Revelation of the Way of Heaven

After Professor Xu Yafen announced the Asian Extraordinary Abilities Exchange Conference, the classroom erupted in excitement once again.

After everyone calmed down a bit, she gestured to stop the discussion and continued to explain the competition mechanism.

The Asian Supernatural Ability Exchange Competition is not an individual competition, but a team competition with three people per team. Five countries are participating, including China, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and India. Each country sends three teams, for a total of fifteen teams, to compete in an elimination tournament to determine the final champion.

Since Mingde University is the only university in the country with a Department of Spiritual Studies, two of the three teams participating in the competition were selected from Mingde University, while the third team was formed by students from other universities who applied and were selected through a selection process. Of course, the members of Mingde University's two teams were also selected from the applicants.

After explaining the competition rules, Xu Yafen said to them, "In principle, to participate in this competition, one's spiritual power must be at least level 4, but the school's rules state that anyone can register, and in the end, as long as one can pass the selection, one can participate in the competition."

When Xu Yafen finished speaking, she glanced around the class. Qin Xiaochuan had a feeling that when Xu Yafen looked at him, her gaze seemed to linger on him for a while longer.

Xu Yafen then explained the registration location and time to them before the get out of class ended.

Qin Xiaochuan didn't pay much attention to the Asian Supernatural Ability Exchange Competition. As soon as get out of class ended, he immediately ran to the gift shop to choose a birthday present for Xia Ruoyi.

After careful selection, he finally chose a necklace with a light blue gemstone that perfectly matched Xia Ruoyi's temperament. He knew it was the one the moment he saw it. The necklace cost nearly three hundred yuan, which was his food money for three or four days.

He had the shop owner wrap up the necklace, and without even eating, he ran to Xia Ruoyi's dormitory building to wait. He knew she was probably still eating, and he would meet her when she finished eating and returned to her dormitory.

The weather wasn't great that day; thick gray clouds hung in the sky, foreshadowing another autumn rain. The autumn rains in XY City were always long, sometimes lasting for one or two weeks, or even a month. A month of gray skies eventually turned people's moods gray as well. It was just unknown how long this autumn rain would last.

Although autumn rain can be annoying, autumn without rain is the best weather. It's neither too hot nor too cold, and the refreshing air can make people forget all their troubles. So people always walk with the most relaxed pace in every corner of the campus.

Qin Xiaochuan stood under a magnolia tree, watching one by one the girls dressed in their finest attire walk back to their dormitories with such a gait.

He believed that watching this scene from outside the girls' dormitory would be pleasant, but he felt like a defendant about to be brought to court, with unease and fear taking over almost every cell in his body.

Finally, he saw Xia Ruoyi. She and her roommate were walking towards him with the pace of autumn. When Qin Xiaochuan called out to her, he noticed that her steps were noticeably unsteady. She then exchanged a few words with her roommate before walking towards him. Although she still walked at a leisurely pace, she seemed to lack a certain composure.

"What do you want?" Her voice remained as indifferent as it had been the night before.

Qin Xiaochuan handed her the birthday present he had hidden behind his back, saying, "This is a birthday present for you."

Xia Ruoyi didn't accept his gift, saying indifferently, "It's not my birthday today, why are you giving me a gift?"

He immediately explained to her, "I know this gift is too late, but you have to believe me, I really had something I couldn't do that day, which is why I didn't call you."

"Really? Looks like you're really busy," Xia Ruoyi said with a sneer. "But what does it matter to me whether you make a call or not?"

For a moment, he didn't know how to respond to her, nor did he know what to say to get her to forgive him or at least temporarily forgive him. He couldn't say anything, nor could he do anything.

For a long time afterward, he kept thinking about what happened that day, but he couldn't understand why he would act so useless in front of her, as if his brain had completely lost its ability to think and he had become a completely different person.

Later, he told another girl about what happened that day, and she told him, "You should have been more assertive and just told her directly that it was related to her because you like her. Actually, the reason the girl did that was because she was insecure. She didn't know if you really loved her, since you had never confessed to her."

"But I couldn't do it then," he replied. And that was true; at the time, he felt that no matter what he did or said, she remained unmoved.

After all, I was too young back then.

"What exactly do you want?" Xia Ruoyi asked him at the time. He didn't know if she was trying to express something to him. Perhaps she wanted him to tell her his feelings directly.

But Qin Xiaochuan felt that she was very impatient with him, so he didn't say anything; he couldn't say anything at all.

Xia Ruoyi was very angry, and just then Su Chen walked over with a bouquet of roses and stood aside watching Xia Ruoyi.

"Why are you here again? Didn't I tell you not to send flowers anymore?" Xia Ruoyi said impatiently to the other person. It seemed that this guy often harassed Xia Ruoyi.

Su Chen hadn't expected Xia Ruoyi to speak to him, and naturally, he hadn't noticed her tone. He glanced coldly at Qin Xiaochuan, then quickly walked up to Xia Ruoyi and said excitedly, "Junior Xia, although I don't know how to say it, I want to tell you that from the first moment I saw you, I fell in love with you. Although I know you might already have someone you like, which is why you keep me at arm's length, I don't care at all, because I can wait. I'll wait until the day you're willing to talk to me, willing to accept me, willing to like me. I'll keep waiting, because you're the only one in my heart, and I want to be your boyfriend."

Qin Xiaochuan admired the kid a bit; he could actually spout such a long string of words without even thinking. Compared to him, he was utterly pathetic.

Qin Xiaochuan looked at Xia Ruoyi, wondering how she would react. He was actually a little nervous inside, because Su Chen's performance was much better than his. But it was just a little nervousness. He wasn't worried because he knew that Xia Ruoyi would never agree to the other party's request. Xia Ruoyi didn't like Su Chen at all.

Xia Ruoyi did not answer Su Chen immediately, but looked at Qin Xiaochuan. Qin Xiaochuan knew that she was watching his performance and perhaps hoped that he could say something as well.

But he didn't say anything, because deep down he didn't like anyone else interfering in their relationship, especially not in front of him. So he stared at Xia Ruoyi, hoping she would decisively reject the other party.

But Qin Xiaochuan didn't get the result he wanted. After the two stared at each other for a long time, or perhaps not long after, young people are always prone to losing patience, he finally heard Xia Ruoyi say to Su Chen, "I don't have anyone I like."

She took the roses from Su Chen's hand and said to Qin Xiaochuan, "I have a boyfriend now, so don't bother me anymore." After saying that, she took Su Chen's hand and walked away without looking back.