Chapter 1

Qu Yun and his teammates sat in the plane’s cabin, about to parachute into a rescue mission.

“I’m a little nervous,” said Chen Dayong, Qu Yun’s teammate.

“Nervous about what? It’s just a field search for that virologist. If the plane crash-lands, maybe the whole crew is already gone,” Qu Yun said nonchalantly.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk! I’m not nervous about the mission! I’m worried that Xiaohong will come after me when I get back!”

“A beauty like Xiaohong, you don’t like her? I think you’re either impotent or you like men! You wouldn’t happen to like me, would you?” Qu Yun looked at Chen Dayong with a nervous expression.

“Get lost! Every time I take a break, I have to disguise myself before I dare leave the camp! Last weekend, I hid in the supply truck pretending to deliver water! I was sweating like a pig! I don’t know how he recognized me, but he pinned me down in the truck and just went for it! The week before, I disguised myself as the camp cook, smeared my face with pig blood, and as soon as I left with the logistics team, he pinned me down and went for it! This weekend, I disguised myself as an old man! I even asked the medical team to give me a makeover, with wrinkles all over my face, but Xiaohong still recognized me! He could even stomach that? He pinned me down…”

“Forced again?” Qu Yun winked, grinning.

If they weren’t strapped in, Chen Dayong would have kicked Qu Yun off his seat by now!

“How does he recognize me no matter how I disguise myself?”

Chen Dayong seemed troubled and sad, but to Qu Yun, it looked like he was showing off.

“Are you even a man? A big guy like you always getting forced? I don’t even want to sit next to you!”

“Qu Yun, I’m a big guy, and Xiaohong is so delicate, how can I fight back?”

“If you can’t fight, then fight back! You’re so big, you think you’re a rabbit?” Qu Yun gestured with a tiny finger.

Chen Dayong struggled, “Qu Yun! You little rascal! I wish the same for you, no matter how you hide, how you disguise yourself, you’ll be dug up and forced!”

Qu Yun smirked, “No problem! If it’s a beauty like Xiaohong, I’d be happy!”

Chen Dayong snorted, “Forgot to tell you, Xiaohong is a guy.”

Qu Yun’s face went blank, “What?!”

The cabin door opened, and everyone stood up and prepared to parachute.

Qu Yun, with his world view shattered by “Chen Dayong’s sweetheart Xiaohong is actually a guy,” carried out the parachute mission.

When they reached the plane wreckage, Qu Yun and Chen Dayong met up and headed towards the cabin.

It took a lot of effort to open the plane’s door.

Qu Yun and Chen Dayong both raised their guns and went inside.

It seems that there was a spy sent by an illegal organization among Professor Ling’s graduate students, and in the process of fighting over the password box containing the virus antibody that Professor Ling was carrying, the accident occurred.

The other teammates had also arrived nearby, some were guarding outside the plane, and others entered the cabin with Qu Yun.

Several medical personnel began to confirm the survivors inside the cabin.

One of the pilots was dead, and the other was unconscious.

Qu Yun, holding his gun, cautiously stepped forward, and he saw a young man leaning against the cabin, his left wrist tied to a black box.

“Found it! This must be Professor Ling!”

Qu Yun immediately put away his gun, went to the man’s side, and touched his neck, “He has a pulse!”

He gently lifted the man’s face, only to see a pool of blood on the cabin ceiling. It seemed like he had hit his head hard.

“Hey, are you Professor Ling?”

No way, Professor Ling is so young?

Even with his eyes closed, you could tell that the man’s features were delicate yet rugged, with an intellectual air, the kind of “intellectual vibe” that Chen Dayong often talked about. Qu Yun didn’t read much, so he couldn’t find the right words to describe this man.

But he was the most handsome person Qu Yun had ever seen, including men and women.

“It’s Professor Ling!”

Qu Yun’s team leader came to confirm and then shouted for the medical personnel to come over.

