Just as Su Yan was feeling somewhat smug, the conversation at the next table continued, and they began to talk about Li Changxiao.
"What’s there to fear? Chairman Li graduated over half a month ago. How could he still make trouble for me?"
"Fair enough. Then let’s go all out. I’ve been itching to gossip about this for a while."
"If I remember correctly, Chairman Li’s younger brother is Li Changxiao, right?"
"Exactly, that’s his name. He used to be one of Jingdou’s top ten middle school students, frequently winning awards at various competitions, and his fame was no less than Chairman Li’s."
"I’m not too clear on that either, but I heard he contracted some strange illness during the summer of his ninth-grade year and was bedridden at home for an entire year."
"Once he recovered from the illness, he was almost a wreck. It was thanks to his family’s great wealth and the use of all sorts of rare treasures that he was barely brought back to a semblance of himself."
"However, he just became one of the crowd after that. Because his confidence took a hit, he deliberately transferred to Nanjiang to dominate weaker students."
"One of the crowd? I don’t think so."
"No matter what, he was still Nanjiang Province’s second top scholar and even managed to make it into the top scholar competition in Jingdou. He started off much higher than we did."
"Li Changxiao is a scion of Jingdou’s Li Family, and now he has fallen to the point where he’s being compared with us. If that isn’t being one of the crowd, then what is?"
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Listening to the idle chatter from the next table, Su Yan felt a little surprised. So, there were so many stories behind this Li Changxiao fellow.
When they took the college entrance exam together, he seemed quite articulate and didn’t show any signs of lacking confidence.
But then again, Li Changxiao was the second top scholar in Nanjiang Province’s Evolution Department college entrance exam, yet in the eyes of these people, he was still just one of the crowd.
It seems the waters of Jingdou run deep indeed.
I wonder if I can handle it.
"Sir, I’ve finished eating."
Jiu Li put down her chopsticks, said this, and then took out a tissue to wipe her mouth.
Su Yan, still engrossed in listening to the conversation at the next table, casually acknowledged her with a grunt.
Jiu Li continued, "I see that you’ve also finished eating, Sir. So, shall we... go?"
"Let’s sit for a bit." Su Yan was thoroughly absorbed in the gossip. How could he possibly want to leave now?
Seeing her master say this, Jiu Li didn’t press further and just lowered her head to play with her phone.
She had endured quite a bit of frustration today and figured she could use this time to vent it all on Feibo, taking it out on the people there.
「Meanwhile, at the other table.」
The group there had just switched the subject of their idle chatter to Su Yan, discussing this reportedly incredible Nanjiang Province’s top scholar.
One of them, a scholarly-looking young man with glasses, offered an analytical perspective, saying,
"Speaking of which, although Li Changxiao is somewhat lost in the crowd these days, he’s still far beyond what students from a small place like Nanjiang can compare to."
"But who would have thought he’d actually fall on the final Martial Arts Platform, and to a student from Luo City of all places."
"I know a junior named Liu Junwen. He told me he was the top scholar of Luo City that year, and supposedly the most incredible top scholar in Luo City’s history."
"Turns out his standard was just so-so. Any average student from our Jingdou could go there and easily dominate in Luo City."
"However, I happened to watch the Nanjiang Province Evolution Department college entrance exam live broadcast out of boredom that day, and I discovered that their top scholar truly is something special."
"Whether it’s his physical strength or his Spiritual Power Intensity, he’d be considered a fairly well-known overachiever even here in Jingdou."
"So, for someone to fight their way out of such a tiny city like Luo City, their talent must be incredible. After coming to Jing University and receiving a better education, he could very easily advance by leaps and bounds."
Hearing this, someone else quickly chimed in dismissively, "Advance by leaps and bounds? I doubt it. In all its years, how many top scholars from Nanjiang Province has Jing University actually admitted?"
"And after four years of study, not a single one has managed to truly stand out."
"It seems the one who did best merely managed to get into the student council and become some minor officer in the external relations department, or something like that."
"You think he was incredible in his college entrance exam? That’s purely because his opponents were subpar."
"If he were to take the college entrance exam here in Jingdou, at best, he’d barely scrape into the elimination round."
Another person agreed, "I think so too. After all, students from small places haven’t received better evolution education from a young age, so their upper limit is pretty much set."
"Looking through Jing University’s entire history, there has never been a student from Nanjiang who could represent the school in the National University League."
"So, this year’s top scholar from Nanjiang Province’s Evolution Department might be incredible there, but only within Nanjiang Province itself."
"Once he comes to Jing University, he’ll quickly be so overwhelmed by the various true geniuses that he’ll lose all his confidence. For him, just getting into the student council to become an officer would be considered a success."
These Jing University students at the table, except for the initial bespectacled, scholarly young man who suggested Su Yan might advance quickly, all unanimously belittled him, the student from Nanjiang Province.
Their words were filled with disdain, clearly not taking Su Yan, the provincial top scholar, seriously at all.
To think he just came to the cafeteria for a meal and ended up being inexplicably disparaged ! This really irked Su Yan.
He immediately pretended to be a mere bystander and began boasting about himself to Jiu Li, deliberately raising his voice so the people at the next table could hear him loud and clear.