Lu Mingfei doesn't want to be a superhero

"Ow—"

Su Xiaoqiang jumped up from the sofa and quickly moved away from Lu Mingfei.

"Does it hurt?" Lu Mingfei asked.

"It hurts so much!" Su Xiaoqiang's eyes were filled with tears—she wasn't a girl who cried easily, but the pain that brought tears to her eyes was a physiological reaction that couldn't be controlled by psychological factors.

"See, you're not dreaming," Lu Mingfei spread his hands and grinned mischievously. "So, do you think my piece was better than yours, or worse?"

Su Xiaoqiang's bright eyes darted around, revealing a rare, smug smile similar to Lu Mingfei's: "Of course you're not as good as me!"

Lu Mingfei was shocked: "Little Heavenly Maiden, we must speak from the heart!"

Su Xiaoqiang raised her little face: "It was your suggestion that made the decision. Anyway, the piece you played wasn't as good as mine. I'm the judge, so I make the decisions!"

She didn't really want to trick Lu Mingfei, nor did she intend to use this condition to prank him. She was just worried that Lu Mingfei still had feelings for Chen Wenwen. Although he had said before that he didn't like Chen Wenwen anymore, who knew if his old feelings would relapse one day?

For example, if Chen Wenwen dresses up as a literary girl again when school starts and goes to find Lu Mingfei to invite him to read books together on a swing covered with grapevines, can this simp who has been secretly in love with Chen Wenwen for more than two years resist the temptation?

So she left one condition: so that if Lu Mingfei's old illness relapsed in the future, she would have an excuse to save him from his suffering.

Of course, she wasn't concerned about Lu Mingfei; she just didn't want Chen Wenwen to have another sycophant.

That's it!

However, to Su Xiaoqiang's surprise, when he heard her cheating, Lu Mingfei's expression, which was originally a mixture of surprise and anxiety, suddenly changed, and every eyebrow was filled with smugness.

"Okay, then I win." Lu Mingfei laughed loudly.

"Huh?" Su Xiaoqiang didn't react for a moment.

Lu Mingfei laughed for a while and explained, "Didn't we agree before? You decide whether it's good or bad. After I finish playing a piece, if you say it's better than yours, then you win; if you say it's worse than yours, then you lose."

He deliberately spoke the sentence slowly, so that Su Xiaoqiang could understand it carefully.

Su Xiaoqiang pondered the meaning of Lu Mingfei's words, her beautiful eyes widening. When Lu Mingfei made his conditions earlier, he spoke a little too quickly, and she hadn't paid much attention, letting the sentence slip by. Subconsciously, she naturally assumed that "whoever is stronger wins," but the result was actually the opposite.

"Are you kidding me?!" Su Xiaoqiang glared at Lu Mingfei.

"No, weren't the rules clearly stated before?" Lu Mingfei said with a completely innocent look.

He was indeed setting Su Xiaoqiang up. After following Tony for so long, he had grown quite a bit. If Tony knew that he had started to actually apply the "knowledge" he had taught him, he would be very pleased.

But what if he knew that Lu Mingfei was using this "knowledge" to scam pretty girls...?

They will definitely be even more gratified.

However, Su Xiaoqiang quickly realized what was going on and insisted, "That's not what we said before. We clearly said that if I said I was better than you, you would lose. Lu Mingfei, even if you want to win, don't try to change the rules!"

She couldn't remember what the rules Lu Mingfei had initially mentioned were, but it didn't matter. As long as she insisted that whoever was stronger won, she wouldn't lose, since there was no way to prove it anyway...

Su Xiaoqiang's gaze shifted slightly, landing on the small machine working on the coffee table—

She had prepared that specifically for recording Lu Mingfei's embarrassing moments, so naturally she wouldn't forget to use it. She turned it on the moment Lu Mingfei entered the room and has been recording ever since.

Oops……

The moment Su Xiaoqiang had this thought, Lu Mingfei swiftly grabbed the recorder and pressed the stop button: "This should record what we just said. Let's replay it and we'll know the rules, right?"

Su Xiaoqiang pounced like a hungry tiger, rushing forward to snatch the recorder from Lu Mingfei's hand.

