Chapter 11

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Early in the morning, Xiao Yao saw his deskmate walking into class expressionlessly when the bell rang. Once she sat down, Xiao Yao leaned over.

“Hey, you look like you didn’t sleep well last night.”

Lu Jinqi leaned on the table and grunted.

On the podium, the chemistry teacher saw Lu Jinqi like this and shook her head, no longer caring about her behavior.

After class, Xiao Yao glanced at Lu Jinqi who was still asleep. He got up and kicked Wen Yu’s chair. “Wen Yu, let’s go.”

“Xiao Yao, where are we going?” Wen Yu followed Xiao Yao downstairs and asked in confusion.

“The supermarket. Jinqi doesn’t seem to be in a good mood today.”

The two of them went to the supermarket and stood in front of a dazzling array of snacks, concern etched on their faces.

“Xiao Yao, what should we get?” Wen Yu held a packet of potato chips in his hand. No matter how he looked at it, Jinqi looked like the kind of person to not eat these things.

Xiao Yao recalled what he saw on Lu Jinqi’s table yesterday and pulled Wen Yu to another shelf.

“Let’s buy this instead.”

Wen Yu’s eyes widened. Seeing that they were all candy, he thought to himself, ‘Xiao Yao is definitely trolling. She does not look like someone who would eat sweets at all.’

Xiao Yao paid no mind to Wen Yu’s reaction. He went through all the different flavors of the candy and grabbed a bunch. When he checked out, he found a small cake, so he bought it as well.

Wen Yu was still a little dazed as he carried the things out of the supermarket. Why did he have to buy so much?

“Xiao Yao, I don’t think she’ll like these things at all.”

After all, normal girls usually did not like sweet things, and someone like Jinqi would definitely hate them.

“How about this, let’s make a bet.” The corners of Xiao Yao’s lips curled up as a glint flashed across his eyes.

Wen Yu asked, “What do you want to bet on ?”

“If Jinqi eats it, I’ll do all your homework for a week.”

Wen Yu agreed without hesitation. “Deal.”

When they returned to the classroom, they saw that Lu Jinqi had already woken up. She sat crossed-legged on her seat as her fingers constantly typed something on her phone.

When they got closer, they saw that she had used a bomb to blow up her entire team.

“J-Jinqi, do you want some candy?” Wen Yu forced himself to look away and asked shakily.

Lu Jinqi looked up and a pile of candy was placed on her table. She picked one up and put it into her mouth. “Thank you.”

The sweetness in her mouth spread and Lu Jinqi’s mood was no longer that irritable.

Wen Yu widened his eyes at this scene when he looked at her enjoying the treats.

“Wen Yu, you lost.” Xiao Yao looked as though he knew it would be like this. He smiled smugly at Wen Yu.

“You guys made a bet?” Lu Jinqi asked with interest as she placed another candy in her mouth.

Wen Yu shrugged his shoulders and scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment. “I made a bet on whether you would eat candy, but in the end, I lost.”

At this point, Wen Yu looked at Xiao Yao curiously. “How did you know?”

Lu Jinqi raised an eyebrow and stared at him with interest.

“Yesterday, I saw candy on your table, so I guessed that you would be someone who likes sweets.”

The corners of Xiao Yao’s lips curled up, his face full of pride. Realizing that he had been tricked, Wen Yu shot him an annoyed glance.

Lu Jinqi clicked her tongue and averted her gaze once they started bickering with each other.

…

“Lanzhi, can you go to Class Six with me?” After thinking about it for the entire night, Song Yayin decided to go to Class Six. She gently hung onto Zhu Lanzhi’s arm and a gentle smile on her delicate face appeared as she pleaded to her friend.

Zhu Lanzhi could not resist her coquettishness and helplessly agreed, “Sure, I really don’t understand why you want to look for her though…”

The two of them walked arm in arm to Class Six and saw Xiao Yao sitting in front of Lu Jinqi and saying something in a good hearted way.

He did not look like a typical school bully at all.

“Hey, you there, can you help call Lu Jinqi from your class?” Song Yayin stopped a boy and asked in a gentle and polite voice.

“Oh, alright.” The boy looked at her blankly and nodded mechanically. ‘I’ve lived well. The school belle actually spoke to me, and she even smiled at me today.’

