Chapter 1: This world is a bit wrong!

Entering June, Donghai had already become as hot as a giant furnace.

The sky was azure, without a single cloud in sight. The scorching sun hung high above like a massive fireball.

Donghai No. 1 High School.

5:30 PM.

"Ring, ring, ring..."

As soon as the dismissal bell rang, the entire campus seemed to awaken from a deep slumber, instantly erupting into a cacophony of noise.

A moment later, a large number of students poured out of the various teaching buildings, walking toward the school gate in groups of three or five, chatting and laughing.

"It's too hot today!" The sweltering weather made people irritable.

"Brother Wang Teng, let's go drink at Rose Bar tonight."

A voice pulled Wang Teng back from his thoughts to reality.

"Xu Jie!"

He looked at the person approaching. The face was familiar, and distant memories surged from the depths of his mind; this was a companion from his high school social circle.

"You guys go ahead. I won't go tonight; I have a bit of a headache," Wang Teng said.

Xu Jie urged anxiously, "Don't be like that, Brother Wang Teng. There aren't many people in our little circle to begin with, so it won't be any fun if you don't come. Plus, we haven't hung out in a while. How about this, let's pick another time—tomorrow? The day after?"

Wang Teng shook his head and said helplessly, "Alright, let's make it tomorrow night then."

"Great! I'll let Xiao Wei and the others know. We'll gather tomorrow night," Xu Jie said with a happy smile.

As the two walked to the school gate, a commotion suddenly broke out ahead.

"Huh? What's going on up there? Why are so many people gathered around?" Xu Jie asked, puzzled.

"I'll go take a look."

With that, he ran ahead, pushed through the crowd, and squeezed to the front.

Wang Teng walked over slowly with his hands in his pockets. As soon as a few students saw him, they hurriedly made way, afraid of offending him.

My reputation as Young Master Wang really is quite something!

Wang Teng couldn't help but mock himself.

It was a pity it wasn't a good reputation.

He reached the front of the crowd and saw a girl in the open space who had beaten several young thugs with dyed yellow and green hair to the ground. They were crying and wailing, their eyes filled with terror as they looked at her.

Piecing together the surrounding chatter, he roughly understood what had happened.

Just after school, a few of these punks had run into He Manrong. Seeing how pretty she was, they couldn't help but step forward to harass her, spouting a few lewd remarks.

They hadn't expected that He Manrong was no soft persimmon to be kneaded at will, but rather a rose with thorns.

She had attacked in anger, and in a few quick moves, had left them unable to get back up.

"Goddess He is truly worthy of being a High-Level Martial Apprentice! Those thugs really kicked an iron plate this time!"

A male student nearby waved his fists, his acne-ridden face slightly flushed with excitement.

Judging by his words, he clearly viewed He Manrong as a goddess.

"I heard before that this He Manrong was a top student, but I didn't expect her fighting skills to be this impressive. Could she have practiced Taekwondo? The legendary ninth-degree black belt?"

"But then again, those long legs are truly rare. She has such a great figure even in high school; just imagine what she'll be like in the future!"

Wang Teng was just marveling at He Manrong's toughness while taking the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of the world, when he suddenly heard the words "High-Level Martial Apprentice," and his expression froze instantly.

He was a bit dazed!

Did I mishear something?

That's right, I just reincarnated, my mind is a bit hazy; it's understandable that I might have misheard.

At this moment, Xu Jie leaned in and said enviously, "There are only five High-Level Martial Apprentices in our whole school. He Manrong is the only girl among them, and she comes from an ordinary family. She's truly a genius!"

"..." Wang Teng was speechless.

What the hell is a High-Level Martial Apprentice? It seems I didn't mishear after all.

But what is a high-energy profession doing in a perfectly normal urban reincarnation?

Is this really a reincarnation?

Wang Teng felt the malice of the entire world and was filled with questions.

Seeing that she had attracted so many people, He Manrong frowned slightly, ignored the thugs on the ground, and left directly.

Once she left, the crowd of onlookers naturally dispersed.

Wang Teng and Xu Jie parted ways at the school gate.

Wang Teng found the car that had come to pick him up and, amidst the envy of the other students, sat in the BMW parked by the roadside and sped away.

In the car, he stared at the streetscape constantly receding outside the window, feeling somewhat distracted.

Only then did he notice that the trees on both sides of the street were exceptionally tall, and the vegetation was extremely lush.

These plants must be over-nourished; no wonder he always felt a sense of incongruity at school earlier.

The vegetation at school was also unusually lush, but he had been so immersed in the fact of his reincarnation that he hadn't noticed.

Along the way, what he saw and heard shocked Wang Teng.

The clean and tidy streets, the avant-garde fashion styles of the passersby, the level of commercial prosperity, and so on.

It didn't look like 2009 at all; it didn't even reach this level in 2019, the year he reincarnated from.

There is definitely something wrong with this world!

Wang Teng's mind was in chaos. Suddenly, he saw a woman in her twenties, a city beauty, walking past the street with a large, fluffy dog.

There would normally be nothing wrong with this, but the dog was far too big—it was as large as a calf.

He couldn't help but curse.

"Holy crap, what breed is that dog? It's huge!"

He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and rubbed his chin in suspicion.

"It looks like a Golden Retriever, but how can it be this big?"

Next, he saw several other people walking their pets.

Those pet dogs were all very large, their sizes completely off the charts. Some parents even let their children ride on the large dogs while shopping.

Pet dogs had become mounts!

He even saw a pet cat that had grown two tails, and others that were equally massive, resembling leopards.

However, they all seemed very well-behaved, and the surrounding passersby seemed unfazed, not treating them like wild beasts at all.

Wang Teng felt a bit numb.

This was definitely not his original world. Even if the classmates were the same classmates and the school was the same school, something had clearly gone off the rails.

After driving for more than twenty minutes, they arrived at the Fuhua Villa District. After a series of turns, the car finally stopped in front of a villa.

Thankfully, his home was still here.

Come to think of it, his family could be considered moderately wealthy.

Wang Teng's grandfather had four children, and his father, Wang Shengguo, was the second eldest in the family. Possessing considerable business talent, he had struck out on his own and established the Xingteng Group, which was second only to the Rongsheng Group founded by Wang Teng's grandfather.

Both the Xingteng Group and the Rongsheng Group were large companies with assets exceeding one hundred million.

However, Wang Teng knew that there were many such companies globally. The Wang family might be doing well in this small corner, but in front of those truly massive financial groups, they were nothing more than slightly larger ants.

In his previous life, the Wang family offended someone and was wiped out completely. They only lasted for about a month before all their companies went bankrupt.

The Wang family was thoroughly destroyed and became a thing of the past.

Two companies worth over a hundred million sounded good, but in the end, it wasn't even enough to fill the gaps in someone else's teeth.

One had to say, this was a form of irony!

Wang Teng had fallen from the heavens to the mortal world. In the years that followed, he lived a life worse than a pig or a dog, suffering endless suppression and humiliation until his reincarnation... No, wait, perhaps it wasn't a reincarnation!

This world had changed too much. He didn't know what would become of the Wang family.

Even, were his parents still his original parents?

I hope I don't walk through the door only to find that even my parents have been swapped.

"It won't happen! It won't!" Wang Teng quickly comforted himself. His heart was not at peace. He took a few deep breaths before stepping through the villa gate.

(End of chapter)