Chapter 29: Chapter 29: A Father’s Heart

The girl couldn’t believe it. She looked at Mona Lowell and asked, “Mona, has your Young Master Lowell really taken a liking to the campus belle?”

At that moment, Jean Quincy happened to walk into the cafeteria with a classmate. Mona Lowell shot Jean Quincy a meaningful look. “I don’t know, but he’s definitely treating her better than *that one*.”

The girl’s eyes gleamed with gossip. She was the class bigmouth, rivaled only by Miles Lawson from Class Six.

In just one lunch period, the news that Ethan Lowell had his eyes on the new campus belle spread like wildfire among the twelfth graders.

Eventually, the rumor reached the ears of Jean Quincy and Ethan Lowell.

Ethan Lowell paid it no mind, but Jean Quincy’s heart tightened. She used the excuse of delivering something to Aurora Sinclair to run over to Class Six.

She arrived just in time to see Ethan Lowell and his friends crowded around Aurora Sinclair.

“Aurora, quick—dodge! Use your ultimate—”

“Holy crap! Those were some insane moves!”

“What the hell, how did you do that jump just now?”

***

Aurora Sinclair was playing a game on Ethan Lowell’s phone.

It all started when Ethan Lowell noticed she always went to the rooftop to read alone during the lunch break and asked if she wanted to play a game.

Aurora Sinclair nodded and agreed.

Ethan Lowell played a Mage in the game *Conquest & Glory*. His character was decked out in a full set of Red Armor, equipped with a rare custom-made weapon, and had an inscrutably advanced Skill Tree.

He held out his phone and gave her a detailed explanation of the controls.

“This little circle on the left is for character movement, double-tap to jump, press with both hands at the same time to change the camera angle. These on the right are the character’s Skills. Tap the up and down arrows on the side to switch Skill Trees, like this…”

After smoothly killing a mob with a few taps, he handed the phone to Aurora Sinclair.

Two minutes later—

Aurora Sinclair successfully killed a wild mob.

Ten minutes later—

Aurora Sinclair soloed a mini-boss in the wild.

Twenty minutes later—

Aurora Sinclair wiped the floor with a player ranked in the top 10 on the villain leaderboard.

Ethan Lowell was stunned.

A player in the top 10 of the villain leaderboard would have PvP skills that ranked in the top 20 of the entire server. Yet she, a newbie who had been playing for less than twenty minutes, had achieved a flawless victory using only one-fifth of her health.

He took a closer look at the player’s account and gear.

He had a personal grudge against that player. Their combat power was evenly matched, 50-50. Even he couldn’t guarantee such an easy win.

What’s more, the guy had launched a sneak attack. He never expected Aurora Sinclair to counter with a Backflip into a fire blast, knocking the player to the ground.

Then she’d rushed forward with a fierce barrage of attacks. Aurora Sinclair had somehow turned a long-range Mage into a close-quarters Swordsman, and it looked completely natural.

He had only unlocked three or four of the Mage’s melee Skills, but Aurora Sinclair used agile footwork to have his Mage bobbing and weaving, using one melee Skill after another to slowly grind the opponent down.

The other player had originally tried to exploit the Mage’s weakness—slow movement speed—to escape, but he found he couldn’t control his character at all, as if he’d been paralyzed.

’Damn it, she actually stun-locked me!’

’This slick move is pure psychological and physical torture!’

Ethan Lowell’s cronies standing beside him were all dumbfounded. It wasn’t until the other player fell that they turned to look at Aurora Sinclair, their faces full of disbelief.

’Could this be the veteran god from Server 1, White, pretending to be a newbie?’

’These moves have the same flair he had back when he crushed those bastards from Crestland!’

Alex Warren was the first to snap out of it. Since his character was a Swordsman, he was the first to shove his own phone into her hands.

His eyes were sparkling with adoration, and he was completely in awe.

“Aurora, Rory, Boss Rory, please help your little bro rank up!”

After that, the boys of Class Six began to form an organized and disciplined line next to Alex Warren during every break to hand over their phones.

***

Jean Quincy called out “Cousin” twice from the doorway, but the game sounds were too loud, and no one paid her any attention. Jean Quincy had no choice but to shout, “Aurora Sinclair—”

Finally, everyone heard her.

The boys crowded around Aurora Sinclair all turned their heads in unison, their brows furrowed and their gazes unfriendly.

Startled, Jean Quincy immediately lowered her voice. “Second Cousin, can you come out for a moment?”

Aurora Sinclair handed the phone back to one of the boys, slowly stood up, and walked toward the door.

