The Revenge of the Reborn Supreme Sovereign-Chapter 306 - 299: Confused! (3)

What was the hottest topic this summer vacation?

Without a doubt, it was Jinling University.

The buzz even momentarily surpassed that of the top student who scored full marks on the college entrance examination. This was all because that very same top scorer had listed Jinling University as his first, second, and third choice.

As a result, every educational institution in Huaxia was in an uproar.

Why did the top scorer, with a perfect 750 points, choose the near-top-tier Jinling University instead of a famous foreign university or top schools like Tsinghua and Peking?

This mind-boggling turn of events instantly made Jinling University the focal point of the entire nation. Countless students and parents turned their attention to the university, wondering what kind of magic it possessed to attract the top scorer.

In an instant, many students and parents with scores high enough for Jinling University found the scales of their decision-making invisibly tipping. Those who were still hesitating about which school to pick finally settled on Jinling University.

Faced with this unimaginable situation, the management of Jinling University nearly fainted from shock. After reconfirming the top scorer's choices multiple times, the university's president and senior management personally went to Jiangzhou, hoping to pay the Qin family a visit.

Unfortunately, Qin Fan was already stationed at the Northwest Military Region at the time. After a brief conversation with Qin Chu and his wife, the group had no choice but to return disappointed.

Throughout the summer, the buzz surrounding Jinling University remained high. Just before the start of the school year, the hype soared to an unprecedented new level.

Because of Qin Fan's shocking choice, which stunned all of Huaxia, Jinling University raised its admission cutoff score early on. Even so, it became the first university in the nation to fill its freshman enrollment in record time.

In response, countless top-tier institutions were consumed by envy and jealousy, with Tsinghua and Peking being no exception.

However, Qin Fan, the very center of this vortex, never once appeared before the media. Numerous journalists tried every trick in the book to interview him, but every attempt ended in failure.

「September 3rd.」

The day Jinling University's semester began.

「No.1 Villa.」

Qin Fan, who had been staying with his parents ever since returning from the Northwest Military Region, packed a few clothes into a backpack. Seeing the reluctance in his parents' eyes, he couldn't help but smile. "Mom, Dad, I'm just going to school, not to war. Is all this really necessary?"

"Oh, you... The whole summer is over, and you've spent so little time with us, and now you have to leave again! What parent can bear to see their child go so far away?" Wei Shuying said with a pout, holding onto his hand.

Since Qin Fan was not considering Tsinghua or Peking, she had genuinely wished he would choose Zhongshan University in Jiangzhou instead. Unfortunately, he had already made his own choice.

"Alright, alright, stop that! He's a grown man now; do you expect him to stay by our side forever?" Qin Chu patted Wei Shuying's shoulder, then looked at Qin Fan's meager backpack. "Xiao Fan, are you really taking just this little with you?"

"It's enough! Dad, I can buy whatever I need when I get there. Besides, it's not like our family is short on pocket change anymore, right?" Qin Fan said with a casual grin.

"That's true. Alright! It's getting late. Let's get you to the airport," Qin Chu said, nodding after a glance at his watch.

"Okay, let's go, Mom!" Qin Fan put an arm around Wei Shuying's shoulder, and the family of three walked out, chatting and laughing.

「At the airport waiting hall.」

Inevitably, there was another emotional farewell.

Qin Fan, however, showed no impatience. He listened to his mother's endless reminders, nodding and smiling in response.

Wei Shuying finally stopped when the boarding announcement for his flight sounded.

Watching Qin Fan's back disappear through the boarding gate, Wei Shuying sighed, "Chu, it'll be another month before we see Xiao Fan again."

"Well, I said we should have another child, but you were the one who disagreed. Whose fault is that?" Qin Chu teased with a chuckle.

"Don't you remember what our family's circumstances were back then? Have another child, just to let them suffer through what Xiao Fan experienced? I couldn't bear it, I truly couldn't. I've already cried myself dry over everything he went through. If we had another, I don't know if I could have endured it," Wei Shuying said, her voice catching with a sob.

"Shuying, I've wronged you." Realizing he'd said the wrong thing, Qin Chu wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Alright, it's all in the past. Everything is behind us. The old Qin family is no more, and Xiao Fan has made us proud. It's just as you always say: fortunes change. Now, let's not dwell on those things. Let's go."

"Okay," Wei Shuying said, wiping the corner of her eye. She walked out of the airport with Qin Chu's arm still around her.

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Meanwhile, the moment the flight to Jinling lifted off the runway, Qin Fan was suddenly seized by a wave of nervousness and excitement.

It was the second time he had felt this way since his rebirth.

If he recalled correctly, his first encounter with Yinuo in his previous life happened on this very day.

Even after hundreds of years, he remembered the time and the scene with perfect clarity.

It was just after four in the afternoon on September 3rd.

At the new student registration area.

Jiang Yino had been running when she suddenly tripped and fell.

He had reflexively reached out and pulled her back to her feet.

Her smiling "thank you" had sent his heart racing back then.

Will history repeat itself in this lifetime? Could I really bear to watch her fall?

Qin Fan didn't know. At that moment, his heart was in turmoil—unprecedented turmoil.

"Sir, please fasten your seatbelt."

A flight attendant's gentle, smiling voice snapped Qin Fan out of his chaotic thoughts.

"Right, thank you," he replied with a smile, looking up as he quickly buckled his seatbelt.

Sighing, he shook his head with a wry smile and cleared the jumbled thoughts from his mind.

During his years on the Cangqiong Continent, he once thought he was free of all attachments, that he could unreservedly follow the Demon Dao, carving a path through life and death to ascend into the Immortal Class of the Heavenly Palace.

But he was wrong. In the long annals of history, besides the legendary Human-Demon Fu Xi, who else had ever shaken the Three Realms by entering the Demon Dao?

Thus, his perishing under the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation of the Ninety-Ninth Layer of Ascension was no accident; it was an inevitability.

However, his return from beneath the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation to his past life—a chance to continue an unresolved love—seemed to have escaped the confines of the Heavenly Dao.

Was it destiny, or a reversal of fate?

No one knew.

As Qin Fan's mind raced ahead to the new student registration area at Jinling University, in the first-class cabin of the very same plane, Xu Jiayi was one of the passengers.

Her score had just barely met the cutoff for Jinling University. The moment she learned of Qin Fan's choice, she had, without a second thought, filled in all three of her university preferences with Jinling University.

What she didn't realize, however, was that this choice would become the nightmare of her life—a nightmare that would ultimately end it.