Chapter 135 Feeling Uneasy

As the end of the semester approached, the atmosphere throughout the entire school began to tense up.

Mingmei had countless nights where she regretted believing her own uncle's nonsense about "getting in through the back door."

Because sooner or later, she would have to relearn everything she hadn't learned before!

This was only the end of the first semester of her freshman year, and Mingmei couldn't count all the online and offline courses she had to take, even with all ten of her fingers.

When school started, the class advisor had assured them that there wouldn't be many academic subjects, and they would mainly earn credit points by playing games.

But… in the middle of the semester, they suddenly said that because of the Eight Schools Exchange, they would be forced to learn even more knowledge. The course schedule would change drastically every few days, and their spare time was crammed with all kinds of courses.

The key was that even as they were crammed with courses, the number of credit points for each course began to decrease.

After all, the total number of credit points remained the same.

If Mingmei hadn't already completed the credit points she needed to earn through games this semester, she would have gone crazy by the end of the semester.

Lu Xiaoyao was one of those who had gone crazy. The other was her brother, who had transferred halfway through the semester. Recently, Mingmei had been frantically catching up on her studies at night, and whenever she had a spare moment, she would see Lu Xiaoyao streaming games.

Sometimes she and her brother would be matched into the same game, and sometimes Lu Xiaoyao would play "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" by herself. Many viewers commented that Lu Xiaoyao seemed much more mature when she was alone.

But when she played with her brother again, her IQ would drop and she would be carried to victory by her brother.

Mingmei had watched it twice and felt that Lu Xiaoyao was too dependent on Lu Gui.

If that were the case, the relationship between the siblings must be very good. But Mingmei still remembered that when school started, Lu Xiaoyao had never mentioned a single word about Lu Gui…

But even so, Mingmei believed that she was no less stressed than Lu Xiaoyao. She attended classes during the day and caught up on her studies at night, working a 007 schedule!

Finally, one day when she managed to squeeze out half a day to rest, Lu Xiaoyao dragged Mingmei out and invited Hu Yue, Bai Xiao, and Yuan Fang to have afternoon tea together.

Since those three were in the same class, they were always free together, and they were always the first ones Lu Xiaoyao considered when she was inviting people.

The others were just as busy as she was.

Lu Xiaoyao and Mingmei complained to Hu Yue, Bai Xiao, and Yuan Fang about how many courses they had, pouring out their grievances, but they didn't expect them to look at them with an expression of disdain, as if saying, "Is that all?"

"Which major in our school doesn't have more than twenty courses per semester? I heard from a senior that it will only get worse later on. Only you guys believed that little bit they told you at the beginning of the semester."

"What?"

When Bai Xiao said this, Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao's minds went blank for a moment, and they subconsciously couldn't believe it.

Could it be that they had been tricked into coming here?

"But, didn't we have to learn these extra courses because of the Eight Schools Joint Examination?" Lu Xiaoyao argued unconvincingly.

Mingmei nodded repeatedly in agreement, "That's what our class advisor said."

"Is that so?" Yuan Fang raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard that it was Cheshire who had said it, and said with a smile that wasn't really a smile, "You dare to believe everything she says?"

Mingmei: ???

"But, it's okay, you'll know next semester~"

Next semester?

This suddenly made Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao feel a sense of unease.

"Yeah? What's the point of giving up on learning knowledge halfway? Since you learned it this semester, that means you'll definitely have to continue learning it next semester~ Maybe they'll even add new subjects then. You'll be learning more and more, it's impossible for it to decrease."

Impossible for it to decrease?

What are we even learning for?!

What kind of special recruitment class is this?! Is this definitely not some kind of special exploitation class?

Then Yuan Fang said, "The students in your special recruitment class are basically those who are particularly outstanding in some aspect. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them geniuses. Geniuses, after all, always have preferential treatment, but their personalities are even more eccentric."

"If they had known from the beginning that they would have to learn so much here, who would have been willing to come? Naturally, they use some very attractive conditions to recruit people, and then slowly boil the frog in warm water, gradually making you accept everything.

So, besides the generous subsidies, there must be even more attractive conditions that brought you in. After all, not everyone is short of money."

"Then what attracts them?"

After Yuan Fang finished speaking, Lu Xiaoyao hurriedly asked.

Instead, Yuan Fang smiled without saying anything, and looked at Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao, saying, "Then you should ask yourselves, what did you come here for in the first place?"

Mingmei and Lu Xiaoyao looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.

Unfortunately, they were both blinded by the subsidies.

As for anything more attractive… they really didn't know.

This time it was Yuan Fang and Bai Xiao's turn to be silent.

Who would have thought that General Mei Qiu's younger sister and Marshal Lu's granddaughter would come to military school just for the subsidies?

Does that make sense?

So, the two young ladies who couldn't find the answer within themselves could only go back and ask others.

Lu Xiaoyao naturally chose Lu Gui first.

However, Lu Gui's answer was even more concise: "Because I wanted to join the military school as soon as possible, but our school, besides the special recruitment class, also accepts transfer students during non-recruitment periods. The other majors don't."

"Me?"

On the other hand, when Mu Chen mentioned this matter, his eyes flickered, but in the end, his gaze fell on Mingmei's face, and he answered honestly, "Because you came, so I came."

"Just… nothing else?" Mingmei didn't know how to describe Mu Chen's answer.

He came for her?

Mingmei still remembered the way Mu Chen looked on the first day in class, not looking at anyone and just reading his book. It was hard for her to believe it!

So, Mingmei asked him to change to a proper reason.

"For… a diploma? My family wouldn't let me not even go to college. Since I have to go to school anyway, I might as well be with you."

Wow, this answer was similar to the reason her uncle used to fool her back then?

Thinking this, Mingmei looked at Mu Chen with a hint of shared sympathy, and sighed, "Then do you regret it now? You didn't expect to have to learn so much after coming here."

"Not really, one day we'll use what we've learned."

Mu Chen shook his head, and then remembered that Mingmei's foundation was not good enough, and she had to learn from the basics in private besides the knowledge in class every day. She must have been tired of it a long time ago, so didn't his answer just now answer the other party's heart?

So Mu Chen added, "But it's really tiring, there's too much to learn~ In offline classes, I see that our classmates either look rushed or have tired faces, just like us."

"No, that's because they're socially awkward." Mingmei, who had already seen through the essence of her classmates, told Mu Chen the truth, "No matter what they think about learning so much knowledge, at least they're not very willing to interact with people."

She didn't know where they found this year's special recruitment class, but most of them were surprisingly socially awkward.

Speaking of interpersonal interactions, Mingmei suddenly thought of the upcoming Eight Schools Exchange, and she asked, "Do you think our classmates will offend people if they're like this during the Eight Schools Exchange?"