Chapter 91
Everyone was watching them. Not only did Mu Yiran look rather unpleasant, but Xiang Wan's expression was also not much better.
However, she wasn't angry; it was just that her aura of "keep away" became even stronger.
Young Master Jiang is used to being lawless at school, and now he likes to drag unrelated people into his affairs.
She glanced indifferently at Jiang Yu'an, then subtly looked at Mu Yiran opposite her, only to find that Mu Yiran showed no anger and seemed to be secretly relieved.
Xiang Wan: "..."
So it turns out she just came out to wash her hands, becoming a shield for the two of them.
The crowd cheered as Jiang Yu'an publicly confessed his love to her, and everyone waited for her answer.
Xiang Wan looked at Jiang Yu'an, who was blocking her way and preventing her from moving forward, and said calmly, "I don't like you."
The crowd suddenly fell silent, but then someone couldn't hold back their laughter and everyone burst out laughing. The three of them laughed the loudest.
The three of them leaned against the wall not far away, each laughing heartily.
Xiang Wan glanced at them indifferently, then shifted her gaze to the right and saw Chen Ruilin standing at the back of the crowd. His expression remained unchanged, but there was a smile in his eyes.
Her gaze lingered on him for a second, then shifted to Jiang Yu'an's face.
He looked somewhat frantic, the veins on his forehead almost bulging, yet what he said sounded rather 'subservient': "It's okay if you don't like me, it's enough that I like you."
"..."
Xiang Wan looked at Jiang Yu'an with a cold gaze, said nothing more, and turned to walk towards Class A's classroom.
However, before she left, she gave Mu Yiran a cryptic look. With Jiang Yu'an's childish nature, it was no wonder that Mu Yiran refused to agree.
If it were her, she would absolutely not agree either.
After Xiang Wan left, most of the people in the corridor dispersed.
The bell had rung for a minute, and the next class was Chinese, but the homeroom teacher hadn't arrived yet, and the classroom was buzzing with noise.
She sat in her seat, still engrossed in reading the biography without changing her expression, while Shen Feiyang beside her and Che Nanbei in the seat in front of her kept giving her dirty looks from time to time.
"Oh dear, I wonder who it is. They have a guy they're flirting with but don't tell us..."
"That's right, they don't treat us like friends at all."
Xiang Wan: "..."
Knowing the two's tendency to stir up trouble, she ignored them and instead looked up at Chen Ruilin's seat.
She had only glanced at him on a whim, but it turned out he was looking at her too. The air in the classroom rippled, and their gazes held a certain intriguing quality.
For the third second after their eyes met, they both looked away without making a sound, but their eyes simultaneously flickered with a hint of emotion...
Xiang Wan thought that after she rejected Jiang Yu'an in person, the matter would be over, but who knew that during the physical education class the next day...
Young Master Jiang is up to his old tricks again—
Class A and Class B always have their PE classes together. Today's training activity is volleyball. The PE teacher asked students to juggle the ball in pairs. If they could juggle it 20 times without the ball touching the ground, they could have free time.
Unless it's an event where men and women are separated, the four of them always stay together: Jiang Zhuochun and Che Nanbei are in one group, and Xiang Wan and Shen Feiyang are in another.
This time was no exception.
Until Jiang Yu'an from Class B suddenly appeared and raised his hand to say that he wanted to be in a group with Xiang Wan.
What happened during yesterday's long break was known to everyone in the class except for the PE teacher, so everyone except Xiang Wan, who had a black line on her face, was trying not to laugh.
If it weren't for the fact that one of the parties involved was the eldest daughter of the Xiang family, the crowd would have already started to jeer.
However, because the person involved was Xiang Wan, everyone could only suppress their laughter.
Of course, this excludes the trio whose relationship with the parties involved is extremely close...
Che Nanbei nudged Xiang Wan's waist from behind and said in a low voice, "Jiang Gou can be in a group with Zhao Luyu, and You Ning and I can be in a group too."
"Go ahead and enjoy your sweet romance!"
"Go for it, Wanwan! We are your strongest support."
