"No need. I have a way to deal with it myself," Chu Bai said.
"R-Really?" Xu Muyan seemed unconvinced.
"Really. I have quite a bit of Private Money, all from Lunar New Year and birthday gifts over the years. I can handle it."
Chu Bai lied again, but this time, his gaze did not waver. He looked full of confidence.
Hearing this, Wang Haoran suddenly had a thought, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
This guy wanted to use X-ray Vision to make money...
At that moment, Wang Haoran also entered Chu Bai and Xu Muyan's field of view.
"Oh? Xu Muyan, what are you two talking about?" Wang Haoran asked, pretending they had run into each other by chance.
"Chu Bai has to pay medical expenses, so I was asking whether he needed help. After all, part of the reason this happened was because of me," Xu Muyan said. She had a fairly favorable impression of Wang Haoran, so she did not hide it from him.
"Is that so? I can help too," Wang Haoran said.
"No need. Stop putting on an act," Chu Bai replied coldly.
"How can you say that? Wang Haoran means well too." Xu Muyan frowned at Chu Bai.
"Looks like you really misunderstand me," Wang Haoran sighed, then asked unhurriedly,
"You think Fan Jian and the others blocked your way because I was jealous that you and Xu Muyan were getting close, so I told them to teach you a lesson?"
"Wasn't that the case?" Chu Bai shot back.
"Heh." Wang Haoran could not help laughing. "Let me ask you this: what do you have that beats me? Looks? Academics? Family background?
"If the two of us pursued Xu Muyan at the same time, do you really think you could beat me? Where did you get the confidence to think I'd be jealous of you?"
"You..." Chu Bai was left speechless because what Wang Haoran said was true.
"Judging by your expression, you must think I'm right. So if that's the case, why would I get someone to beat you up?" Wang Haoran asked.
Chu Bai's face flushed red, and he could not come up with a rebuttal.
Ding! The host has successfully struck at protagonist Chu Bai's confidence. Chu Bai's Protagonist Halo -10. The host's Villain Halo +10.
That worked too? The sudden System Notification delighted Wang Haoran.
He had only wanted to mock Chu Bai a little, yet he had gained an unexpected harvest.
Chu Bai's expression turned ugly.
For the moment, Wang Haoran could not be bothered with him anymore and turned to Xu Muyan beside him.
Xu Muyan's expression was somewhat strange because of what he had said.
"Xu Muyan, I was only making a hypothetical example just now. Don't overthink it. I told you before.
"There are less than a hundred days left until the college entrance exam. I only want to focus on studying for now, and I'm not in the mood to think about romance.
"Besides, our school has more than one School Belle. Even if I wanted a relationship, I wouldn't date someone from my own class. Even rabbits don't eat the grass around their own burrows. More importantly, I really don't feel that way about you!"
Wang Haoran did not want Xu Muyan to distance herself from him, so he told a string of lies to keep her steady.
With the Villain Halo, lying was practically an innate talent for him. Deceiving an eighteen-year-old girl was absurdly easy.
Xu Muyan did not doubt him much after hearing that.
However, Xu Muyan only stared at Wang Haoran without speaking, her lips pursed as though she was lost in thought.
Ding! The host has made one of the Female Leads, Xu Muyan, feel jealous. Villain Points +200. Chu Bai's Protagonist Halo -10. The host's Villain Halo +10.
The sudden notification delighted Wang Haoran once again.
He had not expected those words of his to have such an effect.
Xu Muyan was actually jealous?
But thinking about it, it made perfect sense.
She was so beautiful, yet the School Hunk of her class had said right in front of her that girls from other classes were better.
Of course Xu Muyan would be jealous.
But that did not mean she liked Wang Haoran.
It was simply a natural reaction for a girl.
Girls naturally loved comparing themselves with one another.
This trip had yielded quite a lot.
Wang Haoran hurriedly checked his attribute panel.
Host: Wang Haoran Combat Power: 89 Charm Value: 268 Villain Halo: 149 Villain Points: 300 Skills: None
He remembered that his Villain Halo had started at 99 points. It had increased by 50 in such a short time. That was not bad progress.
Wang Haoran was in a great mood.
It was lunchtime.
Inside the classroom.
Some tired students leaned against their desks and took short naps.
Others gathered in groups of two or three and whispered softly.
Of course, there were also hardworking students diligently studying.
Though some of them were only pretending.
For example, Chu Bai.
He held a book in his hands, but his mind was elsewhere. His eyes kept drifting toward Xu Muyan from time to time.
At that moment, Xu Muyan was concentrating on her exercises.
Chu Bai did not dare disturb her. After waiting for quite a while, Xu Muyan put down her pen, seemingly entering a period of free time.
Chu Bai was delighted and hurriedly stood up, intending to pretend he had a question to ask so he could use the opportunity to draw closer to her.
However, the moment his butt left the chair, he sat back down angrily.
That damned Wang Haoran! Chu Bai cursed furiously in his heart.
Elsewhere.
"Um, can we switch seats?" Wang Haoran walked over to Xu Muyan's female deskmate and asked as if it were routine.
The reason he used "um" was not that Wang Haoran was being impolite. It was because he could not remember the girl's full name. He only knew it was Wen something.
In the original story, the villain "Wang Haoran" had been characterized as someone who did not care about any girls other than Xu Muyan.
It was perfectly normal for him not to know Xu Muyan's deskmate's name.
Thus, after transmigrating and absorbing the memories, Wang Haoran naturally did not know Xu Muyan's deskmate's name either.
But honestly, Xu Muyan's deskmate was quite pretty too. She was also a beauty.
On a scale of one hundred, Xu Muyan would score ninety-five, while her deskmate could score ninety.
Hearing Wang Haoran's voice, the girl bent over her desk studying raised her head slightly and saw the handsome face of a boy.
The look in his eyes made her heartbeat suddenly race.
Afraid that he would notice something unusual, the girl quickly lowered her head again.
"M-My name is Wen Jing." Her voice carried a trace of disappointment.
As she spoke, Wen Jing immediately picked up the textbooks she needed and made room for Wang Haoran.
"Oh, Wen Jing? I'll remember that," Wang Haoran replied politely.
Then he did not even glance at Wen Jing again.
Although Wen Jing was very pretty, a top-tier beauty, he had no interest in paying attention to her if she was not a female lead.
She could not earn him Villain Points anyway.
However, Wang Haoran did not know that this simple sentence sounded as sweet as honey to Wen Jing.
Then she happily ran over to Wang Haoran's seat.
As usual, she organized the books scattered messily across his desk.
She admired the neat handwriting in his exercise book.
Leaning over the desk, she carefully inhaled the faint lingering scent that belonged to him.
Wen Jing felt slightly intoxicated.
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