Preface:

And there was a war in heaven. The archangel Michael fought with his angels against the dragon. And the dragon went to war with his angels, and was not victorious, and there was no place for them in heaven. The great dragon was the serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who in the Garden of Eden had deceived Adam and Eve, the devil who had deceived the whole world. He was cast to the ground, and Michael's angel was cast down with him. —The Bible

A.D. 2296 Summer Eden College Huaxia Branch

In the lit theater, a soft-faced boy sat bored in the doorway of the backstage, sitting on a small bench and watching the actors on stage "babble" and yawn.

The theatrical actors on the stage wore gorgeous costumes, which were a kind of clothing that had been handed down and called "pythons".

The python was a costume worn by the emperor and the prime minister on formal occasions, which was equivalent to the current dress. The status of the person wearing the python is extraordinary. The python is an animal that resembles a dragon, and the python on the stage is designed after the ancient dragon robe and python robe.

The man wearing the python sang loudly on the stage, "Liang Hong was paired with Meng Guang in the past, and now Shangxiang will be Liu Wang." secretly laughs at the slave brother, and it is Zhou Lang who is self-defeating. Yue Lao was originally Qiao Guo's battle, and it didn't hurt for the queen mother to call the shots. ”

A person on the side was wearing a palace costume and dancing on the side, the expression on his face was sometimes flat and sometimes high.

The so-called palace costume, also called palace costume and dance costume, is a kind of clothing that dances very beautifully.

Like pythons, palace attire was an everyday attire for aristocratic women. Although it is not as formal and solemn as the python, it is really more beautiful and gorgeous! When it dances, dozens of streamers, layers of silk spikes, and snow-white water sleeves flutter and move, and the beauty is dizzying.

He watched the two singing and harmonizing, and silently closed his eyes, the audience was pitiful, and only a few researchers who loved drama were still watching with relish.

I don't know how long it took, but he was woken up by the sparse applause, and the theater actors on the stage bowed to the audience and walked off the stage.

"There are so few guests today, it's so boring!" the girl took off the elaborate decorations on her head and slowly removed her palace clothes, her face full of disappointment.

"Don't care so much, after we finish a performance, it is a performance, and every performance is a reflection of our soul!" The man also took off his python costume and changed into civilian clothes.

"Xiao Cheng, come and help me remove my makeup!" The young man whose face was covered with powder beckoned to the young man who had been sitting at the door, this said Xiao Cheng, also known as Jiang Cheng, was a freshman who had just joined Eden College this year.

Sitting on the dresser in front of him was his elder brother Jiang Che, and the two were admitted to this mysterious academy at the same time, Jiang Che was A-level and Jiang Cheng was B-level.

Jiang Cheng walked over with a calm face, dipped the makeup remover on the sponge, and helped Jiang Che remove the makeup on his face little by little, Jiang Che showed a handsome face with sword eyes and starry eyebrows, which was very similar to the feminine Jiang Cheng in front of him, but the lines were harder, revealing a solid masculinity.

"I'll go first, I'll see you later!" the girl left without even taking off her makeup, she had more important part-time jobs to do, the consumption in the academy was very high, and for students from ordinary families, part-time jobs were the only source of their financial support.

The girl closed the door and left, there were only two people left here, looking at the faces that gradually appeared in the mirror, Jiang Che smiled, and said to the person next to him: "Xiao Cheng, in the afternoon, help me take the python costume that performed on stage today to the tailor shop to repair it!"

"What's broken?" Jiang Cheng's brows furrowed slightly.

"Well, it's been bad for a long time, and after today's performance, you have to fix it, otherwise the next time you go on stage, it will be ugly!" Jiang Che laughed, and in front of everyone's eyes, that kind of scene was very embarrassing.

"But it costs a lot of money to fix it once... Can't you replace it with something else? I don't think the difference between these clothes is very big, so let's barely wear it with other clothes!" Jiang Cheng pursed his lips and breathed unsteadily.

