Chapter 26: Explosion!

In "Flow State" mode, time always passes very quickly.

Lu Mingfei does not know what "Flow State" is; he is simply already accustomed to this feeling.

In just three short days, the high-efficiency, high-focus process of Learning has become his daily routine.

Sure enough, if a person isn't pushed, they never know where their limits lie!

At three o'clock sharp in the afternoon, it is time to leave school.

"What time are you going?"

Liu Miaomiao, sitting in the row in front, packs her schoolbag, turns around, and asks in a low voice.

"Going where?"

Lu Mingfei doesn't understand at first, but after realizing Liu Miaomiao is asking whether he is going to Learn Piano, he answers casually.

"Oh, I'm not going anymore."

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Liu Miaomiao is stunned on the spot for a moment.

Seeing Lu Mingfei quickly pack his things, she finally snaps back to reality, "No way, how can you not go!"

In her agitation, her voice is uncontrollably loud.

As a girl with some talent for the piano who also enjoys playing it herself, having witnessed Lu Mingfei's "non-human" level of piano talent, she naturally wants to see if Lu Mingfei can continue to maintain this talent.

And, what kind of status the future Lu Mingfei can reach in the art of the piano.

Yet now Lu Mingfei tells her he won't be going to Learn Piano anymore, pointlessly wasting this talent... it is simply a waste of a heavenly treasure!

How can one tolerate this?

This is like a chef seeing someone take a pile of ingredients of a quality fit for a state banquet and using them to make Indian street-stall dark cuisine!

In the classroom, everyone is busy packing up or chatting, feeling bored.

As soon as Liu Miaomiao's highly recognizable voice rings out, a dozen gazes from the surroundings immediately converge.

After seeing who the two parties involved are, they are even more energized, as if they had been injected with chicken blood; while pretending to pack up or chat, they prick up their ears to eavesdrop.

Gossiping is human nature.

Not to mention, on one side is Liu Miaomiao, one of the three great beauties of the class, and on the other is Lu Mingfei!

Actually, in the past, it might not have been a big deal if the other party was Lu Mingfei, since he was always acting cheeky, and saying trash talk or being annoying was a common occurrence.

But nowadays, it is a bit different.

As of now, they have been doing extra lessons for over two days, and today is the third day.

And for the past two days, Lu Mingfei has stirred up "shocking Shilan Middle School" level events every single day, and the heat hasn't died down yet!

And now it's happening again today?

Sensing the concentrated gazes, Lu Mingfei gives a start.

As a long-time wallflower, he is far too sensitive to the gazes of others; it is a weight he cannot bear, and once faced with it, the pressure is immense.

【Warning, electric shock countdown...】

Great, it's a double whammy; the damn electric shock countdown has never been late!

It is already time to leave school, and Lu Mingfei must go to the basketball court immediately.

But it wouldn't be good to just leave without saying anything... what would that make of Liu Miaomiao?

But Lu Mingfei doesn't know what to say either; in fact, he doesn't even know why Liu Miaomiao is suddenly so agitated.

In his urgency, noticing that Liu Miaomiao has also packed up, he doesn't think too much, grabs Liu Miaomiao's hand, and walks out, "Let's go, let's go, we'll talk while we walk!"

The two of them leave the "crime scene" at high speed, leaving the whole class in a state of disarray.

Wait... who are we? Where are we?

Can someone tell us what just happened?

Everyone is quiet, and after a long silence, having barely managed to sort out the situation, they explode into a frenzy, communicating with each other.

Liu Miaomiao took the initiative to ask Lu Mingfei "why he isn't going," and where are they going?

Lu Mingfei even held Liu Miaomiao's hand and left, just like that. Ignoring everyone else, it is simply incredibly arrogant!

When did they develop this kind of relationship?

The discussion is incredibly heated! Increasingly outrageous speculations are emerging one after another.

Many people, while discussing, cannot help but cast their gazes in one direction.

That is Chen Wenwen.

The whole class, no, even the whole school knows that Lu Mingfei likes Chen Wenwen, and everyone knows that Lu Mingfei is a loyal and devoted general under Chen Wenwen's banner...

Only now it seems that the word "formerly" must be added before "likes" and "loyal."

Because in everyone's eyes, this is clearly Lu Mingfei "defecting to the enemy," and it is unlikely he will ever come back.

This is like being a monkey working for a company, exhausted after two and a half years without a raise, only to jump ship and hook up with the beautiful CEO of a rival company, with money, Authority, and beauty all within grasp... even a fool knows how to choose!

