The Useless Beauty Who Went Viral Across the Stars - Chapter 1

Under the lead-gray sky, heavy dark clouds covered the heavens and earth, suffocating people so they could barely breathe.

Inside a small shop at the Imperial Star Sea Mecha Academy, Gong Yuanyuan stood behind the counter, looking bored as she occasionally rang up students who trickled into the shop.

Because the shop was a bit out of the way, not too many people came by, but snatches of conversation drifted over from time to time. Without exception, the content of the conversation was related to a major event about to happen at the school.

“The results of this teacher evaluation should be coming out in the next few days, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Do you think Lin Qiansheng from the Maintenance Department will pass?”

“Hard to say… Anyway, I don’t think he’ll pass.”

Hearing a familiar name, Gong Yuanyuan, who had been lowering her head and feeling so bored she was about to fall asleep, twitched her ears and couldn’t help listening in secretly.

A normal person’s physical fitness and spiritual power were generally at grade D or grade E. As one of the empire’s top three mecha academies, the Star Sea Mecha Academy required at least one of these traits to be at grade C to meet the enrollment standard.

The academy was not only strict with students, but also with teachers. Every year, it evaluated teachers’ teaching quality, physical fitness, and spiritual power. If the combined score of the two assessments did not meet the standard, they would be dismissed.

Therefore, every time teacher evaluation season rolled around, it became a hot topic among teachers and students.

And the teacher with the highest discussion heat among students was precisely Lin Qiansheng.

The reason for his high popularity was not because this person was strict or extremely strong in teaching ability, but rather that, as a teacher, Lin Qiansheng possessed a breathtakingly gorgeous appearance. However, his physical fitness and spiritual power were even lower than an ordinary person’s, resting solely at F. He couldn’t lift anything with his shoulders or hands, and he was so frail that a gust of wind could blow him over.

Rumor had it that the reason Lin Qiansheng was able to serve as a teacher at the school was because he was taken care of by the highly respected Vice Dean of the Maintenance Department. However, some time ago, the Vice Dean of the Maintenance Department passed away of old age. Without the vice dean’s care, almost no one thought Lin Qiansheng could pass the evaluation and continue staying at the school.

“He deserves it! I heard he looks extremely pretty, top-tier good-looking. My goddess even skipped class on purpose to go look at him, which pissed me off. He’s just a dying piece of trash. Aside from looking good, what else is he good for? Heaven knows how he got into our school.”

“Heh, maybe he relied on that face.” Hearing this, the boy narrowed his eyes, his expression ambiguous. “Didn’t the Vice Dean of the Maintenance Department favor him? But I also saw him outside the door of the Head of the R&D Department. That waist—tsk tsk—was so slim. Who knows how many people’s beds he’s climbed into.”

Gong Yuanyuan’s sleepiness vanished instantly. She widened her eyes, genuinely unable to imagine that there were people spreading such malicious rumors in her school. Just as she couldn’t help wanting to curse those two out, the light suddenly dimmed.

The girl paused, instinctively looking up. Silently, a young man wearing a beige long trench coat and a gray scarf, with a slender figure, had appeared before the counter.

The young man’s hair was a rare light silver color, slightly long, resting soft and natural against his back. His skin was pale, his pupils deep blue, and his facial features were near-perfect, as if sculpted by God’s own hands. Standing against the light in silence, he was so pretty it felt somewhat unreal, like a phantom that could dissipate at any moment.

“L-Lin Qiansheng?” Someone let out a gasp of surprise, and the milk tea shop fell silent in an instant, countless gazes landing on the young man.

Lin Qiansheng curved his eyes, breaking the silence with a soft voice: “Could I please trouble you for a cup of pearl milk tea? Full sugar, no ice.”

“Y-Yes!” Stunned for a few seconds, Gong Yuanyuan finally reacted, scrambling to pick up the barcode scanner: “That’s 10 star coins in total, please scan the QR code.”

It wasn’t until the young man left with his milk tea that someone in the quiet milk tea shop murmured, voicing everyone’s inner thoughts.

“He’s Lin Qiansheng? When did he come in? With my mental strength, how did I completely not notice…?”

No one noticed that the two students who had spread the malicious rumors fell into a bizarre silence, their expressions sluggish and pupils dazed.

After walking out of the milk tea shop, the young man took a few turns and arrived in front of a silver-white building, which was the academy’s administrative center.

The distance wasn’t too far, but simply walking over made it a bit hard for him to breathe. His fingers holding the milk tea tightened slightly, tinged with a sickly pallor.

An itch surged up his throat. Lin Qiansheng raised the milk tea, the pink straw gently touching his almost colorless lips. As the sweetness of the milk tea spread in his mouth, the burning pain in his chest gradually eased.

Sweetness could only temporarily relieve the pain in his body. Under normal circumstances, he could return to his office to rest, but not today.

Pausing for a moment, Lin Qiansheng got on the elevator and arrived in front of an office on the fourth floor.

He knocked on the door, and a voice quickly sounded from inside: “The door’s unlocked, come in.”

Only, when the door was pushed open and the man inside—who was over forty and somewhat chubby—saw the person entering, he immediately clicked his tongue with a “tsk” and said impatiently, “Why is it you again.”

Lin Qiansheng was very calm. “The day after tomorrow is Dean Gu’s funeral, and I’d like to take a day off.”

“I’ve said it many times. The day after tomorrow, many teachers are coming to listen to your department’s public lecture. If you take a day off, who’s going to teach the class the day after tomorrow?”

“I know you and Dean Gu have a good relationship, and it’s not like I’m trying to make things difficult for you.” Saying this, the man casually lit a cigarette, took a heavy drag, and said with a smile that wasn’t a smile, “It wouldn’t be impossible if you could find someone to substitute for you, but the problem is no one is helping you.”