"No! Who's supposed to wear what, each play has its own set of rules to follow. There is a saying in Liyuan Xing: 'It is better to wear it than to wear it wrong'.

This is the most important principle to master in terms of the use of clothes! Clothes that are torn will affect the effect, and wearing the wrong clothes will make people laugh. Jiang Che pinched his dry face and shook his head.

"We are the children of the pear orchard, we must always remember the rules in the pear orchard, these are all things passed down from the ancestors!" Jiang Che looked back at Jiang Cheng and said seriously, Jiang Cheng was not very happy.

"Okay! Don't talk about this, let's eat, after a busy morning, we can finally start eating!" Jiang Che ordered so far, he is not a good master, and he will not say much truth.

Jiang Che heated up the lunch box in the microwave, and after opening the lunch box, it was a single rice, some scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and a little pickles, which did look a little chilling.

"It's pickles again..."Jiang Cheng picked out these black pickles, he didn't have any appetite at all, and the scrambled eggs with tomatoes were also dry, and there was no juice at all, in this hot summer season, these things really made people want to move the chopsticks.

Jiang Che patted his younger brother on the shoulder, "Bear with me! After all, it is not easy for our two brothers to come out of the orphanage, we have suffered so much, but fortunately we have a skill, otherwise it will be really difficult to survive in this academy!

As he spoke, Jiang Che took a few mouthfuls of food, Jiang Cheng was silent, his grades were very good before he came to Eden Academy, and he could even be sent to Kyoto University to get a full scholarship, and even the foreign Ivies threw an olive branch to him, and the tuition was free.

In Lushan Middle School, Jiang Cheng has always ranked first on the campus list as a legend, and he has won many international awards during high school.

On the contrary, Jiang Che's side is relatively ordinary, and his results are not bad, but compared with Jiang Cheng, he is still a little worse after all.

The appearance and personality of the two are diametrically opposed, Jiang Che is relatively calm, maybe God matched them wrong when arranging their personality and appearance.

Originally, Jiang Cheng could go to Kyoto University to live a good life, but Jiang Che took himself to apply for this unknown school.

The exams here are extremely difficult, they are all confusing questions, what gods, ghosts, unrealistic, outstanding Maxima was buried in this academy full of elites, and there was no Bole to dig him up.

Jiang Che relied on the scholarship accumulated by the two brothers in high school, bought a few sets of clothes in the pear orchard, rented a house, and opened a drama theater here, so the two stayed here every day, studied here, and slept here.

The scholarships here are all for the elites of those elites, Jiang Cheng's confidence accumulated in high school has been completely shattered here, and anyone here can be admitted to the top three in the local area.

"But what is the purpose of our coming here, why should we come here to suffer like this, we could have gone abroad to live a good life?"

"Brother, tell me! Haven't we suffered enough in the past ten years?"

Jiang Cheng dropped his chopsticks, he was indignant in his heart, he was fed up, he knew that he could be very good elsewhere, why did he come to this place to do something unrealistic.

Jiang Cheng endured patience in middle school, tried his best to bury the tragic reality that he was an orphan, and treated people and things with a free and easy attitude, and was the perfect male god in the eyes of his classmates.

But who can let go of the shadow that he doesn't have his parents, when other people's parents attend their parent-teacher conferences, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Che will always find a gym where no one is there to play, and they don't want to be noticed.

When the teacher wants to invite Jiang Cheng's parents to attend the big recess, Jiang Cheng will always use various excuses to shirk it.

The reason is that they grew up in an orphanage, and they are orphans who are not loved by their parents!

Jiang Che chewed the rice, was silent, and after a few minutes of silence, he sighed faintly.

"Qu Yuan said, 'The road is long, I will go up and down and seek', this is the palace of the real elite, we have all passed the strict screening and come here, this is the place where we can play our strengths! Why care about the eyes of others? Only by doing our best can we shine, cultivate ourselves first, and then can we govern the country and level the world together!"

"his Qu Yuan, we are not ancient people again, in ancient times there was material scarcity, and now!

"You don't think you're going to talk about this kind of funny ability!"

