A little girl at a magic school, she's a goofy troublemaker who can do anything.

Squatting until her cheeks were numb from the dry wind and her fingers were so cold she had lost all feeling, Li Wenyin rubbed her stiff legs, tidied up her things, and stood up.

She hummed as she carefully packed everything into her suitcase. After hesitating for a long time, she reluctantly took out a few banknotes and stuffed them into the inner pocket of her clothes, intending to use them later.

While I was packing my things, a tiny cherry ear clip fell out of my suitcase.

Li Wenyin bent down and picked it up with some surprise. It was a tiny magical device for transmitting sound. Yu Chiquan had lent it to her when they were working together. She had forgotten to return it after so many days and didn't know how she had brought it back with her.

She held it in her hand and examined it carefully. This thing was a set; Yu Chiquan also had one, but it had long exceeded the limits and could no longer make its own sound, just like an ordinary ornament.

After thinking for a moment, Li Wenyin still tucked it behind her ear and continued to happily chew on the beef jerky that Mu Feng's mother had given her. She had been eating it all the way and still had a lot left.

Then she officially dragged her suitcase into the small mountain town where she had lived for sixteen years.

-

The town has no fixed name, it lies in the boundary of several provinces and regions, and there are not many people coming and going. At most, only the people in the town call it by their own names. Almost every two families have different names for it, which is chaotic and inconsistent, but it matches its style quite well.

I've been away at school for half a year, and this is my first time back. This place is almost exactly the same as it was half a year ago. Except for the location of the roadside trash, which is updated every day, everything else is exactly the same as before, and there's no hope.

Even the thugs squatting by the roadside haven't changed.

Li Wenyin dragged her suitcase past, glanced at the area, and strode quickly past the "exclusive jurisdiction" of these thugs—a dilapidated intersection.

These few thugs were the worst of the worst in the town's thug community. They were no good at fighting and had no presence, so they couldn't take over any other territory. They could only guard a few telephone poles and a dilapidated intersection every day.

They originally intended to rob some tolls, but because they were too weak, they were reduced to robbing children of lollipops. Even passing dogs dared to urinate on their "territory" to mark their territory.

Li Wenyin took a shortcut to get in, and on this deserted road, she was bound to run into these thugs.

And just like that, our eyes met.

Wang Wu was the leader of this group of good-for-nothing thugs, and he was considered one of the more assertive ones among them. When he saw Li Wenyin dragging her suitcase, he stretched his limbs and stood up, looking like he was finally "getting some work done."

"Hey, isn't this that little stray dog ​​from the card room? You're actually back. We thought you and your two older sisters had run away and we'd never see you again."

Wang Wu's tone was full of sarcasm, and his brothers behind him burst into laughter. It was unclear what they were laughing at, but given their jeering and laughing, they probably weren't thinking anything good.

Li Wenyin had no idea what they were so proud of.

because......

She neither dodged nor retreated, but instead opened her eyes and waved a tree branch she had just picked up outside the town.

Wang Wu immediately chickened out, and in a panic, he and his brothers scurried away to the side, where they squatted on the ground in terror.

"That's great, I'm relieved to see you guys are still such cowards," Li Wenyin said with satisfaction.

Wang Wu: "Hey!"

-

Wang Wu and his friends belong to the type whose grades are bad and whose families don't care, but who also can't really squeeze into the ranks of slackers.

I was a decent student in elementary school and was the hope of my family. But my grades plummeted in junior high. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't improve. My path to leaving school was cut off, and I could only sadly blame my bad brain. Then, I had no choice but to go out and become a hoodlum like many other young people in town.

But even as thugs, they dared not hit anyone or swear freely. The education they received as "the hope of their families" laid a foundation for them to be decent, so they couldn't even succeed as thugs and ended up in this situation.

He swears clumsily, his manners are not high but not so low as to be completely shameless. He is disliked by both good and bad people, and he struggles painfully and consciously in a meaningless way.

When Li Wenyin first met them, she was nine years old. They cornered her, and she used a tree branch to scare them by making a lot of noise. They were genuinely frightened and ended up being chased and whipped by her until they screamed.

Li Wenyin found it strange, and later learned about these things.

-

"Hey!" Wang Wu glared at her, both cowardly and fierce, but dared not approach her. He felt that she was much more ruthless than him and would go crazy without any scruples when she started hitting people.

