Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 676 What Mountain is Broken?

The progress on the "Knights' Order" side was faster than Xia Mi had imagined. She had originally thought it might take them some time to take photos of Zhao Menghua.

She didn't expect that the task, which was only posted at noon, would be flooded with emails by evening.

Although the quality of the photos varied greatly, and it would take some time to select the useful ones, she didn't specify that the photos had to be particularly sensational or explicit when she posted the task. This was to encourage group members' initiative and increase their enthusiasm.

And you know what, breaking chocolates by hand is actually quite stress-relieving, it's like the thrill of secretly squeezing the instant noodles your senior bought.

It's an annual event for graduates of Shilan Middle School to give gifts to their juniors; similarly, juniors present flowers to graduating seniors at the graduation ceremony. Therefore, Lu Mingfei didn't doubt Xia Mi's words and went into the kitchen on his own.

After breaking the chocolate, she got lazy and figured there was no rush to give it away. Xia Mi tidied up the table, put the chocolate in a bowl, and put it in the refrigerator to chill.

Xia Mi clapped her hands, thinking that it wouldn't hurt to deal with the chocolate packaging tomorrow. She decided to check the photos first to see if there was anything she could use to gossip about!

The rooms were all on the second floor of the villa. Xia Mi's room was actually arranged next to Lu Mingfei's room; it was a small suite with a private bathroom and dressing room, not far from Su Xiaoqiang's room. Whether this arrangement was intentional or not, it certainly made it easier for Lu Mingfei to raid Xia Mi at night… or rather, it made it easier for Xia Mi to raid Lu Mingfei at night.

Xia Mi sat at her desk in the room, opened her laptop, and skillfully entered the password.

This laptop was brought from the apartment Lu Mingfei rented. Lu Mingfei originally bought it to use for surfing the internet and playing games, but Xia Mi later took over and used it as her laptop, even finding some of Lu Mingfei's private collections in some hidden folders.

"Let me see if I can find any more sensational photos..."

Xia Mi logged into her QQ email and checked the email attachments she had pre-downloaded. While she was breaking chocolates, she had received dozens more emails. Judging by the current situation, there would probably be even more tomorrow.

Xia Mi compiled all the photos from the emails into one folder. However, just as she expected, most of the photos were unremarkable; they simply showed Zhao Menghua, and many were even blurry. This was due to the relatively low resolution of the phone's camera.

As for how sensational the content of the photo is, it's probably even harder to find a photo like that.

Xia Mi pursed her lips; this result wasn't unexpected. She hadn't expected to find such sensational news about Zhao Menghua so quickly to help her senior brother retaliate. However, after searching for a while, she hadn't found a single usable photo, which left her somewhat annoyed.

She sighed, glanced at the time, and realized it was already eight o'clock!

She still has homework to do, and after finishing it, she needs to take a shower in the evening and then go back to her senior's room to sleep. She can only wait until tomorrow to see if there are any new photos.

Just as she was about to close the webpage and log out of QQ, her computer beeped with a "ding," indicating that another new email had arrived.

Xia Mi thought for a moment, then opened the new email and clicked to download the attachment. She'd already read so many, one more wouldn't make a difference.

The attached compressed file was downloaded. Xia Mi unzipped it into a folder and opened it. The moment the photo thumbnails popped up, Xia Mi suddenly froze.

"Wait? What is this...?"

……

The Mercedes stopped not far from the school gate. Zhao Menghua got out of the car with his schoolbag on his back, waved goodbye to the driver casually, and then yawned listlessly by the roadside.

I didn't sleep well again last night.

The reason I didn't sleep well the night before last was because I was thinking about how Lu Mingfei's cheating scandal was brewing and fermenting at school. I was worried that Lu Mingfei would finally be exposed and ruined at school, and I was too excited to sleep.

The reason he didn't sleep well last night was simply because he was depressed. He sat on the bed all night thinking about it, but he still couldn't figure out why Chen Wenwen would help Lu Mingfei cover up his affair.

Is it that Lu Mingfei really has a knack for dealing with girls and completely won Chen Wenwen over? Or is Chen Wenwen just such a "traditional" girl?

