Yu Jin stared at the girl in front of him.
To be fair.
This Yin Yao really is good-looking, with an exceptional vibe—no wonder Tang Yunxuan lost his composure just now.
But...
"What’s Senior Sister Yin really up to?"
Yu Jin couldn’t figure it out, thinking over and over, but still nothing made sense.
In the past three years at university, he’d barely interacted with this senior sister.
In fact.
Yu Jin doubted she even knew his name!
"Eh?"
"Wait, that’s not right."
Yu Jin suddenly paused and glanced at Tang Yunxuan, who was almost begging him to hurry up and approve Yin Yao’s club application.
"Damn, this pathetic bootlicker got to me!"
"Almost fell into one of life’s infamous three major illusions—thinking she wants to join the club because she’s into me!"
"For all I know, she’s just genuinely into environmental protection and wants a cleaner, healthier Blue Star!"
Thinking of that...
Yu Jin immediately snapped out of his earlier weird feelings.
"No problem."
"To join, just fill out an application; pass the assessment and you’ll officially be a member of our Environmental Protection Club."
With all those messy thoughts gone, Yu Jin felt much calmer. He reached under the table, grabbed a form, and handed it to Yin Yao across from him.
"Thank you."
Yin Yao took the form and thanked him softly.
And then—
This Senior Sister Yin didn’t hesitate at all, just pulled up a chair next to Yu Jin, whipped out a fancy-looking fountain pen, and started filling out the form with crisp strokes.
"Huh?"
"She even brought her own fountain pen?"
Seeing this, Yu Jin felt he’d underestimated her ’clean Earth full commitment’ determination.
This kind of talent definitely belongs in my Environmental Protection Club!
Meanwhile—
On the other side, Dance Club Vice President Yu Pan’Er’s pretty face was all bunched up, looking about ready to cry.
"President, president..."
"Are you really quitting the Dance Club?"
Yu Pan’Er barely finished speaking when—
Yin Yao seemed to remember something. Her writing paused, head lifted slightly, and she looked at Yu Pan’Er: "Almost forgot—bring me a withdrawal form, please."
Yu Pan’Er: "..."
...
...
Lecture Hall.
As club recruitment HQ, it had fallen into several minutes of absolute silence.
Scribble scribble—
The sound of pen on paper echoed in everyone’s ears.
Freshmen, upperclassmen—everyone looked at Yin Yao, head down at her desk, filling out both the withdrawal and application forms, and all their faces were nothing short of spectacular.
"What’s happening?"
"Why is Yin Yao quitting the Dance Club and suddenly joining the totally ignored Environmental Protection Club?"
No one understood.
Especially Dance Club members—those who joined because of President Yin Yao’s reputation—besides confusion, their hearts were filled with a sense of loss.
Meanwhile—
From an unseen angle.
Yin Yao, head bowed filling out the Environmental Protection Club application, had relief and satisfaction in her eyes.
She’d done it!
Made it!
The first step to get close and grab Yu Jin’s thigh—done!
No one knew.
Just half an hour ago, she was still struggling to survive in the Wasteland World, and ended up dying at the jaws of the Tier Three Mutated Beast King Shadow Leopard just to get an Infection Crystal—no corpse left behind!
But...
Heaven never seals all exits.
When she opened her eyes again, she was shocked to discover—she’d been reborn!
Reborn to before the Wasteland game invades reality, reborn to this still peaceful and prosperous Blue Star!
"Today is September 2nd, only seven days left until the Wasteland game invades Blue Star."
"Then, nearly half of humanity will be randomly teleported to the strange Wasteland Planet, and forced to struggle to survive in the dangerous Wasteland World..."
Yin Yao was filling out the form while calculating in her mind.
Seven days—what could she do with them?
With her rebirth advantages, she knows tons of information and can, after seven days, snatch resources ahead of others when she arrives in the Wasteland.
But...
The greatest—and most precious—resource is sitting right next to her, the guy casually lounging with his legs up!
He’s the City Lord of the strongest and happiest safe haven in the Wasteland World—Dawn City!
He’s the first Evolver ever to promote to Tier Nine in the Wasteland World!
He’s the nightmare of countless Infected Bodies and Mutant Beasts, once single-handedly destroying an infected beast horde of a hundred thousand!