Jiang Cheng threw out a few silk threads in his hand, took the kettle on the side, and took it to his hand.

"Is it just for this ridiculous ability?" Jiang Cheng asked, "Modern science and technology are so advanced, what can you do with this ability, to act in shadow puppets and become a puppeteer? Don't be stupid, my dear brother, the academy says that it is to cultivate supernatural people, but apart from those useless and mixed disciplines, what else can we learn!"

"You don't believe in that damn alchemy, I almost forgot, you're the one who specializes in alchemy, can you refine gold? If you can, then I think it's great to study here!" Jiang Cheng's sarcastic words rang in Jiang Che's ears.

Jiang Che can't refine gold, and even he can't read the ancient words of alchemy, but some elites can understand them and memorize them, and he once asked the elites, "Can alchemy really refine gold?"

Those elites would smile and pat Jiang Che's shoulder, and said in a weird manner: "Yes, brother, after learning alchemy, you will soon become the richest man in the world, hahaha!"

Jiang Che was left aside as a joke, and those elites hugged the young and beautiful girls left and right, and went to the club's banquet with a smile, and he was left out like a fool.

Looking at Jiang Che, who was silent, Jiang Cheng didn't speak anymore, there was nothing to say, instead of mocking his own brother here, it was better to take a good job and take care of his own life.

"Someday you'll get ahead! Bear with it a little longer!" Jiang Che's eyes flashed, pursed his lips, and said softly.

He's not having a good time, who doesn't want to be the protagonist in a glamorous way?

Jiang Cheng picked up the chopsticks, ate a piece of tomato, and glanced at his brother.

In fact, I didn't feel very well, and my throat seemed to be stuck with phlegm. What he said was also true, but it hurt his brother's self-esteem again, Jiang Che, who was not favored by outsiders, if even Jiang Cheng looked down on him, it would be really miserable.

"We came here to become elites, God gave us the opportunity to become capable people, then according to the academy, we have a chance to be promoted!" Jiang Che suddenly looked at Jiang Cheng firmly.

"It's like Icarus in Greek mythology, the beautiful boy who made feathers into wings, inspired to fly to the sun and embrace the sky, even if the wind and waves on the sea were bumpy, but he flapped his wings and flew high, and he achieved his goal!" Jiang Che said.

"But Icarus was so close to the sun that the wax on his wings melted and fell into the sea and drowned!" Jiang Cheng seemed to be deflated, it was a beautiful legend, but it was a tragedy after all.

"Brother, the flower of youth, born to the sun, sprouts in the warm spring, blooms in the warm summer, proudly in the golden autumn of the harvest, stands tall in the harsh winter of Sanjiu, you have to believe that one day, you will become a strong man who attracts the attention of all people!" Jiang Che put his hands on Jiang Cheng's shoulders, Jiang Cheng is now in a low fighting spirit, and he must be cheered up.

"A strong man who is in the limelight of all people... If there really is such a day, maybe that Jiang Cheng is no longer the current Jiang Cheng!" A trace of loss flashed between Jiang Cheng's eyebrows.

"That's right! That Jiang Cheng is definitely a glamorous powerhouse, so he won't be the stinky boy who sighs now! Time and experience will teach you to grow, maybe when you look back on the present, you will realize how naïve you are!" Jiang Che cheered Jiang Cheng up.

"The strong... Everybody wants to be strong! But how many people can do it..."

"Then be your own strongman, and then be someone else's hero!" Jiang Che said.

"Okay, then let's stick with it for now! Let's start with this not very delicious lunch!" Jiang Cheng reluctantly agreed.

"Well, this is the proud Jiang Cheng, I recently applied for a mission, let's use it as the starting point of our first training, and there is a good reward!" Jiang Che said to his younger brother mysteriously.

"Brother, I'm afraid you paid for that reward!" Jiang Cheng glanced at Jiang Che and suddenly laughed evilly.

"You still know me!" Jiang Che patted his younger brother on the shoulder, and the two laughed.