The young Alpha’s figure already showed the initial outline of his future self—broad shoulders and long legs. With his thin lips tightly pressed together, the handsome and sharp features hiding a hint of unconcealable arrogance, it brought out that sense of rebellious untameability even more spontaneously.
He looked simply like the cool, school-bully male lead in those youth campus idol dramas who comes from an excellent family background but has a terrible personality!
However, just as everyone on the scene was staring blankly, his dad, Lu Ting, also slowly walked out.
The Alpha, possessing an even more mature and austere aura, had the sleeves of his dark shirt deliberately rolled up by the stylist. This added a bit of a business-casual feel while revealing the smooth muscle lines of his forearms, which weren’t exaggerated but possessed a substantial sense of mass.
The silver watch dial on his wrist refracted an invaluable luster under the light.
When he carelessly looked down, his dark pupils carried a domineering sense that brooked no argument. It even made one think of a certain fierce beast, a terrifying sense of danger hidden within the silence.
As for Lu Li, there was even less need to say. Chen Lan’s team already understood too well how to fully bring out Lu Li’s advantages. At this moment, Lu Li was looking down with lowered eyes as Charlie, wearing the big tiger headgear, walked out.
Charlie also had a pair of cat sunglasses put on by Lu Li. Looking quite the part, he let out a “Meow~” and squatted in place, looking incredibly aloof and cool!
Simply the cat among cats! The king among kings!
【Mother, this is also too cool, isn’t it—The original book didn’t write that this family of villains could be cool and handsome to this extent!?】
Even System 444, looking at the several street-bombing grand villains in front of it, couldn’t help but let out a long-lost sigh of emotion.
It thought to itself, With character modeling peaking like this, they are actually still villains. This book is clearly seriously unreasonable!
One must know, in this world that values appearances, if an actor with a super handsome appearance plays a beggar in a TV drama, the plot the next second might tell the audience which wealthy family’s missing young master he is.
And in a novel, if an author creates several high-appearance, highly popular villains, and then writes them all to death in the plot, the comment section would definitely explode right then and there. The fan fiction written by readers would have the villains resurrected on the spot countless times.
So, this original book clearly has BUGs!
【Beep— Villain Fate Point Change +1. In today’s era of appearances, high-appearance villains can often gain high-popularity reader attention, thereby changing the villain’s fate, extending screen time, and counterattacking the plot! Please strive to maintain the current development route!!】
As a result, right when 444 concluded that the original work was simply bizarre, a new notification sound actually rang out.
Heavens, it actually can help change the villain’s fate line?!
The legendary appearance changes fate!
“Why are you all staring at me?”
However, in front of Xueyan, Lu Huai’s aloof and cool guy aura, which he had postured to the extreme, couldn’t be maintained for even a second. He had long been unable to resist raising an eyebrow, curling the corners of his lips, and opening his arms towards Xueyan.
“Will our pretty little tiger give Brother this chance to hug you into the car?”
Lu Huai looked at the little cub with a face full of a wicked smile, actually making his aura at this moment instantly vibrant.
Unknowingly, he had already become much more three-dimensional than the few formulaic descriptive sentences in the original book.
“Yes! I want to hug Brother!”
Just as Xueyan was about to happily run into his handsome fourth brother’s arms, Lu Huai was lifted by the collar and moved to the side by his dad from behind.
“The competition is about to start, if you act so carelessly and mess up the sweet cub’s styling again, what then!?”
Lu Ting looked down at his fourth son with quite some disgust. If I take my eyes off him for even a second, he inexplicably sticks to the sweet cub like a compass.
“Hey! Old Dad, what right do you have to talk about me, you clearly also…”
Lu Huai gritted his teeth and stared at his dad, thinking, Old Dad is clearly just using the excuse that he was a step too slow to hug him, so now he simply won’t let anyone hug him.
What Lu Huai didn’t realize was that while he was retorting, Lu Ting’s expression had already darkened, revealing a long-lost dangerous aura of the feudal grand-patriarch Alpha from the original book’s setting.
The styling team nearby was too scared to speak. Lu Li, keeping a straight face, held Xueyan’s hand and urged:
“Aren’t we setting off yet? Dad, Old Fourth, let’s go over early to draw lots.”
“…Right, draw lots!”
The dangerous atmosphere instantly dissolved. After all, the lot-drawing for the sweet cub’s competition was of course the most important.
How crucial is a good appearance order!
“We’re going to draw lots!”
Xueyan, held by his third brother, smiled and joyfully looked up at his parents, accompanying him to set off for the competition.
