Martial arts have become extinct worldwide, yet I am forced to have a large family.

"???"

Yang Xian held the small crumpled piece of paper, a sense of absurdity welling up inside him.

Whose prank is this?

He turned his head and looked in the direction from which the paper ball had flown.

The seat where Lin Ai sat yesterday is now occupied by its true owner.

She was a girl who seemed unruly and rebellious.

She was wearing a black baseball cap, revealing short, highlighted blue-black hair.

She wore a simple black vest that accentuated her slender and beautiful figure.

Her arms and neck were exposed, and her fair skin stood out dazzlingly against the backdrop of her clothes.

A coat casually tied around the waist adds a touch of unruliness.

At this moment, she was resting her chin on one hand, tilting her head to look at Yang Xian, with a faint smile on her face.

[Ding! Emotional fluctuations detected in the character "Liu Ruyu".]

[Expectation: A wife given away for free, no one should refuse, right? +100 points!]

"Liu Ruyu...?"

Yang Xian looked away, picked up a pen and wrote a line on the note, then flicked his finger, sending the paper ball flying back precisely.

"Sorry, classmate, I already have someone I like!"

This is a tactful and effective way to refuse, which neither offends anyone nor fails to express one's stance.

However, less than three seconds later, the crumpled paper flew back and landed steadily in front of him.

Yang Xian unfolded it and took a look.

Another sentence was added to the paper—

"It's okay, I don't mind, as long as you take me away!"

Yang Xian frowned.

What do you mean by "just take her away"?

This girl is way too casual!

But upon further reflection, Yang Xian found it somewhat unsurprising...

After all, since he came into this world, none of the girls he's met seem to be normal; they've all been practically throwing themselves at him.

"What's the reason?"

Yang Xian did not agree, purely out of curiosity.

What kind of reason could make a girl so easily want to go with a strange man?

The paper ball flew back again, and Yang Xian unfolded it.

"Because you're from another city, marrying you will allow me to leave Star City!"

"I hate my mom! I hate machines! I hate everything here!"

"I'll do anything you ask, just to get me out of here!"

Yang Xian was momentarily stunned by the resolute words on the note.

My goodness...

I hate this, I hate that.

In order to run away from home, she was even willing to marry a stranger she had only met once.

Isn't this exactly what a rebellious teenage girl looks like?

And it was a pretty serious illness!

"Wow! Big celebrities are so popular!" Lin Ai had somehow ended up sitting by the window, watching with great interest as Yang Xian and the girl passed notes to each other.

"Only the second day of school and a girl has already confessed her feelings to me!"

"Together! Together! In..."

"..." Yang Xian glanced at her speechlessly.

Gods, they're together!

My life is already a mess, and now I have to play the game of running away from home with a rebellious girl.

Please spare me!

Seeing this, the pink-haired girl smiled awkwardly and wisely shut her mouth.

Yang Xian picked up the pen, considered it for a moment, wrote another paragraph, and threw it back.

Liu Ruyu picked up the crumpled paper, unfolded it, and her beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly.

You wouldn't even want a woman who's given away for free?

I'm not bad looking either!

Unconvinced, she added another sentence to the note and was about to throw it back.

But this time...

"Liu Ruyu!"

Teacher Zhong on the podium was staring intently at her with a dark expression.

"It's one thing to daydream in class, but to deliberately harass Yang Xian is another! You don't want to study, but others do!"

Liu Ruyu was caught red-handed, but she wasn't flustered at all; instead, she looked impatient.

"Study, study, study! All we do is study this crappy stuff! What's the point of learning it?!"

Teacher Zhong was furious with her attitude and pointed at her, yelling, "Look at the state you're in! You've already repeated a year! If you keep going like this, you'll never graduate!"

"Tch! Who cares?" Liu Ruyu turned her head to the side and crossed her arms.

"You!" Teacher Zhong's fingers trembled with anger. Finally, she couldn't hold back any longer and roared, "Get out! You don't need to attend my classes anymore! You'll have to retake them!"

"Fine, I'm leaving!" Liu Ruyu stood up decisively, and before leaving, she even turned back to look at Yang Xian.

Yang Xian felt a surge of emotion upon seeing this.

This woman is really fearless! Judging by how practiced she is, she's probably a repeat offender...

Even after things have escalated to this point, he still hasn't been fired.

It seems her background is quite impressive!

Yang Xian thought that with Liu Ruyu gone, he could finally have some peace and quiet.

But when Mr. Chung turned around and faced the electronic screen again, he realized how wrong he had been.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

A deluge of crumpled paper balls flew toward him from other directions.

Almost all of them were thrown over by the female classmates in the class.

Yang Xian froze, staring at the "mountain of paper" that had suddenly piled up on the table.

(⊙_⊙;)

Surely not...

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Meanwhile, at the Starry Sky Research Institute, in the Chief Office.

"Chief Liu, that's really not fair of you!"

"That's right! Such a brilliant and distinguished guest has come to our Star City, why didn't we tell them sooner?"

"We've all read his paper on mechanical life; it's a groundbreaking discovery!"

"Not to mention, Yang Xian also has the ability to ignore the 'extinction of martial arts lineage'."

"That's right, you can't keep all the benefits to yourself!"

"..."

Liu Qin was sitting upright in her chief chair, calmly looking at the several small windows displayed on the virtual screen in front of her.

Behind each window is a powerful figure whose mere stomp in Star City could cause a stir.

After Yang Xian appeared in the journal, Liu Qin knew that Yang Xian could no longer hide his identity.

But who would have thought that this kid would cause such a huge uproar just by saying a few casual words in class?

Although she had long anticipated that Yang Xian would eventually come into the public eye, this was happening far too quickly.

It happened so fast that it caught her off guard.

At least... at least we should wait until she's pregnant before we talk about it!

"Now that things have come to this, we must find a way to delay things for a while longer..."