Pretending To Be A Boss

Level Three. District 669.

Returning to the school where he had once spent time, Tang Xian felt little in the way of sentiment. His greatest sentiment was towards the wealth of the Li family, seeing from afar that the school district seemed to have gained several additional buildings donated by the Lis.

No wonder Li Xiaoyu had been able to transfer to the sixth year class at the age of twelve.

At this time, there were no people in the school. He could vaguely see some lights outside the students' dormitory buildings.

When Tang Xian brought Li Xiaoyu in, they didn't encounter anyone and passed through without issue.

Li Xiaoyu's identity card, in the context of the Thirty-Nine Fortress, was equivalent to a master key.
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They arrived at the school's artificial lake.

It was a large lake area. In the current era, with no distinction between universities and middle schools, all school districts were on the scale of ancient universities.

This kind of freshwater lake was not much different from a real lake, with an observation deck set up not far away.

Tang Xian brought Li Xiaoyu to the observation deck.

Li Xiaoyu actually remembered some things about this place. Back when she was at school, lacking friends, she often came here.

Whenever she came here, people around would stay far away.

She looked at Tang Xian's profile. For the first time, she felt that there was something different in his eyes as he gazed at the lake.

"I heard from Dong Ran that the girl transferred to another school district during her third year?"

Tang Xian did not answer Li Xiaoyu's question and just stared into the distance.

Li Xiaoyu did not continue to ask, and quietly waited for Tang Xian.

After a long while, Tang Xian slowly spoke with a tone that traced back long-ago memories:

"I used to be a very annoying person, with a really nasty personality. Really nasty."

"At the beginning of the first year, when everyone had just arrived at the district, we were all children around the ages of eleven or twelve. The teacher would ask everyone to introduce themselves. People like Ke and Shang Lu, they were far from how they appear now. Back then, Ke still had snot bubbles, and Shang Lu was so shy he stuttered.

On reflection, childhood seems distant to us, yet looking back, it's always just a bit ahead of our youth, never changing.

During the introductions, everyone talked about what they wanted to be in the future, about their dreams.

Some people really achieved them, while others missed by a mile. Like Yu Xiaozhe, for example, who lives days unrelated to his dreams. Some started out excellent but ended up in the lower tiers with their fate unknown, while others who seemed foolish ended up living clearer lives than anyone else.

I remember one child said he wanted to grow up to be Santa Claus. I can't remember his name now, but back then... I found it annoying, wondering how anyone could be foolish enough to make something nonexistent their dream.

I didn't hold back, thinking I heard a joke and started laughing.

When the teacher asked me what was so funny, I said,

'There's no such thing as Santa Claus in this world. It's just a marketing strategy of foolish adults and toy manufacturers and an act of self-gratification. So-called Christmas gifts are nothing more than parents tiptoeing in to place them while their children are fast asleep. How foolish does one have to be to take such a fantasy as an ideal?'

The kid started crying, and I got reprimanded by the teacher.

Due to the bad first impression, I became a very disliked presence.

But I didn't think there was anything wrong. Maybe it's because I lacked some emotions.

Many behaviors they exhibited seemed so foolish to me.

It was the same with academic work, simple subjects that they took so long to learn.

Even their methods of cheating were clumsy.

The reasons for boys getting into fights were childish and laughable.

The reasons for the girls' secret conspiracies against each other were just as idiotic.

I never hid my disdain for them.

In academics, when someone asked for help with a problem, I would tell them the answer and the thinking process, but when I realized they still didn't understand, I also directly pointed out their foolishness.

All in all, in the first year, even Ke and Shang Lu didn't get along with me.

Because I really was someone who did not consider the feelings of others.

It was also at this time that I met Yan Xiaoling."

"Yan Xiaoling?" Li Xiaoyu felt that this was probably another protagonist of the story.

She seemed to have some impression of this name but couldn't quite recall it at the moment.

Tang Xian continued saying:

"Yan Xiaoling was probably the most idiotic among these idiots. She had an intellectual disability. She looked very silly when she laughed.

She was one of those who showed no talent during the Trial of the Chosen and was destined to be demoted to the lower tiers; if she went to the lower tiers, given her mental capacity, she would find it difficult to survive. Usually, people also didn't like to play with her.

I often used very venomous words to describe Yan Xiaoling's intelligence. The difference was, if it were someone else, I would be faced by a group of angry stares, but when I insulted Yan Xiaoling, some of them would ridicule her with me.

Seeing everyone laugh, Yan Xiaoling would often laugh along. Those who mocked her became even more unrestrained in their mockery.

Once, when I couldn't stand it, I scolded Yan Xiaoling saying, 'They're laughing at you, what are you laughing for?'

Yan Xiaoling saw that I was somewhat angry, so she showed me that signature silly smile of hers.

I really couldn't understand, so I kept insulting her. At first, she was still smiling, but later, as she saw I remained angry, she couldn't smile anymore and started looking at me uneasily."