of school, at least chat a bit, right?"

Her answer came from the sound of leisurely footsteps coming from the doorway.

A thin, gloomy-looking boy strolled in slowly: "Oh, you're here so early?" He grinned, his gaze sweeping over Mo Lan and Chen Xingye before finally settling on Lin Yue's face. "Why didn't Miss bring any attendants today?"

Lin Yue rolled her eyes: "What's it to you?"

Zhao Wuchen shrugged and swayed to fifth place.

At the same time, a small, moving mountain squeezed into the doorway.

He was nearly two meters tall, with bulging muscles, his school uniform stretched taut, and he was carrying a dumbbell the size of an average person's head.

Following behind him was Wang Jingnan.

"Jingnan, over here," Zhou Ming said in a deep voice, as resonant as a drumbeat.

Wang Jingnan patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "You've worked hard, Brother Zhou."

He didn't forget to call out to the woman and three men behind him, "Come in quickly, our seats are all together!"

Upon hearing Wang Jingnan's voice, Mo Lan couldn't resist looking up out of curiosity.

She only found out this morning when she was reading the newspaper that she wasn't the last person to enter the Wang family's VIP room yesterday.

Wang Jingnan himself ranked seventh overall, but Zhou Ming (sixth), Bai Wei (eighth), Ren Miao (tenth), Zhu Rao (eleventh), and Ding Yan (twelfth) were all sponsored by the Wang family.

Only Xiang Yufan, who ranked ninth, was the son of the Lin family's driver and was sponsored by the Lin family. However, for some reason, he did not come with Lin Yue.

Moran glanced at it and immediately matched the person with the face.

Zhao Wuchen leaned back lazily in his chair, a mocking smile playing on his lips:

"Young Master Wang, you're so impressive! The top twelve, and most of the rest are your family members!"

His voice wasn't loud, but it was like a knife, precisely piercing the seemingly harmonious atmosphere among Wang Jingnan and the others.

Wang Jingnan's smile froze for a moment, then he resumed his polite demeanor:
"What do you mean 'my family'? They're all my friends!"

He raised his hand to gesture to Zhou Ming and several other students behind him, his tone extremely sincere.

Zhao Wuchen chuckled and turned his gaze to Lin Yue:

"Oh? Miss Lin, do the people your family sponsors also want to be your friends?"

Lin Yue immediately denied it: "How could that be! Our family provides the resources, and they repay our family after they grow up. It's just a transaction."

She glanced arrogantly at the group of people around Wang Jingnan, as well as Xiang Yufan who had just reached the classroom door: "Not just anyone is qualified to be my friend."

The atmosphere in the classroom was so tense that even Moran, who was engrossed in her book, could feel it.

A tall girl, dressed in a black training uniform with a dagger at her waist and a light sheen of sweat on her face, walked past the group and sat down in the fourth seat without looking to either side.

Suddenly, everyone's eyes turned to her.

She is the only student in the class, besides Mo Lan, whose family background is average, but who has not yet received any financial assistance from any powerful organization—Su Yu.

However, she has superhuman physical strength, is skilled with a dagger, and is agile. Even before undergoing a talent test and starting her training, she was able to explore the low-risk Mirror Space on her own and support herself.

For the past three years, she has been the strongest student in physical education at Luming Middle School.

Just as the atmosphere in the classroom reached its peak of tension, a soft click was heard, and the classroom door lock automatically engaged.