108: Tang Xia: I feel like my A-level talent is working again.

The morning sun shone brightly upon the earth.

Tang Xia woke from her dreams,

gently rubbed her bleary eyes, and sat up in bed.

The thin quilt slid down from her perky chest, revealing her wrinkled school uniform.

"Last night... did Su Yan bring me back?"

Tang Xia was slightly dazed,

and as she thought of something, her lovely face instantly turned beet red.

"Ah, it's over, it's all over! He saw it!"

The electric fan whirred,

blowing Tang Xia's long hair, which had come loose at some point, like drifting seaweed.

The young girl on the bed,

however, swung her hand toward a sticker on the wall.

A wisp of flame shot out with precision, hitting the sticker that had "Su Yan Su Yan Su Yan" written all over it.

In the blink of an eye, it burned to ashes!

"Eh, my Talent?"

But suddenly, just as Tang Xia was feeling both mortified and regretful,

her eyes snapped wide open, her beautiful pupils trembling in disbelief.

She stared blankly at her own hands.

As if testing her luck, Tang Xia's slender fingertips twitched slightly.

Whoosh!

Another wisp of flame appeared.

"Impossible, it must be a hallucination!"

Tang Xia was stunned.

Because her little flame had actually turned light blue!

One should know,

for a B-Rank Fire Talent, the flame color should be red!

Only an A-Rank Fire Talent would have a light blue color... "Could it be that my Talent has become A-Rank?"

Sitting on the bed with her long hair flowing, Tang Xia's face was full of pleasant surprise.

But,

to know the grade of a Talent,

besides using an Awakening Crystal for testing, color wasn't the only way to judge.

One also needed to observe the power caused by the Fire Talent.

Thinking of this, almost subconsciously,

Tang Xia condensed the flame on her fingertip a bit more and threw it toward the dry floor of her bedroom.

Poof!

When the blue flame hit the floor, a surging tongue of fire suddenly exploded out.

It instantly began to burn!

The intensity of this flame

far exceeded Tang Xia's expectations.

"Oh no, the room is on fire!"

At this moment, Tang Xia was both surprised and panicked, and she quickly jumped off the bed.

Barefoot, she grabbed some clothes to beat out the fire.

Now she could finally be certain.

Her Talent had indeed become A-Rank!

But what exactly was going on?

She took a nap and her Talent upgraded?

Or could it be,

because of the alcohol last night??

...Because of System maintenance,

Su Yan had nothing to do after logging off,

and remembering that Tang Xia was going to report to her university today, he teleported to the sky above her house.

"Whoa, why is there smoke rising?"

When he saw plumes of gray smoke rising from the roof, Su Yan was slightly surprised.

But he soon discovered blue flames flickering and immediately understood what had happened.

"This woman, I'm truly speechless!"

Su Yan was at a loss for words.

His figure, however, appeared in the courtyard in the blink of an eye.

With a casual wave, an Electric Scooter flew out of his inventory,

pretending that he had ridden here on this vehicle.

Immediately after, Su Yan rushed into the house.

"Su Yan, why are you here?"

As soon as he entered,

he saw the 'Big Genius' Tang Xia running barefoot between the main hall and the bedroom, carrying half a bucket of water in her hand.

Su Yan scolded her irritably,

"I say, Xia, is this necessary? If you're going to university, just go. Why burn down your house? Don't you plan on coming back?"

Tang Xia understood his meaning, and her face flushed.

"Pah, you're the one burning your house down! I... this was a slip-up..."

Seeing the fire in the bedroom getting bigger, she quickly rushed in with the bucket and threw the water on it with all her might.

Sizzle!

However, when the blue flame met the water,

instead of weakening in the slightest, it flared up even higher, almost reaching the roof beams.

At the level of an A-Rank Talent,

the generated flames could burn all things and could no longer be extinguished by ordinary water.

Su Yan shook his head and snatched the bucket from Tang Xia's hand.

"It's a good thing I wasn't at ease and came to check, otherwise you'd be sleeping on the streets when you come back!"

As Su Yan spoke,

he lightly raised his palm, and in an instant, countless sparkling Ice Crystals flew out from his palm.

The next moment, he tossed them coolly toward the fire,

and the Ice Crystals immediately drifted down onto the blue flames like snowflakes.

The flames were extinguished instantly!

Su Yan's move left Tang Xia with her small mouth slightly agape in shock, and her panicked heart quickly calmed down.