Charlie, who had been acting cool for a long time, also hurriedly used his paw to push his sunglasses, and ran over with a pitter-patter, terrified Xueyan would forget him.
The dangerous aura of this family really comes and goes quickly, huh?
The styling team watched in amazement, feeling once again how fortunate it was that this family had a little cutie, otherwise it seemed their villainous aura would truly burst off the charts.
And in the venue within the First High School campus before the competition began, quite a few people had already entered one after another.
“Little contestants, please come draw lots as soon as possible oh—!”
To ensure maximum fairness, the appearance order was drawn on-site 1 hour before the competition.
“Excuse me, do we line up here to draw lots?”
Just as this staff member suddenly heard an extremely pleasant male voice by her ear, she subconsciously raised her head, and was stunned by the handsomeness of the other party that couldn’t be concealed even wearing a mask.
Just like a male celebrity, the area between his brows and eyes even looks a bit familiar…
“Yes, yes, line up right here. But parents cannot line up on behalf of the children, only the little friends themselves can draw lots!”
However, seeing the man naturally going to help line up, the staff member stopped him again.
This is too doting, not even giving the little friend a chance to exercise himself.
In today’s society, truly, the more like this, the easier it is to raise some little ancestors…
“Brother, I also want to line up myself. You go sit with Papa, okay?”
As a result, the next second, a fluffy little cutie popped out from behind the other party’s leg.
The little guy reached out and lifted the tiger hood. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] A few little tiger whiskers were even stuck on his fair cheeks with sticky rice glue, swaying back and forth as he spoke. And those moist big eyes were even more beautiful!
Wait, if he’s this cute, then it seems excusable for the family to dote on him a bit more.
Is this some little actor or little child star from somewhere?
Among the contestants recommended by major kindergartens at today’s competition venue, there were indeed several highly anticipated child stars arriving one after another.
But it seemed none of them were as stunning as the one before her, completely like a handful of spring snow, fair and bright.
“Can you line up yourself? Okay, then Brother will stand nearby and watch you finish drawing lots before going back, okay?”
Lu Li half-squatted in front of Xueyan, patiently and tenderly reaching out to adjust Xueyan’s little tiger hood.
He discovered that the fur on it had been groomed completely by the enthusiastic Charlie at some point, making it look even smoother.
“Mm-hmm!”
As a result, Xueyan nodded obediently, and one ear of the hood drooped down again, making him even cuter.
Watching this scene, Lu Li expended a tremendous amount of restraint to not hug Xueyan into his arms and kiss him fiercely on the spot. Instead, he watched intently as Xueyan ran off himself into the crowd of little friends to line up.
But Lu Li also didn’t walk away. He allowed the parents nearby to stare at him, and didn’t speak.
“E-excuse me, are you Lu Li?”
Finally, a star-chasing parent vaguely recognized Lu Li but didn’t dare to be certain.
“Of course not, many people say we look alike.”
To this, Lu Li turned his head and smiled faintly, successfully dazzling a group of parents into speechlessness.
Even if they had the answer in their hearts, since Lu Li himself didn’t admit it, everyone at the competition venue, being fellow parents of contestants, was too embarrassed to forcefully crowd around and strike up a conversation.
And his dad, who had been called to sit in the audience seats by Old Third who came early to save seats, watched this scene from afar and tapped the armrest quite impatiently.
How long is this broken competition going to keep us in suspense, why hasn’t it started yet?
Lu Ting was actually not very interested in watching other cubs compete, he only wanted to see his sweet cub take the stage as soon as possible.
The Alpha’s astonishing aura caused a large area of empty seats around him. Those who didn’t know would think the CEO of the organizing company was personally sitting here, with several assistants nearby carrying various heavy camera equipment.
“Um… excuse me, are you the photographer arranged by the school?”
A cameraman from the competition organizing committee stared at the equipment in the hands of the assistants opposite him, which were even more expensive than his own, and asked in confusion.
“Oh, that’s not the case. I am the photographer arranged by our Chairman, responsible for filming our Little Young Master’s program performance.”
This assistant smiled slightly. The financial power revealed in just a few words made the Alpha behind him, who had a face full of impatience, seem even more unfathomably profound.
No way, are parents nowadays all tyrannical to this extent!?
“Sorry about this, we don’t recommend…”
“It’s fine, it’s very reasonable for parents to want to take photos. If anyone asks, just say I’m responsible for it.”
“President Lan!?”
A group of staff members instantly voiced their surprise.