“It’s too narrow here, we need to get him out!” Qu Yun said, holding Professor Ling’s head.

At that moment, Professor Ling’s eyes flickered slightly and slowly opened.

They were cold eyes, but they were clearer than Qu Yun had imagined.

“Damn it, Professor, don’t suddenly open your eyes and glare at people! I’m taking you home!”

The blood on his forehead was about to flow into Professor Ling’s eyes, so Qu Yun grabbed a blanket and wiped the blood away, then held the back of his head and helped him onto the stretcher the medical personnel brought.

They finally got out of the narrow cabin, and the stretcher in front of them tripped for some reason. It looked like Professor Ling’s head was going to hit the ground again. Qu Yun reacted quickly, half-kneeling down and holding Professor Ling’s head with one hand.

Professor Ling, who had closed his eyes just now, opened them again and looked at him.

To be honest, Qu Yun couldn’t imagine these eyes belonging to a scholar.

They were deep, faraway, like an invisible force, pulling Qu Yun down into the abyss.

“Thank you! Thank you!” The medical personnel’s grateful voices brought Qu Yun back to his senses.

He looked down at Professor Ling and smiled, “Oh, Professor Ling, I saved you again! My name is Qu Yun, you have to repay me for this!”

“Alright, alright! When will you stop with your endless chatter! Get out of here!” The captain tapped Qu Yun’s head.

Qu Yun stood up and said dissatisfied, “You always say I’m not smart enough, and you keep hitting the back of my head! You’re making me dumber!”

The plane couldn’t land here, so after locking the location, a helicopter from Professor Ling’s Juren Group took him away.

“Qu Yun, did you see Professor Ling’s face? They say his IQ is over 200, compared to us, we’re bulldozers, and he’s an aircraft carrier.” Chen Dayong put his arm around Qu Yun’s shoulders.

“I saw him! Hey! Don’t change the subject! You said Xiaohong is a guy?”

“Yeah, scared me to death!”

“You were forced by him? Are you kidding me!”

“I’ll tell you, whether it’s forced or not has nothing to do with whether he’s handsome! He just gives me a look, and I lose all my strength!”

“I don’t believe it! That Professor Ling is pretty handsome too, he looked at me a few times, and I didn’t feel like I couldn’t resist being forced! You’re just not capable!” Qu Yun looked at Chen Dayong with disdain.

“You little kid doesn’t understand what it means to ‘there’s always a bigger fish!’ Truly powerful people don’t rely on brute force! It’s technique! You just wait, if Professor Ling recovers, he’ll stand in front of you, all handsome and charming…”

“I’ll tell him I saved you, I don’t want much, just five million.” Qu Yun rolled his eyes at Chen Dayong.

“Just wait, it’s anyone’s game.”

Chen Dayong had just taken a step forward when Qu Yun kicked him in the back.

“You bastard Qu Yun! Kick me in the back! I curse you to be forced for the rest of your life and never be able to turn it around!”

“Tsk, tsk, tsk!”

Three days later, Qu Yun finished his shift and went back to China for a break.

As soon as he opened a beer and sat on the couch watching the news, the doorbell rang.

“Hello, Mr. Qu Yun, we are members of the Juren Group’s ‘Mind Deep Dive’ project team. We need you to enter the mind of a virologist who is in a deep coma and awaken him.”

“Huh? Who is it?”

“Ling Mo.”

Qu Yun sat on the sidewalk outside the school, a dogtail grass dangling from his mouth, his backpack carelessly thrown on the side of the road. He wasn’t worried about anyone stealing it.

He had a craving for a cigarette, but it wasn’t like before, when he could just walk anywhere and his teammates would throw him a cigarette. Now, at fourteen, if he had a cigarette in his mouth, he’d probably be lectured by responsible teachers and people concerned about the future of the country. And he only had five yuan in his pocket, if he bought cigarettes, he wouldn’t have money for breakfast tomorrow – Qu Yun called it “the troubles of youth.”

