Chapter 98.2: Strange
Chen Yuming smiled the moment he saw Nan Yu. After verifying his entry pass, confirming his identity, and checking the belongings he was carrying, the staff found no problems and finally allowed him to enter with his modest luggage.
He walked up to Nan Yu and solemnly bowed deeply to him.
Nan Yu didn't avoid it. Only after Chen Yuming straightened up did he say, "You don't have to do that. You'll still have to pay that money back to me eventually. Neither of us owes the other anything."
The corners of Chen Yuming's lips lifted. "Mm. But I'm thanking you, not trying to get out of my debt."
Nan Yu suddenly burst into laughter. "It's fine, it's fine. Even if you tried to default, it wouldn't matter. I'm already a member of Marshal Yu Lanfeng's legion now. If you dared to skip out on your {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} debt, you'd end up getting beaten up by the legion."
Chen Yuming laughed. "That does sound pretty terrifying. I'd better hurry up and graduate so I can start making money."
Nan Yu didn't say anything else. Of the three people involved, the one who had benefited the most was undoubtedly Chen Yuming. If anyone other than Nan Yu had contacted him, Chen Yuming probably would have refused to come in the end.
After all, not everyone had one hundred million credits, let alone the ability to lend that amount to someone else without hesitation.
Chen Yuming understood that better than anyone.
Which was why his gratitude toward Nan Yu was completely genuine.
Nan Yu had only come to see Chen Yuming, so he didn't stay long. Before leaving, he glanced at the man standing outside the school gates.
"He looks kind of familiar..."
Wasn't that Ye Zhiwu?
Chen Yuming's expression became indifferent.
"From now on, I have nothing to do with him."
Nan Yu felt that the contract Chen Yuming had signed with Ye Zhiwu back then had very likely been manipulated behind the scenes by Ye Zhiwu himself. So Chen Yuming's cold attitude toward him was completely understandable.
Nan Yu carefully observed Ye Zhiwu's expression.
He couldn't tell.
He really couldn't tell whether Ye Zhiwu genuinely loved Chen Yuming or not...
"Has he been following you like this ever since you left?"
Chen Yuming nodded.
"But it doesn't matter. For the next three years, I won't take a single step outside the academy."
Nan Yu nodded.
"Mm. Then do your best, Senior. Everyone who returns this time will have one opportunity to take the assessment for Marshal Yu Lanfeng's legion after graduating again. Make sure you seize it."
The moment Chen Yuming heard that, he smiled.
"I'll work ten times, a hundred times harder. I'll definitely succeed. This hard-earned opportunity... I'll absolutely make the most of it."
Looking at the high-spirited Chen Yuming before him, Nan Yu felt that this was the real Chen Yuming.
The Chen Yuming he'd seen over the communicator before had been utterly dejected, as though he'd given up on himself and on his future.
"Then I'll be watching as you succeed step by step."
Chen Yuming looked at Nan Yu and smiled.
"Mm. Thank you."
Nan Yu waved his hand. After escorting him to the student dormitory, he prepared to leave.
"This is where you'll be staying from now on. The academy should've already sent you your dorm room number. I won't go inside."
Chen Yuming nodded.
"Alright. Thank you, Junior."
Only after Nan Yu left did Chen Yuming slowly walk inside, following the directions until he reached his assigned dormitory.
After opening the door, he saw someone was already inside.
"Hello, I'm Chen Yuming."
The person lying on the bed silently glanced at him.
"Zheng Fengyin."
Chen Yuming looked around. The dormitory had three beds, and one was still empty. The last roommate probably hadn't arrived yet because they had been living much farther away from the Capital Star.
"Oh, right. Were you contacted by Junior Nan Yu as well?"
Hearing that, Zheng Fengyin sat up and looked at him.
"You too?"
Chen Yuming nodded.
"Yeah. Junior is practically a god. If I... if I hadn't..."
He paused for a moment before grinning.
"I definitely would've pursued him!"
"Pursued him?"
"Of course. Such an outstanding junior, such an incredible Mental Power User... Don't you feel tempted?"
Tempted?
Of course he was.
"But... could people like us really have a chance?"
Chen Yuming shook his head.
"I don't."
He believed that someone as tainted as himself could never be worthy of Nan Yu.
That didn't stop him from enthusiastically promoting Nan Yu everywhere, though.
Someone as outstanding as Nan Yu truly had an irresistible attraction for Ability Users.
Zheng Fengyin suddenly asked,
"Don't you think it's strange?"
Chen Yuming blinked.
"I know. Junior is so outstanding, yet he's still single... Wait, actually..."
Zheng Fengyin continued,
"Junior already has a marriage engagement. It's the same incident that caused such a huge uproar before. Do you know Bai Zhouyun? The Bai family's only child on the Capital Star—the heir... and also a complete waste."
"Because of what happened before, everyone found out that Junior's fiancé was that useless Bai Zhouyun. Some places on the StarNet have been cursing him ever since."
Chen Yuming frowned.
"Bai Zhouyun... I've heard of him. Even before I graduated, everyone knew the Bai family had produced a famous good-for-nothing. Yet he was incredibly lucky to be engaged to a Mid-Tier Mental Power User. The engagement was arranged by the older generation, and I heard the witness was someone with extremely high status..."
Zheng Fengyin sighed.
"So even if we really did fall for him, we can't act on it. He's already engaged."
Chen Yuming frowned deeply.
"How could trash like Bai Zhouyun possibly deserve Junior?"
"Exactly."
Chen Yuming let out a sigh.
"Forget it. Right now there's nothing we can do anyway. Let's just wait and see what happens. If Junior ever needs us, we absolutely can't hesitate. We'll definitely help him."
Thinking about how his older brother had already recovered, Zheng Fengyin silently strengthened his resolve.
"That's right."
After learning that Zheng Fengyin had been given the chance to graduate again, his older brother had barely recovered before insisting on starting over from scratch and rebuilding the Zheng family's business.
That way, once Zheng Fengyin entered the legion in the future, he wouldn't have to face everything alone.
Looking at the final empty bed, Zheng Fengyin asked,
"Do you think the third roommate was contacted by Junior too?"
Chen Yuming shrugged.
"Whether he was or not, he'll still be our roommate for the next three years."
Nan Yu didn't have any more classes afterward, so he left the academy and headed for the hospital.
The moment he arrived, he immediately received a communication request from Yu Lanfeng.
Blinking to make sure he wasn't seeing things, he accepted the call.
Very soon, Yu Lanfeng's figure appeared on the screen. The communication had been set to private, so only Nan Yu could see him.
"Marshal?"
Yu Lanfeng simply stared at him without moving.
Feeling somewhat embarrassed, Nan Yu scratched his chin with a finger before correcting himself.
"...Brother."
Only then did Yu Lanfeng look satisfied.
"Come up."
Nan Yu blinked.
"What?"