Dad, Mom.
Returning to her apartment, Wang Tianwei sat on the sofa and started a video call with Wang Yi. Two familiar faces squeezed together, filling up the entire screen.
Tianwei!
Wang Yi and Cheng Yin were extremely close to the screen, their eyes fixed on their daughter without looking away for a second.
How did you lose so much weight!?
Wang Tianwei touched her face.
...I probably just got tanned. The sun on Planet Shuomo is harsh... Being tan makes me look thinner.
Cheng Yin frowned in disagreement.
You definitely lost weight! Your little face has thinned out! Is Qilin Military Academy that harsh? Honey? Didn't you say Qilin was more lenient than the First Military Academy?
That's what everyone said! Sweetheart, can you still hold on?
Wang Tianwei smiled.
It's freshman training, it's normal to be a bit tough. Official classes start the day after tomorrow. If I eat well, I'll gain it back in no time!
Wang Yi patted his wife's hand beside him.
Alright, then let's see how it goes! This week's groceries should have arrived, right? I saw the butler signed for them.
Wang Tianwei glanced at the robot in the kitchen washing vegetables for her.
They arrived, and they're all very fresh. Thanks, Dad!
Why is this child being so polite? Are you adjusting well over there? How are the teachers and classmates at school? Is anyone hard to get along with?...
Cheng Yin and Wang Yi, who had never let their daughter leave Planet Tianshu alone, wished they could ask about every single leaf of vegetable she ate in a day!
They weren't without regrets for choosing such a middle-of-nowhere place for Tianwei to attend school... All their previous considerations had long been tossed out the window!
Qilin is great. The teachers... have very beautiful mechas... The classmates are nice too, they even give me things.
Wang Tianwei picked her words carefully, speaking more and more smoothly.
Mechas? Does our Tianwei want a mecha? Honey, do you know the CEO of Taihe?
Wang Yi thought about it seriously for a moment.
I could get to know him...
Wang Tianwei hastily stopped them.
I was just saying, please don't buy one! The school will issue mechas! Let me get used to things first! Besides, the son of Taihe's CEO is also in our class... He's pretty nice. Once we get more familiar, maybe he can even give me a discount!
Wang Yi was extremely surprised.
The CEO of Taihe's... That must be his eldest son, right? He is indeed about your age.
They have a younger son?
Yes, but he was born to his second wife. Huang Taihe's first wife passed away...
So that was it. Fortunately, she had only exchanged a few brief words with Huang Yan and hadn't talked too deeply. Now that she knew, she could avoid this topic in the future.
Huang Taihe was actually willing to send his son to Planet Shuomo? It seems the school we picked isn't bad after all!
Cheng Yin and Wang Yi finally felt a bit more relieved.
Dad, Mom, I haven't asked you yet. When did you donate two buildings to the school? Weren't my grades good enough?
...Uh, I'm not too sure about that. Ask your dad.
Cheng Yin quickly passed the buck, then leaned back to make room for her husband.
Wang Yi chuckled.
Didn't you know? Our family's company has always placed a high value on education! I don't even know how many elementary schools we've built...
After repeatedly emphasizing to her parents not to seek any more special treatment for her, she added a few words reminding them to take care of their health and not just focus on work.
The one labeled as the little manager finally hung up the video call. The cooking robot in the kitchen had already prepared the hotpot according to Wang Tianwei's instructions.
Steam and aroma filled the air. Sitting in the living room, her mouth was watering uncontrollably!
Hurry! Bring it over quickly!! And get me two tubes of watermelon-flavored nutrient fluid! Ice cold!
Yes, Master!
How had she survived these past seven days!?
She used to look down on nutrient fluids, but when she truly didn't even have that, she realized how important and convenient they were!
She had held back since noon just for this moment!!
Wang Tianwei put the vegetables and meat into the clear broth pot. There was no helping it; having starved for seven days, she didn't dare to eat the spicy red broth right away.
But even the clear broth was so delicious it almost made her swallow her tongue!
