Chapter 194: High School Reunion! Lin Qingyuan, Who Left Early!

The next day, at 5: 0 p. .

Fuding Restaurant, Jiangcheng.

Half an hour remained until the class dinner at six, but most of Class Five from Jiangcheng No. 2 High School had already arrived.

As the organizer, class monitor Lin Qingyuan was among the first to arrive.

She wore a gray-white knit cardigan on top.

Below, a black short skirt, and her thighs were wrapped in nude stockings.

Nude stockings demand excellent leg shape—most girls would look disastrous in them.

But Lin Qingyuan was different; her thighs, encased in the sheer fabric, appeared straight and slender.

Her casual attire, combined with her naturally pure and beautiful face, made her look youthful and radiant.

In fact, it wasn't just Lin Qingyuan.

Most of the girls present clearly showed signs of careful grooming and makeup.

"Holy shit? How did I never notice Tong Yin was this hot?"

"That tomboy? Now she's got serious feminine charm?"

"All of them are beauties! Did I go blind in high school?"

"......"

Faced with female classmates whose beauty was on an entirely different level from their high school days, the male students were stunned.

Why hadn't they noticed how beautiful these girls were back in high school?

Of course,

Lin Qingyuan, as class monitor, had always been the beauty of Class Five—and now she still overshadowed them all.

Every smile and frown captivated many of the male students.

"By the way, has Xu Jingming arrived yet?"

"Not yet, but he should be coming soon."

"This guy, got into the Magic Capital Institute of Abilities and didn't even throw a graduation party—gotta get him drunk later."

"Heh, you're just a normal human—can you even hold your liquor against an Ability User like Xu Jingming?"

"Ability User? Xu Jingming was still an Awakened during the Gaokao—could he have advanced that fast?"

"What do you think? I heard from Zhang Hao that Xu Jingming's been an Ability User for a while!"

"Tsk tsk, an Ability User, huh? Xu Jingming must be at least Mid-First Rank by now?"

"......"

Xu Jingming!

Provincial top scorer of Jiangnan Province!

The most honored figure Jiangcheng has seen in recent years!

And a legendary figure at Jiangcheng No. 2 High School!

Now, at this Class Five reunion, conversation naturally revolved around him.

When the students learned Xu Jingming had evolved from an Awakened into an Ability User, they couldn't help but marvel.

Class Five had 35 students total, and 14 had entered Ability Universities.

But Xu Jingming was the only one who had reached the Ability User realm.

"Mid-First Rank?"

Listening to the chatter around her, class monitor Lin Qingyuan silently shook her head.

When they found out he was already Third Rank, they'd probably drop their jaws.

"This guy, Ah Ming, has changed completely."

Zhang Hao and Liu Jie sat on the sofa, expressions filled with nostalgia.

Back then, Xu Jingming hadn't stood out in class—only they two had been his close friends.

How could he now be the center of half the conversation?

"If you'd won the provincial top score, you'd be different too," Liu Jie chuckled.

"Duh, if I had the strength to win the Wu Ke provincial top score, would I have taken the Liberal Arts Gaokao?"

Zhang Hao rolled his eyes.

At that moment, Liu Jie suddenly brightened and looked toward the entrance:

"Ah Ming's here!"

"Oh?"

Zhang Hao quickly turned his head.

Indeed,

a tall, muscular young man walked in through the restaurant entrance.

The youth stood nearly 1. 9 meters tall, dressed in a perfectly fitted black casual outfit that made him look both towering and powerful.

His face was firm and rugged, his cold, piercing eyes—black and white—deep as the stars.

It was unmistakably Xu Jingming, long unseen!

Though Xu Jingming had done his best to suppress his aura,

the transformation brought by his SS-rank Ability, Heavenly Divine Thunder, and the fourth layer of Thunder Indestructible Body,

still made him feel like a tiger stepping into a flock of sheep—the entire room fell silent.

"Jingming, you're here."

Lin Qingyuan, her face lit with a bright, lovely smile, stepped forward first to break the silence.

The others finally snapped out of it and began whispering among themselves.

"Damn, Xu Jingming's changed so much!"

"Can a Mid-First Rank Ability User really have this much pressure? I feel something's off."

