Wen Mo fell silent, as if he felt a little guilty about what she had said. He hadn't really paid much attention to Xia Lian's feelings, only knowing that she would be happy if she stayed, but he hadn't considered anything else.

But it seems like Lianbao doesn't have any objections to this...

As if his thoughts had been read, Xiang Xiaonan lowered his voice and said calmly, "Do you have no objection, or did you never even think about it?"

As if jolted awake from a dream, Wen Mo suddenly looked up, his eyes wide open, trembling uncontrollably.

He forgot, forgot that Xia Lian was an obedient girl to the core. From the day he met her, she had always listened to his every word and never disagreed with him. It seemed that he had never heard her refuse or deny him.

"I... but I want to stay with her."

Wen Mo covered his head, his expression a mixture of disappointment and realization, a dull ache in his chest, as if someone were tightly gripping his heart.

"Why don't you go back and ask her what she really thinks?" Xiang Xiaonan suggested.

"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I feel like that girl hasn't shown any emotion at all," Qin Zhou said casually, scratching the back of his head. "Last time, I saw you talking to her from far away at the entrance of the first-year classroom."

"...I'll go back and ask, I'll find out...And Qin Zhou, you're not allowed to put your eyes on her."

"Stingy, I'm just looking."

"Fifty yuan per viewing, charged by the second." Wen Mo crossed his arms and smiled. His previous annoyance was immediately relieved by Qin Zhou, and the air was filled with joy.

"Damn, a black market dealer..."

Qin Zhou stopped talking, straightened up and yawned, rubbed his sore eyes and dozed off on the table. "Let's sleep for a while first, then we can study later, what do you say, Xiao Nan?"

Xiang Xiaonan didn't respond, but stared at her phone and frowned for a while.

"Xiao Nan, what are you doing? Why aren't you saying anything?" Qin Zhou looked up and saw her staring blankly at her phone, so he couldn't help but cast a curious glance at her.

"How disgusting..." Xiang Xiaonan muttered to herself.

"Was what I just said really that disgusting...?" Qin Zhou asked, his eyes wide and his voice filled with grievance.

"Huh?" Xiang Xiaonan snapped out of her daze and frantically waved her hands and shook her head. "I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about this person in my phone."

After saying that, she placed her phone flat on the table so that the two people next to her could also see the contents.

"Can we meet? I'll wait for you in the open space behind the library."

This is a QQ friend request.

Wen Mo read the words aloud in a low voice, frowning as he exchanged a glance with Xiang Xiaonan.

"Who is this guy?"

Xiang Xiaonan didn't say anything, but clicked on his profile with a friend request. "This is that guy from last time... I forgot his name, but anyway, he's the jerk who hit me with a ball."

"What?! He still has the nerve to come see you?!" Qin Zhou roared angrily, gritting his teeth. The sound of his teeth grinding could be heard from a great distance.

"Don't get excited! We don't know what he's up to yet, why does he suddenly want to meet me..." Xiang Xiaonan waved her hand to comfort him, patting Qin Zhou's back as if trying to calm him down like taming a wild animal.

A few seconds later, under the guidance of the animal trainer Xiang Xiaonan, the beast Qin Zhou gradually regained his composure.

"That bastard's name is Zhang Xie. I'll never forget his name in my life. I'll beat him up every time I see him!"

Qin Zhou clenched his fist hard in the air.

"I didn't expect you to remember it even more clearly than I did..." Xiang Xiaonan said with some surprise. "By the way, why is he coming to find me now? Is it because he wants revenge...?"

At this moment, Wen Mo shook his head and interjected, "This kid was suspended from school for a week, so he's only coming to find you now because he wasn't at school before."

Zhang Xie's announcement was quite significant; I had seen a record of it with the grade head before.

"What is he doing here now? Should I go see him?" Xiang Xiaonan asked nervously. "Maybe I should just block him."

"No, let's test the waters first." Wen Mo suddenly smiled, took her phone, and swiped his fingers a couple of times.

Qin Zhou, a little curious, glanced over and asked, "What are you doing?"

Wen Mo didn't speak, but mysteriously raised a finger to his lips and smiled wickedly.

The friend request on the screen had been accepted, and the screen even enthusiastically replied to the kid on behalf of Xiang Xiaonan.

Zhang Xie: "Can we meet?"

Xiang Xiaonan: "Yes, of course."

Zhang Xie: "That's great... It's just the two of us meeting, no need to bring anyone else."

Xiang Xiaonan: "Okay~"

Qin Zhou got goosebumps after reading it. It was rare for someone to say such disgusting things using Xiang Xiaonan's account, especially the last tilde, which was really disgusting.

"Why did you agree to him? I can just imagine how disgusting that kid must be laughing behind the screen."

Wen Mo shook his head and handed the phone back to Xiang Xiaonan. "You don't know anything. Although I agreed to his request, I didn't say that Xiaonan would suffer a loss."

"Then what do you suggest we do? I'm only meeting with the two of us, aren't I?" Xiang Xiaonan asked blankly.

"You're incredibly stupid!" Wen Mo scolded angrily, looking at him with a disappointed expression. "Why should we listen to him? He's an idiot!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Zhou and Xiang Xiaonan opened their mouths in sudden realization.

"you mean……"

“Yes, let’s go together. I didn’t manage to hit him last time, so if we have the chance, let me give him a couple of punches.” Wen Mo smiled slyly.

Qin Zhou and Xiao Nan looked at each other, and then nodded in agreement. Qin Zhou, in particular, went to the cleaning corner at the back of the classroom as soon as he finished explaining the plan and started fiddling with something.

...

After school.

In the open space behind the library, Zhang Xie paced back and forth for a long time. He had arrived early and was waiting anxiously.

To be honest, even he himself didn't expect that Xiang Xiaonan would actually agree to his request, even though she spoke a bit strangely on QQ.

Just as he was pondering this, he heard footsteps coming from not far away.

Zhang Xie quickly straightened his posture, slowly raised his head, and showed a smile as humble as possible. Just as he was about to greet him, his eyes suddenly widened.

Xiang Xiaonan did indeed arrive, but behind her stood two boys as tall as a city wall, one of whom was holding a wooden stick stuck off a mop.

Upon closer inspection, this guy's appearance is somewhat familiar...

After thinking for a while, Zhang Xie stood there, stunned. The wound on his right cheek seemed to still throb faintly as he met the gaze of the boy in front of him who was smiling wickedly.

Wow, it's Joan of Arc!