Li Wenyin: "Hmm?"

"During the six months you've been missing, Lin Xu has been looking for you, saying that if you dare to come back even once, he'll make you wish you were dead," Wang Wu said.

Lin Xu is the son of her stepfather and stepmother's biggest creditor, and also the son of the landlord of that chess and card room.

"What is it now?" Li Wenyin asked, puzzled. "It's not a debt I owe, why are you looking for me?"

Wang Wu touched his nose: "No...you forgot?"

Li Wenyin admitted frankly, "I forgot."

Wang Wu reminded him, "Six months ago... you said you wanted to pay off a debt and asked to meet him. As a result, you gave him a bowl of 'infertility-inducing soup,' and now he can't even get an erection."

Li Wenyin: "..."

Oh, yes, that's true. It seems she really did cause this mess.

But this is not entirely Li Wenyin's fault.

Lin Xu is one year older than Li Wenyin. They went to the same primary and junior high schools. Because of his family's debt, Lin Xu has always caused trouble for Li Wenyin since he was a child.

However, he was completely outmatched by Li Wenyin, and despite repeated defeats, he persisted in pursuing her relentlessly.

Li Wenyin's birthday is in winter. Almost a year ago, when she turned sixteen, Lin Xu, like an idiot, kept insisting that she was old enough to repay her debts with her body.

Li Wenyin found him annoying, so she searched around for some herbs and carefully prepared a soup that would make Lin Xu a childless man for the rest of his life.

She approached it with a "let's give it a try" attitude, thinking that if it succeeded, all the better; if it didn't, she would scare him by saying it was some kind of delayed-onset curse potion. If it succeeded too much and accidentally killed someone, she would consider it a blessing from heaven.

Thinking about it this way, I should have some talent in potions, so why did I only perform so-so in the potions class at school?

-

"You might have been fooled. He couldn't get up in the first place and was just using me as a scapegoat," Li Wenyin said, making a lot of sense.

"Ah!—" Wang Wu suddenly realized, but his already slow-witted nature, coupled with his dramatic shift from believing to understanding, made him seem even more foolish. "So that's how it is!"

After conning everyone, Li Wenyin dragged her suitcase and was about to leave when Wang Wu stopped her again.

After not seeing him for half a year, he's become so bold as to stop people.

Li Wenyin was surprised.

"He's still causing you trouble," Wang Wu stammered. "Why did you come back? Isn't it better to be like your two older sisters? What have you been doing for the past six months?"

According to Li Wenyin's understanding, Wang Wu felt that he had no hope of making a name for himself outside, so he particularly couldn't bear to see people who had the opportunity to go out give up or come back.

After being shaken by Li Wenyin with a tree branch, he finally temporarily abandoned his scoundrel attitude and started speaking properly.

So Li Wenyin was still willing to answer properly: "I went to school."

"What did you study? Didn't you get any scholarships or anything? Why did they let you come back? What good school would send someone to the mountains?"

"Why do you have so many questions?" Li Wenyin grumbled, then added, "Learn magic."

"Magic?" Wang Wu exclaimed in astonishment. "Does magic really exist in this world?"

In remote and underdeveloped mountain towns, even though magic has existed in the world for many years, people who don't know it or the people around them think it's just a hoax.

Wang Wu: "Show me that magic you've learned."

"I'm not going to show you for nothing. I have to get something in return," Li Wenyin said defiantly. "You snatched a few lollipops today, give them to me." She held out her hand.

Wang Wu: "One... Later, the kid cried, cried really loudly, which attracted his grandma, who kicked us and we had to give him back two."

Li Wenyin: "..."

She turned around and walked away, completely ignoring everyone.

"Hey!" Wang Wu caught up, "At least put on an act for me, otherwise... otherwise you're just lying!"

"..." Li Wenyin looked at him speechlessly, completely unmoved by his childish provocation.

However, Li Wenyin was kind-hearted, and after thinking about it, she decided to let him show off a little.

Pulling her wand from her bosom, Li Wenyin took a step back, silently recited a long remote control incantation, and a remote control screen appeared out of thin air.

"Holy crap!" Wang Wu's eyes widened, staring intently without blinking.

