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Join the ServerAfter being mercilessly rejected for a team-up by his good friend Ye Xingchen, Liu Yuxuan found himself hitting walls everywhere in class.
Each time he shamelessly approached a small team, they either pretended not to see him or flat-out waved him away, saying, “No, no, no, our team’s strength is limited…”.
The unspoken meaning was painfully clear, for who would willingly take on a dead weight ranked second-to-last?
“Hey! Did you guys hear?” a few boys whispered, exchanging knowing glances nearby.
“Ye Xingchen teamed up with Su Liyue again. They say Chief Su even came out personally to pick him up…”
Liu Yuxuan’s ears perked up instantly, and a brilliant idea suddenly struck him.
He slapped his thigh, pulling out the small pamphlet he considered a sacred text from his怀里.
This was his hard-won treasure: Brother Xingchen’s personally taught ‘Eighteen Practical Techniques for Courting Girls’ battle notes!
Standing in the center of the classroom, he cleared his throat. “Ahem! Classmates! Do you want to know how Ye Xingchen, the last-ranked student, managed to capture the heart of Su Liyue, the grade’s chief beauty?”
This question exploded among the boys like a fire-element explosive bomb.
Recently, due to the familiar incident, rumors about Ye Xingchen and Su Liyue had already been spreading like wildfire. Everyone had been privately speculating but dared not speak openly.
Now, Liu Yuxuan, Ye Xingchen’s roommate, had suddenly dropped such a sensational revelation. Who wouldn’t be tempted? Who wouldn’t be curious?
The class’s number one fan of Su Liyue was the first to leap out.
“Nonsense! That Ye Xingchen can’t even summon a familiar. How could Chief Su possibly…”
Liu Yuxuan calmly flipped open a page, revealing bold and flowing script that read: ‘Three Key Essentials for Breaking Through the Psychological Defenses of a Cold and Aloof Goddess: Ancient Strategies Win Hearts’.
He lowered his voice. “Do you know why Brother Xingchen always deliberately caused explosions in alchemy class? It was all to intentionally catch the goddess’s attention…”
“And then?” More than a dozen heads unconsciously leaned closer.
“Is that true?”
“Let us see!”
The boys behind them also began to gather, clamoring with questions.
Liu Yuxuan mysteriously wagged the notebook.
“As Brother Xingchen’s roommate… what’s recorded here is exclusive strategy, unknown even to the Dean!”
Liu Yuxuan dramatically displayed the first chapter of the ‘Eighteen Techniques of Courting’. Upon reading it, everyone suddenly understood.
“So that’s it!”
“No wonder the underdog could win over Chief Su!”
“There’s definitely a trick to this!”
The boys instantly swarmed around him like bears sniffing honey, their numbers growing rapidly.
Some craned their necks to peek, while others anxiously rubbed their hands.
When they saw the never-before-heard techniques, such as ‘playing hard to get’ and ‘reverse empathy,’ several boys slapped the desks in admiration on the spot.
“No wonder! I knew that underdog was suddenly…”
“Team up with me, and I’ll share the full version!” Liu Yuxuan seized the opportunity to snap the notebook shut.
The classmates who had previously ignored him were now scrambling to grab his arm.
“Join our team!”
“Don’t listen to him, our team has a powerful attack mage!”
In an instant, Liu Yuxuan, once overlooked, became a hot commodity. The boys vied to invite him to join their teams.
This once-despised second-to-last ranked student had, in the blink of an eye, become a master strategist sought after by various teams.
Thus, Liu Yuxuan, relying on his unique secret manual, ‘Eighteen Techniques of Courting’, successfully joined a formidable team.
However, with the competition now over, he stood on his tiptoes, scanning the crowd several times, yet he couldn’t find Ye Xingchen or Su Liyue.
‘Strange… Could Brother Xingchen have taken the two campus beauties and hidden in some cave to research the nineteenth technique?’
As this thought surfaced, Liu Yuxuan couldn’t help but slap his thigh with a ‘pat’.
“That’s right!”
The surrounding students flinched, seeing him suddenly wear an expression of enlightenment, his eyes gleaming as if he had discovered a new continent.
“Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! While others are fighting demonic beasts to the death, Brother Xingchen directly takes two beauties on a ‘double flight’… no, a ‘two-person’… bah! It’s a strategic retreat!”
He found his reasoning more and more sound as he analyzed it, counting on his fingers: “Think about it…”
“First, avoid all team brawls!”
“Second, a chance for solitude in the deep mountains and old forests!”
“Third…” Liu Yuxuan suddenly lowered his voice, mysteriously glancing around.
“I heard that in the lairs of demonic beasts above Silver rank, you often find those… glowing night roses that quicken one’s heartbeat…”
Several boys instantly took a sharp intake of breath.
The class’s troublemaker suddenly exclaimed as if remembering something.
“No wonder I saw Ye Xingchen stuffing a lot of strange things into his storage ring earlier!”
“Idiot! Those are alchemy products!” A passing mentor, unable to listen any longer, hurled a fireball at the feet of these gossiping youths.
But as he turned away, the lead mentor’s brow furrowed. Indeed, the positioning magic for three groups of students deep in the forest was still unresponsive…
Suddenly, Liu Yuxuan had another epiphany, slapping his thigh again.
“I get it! Brother Xingchen is going for something big!”
He pictured such a scene in his mind.
As the sun set, Ye Xingchen, with a campus beauty on each arm, would make a dashing entrance to thunderous applause…
“Tsk, tsk, truly worthy of being the founder of the ‘Eighteen Techniques of Courting’!”
Liu Yuxuan shook his head, sighing with emotion.
“Others would have to burn high incense just to court one campus beauty, but he? He just takes two home! This move, oh, this move is called double the joy!”
Saying this, he pulled out his small notebook and solemnly jotted down:
‘The ultimate profound meaning of the Eighteen Techniques of Courting: If you’re going to court, court a pair! If you love her, marry her best friend too.
That way, not only would his week never be dull, but his companions would also have companionship and a shared home.’
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