"Sandra, can you wait for me just one more day? I can do it, I know I can! Tomorrow is the Luyang Prefecture Academy's assessment, and I will definitely pass the martial arts department's test! If I don't pass, if I don't pass... then I'll...!"

William Harris's heart was filled with anxiety, gripping a book tightly in his hand, not even sure what he should say.

All he could hope for was that Sandra Cooper would give him just one more day.

Wait until he finished the exam.

If he really couldn't get into the Luyang Prefecture Academy... then he wouldn't force it.

"Wait one more day, and then what?"

Eric Johnson crossed his legs and burst out laughing, "William Harris, you still can't see the situation clearly! With your uselessness, do you really deserve Sandra Cooper? You're about to be sentenced to 'death' by the academy's big exam, and you're still making a pointless last struggle! Acting like you could actually pass the assessment! Pah, if you can pass, then pigs can climb trees! Only someone with my abilities can be absolutely sure of getting into the Luyang Prefecture Academy. Once I become a peak late-stage martial artist, I'll shake the whole Luyang Prefecture!"

He looked rather smug.

As long as Sandra Cooper gave up on William Harris, he, as a collateral member of the The Johnson Family noble family, and one of the top martial artists in the class, would have a much better chance of winning Sandra Cooper's heart once they both got into the Luyang Prefecture Academy.

"Exactly, he has no self-awareness at all!"

The surrounding martial arts students all nodded, looking at William Harris with eyes full of pity and sympathy.

Their burning gazes made William Harris feel as if his whole body was on fire, wishing he could crawl under the desk.

"No! I don't want to wait even one more day. Ryan Johnson has been pursuing me for a long time. He promised that as long as I become his girlfriend, he'll help me join the Luyang Prefecture's Alchemist Guild. My ambition is to become a true alchemist, and only his family background can help me. Besides, I've already agreed to him!"

Sandra Cooper coldly rejected him, speaking the truth.

After all, the big exam was tomorrow, and soon everyone would know about this, so she didn't want to hide it anymore.

"What, it was actually Ryan Johnson who suddenly stepped in and stole her away?"

"Ryan Johnson is a direct descendant of the The Johnson Family noble family in Luyang City, with boundless prospects. He's also the top genius of our Nancheng Martial Academy, at the peak of the third level of martial artist, and extremely famous!"

"No wonder! Sandra Cooper would decisively give up on William Harris at this time and choose Ryan Johnson. If it were me, I'd make the same choice—a wise bird chooses a good tree to nest in."

"Compared to Ryan Johnson, the son of heaven, William Harris is just a pile of cow dung. What kind of blind woman would ever choose William Harris!"

"I heard Ryan Johnson has been chasing Sandra Cooper for a long time, and Sandra Cooper always acted aloof and never agreed. Who would've thought that right before graduation, he finally succeeded. Looks like Sandra Cooper is just a vain woman after all, unable to resist the temptation of the The Johnson Family noble family!"

"William Harris, that poor wretch, has finally been betrayed by Sandra Cooper! This is karma—what was never his to begin with will never belong to him!"

The whole classroom erupted in an uproar, with the young martial arts students all showing mocking expressions.

Many of the boys in the class also admired Sandra Cooper, but none had ever won her favor. No one expected Sandra Cooper to suddenly drop such a bombshell.

Eric Johnson was completely stunned by this revelation, caught off guard and flustered.

Ryan Johnson was his cousin, a true direct descendant of the The Johnson Family family, whose martial arts skills and family status far surpassed his own.

"That damned guy, just wait and see how I deal with you!"

Eric Johnson's eyes glared with rage, bloodshot, staring fiercely at William Harris.

Dealing with William Harris was an easy task.

But facing Ryan Johnson, a third-level martial artist, even if he had the courage of ten leopards, he wouldn't dare provoke him.

If it weren't for William Harris blocking his way for three years, how could he have lost the precious chance to pursue Sandra Cooper, only to be beaten to it by his cousin?

"So th~... that's how it is!"

William Harris was stunned for a moment, then looked up at the window, his expression gradually turning cold, his whole being sinking into a deathly silence.

Outside the classroom, the midsummer heat was intense, dazzling with colors, and the cicadas on the treetops were especially noisy.

Under the setting sun, the sky was bathed in red clouds.

The sky could change in an instant.

Suddenly, a mass of dark clouds swept in from the horizon, pressing down like billions of tons of lead, carrying an apocalyptic might that made the earth suffocate.

"Rumble! Crack—!"

A sudden clap of thunder exploded, a blinding bolt of lightning tearing through the sky.

It illuminated William Harris's pale, bloodless, expressionless, and cold face.

Chapter 2: The "Wound" of Divine Martial

"So, in the end, we still have to break up!"

William Harris's eyes stared blankly at the thunderous, dark sky outside the window, his pitch-black pupils filled with endless darkness.

He didn't know how to describe his feelings at this moment.

Actually, he wasn't particularly sad about the breakup.

In these three years at Nancheng Martial Academy, he and Sandra Cooper had gradually drifted apart, and he had already expected that the day of breaking up would come sooner or later.

He just didn't expect it to come so suddenly.

William Harris's heart felt cold, as if it were gray.