Sure enough, after turning a corner a few hundred meters away, William Carter turned in another direction, so the two of them never even crossed paths, let alone anything else!

But as soon as she arrived at school today, she saw her classmates pointing and whispering about her. Snippets of their conversation occasionally reached her ears, and she was instantly furious!

It took a lot of effort to get to the classroom. When Grace Brooks saw the strange looks her classmates were giving her, she was about to lose it. To put it bluntly, she really wanted to string William Carter up and cut him into a thousand pieces!

“Could it be that idiot William Carter is trying to tell you he likes you in this way?” Emily Bolton really had the makings of a reporter. She didn’t dare provoke Grace Brooks directly, but muttered to herself.

Grace Brooks was stunned when she heard this. Right, that was very possible.

“Hmph! Today I’ll find a chance to tell him—even if I had to accept a pig, I wouldn’t accept him. Let him give up already! What an idiot! An idiot whose IQ is even lower than a pig’s!”

Emily Bolton curled her lips in disdain and said, “You expect him to come to class? Never mind that the teachers have already given up on him—even he’s completely given up on the college entrance exam. Who knows what got into him last night that he came to the last evening self-study. And now, after causing such a big mess today, it’d be a miracle if he showed up!”

……

And as for the instigator of all this, the person at the center of the school’s gossip, the “idiot” Grace Brooks said was worse than a pig, at this moment he had just woken up.

William Carter was woken up by hunger.

Listening to his stomach growling, William Carter couldn’t help but shake his head and smile wryly. Ever since he entered the fasting stage, he had rarely tasted mortal food.

But now, having been knocked down from the tribulation stage to become an ordinary person, his top priority was to lose weight, but first he had to take care of his own stomach!

“Gotta buy some food first… Oh no!” William Carter was shocked!

His wallet and meal card were both in his jacket, but last night he had generously given his jacket to Sarah Bennett!

“If only I had a storage pouch or some kind of spatial artifact, things would be so much easier…” William Carter muttered to himself.

“Sigh, it’s really hard to be a good person these days. See, just tried to do a good deed, and now I have to go hungry…”

Rubbing his empty stomach, William Carter gritted his teeth in regret, swearing never to be a good person again, while thinking about how to fill his belly.

“Maybe I should borrow some money from my cheap little sister?” According to his memories, he had a younger sister at Qingshui City No. 1 High School, named Olivia Parker, who was also a senior, and apparently one of the school’s three great beauties.

The image of a tall, slender, beautiful girl with a ponytail and big, soulful eyes appeared in his mind, and William Carter felt a wave of nervousness.

This Olivia Parker seemed to be utterly disappointed in her brother, to the point that by senior year she was completely hopeless about him. Even though they were at the same school, they barely saw each other once a month.

Or rather, even if they did meet, whenever William Carter tried to talk to her, all he got was a cold, utterly disappointed snort, and then Olivia Parker would quickly turn and run away.

William Carter completely understood the psychology between the siblings. He knew Olivia Parker didn’t actually look down on her brother, but genuinely hoped that by acting this way, she could push him to be a bit more spirited and less of a loser.

Thinking of that look in Olivia Parker’s eyes—disappointment mixed with a hint of hope—William Carter scratched his head and muttered, “Forget it, let’s look around first. Who knows, maybe I’ll find some money? All treasures are discovered this way!”

Rummaging through his things, William Carter started searching. He was in luck—he actually found a 100-yuan bill tucked inside a book by his bed!

This guy was pretty good at hiding money, but unfortunately, he had the luck to hide it, but not to spend it.

Well, better fill up first.

After tidying up, with the 100-yuan bill in his pocket, William Carter strolled out of the dormitory and headed straight for the school convenience store. As for the classmates whispering and pointing at him along the way? As long as they didn’t mess with him, he couldn’t care less!

He knew it was definitely because the incident with Wei Tiangan and the others last night had spread, but he didn’t care at all. If a strong person isn’t talked about, it just means they’re not strong enough!

Still, William Carter decided to keep a low profile, very low profile. For no other reason—if he hadn’t been so high-profile and flashy in the cultivation world, he wouldn’t have suffered such a terrifying heavenly tribulation!

Thinking of that relentless, never-ending tribulation that chased him everywhere, determined to destroy him body and soul, William Carter couldn’t help but twitch his chubby face and glance up at the blue sky.

“Low profile, yeah, gotta keep a low profile!”

These days, money really doesn’t go far. William Carter only bought enough breakfast to fill his stomach, and he’d already spent over thirty yuan out of a hundred.

Of course, that was also because of his appetite. The original William Carter was weak, but could still eat a lot. Now, as a fat guy with even more physical strength than a normal person, his appetite was naturally even bigger.

“I need money! Otherwise, if I can’t keep up with my food, I’ll ruin this body!” This was the big problem William Carter suddenly realized on his way back to the dorm after buying breakfast.

As for making money, William Carter really wasn’t worried at all.