Lu Mingfei stood up, stood on tiptoe, and held the recorder high. Su Xiaoqiang jumped up and reached for it.

The two people stood facing each other, on tiptoe, each raising one hand above their head, almost touching.

Lu Mingfei could even smell the sweet fragrance emanating from Su Xiaoqiang and feel her warm body temperature.

Although Su Xiaoqiang is considered tall among girls, she is still quite short compared to Lu Mingfei, who is 1.8 meters tall after awakening. Even when she stands on tiptoe, her toes barely touch the ground, she is still far from being able to reach the recorder in Lu Mingfei's hand.

“Give up,” Lu Mingfei said smugly, his nose practically twitching. “You can’t reach it…”

Taking advantage of Lu Mingfei's distraction while he was talking, Su Xiaoqiang smirked, jumped up, and snatched the recorder from Lu Mingfei's hand with one hand.

Logically speaking, given Lu Mingfei's strength, Su Xiaoqiang shouldn't have been able to snatch the recorder from him.

But once she jumped, she lost control of her body's movement. As she rose, she leaned slightly forward, her chin brushing lightly against Lu Mingfei's nose, and strands of her hair flowing down his neck, feeling both cool and itchy.

Of course, these are minor issues. The biggest problem is that a certain overly prominent part of Su Xiaoqiang's upper body also leaned forward, and unfortunately, it slid down along with Lu Mingfei during the fall.

Anyone would be confused in this situation, right?

Taking advantage of Lu Mingfei's momentary daze, Su Xiaoqiang snatched the recorder from his hand.

After taking the recorder, Su Xiaoqiang seemed completely absorbed in the battle to seize it, unaware of how intimate the two had just been. She simply turned away from Lu Mingfei with the recorder in hand, so as not to let him snatch it back.

After taking only two steps, she suddenly stopped, casually tossed the recorder onto the sofa, and turned to look at Lu Mingfei: "Forget it, this is pointless. Just consider it a win!"

"Huh?" Lu Mingfei was stunned, not understanding why Su Xiaoqiang suddenly admitted defeat again.

Su Xiaoqiang leaned back and plopped down on the sofa, glancing sideways at Lu Mingfei with a disdainful yet stubborn look in her eyes: "Tell me, what are your conditions?"

At that moment, Lu Mingfei inexplicably felt that she was like a princess knight from a comic book who remained tenacious and unyielding even after being captured.

"Ahem," Lu Mingfei coughed lightly twice, composed himself, sat down next to Su Xiaoqiang, turned to look at her, and said earnestly, "I do have something I hope you can agree to, but it might put you in a difficult position. So if you find it hard to do, just consider the previous rules a joke..."

"Enough nonsense! I've never gone back on my word!" Su Xiaoqiang waved her hand, her face resolute. "Speak!"

Although she wore a nonchalant expression, Su Xiaoqiang's heart was racing and her ears were burning as she wondered what conditions Lu Mingfei would propose.

If this guy dares to make any unreasonable demands, at worst... at worst, I'll just have my dad send him to work in the mines!

Su Xiaoqiang thought viciously to herself.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and looked directly into Su Xiaoqiang's eyes: "I hope..."

Su Xiaoqiang's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her chest.

“I hope that after a while, you can put in a good word for me with your father,” Lu Mingfei said.

"What?" Su Xiaoqiang was stunned.

Chapter 38. First Day of School, Parent-Teacher Meeting

At Su Xiaoqiang's home.

Lu Mingfei and Su Xiaoqiang sat together on the sofa.

"So, you're trying to tell me that you have an advanced smelting technology that you want to trade with my dad?" Su Xiaoqiang looked at Lu Mingfei with a strange expression. "So you want me to help you persuade my dad to agree to the trade and not to ask about the origin of the technology?"

"Mm." Lu Mingfei nodded.

Su Xiaoqiang remained silent for a long time.

She remembered that her father had previously told her to pay attention to Lu Mingfei's special qualities. Besides whether his physical abilities and intelligence were extraordinary and whether he wore colored contact lenses, there was another thing she needed to be aware of—

What if he suddenly pulls out something that doesn't quite match his identity?

What does it mean to be something that doesn't quite match one's identity?

