46: Shocked Chen Mingyuan, unreasonable fat woman

“Quick, open the first page and look at the top five rankings!”

Wang Jiannan’s eyes also widened, gleaming with brilliant light. A thought that he had never dared to entertain before also emerged in his mind.

Without waiting for Secretary Wang to act, Wang Jiannan directly reached out, snatched the mouse, and opened the first page.

Seeing the result displayed, Wang Jiannan froze on the spot.

Not only him, but everyone present fell into a brief stupor.

For a moment, the vast office was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

A moment later, a thud broke the silent tranquility.

“!!!! National First!!!??? Li Ziyu’s ranking is National First!!!”

Thud!

“Mayor! Mayor, what’s wrong with you, Mayor!”

“Quick! Get an adrenaline shot, the Mayor has fainted again!”

“Holy crap, one isn’t enough, get a few more. Third High School’s principal has also fainted!”

…

The Martial Arts Association building in the center of Xu Jiang City.

Top floor office.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

Martial Arts Association President Chen Mingyuan was punching a sandbag, the dull thuds echoing throughout the room.

Just then, the room door was abruptly pushed open.

His bespectacled secretary, panting, pushed the door open and walked in. As soon as he entered, he eagerly said to Chen Mingyuan:

“President! President! Good news! Earth-shattering good news!”

“What good news has you so flustered? How did I educate you before? You should remain calm in the face of things.”

Chen Mingyuan didn’t even lift his head, still punching the sandbag with dull thuds.

“Uh…”

The secretary paused.

Chen Mingyuan then spoke:

“Tell me, what’s Nangong Ao’s ranking in Su Province?”

The Martial Exam had just ended, and the Martial Exam rankings had just been released.

Without guessing, any news at this time would certainly be related to the Martial Exam.

Seeing his secretary’s excited look, Nangong Ao’s results must be good this time.

He blindly guessed that Nangong Ao was probably in the top three in Su Province.

Chen Mingyuan thought to himself.

“Ah? It’s not Nangong Ao, it’s Li Ziyu! He got National First!”

“National Martial Exam First! His score was double that of the second-place finisher!”

The secretary said excitedly. Chen Mingyuan nodded calmly at the words:

“Hmm, Su Province First, that result is truly… Wait! What did you just say!? National First!!!? Li Ziyu?”

Chen Mingyuan seemed to have reacted, and his entire body trembled.

His fist unconsciously tightened, and the sandbag instantly broke its ropes and flew out.

After flying out, the sandbag slammed heavily into the panoramic floor-to-ceiling window, shattering the over ten-meter-long window with a crash, sending glass shards flying.

However, Chen Mingyuan paid no attention to the shattered glass.

Instead, he abruptly turned his head, staring unblinkingly at the secretary.

His eyes burst forth with dazzling light:

“What did you just say!? What National First!?”

“I said Li Ziyu. The Martial Exam rankings just came out, and Li Ziyu got National First! He became the National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer!”

“I estimate many people have already gotten the news by now. The teachers from those four prestigious schools should be on their way to try and recruit him!”

The secretary was startled by Chen Mingyuan’s gaze.

But then he immediately spoke.

As he spoke, he took out the printed ranking results and handed them to Chen Mingyuan.

Chen Mingyuan took the documents handed by the secretary and looked at them carefully. After reading, his face flushed with excitement, and he burst into hearty laughter:

“Haha! Good! Good!”

“I never thought that Xu Jiang City would produce a dragon! A National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer, tsk! It’s truly unimaginable.”

“It seems I misjudged him, I underestimated Li Ziyu!”

Chen Mingyuan laughed heartily.

He was so excited that he kept clapping his hands and pacing back and forth.

He also kept muttering things like “Too good, too good.”

“I never thought our Xu Jiang City could also produce a National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer!”

“In the past, the National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer was always monopolized by the two major Martial Exam cities, Magic Capital and Imperial Capital. Li Ziyu was actually able to break that monopoly and become the top scorer.”

“Amazing, truly amazing!”

Secretary Wang was also equally excited.

Magic Capital and Imperial Capital are the two centers of the Great Xia, and the resources and level of martial artist cultivation there are far beyond what other cities can compare to.

