Originally, Lin Jiaxin needed to go to the Freshman Gala.
She could have used the extra rest time to rehearse.
But Lin Jiaxin chose to refuse!
As a student, you have to act like one.
How could you skip training for such a trivial thing?
Of course… the main reason was—
If she wasn’t on the training field, then who would she show off in front of?
After all, every time she exceeded the training quota,
she could still get a little bit of true qi from her classmates.
But Lin Jiaxin also took this performance very seriously!
The Freshman Gala forced all freshmen to attend.
Many upperclassmen would also come to join the fun.
With both groups added together, it easily exceeded ten thousand people!
If she could really show off in front of that many people…
Not to mention Manifestation True Qi, just the inner satisfaction alone was something to look forward to.
Who wouldn’t want to show off like a thunderclap in front of tens of thousands of people?
So Lin Jiaxin completely transformed into a time management master.
In the morning, she still got up with the help of her customized “Mysterious Little Alarm Clock” and went for a morning run.
During the day, she attended normal training and completed the extra workload according to her own ability.
At night, because there were many people running, she could hardly gain any true qi.
So she set that time aside specifically for practice and rehabilitation.
After all, she hadn’t touched it for over a decade; she needed to practice urgently.
But practice and rehabilitation required props.
Lin Jiaxin certainly didn’t have any on hand.
And she couldn’t expect the school to provide them either.
Although Southwest United University of Cultivation had a Music College,
the admission scores for those music cultivation majors were very low.
At the same time, their talent and interest in studying offensive spells were relatively average compared to the main campus students.
To put it in terms of an online game, their DPS was too low.
They were better at giving buffs to others.
If you said they were useful, they weren’t that useful.
They couldn’t fight or take damage.
But if you said they were useless, they did give you buffs.
They were purely in a soft support role.
Just pure deadweight; you could fight with or without them.
Having a soft support in the team might even become a breakthrough point for the enemy.
Grandmaster Hou Guoyu and Xu Haolong, the Patriarch of the Divine Dragon Clan, once said bluntly:
“Soft supports are the most respected and beloved position in this world.”
So to avoid being discriminated against before graduation,
it was set up as a separate special branch.
After all, this world has always faced the invasion threat of the Outer Domain Battlefield.
The mainstream cultivation was naturally focused on offense.
So… borrow from the Music College?
Not realistic.
Because the Music College was even more remote than the Rongcheng Campus.
All the branch campuses with music colleges in the United University were located in Western Yunnan.
The round trip would waste too much time.
Lin Jiaxin had to rent one instead.
Anyway, the school could reimburse her, and renting a good one was easier to get reimbursed than buying a normal one.
……
That night, Lin Jiaxin carried her rented guitar and walked around the campus.
Finally, she found a corner where few people passed by and sat down cross-legged on the ground.
She originally wanted to practice in the dormitory.
But her roommate wouldn’t let her, saying she sounded like a pig being slaughtered.
Lin Jiaxin thought her roommate was making a big deal out of it.
She was a bit unhappy.
After all, she had already cooperated with their living habits before.
Now she just wanted to practice the guitar, and they still looked down on her?
Was there no justice?
Was there no law— (long tone) —?
Until… the roommates played back the recording they had just made.
“…”
Lin Jiaxin fell silent after listening.
“Slaughtering a pig” was certainly an exaggerated description.
But it was indeed annoying to the ears.
It was like someone snoring while sleeping.
Just as others were about to get used to it,
the snorer would pause for a moment, then suddenly start up again with a burst of energy.
There was no rhythm at all. It made listeners restless and unable to fall asleep.
To be honest, Lin Jiaxin didn’t expect her skill to have dropped so much!
In her previous life, when she played and sang at anime conventions, there were always a bunch of girls who wanted to add her as a friend…
How did it become like this now?
It seemed… the eighteen years of neglect had indeed had a big impact.
If she was still at this level when it was time to go on stage,
then she might as well consider dropping out.
“Heh…”
The corners of Lin Jiaxin’s mouth lifted slightly.
Since her first failed attempt to show off after enrollment,
she finally felt the pressure again after a long time.
But this pressure didn’t crush Lin Jiaxin’s confidence.
Instead, it sparked her competitiveness.
It was just like the LPL audience eagerly waiting for the long-anticipated all-Chinese team BLG to defeat the ten-year-ruling demon king Faker in the finals.
The higher the difficulty, the better!
Lin Jiaxin took a deep breath. Her left hand pressed the strings, and her right hand lightly plucked.
The sound of the guitar scattered in the night, a bit stiff, but the tone was good.
‘The guitar is good, much better than an average firewood stick.’
She shook her somewhat stiff fingers and began practicing from the beginning.
Fortunately, this carefully chosen spot was usually deserted.
Lin Jiaxin wasn’t afraid of bothering others.
The more she felt her playing was stuck and awkward, the more she wanted to practice that section alone.
She had to get her fingers nimble!
“…”
“Did you hear that… what’s making that creepy noise?”
“Ah, don’t worry about that… let’s play something more interesting…”
“You’re right… don’t let it affect us… hehehe…”
In the small woods not far from Lin Jiaxin, a young man and woman were hiding inside.
With the moonlight, they started playing some mysterious game, even making strange noises…
“Ahhh… six, six, six… I want six!”
“Damn! Why isn’t it six again… I really don’t want to play Ludo with you anymore. Every time I play with you, I can’t roll a six.”
“Heh, who told you to suck? Look at my buddy; he never talks back to me.”
“If you suck, practice more! If you can’t take losing, then don’t play!”
“…”
Lin Jiaxin stopped moving her fingers.
She squinted and looked toward the small woods where the sounds kept coming.
Damn, this was so annoying!
Lin Jiaxin didn’t want to bother others,
but she also didn’t want to be bothered!
Besides, if you two were hiding in the woods doing something inappropriate for minors, fine…
But playing Ludo!
Is that what you two college student couples should be doing? Huh?
“…Whatever.”
Lin Jiaxin took a deep breath.
Damn it. If I can’t afford to provoke them, I’ll just avoid them!
I’ll practice somewhere else!
Lin Jiaxin picked up her guitar, put it in the bag, stood up, and left angrily.
She took another half lap around the school.
Finally, she sat down on an open space far from the sports field and dormitory buildings, where students were likely to show up.
It wasn’t very hidden,
but at least there was no place for people to hide.
No one would bother her this time, right?
Lin Jiaxin nodded in satisfaction.
Then she took out the guitar and started practicing frantically again!
…
But a few minutes later, a strong beam of light suddenly hit her.
The glaring light made it almost impossible for Lin Jiaxin to open her eyes.
“Student? What are you doing out here in the middle of the night instead of going back to the dorm?”
When the person got closer, Lin Jiaxin barely recognized him as a campus security guard.
She waved her hand, signaling him to move the flashlight away.
Then she explained a bit helplessly:
“Uncle guard, I have to perform at the Freshman Gala in a few days… This place is quiet, and no one bothers me while I practice.”
“What? That was you playing just now?”
The uncle guard looked a bit surprised: “I thought it was some creepy noise. Scared me.”
Lin Jiaxin: …
Was it really that bad?
She felt she was gradually recovering some of her former skill!
“So, can’t I practice here?”
Lin Jiaxin asked calmly.
She chose to skip that sad topic.
“You can, but keep the volume down. After all… playing like that late at night is kind of scary.”
The uncle guard seemed to notice Lin Jiaxin’s embarrassment and tried to be tactful.
“…”
Lin Jiaxin’s face darkened. She didn’t want to talk to him anymore!
Damn… looking down on me, huh?
When I return to my peak, I’ll make sure you all bow to me!