As Xiang Wan listened to Che Nanbei's increasingly outrageous 'declaration' behind her, she resisted the urge to facepalm, feeling as if everything in front of her was going black.
The PE teacher, unaware of the students' ulterior motives, immediately paired Jiang Yu'an and Xiang Wan together when he heard that Jiang Yu'an wanted to team up.
When they dispersed for practice, Jiang Yu'an went to get the ball, while Xiang Wan stood still and waited for him.
After he returned with the ball, the two of them stopped talking and started practicing juggling the ball.
During the practice, Xiang Wan watched him, too lazy to beat around the bush. This young master's brain was as simple as a paramecium; he wouldn't understand anything complicated.
Therefore, she only said one sentence: "If Mu Yiran is jealous because you are in the same group as me, you two would have been together long ago."
As she spoke, she gestured with her chin towards Mu Yiran, who was not far away, indicating that the other should look in that direction as well: "Since we teamed up, have you seen her even glance this way?"
Her tone was indifferent, but every word she spoke went straight to the heart. Jiang Yu'an, who was straightforward, had bloodshot eyes after listening to her.
From the moment they started juggling the ball, neither of them made a mistake, but just as she finished speaking, Jiang Yu'an dropped the ball.
"..."
"..."
Xiang Wan looked at the obviously dejected Jiangda school bully. Although she was a little puzzled as to how he became the school bully, she could also understand his madness of unrequited love.
"Let's continue."
"good."
"Don't bother me again."
"..."
"Otherwise, I'll go find your mother."
"..."
“I remember that your mother and my mother were good friends before your mother married into the Jiang family.”
"..."
After all, he was only 17 years old, and because he was in the wrong, Jiang Yu'an remained silent while Xiang Wan spoke, without uttering a single word in rebuttal.
After resolving the trouble with Jiang Yu'an, Xiang Wan's steps were even lighter on her way back to the classroom.
However, troubles always seem to come one after another.
The class monitor said the homeroom teacher wanted to see her, so Xiang Wan went to the office after class.
As soon as she entered the office, her teacher solicitously asked her to sit down, handed her a bottle of water, and placed a physics competition problem book in front of her.
"Xiang Wan, the physics competition is about to start again this year, and the teachers have decided to recommend you to participate."
"After all, you are the top student in the grade and my prized student."
Xiang Wan thought it was something serious, but after listening, she nodded without hesitation and agreed.
She was about to leave with the competition booklet when she heard her teacher tell her to wait a moment: "There are two spots in the physics competition, and I've called someone else to come."
No sooner had she finished speaking than she heard a knock on the office door.
The teacher put down his teacup and said towards the door, "Please come in—"
When Xiang Wan heard the knocking, she suddenly had a bad feeling. It wasn't until the door was pushed open from the outside and she saw that familiar profile that she realized who the other person her homeroom teacher was talking about was.
The school needs to win competition awards, and Chen Ruilin, who came up through the All-A program, is naturally the first choice.
The homeroom teacher looked at his two star students with obvious satisfaction. He looked at Chen Ruilin and said, "Ruilin, you're here?"
After saying that, he looked at Xiang Wan beside him and said in a gentle tone, "Xiang Wan, you won the first prize in the last physics competition. You can mentor Chen Ruilin."
"You two should have a healthy competition, and it would be best if you both won first prize." After saying that, he looked at Xiang Wan, waiting for her to respond.
"..."
Since Chen Ruilin transferred to Class A, Xiang Wan had been carefully avoiding contact with him, but being in the same class, contact seemed unavoidable.
She didn't turn to look at him, but instead looked at the homeroom teacher and said, "I will."
"Okay, then you two go back to class."
Goodbye, teacher.
Goodbye, teacher.
After exchanging greetings, the two left the office one after the other.
On the way back from the office, Xiang Wan remained silent, and Chen Ruilin behind her did not speak either.
The two walked forward in silence until they reached the classroom door. They then separated and went to their respective seats, both of them letting out a sigh of relief.
This was a self-study period. The class monitor was sitting on the podium managing discipline. When Xiang Wan returned to her seat, the most gossipy Che Nanbei couldn't help but turn around and hand her a note.
