hsntnovel Chapter 61 Similar
Chapter 61 Similar
This question was a little too mild, and Jiang Xingni didn't even realize at first that it was Xiao Jiming who asked it.
The words lingered in the air for a few seconds, but Xiao Jiming still received no response.
"Your high school?" Xiao Jiming waited a moment before repeating his question.
Jiang Xingni said frankly, "I didn't even recognize the tone of your voice when you asked that question."
Xiao Jiming was helpless.
That wasn't the tone Xiao Jiming would use now. It was more like the words spoken by Xiao Jiming before entering Taixu Academy, when he was still carefully hiding his identity as a superhuman and trying to maintain his ordinary self in ordinary society.
"Indeed." Xiao Jiming wasn't angry; he just smiled and readily admitted it. "After all, before..."
He didn't say much about his past, he just shook his head and looked at Jiang Xingni.
He was waiting for Jiang Xingni to give him an answer.
"Fourth Middle School," Jiang Xing said. "The Fourth Middle School of Tuhe City."
She gave the answer slowly, her eyes fixed on Xiao Jiming.
Xiao Jiming's smile remained unchanged, but Jiang Xingni could keenly observe that his pupils slightly contracted.
"You know this high school?" Jiang Xingni asked, a hint of curiosity in her voice. "...The senior you're talking about, you wouldn't happen to be me, would you?"
Xiao Jiming's gaze drifted away for once, which was rare for him.
Then he nodded.
Seeing the interaction between the two, Song Juexiao thoughtfully raised his eyes, his gaze intently shifting between them.
Seemingly noticing the confusion in Song Juexiao's eyes, Xiao Jiming gave a brief explanation: "Jiang Xingni and I were originally in the same high school."
Although they were the same age, Jiang Xingni actually entered school a year earlier, so Xiao Jiming and Jiang Xingni basically never met.
However, the legend of Jiang Xingni has been circulating in No. 4 Middle School since Xiao Jiming enrolled, and it has never disappeared.
The girl whose name is always at the very top of the leaderboard.
The girl who hurried past on the road never showed any expression; she always seemed indifferent and aloof.
When Xiao Jiming first enrolled, he already knew about her legend, but he had only seen her photo on the honor roll and heard her name from word of mouth.
It wasn't that specific, but Jiang Xingni never missed a single day of Xiao Jiming's high school years, even though neither of them knew each other at that time.
Although they both came from the Lower City, coincidentally, Jiang Xingni didn't have much of an impression of Xiao Jiming.
At that time, Xiao Jiming carefully concealed his abilities and identity among the crowd because of his special abilities.
Most people with superpowers awaken their abilities in their youth, are observed by the Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena, and are then given attention and nurtured.
However, Xiao Jiming was the exception. When he awakened his superpower, no one noticed him until the events at the beginning of the comic revealed his abnormality to the Bureau of Paranormal Phenomena.
This wasn't something unknown to others; Jiang Xingni had already read this part of the story at the beginning of the comic, and as for Song Juexiao and the others—they had already learned about it after spending time together.
However, Song Juexiao was unaware that Jiang Xingni already knew.
As the girl who was clearly more familiar with Jiang Xingni than the other, she typed a brief description of the circumstances surrounding Xiao Jiming's discovery.
Although Jiang Xingni already knew this part of the plot from the comic, the girl did not take it lightly. Instead, she stared intently at the series of words typed on her phone screen.
As Jiang Xingni read Song Juexiao's introduction, she compared it with her own impressions of comics.
Just as Jiang Xingni has always felt, comics are only a glimpse into a corner of the world, and there are many more details in the world that comics can never express.
The comic depicts Xiao Jiming being unexpectedly involved in an unusual event, using his supernatural abilities to save himself, and coincidentally encountering Song Juexiao, who is on a mission.
This is also the main reason why most of the couple pairings between Xiao Jiming and Song Juexiao in the comic are so popular.
Song Juexiao was Xiao Jiming's guide into the world behind the scenes.
"System, what if I interfere and it becomes a love triangle..." Jiang Xing thought to himself, eager to try.
The system was greatly shocked, and its CPU worked like crazy, but it still couldn't figure out how Jiang Xingni's thinking jumped from the CP combination of Xiao Jiming and Song Juexiao to a love triangle involving three people.
"I advise you not to do that," the system bluntly advised. "You'll easily get scolded."
Jiang Xingni was just saying it casually; the love triangle can only work if the three people have similar popularity.
She has a very clear understanding of her current situation.
Although when you open the forum, the names of the people floating on the homepage are mostly Jiang Xingni, and even if some post titles do not contain Jiang Xingni, in the end, Jiang Xingni's name will be brought up in the arguments.
They seem to be very popular, but Jiang Xingni knows for sure that their popularity is just floating in mid-air.
As the first character to join the main cast midway through the story, Jiang Xingni endured a lot of criticism and abuse. Fortunately, Su Yanzhi was preparing to join, which helped to share the burden. Otherwise, Jiang Xingni felt that all her fans would be driven away by the criticism.
Therefore, Jiang Xingni could only regretfully abandon this idea.
"Let's try again when our popularity is on par with theirs," Jiang Xing thought to himself.
System: [? I know shipping couples does increase popularity, but is it really necessary...?]
However, in Song Juexiao's account, their first encounter was clearly colder, with more scrutiny and evaluation.
One was someone who had never seen a member of the superhuman group outside the academy before, and the other was someone who was learning for the first time that they were not an outcast in this world, but that there were others like them.
To make the story more appealing to readers, comics often romanticize the initial emotions of the main characters—after all, this is when readers are just starting to read the comic.
Jiang Xingni nodded unconsciously as he listened.
But who knows, this information might be released later to give readers a taste of their own medicine?
Jiang Xingni didn't notice that while Song Juexiao was telling him the story, Xiao Jiming's gaze was fixed on him.
It's hard to describe what Xiao Jiming thought when he learned that Jiang Xingni was the same as him.
He has always been the lonely one.
As a person with superpowers, he was not discovered by the authorities and lived among ordinary people, carefully hiding his abilities.
Born in the downtown area, he had neither the protection of his parents nor any inheritance left to him.
Even after enrolling in Taixu Academy, when Xiao Jiming finally found a team of fellow ability users, they were still different from each other.
They grew up surrounded by their own kind, and no one understood the feelings that Xiao Jiming had been hiding all along.
Until Jiang Xingni admitted it.
A soul that has been lonely since birth has finally found its kind.