I Alone Am Immortal: My Rebirth and Leisurely Cultivation

Chapter 7 The People I Surpassed
Remembering that bottle of Coca-Cola, Li Yan took out his mother's old spare phone and went online to check out the surroundings.

The starting point is gone, but the singularity remains. Bilibili has become P-site, and Kuaiyin has also emerged, but it hasn't spread widely.

Some have different names but the same function, but many more are the same.

For example, there's an astronaut jelly that turns you into a grandpa or grandma after you eat it.

And Sina Weibo, Tencent, etc.
Li Yan clicked into the Qidian website and started browsing, while casually playing Daoxiang Tingting.

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No? !
He searched for Jay Chou.

The results are in, and some of the songs are familiar, such as "In the Name of the Father" and "Blue and White Porcelain." But some are just abstract.

For example, wheat fields, clear skies, and crescent moons.

Li Yan tried it out and found that it was actually no worse than the original Daoxiang, Qingtian, and Nocturne.

"What the hell?"

Li Yan then looked into other singers, expanding his search from songs to film, television, and literature.

He found that film and television had little impact on literature, with changes being almost entirely limited to changes in actors and publication dates.

Like someone addicted to opening blind boxes, Li Yan began to constantly search for various things.

Before I knew it, the sky was getting light, and I could hear footsteps outside the door.

Li Yan: ?
It's confirmed; he's come from a parallel universe, and there are slight differences between him and the original universe in various aspects.
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"Quick, quick! Li Yan, help me check if my hair is messy."

"The hallway outside the office is a mess, and so is the inside," Jiang Yingzhu called out, tugging at Li Yan's sleeve.

"No, you look good no matter what." Li Yan gently stroked her hair.

"That's more like it. You're quite the smooth talker."

Jiang Yingzhu was in a good mood. Just then, the student before her finished taking their exam admission ticket, and it was her turn.
There were two cameras in the office, one for boys and one for girls, used to photograph the admission ticket numbers.

After Jiang Yingzhu finished taking her picture, it was Li Yan's turn on the boys' side.

Unlike other boys who would fix their hair before taking photos, Li Yan didn't.

"and many more!"

Jiang Yingzhu, who had just finished taking photos, suddenly stopped him.

Li Yan looked over in confusion and saw him raise his hand, fiddle with his hair, and straighten the collar of his school uniform.

Sunlight streamed through the window and shone directly onto Li Yan's face, accentuating his handsome features.

However, none of these compare to his reflection in the girl's narrow, clear eyes.

"Oh~~"

Nearby, several students let out a meaningful exclamation.

"Sports Committee Member, I also need to tidy my clothes."

"Zhuzhu, my hair is messy."

Jiang Yingzhu glared at the group of people who were making a fuss.

"What are you doing, looking for a beating?"

Several classmates shrank back; Jiang Yingzhu was the tyrant of No. 50 Middle School.

On the first day of junior high, a few older students teased her, and she broke off a tree branch and chased after them, whipping them.

A teacher ran to stop her and almost got hit by her too.

From then on, she caused a sensation throughout the school, and no one dared to mess with her anymore.

"Sister, who would dare to fight you? We're all civilized people."

Li Yan shook his head, walked to the camera and sat down, recalling the incident.

Actually, he didn't think it was a big deal that he drew the card, since the teacher was Wang Fugui.

After the photos were taken, no one could see their own image immediately; they could only rush back to the classroom to attend class.

"Do you think we'll look ugly in the photos?" Jiang Yingzhu asked.

"will not."

"No way! I heard from the previous year that the photos were black and white and incredibly ugly!" Gossip queen Gan Tiantian interjected.
"It is said that many people lost their admission tickets after taking the exam."

“Good-looking people look good no matter what, just like me,” Li Yan patted his best friend next to him, “Right, Zhenyu?”

"Well, but Yu Zi, you can only rank second at most. First place belongs to me."

The male classmates who were with him couldn't stand it anymore and started arguing about who was the most handsome.

Some are even more ruthless, risking the size of their lower body.

Li Yan could only shake his head at this, saying it was just the self-delusion of teenagers who always thought they were the most handsome in the world and looked in the mirror a hundred or eighty times a day.

