Becoming a life winner from infancy

In the span of three years, Luo Xianyu had also grown into a tall and graceful young lady, who, even without the boost of the "Reverse Life" talent, was nearly as tall as Xia Nuo.

Compared to Xia Nuo's lively and outgoing behavior and her terrifyingly social nature, Luo Xianyu was quite reserved. Her bangs always deliberately covered one of her eyes, and she typically wore her long, slightly curly hair in a high side ponytail, dressing almost exclusively in blue.

Although she was tall, when speaking to others, she always kept her head down and spoke in a very soft voice.

As for why Ayu had become like this, there were many details that needed to be filled in, with the main reason being her extreme love for marine life, which left her with little to talk about with the other girls in her class.

As for the boys...

Ayu was often bullied by the boys in her class, who would pull her hair and scribble on her clothes, causing her to not want to go to school at all.

Although it was known they were trying to get Ayu's attention, the result was that she was hurt, and as her past father, the Great Emperor of course could not ignore this.

After Fang You took action and gave the boys a good talking-to, the boys in Ayu's class quickly settled down.

With Emperor Youyou's backing, the boys in her class no longer dared to approach her, and afterwards, Ayu's school life became very free and incredibly joyous, with her grades rapidly improving.

However, in Fang You's view, Ayu's changes were more a matter of her natural disposition; it wasn't an unhealthy situation and there was no need to force herself to fit in.

After all, speaking of not fitting in, he was the most nonconformist of all. The boys harbored endless hatred towards him, full of envy and jealousy day and night, and the girls, especially the older ones, thought of him to the point of near madness, yet he was still living just fine, wasn't he?

By the way, Fang You's current strongest core profession was "Humanoid Succubus lv8", already a leading figure. The potential hazards of this profession became even more intense as he entered puberty and began to exude hormonal scents, to the point where he could not walk down the street without attracting the gazes of older girls.

This situation was somewhat mitigated only after unlocking "Refreshingly Pleasing", a talent that at first glance seemed only to gild the lily.

It helped mask the scents of his hormones, and when used in conjunction with "Deeply Hidden", allowed his attractiveness to be less intense and reduced the distractions he experienced during puberty.

Speaking of Ayu, it's impossible not to mention the talents she had shared with her "father" Fang You over the past few years.

The talents Luo Xianyu acquired were mainly related to art design and health preservation, including:

"Origami Master", "Graffiti Technique", "Mud Deep Sleep", "Health Preserving Techniques", etc.

These perfectly matched her talents in art design (clothing design, handicrafts) as well as her skills in being a laid-back slacktivist.

Of course, despite being slacktivist, Ayu had to be acknowledged as the daughter of a Marine Scholar, with a strong aptitude for learning. Her overall academic performance was now much better than Xia Nuo's, especially in the humanities.

Zhendan Academy's written assessments included subjects like Chinese, Mathematics, English, History, Political Science, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology—a total of nine subjects.

For most children, they would not start learning all these subjects until the ninth grade, but if aiming for Zhendan Academy, one had to start vigorously competing from elementary school.

After finding out her daughter was determined to join Youyou and attend Zhendan Academy, Xia Anyang naturally found her the best tutors for coaching, and Fang You also provided the most comprehensive knowledge base to assist.

Overall, while the tutoring was effective, it was still far from reaching Zhendan Academy's admission score.

Nuo Nuo was a typical science student, with Mathematics, Geography, and Physics as her strong points. She had absolutely no desire to memorize subjects like Political Science and History, and although her mother was a Chinese teacher, Nuo Nuo's deficiency in Chinese was quite severe, leaving her mother Lin Yi frequently embarrassed.

Ayu was the opposite of Nuo Nuo, excelling in Chinese and Biology. She was quite literary, and her essays were often read out loud in class. But her performance in other subjects wasn't weak to the extent of Xia Nuo, who could only score 40 out of 100 on a Chinese exam.

This was because Xia Nuo's answers were always fanciful and far from the standard answers. Whether the author was setting a mood, contrasting sadness with a joyous backdrop, or using metaphors, she completely failed to grasp these and wrote only what she believed, so even if the examiners wanted to give her points, they couldn't, and her scores inevitably remained low—

While doing homework at Xia Nuo's place, Xia Nuo once again felt like she was being punished by the person who set the questions.

"You You, look, I think the author is clearly happy, so why must we analyze his emotions to bring out the brokenness of the mountains and rivers and the sadness of the times?"

"This approach to answering is guiding you towards a certain direction. If you know the answer, just write it down."

"But I really feel like the author didn't think that much, could it be that the teacher who set the questions is overthinking? And isn't this a subjective question? If you can't express your own opinion in a subjective question, doesn't it become an objective one?"

"…There aren't that many 'buts'. Just write it like this and it'll be fine."

"But to write such strange text that goes against my inner thoughts, I just can't do it..."

Xia Nuo looked at Fang You with a sense of grievance on her face, filled with a pitiful feeling.

"But if you don't fill it out this way, you won't pass the Zhendan Academy exam, and then you won't be able to be with You You anymore!"

Luo Xianyu reminded Xia Nuo, "You wouldn't want to be separated from You You and Ayu, right?"

"But... I won't be able to think of such strange answers during the exam either!"

Xia Nuo, with a face wanting to escape, began to sob while clinging to Fang You's arm:

"Zhendan Academy doesn't entirely rely on written exam scores, there's also the interview assessment and evaluation of student profiles… Maybe I still have other chances. Also, You You, I've recently found out that besides doing many amazing things in kindergarten and running after stars in many places, I haven't actually won any prizes!"

"Regarding that… Ayu has even fewer of those."

Luo Xianyu also looked troubled when she thought about this, "Ayu didn't do anything amazing in kindergarten either, and it feels like this might be a weak point when applying to Zhendan Academy."

"…"

It had to be said, this was also a point of concern for Fang You.

In the past few years, Fang You had spent quite a long time solidifying the foundations for Xia Nuoluo and Luo Xianyu. As for the competitions suitable for elementary school students, they included Olympiad contests, which Fang You could easily win, but it wasn't as easy for the two of them.

Although Ayu and Nuo Nuo's biology and physics scores were not bad, they weren't exceptional enough to participate in Olympiads, and both were little lazy cats who found doing a bit more homework worse than death itself, let alone extra assignments.

Of course, Fang You had a fallback strategy: her Joyous Man library had many purple talents, including songs and selected new concept compositions, aside from games. If she distributed them to Xia Nuo and Luo Xianyu, their scores would definitely improve.
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But such traffic-generating topics could also disrupt their currently happy and peaceful lives, so Fang You was not planning to use them lightly.

At this point, Xia Nuo also started to fervently encourage her teammates: "So aside from studying hard, this semester we should also participate in more competitions. Not necessarily to win first place, but at least to achieve some rankings and awards. For example… I have a project on hand right now that feels really interesting and likely to win a prize. Do you guys want to take a look?"

Xia Nuo didn't know where she got a poster from, excitedly pointed at the competition advertisement on the poster, and said, "You You, Ayu, how about we all join this competition? How about it? Wanna drive together? It feels like it'll be a lot of fun!"

[The Green Bull Cup Super Soapbox Derby Design Competition is now open! Design your ideal battle car, join the bloody confrontation and competition, and get involved in this wild champion battle to win a million-dollar prize! Registration deadline: November 1st, 2035]

"What do you think? Hm?"

Xia Nuo, holding the poster and swaying it back and forth, excitedly watched Fang You and Luo Xianyu, who were frowning and carefully reading the rules: "This is definitely a very thrilling contest!"