Although being able to experience “the prime of life” again sounded nice, Qu Yun really hated being a teenager.

Because many teenagers live in their own world, full of rebellion, and don’t care about anyone else’s feelings. A prime example is the person he’s currently waiting for – Ling Mo.

His mission here is to get close to Ling Mo, gain his trust, and then tell him, “Brother, wake up, if you don’t wake up soon, you’re going to be cremated!”

But his current progress is zero, because he’s been here for over a month, and he’s only exchanged less than three sentences with Ling Mo. And this so-called “communication” includes Ling Mo giving him a cold look, implying, “This guy is an idiot.”

Oh… and something else that made Qu Yun feel even more miserable is that when he arrived here, he found that his tanned skin, his well-proportioned, explosive physique, and his agile muscle reactions were all reset to zero – because he’s now a fat guy.

Qu Yun sighed, he didn’t have many good qualities, except for optimism.

On the first day he arrived, he looked at himself in the mirror, felt sad for less than three seconds, and then burst into laughter – being a fat guy means this body never lacked food! Think about how he had to eat tasteless compressed biscuits and sometimes couldn’t even get a few sips of water when he was on missions in reality. He would spend the whole day lying in the hot, humid rainforest with his partner, how unfortunate! Now he can eat whatever he wants, even getting fat is his freedom!

At this moment, the optimistic fat guy was watching the students leaving from this road. They were wearing the same blue sportswear as him, the color looked a little old, but most of them had a youthful vigor that had not yet been touched by the world. The loose uniforms made their bodies look like they had a kind of youthful bony beauty, unlike Qu Yun – he managed to make the loose uniforms look like a ball.

Just as Qu Yun was about to tell himself, “Peace and quiet, time goes by,” his target, Ling Mo, finally appeared.

The boy had his hands tucked in the pockets of his school uniform. His uniform looked older than the others, but it was clean. Even though it was just a profile, and his features hadn’t fully developed, he had beautiful yet handsome lines, a straight back, and a steady gait that didn’t seem like his age.

His expression was indifferent, his eyes also had a hint of coldness, as if the noisy world around him had nothing to do with him, yet there were always young female classmates who looked at him.

This kind of aura that naturally comes with the male lead of a youth MV, Qu Yun envied it.

Such a high and cold flower, you can admire it from afar, but you can’t get close!

Qu Yun had thought this mission was a piece of cake, but now he thinks that getting into the heart of a person who is aloof from the world is even more difficult than facing bullets.

Look at him, his face, his body, even his hair, all say “Keep Out.”

But luckily, Qu Yun has a thick skin, otherwise, all this flesh would be in vain.

He got up, took two steps, then remembered something, turned around and picked up his backpack, and followed behind Ling Mo.

He followed him for a whole street, and Qu Yun still hadn’t thought of a reason to approach him – if he had known that Chen Dayong, the observer who partnered with him, was going to teach him “100 Ways to Flirt,” he should have listened carefully.

Wait… Ling Mo isn’t a girl, if I really flirt with him like a girl, I won’t even be able to be a stranger to him in the future.

Just as Qu Yun was lost in thought, several young men who looked like hooligans walked up to Ling Mo and stopped him.

“Hey, look who it is? The legendary top student of No. 5 Middle School, the apple of those old fogeys’ eyes!”

Ling Mo stopped, neither answering nor looking at them, but walking towards the other side, but he was quickly stopped again.

“Don’t go! We guys want to smoke, but we forgot our money, how about you buy us some?”

Qu Yun stood not far away, tilted his head and thought for a moment, these hooligans seemed to be from the vocational school next door.

They say you can get into this vocational school by paying money, so it’s a mixed bag. Of course, there are also good young people who pursue knowledge and skills, but these few who surrounded Ling Mo are notorious for being bad boys in the neighborhood, often extorting money from students.