Lin Qiansheng lowered his eyes slightly, his long eyelashes drooping to conceal the flash of coldness in his eyes.

Logically speaking, he had already given last month’s public lecture, and this month’s turn shouldn’t have been his. But three days ago, he suddenly received news that, due to some reasons, this month’s public lecture had been changed to him.

And the time for the public lecture happened to be set on the day of their Maintenance Department Vice Dean’s burial.

By that time, he had already promised Dean Gu’s family that he would attend the funeral.

However, before he could even refuse, the teacher who notified him about the change in the public lecture hung up the terminal communication, later finding various excuses to shirk responsibility. In short, he had to go teach; if he didn’t, that was fine too, but he had to find a teacher to substitute for him, otherwise his leave request would not be approved.

It wasn’t that he had no friends at school, but just as his friend agreed to help substitute for him, another accident happened—the dean of the department where his friend worked specially assigned his friend to go on a business trip to another planet for a week starting on the day of the public lecture.

“Of course, Teacher Lin can also choose not to show up the day after tomorrow, but you know, the school has been strict lately regarding teachers’ conduct. I hear Teacher Lin is in poor health, and buying medicine every time costs a huge sum of money.

No matter what, our mecha academy teachers’ salaries are no small amount. If it’s discovered that a teacher didn’t ask for leave and skipped class, Teacher Lin had better think clearly about the consequences.”

The chubby man blew out a ring of smoke, narrowed his eyes, grinned to reveal foul-smelling yellow teeth, and changed the subject: “To be honest, having stepped into society for so many years, Teacher Lin, you surely know the principle that no one does anything without profit. If you don’t give some benefits, why on earth would anyone help you for no reason?”

“I do happen to know an excellent teacher here; maybe he’d agree to help Teacher Lin substitute for you. As for who he is, Teacher Lin should have a good idea in your heart. That teacher is also one of the rare talents in our academy, with good personal conditions and a family that is a distinguished family in our empire. As long as Teacher Lin asks him and agrees to go shopping and watch a movie with him, he will definitely agree to help you, right?”

When he lifted his eyes again, the young man’s expression was gentle, making it impossible for anyone to see his true emotions.

Receiving no response, the chubby man wasn’t in a hurry either. He leisurely leaned back, sinking into the soft backrest, raising an eyebrow as he sized up the youth opposite him.

I have to admit, Lin Qiansheng was indeed extremely gorgeous, especially at such close range. He could increasingly feel just how perfect this face was, perfect to the point of having almost no flaws.

Even someone like him, who could be said to have seen countless “beauties,” had never met anyone among those he’d seen who could compare to him.

The chubby man’s heart suddenly began to itch a little.

Actually, if Lin Qiansheng hadn’t offended that person, as long as the beauty was willing to ask him, he’d be happy to grant the beauty a favor.

Or if Lin Qiansheng could pass the teacher evaluation and continue staying at the academy, for the sake of surface relations, he wouldn’t have acted so ruthlessly.

But a waste vase whose mental strength and physical fitness were both F, with a collapsed background, was impossible to pass the teacher evaluation no matter how you looked at it.

What a pity, what a pity.

The chubby man shook his head in his heart.

Yet at this moment, the youth seemed to know what he was thinking and suddenly spoke up, his voice warm and capable of making people sink into it: “Director Yan, do you think I can pass tomorrow’s teacher evaluation?”

Huh? The chubby man’s hand holding the cigarette paused in the air for a moment, but soon he laughed good-naturedly and said, “What does Teacher Lin mean by that?”

At this time, Lin Qiansheng took out a translucent, sky-blue star coin from his pocket. The front of the star coin was engraved with a relief carving of the Imperial Capital, while the back was as smooth as a mirror.

For a moment, the chubby man couldn’t guess what Lin Qiansheng wanted to do, and he remained silent.

The young man smiled softly, then suddenly exerted force with his thumb, tossing the coin upward.

“Clatter—!”

The star coin spun on the desk for a few rounds. Just as it was about to fall over, a slender hand suddenly covered it, simultaneously blocking the result.

“Want to make a bet?” Lin Qiansheng lifted his long eyelashes, a pair of deep blue pupils shimmering like the ocean, and said in a warm voice, “We each take a step back. If you win, I’ll give up asking for leave. If I win, I’ll continue teaching the public lecture on Wednesday morning, but my afternoon leave must be approved.”

The chubby man’s expression was a bit strange. “Are you crazy?”

The stronger the mental strength, the less general matter could block the probing of mental strength. Although his physical fitness was average, his mental strength had reached the B-grade level, or even slightly higher.

Under full operation, B-grade mental strength could pass through the human body, making it a breeze to see things behind it, but anything below D-grade was nearly impossible.

This was common knowledge in the interstellar era, and he never expected Lin Qiansheng to lose his mind and play this game with him.

Lin Qiansheng’s tone remained very calm as he asked, “Bet?”

The chubby man let out two snorts of disdain. “Fine, let’s bet.”

With that, an invisible yet massive wave of mental strength emanated from the chubby man’s body, filling the entire office, and a few specks of starlight appeared within the man’s originally dark brown pupils.

He stared at the hand covering the star coin. After a moment, the chubby man tapped his cigarette ash on the crystal ashtray, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, “I bet on the back.”

The sunlight outside the window filtered through, cutting diagonally across the youth. The upper half of the youth was buried in shadow. Hearing this, the corners of his lips curled up. Clearly smiling harmlessly and gently, for some reason, a trace of chill suddenly rose behind the chubby man’s back.

“Are you sure you aren’t changing it?” the youth spoke softly, his smile radiant. Seeing the chubby man nod somewhat stiffly, he continued.

“Alright then, I’ll bet on the front.”

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