“Fine, is that really necessary? You’re making it seem like I’m petty.”

 Lin Yu said jokingly, “I’m just feeling a little anxious seeing as we’re near graduation. Since I’m interested in making videos, I wanted to see if I could make this my career.”

 “Fine, fine, stop ruining the mood. Third Brother, where’s your big metal blade? Lend it to me. I want to play around with it and pose pretentiously with it in front of my friends.”

 “What big metal blade? It’s called a Charge Blade.”

 “Who cares what it’s named. Isn’t there a big metal blade alongside the shield? I want the blade.”

 “I’ll take the shield then.”

 The roommates were unbothered by the tiny drama just now. Soon after that, they began asking for Lin Yu’s ‘work of art’ from last night.

 This happened often. Whenever Lin Yu completed a blade, they would often ask for it to pose with it. However, they seemed extra excited today and did not look as if they had stayed up all night at all.

 Weapons, metal, mechanics; these were things men usually had minimal resistance to, let alone for teenagers.

 “The Charge Blade is in my closet, go get it for yourself.”

 Lin Yu smiled as he pointed at his closet and said, “But I think it’s better if you guys sleep before doing anything else as you did just stay up all night long. I don’t want to be responsible for your sudden deaths.”

 The Charge Blade was only an ordinary metal prop at the moment. Lin Yu had control over how he wanted it to upgrade. That was why he gave the guys the key to his closet without hesitation.

 “What is sleep? I can stay up for another two days and two nights!”

 “If you gave me a desktop right now, I could play games for another week.”

 3“I need your Charge Blade to pose pretentiously with it. My friends are eager to see it.”

 Xu Zhaoyang and the others were unbothered. They unlocked the closet in excitement.

 Soon after that, an unexpected, loud clang could be heard.

 “F*ck, why is it so heavy? Is it solid? Third Brother, you really went all out with your budget this time around, didn’t you?”

 “Get out of the way. It’s obvious that your body can’t handle it so let me do it!”

 “You’re weak as well. Get out of the way and let me do it!”

 Xu Zhaoyang and the guys began competing with each other over the heavy Charge Blade. They each wanted to try lifting it for themselves, but they were all otakus. Even Xu Zhaoyang, who was considered the strongest among them, could not last two steps while carrying the Charge Blade before it fell onto the ground.

 Not only was the Charge Blade heavy, but its weight was also unevenly distributed as well. It was way harder to lift this than a heavy barbell.

 “F*ck, why are you making noise this early in the morning? What are you throwing around?”

 The noise from the guys, together with the sound of the Charge Blade falling on the ground, attracted shouts from the room next door.

 “Are you still unwilling to concede defeat? Would you like to get a taste of my big blade?”

 “F*ck, is this real? Is this Old Lin’s new product?”

 “Damn, lend it to me!”

 “Can it be sharpened?”

 “What is there to be sharpened? This is a heavy but blunt blade that doesn’t work.”

 Xu Zhaoyang carried the big blade to the dorm room across from theirs. Soon after that, a crowd surrounded him.

 Lin Yu ignored the crowd and went back to sleep. He could no longer stay up after working through a few nights.

 Although teachers in school did lie about how college lessons were going to be, there was some truth to what they said: colleges provided more freedom to students than schools did. There would be some form of supervision on first-year students, but students would have to rely on self-learning after that.

 Not everyone could get used to the switch from supervised learning to self-learning. On top of that, students at vocational colleges did not have good results anyway. It would be wishful thinking to expect these students to self-learn; hence, there were many slackers, and lecturers did not bother marking attendance.

 …

 It was already past 2pm when Lin Yu woke up again.

 Xu Zhaoyang and the others were sleeping in their beds. Their snores were loud.

 They did stay up for the whole night and continued messing around in the morning. They probably would not wake up until 4pm or 5pm, and it would be time for dinner by then.

 ‘Three years went by in the blink of an eye while we messed around in college… Now that I think about it, it seems like I barely did anything other than surfing the Internet and sleeping while being in college.’

 Lin Yu sighed as he looked at the view outside.

 Their course was three years long. This meant that they would leave college by next year.

 No one would choose to waste time and do nothing by default. Unfortunately, that was the culture in the college, and only a handful of students were not influenced by such a culture.

 Although they were not part of the handful of good students, they would feel a little regret after snapping out of the fun and excitement. The anxiety and stress from graduation approaching were also creeping up in their minds.

 Strong-willed people usually got themselves together under these circumstances, but if they did have a strong will in the first place, they would not be in this position right now. At the end of the day, they chose to be decadent in college to avoid the stress and anxiety, always opting to numb themselves with indulgence.

 ‘Get up! Wash up!’

 After snapping out of his deep thoughts, Lin Yu shook his head and jumped out of his bed.

 While he could not do much about his studies, he was excited about his superpower and was still eager to learn more about it.

 After washing up, he clicked open the video he uploaded last night.

 ‘SHOCKING: An Uploader Spends All His Budget On A Weapon After Getting Backlash From Netizens…’

 His video title was inspired by the UC Browser’s Department of ‘Shocking¹‘ Titles.

 “Hello! I’m back with another video. Are you guys surprised? Excited?”

 “I’ve gone through your comments last night. Some of you had the audacity to say that the manual transformation on the wooden model was lame? Let me tell you a secret, I’ve made an upgraded version of it as well. I had planned to release it in the next few days, but I couldn’t wait to shove this video in your faces.”

 The video began. It was a shot of Lin Yu’s faceless upper body with the Steel Charge Blade.

 “F*ck, did he really make a metal one?”

 “Impressive, I’ve been proven wrong!”

 “Haha, I can’t believe the uploader has shoved this video in his followers’ faces. I just wanna say… Please do it more often!”

 1“Did you really make a metal one? It’s quite expensive, isn’t it? The uploader is a certified bad*ss.”

 “No, he’s a werewolf!”

 “Lupus!”

 There were more comments on this video following the popularity of the wooden model video. At the very least, the comments filled up the live chat screen.