Chapter 27

“I wonder what kind of demonic question tomorrow’s assessment will throw at us,” Zheng Yong’an said with a bitter smile.

As the number of assessments increased, the content naturally became more and more perverse.

“I feel like tomorrow might be where I stop.” Lu Ci, on the other hand, was rather open-minded. Being able to make it into the top thirty already satisfied him.

“Who cares what it is? Whatever comes, we’ll deal with it.” Sang Yuan gnawed on an apple, his smile casual and carefree.

After so many days of surprise exams, if nothing else, he had more or less memorized the basic knowledge of the Literature Department, and he had gained a bit more confidence.

As long as they did not make him write by hand, he should be fine.

The problem was that whenever he picked up a pen, what he wrote was stiff and proper, without the slightest beauty to speak of. It looked more like an academic report.

“For you and Ji Tang, it doesn’t matter anyway. With the strength you two have, if you actually get eliminated, I’ll seriously suspect there’s something shady going on,” Lu Ci joked.

Putting aside everything else, just from the few assessments so far plus their usual performance, it was obvious that those two had left them far behind.

Since he knew he could not compare with the very top, he might as well honestly show what he could do. Surviving one more round was one more round.

Ji Tang silently took the apple core from Sang Yuan’s hand and threw it into the trash can, then pulled out a wet wipe and handed it to him.

His movements were so smooth that no one felt anything was strange about it.

Everyone in the dorm knew the two of them had a good relationship. Besides, back at Yun City University, they had already shared a dorm. Who knew how many people envied them?

Sang Yuan had gone from feeling uncomfortable at first to now accepting it with complete ease.

He deeply felt that Ji Tang really was the kind of person who looked cold on the outside but was warm on the inside. He liked taking care of people.

There was a knock on the door. Lu Ci ran over to open it, and when he saw who had come, he grinned. “Assistant Luo, you’re here.”

The person who had come was Luo Xinghe. Back when each school recommended assistants, Luo Xinghe had been among them. It was just that he followed the Astronomy Department’s class, and the class assistants did not live in the same place as the students, so they rarely ran into each other.

As the number of people decreased, more assistants had returned as well. There were not many left here now.

“I’m here to see Ji Tang.” Luo Xinghe gave Lu Ci a smile and looked toward Ji Tang, who was sitting at the desk.

In one dorm, there were three people participating in this nationwide training. Regardless of their identities, this probability truly made the people of Yun City University envious.

After all, they were classmates who would spend the next four years together. Who would not want to have a better relationship with the people in their own dorm?

Sang Yuan smiled and waved at Luo Xinghe in greeting. He had been very surprised when he first saw Luo Xinghe here. He had not expected him to participate in the nationwide training as an assistant.

Although assistants did not need to take part in the usual training, they attended the evening classes together.

For them, although they had not entered the nationwide training as trainees, the only thing missing was the [Read on BaiLianTales]physical training. Everything else was no different.

After the two of them went out, Lu Ci sneakily whispered to the remaining two, “I heard Assistant Luo grew up with Ji Tang. He’s the kind of person who’s like a childhood companion.”

“Companion?” Sang Yuan was surprised. This was the first time he had heard this term.

“You don’t know? Ji Tang is the young master of the Ji family.” Now it was Lu Ci’s turn to look at Sang Yuan in shock. After all that, the person with the best relationship with Ji Tang actually did not know his identity.

“?” Sang Yuan truly did not know, nor did he know what this Ji family Lu Ci was talking about was all about.

Ever since he came to this world, he had only roughly learned the general background. After that, he had focused on hiding his identity and not revealing any flaws in front of the original owner’s family.

He felt that he had not been treated as an anomaly after transmigrating purely thanks to his powerful defensive ability.

He did not have the original owner’s memories. All he relied on were the bits and pieces his sister had told him, along with the general direction of the story.

Disguising oneself as another person was not a simple thing. Most importantly, he did not know that person’s original temperament.

But for a person who had committed suicide because they could not bear being troubled by rumors, Sang Yuan could more or less make some inferences.

Seeing that Sang Yuan actually did not know about the Ji family, Lu Ci became energetic. He excitedly moved a stool over beside Sang Yuan.

“Do you know the surname of our empire’s imperial family?”

This, Sang Yuan really did know. After coming to this world, the first thing he read the original at bailiantales.comhad done was investigate the general background, so naturally he knew that the current world was an empire.

An empire meant that an imperial family definitely existed.

The current imperial family’s surname was Yi.

“Ji Tang’s mother’s surname is Yi.” Lu Ci revealed a mysterious expression. “The news back then caused a huge sensation—the wedding of the century between an imperial princess and a refined general.”

“Ji Tang’s father is the famous refined general of our empire. He can beat enemies to a sorry state while remaining gentle and elegant.”

“Most importantly, he was a commoner.”

“In the hearts of commoners like us, General Ji is a general with extremely high prestige. Even if he has become part of the new nobility now, that doesn’t change the fact that he has always been the person commoners feel best represents them.”

Yes, the book world Sang Yuan was currently in was not a completely peaceful world.

Compared to the world he had lived in before, this world was even more brutal.

“No matter how you put it, Ji Tang is the current emperor’s biological nephew, so naturally, his treatment follows the standards of a prince.”

“Having a companion is only natural. Not only are they there to keep him company, they also serve somewhat like a personal secretary or assistant, helping him handle many things.”

“Mm.” Sang Yuan nodded thoughtfully. “So that’s how it is.”

The identity of an imperial relative was naturally not simple. Putting aside ​unauthorized copy​everything else, Ji Tang probably had many people around him protecting him, and he himself had to learn many things too.

“But how do you know all this?” Sang Yuan looked at Lu Ci curiously.

Ordinary citizens should not know about things like this, right? No matter how one looked at it, some of it involved rather private matters.

“Cough, cough.” Lu Ci rubbed his nose, his expression looking rather guilty. “Naturally, it’s because my family does this kind of work, so I know some secrets.”

“They’re called secrets, but actually, in their aristocratic circles, they’re all unwritten rules. Everyone knows them perfectly well.”

“It’s only ordinary people who don’t know.”

Sang Yuan’s mind turned, and he understood what Lu Ci meant. “You mean your family deals in intelligence?”

“Shh, shh, shh. Keep it low-key, low-key.” Lu Ci grinned and raised an eyebrow at Sang Yuan. “In the future, if you want to know any inside gossip, come find me. Since we’ve shared revolutionary friendship, no matter what, I’ll give you an eigh—no, a ten percent discount.”

Sang Yuan gave Lu Ci a fake smile and pressed one hand down on Lu Ci’s head. “You brat, our revolutionary friendship is only worth that much affection?”

“Hahaha, Lu Ci, you stingy little miser, serves you right for being so petty.” Zheng Yong’an, who had heard everything clearly from the side, hugged his stomach and laughed nonstop.

This Lu Ci was good in every way, except he was terribly stingy.

“Damn it, Zheng Yong’an, not helping me is one thing, but you even dare laugh at me.” Lu Ci was so angry smoke was practically coming out of his head. He reached out to pry Sang Yuan’s fingers off. “Sang Yuan, you bastard, a ten percent discount already hurts my heart, okay? And you still don’t appreciate it!”