But when did all this actually happen?

The speculations in the classroom are endless and rapidly iterating; this level of gossip is truly a celestial delicacy, not to be missed!

And outside the classroom, Liu Miaomiao, who is being dragged downstairs, has not yet come to her senses.

Actually, when she was in the classroom, Liu Miaomiao felt a bit of regret right after she shouted.

Even if Lu Mingfei never touches the piano again, what does it have to do with her? She isn't anyone to Lu Mingfei!

But before she could find a way to ease the situation, Lu Mingfei's hand reached out, grabbed hers, and pulled her out; her mind went blank, and she followed him subconsciously.

His strength is so great; she feels like she is being dragged along. A girl's hands are cold all year round, but a boy's are different, hot to the point of being almost scalding. She didn't expect that although Lu Mingfei looks weak, his hands are actually so big, so firm and powerful...

Her chaotic thoughts are only barely sorted out once they reach the first floor.

Liu Miaomiao suddenly realized the gravity of the situation—

No, that was in the classroom just now! How could he dare to grab my hand?

"Um, sorry about that, I was in a bit of a rush. Say... could I catch a ride?"

Lu Mingfei let go of her hand, scratched his hair, and asked with a thick-skinned grin.

"We can talk about it in the car. I have an appointment to play Basketball at the Qingning Basketball Hall, and if I go Running now, I might not make it in time..."

As long as it wasn't written in the Schedule, Lu Mingfei could arrange things on his own to a certain extent.

For example, going to the Basketball hall; Running there or taking a car were both actually fine. It was just that the first time, Lu Mingfei had no conditions to take a car, so the system automatically assigned the Running method.

"Play Basketball?"

Liu Miaomiao was stunned, but she didn't refuse, "I can give you a ride, but you have to tell me, why aren't you practicing Piano anymore?"

"Because today's Schedule Plan isn't to practice Piano."

Lu Mingfei thought for a moment, "According to my plan, the next time I practice Piano should be the night after tomorrow."

When filling out the Schedule, Lu Mingfei actually had no concept of the plans he was writing down.

For instance, Fitness should actually be two hours a day, one hour of strength training and one hour of cardio, and training for three days with one day of rest is more scientific; Piano must be practiced every day, and each practice session doesn't need to be too long... He hadn't known any of this before.

He belonged to the typical layman among laymen; when he felt intermittently ambitious, he would just act on a whim.

Fortunately, executing the plan resulted in a corresponding increase in Proficiency; otherwise, if it were an ordinary person, training like this would not only easily wreck them but also likely lead to nothing!

In short, in the Schedule Lu Mingfei arranged, the only "interest" category that changed daily—namely Fitness, Piano, and Tai Chi—rotated day by day in a three-day cycle.

Now, even if he wanted to change it, he couldn't; he could only follow the plan.

"So you are still going?"

Liu Miaomiao was dumbfounded, "Why didn't you say so earlier!"

"You didn't ask about that either. Didn't you ask what time I was going? I just said I wasn't going..."

Lu Mingfei scratched his hair again and finally realized.

"Wait, you didn't think that when I said I wasn't going, I meant I was never going again, did you!"

Liu Miaomiao's delicate face flushed bright red; she finally managed to sort out the cause and effect of the matter.

Lu Mingfei's answer was theoretically fine, but she had been in a rush and, in her excitement, had misunderstood!

A series of chain reactions had led to the current situation.

What was to be done about this?

There was no need to think to know how this scene of being dragged out of the classroom by the hand would be spread throughout the class or even the whole school!

"... Are you still giving me a ride?"

Lu Mingfei asked tentatively. He wasn't stupid; he had really been in a rush and had no other choice at the time, but now he also realized how great the consequences of his impulsive actions would be.

"I'll clarify it when the time comes. Besides, others probably won't really believe that you and I..."

"No need!"

Liu Miaomiao glanced at him, her eyes filled with a hint of resentment, "Don't you know that the more you clarify, the messier it gets? They only want gossip; is the truth even important?"

"Then..."

"The pure are self-pure, the muddy are self-muddy; just act normally, I have a clear conscience!"

Liu Miaomiao took a deep breath, adjusted her mindset, and led Lu Mingfei toward her BMW.

"Get in!"

"So imposing!"

Lu Mingfei beamed with joy, offered some flattery, and hopped into the car happily.

(End of chapter)