Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 622 Half-step (crossed out) Full-step School Beauty
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"Why are you looking at me with such an incredulous expression, class monitor?"

The girl spoke up indignantly, twirling a strand of long hair behind her ear: "Or is it that you don't recognize me anymore just because you had a May Day holiday? We bumped into each other in the hallway before May Day."

Lu Mingfei superimposed the girl's face in front of him with Lin Huihui's face in his memory... and found that the girl in front of him really did seem to be Lin Huihui, with her eyebrows, eyes and expressions being exactly the same, but she was even more outstanding.

“You…” Lu Mingfei hesitated before speaking, “…opened?”

He misspoke; what Lu Mingfei originally meant to say was, "Are you wearing makeup?"

But Lin Huihui in front of me really does seem to have blossomed. Lin Huihui's nickname is "half-step school beauty," and it's not just a nickname. Her looks are naturally not to be underestimated. Her original features were already quite outstanding, only slightly inferior to Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang, hence the nickname "half-step school beauty."

However, Lin Huihui, who is more outstanding in every aspect, has completely made up for the half step she lost.

"What's open? Squad leader, why do you always say things that others can't understand?"

Lin Huihui pouted, gathered her skirt behind her back, and sat down in the seat next to Lu Mingfei. The classroom of Class 1 of Grade 1 was right next to Class 2 of Grade 1, so the two classes were naturally assigned adjacent seats in the stadium.

"Am I that different today compared to usual?"

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "That's more than just big, it's absolutely huge!"

To give an analogy, it's like suddenly transforming from Liu Shishi to Yifei. Although Liu Shishi is also beautiful, the difference between her and Yifei is significant. The latter completely dominates the former's position.

This is why Lu Mingfei didn't recognize who greeted him at first. He genuinely hadn't expected that the somewhat unfamiliar, pretty girl in front of him was actually Lin Huihui, the tomboyish girl.

"Looks like I still can't do without makeup."

Lin Huihui said, her beautiful eyebrows suddenly drooping, and she sighed and complained: "I usually wear light makeup when I go out, but the school sports meet is just too busy. Class monitor, do you know that I was woken up from my bed at six o'clock this morning by a series of calls from the student council seniors? I didn't have time to tidy up and rushed out the door. I only had a short break just now."

"...So you usually wear makeup when you come to school?"

"Yeah. No wonder you didn't recognize me, class monitor. Do I look better with makeup on?"

...No.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "Where did you put on this makeup? Are you doing it backwards?"
This was the first time he had ever seen someone who looked better without makeup than with it, and by a whole different amount.

Half-step school beauty—no longer half-step?

"Fortunately, everything will be fine after the sports meet. I can finally be free... I'll quit the student council then, that place is no place for a human being!"

Lin Huihui leaned back in her chair, stretching naturally and yawning. In the sunlight, the girl's slender curves were youthful and beautiful.

"Are you resigning? I heard you're going to be promoted to vice president of the student council next semester," Lu Mingfei asked.

“I’ll quit then. Becoming vice president will only be more tiring, with countless troubles every day.” Lin Huihui pouted, then blinked and asked, “But class monitor, how did you know I’d be promoted to vice president next semester? I only found out myself these past two days.”

Lu Mingfei truthfully replied, "Senior Brother Chu told me. He said he will be promoted to student council president next semester, and he will recommend you to be the vice president of the student council."

"I see." Lin Huihui nodded. "Your relationship with Senior Brother Chu seems to be much better than the rumors say."

"Ah, is it true that my relationship with Senior Brother Chu is bad, as rumored?"

"Well, what about someone witnessing that, after the rumors of your breakup with Miaomiao, Senior Brother Chu took the initiative to talk to you in the cafeteria the next day at noon?"

"..."

Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded. What was all this about?
I ran into Chu Zihang in the cafeteria at noon not long ago. But back then, Senior Brother Chu was clearly just there to comfort me, telling me to "take care of myself" and not to pay attention to the rumors.

"but--"

Lin Huihui drew out the last syllable, then suddenly leaned close to Lu Mingfei, put her hand to her lips, and whispered with a smile, "Class monitor, you and Miaomiao didn't actually break up, right?"

Lin Huihui was originally sitting next to Lu Mingfei, but suddenly, as they moved closer, the distance between them instantly shrank to only a dozen centimeters. A light fragrance of toiletries wafted from her, like a refreshing breeze in the sweltering summer air, forcefully breaking through the stuffy atmosphere of the dense crowd in the audience.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for several seconds before he remembered to speak: "Why do you say that?"

"Squad leader, have you forgotten?"

Lin Huihui shrugged: "I know you, class monitor, are dating several girls at the same time, including Miaomiao, Qiangqiang, and Wenwen."

Lu Mingfei then remembered that Lin Huihui seemed to have seen him and Chen Wenwen on a date in the woods... Of course, it was a clean date!
"Don't worry, class monitor, I'm very tight-lipped. This is something I've never told anyone before."

Lin Huihui made a zipping motion to her lips, then said, "But I think you should be more careful, class monitor. Lately, you and Miaomiao have been acting a bit too boldly. You're practically making eye contact. If others were to think in that direction, they could probably guess what's going on."

