Dragon Clan: Lu Mingfei Returns from Japan

Chapter 697 S-Rank Strength
It wasn't until Lu Mingfei waved his hand in front of him and called out "Senior Brother Gao" several times that Gao Mi finally came to her senses. Looking at the pretty girls standing next to Lu Mingfei, she forced a smile and hesitantly spoke:
"Junior Brother Lu, who are these people...?"

"Hello, Senior Brother Gao."

Xia Mi hopped forward and greeted Gao Mi with a smile: "Nice to meet you, I'm Xia Mi. Senior brother, didn't you just send me a text message saying we should meet at the exit of the arrival hall?"

Xia Mi held up her phone and waved it in front of Gao Mi.

“Xia Mi…”

As Gao Mi was still silently reciting the name in his heart, another quiet and slender girl stepped forward and nodded gently to Gao Mi: "Hello, Senior Brother Gao, I am Chen Wenwen."

"Hello, senior brother, I am Su Xiaoqiang." Su Xiaoqiang placed her hands on the front of her skirt and nodded slightly to Gao Mi in greeting.

Liu Miaomiao, Chen Wenwen, Su Xiaoqiang, and Xia Mi—these are the other junior female students he will be receiving today, besides Lu Mingfei, who are coming to register for the preparatory class.

Everyone was now assembled and ready. However, Gao Mi looked at the scene of these people chatting in front of her and was completely baffled.

"Senior brother, why did you arrive so late?" Xia Mi asked Lu Mingfei, her pouting expression making it impossible to tell whether she was genuinely angry or just pretending.

"I came over after meeting with Senior Brother Gao," Lu Mingfei said.

“You’re taking too long. By the time you got here, Senior Sister Qiangqiang, Senior Sister Wenwen, and I had already brought out our suitcases. Senior Brother, you have no idea how heavy those suitcases are!” Xia Mi said.

"That's your own fault for losing your checked baggage tag, and then Qiangqiang and Wenwen had to help you look for it. We couldn't expect Senior Brother Gao to wait for us in the arrival hall the whole time, could we?" Lu Mingfei said.

Chen Wenwen, Liu Miaomiao, and Su Xiaoqiang exchanged a helpless glance. Chen Wenwen smiled and interjected, "Alright, alright, it's not a big deal. We still have to go to school to register this afternoon. Besides, Senior Brother Gao has been waiting for us for a long time, we can't keep him waiting."

"Senior Sister Wenwen, you always side with your boyfriend."

"Well……"

Putting aside the fact that they all actually know each other, the atmosphere just feels a little strange.

Why did he feel that... there was a hint of ambiguity between every girl and Junior Brother Lu?

And judging from what Xia Mi just said, it seems Chen Wenwen is Lu Mingfei's girlfriend? Isn't Lu Mingfei's girlfriend Liu? He just saw Liu Miaomiao holding Lu Mingfei's hand. If they weren't very close, why would they be holding hands?
Could it be that Junior Sister Liu and Junior Brother Lu are cheating on Junior Sister Chen...?

"..."

...Is this the strength of an S-class?

He wasn't just left behind, he was left far behind. Forget about walking hand-in-hand with other pretty girls behind his girlfriend's back; he hadn't even touched a girl's hand.

Even his science-oriented mind couldn't help him sort out the current chaotic situation, so he could only follow Chen Wenwen's lead and continue: "Right, shall we go back to school first? Let's go to the parking lot and get a car. I drove here... Junior, do you want me to help you with a luggage cart?"

Gao Mi paused, looking at the trolley piled high with suitcases, and asked Lu Mingfei.

As Lu Mingfei said, "No need to trouble you, senior brother," he handed the trolley with less luggage that he and Liu Miaomiao had pushed out earlier to Xiao Ye, pretending not to see her complaining expression.

The airport trolleys are conveniently located all the way to the airport parking lot. Without them, passengers would have to carry their own luggage.

Lu Mingfei was fine; men usually travel with minimal gear. He only carried a travel bag containing a change of clothes, toiletries, and electronic devices like a laptop. Everything else could be bought in Beijing—what couldn't be sold there?

But it's different for the girls, especially Liu Miaomiao and Su Xiaoqiang. They each have their own walk-in closets at home, filled to the brim with their beautiful clothes. Now that they're transferring to a school in another city, they can't take all their pretty clothes with them. They have to make choices and only take their favorite few pieces.

