Chapter 10

"Didn't hear me?"

Ruan Lu's voice became a bit stern.

"Heard it." Ruan Liuzheng's body trembled, and she hurriedly agreed. Under her mother's gaze, she repeated: "He Chen is my brother..."

She only felt it was too strange.

Saying something about the pillar of the family... For her, who was in her adolescence, with He Chen, a school hunk recognized by the whole school, shaking in front of her eyes all day long, how could she not have ripples in her heart and fantasies?

After all, she and He Chen not only had no actual sibling relationship, but even the nominal one was very reluctant. Teenagers, boys and girls, handsome and beautiful, having some reverie was very normal.

He Chen wasn't a child of her mother's relative like her, but a child of a deceased friend. Was it necessary to be so concerned?

If her mother treated He Chen as her child bridegroom, as the only man in the family, being treated as a pillar of the family was understandable.

But her mother's actions were constantly reminding her, conveying that she didn't approve of any possibility of her and He Chen going further.

No!

Not only did she not approve, but she was firmly opposed.

This was very strange.

Her mother appreciated him so much, and she and he could be considered a talented man and a beautiful woman, and they were about to become adults. Even if it was the senior year and studies were important, she shouldn't be so strictly guarded.

At least leave a gap, give some hope.

Otherwise, wait until the college entrance exam is over, they go their separate ways, go to university, and face all kinds of beauties from all over the world, what advantage does she have?

Even without waiting for university.

Not to mention anything else, just in Chunfeng Middle School, in terms of figure, she was not as eye-catching as Qiu Ya, nor was she as capable of singing and dancing as Deng Xiaoqi, who was preparing to take the art exam, and was both talented and beautiful.

She was not even as energetic and lively as Lin Miaomiao.

This was just a random mention. There were many outstanding girls in Chunfeng Middle School in all aspects.

Otherwise, the school beauty crown wouldn't have been unable to be locked, causing the joke that there were more than ten school beauties.

But don't compare appearance and figure, compare academic performance?

Her grades were okay, but she couldn't compare with her deskmate Xia Xue, Qiao Yingzi from the next class, and Huang Zhitao, these female top students.

It could be said that she was only considered middle-to-upper in all aspects. For He Chen, who was the first in appearance and was fully qualified to pick and choose, she was completely mediocre and unremarkable.

If there were really any thoughts of not letting the fat water flow into outsiders' fields, besides the identity of a foster sister, which could allow them to get along day and night to cultivate feelings in advance, she had no core competitiveness at all.

So she really couldn't figure out what her mother was thinking.

And it was not easy to ask...

Not mentioning Ruan Liuzheng's distress, He Chen returned home with satisfaction after practicing the Immortal Crane Technique under the pine tree daily.

Under eighteen, everything is fake.

Only Crane Calculation and Tortoise Longevity is real.

To be honest, the sense of fulfillment and improvement brought by practicing martial arts made him more fascinated than the little things between men and women.

This was just practicing martial arts. If it were Daoist cultivation, he couldn't imagine how strong the pleasure would be.

No wonder those who practiced Daoist cultivation had no sense of loneliness or boredom when sitting in the deep mountains for a hundred or a thousand years.

Once he got home and chatted with Aunt Ruan for a while, he went into his room to read.

He and Ruan Liuzheng were not in the same class because his grades were much worse than hers before. She was in the key science class, while he was in the middle parallel class.

There was no way, who made him, whether it was his predecessor or now, a firm "middle-of-the-road pillar," always so mediocre.

But now it's different.

When the Crane Calculation and Tortoise Longevity martial arts practiced something, his ears and eyes were clear, and his IQ was improved, especially when practicing the Turtle Breathing Technique.

If he didn't take advantage of this time to improve his grades and rush for a university level, wouldn't it be a waste of a good opportunity.

Nowadays, with Aunt Ruan, a professor at a prestigious university, to eat soft rice, he devoted himself to superpowers, and the rest was put into learning.