He had actually read about it in a history book, which said that during the Tang Dynasty, women had a virtue that they didn't know whether they could be called a virtue or not, which was that they would allow their husbands to take concubines.

If her husband reaches the legal age and hasn't taken a concubine, she will urge him to do so, and may even take the initiative to arrange blind dates for him through matchmakers.

I heard that Chen Wenwen has been a believer since she was a child, but I don't know if there are similar doctrines in Christianity.

Fortunately, there was also good news. When he woke up this morning, the class monitor sent him a message saying that Lin Huihui should come to school today.

Zhao Menghua walked into Shilan Middle School with a yawn, thinking that after he got to the classroom, he would first go to the bathroom to wash his face, and then use hair wax to fix his hair in front of the mirror.

I'm going to give the movie tickets to the class monitor of the class next door later. I can also say hello to Huihui on the way. I can't go to see Huihui looking so sloppy. I have to make a good impression on her.

But I don't know if it's just my imagination.

As soon as he entered the school gate, Zhao Menghua felt like he was being secretly watched. He'd actually felt this way during PE class yesterday afternoon, but it was even more pronounced this morning.

No, it's not an illusion...

Because when he secretly glanced around, he clearly saw two girls staring in his direction and chuckling. Although he didn't know their names, he recognized them; they were from the next class, Grade 1 (1).

He turned his head, about to ask why they were staring at him and smiling, when the two girls suddenly stopped smiling, pursed their lips, bowed to him and said, "Sorry, we didn't mean to discriminate against you," and then immediately ran away.

Zhao Menghua was now even more confused.

Discrimination? What are they talking about? It's so nonsensical...

When he arrived at the classroom, it was still early, and there were only a few people there. The guy whose birth chart clashed with his hadn't come either, which was somewhat good news.

Zhao Menghua took out his phone and sent a message to the class monitor: "I've arrived at school. Have you arrived yet?"

The class monitor replied quickly: "We've arrived."

"Has Huihui arrived?"

"She's in the classroom too."

Upon seeing that the class monitor of Class 1 said that Lin Huihui had also arrived at the classroom, Zhao Menghua was overjoyed: "Great, then I'll bring you the ticket later." He took out hair wax from his drawer and went to the restroom to quickly tidy himself up.

Zhao Menghua straightened his collar and hair in front of the mirror, held the two movie tickets in his pants pocket, and hummed a little tune as he walked towards the classroom of Class One.

There was a long corridor between the toilet and Class 1 of Grade 1. While Zhao Menghua was in the toilet applying hair wax, many students had already arrived at their respective classes one after another. Many students were standing in the corridor, laughing and chatting.

As Zhao Menghua hummed a tune and walked through the noisy corridor, the sounds of laughter and chatter seemed to suddenly quiet down, and several eyes focused on him.

Zhao Menghua didn't seem to care too much about it. After all, he was quite a well-known figure in the first-year high school class, consistently ranking in the top three in almost every exam, making him a true academic star. He often attracted attention when walking around the first-year school building, and he was used to it.

During their student days, most people still have a lot of romanticized views of top students.

If it weren't for the emergence of a genius named Lu Mingfei in Class 2 of Grade 1, who appeared before everyone as a dark horse... or more accurately as a stallion, capturing the hearts of all the school beauties, including Liu Miaomiao, Su Xiaoqiang, and Chen Wenwen, and topping the list of "This villain deserves to be punished".

So, in the first year of high school, the person who should be Chu Zihang's benchmark should be him!
But there's nothing we can do about it. Although most people have a soft spot for academic achievers during their school years, they also have a soft spot for school beauties and heartthrobs. Not to mention that this heartthrob had dated all the school beauties, and those beauties were all beautiful, from wealthy families, and talented.

Compared to Lu Mingfei, who was surrounded by campus beauties, Zhao Menghua's brilliance paled in comparison.

However, once you get to the corridor outside Class 1 and Class 2, there are noticeably fewer students standing in the corridor.

