Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 634 Surprise?

However, the first problem to solve is to find a way to get the school newspaper to remove these poorly printed news articles, since some parents of students at Shilan Middle School do read the school newspaper. It would be troublesome if one of my in-laws saw them.

The school newspaper was free. When I was still living at my uncle's house, my aunt would often ask Lu Mingfei to bring home extra newspapers to wipe the windows. The windows wiped with newspapers were incredibly clean and bright.

That's easy enough. Although the school's news agency is an independent organization, it is still an organization operated under the student union. Asking the stoic senior for help should be enough.

Looking at the eye-catching gossip news in the school newspaper, Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel heartbroken. He thought to himself, what's wrong with this generation of post-90s students! Shouldn't they be focusing all their energy on studying? How can they grow into pillars of society if they're always concerned about romance? Each generation is worse than the last! Reject early romance, starting with me.

Another indication that this gossip was indeed widely circulated in the school was that as the closing ceremony approached, the students of Class 2 of Grade 1, as well as the students of Class 1 and Class 3 of Grade 1 who were seated next to each other, would all look at Lu Mingfei in unison.

The expressions varied. Some were simply watching the drama unfold, some were gloating, and others looked indignant, seemingly deeply resentful of Lu Mingfei's behavior of wanting to have his cake and eat it too.

However, as Su Xiaoqiang and Chen Wenwen entered the audience seats chatting and laughing, and sat down next to Lu Mingfei, and naturally took his hand, their expressions all turned into shock.

Didn't they say that on the track and field, Lu Mingfei carried Liu Miaomiao to the infirmary in front of everyone, leaving the little fairy Su Xiaoqiang all alone on the track and field?
Even if the two didn't break up afterwards, they should have argued and sulked for a while, right? But why are they sitting together like nothing happened? You can't tell from Su Xiaoqiang's coquettish expression that they had any conflict.

Is this still the proud and arrogant princess? Or is Lu Mingfei so cunning that he's made her fall head over heels in love?

"Where did you guys go?" Lu Mingfei asked Su Xiaoqiang curiously. "Why are you only arriving now?"

"Guess!" Su Xiaoqiang crossed her legs, placed her hands on her knees, and said mysteriously, "Anyway, I just had to go out on something."

"Something's wrong? What's wrong that you're hiding from me?"

Why ask so many questions? You'll find out when the time comes!

I wonder what secret plans Little Fairy is plotting behind the scenes, making it all so mysterious. Seeing that Su Xiaoqiang was unwilling to speak, Lu Mingfei turned his gaze past Little Fairy and landed on Chen Wenwen, who was a step away.

Unexpectedly, the moment their eyes met, Chen Wenwen turned her head away, pretending not to see him, and looked towards the stage: "I wonder when Miaomiao will come on stage. I'm really looking forward to it..."

"..."

Mysterious...

Seeing that Chen Wenwen wouldn't say anything, Lu Mingfei turned around and asked Erii, who was sitting on his other side:
"Eri, what were you doing just now?"

Erii wrote in her notebook: "I can't tell Sakura right now. Gyogo said it's a little secret between us girls."

Unexpectedly, Erii had also joined forces with the Little Fairy and her group. Lu Mingfei was taken aback, thinking to himself, "Eri has only been in China for a short time... how come she's already been corrupted by the Little Fairy and her group? She's even starting to integrate into their clique. Or is it that girls are naturally inclined to stick together?"
It's true what they say, "One is influenced by one's company!" We'll have to make sure Erii and the little fairy spend less time together from now on!
Lu Mingfei pursed his lips and muttered to himself.

The closing ceremony performance and the opening ceremony were actually quite similar.

First, the school leaders gave a closing speech, the theme of which was nothing more than how smoothly and successfully the Shilan Middle School sports meet was held, thanking the city leaders for their support, thanking the sponsors for their support, thanking the students' parents for their support, and thanking all the teachers and students for their support.

After the school leaders finished reading their speeches from the prepared scripts, they proceeded to march through the school square once more. This process took about two hours.

If it weren't for Liu Miaomiao's piano solo as the grand finale and Chu Zihang's cello solo as the closing performance, most students probably wouldn't have even made it to the end of the closing ceremony and would have quietly slipped away from the stadium exit under various pretexts.