"Ugh, you guys are so narcissistic." Jiang Yingzhu couldn't stand it anymore.

"Exactly, there are girls here, can't you guys be a little more polite?"

Class representative Shao Ming immediately echoed, straightening his posture slightly. He commented approvingly:

"Wang Zhenyu, you have several pimples on your face, and you haven't washed your hair. Li Yabin, you haven't even wiped the sleep from your eyes. Yang Ling, you've put your socks on backwards, and they're sticking out. How can you call yourselves handsome?"

He raised his head and touched his neatly styled hair, which had been styled with gel. He straightened his black suit trousers and gestured with his small leather shoes.

"Someone as clean, tidy, and good-looking as me is what I call handsome, don't you think, Jiang Yingzhu?"

Jiang Yingzhu was baffled.

"Huh? I didn't know. It's normal for guys to be a little fussy. Li Yan is no exception. I even cut his hair."

Shao Ming's face stiffened, and the students he had commented on exchanged glances with amusement.

Li Yan, who was pointed at by Xiao Qingmei, shrugged and didn't even look at Shao Ming.

Just a poor Boiling Sheep.

"Alright, we'll know whether you're handsome or not once you get your admission ticket."

"If you ask me, it doesn't really matter whether someone is handsome or not. If they can't go to high school, they don't even have the right to talk to us."

A girl with freckles on her face said to Shao Mingdao. She glanced at Li Yan and then at the boys.

"Only if we can go to high school can we barely be considered the same kind of people."

The atmosphere suddenly fell silent. No. 15 Middle School was not a key school, and Class 3 was not a key class either.

At most half of the students in the class will go to high school.

Seeing Jiang Yingzhu's face darken, Shao Ming immediately said:

"Jiang Yan, don't say that. Everyone still has hope. There are still more than twenty days left."

Jiang Yingzhu raised her eyebrows, wanting to start a fight, but Li Yan pulled her back and left. (Note: The last sentence appears to be unrelated and possibly a separate thought.)

They can just enjoy the show; there's no need to waste their emotions on it.

Everyone returned to the classroom and sat down. It was a week later when they finally saw their exam admission tickets.

Last week's topic about beauty and ugliness was automatically ignored, and everyone started complaining about it:
Why is this photo like this?
They all made me look ugly in those photos!

Li Yan glanced at Jiang Yingzhu and thought to himself, "Pleasing to the eye."

Two days later, the physical education entrance exam will be held.

The exam venue was at the nearby No. 3 Middle School. The whole class gathered early in the morning and headed to the location to begin the exam.

Li Yan remained calm during his second experience.

I wanted to go cheer for Jiang Yingzhu, but unfortunately, the two of them were assigned to teams that were a bit far apart. Huangcheng's physical education test only had four events—rope skipping, long jump, sit-and-reach, and 1000-meter run.

When they arrived at the last event, the 1,000-meter race, Li Yan noticed Jiang Yingzhu on the sidelines.

There were also English teachers and a group of girls around him.

"Li Yan! Keep it up!"

Li Yan made a gesture, then turned around and saw Shao Ming staring straight at him.

His facial expression resembled that of a defeated dog.

He didn't say anything and walked towards his seat.

But then Shao Ming said, "Li Yan, how about we have a race to see who can run faster?"

Li Yan looked down and saw that he had returned to a height of 1.65 meters after not wearing height-increasing insoles.

Little brother, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about yourself?
"alright."

He has always been a helpful person.

"Xiao Ming, do you know a saying?"

"What are you saying?" Shao Ming's face darkened, thinking that Li Yan was going to mock him, and he immediately thought of more than a dozen ways to respond.

"Those I surpass will only watch me drift further and further away. I'll give you time to catch up, until I'm out of sight."

In an instant, several contestants from the next room, as well as the shooting instructor who had walked over, all looked over.

Shao Ming's face turned bright red; he hadn't prepared for this sentence.

He secretly vowed to himself, waiting for the shooting teacher to begin.

"Snapped!"

The moment the gunshot rang out, Shao Ming charged out like a mad bull.