A white lightning bolt struck out from the floating screen, precisely hitting Wang Wu's glasses.

These glasses are a result of Wang Wu's nearsightedness caused by his poor posture and excessive eye strain from sticking books together when he was a child.

No thug wears glasses.

Wang Wu was startled and hurriedly took off his glasses: "What did you do to my glasses?!"

Li Wenyin: "I didn't do anything, just put it on."

He hesitated for a moment, holding the glasses up, quite afraid that they might suddenly explode, but he was even more afraid of Li Wenyin, who had now learned magic, so he put them on anyway.

Li Wenyin pressed the button and operated it for a while, using magic in the remote control magic to cast a spell on Wang Wu's glasses.

After a while.

Wang Wu saw a completely different world.

The tall and luxurious teaching buildings, the clean and tidy campus, and the groups of students chatting and laughing created an incredibly spacious and bright scene.

Wearing glasses, he felt as if he were on a campus road, looking up at the vast blue sky and at the magnificent, exquisite buildings he had never seen before, which were extremely beautiful.

"I cast a photographic spell on your lenses. The effect is similar to that of a camera, but it can completely reproduce the world as seen by the caster. What you see now is my school," Li Wenyin introduced confidently. "See? I wasn't lying to you."

Wang Wu seemed not to hear what she was saying, lost in thought and absorbed in the world he saw through his glasses.

Li Wenyin added, "Normally, people without magical talent can't see my school. You're really lucky to have met someone as kind and generous as me."

He spoke for a while longer, but Wang Wu still didn't react at all, staring blankly at the sky with his glasses on.

"?"

Li Wenyin couldn't help but have a moment of doubt.

What happened? Did I mispronounce the spell?

Did you misread it as "dumbfounded magic"?

I hope I didn't accidentally do anything to someone...

No, you can't use magic to hurt people outside of school!

"Wang Wu? Wang Wu?!"

After calling out twice, Wang Wu finally came back to his senses.

He blankly took off his glasses, looked at the sky above him with a complicated expression, and then looked at the sky reflected in his glasses.

"So this is the outside world."

-

Li Wenyin paused for a moment, then stopped urging him. After he reluctantly looked at it many more times, she finally retracted the floating screen of the remote control magic, and the photographic magic on the glasses also disappeared.

The two people, one leaning against a telephone pole and the other sitting on a suitcase, chatted idly.

Wang Wu: "Not bad, you're doing well, you got into a good school."

"And you, how are you doing?" Li Wenyin asked knowingly.

Wang Wu: "Not bad either."

"Trying to bully a child and ending up getting kicked by the grandma instead, isn't that great?"

"..."

"When I first met you, you were only nine years old, tiny as a bean, and you weren't wearing shoes yet. You were running around dirty on the ground, so thin that your eyes looked like they were bulging out. You were glaring at me fiercely, just like a little wild dog that was about to bite me at any moment," Wang Wu inexplicably began to reminisce about the past. "So fast, you've grown up so much."

"You talk as if you played a positive role in my growth," Li Wenyin retorted mercilessly. "When I first met you, you were seventeen and I could still whip you around. You're still the same now."

"..." Wang Wu muttered, trying to suppress his anger, "You even stole a pair of my shoes."

Li Wenyin: "I'm already a little stray dog."

She shrugged and turned to look at Wang Wu.

"Don't you have any plans for the future? Are you just going to keep squatting here with a bunch of thugs, getting kicked and beaten by some grandma?"

"...Did I want to be kicked?!" Wang Wu growled pathetically, then said, "I don't know. Maybe next spring, I'll go out and see if there's any business to do, or if I can continue my studies."

"Oh," Li Wenyin raised an eyebrow, "You've suddenly become so successful. Before, weren't you always worried about this and that, afraid of being cheated and afraid of not doing well? You were just a clueless kid with bad grades in junior high, just drifting along and refusing to leave."

"..." Wang Wu was speechless after being rebuked. She was right; he really was useless. He'd been agonizing over this and that, and was still just squatting at this intersection. "Could you at least speak a little nicer...?"

Li Wenyin: "What changed you, making you finally decide to take that step?"

"have no idea."

Wang Wu squatted down against the utility pole, looking up at the sky, which was a mess of tangled wires.

"It was probably a sudden whim; I just wanted to see what the sky looked like outside."