However, Lu Mingfei was one of the few students who almost never skipped class. While other boys in the class would make excuses to go to the toilet and slip out of the stadium to go to a nearby internet cafe, he was often the only boy in the class who sat in the stadium and watched the entire closing ceremony performance.

It wasn't because he was a coward, nor because he had any special feelings for Liu Miaomiao at that time.

He knew that whenever there was a school party or sports meet, Liu Miaomiao would start preparing a month in advance. Every afternoon after school, when he went to the literary society, he would run into Liu Miaomiao practicing her performance pieces in the piano room. The two would occasionally walk together.

Since she has put so much effort into preparing, I should at least listen to her to be polite. Besides, Liu Miaomiao is a girl in my class, and even if she is just a member of Class (2), I should still support her.

Even if she fell during the sports meet and everyone else left, Chen Wenwen would stay and walk the whole race with her. His decision to stay in his class's audience until Liu Miaomiao's piano performance ended stemmed from the same mindset.

However, Lu Mingfei's mindset has changed somewhat over time.

At the time, he would wait in the audience for Liu Miaomiao's piano solo, simply as a way of showing support among classmates.

His current waiting in the audience for Liu Miaomiao's performance to begin is out of the kind of "strong support" that comes between boyfriend and girlfriend.

But for some reason, the closing ceremony of the sports meet, which sounded like a very long event, didn't seem so unbearable to Lu Mingfei in reality. Or was it because he was chatting with Xiaotiannv and Wenwen the whole time?
Didn't Einstein explain relativity? The same afternoon, if you're sitting alone in front of a fireplace, you'll feel like time is passing very slowly; but if you're on a date with a beautiful woman with a slim waist and long legs, you'll feel like time is passing by terribly.

I don't know how the topic suddenly circled back to what Little Fairy and the others were doing so late at night.

The more the little fairies kept quiet, the more curious Lu Mingfei became. He whispered that the sports meet was already over, and if they still wouldn't talk, he wouldn't hold back in supporting them tonight.

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoqiang's expression immediately became flustered. Her eyes darted around, and she suddenly pointed to the podium: "Mingfei, look, Miaomiao is coming on stage!"

"Little Heavenly Maiden, are you still using such an old-fashioned method to divert attention?"

As soon as Lu Mingfei opened his mouth, he immediately heard Lin Huihui's voice coming over the stadium's loudspeaker. She was the female host of the closing ceremony. She was wearing a blue dress, and probably because she was a host, she was also wearing light makeup, which made her less stunning than when she was without makeup.

The red curtain on the stage fell. Lin Huihui stood in the middle of the stage with a microphone in her hand: "Next, please welcome Liu Miaomiao from Class 2 of Grade 1 to bring us the next program, a piano solo performance: Triumphal March."

Su Xiaoqiang snorted lightly, "See, Miaomiao has appeared, hasn't she? You still don't believe me?"

Lu Mingfei said, "Then you can forget about escaping tonight either."

Just as Chen Wenwen was secretly relieved to have escaped a disaster, she heard Lu Mingfei continue, "And you too, Wenwen."

Chen Wenwen was stunned for a moment.

"Um...right! I'm not feeling well today, so I can't have ice cream!"

"You were carrying a cup of iced milk tea when you came back." "Hmm..."

Chen Wenwen was surprised that Lu Mingfei had such a good memory, remembering even this... She was afraid her eyes would be swollen from crying again tomorrow morning.

After the broadcast ended, Lin Huihui gracefully left the stage, lifting her skirt. Her elegant gait was quite like that of a female host for a gala, completely unlike the usual close friend she usually acted as.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself that Shilan Middle School truly lived up to its reputation as a prestigious private school. The girls who could study at Shilan Middle School were all incredibly talented, and they all became elegant ladies once they stepped onto the stage.

"..."

For some reason, upon seeing Lin Huihui, Lu Mingfei remembered that the favorability system Lu Mingze had given him had been updated with an option to increase Lin Huihui's favorability.

Fortunately, he secretly glanced at her and saw that Lin Huihui's affection level towards him was only 65, which was just a friendship-but-not-quite-love level. This made him breathe a sigh of relief.

I already have enough emotional debts to repay... I'd better just politely decline any advances from Lin Huihui or anything like that.