The crisis was averted; a fire disaster had been prevented.

Two minutes later.

Tang Xia sat dejectedly on the doorstep, looking at Su Yan who was laughing so hard in the courtyard that his abs showed.

Her expression couldn't have been more sour.

"Hey, stop laughing, I have something to tell you!"

Su Yan stopped laughing, his gaze falling on Tang Xia's... long hair draped behind her head.

Her hair was like a waterfall, her black tresses shining.

To be honest,

this was the first time he had seen Tang Xia with her hair down.

He thought it looked quite good,

so why did she always tie it into a high ponytail?

"Have you... seen enough!"

At this time, Tang Xia's face reddened, and she glared at him.

Su Yan quickly averted his gaze and chuckled,

"What is it? Go ahead and say it."

Tang Xia's pretty face showed excitement as she blurted out, "Su Yan, you might not believe it!"

"I... I've become an A!"

"Become an A? No way, from what I see, it has to be at least a C?"

Su Yan spoke with a straight face, not forgetting to let his gaze wander over Tang Xia's pretty chest.

Tang Xia was stunned for a moment.

Then her face filled with shame and indignation.

She quickly covered her chest with both hands and scolded, "You rogue!"

"I'm talking about my Talent! My Talent!"

"Talent?"

Su Yan pretended to be completely unaware, his expression becoming serious.

"Xia, are you saying your Talent has become A-Rank?"

Tang Xia nodded proudly, "Mhm mhm!"

"Hiss!"

Su Yan's acting was lifelike as he sucked in a breath of cold air.

He stepped forward and pulled Tang Xia up, "Come, let's go inside and talk!"

Another ten minutes or so passed.

By the time Su Yan confirmed that Tang Xia's Talent had indeed upgraded to A-Rank,

he thought that at this rate,

upgrading to SS-Rank probably wouldn't take much time.

His expression changed slightly, and Su Yan warned,

"Listen up, Xia. If something like this happens again, you absolutely cannot just blurt it out like today. You must keep it hidden in your heart, understand?"

At this moment, Tang Xia was standing in front of the mirror with a hair tie in her mouth.

Her hands were skillfully tying her hair into a ponytail.

The young girl's figure was agile and lithe, her fine body full of youthful aura on full display.

Hearing Su Yan's words, Tang Xia took the hair tie out, turned her head to look at him, and pouted,

"But I didn't tell anyone else, I only told you."

"Even if it's me, you can't say it."

Su Yan's tone was very serious.

Tang Xia was dazed, her movements in tying the ponytail suddenly coming to a halt.

But she soon lowered her head and hummed,

"None of your business! This daddy will tell whoever I'm happy to tell!"

After saying that,

in the mirror, the light in Tang Xia's lowered eyes changed imperceptibly.

Originally, her treat last night

was meant to be a farewell meal.

Because between her and Su Yan,

the gap in Talent was simply too large.

So large it drove her to despair.

No matter how much she liked him, she knew that with her humble self,

how could she be worthy of a super Genius like Su Yan?

So after finishing that meal last night,

the two of them should have parted ways and never met again.

But... didn't her Talent just upgrade to A-Rank when she woke up this morning?

Thus,

Tang Xia instantly felt like she could do it again!

"Su Yan."

Once she had finished tying her long, slender ponytail, Tang Xia spoke softly.

"What is it?"

Su Yan looked up, his face showing surprise.

Tang Xia put her hands behind her back, puffed out her perky chest, and blinked.

"You're here to see me off, right?"

"?"

Su Yan's mouth twitched as he laughed awkwardly,

"Uh, if I said I just happened to be passing by, would you believe me, Xia?"

...Half an hour later.

Su Yan was reluctantly riding the Electric Scooter,

with Tang Xia on the back seat, traveling along a dirt road in the outermost suburbs of Jiangnan City.

"Hey, please, can you stop moving!"

"Who's moving? This daddy isn't moving at all, okay!"

Amidst their bickering, Su Yan forgot to tell Tang Xia.

He only knew how to drive cars.

His Electric Scooter riding skills were actually quite mediocre!

The Electric Scooter wobbled slowly forward, and when they reached a high slope,

"Ow, holy crap!"

Suddenly, the Electric Scooter plunged headfirst into a farmland... (This chapter is an exclusive sponsored update by big boss [Wang Zhong who loves to eat Pizhou moss]! The extra update is scheduled for the weekend, thank you!)