In the past dozen or so National Martial Exams, even the top ten in the nation came from these two cities.

It was almost a common consensus among people that small cities could not produce a National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer.

He never expected Li Ziyu to break this record.

“Little Wu, go prepare the car immediately, and bring the city’s commendation. We’ll go to Li Ziyu’s house right away to tell him this good news.”

Chen Mingyuan stopped pacing, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly looked up at the secretary and said.

“Li Ziyu got the National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer, and we can also benefit from it.”

“We must ensure the rewards are in place!”

The safety of the Great Xia is built upon the protection of powerful martial artists. One important standard for measuring the performance within one’s jurisdiction is the results achieved in the annual Martial Exam.

Now that Xu Jiang City had produced a National Martial Arts Exam Top Scorer, even he, the Martial Arts Association President, could benefit from it.

Perhaps he could even use this opportunity to advance further.

Chen Mingyuan picked up his clothes, ready to leave.

However, when he saw the moonlight outside, he slapped his forehead:

“Look at me, I’m so excited I forgot it’s midnight now.”

“Tomorrow then. You go prepare things now, and we’ll go visit Li Ziyu tomorrow morning.”

“Oh, right, I also need to tell His Excellency the Governor about this!”

…

The morning sun pierced through the darkness.

Xu Jiang City, which had been silent all night, came alive with the interwoven flow of people bustling for their livelihoods.

Li Ziyu’s residential complex.

From early morning, people carrying gifts began to appear at the building entrance.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

“Open the door! You brat, open the door!”

“I know you’re in there!”

Li Ziyu was sleeping when he was woken up by a series of banging on the door.

A woman’s shouting also came from outside the door.

Li Ziyu frowned, walked over, and opened the door.

As expected, the one knocking was the Fat Woman neighbor who lived across the hall.

Seeing Li Ziyu come out, the Fat Woman’s face drooped, and she said with dissatisfaction:

“Are you deaf? I’ve been calling you for ages and you didn’t hear.”

“What is it?”

Li Ziyu frowned, staring expressionlessly at the Fat Woman.

He was 1.9 meters tall, a full head taller than the Fat Woman.

With his cold aura and expressionless face, when he glared at her, the Fat Woman’s heart instinctively skipped a beat.

An inexplicable feeling of retreat and fear rose within her.

However, the Fat Woman thought about Li Ziyu’s past nature of being bullied and enduring it.

Coupled with the fact that her son had been admitted to a Martial Arts University.

The Fat Woman felt her confidence return. She put her hands on her hips and glared fiercely at Li Ziyu:

“My son got into a Martial Arts University, and relatives are coming and we don’t have enough space. Lend us your room for a night.”

“You don’t need to come back tonight, make some space for us.”

The Fat Woman said as if it were a matter of course.

Li Ziyu looked at her strangely, feeling baffled.

Your relatives are coming, so you want me to move out and give you my place for a night? Are you crazy?

He found it somewhat comical. The Fat Woman’s behavior inexplicably reminded him of a news story he saw in his previous life.

An old man who always used his neighbor’s Wi-Fi. One day, because the neighbor changed the Wi-Fi password, the old man went to his neighbor’s door and cursed him.

Not only that, he even sued his neighbor in court.

He claimed that because the neighbor changed the Wi-Fi password, his child couldn’t attend online classes, which led to a decline in grades, and demanded compensation from the neighbor.

That sense of entitlement, how similar it was to the scene before him.

At this moment, Li Ziyu had only one word in his heart.

Absurd.

“Scram!”

He coldly spat out one word. Li Ziyu couldn’t be bothered with the Fat Woman and slammed the door shut with a bang.

The Fat Woman looked at the tightly closed door, enraged.

She was about to bang on the door and start cursing, but then her husband called her:

“Hey, wife, the relatives are downstairs. Let’s go pick them up.”

“Coming. Hmph, you brat, just you wait. After I pick up the relatives, I’ll deal with you later!”

The Fat Woman snorted coldly.

One of her relatives was a high-ranking official working in the government.

She couldn’t contact him before, but now that she heard her son got into a Martial Arts University, he also came to visit with gifts.

This made the Fat Woman feel a sense of triumph.

But she didn’t dare to be slow, and quickly hurried downstairs with her husband.