Although Shilan Middle School does not explicitly divide students into key classes and regular classes, many high-achieving students are assigned to Class 1 and Class 2. For example, Zhao Menghua, who entered the school with the highest score in the entire school, and Xiao Tiannv, who entered the school with the top three scores in the entire school, were both assigned to Class 2 of Grade 1. Therefore, the academic atmosphere in these two classes is better than that in other classes.

Before entering Class 1's classroom, Zhao Menghua noticeably slowed down and looked through the window into the classroom. Sure enough, he saw Lin Huihui sitting in her seat chatting with the other girls in the class.

Upon seeing the person he wanted to see, Zhao Menghua was overjoyed. He straightened his school uniform tie and entered Class One through the main gate.

"Good morning, sir."

Going directly to Lin Huihui would make him seem too purposeful, so after entering Class One, Zhao Menghua pretended to be looking for the class monitor.

Just as he was about to greet him, the word "old" was on the tip of his tongue when Zhao Menghua suddenly forgot what the class monitor's surname was.

What was his last name again? ...Never mind, it doesn't matter anyway, he's just a tool to help out!

Zhao Menghua changed the subject and greeted the class monitor of Class One with a "Good morning."

The class monitor replied, "Good morning, Lao Zhao... You haven't forgotten my name either, have you?"

Zhao Menghua choked for a moment, then immediately said, "How could that be? We've been together for so long."

That's what he said, but he never called out the class monitor's surname. He just patted him on the shoulder and handed him the tickets from his pocket: "Look, I personally brought you the movie tickets I promised. Pretty loyal, right?"

The class monitor took the ticket: "Loyalty, loyalty... So what's my name again, Lao Zhao?"

"..."

Zhao Menghua thought to himself, "Why does the class monitor keep bringing this up? Doesn't Huihui usually forget that you're the class monitor? Old Guan Lu Mingfei is the class monitor."

Just then, a girl next to him said with a smile, "Hey, Zhao Menghua, your hairstyle looks so cool today! Did you even put on hair wax before coming to our class?"

Being the son of a capitalist, he was quite adept at conversation. Seeing someone bring up a new topic, he quickly picked up the conversation.

Zhao Menghua jokingly replied, "Am I not this handsome every day?"

The girl giggled and said, "Well, I don't know about that. I don't see you every day. Zhao Menghua, are you this handsome every day, and only the class monitor knows that? Right?"

Seeing the girls burst into laughter all at once, Zhao Menghua became even more bewildered. Come to think of it, this kind of inexplicable thing seemed to have happened many times today.

I exchanged a glance with the class monitor, who also seemed unaware of what had happened.

Lin Huihui wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes and said, "Okay, okay, you guys are not allowed to laugh anymore. Why do you keep making fun of Zhao Menghua and the class monitor..."

Drawing is definitely the best!
Zhao Menghua walked up to Lin Huihui, just about to greet her and ask how she was doing, whether her sprained ankle from last week was getting better.

Before anyone could speak, Lin Huihui said first, "By the way, Zhao Menghua, congratulations!"

"...Congratulations?" Zhao Menghua was stunned by this sudden remark, and a question mark gradually appeared on his face.

Lin Huihui continued, "Yeah, oh dear, we don't need to hide it anymore, we already know."

Lin Huihui took her phone out of her pocket, held it up in front of Zhao Menghua, and said with a grin:

"I didn't expect you and the class monitor to be so courageous. Don't worry, I won't discriminate against you. I sincerely wish you happiness. You don't need to care about worldly opinions!"

Zhao Menghua looked closely and saw that his phone was logged into the Shilan Middle School forum webpage, with the screen frozen on a certain photo.

The photo isn't very clear, probably taken with a mobile phone, but you can still clearly see that there are two boys in the photo.

However, the angled shot didn't capture the boy's face clearly; it only showed the two seemingly facing each other, with a rather ambiguous angle and posture. At first glance, Zhao Menghua even thought they might be reenacting a scene from Brokeback Mountain…

Wait!

Zhao Menghua paused for a moment, then looked closely at the background in the photo and the clothes the two people were wearing.

Wait... wasn't this the outfit I was wearing yesterday?

……

(End of this chapter)