Chapter 44: Consider It Them Treating Me to a Play

"It's fine! I was bored anyway, so I just treated it as them putting on a free show for me..."
And what a good show it was!
"Oh! Something's going on..."
Luxue bumped her shoulder.
"Why are you keeping secrets? Tell us so we can all have a laugh?"
Ye Mexi smiled.
"It's already all over the Planting Department. Major General Feng Yanqing's fiancée is rumored to be a freshman this year. I haven't even had the chance to claim my identity as his legitimate fiancée yet, and someone is already impatiently running their mouth... However, they only said they are currently 'entering the dating stage after a matchmaking session and might step into the luxury of marriage in the future.'
The Feng family has a whole bunch of majors, but there's only one major general, right? Not only that, they always use me as a comparison. I really don't know where a Grade A gets the confidence to want to compare herself in everything to me, a Grade S..."
Luxue sneered.
"Isn't that just like Dili from the Guide Department? So bold, daring to impersonate anyone's fiancée!"
Among the students of the Academy of Talents, apart from those from small and medium-sized families who only knew half the story, who from the major noble houses didn't know Dili was a fake! Who knows what the Xiong family was thinking, neither confirming nor denying it.
Feng Yanqing's eyes lowered.
The Xiong family was probably still plotting to make Ye Mexi deliver herself right to their doorstep!
...
"Ye Mexi, I heard you're good at planting. I have some energy flowers and plants. Could I ask you to help plant them? I am a Grade 3A Guide from the Guide Department, Mo Ruoxue."
The young girl's expression was haughty, her tone seemingly gentle yet carrying a distinct arrogance.
So what if she's Grade S? Isn't she still in the most useless Planting Department?
"Sorry, Senior Sister, I have things to do..."
"I'm just asking for help transplanting a few flowers. I am a Grade 3A Guide!"
She had heard that this Ye Mexi had a Grade S Sentinel younger brother who had been adopted as a foster son by Army Commander Ye Tianjiao. If Ye Mexi knew how to pander to her, she might even consider adding Ye Ximo to her list of prospective marriage partners...
"Does Senior Sister really think that whenever your upper and lower lips touch, I must come at your beck and call? You are Grade 3A, but I am Grade S. We aren't even in the same department, what are you daydreaming about!"
"Ye Mexi, we are sincerely inviting you, what is this attitude? I am your direct Senior Sister!" another senior sister in her company spoke up.
"Senior Sister? My Wood-type superpower is at level five, and my direct mentor is Feng Xun. Calling you Senior Sister is just me being civil and polite!"
She still wanted to make her do manual labor and do favors for other departments? What was she daydreaming about!
The Academy of Talents valued rank above all! Mental power rank and superpower rank!
Weren't they all just looking at her as someone from the marginal star system and wanting to bully her?
Did they really take her for some foolish, clueless bumpkin?
"You really are outstanding! I see you'll never shake off the title of 'little drama queen of the Planting Department'!"
Ye Mexi sneered.
"They can also choose to crush me with their strength!" Matching wits with her verbally? Who had she ever feared?
"With a rank like yours, if the truth ever gets out, will you still have it easy?"
Madam Fengxi had once borrowed Chief Michael's private testing instrument to test Ye Mexi. Her actual rank was Grade 2S in mental power and level six in Wood-type superpowers...
The crucial part was that she could also clear away the dark energy in mental consciousness seas!
Never mind the Guide Department, even the Military Department and the Council of Elders would rush over to snatch her away! He would never forget how the novice Fengxi back then had been pushed by the other two parties into marrying the newly widowed Emperor as his second wife amid a three-way political struggle!
"Hey, the course schedule your mother arranged for you consists entirely of Chief Michael's personal lectures this semester. I've sent it to you, remember to set an alarm! Even if you don't become a Guide, it's still very necessary to listen to the Chief's lectures!"
This direct student of his! She was truly lazy enough! It was only because her talent was high! Otherwise... how could he possibly tolerate her being this lazy!
"Today's classes are over. Are you going back to the dorm or... By now your mother and the others should be nearing afternoon tea time, why don't you go over to her place for a bit?"
His direct student didn't like making friends, and maintained only nodding acquaintances with her classmates in the same department. Her day consisted of two... three points forming a line: the classroom, the dorm, and Ye Ximo's dorm...
At most, plus the academy's super shopping mall!
Feng Xun chased away his own direct student with a look of exasperation mixed with high hopes.
Ye Mexi had been to the sky garden where Madam Fengxi and the others drank afternoon tea several times. Right as she arrived, she noticed a rather precious energy flower looking a bit wilted, so she activated her Wood-type superpowers. Specks of green energy fell, the withered leaves of the energy plants dropped off, and new tender green shoots unfurled...
"What are you doing? Who told you to touch things randomly! These energy plants are all very precious. Can you afford to pay if you break them?"
A bright and flamboyant girl walked over and aggressively pushed Ye Mexi aside.
"I..."
She couldn't afford to pay?
Wait, she had saved the flowers and plants back to life, what was there to pay for?
"What is going on?" A female mentor from the Guide Department happened to walk over.
"Mentor, this girl came uninvited and was casually messing with the energy plants..." The exquisitely dressed girl hurried over to greet her.
"Oh, it's Ye Mexi! She is the direct student of Feng Xun, the head of the Planting Department, and a level-five Wood-type superpower user. If these energy plants really were in trouble, with her here, their chances of survival are even higher!"
This mentor had met Ye Mexi a few times and knew she was well-behaved and reticent. Every time she came by, she would proactively check on these energy plants and bring everyone delicious treats.
The girl bit her lip, glaring resentfully at Ye Mexi.
It was this girl whose actions had caused her family's grand-aunt, He Moli, to suffer a plummeting reputation in the Planting Department, and even led to two of her uncles being exiled to a backward planet...
Once she became Chief Michael's direct student, she would definitely return all of this tenfold!
"Mexi, you haven't been here in days..."
The mentors of the Guide Department were usually the most aloof, very strict with students from their own department. Why were they always so gentle toward Ye Mexi?
What was so great about knowing how to tend to flowers and plants!
Wasn't she still covered in the smell of dirt!
"Fengxi will be here in a moment! What delicious treats did you bring her today? Do I have the good fortune to share a bite..."
Most of the mentors in the Guide Department were women—noble and elegant—and they shared a common hobby: a love for sweets.
"Today I brought chocolate mousse thousand-layer cake, and Ceylon black tea. Also, there's rock sugar and snow pear drink. My mentor drinks it every day, saying it's good for soothing the throat, so I brewed a huge pot of it today..."
After all, she also had a direct roommate whose throat took quite a beating during classes every day.
"Then we're in for a treat today!"
There were already very few mentors with classes in the afternoon, and even fewer whose classes ran very late!
When Madam Fengxi and another mentor arrived, there were only four or five mentors on the spacious balcony including them.
"Come quickly, Fengxi, we get to bask in your reflected glory again today! Your brother Feng Xun really recruited a good student this year!..."
"This chocolate mousse, I've wanted to buy it several times but it was always sold out! Mexi, are you guys at Star Snow Ink really not considering doing delivery? It's limited in quantity and time every day, it's so hard for me to grab any!"
"You know that Star Snow Ink is currently accepting applications for branches on several bustling planets, so the flagship store might be overwhelmed for a moment! Once everything is arranged properly, I'll definitely have the shop supply more..."