What did your teacher say to you?
Xiang Wan picked up a pen and wrote a few words, then poked her back and placed the note in her palm.
Upon seeing her reply, Che Nanbei responded quickly: "So, are you and Chen Ruilin preparing for the physics competition together?"
【Um. 】
【very nice. 】
What's so good about it?
The transfer student's face is so pleasing to the eye.
[...]
In the afternoon, while the rest of the class went to a lecture, Xiang Wan and Chen Yan stayed in the classroom to discuss physics competition questions.
Although they were supposed to be discussing the problems, they were actually working on their own problems without exchanging a single word.
The lecture lasted about two class periods. During the break between the first and second classes, Xiang Wan got up and went to the restroom.
As she finished tidying her clothes and came out, she was looking in the mirror when she saw Chen Ruilin coming out from next door.
The two glanced at each other in the mirror, then quickly looked away.
After washing her hands, Xiang Wan walked towards the classroom, with Chen Ruilin walking behind her not far behind.
The two walked one after the other, maintaining a certain distance, neither too close nor too far, silently and without uttering a word.
On the day of the competition, the two were in the same examination room, and even their seat numbers were one after the other.
However, the two did not exchange a single word from entering the examination room to leaving it, and they even went in opposite directions when returning home from the examination room.
Xiang Wan sat in her private car, watching Chen Yan's figure grow smaller and smaller behind her, not even hearing what Wang Yidong said beside her.
When Wang Yidong still hadn't received a reply, he followed her gaze but saw nothing: "Miss, what's wrong?"
"nothing."
"What would you like to eat tonight, Miss?"
"Steak, please."
…
*
Not long after the controversy surrounding the competition subsided, one day during a break between classes, the class monitor came over and said that the homeroom teacher wanted to see her.
Xiang Wan: "..."
She got up to go to her office, but Che Nanbei, who was next to her, got up with her and said, "Wanwan, I'll go with you. I need to go to the restroom."
"good."
After Che Nanbei finished using the restroom, he waited for her outside the office while Xiang Wan went in alone.
As soon as she entered the office, her boss called out to her enthusiastically, "Xiang Wan, come here—"
It was the same chair as last time. Xiang Wan was still wondering why he had called her here when she heard him say, "Xiang Wan, there's a class arts performance going on. How about our class puts on an English stage play called 'Million Pounds'?"
"I just asked the class monitor for his opinion, and he also thought it was okay. He even mentioned that you've just covered this lesson in your English class, right?"
The arts festival wasn't really a big deal, but when she heard that her homeroom teacher wanted to organize a stage play, and recalling the painful memories of Che Nanbei's dictatorial directing in her previous life, Xiang Wan wanted to refuse without hesitation: "I don't think a stage play..."
However, before she could finish speaking, the office door was violently flung open from the outside with a loud bang.
Both of them were startled. Looking at Che Nanbei outside the door, Xiang Wan immediately sensed something was wrong.
Sure enough, the next second...
"Teacher, don't worry about the stage play, leave it to me. I guarantee I'll complete the task!"
head teacher:"……"
Xiang Wan: "..."
Xiang Wan felt a terrible headache when she thought about the strict standards someone had set when she was rehearsing a stage play in her previous life.
Che Nanbei readily agreed. The homeroom teacher, though startled, was also pleased: "In that case, I'll trust you."
Xiang Wan wanted to persuade the homeroom teacher to reconsider, but Che Nanbei pulled her away from behind, reassuring her as he did so: "Don't worry, teacher."
Just as the two were about to leave the office, their homeroom teacher called them back: "By the way, let the new student Chen Ruilin participate as well. You two should mentor him and make sure he doesn't become too withdrawn."
"..."
Xiang Wan tried to find an excuse to decline again, but Che Nanbei readily agreed once more: "Don't worry, sir!"
He even saluted after he finished speaking.
Xiang Wan, standing to the side: "..."
*
With only two weeks left until the cultural performance, and they were still in the casting stage, Director Che's iron-fisted methods were already beginning to show...
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