My Black-Bellied Childhood Friend Always Harbors Ill Intent Towards Me

Next up: "My Arch-Nemesis is Lying to Me Again Today," synopsis at the end!

A pure-hearted gong who flirts unknowingly vs. a black-bellied and aloof shou.

Pei Shuyu always felt that Ji Yan, her childhood friend who grew up with her, had been recently distancing herself. When others asked for her help, Ji Yan would always smile and agree, but when Pei Shuyu proactively offered to draw her portrait, she only received a cold refusal.

Feeling indignant, Pei Shuyu began to subtly tease Ji Yan, trying every means to attract her attention and observe her reactions. But Ji Yan seemed completely unmoved by her attentions?! Ji Yan is such an idiot, she thought angrily to herself.

Everyone knew Ji Yan was aloof and proud, seemingly uninterested in anything except her studies. Only Ji Yan herself knew that something more worthwhile than studying had always been the person who accompanied her in her studies.

Another female classmate happily thanked Pei Shuyu with a portrait she had received, saying, "Shuyu, your hands are beautiful, and your paintings are beautiful too." Ji Yan, standing nearby, silently made a note in her little book.

In countless midnight dreams, Ji Yan repeatedly affirmed her goal: Get closer to her. Stick by her. Obtain her. Ji Yan had intended to slowly boil the frog, letting her childhood friend fall deeply into the love net she meticulously wove, but—

Pei Shuyu always danced on her red line, actively teasing and seducing her, lying in her arms, and innocently blinking her eyes: "Ji Yan, your heart is beating so fast." Or leaning close and softly asking ambiguous questions: "I think I might like you a little, Ji Yan." Ji Yan was almost, just almost, unable to keep up her act.

[Mini-Theater]

In the empty art room, Ji Yan, who could no longer hold back, turned off the lights, pressed against Pei Shuyu's back, and personally brought up old scores: "How many people have you drawn for before? Do you want me to list them one by one for you?" Pei Shuyu was terrified.

"When will you draw for me?" "I don't want the same as them. Let's try a different way, I want..." The last few words completely scorched Pei Shuyu’s ears. It was then that she realized,原來, Ji Yan wasn't dumb at all.