"Attending a top-tier university really does make a difference."

"......"

Perhaps because Xu Jingming's aura was too overwhelming, his former classmates now felt subtly restrained.

"Tsk, this guy, Ah Ming—haven't seen him in half a year, but he's gotten way more handsome."

Zhang Hao and Liu Jie, seemingly unaffected, stood up and waved with playful grins:

"Ah Ming, over here!"

"Old class monitor, I'm heading over."

"Mm, go ahead. Dinner's on the second floor at six."

Xu Jingming greeted Lin Qingyuan, then walked toward Zhang Hao.

"Ah Ming, how the hell did you get so handsome?"

As soon as Xu Jingming approached, Zhang Hao enthusiastically wrapped an arm around his neck.

"Wasn't I always this handsome?" Xu Jingming raised an eyebrow.

"I told you before that your face had gotten thicker—you didn't believe me, now you see it, right?"

Liu Jie butted in with a sly grin:

"We've heard Magic University is full of beauties—spill it, how many girlfriends have you got there?"

"Girlfriends? None." Xu Jingming smiled.

"Impossible! I've got a girlfriend—how can you not?" Zhang Hao widened his eyes.

"You've got a girlfriend? When did this happen? I didn't know."

"Just recently started dating—haven't had time to tell you guys yet."

"Tsk, wasn't your goddess Jiang Chu from our school? How'd you change your mind?"

"Didn't I tell you before? Jiang the Goddess is an unreachable dream—I've got to be practical, right?"

"Heh, then give me back that autographed photo I sent you."

"Cough cough, Brother Ming! Sir Ming! Please, just let me keep it!"

"What autographed photo? Let me see too."

"......"

Compared to high school, neither of them had changed much.

Zhang Hao still had his bowl cut, Liu Jie still wore that sly expression.

After more than half a year apart, Xu Jingming happily fell back into banter with these two old friends.

Meanwhile, the others, having been in the same class with Xu Jingming for three full years,

after a few minutes of adjustment, lost their restraint and began approaching him in small groups to greet him.

Some even pulled out their phones, asking to take photos with him.

Xu Jingming, of course, readily agreed without refusal.

"Archbishop, that girl isn't in her room—she must really be at her class reunion."

Meanwhile, in a regular apartment building in Jiangcheng,

Leng Chang sat with one leg crossed over the other, while the three Ability Users who had searched every room reported to him.

Before Leng Chang knelt a middle-aged couple; the woman bore a striking resemblance—seven or eight out of ten—to Lin Qingyuan.

"Class reunion? Then Xu Jingming must be there too?"

Leng Chang let out a cold snort and ordered the middle-aged woman with icy eyes:

"Call your daughter. Tell her to go to the park beside Fuding Restaurant."

"No, I won't call..."

The woman showed strong resistance, but her words were cut short.

Her gaze met Leng Chang's eyes, then grew vacant; mechanically, she pulled out her phone and dialed:

"Hello, Xiao Yuan, come to the park beside the restaurant. I'm waiting here."

After hanging up, the woman collapsed with a thud.

"Li Qing, Qian Rui, you two go. We'll wait here."

"Remember, record everything clearly. I'll send it to Xu Jingming later."

Leng Chang licked his lips with a twisted grin.

He eagerly anticipated the look of agony on Xu Jingming's face when he discovered his former kind-class monitor had died at his own hands.

"Don't worry, leave it to us."

The two peak third-rank psychics grinned and swiftly left the room.

"Weird... why does my mom seem so strange?"

At Fuding Restaurant, Lin Qingyuan frowned after hanging up the call.

"Xiao Yuan, what's wrong? Are you blushing because Xu Jingming's here?"

"Yeah, yeah, I remember back in class, you were the nicest to him."

Seeing Lin Qingyuan lost in thought, the girls nearby who were close to her immediately teased her.

"Stop joking."

Lin Qingyuan's cheeks flushed slightly as she glanced toward Xu Jingming.

Seeing him surrounded by a crowd, she decided not to disturb him, stood up, and said to the girls:

"You girls chat. I'll step out for a bit. I'll be back soon."

With that, she walked out, her legs straight and steady.