"Now I announce the 25th International Academic Competition of the School begins." The competition started at last after a long introduction of relevant rules.

The first round of the competition was group-based. It was a memory competition involving all the participants. More than half of the students would be out this time. Since there were too many participants, a one-on-one competition mode was not allowed as it would take more than one year.

There were 5 students from Murong Xue's college attending the memory competition, including her. All of them were seated on the stage according to the arrangement. 500 participants were competing in this round, and a supervisor would be responsible for each college's team and stand nearby to prevent possible accidents and cheat.

The first round was to memorize 1,000 words and spell out all of them.

Each participant would have a display screen on the table in front of them, which would be used by the judges to give the words, and the students could just read from the screen.

In this memory competition, 1,000 words decided by the judges would show up on the screen, all of which were irrelevant to each other. 10 minutes would be given to the students to memorize the words and two hours were given to them to write down the words. Time was also a winning condition and those who could spell the words correctly and fast would excel.

The competition started.

The memory competition was really a piece of cake for Murong Xue. With a photographic memory, she could finish it in less than 10 minutes. It only took her 2 minutes to memorize all the words on the screen and then she remembered them again and again.

After 10 minutes, the screen was turned off automatically. The switch of display screens was under the judges' joint control.

The participants all began to write down the words they just memorized on another screen with an electronic pen.

The result was very predictable. Murong Xue ranked first in the memory competition as well as the next several rounds. Because of this, she attracted the attention of other colleges. The top 5 on the participants' ranking list had also been very noticeable as they all played the games perfectly, but Murong Xue was the greatest surprise because she was not even on the list.

Therefore, everyone present looked at her differently and more people began to regard her as the strongest opponent.

According to the competition rules, all the students were required to stay in the venue until the end, so Murong Xue could not have the privilege to stay overnight outside. After all, this was an international competition that concerned national honors and she now became a leading participant in her team.

Shangguan Mo had been in the study all night for nothing. As the hands on the clock moved little by little, he became more and more disappointed. He could not believe that Murong Xue did not come back and he wondered who was with her now.

If he wanted to know, his men would find it out immediately, but he was frightened and didn’t dare to investigate it. He would rather be uncertain than confirm his guess. He remained motionless until the dawn, like a lifeless statue.

Murong Xue's outstanding performance gradually turned the jealousy of other participants from A province into admiration. When someone was slightly better than others, people would envy him or her. But when people felt unable to match forever, they would worship him or her as a god.

But competitors from overseas were still very hostile to Murong Xue as they fought for different countries.

At present, Murong Xue left behind everything else and committed herself to the competition. Her cellphone had been taken away by her teachers to prevent it from affecting her performance. They said they would give it back to her when it was over.

The schedule was tight and fierce competitions were held every day. Murong Xue's presence would cause an uproar in the crowd every time and now she was like a popular star. Apart from attention from students and teachers from other colleges, the major media reported on this international competition. It could be said that she was a celebrity now, which was totally unexpected for her and would cause many inconveniences in the future.

When Shangguan Mo did not see Murong Xue the next day, he tried to find out where she was, but Bai Xueli stopped him and explained that she needed to take the international academic competition of the school.

Murong Xue had only wanted to keep a low profile during the competition and she did not expect to incur such a strong reaction, which made her regret a lot. If she had known about this, she would have ranked first with a slightly higher score than the second one. However, her astounding scores had put her in the limelight and it was meaningless for her to stay low-key now.

But Murong Xue's parents were very excited about it. They not only watched the live show of the competition every day but also recorded her parts and replayed them at home. Zhang Keren had called Murong Xue once before, but her daughter's teacher answered the phone and said that, in order to maintain her good performance, Murong Xue would get her cellphone back after the competition was over.

After that, Zhang Keren never called Murong Xue again. She did not want to interrupt her daughter in the middle of an important event.

But Murong Fenghua was a little worried about his daughter getting famous. Although Murong Group's share price had risen considerably thanks to Murong Xue's outstanding performance, he was afraid that it would cause her many troubles in the future.

Murong Xue was really exhausted by the competition. As the college regarded her as their ace, she had to attend each round of the competition and she had lost weight. Fortunately, such a tight schedule only spanned a week, and the competition ended up with Murong Xue being a star. In the end, Murong Xue won first place. Ai Luoqi, who ranked first on the participants' list, ranked second. Aina Jueluo was in third place.

"You are really something." Ai Luoqi spoke to Murong Xue face to face and his eyes were appreciative and competitive.

Murong Xue responded with a light smile, "Thank you. You're very amazing, too." She was telling the truth. But for a chance to have a second life, the Space, the precious treasures, and the abilities she obtained, she could not have beaten Ai Luoqi, who was a real genius.

"We'll see each other again." Ai Luoqi walked up to the podium after leaving such words to her. Murong Xue did not get his point.

Then Aina Jueluo approached her with a somewhat arrogant attitude, "I will never admit that you are better than me. Wait and see. I will beat you one day."

As for such impolite people, Murong Xue never greeted them with a welcome smile. She just ignored Aina Jueluo and walked towards the podium. Aina Jueluo had to stamp her feet to suppress her anger before stepping to the third-place position on the podium.

After all was over, Murong Xue slumped into the chair idly as if she had been boneless. At this moment, she did not want to move at all.

Similarly, other students were all exhausted.

The president briefly introduced notices about returning to A province in two days and then let everyone go back to their rooms for a good rest. Murong Xue informed her teacher and went outside. Differently, no one would complain that she had a privilege now as she won the championship in the competition, which had earned their respect.

To Murong Xue's surprise, she saw Chu Yisen leaning against his sports car with an armful of flowers after she just got out. She hurried over to him, "Yisen, why are you here?"

Chu Yisen took off his sunglasses and the handsome face caused exclamations from people nearby instantly. "I'm waiting for you. Here you are. Congratulations."

Murong Xue took over the roses from him. The imported blue enchantress was so breath-taking. "Thank you, Yisen."

Chu Yisen raised a smile, "Let's go and celebrate it."

"Where?" Murong Xue was caught by surprise.

"Get in the car. Have you eaten anything? Let's go and have something first."

Murong Xue was hungry, so she got into the car quickly. The car pulled out and disappeared with leaving a dazzling shadow.

Chu Yisen had booked a table in the restaurant in advance. He did not clear the space because he felt she would not like it.

Murong Xue was starving, so she started to eat immediately. Chu Yisen was like a brother to her, so she did not care too much about etiquette. Seeing her behave like this, Chu Yisen was very pleased because he knew it was a sign of trust.

The two were having dinner joyfully, so they did not notice Shangguan Mo outside the show window. Shangguan Mo stared at them with red eyes and clenched fists. He went to pick her up after the competition, only to see that she got into Chu Yisen's car happily.

He did not know why he followed them to the restaurant, but he did not go in. He just stood outside and observed them, seeing them smiling at each other and watching Murong Xue who was happier.

He was frustrated that she contacted Chu Yisen instead of her own boyfriend.

Shangguan Mo stood still there for a long time and the guard even came over to see if something was wrong. After some time, he returned to his villa with a tired face and opened a bottle of reserved red wine. He swallowed the wine very fast and it evoked a feeling of hot burning pain inside him.