Chapter 36: The Newest Scheme

Alright, the screen has gone black, and no matter how she presses it, there's no response.
After upgrading to the initial level-one system, the range for grabbing red envelopes has expanded from ten meters to a hundred, and she’s even been rewarded with a five-minute invincible x-ray vision item. Now, she’s rather looking forward to the rewards that will come with the initial level-two system upgrade.

As for the story Shi Qingqing made up about the revolutionary friendship forged over toilet paper in Zhan Campus, she wasn’t worried in the slightest about being exposed.
With a phone this high-tech, she believed that even hackers might not be able to track her down.
Still, since Zhang Xiaotu knows her ID is “Lacking Money in All Five Elements,” she should really keep her mouth shut.

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Qingming Hall.

It was the most forbidden, mysterious, and prestigious part of Qingming High School. Only students with a platinum badge or higher were qualified to enter.

At Mingqing High, students were classified by the rank of their school badges: bronze, silver, gold, platinum, and diamond.
The vast majority had bronze badges. Elite students, like members of the student council, wore silver.
Those who made significant contributions in a particular field could be promoted to gold.
Golden badge holders were extremely rare—about one percent of the student body.
As for platinum, beyond personal merit, it also required family background, with the school reviewing three generations of ancestors for their contributions to Qingming… The ratio was nearly one in a thousand.

Out of a thousand students, only one held a platinum badge.

Qingming Middle School was enormous, divided into high school and junior high, with a main campus and over a dozen branches in other major cities, amounting to at least thirty or forty thousand students.
Yet there were only thirty or forty platinum badge holders.
When it came to diamond badges, everyone knew of only the “Four Young Masters of Qingming”—Zhan Su, Shen Mingxuan, Rong Ruizhe, and Gu Xingzhi.

Qingming Hall itself was just a small, three-story wooden building, old and steeped in classical elegance, crafted from the finest materials—luxurious, refined, and prestigious.

First-floor classroom.

There were only about twenty-three students inside.
Girls were few, sitting together near the front door.
The rest were boys.

Each sat at ease, sprawled in comfort at their spacious, multi-functional, and lavish desks, chairs designed for flexibility.
Some gazed out the window, some worked on problems, some played on their phones or computers, others chatted.
The teacher lectured from the podium, absorbed in his own world.

Zhan Su sat near the back door—a territory forbidden to the girls.

Luo Hua stood behind him like a wooden post, while the rest of the bodyguards stood sentry outside the classroom.

Zhan Su exuded an air of cold indifference, his gaze sharp as an eagle’s, fixed on the teacher. Whether he was actually listening or lost in thought was anyone’s guess.

Suddenly, Rong Ruizhe, who sat in front of Zhan Su, turned around with a stifled laugh.

“So it turns out that last night Young Master Zhan went to the public restroom in the central park! And today, you went back to return some toilet paper?”

Every eye in the classroom turned their way.

They’d all noticed, of course, but none dared tease Zhan Su so openly as Young Master Rong—though they’d been holding back with difficulty.

Zhan Su frowned in confusion. “What are you talking about?”

The more Rong Ruizhe thought about it, the funnier he found it, his expression that of a mischievous, spoiled young master in need of a beating.

Zhan Su unceremoniously snatched the tablet from in front of him and glanced at the screen.

On the school forum, the breaking news section blared:

“Insider scoop: the latest trick to approach the campus heartthrob! Young Master Zhan’s toilet paper fate with commoner girl Shi Qingqing…”