Chapter 169 - THE INVISIBLE GIRL (2/2)

He felt a bit envious.  He would love to have her height.  This girl seemed like she would prefer his height anyway.  The way she always looked like she wanted to be part of the background or something.  And for the most part, she did manage to accomplish that.  She probably worked hard to be able to achieve that, with her height and all.  A girl as tall as her would always inadvertently draw attention.  And yet somehow, no one seemed to notice her.

In fact, in class she's like someone who's 'invisible'.  No one talked to her or even purposely approached her.  Aside from the teachers, everyone was treating her like air.

Luo Yan thought at first that it's because she's a scholarship student.  Teenagers, especially the filthy rich ones, always looked down on others who had lower social standing than them.  It's just the way most of them were raised.  But no, Yu Jiao was not.  She was there because her family was able to pay the school's tuition.  So, that meant that they're rich somehow.  That's why he couldn't understand why everyone treated her so differently.

But he was not curious enough to know the answer that he would personally investigate the matter.

”Okay, now that's done, let's start the class,” said the Chemistry teacher.

Luo Yan removed his gaze from the girl and focused his attention on the teacher.

Then the class started.

Luo Yan thought at first that he and Yu Jiao would have a problem working together.  But surprisingly enough, they did okay.  No, in fact, they did extremely well.  Yu Jiao was silent and hardly ever speak but they still managed to work seamlessly together.  Like, before he could even ask for a certain chemical, she would already be handing it to him.  Or before he could ask her to do the next step, she would already be doing it.

This only showed that Yu Jiao had great observational skills.  Somehow, that increased his curiosity for this 'invisible girl'.

Because of their good team work, they managed to finish the experiment much earlier than the others.  Giving them longer time to answer the questions on the exercise sheet of their lab manual.  After finishing, they passed their papers to the teacher.

The Chemistry teacher looked over their exercise sheets.  Seeing that almost all the answers were correct, he nodded appreciatively.  ”Very good.  The both of you could go back to your classroom early.”

The two picked up their books and papers then headed outside the lab.

”Yu Jiao is so great.  Because of you we manage to finish so early,” Luo Yan praised.

Yu Jiao only looked down.  ”N-no.  I didn't do much.”

Then she walked faster, almost running, in fact.  As if there was someone chasing him or something.  Because of that, a piece of paper fell off from the stack of lab manual and notebooks she was carrying.  She didn't seem to notice that because she just continued to walk.

Luo Yan bent down and picked up the paper.  And he truly didn't expect what he saw.

It was a drawing – no, a design of a sword.  It was very detailed.  From the hilt to the blade.  The length of each parts were listed, even the color scheme.  There were also materials listed on the side.  And he recognized some of it as materials that could be found in Arcadia.

Luo Yan smiled secretly.  Well, wasn't this interesting?