This was so much better than the unseasoned wild vegetable soup she made on Mount Juji!
After she had pretty much filled her stomach, she finally turned her optical computer back on.
Yama Chao seemed to have said that their scores would refresh automatically. She had been so busy she hadn't had time to check.
Whoa!
Behind her name was a glaring 90.2 credits!
Hahahahaha!
Wang Tianwei couldn't help but throw her head back and laugh out loud!
She had worried that with that man's terrible sense of humor, he would just renege on it! She didn't expect Yama Chao to actually keep his word and give double credits!
The credits required to advance to the next grade at the end of each year at Qilin Military Academy was forty!
Official classes hadn't even started yet, and she had already gotten ninety credits!
This meant that even if she didn't participate in important tests, exams, and school activities, she could just lie flat and slack her way through the first two years, smoothly advancing to her junior year!
Calculating credits wasn't for the sake of being lazy, of course. It was because, although she was in college, she worried that with her old antique core, she wouldn't be able to keep up with the learning pace...
With a foundation of ninety credits, the psychological pressure was finally not as great. Now, all she needed to do was work hard!
Having not checked social media for seven days, a lot of messages had accumulated in her optical computer. Wang Tianwei went through them one by one.
Besides those acquaintances who were overtly or covertly asking why she didn't go to the First Military Academy, one person's messages were pushed to the very top because they were sent the most frequently.
Wang Tianwei! You think you're all that now, huh? Not sending me a single message? Trying to sever our sibling relationship!?
Who is at Qilin Military Academy!? Making you unwilling to even reply to a text message!?
Oh, so you guys went to freshman training too... and weren't allowed to bring optical computers. Never mind then.
Why didn't you tell me about this kind of thing in advance!?
What's the deal with Yama Chao? Is he targeting you?
Let me know when you get out!
Reading to the end, Wang Tianwei could almost picture the expression on her irritable little brother's face.
She had felt like something was missing when she was talking to her parents just now... It turned out she had forgotten to tell her little brother on the day she registered... That was her bad.
Pulling up the virtual keyboard,
We finished our training, I'm dead tired... How are things on your end? Are you adjusting well?
Speaking with Wang Kaiyu was much more casual.
Wang Tianwei didn't have a younger brother in her past life, but here, she seemed to naturally know how to get along with him.
Just as the message was sent, Wang Kaiyu replied immediately.
I saw on the Qilin Military Academy forum that you guys went into the mountains.
But what's the deal with these pictures? [Image] How did you end up looking so miserable!? [Image]
Didn't they say the Federal First Military Academy was the most grueling one? Qilin's intensity is this high too? Can you handle it? Why don't you just come back?
Looking at the photos her brother sent over, Wang Tianwei instantly felt terrible...
Wasn't this her sitting in the cave staring blankly at the rain on that rainy day?
Who took a screenshot and even added text? On the right it said, My heart is already dead!?
The last picture was of all of them collapsed on the ground after fighting the sandworms, everyone looking dazed and ragged!
The sandworm corpse and a few scantily clad people in the image were pixelated, accompanied by the caption: "Has the imperial court's relief food arrived?"
Wang Tianwei typed with trembling hands, "Where did you find these pictures?"
Wang Kaiyu replied instantly, "Your school's forum!"
What her little brother didn't mention was that he had already changed his forum username from "Number One Hottie of the First Military Academy" to "Super Fighter," all for the sake of lurking undetected!
Moreover, over the past seven days, he had successfully disguised himself as a senior from the Combat Department, closely following all the updates on the freshmen training.
The only downside was that he couldn't watch the live broadcast of the Qilin Military Academy freshmen, but the frequent screenshots posted on the forum were enough for him to keep tabs on his sister's situation!
He knew Wang Tianwei was one of the three students from Class S who had ventured out on their own, and he even knew she had solo-killed a Star Wolf!
Of course, he also saw that the people on the forum were calling her "Yin-Yang Head," "Zebra Head," or "Young Miss."
If you asked him, "Zebra Head" sounded at least a little better than "Yin-Yang Head"...
