"Jiang Fu, what the hell is that supposed to mean?!"
Jiang Fu stood before her, dry-heaving.
Han Ruobing was about to explode.
Jiang Fu waved a hand.
"Nothing!"
"Don't get the wrong idea... I don't have any improper thoughts about you..."
"Holy shit! Stay away from me... Ugh—"
As Han Ruobing walked toward him,
Jiang Fu backed away again and again.
His face was full of disgust.
That afternoon,
Jiang Fu had opened Guo Xiaofeng's door without a second thought.
A strange, pungent smell had hit him full in the face.
It had gone straight to his head!
The stench had dealt him a crushing blow.
At the time,
Guo Xiaofeng's computer had been playing a video of Han Ruobing.
So now, the moment Jiang Fu saw her,
his mind made an unfortunate connection.
It was as though she gave off that same smell.
The thought struck him to his core!
Guo Xiaofeng's room was scarier than a Silver Moon Wolf or a Blood-Eyed Golden Tiger!
Thank goodness Jiang Fu hadn't eaten lunch.
Otherwise, he really would have thrown up.
Han Ruobing saw his reaction.
Her eyes nearly spat fire.
Jiang Fu kept retreating.
"Don't worry, I really won't bother you... Just stay away from me..."
"Ugh—"
At the sight of him,
the classroom first fell silent.
Then everyone burst out laughing.
Han Ruobing's face turned bright red.
She glared at Jiang Fu. "Jiang Fu, don't play hard to—"
"Ugh—"
Jiang Fu dry-heaved as he backed away.
Han Ruobing swallowed the rest of her words.
She stamped her foot and ran back to her seat.
Before this,
Han Ruobing had imagined countless times how Jiang Fu would act when he came back.
Would he pretend to be cold and aloof, playing hard to get?
Would he pester her and chase after her as relentlessly as before...
Or would he act indifferent while secretly watching her from afar?
But what Han Ruobing had never expected
was for Jiang Fu to gag the instant he saw her!
What was wrong with him?
Jiang Fu breathed a sigh of relief.
Then,
under the gaze of the entire class,
he strode over to Shi Jiu and sat in the empty seat beside her.
The classroom fell silent again.
Jiang Fu noticed the looks from his classmates.
"Is someone sitting here?" he asked, puzzled.
Shi Jiu looked up.
The irritation in her eyes had turned to amusement.
"No."
Jiang Fu shrugged.
He settled in without another thought.
In the front row, Han Ruobing ground her teeth.
"Jerk!"
"So he's found someone new and moved on..."
Her deskmate heard her.
He looked baffled. "A jerk? Moved on?"
"Didn't you just tell him it was over and that he should stop bothering you?"
Han Ruobing: "..."
No one would think you were mute if you kept quiet.
"I think he's just found someone to make me jealous..."
Her deskmate nodded solemnly. "Well, it's working. You're definitely jealous."
Han Ruobing: "..."
Her deskmate continued, "Shi Jiu's gorgeous. She'd only just arrived when she outshone every School Beauty here."
"And she's a Martial Artist!"
"She broke Yu Mengyang's leg with a stool!"
As he spoke,
he gave Han Ruobing a once-over.
"You can't really compare yourself to Shi Jiu."
Han Ruobing gritted her teeth.
"We'll see how sturdy Jiang Fu's legs are!"
"That violent maniac will definitely break them!"
Meanwhile,
Jiang Fu noticed several classmates sneaking sympathetic looks at him.
He reached out
and poked Shi Jiu's arm. "What's with them?"
Shi Jiu looked a little embarrassed. "Well... on my first day, I accidentally broke a classmate's leg with a stool..."
Jiang Fu paused.
Then he swept the classroom with his Spirit Power.
Yu Mengyang, the class's biggest troublemaker and self-proclaimed boss, was nowhere to be seen.
Jiang Fu understood.
He gave Shi Jiu a thumbs-up. "Sounds like you did everyone a favor."
Shi Jiu's eyes curved in a smile.
