After emerging from the Corner of the Gloomy, Lin Yu, now dressed in a school uniform, quickly blended into the crowd of students having their physical education class.

Lin Yu had chosen his timing quite cleverly. It was currently the last class of the morning, already well underway.

The several classes having P.E. on the sports field had already entered their free activity period. Coupled with the fact that many students had already left class early to head to the cafeteria, Lin Yu strolling among them drew absolutely no attention.

While entering the school gate directly in uniform at this hour might have required registration and questioning, if one was already on campus...

Lin Yu was quite certain he was absolutely safe.

Although the total number of students at Shengle Private Middle School wasn't large, with only five classes per grade, the uniforms didn't distinguish between specific grades, only between the junior high and senior high divisions.

All three grades of the senior high division wore the same style, so there was even less chance of anyone suspecting Lin Yu had snuck in.

If anything, who would immediately suspect that an unfamiliar student in uniform they encountered on campus was actually an unidentified outsider who had sneaked in wearing a uniform?

Especially since Lin Yu currently looked young and immature, combined with his already superb acting skills. Anyone seeing him now would undoubtedly think he was a female high school student currently attending Shengle Middle School.

As for why it was a "female high school student"...

Lin Yu was, after all, here to see Li Nian, so naturally, he was using the face of 'Zhu Ming'.

Since the original model, Xia Yue, was a university student to begin with, Lin Yu hadn't adjusted it much, simply making the face look like a completely natural high schooler.

Of course...

Lin Yu could have chosen to completely fabricate a brand new face.

But he intended to give Li Nian a surprise—he was eagerly anticipating what expression Li Nian would make when she suddenly saw 'Zhu Ming' in school uniform on campus and realized who it was.

However...

Although Lin Yu knew Li Nian attended this Shengle Middle School, he didn't know which specific class she was in.

The doxxing information Shen Bingmiao had given him back then wasn't that detailed either.

So, for now, Lin Yu could only wander around, hoping to get lucky.

Arriving in front of the senior high division's teaching building, Lin Yu aimlessly strolled about.

"This school's class division method is quite unique..."

Looking at the labels on the fire safety map, Lin Yu noticed that while Shengle Middle School's junior high division still had the normal Class 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, the senior high division was different.

Within a single grade of the senior high division, the classes were divided into International Class A, International Class B, Quality Education Class A, Quality Education Class B, and the Competition Class.

These five classes were quite easy to understand—they corresponded precisely to Shengle Middle School's three types of student sources and three future paths.

The wealthy students preparing to study abroad, the top scholars here on scholarships, and the elite competition contenders.

However, the class divisions weren't absolute—because Lin Yu soon found an honor roll next to the map near the teaching building entrance.

The top section listed the names of the recently graduated third-year students who had been admitted to prestigious universities, a dense, long string of them. At a glance, it was all names like MIT, Caltech, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge—truly a dazzling array of immortals.

Lin Yu, a student of Jiangcheng Media University, instantly felt a bit inadequate in his heart.

Below the honor roll were the academic performance rankings for the first and second-year students, displaying the rankings from the last monthly exam.

These rankings mixed students from all five classes together, clearly indicating everyone still took the same unified exams.

While the general trend was the International Classes at the bottom, the Competition Class at the top, and the Quality Education Classes in the middle, the very top also included students from the International and Quality Education Classes, and the very bottom also had students from the Competition Class.

Of course, this ranking list was also very useful to Lin Yu.

He quickly found Li Nian's name and her class on the second-year ranking list.

"Rank 99, Li Nian, Competition Class."

Lin Yu was quite surprised by this.

On one hand, he hadn't expected Li Nian to be in the Competition Class.

On the other hand...

Shengle Middle School had less than 300 students per grade level, and the Competition Class had only around 30 students, making it quite small. Li Nian's rank of 99 meant she was actually among the bottom few in the Competition Class.

"I thought this girl would either be slacking off in an International Class or be among the top ranks..."

Lin Yu couldn't help but refresh his understanding of Li Nian.

Subsequently, Lin Yu quietly made his way to the third floor of Shengle Middle School's senior high teaching building according to the map—that was also the floor where the second-year Competition Class classroom was located.

Lin Yu walked down the still empty corridor and soon arrived at the door of the second-year Competition Class. Through the wide, bright glass, he saw the students inside diligently writing, solving problems, seemingly taking some kind of in-class quiz for a math lesson.

Li Nian was mixed in among them. Lin Yu actually had to look twice before he spotted her.

This wasn't because Lin Yu's eyesight was failing, making it hard to find one person among thirty-some. It was purely because...

Li Nian's appearance was drastically different from the few times he had seen her before!

It wasn't that Lin Yu had never seen Li Nian in school uniform.

But Lin Yu truly hadn't expected that the girl sitting in the front row right before the teacher's desk, wearing black-rimmed glasses, with her bangs tied up, biting on a pen cap while solving problems, would be Li Nian.

For a moment, Lin Yu even suspected Li Nian had an identical twin sister.

The teacher at the podium looked like a middle-aged man who was good at teaching math. He saw Lin Yu leaning against the window, peering inside, but didn't pay it any mind, simply assuming it was some student from another class who had gotten out early, waiting here for a friend.

Shengle Middle School was different from those top city schools that relied entirely on strict discipline to achieve results. Because half the students here were either wealthy or from influential families, and the other half were exceptionally good at studying, the teachers actually managed things more loosely and didn't strictly enforce discipline.

So, Lin Yu continued leaning by the window, waiting.

The bell for the end of class rang, and Li Nian still hadn't noticed Lin Yu by the window.

As an elegant, lively piano melody played, the Competition Class students finished handing in their test booklets. Only then did Li Nian stand up, casually complaining to a square-faced boy next to her, who looked very strong and had a slight hint of stubble on his lips, about the difficulty of the test. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Then, her gaze drifted to the window, and she finally noticed Lin Yu standing outside.

Their eyes met, and Lin Yu smiled and nodded at her.

Li Nian clearly froze for a moment inside the classroom. Then Lin Yu saw her take off her glasses, rub her eyes, and take out a glasses cloth to wipe the lenses.

After confirming once more that Lin Yu was still standing outside the window, Lin Yu saw a rare mix of astonishment, panic, and annoyance appear on Li Nian's face.

Lin Yu savored the wonderful expression on Li Nian's face, watching as she hurriedly said goodbye to her classmates, grabbed her schoolbag, quickly walked out of the classroom, then rushed two steps from the door to stand before him, grabbed his hand, and started pulling him towards the staircase.

"What are you doing here, are you insane?!"