In that desperate, almost hopeless Alien Wasteland World, Yin Yao—just a lowly refugee—had glimpsed this big shot from afar, and his name was already legendary across the Wasteland.
His name is Yu Jin!
Because of that—
After quickly accepting her rebirth reality, Yin Yao immediately started investigating Yu Jin’s whereabouts.
So here she was.
She came to the club recruitment event, to join the Environmental Protection Club where Yu Jin is!
Step one for thigh-hugging—get close, make contact.
And the Environmental Protection Club was the best entry point Yin Yao could find.
"Finished yet?"
Yu Jin’s voice broke Yin Yao’s train of thought. She paused, her body instinctively shivering a little, then hurried to finish the form even faster.
Not long after—
Yin Yao looked up, capped her fountain pen, and let out a deep breath.
"Done."
She handed the packed-out form to Yu Jin.
Yu Jin raised his eyebrows, reached out to take it.
Just one glance, and Yu Jin’s face instantly lit up—
[Name: Yin Yao]
[Department: School of Finance]
[Year: Senior]
[Past Honors——]
[National Scholarship recipient three years running]
[International College Student Mathematical Modelling Competition Grand Prize (Top 0.3% worldwide)]
[Published environmental economics paper as first author in a Nature subjournal (age 19)]
[During sophomore year Cambridge exchange, created "Yin Financial Model," adopted into business school textbooks]
[Social Impact——]
[Sole heir to the Yin Consortium (Forbes Asia top ten conglomerates #1)]
[United Nations Youth Environment Ambassador (Youngest appointment ever)]
[Led "Aurora Project" clean energy initiative, personally awarded medal]
[Seven green-tech patents adopted into national strategic reserves]
[At age 16, invited to Davos Forum Youth Leaders Summit]
[Special Background——]
[Father: head of Yin Consortium, Daxia’s richest man]
[Mother: Director of Currency at Daxia Bank]
[Grandfather...]
...
...
Normally, Yin Yao never mentions her family background to outsiders.
But obviously—
This occasion, because of Yu Jin, didn’t feel ’normal’ to Yin Yao.
So much so that—
For the first time, she spelled out her terrifying elite background in black-and-white, no holds barred.
Honestly, if there’d been more space on the paper, she could’ve written even more...
"Ahem, ahem!"
Yu Jin packed away the application, not letting the nosy Tang Yunxuan see it, and stuffed it right in his pocket.
He’s not dumb—knows this info shouldn’t be leaked to just anyone.
Still, Yu Jin couldn’t get it—just joining a tiny Environmental Protection Club, was it really necessary for her to flex that hard?
With all those insane credentials, if you didn’t know better, you’d think she was running for President of the United States...
"Did I pass?"
Seeing Yu Jin put away the form, Yin Yao followed up.
Yu Jin: "..."
Honestly, he wanted to ask—who could look at those lines and dare not to approve!
"Not yet."
Yu Jin shook his head firmly.
Then added, "According to tradition, there’s just one little assessment before you’re officially in."
As soon as he finished.
Yin Yao hadn’t reacted yet, but Tang Yunxuan’s eyes popped wide, pure shock!
"Old Yu, you, you..."
Yu Jin ignored Vice President Tang.
He looked at Yin Yao, all seriousness:
"The assessment is simple—"
"To prove your commitment to the Environmental Protection Club, you’ll need to pick up a bag of trash somewhere on Jiangcheng University’s campus!"
"If you’re free now, I and Vice President Tang can take you out for the assessment right away!"
Those words—
The whole audience was stunned.
A hundred people in the lecture hall looked at each other, mouths dry.
Tang Yunxuan, who was just celebrating Yin Yao joining the club, now looked totally defeated.
Even though, even though the ’pick up trash’ assessment was a tradition left behind by the president four generations ago...
But!
This is Yin Yao!
The fact she’s joining at all is a cosmic miracle, and Old Yu wants to follow ’tradition’ and make her pick up trash!
Yu Jin’s words left Yin Yao frozen for a while.
But the next second—
The ultra-high-level Senior Sister Yin’s face broke into a bright smile.
"Sure!"
"Then President Yu and Vice President Tang, please take me to pick up trash!"