She lowered her head and went back to writing and sketching.
At the same time, she quietly rubbed her stomach.
Jiang Fu noticed.
He took a pink insulated lunch box from his bag and set it on her desk.
Shi Jiu blinked. "Huh?"
Jiang Fu popped an Energy Pill into his mouth.
"Lunch."
After what had happened to Jiang Fu at noon,
Shi Jiu had completely lost her appetite.
She had spent the whole time bent over his training plan.
Now she really was a little hungry.
She hurriedly opened the lunch box.
Sweet and Sour Ribs, Crystal Shrimp, Stir-Fried Broccoli.
And a serving of Mushroom Soup.
A smile bloomed across Shi Jiu's face.
She had thought Jiang Fu might hand her an Energy Pill.
Instead, he had brought three dishes and soup.
The classmates who saw this
could hardly believe their eyes.
"What... is going on?"
"How does the new girl know Jiang Fu..."
"They already knew each other!"
Watching the two of them, Han Ruobing's deskmate
couldn't help saying earnestly, "He really wasn't playing hard to get."
"And Shi Jiu won't break Jiang Fu's legs."
Han Ruobing: "..."
"That rotten pair. They'll get what's coming to them!"
A second before the bell rang,
Shi Jiu swallowed the last piece of shrimp
and put the lunch box away.
"Hey, are you just going to let her off?" she asked.
Shi Jiu glanced at Han Ruobing in the front row.
Jiang Fu yawned.
For some reason, sitting in a classroom always made him sleepy.
"You know how petty I am. Of course I'm not letting her off."
With his Spirit Power,
he could practically see the malice spilling from Han Ruobing's eyes.
She was clearly plotting something.
Jiang Fu didn't understand.
He hadn't done anything to her.
"Leg hair growth rate: Multiply by Ten."
"Fat accumulation rate: Multiply by Ten."
"Body odor: Multiply by Ten."
The next moment,
Han Ruobing's deskmate
suddenly frowned.
He pinched his nose. "Hey, has your perfume gone bad? Why do you smell like Scallion Stir-Fried Mutton..."
Han Ruobing glared at him. "What nonsense are you talking about? If you want a new seat, ask a teacher! Don't make up excuses!"
Just then,
a female teacher who looked to be in her thirties,
with long, wavy blonde hair, walked into the classroom.
She looked around.
"This period is for self-study," she said flatly.
Then
her brows drew together.
"Who's eating Scallion Stir-Fried Mutton in the classroom?"
"And fucking Scallion Stir-Fried Mutton that's gone sour, too!"
Han Ruobing, sitting in the second row: "..."
The students around Han Ruobing couldn't help covering their noses, either.
At the back.
Jiang Fu looked at the female teacher, momentarily taken aback.
"Is she a new teacher?"
Shi Jiu glanced up. "Don't know her."
The boy in the row ahead heard them.
He sneakily turned around.
"Her name's Chen Weiju. She's our new homeroom teacher."
Jiang Fu's heart jolted. "New homeroom teacher? What happened to Teacher Xu?"
The boy said with a miserable look, "Teacher Xu was arrested."
Jiang Fu's eyes widened. "Arrested!?"
Shi Jiu also looked up, utterly stunned.
The boy nodded. "We were in class that morning when a few people in uniform suddenly showed up and took Teacher Xu away."
"But before Teacher Xu was taken away, he gave Zhang Qilin the six hundred thousand he'd scraped together and told him to buy you a Vitality Pill."
Jiang Fu: "Huh?"
The boy: "Isn't the reason you can sit here now that you took the Vitality Pill Teacher Xu bought for you?"
Jiang Fu: "???"
"Zhang Qilin?"
The boy: "Yeah. Zhang Qilin's close to you, so Teacher Xu gave him the money."
"Zhang Qilin skipped class and went straight to the hospital to buy you a Vitality Pill..."
"Oh, right, Sun Yuanyuan went with him."
Sun Yuanyuan was Zhang Qilin's current deskmate.
Jiang Fu: "..."
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