C19 He Met the School Belle

While the old man and Mu Qingya were still busily discussing how they should thank Meng Ran, in the mean time, Meng Ran had already arrived at the front gates of Wenquan Community.

Meng Ran’s family was based in North Rao County. Because Meng Ran was going to school in Jianghua, his mother rented an apartment that was close to the campus for him.

Wenquan Community was just like any other apartment complex out there. Mostly, those who occupied its rooms were ordinary office workers. Meng Ran could naturally afford the rent. Fifteen hundred yuan per month wasn’t too expensive for him.

Even though Meng Ran’s family was by no means considered wealthy, at the same time, they weren’t exactly poor.

It was just that Meng Ran had run into all kinds of trouble when he was in junior high school. Because of this, his parents were much stricter now. As for pocket money, Soong Shuling would control how much he got. That was why he never got a lot of pocket money to spend. Meng Ran couldn’t help but shake his head and smile bitterly at the thought.

It wasn’t that Soong Shuling didn’t feel any love for her boy. On the contrary, she loved her son very much. She even had great expectations for him. Even when Meng Ran’s grades were average, Soong Shuling had always believed in him and that he would definitely be able to get accepted into Yanjing University. Why else would she have spent three hundred thousand to send him to Jianghua to study?

After parting ways with the little brother who brought him back to his residence, Meng Ran slowly approached the community.

It was about two o’clock in the morning. The entire community was silent, and not a sound could be heard.

A woman’s shrieks suddenly pierced through the night sky, interrupting Meng Ran’s train of thought.

The source of these screams wasn’t far from Meng Ran, only a few hundred meters away. As Meng Ran hurried over, a black shadow was rushing out of the community’s gate. He saw the girl in a heap on the ground and helped her up. With the help of the dim light from the streetlamp, he looked at her face and saw that she was his classmate.

“So it’s you? What happened just now? How did your face get cut?”

Meng Ran’s face scrunched into a frown when he discovered that there was a bloody mark the length of a pinky on the girl’s delicate face.

From what Meng Ran could recall, this girl was the school band’s lead singer and also one of the school’s three campus belles. Her name was Soong Anqi.

At this very moment, the young girl was leaning her body against Meng Ran’s for support. She was wearing light blue denim shorts and a white T-shirt, and her hair was tied in a long ponytail. Tears streamed down her fair, oval face right then. Her delicate and fragile appearance made people want to protect her.

“Brother Meng Ran?” When the girl saw who it was, she burst into tears again. She grabbed Meng Ran as more tears fell from her eyes.

On this day, Meng Ran had to hold two crying girls. This was a pretty awkward situation for someone like him, who was the dignified Immortal Sovereign Tairan.

“Student Soong Anqi, what exactly happened just now? Stop your tears. I see that your face got scratched during the struggle. Let me help you bandage it first.”

Soong Anqi nodded her head but was unwilling to let go of Meng Ran. Meng Ran could only hold Soong Anqi in his arms as he went up the stairs.

Once they got to his room, Meng Ran turned on all the lights. The room that appeared before them was spotless, and all kinds of daily necessities were organized accordingly. Meng Ran was very disciplined, and he approached life with a very serious attitude.

The layout of the apartment wasn’t too exquisite. After all, it was 1,500 yuan per month for rent. But at the same time, Meng Ran didn’t require much. Three bedrooms and one living room were good enough for him.

After pouring Soong Anqi a tall glass of water and bringing it over to her, Meng Ran let her sit on the sofa for a while so that she could rest. Meng Ran then walked to the bedroom to look for his first-aid kit. Inside would be some gauze, iodine, band-aids, and other common medicines that he would need to treat Soong Anqi’s wound.

Originally, Meng Ran intended to use his magic technique to remove the scar, but it suddenly occurred to him that his cultivation level was only at the early Foundation Stage. With his magic strength as it was, there was not much he could do to heal the scar. If he wanted to remove it for Soong Anqi, he would need at least a late Foundation Stage cultivation level, and he just wasn’t there yet.

‘Why do things have to be so difficult? I never thought that I, Meng Ran, would ever have to worry about my cultivation level. This time, it looks like I’m not at the level I want to be at.’ Meng Ran let out a silent sigh. He took out his first-aid kit from under the bed and went to the living room to patch Soong Anqi up.

“Brother Meng Ran, do you actually know how to bandage wounds?” Soong Anqi had stopped crying. She blinked and looked at Meng Ran curiously.

In his previous life, Meng Ran was just your regular high school student with average looks and no money or power to his name. The only reason why he got to know this campus belle… was because both of them share the same hobbies in music. Of course, it helped that Meng Ran had some literary flair and he could write songs. At that time, in order to chase after Jiang Yufei, Meng Ran had once written a song for her that was sung by Soong Anqi. The collaboration had made the two classmates somewhat closer.

After Soong Anqi included her vocals to the track, the song was then posted on Youku. The video garnered hundreds of views, and gradually, it became a beautiful story that the students would rehash again and again.

Actually, in regards to beauty, the other two campus belles outshined her by far. However, there was just something about Soong Anqi’s delicate and water-like temperament that drew a lot of people to her. In addition, she was the lead singer of the school's band, and her singing was above all lovely. Her voice was perfect for singing emotional songs, so she won a large following for the type of music she made.

In his previous life, Meng Ran remembered hearing that Soong Anqi became an online singer and had tons of fans who loved what she did. Back then, her status was akin to that of a minor celebrity.

Meng Ran also took a liking to Soong Anqi in his previous life. It was just that their relationship was similar to one between siblings and nothing more.

At this very moment, Meng Ran found himself a little speechless when he faced the cute blinking eyes of the young lady before him. There was no way he could tell her that besides bandaging wounds, he could resurrect a dead person. In any case, even if he told her that, Soong Anqi would never believe him.

“Brother Meng Ran, you seem a lot taller since I last saw you. Why do I feel like you’re also a lot paler now? You’re even paler than me.” Soong Anqi compared her palm to his and immediately cried out in shock.

As for her questions, Meng Ran didn’t know how to answer them.

“You’re all patched up. What happened earlier? Did you get robbed?” Meng Ran poured himself a glass of water and refilled Soong Anqi’s glass.

When Soong Anqi, who had calmed down somewhat, heard these words, she immediately burst into tears again.

Meng Ran rubbed the small space between his eyebrows and felt a massive headache coming on. He suddenly felt like the world of immortal cultivation was a lot easier to navigate. At least in that realm, there weren’t any crying girls that needed coaxing.