"He's here too?" Zhou Zhou asked dumbfoundedly when he saw Qi Yili standing next to Yan Xi.
"My younger brother wanted to hitch a ride with you," Yan Xi said with a smile, standing at the door of her house looking at Zhou Zhou.
Before Zhou Zhou could react, she directly opened the car door and let Qi Yili get into Zhou Zhou's car.
"I didn't agree to bring your brother along too."
The night before, Zhou Zhou had suddenly received a call from Yan Xi asking him to pick her up. He had woken up early in the morning and had his driver take him. He had originally felt some inexplicable joy in his heart, but the moment he saw Qi Yili, he was dumbfounded.
"You don't have the right to refuse~"
The girl smiled charmingly and also got into the car.
So the three of them were now sitting together in the back seat.
Zhou Zhou was next to Qi Yili, and Qi Yili was next to Yan Xi.
Zhou Zhou was at a complete loss for words. Then he heard Yan Xi ask matter-of-factly:
"Where's my breakfast?"
"There isn't any," Zhou Zhou said irritably. He could feel the strong masculine aura around him and it annoyed him to no end!
Seeing Qi Yili's annoying face, he was truly speechless.
He had originally bought breakfast, but now he suddenly didn't want to give it to her anymore.
"The breakfast is here," the driver suddenly spoke up. He thought Zhou Zhou had forgotten to put the breakfast in the front seat.
"Thank you." Yan Xi took the breakfast the driver uncle handed to her and thanked him.
Damn it!
Not only did she make him look bad, shouldn't she be thanking him instead!
He was the one who bought it for her!
She opened the breakfast, which was packed full - it was like she had bought out the entire breakfast shop!
Red dates cake, zhengzhou steamed rice cake, dumplings, all kinds of buns and bread... Of course there were also two big cups of soy milk!
???
[I suddenly feel like he's insulting you through the breakfast. This amount, is he feeding pigs?] Pandora remarked.
Not even ten stomachs could eat all that.
"Qi Yili, you eat this." Yan Xi picked out a piece of red dates cake and a cup of soy milk, then handed the whole big bag directly to Qi Yili.
Qi Yili: ??
Zhou Zhou: ?!!
"I..."
Before Qi Yili could say anything, Zhou Zhou snatched the big bag away from him with lightning speed.
"He's-not-hungry, right?" Zhou Zhou looked at Qi Yili with a friendly smile.
Freeloading was bad enough, now he dared to eat and drink for free too!
As a result, Zhou Zhou finished all the food in the bag during the drive.
Pandora was dumbfounded!
What a talent! An absolutely invaluable talent!
Soon, the car stopped.
The two got out, but when they turned around, Zhou Zhou was still practically sitting in the car.
"Aren't you getting out?" Yan Xi asked.
"I still have things to do." Zhou Zhou closed the car door directly and told the driver to drive, as if he had some big deal to take care of!
After Yan Xi and the others were out of his sight, Zhou Zhou immediately bent over in discomfort and gritted his teeth:
"Go to the pharmacy and buy some digestive and stomach-soothing pills!"
Qi Yili suddenly tugged at Yan Xi's sleeve.
The atmosphere at school today was very strange. The moment he walked into school with Yan Xi, he had a feeling of unease spreading in his heart.
Some people even started whispering in groups after catching a glimpse of them, and every time he looked over, they would avoid his gaze.
He could feel that these looks were not friendly, just like in the past in the West District.
A glint of interest flashed through Yan Xi's beautiful eyes, as if she realized something.
"I didn't expect her to be that kind of person... Truly, you can't judge a book by its cover..."
"What do you mean you can't judge a book by its cover? With a seductive look like hers, I thought so from the first time I saw her!"
"Yeah, those videos of her going viral, her poses and movements didn't seem like a proper young lady at all."
.....
She quickly walked with Qi Yili back to class.
The moment they stepped through the door, she seemed to sense the class erupting in murmurs.
"She's back!"
"Ah...."
Whispering sounds kept arising, as if they were gossiping about something in hushed voices, but didn't dare be too loud.
What was this?
At the same time, an attention-grabbing gaze had been fixed unwaveringly on her from the moment she entered the classroom.
Yan Xi looked up.
The figure of Tu Qingluan was reflected in her eyes. He didn't seem much different from usual, only the lovestruck look in his eyes had turned into something deeper and more inscrutable.
When gazed at by him, she could feel Tu Qingluan was in quite a good mood, as if the desires suppressed in his heart had completely burst out, naked and unmasked, and his stare seemed to want to pierce through her.
It made her very uncomfortable.
Qi Yili also noticed something and unobtrusively stood in front of Yan Xi to block her from the others' sight.
Amidst this bizarre atmosphere, Yan Xi went back to her seat.
Shen Qiuyi still wasn't back yet.
Her desk drawer was stuffed full, and as soon as she sat down, it was as if something triggered the contents of the drawer to come pouring out like snowflakes.
Seeing the familiar envelope style.
This was... a love letter?
It wasn't strange for Yan Xi to think so, mainly because ever since the start of the school year, she had received around eight hundred, if not a thousand, love letters.
But almost all of them were placed in her locker, which was outside the classroom. Putting them in the locker outside was more discreet than bringing them into the class and putting them in her desk drawer.
She bent down to pick up the love letters scattered all over the floor. Her sleek hair tipped to one side, exposing her fair, delicate neck and its beautiful, alluring curve.
She seemed to hear the whispers around her clearly.
"She really has tricks up her sleeve... Look! She's deliberately seducing someone, isn't she!"
"That post was true after all. She really has no shame!"
"I really don't understand why so many boys like her. She's clearly a flirtatious siren!"
"How pitiful for Young Master Tu... fooled by someone like her."
.....
Post?
It seems many things she didn't know about happened over the past few days.
The malicious gossip felt like a tidal wave crashing towards her, and Yan Xi noticed the envelopes containing the love letters looked somewhat familiar.
She seemed to have seen this kind of envelope at Tu Qingluan's house, and the pile of letters on the floor all seemed to be enclosed in the same kind of envelope.
[Open and take a look! I want to see! My darling Yan Xi~] Pandora clamored in her mind.
Yan Xi had originally intended to throw them all in the trash, but hearing Pandora's urging, she changed her mind.
She had a strong intuition that these letters were not ordinary confessions.
She selectively opened one of the letters.
Densely packed words were laid out.
Her name was scrawled all over this letter, crammed together without a sliver of space - the two characters "Yan Xi" were like a terrifying curse occupying her entire field of vision.
Her hand shook uncontrollably, when she suddenly heard a voice behind her.
"Xi Xi."
Tu Qingluan called her as he always had, as if savoring her name in his mouth with a bone-gnawing intimacy...