Even so, their clothes filled two 32-inch suitcases to the brim, making it impossible for them to carry the luggage themselves.

Fortunately, Gao Mi knew she was picking up a lot of junior students today, so she specially drove a Buick GL8. It wasn't a luxury model, but it was a classic 7-seater business car. The spacious trunk allowed Lu Mingfei and the others to fill it completely with luggage before the rear doors could still be closed.

Gao Mi sat in the driver's seat, looking at the rearview mirror, deliberately trying to observe which girl Lu Mingfei would sit next to.

Will I sit next to Liu Miaomiao? Or will I sit next to Chen Wenwen?

...None of them.

Seeing Lu Mingfei sit in the passenger seat and fasten his seatbelt, Gao Mi was taken aback: "Junior Brother Lu... are you sitting here?"

"Ok?"

Lu Mingfei nodded, still a little confused. Was there something wrong with sitting in the passenger seat?

No, it seems there really is such a saying. He had heard of similar taboos; some possessive girls believe that their boyfriend's passenger seat is their exclusive seat and no one else can sit there.

He vaguely remembered... Senior Brother Gao Mi, wasn't he a couple with that Senior Sister Wan Boqian? Back then in Junior Sister's Nibelungen, he used the cheat code given to him by Lu Mingze to win all of the young couple's chips.

Lu Mingfei paused for a moment: "Does your girlfriend not allow other people to sit in the passenger seat? I'm sorry, I'll sit in the back right now."

"..."

Gao Mi couldn't help but feel like she was about to spit out a mouthful of blood.

If he hadn't seen Lu Mingfei preparing to unbuckle his seatbelt, he would have suspected that Lu Mingfei was saying that on purpose. It was like stabbing him in the spot where it hurt.

So what if he has a few female friends with whom he has ambiguous relationships, and these female friends are all quite pretty? S-class is really too arrogant!
He pressed down on Lu Mingfei's hand as he unbuckled his seatbelt: "It's alright, Junior Brother Lu, you can sit here."

"But senior brother, your girlfriend won't...?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"...I don't have a girlfriend yet." Gao Mi replied expressionlessly, but her eyebrows trembled slightly.

"……oh."

Lu Mingfei finally realized that he seemed to have inadvertently touched a nerve with his senior. At this moment, Wan Boqian was probably not with Gao Mi yet, so he responded softly.

With a roar of the engine, the Buick GL8 started. Lu Mingfei said, "It's okay, senior brother, there will be more in the future."

Gao Mi: "..." So, can we please not bring this up for now...?

Gao Mi felt like crying but had no tears left to shed.

Beijing Capital International Airport is located in Shunyi District of Beijing, not too far from the city center, about 25 kilometers as the crow flies, and situated outside the Fifth Ring Road. Exiting the airport expressway and driving straight past Wuyuan Bridge, Siyuan Bridge, and Sanyuan Bridge, you'll reach the area inside the North Third Ring Road.

After exiting the airport expressway, you'll reach Dongzhimen. The address of the preparatory class of Kassel College seems to be nearby.

While driving, Gao Mi listened to the conversation of the girls in the back seat and gradually realized that the junior students she had picked up were actually her high school classmates. It seemed that Lu Mingfei and several of the girls were in the same class. No wonder they were so close.

However, this situation is rather rare.

After thousands of years of interbreeding between humans and hybrids, many people actually possess some degree of dragon blood in their bodies. However, the proportion of dragon blood in the vast majority of these individuals is usually quite low, often not even reaching the minimum threshold for bloodline awakening. Very few hybrids are capable of awakening their bloodline.

It's important to know that Kassel College recruits students from all over the world, but it can only enroll a few hundred students each year. On average, there might not even be one mixed-race student in a city who meets the college's admission requirements.

Several students from Lu Mingfei's school were simultaneously admitted to Kassel College, and even received early admissions through the preparatory program. This indicates that their bloodline potential is exceptionally high, at least at the B-grade level.

It's no wonder Gao Mi was so surprised.

However, at this moment, Su Xiaoqiang, who was sitting in the back seat, seemed to suddenly remember something and looked at Lu Mingfei, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and asked, "Speaking of which, should we go home first and drop off our luggage? That way, we won't have to send it back to Senior Brother Gao. Besides, it's not very convenient to bring a suitcase to school."

"sure."