A while ago, some students who were stopped by them but didn’t have money were beaten up, which made the school teachers patrol the area around the school during commuting hours. These hooligans were quiet for a while, but they couldn’t resist and came out to cause trouble again.

Ling Mo still didn’t say anything, and turned to walk in another direction.

Qu Yun spat out the dogtail grass he was holding in his mouth, moved his feet and quickly followed.

Although with Qu Yun’s eyesight, he knew that Ling Mo was probably the type who “looks thin in clothes, but has muscles underneath,” but, a fourteen-year-old boy, in this kind of situation, putting on such a “kingly disdain” cold look, is going to get beaten up!

“Hey, you’re Ling Mo, right? Where are you going? Didn’t you hear us asking you to buy us cigarettes?”

The leader, who seemed to be called Cheng Zhi, his father was the factory manager of some clothing factory, he didn’t do well on the middle school entrance exam, and he wasn’t the type to study anyway, so his father paid money to send him to vocational school. I don’t know if he was too idle on a daily basis, but he started doing “robbery.”

But in Qu Yun’s eyes, this is just a ridiculous cosplay, these hooligans’ clothes and hairstyles are quite dated, and Cheng Zhi’s eyes are full of “bullying the weak.”

Ling Mo finally seemed to be impatient, and calmly replied, “No money.”

This is one of the few times Qu Yun has heard Ling Mo’s voice besides answering questions in class.

His voice is unique, like the sound of cold jade gently colliding.

“No money?” Cheng Zhi gave a standard bad guy smile, he stretched out his finger, and just as his knuckles were about to brush against Ling Mo’s cheek, Ling Mo dodged, “Hey, you’re so handsome, it’s a pity you’re not a girl!”

Someone behind Cheng Zhi shouted, “If you don’t have money, be our big sister-in-law, marry into the family!”

The others followed with laughter.

Ling Mo’s eyes turned cold, he slowly turned his head, raised his chin, Qu Yun saw his clenched fist, and estimated that if Ling Mo punched, Cheng Zhi’s front teeth would probably be gone!

Just as Cheng Zhi was laughing along, Qu Yun suddenly squeezed between him and Ling Mo, handing Cheng Zhi a five yuan bill.

“That… Brother Cheng… I have five yuan here, you and your brothers take it to buy cigarettes?”

Qu Yun smiled, and with his other hand, he pushed Ling Mo, hinting for him to leave quickly.

Qu Yun thought Ling Mo would hesitate a bit, but he actually turned around and left!

He flicked his arm, without leaving a trace of cloud.

This is not following the script at all!

“Hey! We’re talking to Ling Mo, what’s it to you!” Cheng Zhi’s younger brother pushed Qu Yun, but… he couldn’t move him.

“You guys just want someone to buy you cigarettes, right? Then how about I be your big sister-in-law?” Qu Yun continued to smile.

The one who pushed him was stunned.

“What did you say?”

“I said – I’ll be your big sister-in-law?” Qu Yun continued to smile with a thick face.

Cheng Zhi almost choked on his own saliva.

“Fatso! You’re not sick, are you?”

“So, do you want five yuan, or do you want me to be your sister-in-law?” Qu Yun looked at the five yuan bill that Cheng Zhi was holding in his hand and said.

“Nonsense! Fatso, you’re asking for a beating!”

“I gave you the money, and you still beat me up! Then tomorrow I’ll tell my classmates that I got beaten up even after giving money! It’s better not to give it!”

Qu Yun said with a righteous expression.

Cheng Zhi was stunned for a moment, then impatiently pushed him again, “Get lost! Get lost! Get lost!”

The others looked at each other, completely unprepared for this development.

Qu Yun immediately turned around and headed towards the direction Ling Mo left.

He imagined the scene just now, what would he do if it were him in reality – he wouldn’t even need to contribute the five yuan, he would definitely take them all down in ten seconds!

The first punch would go straight to Cheng Zhi’s face! Then kick down the one on the left, and take advantage of the momentum to punch the one on