Jean Quincy could clearly feel the searing glares from the boys of Class Six. ’Did I interrupt something important?’

“Grandpa said you like sweets. Here’s some chocolate I bought yesterday.”

She finished in a mosquito-like whisper, quickly shoved a beautifully packaged box of chocolates into her hand, then turned and ran without daring to stay a second longer.

’Their glares are so scary!’

***

Thanks to her gaming skills, Aurora Sinclair’s status among the boys of Class Six grew higher and higher.

And since she was often seen coming and going with Ethan Lowell, the rumors about the two of them became more and more intense among the twelfth graders.

Someone even photoshopped a picture of Jean Quincy leaving Class Six dejectedly with a picture of Aurora Sinclair and Ethan Lowell sitting together playing games, and posted it on the school’s online forum.

[Photos as proof! Student L’s ex vs. his current!]

The photo captured a beautiful shot of Aurora Sinclair’s side profile, and as a result, the post’s comment section turned into a massive festival of simping over her looks.

[Ahhh, based on Goddess S’s looks alone, if I were L, I’d choose her too!]

[Gotta say, with our campus belle’s heaven-defying beauty, I could simp for a whole year!]

[Isn’t the campus belle an art student? Is she going to join the entertainment industry in the future?]

[Same question! If the campus belle joins the entertainment industry, I’m applying to be her fan club president.]

[As a girl, I’ve fallen for her too. What do I do?]

[To the person above, can you leave us guys a chance to live? Do we have to guard against the same sex on top of the opposite sex?]

[Love her, love her… Heard the campus belle is a wicked good gamer…]

[Person above, drop the ’heard’! The campus belle’s close-combat skills are insane!]

[Begging for the campus belle’s game ID to carry me to Martial Arts Master rank (pitiful face)]

…

No one knew which comment derailed the thread, but the topic shifted from the love triangle and simping over her looks to a *Conquest & Glory* meet-up and a queue for power-leveling.

Mona Lowell, who had been closely monitoring the brewing love triangle, slammed her phone on the desk, biting her lip hard.

***

「Arcadian University School of Physics, Underground Laboratory.」

Beta Morgan looked at the forum screenshot sent by a child from a side branch of the Morgan Family and felt a headache coming on.

’If the “old father,” Alvin Morgan, sees this, he’s probably going to start worrying again.’

Beta Morgan glanced at the two people inside the glass-walled room and let out a soft sigh.

As it neared the time for Aurora Sinclair to get out of school, Alvin Morgan stopped the experiment he was working on and walked out of the lab right on schedule.

“Sir, Miss Sinclair has made a friend at school!” Beta Morgan sounded a bit guilty as he said this, since the friend in question was the Young Master of the Lowell Family.

Alvin Morgan glanced at the screenshot on Beta Morgan’s phone, his handsome brows furrowing slightly. He shot him a cool look. “Go buy a pork rib rice bowl.”

Beta Morgan: …

’He’s definitely upset! He even switched from his favorite chicken-leg rice bowl to a pork rib one…’

As usual, Aurora Sinclair arrived at Chester Greene’s office with her backpack on.

“Mr. Greene…”

Chester Greene was reading a paper. Seeing her, he chuckled and waved her in.

Alvin Morgan was still sitting in the chair beside him, but now he was holding a textbook titled *Essential X-Ed for High Schoolers in Puberty*.

Aurora Sinclair glanced at the pork rib rice bowl on the table, slowly set down her backpack, and obediently sat down to eat.

Alvin Morgan happened to be looking at a certain Chapter. He turned his head to her. “Aurora, have you studied this book before?”

Aurora Sinclair glanced at the book’s contents and shook her head.

“Perfect. I’ll explain it to you. This is a required course in high school!”

Aurora Sinclair nodded.

Standing behind them, Beta Morgan and Chester Greene exchanged a look, their mouths twitching.

’Their boss really does have the heart of an overprotective father!’

***

By the time Beta Morgan and Chester Greene returned from their walk, Alvin Morgan’s lesson was finally coming to an end.

“Aurora! Boys in their teens are mentally immature. If a boy your age says he likes you, it’s definitely just a physiological impulse caused by a rush of blood to the head and an overproduction of dopamine. You can’t take it seriously! Right now, you need to focus your energy on your studies and reject puppy love.”

Aurora Sinclair blinked and nodded solemnly.

A smile touched Alvin Morgan’s lips as he reached out and ruffled her hair. “Good girl!”

Outside the door, Beta Morgan shivered.

’Is that really what the textbook says?’

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