Lu Mingfei sighed inwardly.

However, on the other hand...

When he was studying at Shilan Middle School in his previous life, was there a person named Lin Huihui in the class next door (1)?

Actually, he had this question in his mind as early as the placement test when he met Lin Huihui, who sat in front of him, in the exam room.

His middle school entrance exam scores were the same as in his previous life, unchanged. When the exam rooms and seating arrangements were made for the entrance exam, Lu Mingfei was assigned to the same exam room as before. However, in his memory, he hadn't experienced Lin Huihui asking him to copy the exam answers back then.

Lu Mingfei didn't believe he had Chu Zihang's incredible memory, which allowed him to remember and calculate the position of every card in a deck of sixteen after a perfect shuffle.

However, my memory shouldn't be so bad that I can't even remember pretty female classmates.

You should know that Lin Huihui's nickname is half-step school beauty, and Lin Huihui's appearance without makeup is no less than that of Xiaotiannv Miaomiao and others. If there really is such a hidden school beauty, as a student of class (2) which is next to class (1), Lu Mingfei should at least have an impression of Lin Huihui, even if he is not familiar with her.

The sound of applause erupting around him interrupted Lu Mingfei's thoughts.

Looking up, I saw that the curtain on the stage had finally been drawn back. On the huge LED screen, which looked like a concert stage, Liu Miaomiao smiled sweetly at the camera.

The piano is a major instrument, and the preparation time for a solo performance is longer than for previous programs. Now, the little piano prodigy has finally made her grand entrance after much anticipation.

Wearing a black haute couture fishtail dress, Liu Miaomiao first walked to the center of the stage, covered her chest, and bowed slightly towards the audience with an elegant posture. Then she walked gracefully to the Steinway piano, sat down, and lightly touched the keys with her ten fingers.

With a gentle touch of her fingers, a melodious B-flat minor melody flowed softly from her fingertips.

Liu Miaomiao's solo performance at the closing ceremony was "Triumphal March," an excerpt from the famous opera "Aida," which is also a classic performance piece at various sports meets.

Although the "Triumphal March" has an epic war title, the opera "Aida" revolves around the love story between the Ethiopian princess Aida and the Egyptian hero Radames. It is a true love opera, on par with "La Traviata".

Lu Mingfei, of course, also knew that Liu Miaomiao had specially chosen "Triumphal March" as the closing ceremony performance piece... just like when Liu Miaomiao chose "A Girl's Prayer" as the performance piece for the school anniversary celebration.

A young girl's heart is always poetic. Perhaps it was because she had feelings she wanted to express hidden in her heart that even the majestic "Triumphal March," which should have been played, was played with tenderness.

"...But this kind of adaptation seems pretty good?" Lu Mingfei thought to himself.

Although it's a bit unconventional and deviates somewhat from the tone of the original "Triumphal March".

But why does a carefree high school life need so much passion and excitement?
It's good to make youth a little easier and more tender.

Lu Mingfei was admiring his girlfriend's elegant posture as she played the piano on the screen when he suddenly felt his clothes being tugged.

He turned around and saw that it was the little fairy tugging at his sleeve.

Lu Mingfei asked, "What?"

Su Xiaoqiang's eyelashes fluttered as she pointed to the stadium passageway not far from the stands: "Mingfei, come with us."

Lu Mingfei was a little confused: "Little Fairy, are you leaving now? But Miaomiao is still performing on stage."

Su Xiaoqiang pouted, "Oh, no, Mingfei, you'll know when you come with us! Weren't you just wondering what we were doing and why we're so late?"

She paused for a moment, then added, "It's absolutely a big surprise!"

surprise?

Little Fairy, can you translate this for me? What does "surprise" mean?

Su Xiaoqiang acted mysteriously, Chen Wenwen smiled without saying a word, and even Erii was blinking and pretending to be silly and cute.

Although Lu Mingfei didn't know what the girls were up to, he still followed Su Xiaoqiang and left through the stadium passageway.

While taking away several beautiful girls, they also took away a lot of envious, jealous, and hateful glances.

The homeroom teacher pretended not to see it.

After all, these are some of the top students in my class... Oh well. They're all good students anyway, so they probably won't do anything bad.

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(End of this chapter)