The speed was so fast that it seemed to stir up a whirlwind on both sides of the track, and the soaring momentum left the runners behind in astonishment.

Outside the stadium, there was a series of exclamations.

Hearing the girls exclaim, "Wow, that guy runs so fast!" filled Shao Ming with a sense of satisfaction.

Li Yan, a nobody, dares to surpass him?

Today, let Jiang Yingzhu see just how bad the boy she's been eyeing really is.

After running half a lap, Shao Ming felt confident of victory; Li Yan might have been left far behind in Siberia.

His limbs and bones seemed to be cheering for his victory, and his steps involuntarily slowed down.

However, when she turned her head, she saw that Li Yan had already caught up with her at a leisurely pace.

Behind them, three other contestants were slowly approaching.

Shao Ming was shocked, then confused, and then furious!
He was like an offended marshal, issuing commands to his body.

However, his steps grew heavier and heavier, his whole body ached, and he watched helplessly as Li Yan overtook him.

Then he was overtaken by three other people!

Instead of coming in first place, he ended up at the bottom?

Shao Ming gritted his teeth and sprinted forward, his lungs burning with pain, but his legs felt like they were filled with lead.

When he realized with despair that Li Yan's figure had disappeared at the end of the bend, his heel suddenly slipped, and his shoe flew off.

A height-increasing insole flew out and landed at the proctor's feet, its rich fragrance wafting out, comparable to the smell of pickled cabbage.

The proctor's eyes twitched, and he took a half step back.

Shao Ming froze on the spot, stubbornly wanting to continue forward.

Then he was stopped by the proctor and had to run over to pick up his equipment.

Li Yan, who could already see his back, almost burst out laughing.

"Hahaha, who is that guy? What an idiot." Someone outside the playground said without any restraint.

When Li Yan finished running, Shao Ming's team was no longer in sight; they had probably gone to re-run the race.

Each physical fitness test offers one chance to be retaken.

So he doesn't mind teasing Boiling Sheep.

However, Shao Ming's reaction was a bit too much.

Li Yan slowly walked to Jiang Yingzhu's side on the playground, saw that she was holding a stopwatch, and asked her about it.

"How about it?"

"Three minutes and thirty seconds, not bad, a perfect score."

"Generally speaking, you chose good running shoes."

Jiang Yingzhu glanced at Li Yan's white sneakers and smiled smugly.

"That's right, don't look at who I am."

"Give me a sip of water."

"Oh."

Jiang Yingzhu handed him her bottled water, and Li Yan, without any hesitation, drank straight from the bottle.

Meanwhile, several classmates and teachers around me were secretly cricketing.

"They must be, right?"

"Even like this, it's still not enough. Look, it's already facing the mouth."

"But they were like this in the first year of junior high too."

Gan, who was eating melons, fell into deep thought and looked at her girlfriends.

Beside them, Jiang Yan said disdainfully:

"Of course not. With her grades and athletic talent, Jiang Yingzhu could go directly to No. 2 Middle School. Why would she talk to Li Yan?"

"With Li Yan's grades, it's uncertain whether he can even get into high school. They'll be from completely different worlds in the future, okay?"

Gan Tiantian frowned. "Li Yan has been studying recently, so why can't he go to high school?"

"Studying? He's just pretending. He only reads books and doesn't listen in class. Does he really think he's a genius?"

Jiang Yan glanced at the team retesting in the corner with a pang of sympathy, then saw Shao Ming and secretly clenched her fist.

"Just wait, it'll only be a few days. Once the high school entrance exam results come out, we'll know who's good enough and who's not."

Jiang Yingzhu and Li Yan had already walked far away and were completely unaware of the cricket behind them.

Li Yan casually tossed the empty bottle into the trash can and said, "We don't have classes this afternoon. Shall we let them know and go to the arcade?"

"The newly opened one?"

"uh-huh."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!!"

Jiang Yingzhu immediately became excited; she had wanted to go for a long time.

After Li Yan broke his promise last time, I saw that he had been studying hard for a week, so I didn't say anything more.

This jerk actually brought it up today, so she's not going to let this opportunity pass her by.

(End of this chapter)