Chapter 2: Is This the End? Don't Make Me Laugh!

[System Panel Activated Successfully!]
[Profession: Chessmaster (A Rank) → Cloud Summit Chessmaster (Hidden Unique)]
[Supporting Talents Activated!]
[Hextech: Grants two chances to draw Hextech Runes; one random Hextech Rune is drawn every ten levels.]
[Synergy: Summoned creatures upgrade to Chess Pieces, which have synergies among themselves; summoning Chess Pieces with the same synergy greatly enhances their combat power.]
[Armament: Chess Pieces can equip three special items; defeating high-level monsters yields equipment fragments; special synergies and Hextech runes also have chances to grant equipment.]
[Star Upgrade: Chess Pieces can be upgraded in star level by spending gold, which is obtained similarly to equipment.]
[Chessmaster’s Protection: The Chessmaster cannot be attacked until all Chess Pieces are defeated.]

Li Yao was unsurprised by the system.
After all, having transmigrated, he would be embarrassed to call himself a transmigrant without some sort of system.
What he hadn’t expected was that this system came from the game he played before transmigration.
Li Yao felt a surge of excitement.
He had just been worrying about his class change to summoner.
Now, that problem was solved instantly.
Were summoned beasts weak and powerless in the late game?
Then he would empower them with equipment, synergies, even evolve them into three-star summons.
Li Yao was eager to see who would dare call his summoned beasts weak then!

However, even with the system, Li Yao would not let go of what he ought to reclaim.
He looked at Jiang Ningyu calmly and asked,
“Are you sure you want to break up?”
Jiang Ningyu blinked, “Yes.”
Then she put on a victim’s expression and said aggrievedly,
“You know very well why I became your girlfriend.”
“Do I?”
Li Yao laughed bitterly.
If you hadn’t called me ‘brother’ all the time and kept pretending to ‘coincidentally’ appear in front of the original me, would I have been so bewitched by you?

“Ah, so there’s more to the story of Jiang the school beauty and Li Yao!”
“I always wondered how Li Yao could win over Jiang the goddess, but it makes sense now. Jiang’s just from an ordinary family—how could she refuse a wealthy second-generation like Li Yao?”
“Li Yao really deserves to die.”
“If Li Yao hadn’t been pestering Jiang the goddess every day these past two years, maybe she would have already changed to an S-rank profession.”
“That’s right!”
“Jiang the goddess, just tell us all the shameful things Li Yao has done to you. We’ll stand up for you!”

Jiang Ningyu’s plan succeeded.
For a while, no one paid attention to the class change ceremony; everyone’s eyes were on this scene.
Zhang Yi even appeared among the crowd and asked,
“What’s going on?”
Someone whispered the recent events to the principal.
Zhang Yi frowned repeatedly.
He had heard about Li Yao and Jiang Ningyu being together.
The Li family was wealthy and influential; since they had been together without any scandals, he had turned a blind eye.
But now, things didn’t seem so simple.
He looked at Li Yao sternly and asked,
“Are Jiang’s claims true?”

Hearing this, Li Yao raised an eyebrow.
Jiang Ningyu was quite skilled—she spoke vaguely enough to stir even the principal’s concern.

However, the principal was painfully naive.
“Principal, what I say now is irrelevant.”
“The issue is Jiang wants to break up, and I agree.”
“But…”
Li Yao glanced at Jiang Ningyu with a look of disgust, which left her momentarily stunned.
She wasn’t used to this expression from him.

Li Yao spoke coldly, “Since we’re breaking up, don’t you plan to return what I gave you?”
“Return the A-rank nutrient solution, and also the intermediate storage ring on your left hand.”
At this, Jiang Ningyu’s eyes widened in shock.
She had never expected Li Yao would ask for these back.
Neither the A-rank nutrient solution nor the storage ring were ordinary items—they were priceless and unavailable on the market.
Even if they appeared, ordinary families could never afford them!
Now Li Yao wanted to reclaim these.
How could she bear to?
Moreover, she had already consumed the nutrient solution; otherwise, how could she hold the energy of an A-rank profession?

