Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation

Evening study, bright classroom.

The white glow of the fluorescent lamp shone on Bai Yuxia's face, making her skin appear even fairer. Her eyes stared straight at Chen Siyu, feeling both body and mind quite shaken.

Chen Siyu skillfully unlocked Jiang Ning's phone, opened the dialing page, and expertly entered Jiang Ning's number, muttering:

"He's too reckless, I must remind him not to buy it!"

With that, she looked at the completed number, verified it, and directly dialed out.

"Hello, the number you dialed is busy, please try again later." The standard female Mandarin replied in her ears.

Chen Siyu opened her small mouth, feeling frustrated: "He's talking to someone else!"

She tried to dial again, but it was still busy.

This worried Chen Siyu a lot. If he really bought a bunch of braised food and now there's electricity, there wouldn't be time to eat it, such a waste!

Chen Siyu usually lives quite frugally. Being Jiang Ning's friend, she naturally couldn't watch Jiang Ning waste money.

But now, Chen Siyu couldn't reach Jiang Ning.

She frowned: "Yuxia, what should I do?"

Bai Yuxia said deliberately: "Why don't you send him a text message?"

Chen Siyu, quick-witted: "He doesn't answer the calls, he surely won't see a text message."

Bai Yuxia: "But with a text message, you might see it."

Chen Siyu didn't understand: "What's the point of me seeing it? I want him to see it now!"

Bai Yuxia finally got to the point: "Because this way, you can recognize that it's Jiang Ning's phone in your hand."

...

On the main campus path, Jiang Ning was strolling leisurely.

He wasn't affected by the school's electricity coming back on.

Since he decided, everything must go according to his wishes.

Jiang Ning walked to the braised food store outside; it was a new shop 'Juewei Duck Neck', a braised food brand that would later become famous nationwide.

To reach that level, the taste must be noteworthy, and of course, what left the most lasting impression was its price; choosing a few products could easily cost several dozen, or a hundred yuan.

Jiang Ning, not short of money now, bought over a hundred yuan's worth of braised food at once: duck necks, chicken wing tips, dried bean curd, small squid… all packed into a bulging 'small' bag.

He then went to the neighboring beverage store, asking the owner to make a few cups of lemon cola, which wasn't much different from regular cola, just had some slices of lemon added.

But Xue Yuantong had said that cola in cups, sipped through straws, tasted somewhat better.

After the purchase, Jiang Ning headed towards Class 8's classroom, still alone.

Behind, Meng Ziyun just happened to spot Jiang Ning, her eyes flickered, and many thoughts surfaced in her mind.

If one were to speak of the handsome boys in Class 8 now, it would be Huang Zhongfei, Dong Qingfeng, Jiang Ning, and Chai Wei, Cao Kun.

Meng Ziyun had long been flattered enough by Cao Kun, so she was a bit tired of it.

Chai Wei was always pestered by the Four Golden Flowers, and with the previous slander incident, many classmates steered clear of him.

But Jiang Ning was someone Meng Ziyun hadn't interacted with much.

He always gave Meng Ziyun a mysterious vibe in class, with good academic and sports achievements, many boys spoke of him with reverence.

This aura undeniably had a strong allure for girls.

In the past, Jiang Ning often played with Geng Lu and the others, leaving Meng Ziyun no chance, but now she was lucky to see him alone.

Meng Ziyun, without hesitation, quickly caught up, pretending to be surprised as she greeted: "Hey, Jiang Ning."

Jiang Ning slowed his pace slightly, responding with: "Mm."

The first sentence already made the atmosphere somewhat awkward.

For a girl like Meng Ziyun, if any ordinary boy was greeted by her, they would surely be flattered, feeling incredibly lucky, and then take the initiative to find topics to chat about.

No choice, pretty girls naturally enjoy this privilege.

Even in later years, posting a pretty selfie in the comment section could draw many male netizens' responses.

But at this moment, Meng Ziyun did not receive the warm greeting she'd anticipated.

The atmosphere stagnated for a moment, and Meng Ziyun found a topic to converse: "Your grades are really good, to be able to rank second in the whole grade, even better than the experimental class."

She directly commenced the flattery tactic: "And you're quite handsome, not what I imagined the second in the grade to be like."

Jiang Ning: "Thanks, you're pretty too."

Meng Ziyun continued the awkward chat: "So we..."

Jiang Ning: "We're all pretty great."

Meng Ziyun internally grumbled; 'Spare me, I can't continue this conversation.'

Jiang Ning could guess the thoughts of the young girl, but he didn't delve into it and looked at the distant, brightly lit teaching building.

When he was a student, he longed for power outages, though there were only rare opportunities.

Now... Jiang Ning gently set his right foot down, an invisible Thunder Method spread from beneath his foot, spreading like a spider's web, endlessly extending.

'Extinguish.'

When Jiang Ning's left foot fully landed, all the light in his sight disappeared.

Streetlights, teaching buildings, all vanished, leaving only darkness.

Beside him, Meng Ziyun was startled: "Power outage?"

"Mm, yes."

Jiang Ning looked toward the teaching building. After the earlier darkness, faint glimmers appeared from the windows of various classrooms, from those who had smuggled phones in.

Meng Ziyun was overjoyed: "If there's a power outage, does it mean no classes?"

Yes, not only Class 8, but every class in the entire school didn't have evening classes.

The culprit for all this was Jiang Ning, who delayed a valuable lesson for thousands of students.

Yet Jiang Ning merely chuckled; if he were his former self, he might have felt a bit guilty.