“No wonder there’s such a big difference.” Li Xiaoxiao and Su Qingyao chimed in.

Su Qingyao, unusually, even used foul language to drive her away, saying, "Get back to your finance department. You can't possibly be good enough for the guys in our art department."

"That's right, get out of here." Li Xiaoxiao took a step forward with her hands on her hips, determined to show the aura of an art and design student.

Lu Mingxuan had long wanted to leave this place, and he would never have come if Qiao Yuan hadn't dragged him here!

What he experienced today was an utter disgrace to him!

Before leaving, he glared fiercely at Qiao Yuan, who was both angry and ashamed.

"Senior, don't go." Seeing him turn to leave, Zhong Hanjie tried to persuade him to stay, but he was just pretending and actually looked disdainful.

After Lu Mingxuan left, Li Xiaoxiao muttered with disappointment, "I never expected Lu Mingxuan to be this kind of person. He's such a disappointment."

"Don't you already have a new target?" Qiao Xi gently nudged her elbow to hint at it.

Before Li Xiaoxiao could retort, Zhong Hanjie interrupted her, asking, "Senior, can I pursue you?"

"Huh?" Qiao Xi was caught off guard by the question again.

Zhong Hanjie stood ramrod straight and said seriously, "I'm very serious, I want to pursue you."

Qiao Xi stood there dumbfounded, unsure how to refuse him in order to avoid any future trouble.

But Zhong Hanjie didn't give her time to hesitate and continued, "Senior, don't you not have a boyfriend?"

Standing next to Qiao Xi, Li Xiaoxiao was practically ready to kick her into Zhong Hanjie's arms, but she still wanted to figure out whether Qiao Xi had a boyfriend or not.

Unable to withstand the 'hunting' of so many eyes around her, Qiao Xi blurted out without thinking, "I...I can't really accept a relationship between an older woman and a younger man."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhong Hanjie hurriedly asked, "Why?"

Without giving Qiao Xi a chance to answer, he asked again, "Are you worried that I'm not mature enough and can't take good care of you?"

"No," Qiao Xi answered decisively.

But she regretted it as soon as she answered. How could she say no? She should have said yes, so that he would give up.

"Why is that?" Zhong Hanjie's eager expression, wanting to know the reason, was particularly... likely to arouse the girls' hatred towards Qiao Xi!

Why so many questions!

"I don't want to date while I'm in school," Qiao Xi blurted out when she was cornered. "Right now, all I want is to get rich. I have no interest in anything else."

As soon as she finished speaking, not only Li Xiaoxiao, but most of the classmates, including Zhong Hanjie, looked at Qiao Xi with disbelief.

Qiao Xi didn't know why she gave such a reason. She should have said that she was studying hard, so how did she come to say that she was only interested in getting rich?

What a mistake.

Perhaps she instinctively avoided Lu Mingxuan's advice to "study hard," and so she gradually became like this.

However, this reason is clearly much better than studying hard, and it seems that quite a few people believe it.

“Senior sister…” Zhong Hanjie was at a loss, because Qiao Xi’s words made it sound like he would become a stumbling block on her road to wealth…

Qiao Xi hadn't thought of that; she blurted it out in a moment of panic, only to find it was actually a good reason.

Seeing that Zhong Hanjie had no servants, she smiled and waved to him, "That's all for now."

After saying that, she grabbed Li Xiaoxiao's hand and walked out of the cafeteria. Li Xiaoxiao was still a little dazed, and it wasn't until they were almost at the teaching building that she came to her senses.

"Oh no, oh no, you're definitely going to become the enemy of the whole school now." Li Xiaoxiao said, deliberately keeping her distance from Qiao Xi.

Qiao Xi's lips twitched awkwardly. "It can't be that bad, can it?"

Li Xiaoxiao reminded her warily, "Didn't you see the way those girls looked at you just now?"

"Didn't I just refuse?" Qiao Xi said, but she was still a little worried.

Li Xiaoxiao, her face full of disbelief, retorted, "What kind of reason is that?"

"Isn't this reason sufficient?" Qiao Xi thought about the reactions of her classmates in the cafeteria just now, and she assumed they believed it.

Li Xiaoxiao suddenly put her hands on her hips and questioned her angrily, "So you think he's a stumbling block on your road to getting rich?"

What?

Qiao Xi shook her head blankly, "No."

“I think that’s what you mean,” Li Xiaoxiao said earnestly.

Qiao Xi felt this was a huge misunderstanding. Could it be that their expressions just now meant they shared the same thoughts as Li Xiaoxiao?

That would be the end for her; her future days would probably be tough!

Li Xiaoxiao asked her again with a serious expression, "Tell me, do you have a boyfriend or not?"

"No," Qiao Xi answered firmly.

Li Xiaoxiao was still willing to believe her, but she couldn't understand Qiao Xi's thoughts at all. "Then why did you reject him?"

“I…” Qiao Xi wanted to find another reason, but Li Xiaoxiao didn’t give her a chance to think. “I want to hear the truth.”

Qiao Xi took a deep breath and said helplessly, "I already told you that I don't like looking at handsome men, I like looking at beautiful women."

Suddenly, as if realizing something, Li Xiaoxiao distanced herself from Qiao Xi again, "Your liking to look at beautiful women is probably not what I understand, right?"

What's the meaning?

Qiao Xi expressed her incomprehension, but she seemed to have already accepted the fact she believed to be true, "You wouldn't really..."

Halfway through her sentence, she suddenly clapped her hands and said, "That's right, otherwise, how could a normal woman refuse such a handsome man?"

so……

Qiao Xi was a little confused, but Li Xiaoxiao quickly gave her an answer, "You like women?"

"Cough cough cough..." Qiao Xi suddenly started coughing violently. She only said she liked looking at beautiful women, not that she liked women...

Li Xiaoxiao stared at her with her big, questioning eyes, waiting for her answer.

Qiao Xi really didn't know how to answer. Li Xiaoxiao thought she was embarrassed to admit it, so she assured her, "Don't worry, I definitely don't have any feelings for you that way."

Her words made Qiao Xi even more confused.

But Li Xiaoxiao somehow received an affirmative answer, "Qiao Xi, how come I didn't expect that? You're actually..."

Since she had already said that, Qiao Xi decided to go all out and, having carefully prepared her emotions, asked, "You won't discriminate against me because of this, will you?"

"No." Li Xiaoxiao shook her head firmly.

To avoid potential trouble in the future, Qiao Xi thought this was a viable solution.

Of course, it wasn't that she was particularly confident in her appearance; it was just in case.