“Hey, the school belle is looking for you,” the boy said before running away.

Lu Jinqi glanced sideways and saw Song Yayin standing outside the door looking at her.

“Jinqi, aren’t you going to go?” Wen Yu glanced at the two girls outside and pouted curiously.

“Nah,” Lu Jinqi said concisely.

Xiao Yao yawned and patted his friend’s head. “Wen Yu, I notice that you’ve been curious about everything lately. Why don’t you become a reporter in the future?”

Song Yayin saw that Lu Jinqi had not come out yet, and her anger surged up, but her expression did not change.

“Jinqi, I have something to talk to you about. Can you come out for a moment?”

The students in Class Six kept looking between the two of them, and the gossip began to fill the air.

Lu Jinqi raised one of her eyebrows and slowly made her way over. Then, she lazily leaned against the door. She narrowed her pitch-black eyes and said calmly, “What.”

“Jinqi, how did you get into Minsong?” Looking at her face, Song Yayin tightened her fist to suppress her jealousy.

Hearing this, Lu Jinqi chuckled and slowly spoke with interest, “I walked into school. Didn’t you do that too?”

She did not explicitly shout at her, but her jabs could be heard from the people closely.

At first it was quiet, but suddenly, someone laughed out loud! Then it was followed by more laughter one after another.

The question of the school belle was quite ridiculous.

The smile on Song Yayin’s face froze. She could clearly feel the ridicule in the eyes of those students looking at her.

“I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just that you were studying at Defeng, then you suddenly transferred to our school, so I was a little concerned about you.”

There was nothing wrong with that question. After everyone thought about it carefully, they finally understood. For a moment, the way everyone looked at Lu Jinqi changed. Disgust and suspicion spread in their hearts.

Who would have thought that Lu Jinqi would only raise her eyebrows and calmly reply, “It’s none of your business.”

After saying that, she planned to leave. She did not want to continue this meaningless topic.

However, Zhu Lanzhi forcefully grabbed her wrist and glared at her fiercely. “Who do you think you are to talk to Yayin like that?”

Lu Jinqi’s eyes turned cold when she saw her hand being grabbed. Even her whole demeanor changed to one of hostility.

“Let go.”

Looking at the coldness in her eyes, Zhu Lanzhi felt the blood in her body freeze. She felt chills run down her spine and thought that she would freeze to death in the next second.

She let go in a daze and dared not to speak back.

Seeing how useless she was, Song Yayin stepped out to smooth things over and smiled. “Jinqi, I’m sorry, she’s normally not like this.”

She grabbed Zhu Lanzhi and pinched her arm. The pinched woman was so scared that she could not reply.

Lu Jinqi’s eyes were filled with ruthlessness as she licked her red lips. “Song Yayin, you should control your dog. Otherwise, based on the way she’s acting, you might have to get her checked for rabies.”

“Woah!”

Everyone sucked in a breath of cold air from that comment. The classroom corridor was silent from the shock.

Jinqi had just shared her self-reflection essay yesterday, and today, she was openly threatening people. She even dared to annoy the school belle!

Now, no one believed that Lu Jinqi’s last words of excellence were meant as a compliment.

Song Yayin’s eyes reddened and tears flowed down her cheeks. Her shoulders trembled non-stop from the comment. “Jinqi, are you still angry with me? Is that why you haven’t been coming home?”

“Father and mother misses you very much.”

Seeing her tear-stained face, everyone could not help but blame Lu Jinqi for rebelling against the school belle.

“Oh, the school belle is crying. You should hurry up and go back to your class to cry.” Xiao Yao crossed his arms in front of his chest, his eyes gradually turning cold.

Song Yayin’s cries came to an abrupt end. She did not know whether to cry or not to cry. For a moment, she was in a dilemma.

Xiao Yao was helping Lu Jinqi.

What right did she have to have help? Was it because she was pretty?

“Yayin, let’s go back first.” Sensing that there were more and more people pulling their attention toward the commotion, Zhu Lanzhi pulled her back. She did not want her friend to lose her reputation.

In the end, the two of them could only dejectedly leave Class Six.

Not long after, the news of the two of them verbally duking it out had spread throughout the whole school. All the students who knew about it talked about it with relish.