His phone vibrated.
Wang Hao: BRO
Wang Hao: BRO I NEED YOU TO LOOK AT THE PORTAL RIGHT NOW
Wang Hao: ARE YOU AWAKE
Wang Hao: ANSWER YOUR PHONE
Lin Yi: I’m awake.
Wang Hao: HAVE YOU CHECKED IT YET
Lin Yi: Just opening it now.
Wang Hao: OK OK OK I need you to tell what you see because I’ve been staring at my screen for ten minutes and I need soone else to confirm this is real
Lin Yi: Heavenly Phoenix Hunter Academy. Accepted.
Wang Hao: YES 😭😭😭 THAT’S WHAT MINE SAYS TOO
Wang Hao: Brother Lin I got into Heavenly Phoenix academy I got into HEAVENLY PHOENIX ACADEMY
Wang Hao: I applied there mostly because you told to and I genuinely thought I was aiming too high and now it says ACCEPTED in big letters and I have been sitting here shaking for ten minutes
Lin Yi: 390 points was always going to be enough.
Wang Hao: You knew this was going to happen, didn’t you!
Lin Yi: I thought it was likely.
Wang Hao: You thought it was LIKELY and you didn’t say anything??
Lin Yi: I said apply anyway.
Wang Hao: That’s not the sa thing!! You could have said "Wang Hao, your score is strong enough, stop panicking"!!
Lin Yi: You would have panicked regardless.
Wang Hao: ...
Wang Hao: That’s fair actually
Wang Hao: Okay wait I need to calm down. I need to breathe. I’m breathing.
Wang Hao: Okay I’m breathing.
Wang Hao: BROTHER LIN WE’RE GOING TO THE SA ACADEMY 😭😭😭
Lin Yi: Yes.
Wang Hao: Do you understand what this ans?? You and . Heavenly Phoenix. The best regional academy in the entire territory. The place where 95% of students are S-Rank. The place that produces the top hunters in the country.
Wang Hao: And we’re going there. Together.
Lin Yi: You earned it.
Wang Hao: I’m going to cry. I’m not going to cry. I’m definitely going to cry.
Wang Hao: Have you checked Qinghan’s result?
Lin Yi: Looking now.
Wang Hao: I called her earlier and she didn’t pick up which either ans she’s processing sothing or she’s in the wilderness at 7am which for her is equally possible
Lin Yi: Pure Alliance Academy. Accepted.
Wang Hao: Oh.
Wang Hao: Not Heavenly Phoenix?
Lin Yi: No.
Wang Hao: That’s... I an Pure Alliance is second best overall. That’s not a bad result. That’s actually a very strong result.
Wang Hao: But her score was 390. Sa as mine. Why would she get rejected from Heavenly Phoenix when I got in?
Lin Yi: Different intake criteria. Heavenly Phoenix weights combat assessnt scores differently from examination points.
Wang Hao: Do you think she knew?
Lin Yi: I think she applied to all five for exactly this reason.
Wang Hao: Smart. She’s always been like that. Plan for every outco so none of them catch you off guard.
Wang Hao: I still feel a bit bad though 😕
Wang Hao: She’s going to act like it doesn’t bother her and then be more motivated than anyone alive
Lin Yi: Yes.
Wang Hao: ...You know her well 😏
Lin Yi: Don’t.
Wang Hao: I didn’t say anything!! 😇
Wang Hao: Okay but seriously. Are you happy? About Heavenly Phoenix?
Lin Yi: Yes.
Wang Hao: That’s it? Just yes?
Lin Yi: What else do you want to say.
Wang Hao: I don’t know, sothing! Exclamation mark! Emoji! Anything! You just got accepted to the best regional academy in the territory as the number one candidate from across eight cities and you’re giving "yes" like I asked if you wanted rice with dinner 😭
Lin Yi: I’m going where the best are. That’s what I wanted.
Wang Hao: See THAT’S the good stuff. That right there.
Wang Hao: Okay wait did you check Chen Feng’s result?
Lin Yi: Not yet.
Wang Hao: I saw him in the cafeteria this morning before the results ca out. He looked like a man preparing himself for any outco. Very calm. Slightly terrifying.
Lin Yi: He usually looks like that.
Wang Hao: Fair point.
Wang Hao: What about Tang Yue? Did she get in?
Lin Yi: I haven’t looked.
Wang Hao: You don’t care at all do you 😂
Lin Yi: Not particularly.
Wang Hao: Brother Lin you are built differently. This woman confronted you at the assessnt center and you walked past her like she was part of the scenery
Lin Yi: She said her piece. There was nothing to respond to.
Wang Hao: Most people would have at least turned around
Lin Yi: I was the champion of Jianghe Academy and the top candidate in the regional examination. She confronted to say she rembered losing. I understood. There was nothing else to say.
Wang Hao: ...
Wang Hao: Okay that’s actually one of the most coldly correct things you’ve ever said and I’ve been collecting them for months
Wang Hao: Brother Lin can I ask you sothing
Lin Yi: Go ahead.
Wang Hao: When we get to Heavenly Phoenix. 95% S-Rank students. Faculty who are forr top-tier regional hunters. Dungeon circuits we’ve never seen. Students from families and cities that make Jianghe look like a village.
Wang Hao: Are you worried at all?
Lin Yi: No.
Wang Hao: Not even a little?
Lin Yi: I was an E-Rank Laborer who won the Jianghe Hunter Academy tournant. I broke a six-year examination record alone on a torn arm. I was rejected by the wilderness for three months straight before my system decided to work.
Wang Hao: ...
Lin Yi: Worry requires doubt. I don’t have enough of it left to be useful.
Wang Hao: Brother Lin.
Lin Yi: What.
Wang Hao: That might be the most impressive thing you’ve ever said to . And you’ve said a lot of impressive things. I have a ntal list.
Lin Yi: Stop collecting them and go celebrate.
Wang Hao: I AM celebrating!! I’m celebrating with YOU!! This IS the celebration!!
Wang Hao: Okay fine. Fine. I’ll call my family. My mother is going to scream. My father is going to pretend he knew all along and then also scream.
Wang Hao: But Brother Lin. One last thing.
Lin Yi: What.
Wang Hao: Heavenly Phoenix Academy. You and . Walking in there together next month.
Wang Hao: We are going to absolutely dominate that place. 😤
Wang Hao: I know you’re going to be the one doing most of the dominating and I’m going to be the one standing next to you trying to look impressive but that STILL COUNTS
Wang Hao: We’re going together. That’s all I wanted to say.
Wang Hao: See you at school, Brother Lin 🔥
Lin Yi: See you there.
Lin Yi set his phone down. Outside the window, Jianghe City was fully awake now, the morning sounds of the academy and the streets beyond its walls rising in the familiar pattern he had lived inside for an entire sester. A month from now those sounds would be different. A different city. A different campus. A different category of competition entirely.
He picked up his phone again and opened the student portal one more ti. He looked at his own result for a long mont. Not because he needed to confirm it. Just because it was there, in clear text, and it was real.
Heavenly Phoenix Hunter Academy. Accepted.
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