As Gao Mi, who was in the driver's seat, turned the steering wheel around a corner, she asked, "Junior Sister Su, have you already rented a place in the capital? Where is your home? Do you have the detailed address?"

"Hey, Senior Brother Gao, didn't you already rent a house for us?" Su Xiaoqiang asked.

Gao Mi was taken aback, wondering when she had helped her junior sister Su rent a house. Hadn't she only helped her junior brother Lu rent a house?

Then I noticed that Su Xiaoqiang had used the word "we" in her last sentence.

Are we... the "we" he understands?

Gao Mi gave a hesitant smile and asked cautiously, "Junior Sister Su, are you referring to the apartment that Junior Brother Lu asked me to help him rent?"

"Mmm." Su Xiaoqiang nodded naturally.

After moving far away from her hometown, Xiaotiannv grew bolder and bolder, no longer hiding her true self.

What's there to hide? She'd heard there weren't many students in the preparatory class, only a few dozen in total. Once they knew each other a little longer, the fact that she, Miaomiao, Wenwen, and Xiaomi were living with Mingfei would definitely be exposed.

After all, going to school together once in a while might not be a big deal, but going to school together every day could easily arouse suspicion.

So it's better to just say it from the beginning: they live with Lu Mingfei. If people ask out of curiosity, just say they're roommates. The atmosphere in Beijing is much more open than back home; these days, it's not unusual for guys and girls to share apartments.

Anyway, her father already knew that she and Mingfei had been staying at home while he was away on business. Since her father hadn't said anything, it meant he had tacitly approved. Naturally, she became even more unscrupulous.

Chen Wenwen and Liu Miaomiao, although both were rather conservative, were still somewhat shy at the thought of others knowing that they lived together with Mingfei. However, they didn't say anything to explain that "we're just roommates"... they just let Gao Mi speculate about their relationship.

After all, no matter which direction Gao Mi guesses, she's basically right.

It seems that after leaving home, without the pressure of being discovered by their parents and their shared romantic relationship, each girl gradually becomes bolder.

Gao Mi was also stunned; he hadn't expected Su Xiaoqiang to admit it so directly and decisively.

"Junior Sister Su, are you... sharing an apartment with Junior Brother Lu?"

"Hmm? I guess so?" Su Xiaoqiang replied vaguely.

Who says couples living together doesn't count as sharing an apartment? Besides, she still has to pay Lu Mingfei a quarter of the rent. She doesn't want to take advantage of that guy in the slightest.

So it was a shared apartment. Gao Mi breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

After all, Kassel College is an American university, and co-ed housing is indeed a common occurrence in the United States.

However, it's not very common for high school students to share an apartment, even in the US. Especially since it was four girls sharing with one boy.

No wonder Junior Brother Lu specifically emphasized that he wanted to find a house with more than four bedrooms. It turns out that they had already decided to share a room from the beginning... In other words, Lu Mingfei was definitely going to share a room with a girl.

Chen Wenwen is his girlfriend... so he's sleeping in the same room with Chen Wenwen? So early?

The thought that she was already a sophomore in college and still all alone, while Lu Mingfei was only a sophomore in high school, made Gao Mi realize for the first time the difference between her B+ level, half-step A level and S level.

"Then I'll take you home to drop off your things first, and then go to school," Gao Mi said. For some reason, his voice didn't sound as energetic as it had been at the airport.

Su Xiaoqiang didn't think too much about it, figuring that Gao Mi was probably a little tired after driving for so long, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then thank you for your hard work, senior brother."

"You're welcome."

The area around Dongzhimen is basically the old city of Beijing. Even before the rapid rise in housing prices in 2007, this area was already considered extremely valuable. Villa complexes like those of Su Xiaoqiang and Liu Miaomiao are, of course, rare to find in the old city. Most of the buildings along the main roads are no more than ten stories high.

The apartment complex that Gao Mi rented for Lu Mingfei and the others was neither particularly new nor particularly old. It was built around the turn of the millennium, and the exterior walls looked rather dull and unremarkable. Fortunately, the complex had very complete facilities.

The interior layout of the house is also very good. The modern style decoration even made Su Xiaoqiang, who is always picky, nod and praise the original owner's good taste. It seems that people who can buy a house in the North Second Ring Road are not short of money.

However, the main task today is to report to the college, and we can discuss the room assignment later when we get home tonight.

So after delivering all the suitcases to their home, they returned to Gao Mi's car and headed to the preparatory class location.

……

(End of this chapter)