Lin Huihui wasn't wrong. The reason his relationship with Xiaotiannv was discovered was because he had been a bit too complacent lately and hadn't been paying attention, which forced Liu Miaomiao to step in and smooth things over. That's why rumors of their breakup started circulating at school. Although Lu Mingfei no longer intended to hide it, he still said, "Thanks for reminding me, thank you for reminding me. I'll be more careful."

Lin Huihui shrugged: "Why are you being so polite? Class monitor, you're being too formal."

Just then, a voice called out Lin Huihui's name from afar, interrupting their conversation.

Lu Mingfei looked up in response, and saw a student from Shilan Middle School wearing a red armband waving in his and Lin Huihui's direction. They appeared to be staff members for the school sports meet.

"It's a senior from the student council; she probably needs to talk to me about something."

Lin Huihui turned her head and smiled apologetically at Lu Mingfei: "Then I'll go over there first, class monitor, sorry."

"It's alright, it's alright, you go ahead and get busy." Lu Mingfei waved his hand.

As Lin Huihui left, Lu Mingfei watched the girl's graceful figure disappear into the crowd and breathed a sigh of relief.

If Lin Huihui doesn't leave soon...

Lu Mingfei glanced at the seats of the class next door. The boys in the class were looking in his direction, their downcast and angry eyes seeming to have some irreconcilable hatred for Lu Mingfei.

In particular, the class monitor of Class One (what was his name again? Lu Mingfei had forgotten) had a particularly sharp gaze.

Lu Mingfei looked away, thinking to himself, "Why are you so hostile towards me? I have no grudge against you... I won't lay a hand on the class beauty in your class, so you can rest assured."

Just as I was thinking this, a thought suddenly flashed through my mind, like Spider-Man's spider-sense.

Lu Mingfei knew exactly what this fleeting thought was; it was a prompt from the favorability panel.

This notification will appear whenever there are any new changes in the affinity panel, such as when the bloodline progress bar of Little Fairy or Wenwen increases a little.

However, Lu Mingfei remembered that he should have turned off the "bloodline growth prompt" in the system panel. After all, Xiao Tiannv and Chen Wenwen's bloodlines increased almost every day.

Every time afterward, just when I'm about to rest for a while, that thought flashes through my mind and it's really annoying.

So Lu Mingfei turned off the "bloodline growth prompt".

As I silently said "TAB", the favorability panel unfolded before my eyes like a 3D projection. Sure enough, there was a red dot in the lower left corner of the screen, which looked like an unread message notification from QQ.

Lu Mingfei scrolled down the favorability panel, scrolling through two or three pages but couldn't find any unread messages indicated by the red dot.

"really weird."

Lu Mingfei muttered to himself as he scrolled down to the bottom of the character page and finally reached the page with unread messages.

Below the character list of Shudeya, a character whose avatar was originally a "?" began to glow with a golden light, flashing intermittently.

Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment, just thinking, "No way..." Then he saw the golden light at the edge of the character panel slowly disappear, and the girl's avatar and name appeared on the character list as if emerging from the bottom of the water.

Lin Huihui, who was half a step... no, is now a full-step school beauty.

Lu Mingfei: "..."

Damn it, Lu Mingze! Are you kidding me?!

"Damn it, when that Lu Mingze shows up again, I'm definitely going to ask him for a refund!" Lu Mingfei thought viciously to himself.

It's inexplicable. If he did indeed harbor some ulterior motives beyond friendship towards Mai Aki Zero, then he and Lin Huihui were completely unrelated.

There was nothing Lu Mingfei could do about Mai Shude; after all, she had taken his first kiss in both his lives, and boys always remember their first love. Add to that the unforgettable beauty of that peerless enchantress, and it would be a miracle if Lu Mingfei didn't harbor any impure thoughts towards Mai Shude.

For Zero, it was a deep-rooted brotherly bond. During his years at Kassel College, Zero was always the girl who spent the most time with him. She would save him seats in class, go out with him at night, and be his dance partner at various parties and late-night snacks. Rumors about an S-class student and the Ice Princess were always circulating in the school.

Although Lu Mingfei had always firmly believed that his feelings for Ling were brotherly and comradely, he had already had a previous experience where his brotherly feelings for Su Xiaoqiang turned sour, and no one could guarantee that he wouldn't do it again.

If Lu Mingfei's feelings for Mai Shuto and Zero were more or less mixed with experiences and ties from his previous life, then his affection for Aki, like that for Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, and Xia Mi, was entirely born from their encounter and acquaintance in this life.

Furthermore, Aki's proactive confession, which seemed to suddenly crash into Lu Mingfei's heart, made Lu Mingfei realize, upon looking back, that he seemed to have developed feelings for Aki that went beyond those between a senior and junior brother.

If Lu Mingze were sitting next to him now, he would most likely complain that his brother really likes every girl he meets; no wonder he's a man who's made it onto the Hall of Fathomable People.

Aside from rolling his eyes, Lu Mingfei would only openly admit, "Yes, yes, I am a womanizer, so what? I used to like my senior sister, Erii, and Chen Wenwen all at the same time."

This only proves that I haven't changed at all! That's called staying true to yourself, you know? After half a lifetime of wandering, I'm still a young man at heart!
But Lin Huihui... Lu Mingfei asked himself honestly, did he really have very little interaction with her?
The most memorable thing was that I copied the exam answers for her during the entrance exam.

Does he not even allow someone to copy exam answers? Does copying answers automatically make someone his conquest target? What kind of innate galgame protagonist's physique is this?!

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(End of this chapter)