At the time, Su Xiaoqiang didn't quite understand, but now she does.

So who exactly are you? Su Xiaoqiang couldn't help but stare at Lu Mingfei, as if admiring a rare and exotic beast.

Lu Mingfei felt uncomfortable under Su Xiaoqiang's gaze and suddenly remembered the idiom "黔驴技穷" (qián lǘ jì qióng).

The story tells of someone transporting a donkey to a place where there were no donkeys. The onlookers were amazed. Later, the tiger, who had never seen a donkey before, was frightened by the donkey several times, but in the end, he managed to eat the donkey through his own efforts. This inspirational story praises the tiger's indomitable and never-give-up spirit.

The latter half of the story is actually irrelevant; Lu Mingfei mainly felt that he resonated with the donkey in the first half of the story, who was surrounded by onlookers and marveled at.

Su Xiaoqiang stared at Lu Mingfei for a long time before nodding and saying, "No problem."

Now it was Lu Mingfei's turn to be stunned.

"You just agreed?"

"Okay." Su Xiaoqiang nodded. "I'm willing to accept the consequences of my bet."

"No...aren't you curious why I have this kind of technology?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help but ask.

“I’m curious, but didn’t you say you didn’t want to be questioned? Although I’m still very curious, I can hold back,” Su Xiaoqiang said quietly. “Besides, I’m also quite curious to see my dad scratching his head in frustration.”

Lu Mingfei had prepared a tens of thousands of words paper to deal with Su Xiaoqiang's questions or other foreseeable reactions, and she just nodded in agreement like that? Without even asking a single question?

He suddenly felt as if a breath was stuck in his tonsils, unable to come up or go down, which was extremely uncomfortable.

This is like an ambitious young man who diligently studies martial arts for twenty years, then resolutely joins the army to serve his country, exhausting his family fortune to equip himself with a phoenix-winged purple-gold crown, a golden chainmail armor, lotus-silk cloud-walking boots, riding a thousand-mile-chasing Red Hare horse, and holding a painted and gold-painted halberd, vowing to fight the Xiongnu to the death and defend his beautiful land.

Then they turned to the frontier and found that the Xiongnu didn't even have horses. As soon as they fought, they knelt down and surrendered, cursing their own Chanyu for not providing them with equipment or paying them wages. They said they had long since given up working for that stingy miser.

What a waste of emotion!

Lu Mingfei felt this way now; all his previous preparations had been wasted.

Fortunately, the outcome was good.

Just as Lu Mingfei was about to choke on his words, Su Xiaoqiang spoke up: "By the way, have you applied for a patent for your technology?"

Tony had already explained the importance of protecting one's technology patents to Lu Mingfei, and Lu Mingfei wouldn't make such a basic mistake.

However, he hasn't fully replicated the technology yet, and with an incomplete technology, he can't apply for a patent. He has to wait until the replication is complete.

So he answered truthfully, "Not yet."

Su Xiaoqiang immediately frowned: "Remember to apply for a patent first, or you'll get scammed by my dad. I've heard him say that many researchers don't know how to protect their patents and end up getting ripped off..."

I don't know if your dad will screw me over, but Little Fairy, you're definitely screwing him over right now.

Lu Mingfei thought to himself, "This is what I'm thinking."

He wanted to explain that he wasn't unaware of the patent application process, but that his technology wasn't yet complete enough to apply. However, he realized that such an explanation would be troublesome, so he simply gave up and listened attentively to Su Xiaoqiang's "earnest teachings."

……

a few days later.

The wonderful holiday has finally come to an end. No matter how much the students cried and begged to stay, it left without looking back, just like a heartless lover breaking up with someone.

The difference is that when a lover leaves, only heartache remains, but when a holiday ends, in addition to heartache, there is also the pain in your hand from being punished by the teacher for not finishing your homework.

In the past few days, the old man who called himself Angers has not come to see Lu Mingfei again. Apart from the thick and heavy red envelope, it seems that such a mysterious and dangerous person has not appeared in Lu Mingfei's life.

This is a good thing. Lu Mingfei hopes things will stay calm until he recovers enough energy to go to Tony and come up with a solution.

But how to deal with it is a matter for later; right now, Lu Ming has to go to school first.