President Lan? Hearing this name, Lu Ting finally turned his head to look, and discovered the person opposite was impressively the old acquaintance he met at the parent-teacher meeting!
“Your son also came to compete!?”
Princeton actually squeezed in someone with connections? Didn’t they say they only recommended my sweet cub!
“Oh, that’s not it, I am just one of today’s special guest judges.”
Facing Lu Ting’s questioning scrutiny, Lan Ying waved her hand with a smile to explain, and even took out her judge badge to prove herself.
She completely didn’t mention that besides Xiao Shuo saying Xueyan came to compete, the other reason she temporarily returned from this trip was to attend Masis’s new product release banquet and absolutely secure those ten ready-to-wear raincoats!
“…”
Lu Ting watched Lan Ying “arrogantly” leave surrounded by a group of people, and instantly became suspicious in his heart.
This person wouldn’t deliberately suppress our sweet cub and give a low score, right?
Because the Lan family once had a marriage alliance with the Pei family, Lu Ting naturally wouldn’t actively contact the other party. He only knew that the other party, as a mouthpiece in the media industry, was very difficult to deal with.
Just as Lu Ting felt bizarrely that something was amiss, he turned his head and discovered it was already his sweet cub’s turn to line up!
“Just stick your hand into the box and you can draw. The little friend who draws the number will be registered next to it.”
The staff member in front, with an auntie smile on her face, watched Xueyan stretch out his fluffy little hand, trying to stand on tiptoe and reach into the box to pull out his own number plate.
“What number?”
“Number 1!”
Xueyan kept his beautiful eyes open, discovering what he drew was actually Number 1!
“Oh oh okay, Princeton contestant Lu Xueyan, registered under plate Number 1.”
The staff member secretly felt a bit of regret.
The many little cubs surrounding them also had different thoughts in their hearts. A few older class contestants with quite good conditions even directly let out a sigh of relief.
Because for this kind of large-scale competition, experienced contestants all knew that Numbers 1-3 basically belonged to the three opening contestants used to determine the scoring standard. The scores would mostly tend to be conservative, making it extremely difficult to get a high score for a gold award.
As the judges gradually relaxed their scoring later on, it was very easy to be surpassed, making them default cannon fodder.
【Ah ah ah, how could we draw Number 1!?】
System 444 almost suspected that the cannon fodder villain plot line in the original book was still at work, because it seemed every time there was an important node, some accident would always happen.
It was like this during the Princeton interview, and now it’s actually like this drawing lots for the competition! It couldn’t be that the cannon fodder villain fate line is still inherited, right?
“Is Number 1 bad?”
Xueyan, oblivious, noticed the surrounding gazes and 444’s seemingly very nervous attitude.
“But if it’s Number 1, I can be the first to go on stage and see Papa and Brothers.”
Holding his number plate, Xueyan turned to leave while speaking very earnestly, not affected at all by the mindset of the people around him.
This sentence also happened to fall into the ears of Lu Li, who was waiting nearby.
The slight anxiety and worry between his brows were instantly washed away by Xueyan’s sentence. He directly hugged the approaching Xueyan into his arms.
“How can you be so amazing, even drawing lots you get Number 1, mm?”
“Because the little tiger is the King of Beasts, and the King of Beasts is of course first place!”
Xueyan thought about it, looked up, and smilingly answered his brother’s question.
“Meow—!” That’s right, exactly like that!
Charlie couldn’t understand order, but Charlie really liked seeing the beautiful Xueyan smiling!
“Okay, our King of Beasts. After finishing the competition early, how about Brother takes our Xueyan to eat at a buffet?”
Lu Li said with a smile.
Ever since returning from Brisbane, Xueyan had always yearned for the so-called “buffet” he ate at the hotel. It was just that the family felt this made it too easy for Xueyan to become a picky eater, so they kept controlling it and never arranged it.
It just so happened that they weren’t in a hurry to go back to school after the competition today, so it was a good idea to take him out to play.
So, a competition means I can eat a buffet?
At this moment, Xueyan, about to be the first to take the stage, felt he was about to fall in love with competitions.
【Lu Li: You can come over now. Drew Number 1, will take the stage first right after the opening finishes.】
And Lu Huai, who had been sitting restlessly in the classroom as if he had nails on his butt, instantly got excited upon receiving this message on his phone.
It happened to be the long recess, this timing was simply perfect, perfect!!
“Hey, Lu Huai!? Where are you going again—!”
Teacher Shen Huimin watched with trepidation as Lu Huai ran off again.
“I’m going to the grand auditorium for a bit—I’ll be right back—!”