Her expression fell, looking pitiful and hesitant.
She remained silent for a long while.
Li Yao frowned seeing her silence and was about to speak when the surrounding students started shouting angrily:
“Forcing a weak woman, what kind of man is that?”
“Exactly, once given, gifts can’t be taken back.”
“The proud heir of the Li family asking for a woman’s belongings—have you no shame?”

Li Yao ignored them entirely.
“The nutrient solution and storage ring were gifts I gave my girlfriend.”
“Now that we’ve broken up, I’m taking back the gifts. What’s the problem?”
“Jiang, what do you say?”

Unexpectedly, the conversation turned back to her.
Jiang Ningyu’s face darkened as she replied painfully,
“I can return the storage ring…”
Li Yao interrupted, “I said both the storage ring and the nutrient solution.”
“You want me to return the nutrient solution? It’s worth at least fifty million on the market. Are you trying to shirk responsibility?”

At these words, the crowd gasped in shock.
Fifty million!
An ordinary family wouldn’t be able to afford that even if they starved for ten generations.
Those students who had wanted to defend Jiang the goddess suddenly fell silent.
Some even thought,
She accepted a fifty-million gift and still wants to break up?
Is she crazy?

Zhang Yi’s eyes widened too.
This Li heir was truly generous.
If it were just some trivial gift, he would have helped Jiang Ningyu without issue.
But fifty million?
Even if he sold all his family assets, it wouldn’t be worth that much!

Seeing the crowd’s expressions, Jiang Ningyu panicked.
She knew if she didn’t return these items today, Li Yao wouldn’t let her off.
If this continued, her carefully maintained image would collapse.
Simultaneously, she was furious inside.
To her, these were gifts Li Yao freely gave; she never asked for them.
Now being forced to return them, how could she possibly afford it?

“Looks like Jiang really doesn’t want to return them.”
“Then see you tomorrow at the Federal Court.”

Li Yao had no affection left for the woman before him.
Duplicity and hypocrisy—he wouldn’t let her off easily.

“I’ll return them!”
“Is it not enough if I return them to you?”

Hearing Li Yao’s threat to take her to court, Jiang Ningyu immediately took off the ring and threw it at him.
If it really went to court, all her past misdeeds would be exposed.
It wouldn’t just be about fifty million then.

Li Yao caught the ring but shook his head.
“I accept any form of payment except credit.”
He had known from the start Jiang Ningyu couldn’t produce the nutrient solution, let alone fifty million.
That wasn’t his goal anyway.
In the world of professionals, money was the least useful thing.

“Jiang, as you change to an A-rank profession…” Li Yao turned to Principal Zhang with a smile, “surely there will be an A-rank subsidy package, right?”

Zhang Yi’s brows twitched.
This was bad!

“I remember the A-rank subsidy includes something called an A-rank skill exchange badge?”
“Li Yao, this isn’t proper procedure,” Zhang Yi said sternly.

“Not proper?”
Li Yao challenged, “Without the A-rank nutrient solution, do you think Jiang could have become an A-rank professional? Would she even get the subsidy?”
“Besides, I’m still A-rank even without it. What if she becomes S-rank after consuming it?”
“Who will compensate me for my loss?”
“Seems like the principal is biased, planning to join Jiang in a visit to the Federal Court?”

Others might fear the principal, but Li Yao did not.
In a small place like Jiangzhou, a school principal was at most a third-tier professional.
His cheap parents were both third-tier professionals.
Moreover, he was in the right here.

Sure enough, Zhang Yi darkened his face and after a moment said,
“You can have the items, but… this matter ends here!”

With that, a palm-sized badge flew from Zhang Yi’s hand.
It had just been handed to him by the career-change mentor, but now it changed owners so quickly.
He had no choice.
Li Yao wasn’t a penniless commoner; he had two third-tier professionals backing him.
If it escalated, even Zhang Yi couldn’t handle it!

Li Yao caught the badge, looked deeply at Principal Zhang and Jiang Ningyu, then turned and walked away without hesitation.

End here?
In your dreams!