As for making money, which is the most important thing for rebirth and transmigration, it was temporarily abandoned by him.

He didn't even practice the Immortal Crane Technique, he had to find a pine tree and try his best to imitate that artistic conception, and he wouldn't take the wrong path of Emperor Jiajing, who practiced the Immortal Crane Technique and became a joke in the eyes of others.

Emperor Jiajing practiced Daoism wholeheartedly, and both the Immortal Crane Technique and the Turtle Breathing Technique were practiced, but why couldn't he achieve Crane Calculation and Tortoise Longevity?

Besides taking pills to harm his body, it must also be because he was calculating wholeheartedly. As the Emperor of the Great Ming, he said he didn't go to work or punch in, but privately, the Minister of Revenue of the Great Ming was actually him. He was calculating money, money, money all day long, and knew "it's all my money." With such obstacles in his heart, could he fit the artistic conception of Daoist cultivation and immortality?

Heart fatigue makes people old.

He Chen only had three months to turn Crane Calculation and Tortoise Longevity into a permanent innate divine ability, so naturally, he couldn't care about money.

Once the Dao is achieved, with sufficient lifespan, everything that should be there will be there, and there is no need to rush at all.

To put it bluntly, those who work hard to make money, once their bodies collapse and they leave early, all the hard-earned money they made will go to those who live long, along with their wives and children.

Why bother?

Therefore, the body and lifespan are the foundation!

Everything else is fake!

With such thoughts, He Chen immersed himself in the positive cycle of learning, his mood was pleasant, until he heard Aunt Ruan calling them for dinner, and then he came out, finding that the sky was already completely dark.

The three had dinner and returned to their rooms.

He Chen was the first to pack his clothes and go into the washroom to take a bath.

After getting along for more than a year, and living under the same roof with two beauties without blood relationship, the habits that should be formed had long been formed.

For example, he was always the first to take a bath.

To avoid seeing any colorful, white and black, big and small private items when going in, disturbing his Dao heart.

Although it was just covering his ears to steal the bell, living under the same roof, it was impossible to avoid it completely when drying clothes, but it avoided the embarrassment of being in a melon field or under a plum tree.

After He Chen finished his bath and came out, he went into his bedroom, studied for more than an hour, and when the time came to nine o'clock in the evening, he put down his book on time, took off his clothes, got into bed, assumed a side-lying posture, and started Turtle Breathing to sleep.

"The wild man sleeps high in the immortal cave, at midnight the southern stars rot in the water country... forgetting the sun and moon, Turtle Breathing, laughing and pointing at the universe into the birdcage."

Every time he enters the Turtle Breathing state, he is accompanied by the sun and moon, and the universe is his companion. With his head full of stars and the sea, is it possible that his IQ and calculation power won't rise?

When Ruan Liuzheng finished writing a set of papers and came out, and looked at He Chen's room, she found that the lights were already off, and couldn't help but pout.

Her grades were much better than He Chen's, and she was in the key science class, but that was achieved through hard work, unlike He Chen who was so relaxed and comfortable.

What made her even more unbearable was her dream, or rather, her mother's expectation for her was to study medicine and become a good doctor in the future.

And studying medicine is very bitter. Even if this learning intensity is not lifelong, after the college entrance exam, another eight to ten years is no joke.

But the damage from the comparison is damage. She could only walk on tiptoe into the washroom to take a bath, fearing that the movement would be too loud and she would be scolded by her mother for disturbing He Chen's rest.

It's only nine o'clock in the evening!!!

Many people's nightlife hasn't even started yet, and He Chen actually went to sleep. If you didn't know, you would think he was some kind of health-preserving old man!

With these inner complaints, Ruan Liuzheng finished her bath and returned to her room. Taking advantage of the refreshing spirit brought by the bath, she had to continue writing a few more sets of papers bitterly.

That's right!

Once school starts, even if it's not the official start, before the college entrance exam mobilization meeting tomorrow, she automatically enters the senior year hell mode.

It's not that she likes this.

It's just that she doesn't want to disappoint her mother.