Chapter 8 (1/2)

When those boys moved her table, they were careless and made a mess out of her books.

During their lunch break, Mingxi tidied them up. Suddenly, she saw two dark blue colored, clean and practically abstinent notebooks in her pile. It was very different from her stack of colorful books.

Upon opening the book, she saw that the words inside were neat and the steps to answering the questions were clearer than the answer itself.

This wasn’t her handwriting.

Mingxi went blank for a moment before realizing that this was Shen Liyao’s.

Back when she used to like him, she would use borrowing and returning his notebooks as an excuse to meet Shen Liyao in his class every Tuesday. This must be the notes she borrowed from him last week. It was still with her.

In this life, Mingxi no longer wanted anything to do with Shen Liyao. Thus, she didn’t want to return it herself.

She sent a message to He Yang, asking her for a favor.

Then, Mingxi leaned closer to the table and wrote gracefully on a sticky note: “Thank you with regards to the matter concerning E Xiaoxia.”

She was prepared to stick this in the notebook.

But she paused. She thought for a while and figured that this was unnecessary.

Shen Liyao had probably lent her a hand out of convenience, but if she took this too seriously, he might think that she was being annoying again.

Furthermore, considering how she used to give Shen Liyao and his friends all kinds of good food, she’s just going to consider his help this time as a way to clear their debts to each other.

With this thought in mind, Mingxi crumpled up the note and threw it in the trash.

*

Despite having stared at Mingxi for the whole morning, she never came to Fu Yangxi asking to move her seat back. He couldn’t help but to be a little annoyed and even slightly wronged. During lunch break, he noticed that there was no one at that corner. Fu Yangxi took off his headphones and gestured for a follower to come over to him. “Where’s the transfer student?”

The follower said, “I think she went to look for her friend in the Normal Class.”

Fu Yangxi contemplated for a moment before asking someone to get him Ke Chengwen who was playing basketball at the sports field.

He was leaning on the wall while flipping a book. His red hair had exploded again. He pretended to play with his pen nonchalantly as he said lazily to Ke Chengwen, “Do you know how to find out who the transfer student was friends with and what she liked before she transferred to our class? All in all, I want to know every single detail. Can you do it?”

Ke Chengwen who was sweating bullets while carrying the basketball in his arms was extremely shocked.

Having known Xi ge for three whole years, this was actually the first time he had seen Xi ge ask about someone. Moreover, it was about a girl.

“Xi ge, could it be that you—” Ke Chengwen couldn’t help but to move closer and ask in a soft voice, “…are really interested in her?”

“Piss off.” Fu Yangxi was repulsed by the smell of sweat coming off him. He pulled him away by his collar and raised his eyebrows. “I’m not interested. The International Class has always had 41 students yet suddenly there is another. So of course I would want to know about the background of this student. Who knows, she might be someone sent by my enemies to spy on me. If I accidentally reveal my weakness to her, it might result in my inheritance being split.”

Ke Chengwen thought about it for a while before saying, “Alright. I’ll see what I can find out.”

When Ke Chengwen finished speaking, he stole a glimpse at Fu Yangxi. He didn’t know if he should tell him about something.

Just now while he was playing basketball with those people from the Gold Medal Class, he heard that the person who was fervently pursuing Shen Liyao was this transfer student who had just transferred to their class— Of course, as he didn’t witness it himself, Ke Chengwen did not dare to come to a conclusion.

However, if that was true, then the question of whether that transfer student was really going after Xi ge or if she was just playing with him so that she could make Shen Liyao from the next class jealous would remain unanswered.

As the Fu family’s Young Master, Fu Yangxi’s status was enough to affect many. He always slept in school and did not care about gossip. Even when he heard about the person nicknamed ‘God Yao’ who had won eight competitions within two years, he only scratched his ears, saying that he couldn’t recall such a person. Therefore, he would naturally be ignorant about the past between the transfer student and Shen Liyao.

Fu Yangxi nodded before lowering his head to read once more. He feigned an unbothered look. “That’s all. You can go. Make sure not to get caught by the transfer student while you’re at it.”

Ke Chengwen couldn’t help but to remind him, “Gege, your book is upside down.”

Fu Yangxi raised the book. “Go.”

*

After the end of the school day, Shen Liyao remained in his seat. His gaze was cold and serious as he continued to work with the circuit board. Shen Liyao had his own workshop in school, but since there were quite a number of small components which he could not handle in time, he would usually end up doing it in class instead.

He was a little bit of a neat freak. The components were arranged neatly on his table, but due to how delicate they were, everyone around him was afraid of touching it, hence no one would usually approach his seat unless it was absolutely necessary.

Ye Bai had just returned from his basketball game. He yelled at Shen Liyao to go for lunch from one row away.