"But you keep targeting her. I can't understand why. The only explanation is that Xiaoxiao and Asi are getting close, and you're jealous and angry."

Qu Wenbin stared at Xie Li's face with great interest. He had to admit that Xie Li was indeed very beautiful now.

But this beauty couldn't impress everyone. At least his impression of Xie Li was still stuck in the past; Xie Li's image back then completely disgusted him.

A girl as strong yet fragile as Ming Xiaoxiao is the one he should protect and cherish.

He will personally expose Xie Li's dark and scheming thoughts one by one, leaving her nowhere to hide.

At the corner of the stairs, Pei Si's tall figure suddenly froze. He didn't know why, but a strange feeling rose in his heart.

It seemed as if they were anticipating Xie Li's reply.

Beside him, Ming Xiaoxiao glanced at him, her fingers nervously gripping Pei Si's clothes.

"A-Si, what's wrong?" she asked softly, then paused and said in a seemingly casual tone, "Is it inconvenient for me to come over?"

Pei Si's face suddenly darkened, and he grabbed Ming Xiaoxiao's wrist. "What's inconvenient about it? We're friends, aren't we?"

He insisted on appearing before Xie Li openly and honestly with Ming Xiaoxiao.

At the same time, Xie Li's voice rang out calmly, "For Pei Si? It's really not worth it."

Xie Li said, "I don't quite understand your logic, including Ming Xiaoxiao's—but I remember saying that I don't like Pei Si and don't want to have anything to do with him at all. That shouldn't be hard to understand, right?"

Shen Lian and Zhang Siyuan had already heard the commotion and rushed out to support Xie Li.

Upon hearing this, Shen Lian nodded vigorously in agreement. It wasn't hard to understand! She also disliked Pei Si very much!

I really can't fall in love with a guy who has a grumpy face, especially since the other person isn't as handsome as Han Shao, so that people can overlook his temper because of his looks.

Xie Li: "Pei Si's appearance, personality, and talent are all things that appeal to my aesthetic standards."

"I just want to study hard and get into Beijing University. I have no interest in being a bad student, and I don't have a hobby of collecting garbage."

When Pei Si led Ming Xiaoxiao out, he happened to hear this sentence, and felt as if his heart, which had already been hit by countless arrows, was now riddled with holes.

It hurts so much.

His face was ashen, his expression frighteningly grim: "Xie Li!"

For no reason, an inexplicable fire suddenly rose in my heart, and I couldn't extinguish it.

Xie Li wasn't too embarrassed; she had just accidentally told the truth. But she still apologized to Pei Si: "I'm sorry, your lackey forced me to say it."

Qu Wenbin's expression changed slightly. It was true that he usually fawned over Pei Si, but he was unwilling to be inexplicably labeled as Pei Si's follower.

Ming Xiaoxiao pursed her lips: "Xie Li, how can you belittle others just to elevate yourself?"

She felt a little hurt, "I know you cleared the Encyclopedia King on SSS difficulty, things are different now."

"But to insist that you are a genius and others are slackers seems a bit too much, doesn't it? You didn't even get into the advanced class, let alone join the young genius program."

So where does this sense of superiority come from, to mock others?

Moreover, Xie Li's aggressive demand for 100,000 yuan from Jiang Yifan to secure the bet was not exactly aboveboard.

His expression seemed overly greedy.

After this news spread, it really damaged the goodwill of passersby, especially those whose families were not particularly wealthy. Judging from their own experience, they felt that Xie Li was materialistic and money-grubbing.

She's always being called eccentric and unattractive. She's quite pretty, but she's tainted by the smell of money, so she's not so wonderful anymore.