"Ah. Hello. I'm Jordan Lin. What's your name?" Jordan Lin stretched out his hand and gave her his most charming smile.
The beauty's eyes widened in surprise as a flash of mirth appeared and then just as quickly disappeared from them.
"My name is Feng Xia. Nice to meet you." Feng Xia gave Jordan Lin a surprisingly firm handshake.
"Likewise." Jordan Lin said formally in reflex. As a doctor in his previous world, Jordan Lin had shook countless hands and had responded to countless nice-to-meet-yous.
His response was always a curt and formal "likewise" instead of a friendly "nice-to-meet-you-too".
He did it to immediately send a powerful signal which simply said "Forget the small talk. We're done here."
Apparently, that signal was still highly effective in the brand new parallel world.
Feng Xia couldn't help but giggle slightly at his unexpected response.
"Ah anyway, I..." Jordan Lin began. But at that moment, the System woke up!
[Ding]
[Player Jordan Lin]
[Please assign a call sign for the System]
"Ah? System call sign?" Jordan Lin was caught completely by surprise and he immediately ignored Feng Xia to focus on the System's notifications.
At his side, Feng Xia could only smile helplessly at the strange dude next to her.
Bro, weren't you the one who is risking his life by sitting next to me? And you even went on to take an even greater risk by talking to me? What's with the curt response?
Feng Xia shook her head lightly in wonder and turned to look out the window once more.
Our bro Jordan Lin had no idea he just ignored the most beautiful girl in school!
"Call sign? Like a name? Oh damn, this shit is real huh? Let's see, I'll call you… Jackpot! Hahaha, what an excellent name." Jordan Lin felt really proud of himself.
[System name is now Jackpot]
[Jordan Lin Reputation: 99,997]
[Items: None]
[Shop: Locked]
[Wheel of Fortune Level 1: Available]
"Wheel of Fortune? What's that?" Jordan Lin's Asian mind immediately locked into the word "fortune" and his heart even started to beat faster.
What a money grubber.
His heart rate did not even rise by a tiny bit when faced with a world toppling beauty, and yet at the sight of "Wheel of Fortune" his heart rate showed a significant jump!
[Use your reputation to play the Wheel of Fortune]
[Each play of the Wheel of Fortune costs 100,000 Reputation Points]
[You will receive a random Item]
"100,000 Reputation Points? What the hell? I've lived for 28 years, and as a righteous and highly skilled doctor, I've helped countless people recover from their illnesses at the very low price of 17.33% below market rate.
And after all that sacrifice, I don't even have enough to play the damn Wheel of Fortune once?" Jordan Lin was very indignant.
"Jackpot! Did you make a mistake in calculating my Reputation Points? Don't you know how many people I've helped throughout my career as a righteous and highly skilled doctor? Please count again!" Jordan Lin demanded.
[No mistakes were made]
"Are you sure? Do you even know how many people I have helped? So many of my patients said I was their life saver!" Jordan Lin complained in his indignant tone.
[You had successfully completed 3443 doctor consultations]
[Out of 3443, 419 people praised you]
[Out of 3443, 3297 people cursed you]
"What? That's impossible. ... ... Aha! You've even made a mistake. See, how could the total number of people praising me and cursing me be more than the total number of patients? HA! You're wrong!"
[No mistakes were made]
[Some of your patients cursed you after praising you]
[Especially those you misdiagnosed]
"… … …" Jordan Lin was rendered speechless for a moment. "Damn it. Fine. Why are you talking so much about the past? We must be forward looking. Forward looking! Let's focus on the tutorial right here. How do I gain Reputation Points?"
[You can gain Reputation Points whenever you make an impression on anybody]
"Make an impression? On anybody? Hmmm. I am 3 Reputation Points short of being able to play the Wheel of Fortune. And there are 40 people in this bus…Ok. Let's try it." Jordan Lin said with great determination as a brain wave struck him at full force.
"Hey Feng Xia, what are you doing later after school?" Jordan Lin said loudly.
At his words, the conversations behind him that were just restarting immediately stopped once more.
"What the hell? Even sitting down next to the Demon Queen is already insanely fearsome, he... He is even asking her out?"
"Holy shit! Bro! Are you really suicidal?"
But of course our bro Jordan Lin had no idea who the heck the Demon Queen was and what the big deal was with asking her out.
Being a 15 year old kid with the soul of a 28 year old doctor/director, he had absolutely no fear of the politics of mere high school kids!
Physical bullying? Cyber bullying? Mental bullying? Bring them on! This bro is not afraid at all!
"Ah, today? I have basketball training after school." Feng Xia replied in a surprised voice. She truly did not expect to be asked out. And especially not by a mere freshman.
She was already a Junior. A 3rd year student!
"Basketball training? Awesome! I love basketball too. Let's play a game. I'll go easy on you. Hehehe." Jordan Lin said with a confident laugh.
"Eh, uhm. Yeah sure, why not?" Feng Xia said sweetly and agreed with a laugh of her own.
She was actually quite amused.
"This little punk doesn't fear death and is rather cocky about his basketball skills. Let me see if your skills are as good as your bark."
"Awesome. I'll see you later then." Jordan Lin smiled.
Reputation + 4
Reputation + 7
Reputation + 15
Jordan Lin could feel forty pairs of eyes boring into the back of his head at that moment. He couldn't care less. In fact, he felt rather pleased with himself.