Lu Huai’s voice, having already run down several flights of stairs, came from afar.
This made Teacher Shen Huimin feel slightly more relieved. As long as nothing happened.
But what is he going to the grand auditorium for? Today the grand auditorium has some toddler group little host city competition.
This kid Lu Huai, dressed so handsomely today, could it be that as a high schooler he’s also going on stage to compete with kindergarten little friends?
As for puppy love, Shen Huimin wasn’t worried. With Lu Huai’s temper, no matter how handsome he was, it didn’t seem like any girl would dare approach him.
“Teacher, we also want to go to the grand auditorium for a bit hehe. Guarantee to come back before the long recess ends.”
Turning her head, Teacher Shen Huimin saw Wei Zhili and a crowd of other people in the class also holding their own piles of things, tailing Lu Huai and sprinting wildly towards the auditorium.
“No, just who exactly is in this auditorium…”
Staring blankly as such a group of young students sprinted wildly past, Shen Huimin was also baffled.
“Lu Huai’s younger brother, Xueyan, came to the school for a competition today, Teacher. We want to go see Xueyan.”
The girl running the slowest laughingly told the homeroom teacher this news.
Shen Huimin: ?
Then I kinda want to go over and see too…
After all, the little guy is truly cute!
Just as Lu Huai pushed open the back door of the grand auditorium with a “smack—” and rushed in panting heavily, he discovered the competition host had also just finished announcing the opening remarks. [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] The lights in the entire venue dimmed, and the spotlight slowly gathered.
Immediately following, a little tiger slowly walked out onto the stage!?
No, two!
Because Charlie also swished his tail and followed behind Xueyan with a super stable stage presence.
Even when Xueyan stood still in the center of the stage, he mimicked Xueyan, squatting in place close to Xueyan’s feet, his tail raised as he nodded slightly towards the entire audience in greeting.
This opening alone had already fiercely amazed the entire venue. Parents in the audience seats were already holding up their phones to film.
And Xueyan, standing on the stage feeling subtly a bit nervous, recalled that his brother could sing so relaxed standing at such a large concert back then.
I am just telling a story, of course I should be even less nervous.
“Hello everyone, I am Lu Xueyan from Princeton Kindergarten, and this is my program guest today, Little Kitty Charlie…”
Just as Xueyan steadily finished the beginning of his self-introduction with a stable voice, the first huge round of applause, completely disregarding everyone else, erupted in the entire venue.
They only saw the terrifyingly aura-ed Alpha sitting in the audience seats, looking straight at the stage with tightly pursed lips. As he took the lead in applauding vigorously, the corners of his eyes seemed to have a hint of moisture.
My sweet cub has truly grown up.
He can even stand on a stage watched by so many people to speak and compete…
Clap clap clap clap clap—
The entire venue couldn’t help but be infected, and instantly overwhelming applause rang out.
Because he truly deserved encouragement. Looking at his height and figure, this was probably the youngest contestant in the toddler group of the entire venue, right?
Standing on such a large stage, he simply looked like a soft, fluffy little ball with white stripes.
How could parents not be moved?
“Go Xueyan—Fourth Brother super loves you!”
As a result, the next second, unwilling to be outdone, Lu Huai put his hands in the shape of a megaphone to his mouth and shouted loudly.
Responding to the sound, on both sides of the competition venue, banners that someone had secretly fixed in place a day in advance unfolded with a “swoosh—”.
【Xueyan Xueyan! Invincible under heaven!】
No way!? [Read on RanaTranslations🌸] Who is this? Who secretly set up these mechanisms?
The organizing committee members were dumbfounded.
As for the classmates on the side staring blankly at this scene, Although it’s very domineering, isn’t it a bit too wild and unrestrained?
“With Brother Huai doing this, it makes the banners we prepared seem overly refined…”
A girl looked at the hand banner in her arms, “Snow Filling the Starry River · Words Moving the Heart,” which even had the Q-version Little Pear drawn by everyone on the forum printed on it.
“I am truly completely defeated by Brother Huai.”
Wei Zhili covered his face with his hand, not knowing whether he should laugh.
However, as the entire venue watched these two banners in shock, many people couldn’t help but smile kindly. Even the applause that should have subsided grew louder and louder.
An occasion that is originally very prone to being awkward and cold for the first person taking the stage was instead instantly pushed to a climax.
On stage, Xueyan’s originally somewhat overly pale cheeks surfaced with an extremely pretty pale pink. Even the little ears inside the little tiger hood turned red.
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