Emily Lincoln’s face was expressionless: “If you want to marry, go ahead, I’m not interested. Besides, picking a Wandering Healer? I really want to see how you, David Thompson, plan to level up early on. Hmph, a guy choosing Wandering Healer—good luck with that!”

Of course, I understood what Emily Lincoln meant. The Wandering Healer has no attack power and definitely needs someone to help out in the early stages. If a girl picks Wandering Healer, she can just stand in the newbie village and sweetly call out, “Big brother, help me level up!” and there will always be someone willing to help. As for guys, forget it—unless you’re as handsome as those Korean male stars, you’ll have to swing your own staff and grind levels by yourself!

But I have my own strategies, so I’m not worried...

With confidence, I gave Emily Lincoln a smile and said, “It’s fine, I can handle it.”

Emily Lincoln pursed her lips and didn’t say much more. It seemed she still had some reservations about me.

May Easton, on the other hand, was quite enthusiastic and said, “I’ve already decided—I’m picking a high-damage class: Spirit Mage, which is basically the mage in Destiny. Emily decided to pick an assassin. We’ll team up as melee and ranged to level up together and aim for first place on the sub-city ranking!”

I nodded. “Mm, good luck to you both!”

...

After eating, we left the restaurant. The three of us strolled outside, with groups of students coming and going all over campus.

A few minutes later, suddenly a male student, as if he’d seen a ghost, pointed at us and shouted, “Am I… am I seeing things? That… that girl, is she Emily Lincoln? Isn’t she the little diva who announced her retirement from showbiz five months ago?!”

The other guys all turned their eyes toward us in unison and nodded, “It is! It really is Emily Lincoln! Oh my god, I can’t believe Emily Lincoln actually came to Liuhua University. This is amazing!”

A few guys rushed over together. One of them called out loudly, “Emily Lincoln, is that you? Can we… can we take a photo with you? We’re your die-hard fans, and we love your ‘Heart of Time’ the most!”

Emily Lincoln looked a bit surprised and said softly, “Sorry, I’ve already retired. I just want to study here quietly…”

“Wow!”

I suddenly stepped in front of Emily Lincoln, raised my arm, and blocked the guys, smiling as I said, “Sorry, Miss Emily doesn’t want to be disturbed. Please show some respect, everyone!”

One of the guys got angry on the spot: “Who the hell are you? Do you think you get to talk here? Get lost!”

I didn’t say a word. With a shake of my arm, “bang”—the guys all staggered back, each one standing there in shock, not even knowing how they’d been pushed away.

Standing there coldly, I said nothing. I couldn’t let strangers get close to Emily Lincoln—that was Nathan Lincoln’s top order for me.

May Easton giggled behind me: “Hehe, David really is a great bodyguard…”

“Let’s head back to the dorm, okay?” I said.

“Mm.”

Emily Lincoln stood downstairs at the girls’ dorm, suddenly turned to look at me, and said, “David Thompson, for breakfast and lunch tomorrow, we’ll have someone bring it upstairs, so you don’t need to come. At noon, Destiny opens at 12:00. Don’t embarrass me…”

“Got it…” I nodded.

Watching Emily Lincoln go upstairs, I finally left, walking along the tree-lined path, wiping the sweat from my forehead. I had no idea what her background was, but she had so many fans. The road ahead for me is definitely going to be tough!

...

Back in the dorm, I opened the door and found a laptop on the desk. Sitting across from my bed was a guy—must be my roommate.

My roommate turned around, and the thick lenses of his glasses nearly blinded me. He gave a timid smile: “You must be my roommate, David Thompson, right? Hi, I’m George Turner, but you can call me George.”

I nodded. “Yeah, hi, Glasses Bro!”

“Please call me by my name, George Turner!”

“Okay, Glasses Bro.”

Glasses Bro was definitely over 25, already had forehead wrinkles. Who knows how much money this guy had to pay to get into this school—so contemptible...

Glasses Bro pushed back his chair and quickly scooted over, his face excited as he grinned, “Just now… I saw you with Emily Lincoln in the cafeteria. So, what’s your relationship? Tsk tsk, you actually know Emily Lincoln, you’re so lucky!”

“Lucky? For what?” I was a bit confused. “Who exactly is Emily Lincoln?”

“Damn!”

Glasses Bro slapped the table: “You still don’t know? Emily Lincoln… Two years ago, when she was 17, she became famous all over Asia with her song ‘Heart of Time’ and was hailed as the new little diva, the goddess in the hearts of many guys! Unfortunately, she retired from showbiz five months ago. No one knew she’d come to Liuhua University to study…”

I was stunned. “So she… can sing too?”

Glasses Bro nearly spat blood all over his computer screen.

Chapter 6: David Bro Battles the Jianghu!

The next day, at 11:00 a.m., there was still a full hour before Destiny’s servers opened. After eating a boxed lunch early, I waited in the dorm with Glasses Bro for the servers to go live. At the same time, I’d dug up some background on Glasses Bro—turns out he’s self-employed, made tens of millions running a chain of black internet cafes, and spent 3 million to attend Liuhua University, saying he wanted to become a learned man. But honestly, it looks like this guy is just going to spend four years here playing games and goofing off with me.