"Uh... that did seem to be the case, but the price would definitely keep rising."
"Right now, only members of War Under Heaven had a Necklace of Fate each. The other major guilds hadn't gotten involved yet."
Ye Feng nodded. "Once the major guilds have gathered enough, the necklaces won't be worth much anymore."
"Ah! Why was my luck so awful? I ran dungeons all day yesterday and didn't get a single thing."
"Hehe!!!"
"Brother Jie, I still have something to do. Go play first."
"Alright, I'm heading out, then."
Watching Xu Jie run off, Ye Feng got out of his seat and walked over to Xia Shiyu.
"Xiao Yu, don't go to the hospital after school tonight. Come to the internet café with me."
Xia Shiyu's eyes widened. "Xiao Feng, you mean..."
Ye Feng nodded. "It's harvest season. We'll go collect the money together tonight."
"How much?" Xia Shiyu asked curiously.
Ye Feng held up six fingers. "Including the principal, nearly six hundred thousand."
"Gasp! That much?!"
"Xiao Feng, you weren't lying to me?" Tears welled up in Xia Shiyu's eyes.
Ye Feng nodded. "Xiao Yu, we grew up together. How could I possibly lie to you?"
"Okay! I'll leave with you after school this afternoon."
"Mm, then it's settled."
"Okay!!"
After reaching an agreement with Xia Shiyu, Ye Feng turned to look at Su Lin and gave him a provocative glance.
Su Lin answered with a faint smile, as though he did not care at all.
Yan Huan happened to see that smile as well, and she assumed Ye Feng was looking down on her.
Yan Huan immediately exploded.
She pointed at Ye Feng and asked, "Ye Feng, what did you mean by that?"
Ye Feng looked baffled. "What do you mean, what did I mean?"
Yan Huan said disdainfully, "Stop playing dumb. You were just upset because I didn't agree to be your girlfriend, so now you're being rude to me."
"Rude? How was I rude?"
"That look you gave me just now. Don't think I didn't see it," Yan Huan said angrily.
The moment she said something so suggestive, the students in the classroom fell silent and turned to look at Ye Feng and Yan Huan.
The entanglement between Ye Feng and Yan Huan had begun in their first year of high school. Everyone at Jiangning No. 1 High School knew that Ye Feng liked Yan Huan.
And Yan Huan had never cared for Ye Feng.
No one had expected to get another serving of gossip about the two of them today.
Everyone quieted down and watched the pair.
Seeing Yan Huan being confronted by Ye Feng, someone with little presence in the class, Feng Yifei immediately stood up. "Ye Feng, how many times have I told you? Yan Huan is my girlfriend now. Please stop pestering her. I know you can fight, but can you fight one person? Two people? Can you fight a whole group?"
"Don't make things ugly for everyone when something happens."
Ye Feng looked at Feng Yifei as though he were an idiot. "If you like trash like Yan Huan, go ahead and take her."
"Tsk... From the sound of it, you seemed to be looking down on Yan Huan. I wonder who chased her for three years and still failed."
"Ye Feng, your grades might be poor, but I thought you at least had some principles. I didn't expect you to pull the whole 'if I can't have her, I'll destroy her' routine."
Su Lin watched Feng Yifei and Ye Feng with great interest.
Feng Yifei was the first minor Villain Ye Feng would humiliate in their class.
"I never said I'd destroy her if I couldn't have her. I only said that if you liked trash like Yan Huan, you could take her." Ye Feng frowned, looking unwilling to continue arguing with Feng Yifei.
"Trash like me? Ye Feng, take a look at what kind of trash you are. Out of the six core subjects, have you ever passed even one? I won't even mention my grades—I'm in the top ten of the class. Feng Yifei might be slightly worse, but he's still far better than you. So tell me, what kind of trash are you?"
"Hehe, so what you meant was that good grades made someone worthwhile, while bad grades made them garbage?"
"I never said that. But if someone insisted on taking it personally, there was nothing I could do about it. And stop playing those childish games in the future. I have a boyfriend now."
"Do you dare make a bet with me?"
"Why wouldn't I?"
Su Lin looked at Ye Feng and Feng Yifei with some disappointment. Feng Yifei was about to get humiliated this round.
Such a cliché humiliation scene.
He felt nothing about it.
He looked toward Lin Xiaowan, who was watching the excitement beside him. "Xiao Wan, why aren't you stopping them?"
Lin Xiaowan smiled. "It would be good for Ye Feng to learn a lesson. His grades are terrible, yet he's mysteriously confident. I really don't know who gave him that confidence."
Su Lin chuckled. "So you think Ye Feng will lose?"
Lin Xiaowan nodded as though it were only natural. "If he were trying to surpass Feng Yifei, Ye Feng might have some hope. But surpass Yan Huan? Impossible."
Su Lin snapped his fingers. "I think Ye Feng will win."
"Oh?"
Lin Xiaowan looked at Su Lin with interest. "Why?"
"Intuition."
"Hehe!! Studying isn't judged by intuition. It depends on ability."
"Then how about we make a bet too?" Su Lin asked Lin Xiaowan with a smile.
"What kind of bet?" Lin Xiaowan asked with interest.
Su Lin smiled. "Simple. We'll bet on whether Ye Feng or Yan Huan wins. I bet on Ye Feng. If I win, you'll go out with me next Sunday. And whatever I take you to do, you'll have to do it."
Lin Xiaowan's pretty face flushed slightly at those words.
Everyone in the class knew Su Lin liked her, but Su Lin had always behaved properly. They got along like friends.
It had made her almost forget about it.
She had not expected Su Lin to ask her out. His intentions could not have been clearer.
Seeing that Lin Xiaowan did not respond, Su Lin asked, "Are you afraid of losing, or do you not want to go out with me?"
"Hmph, do you think you're guaranteed to win?"
Su Lin shook his head. "Before the results are out, no one can say they're guaranteed to win. But I have faith in Ye Feng."
"You brought this on yourself. Then I'll bet on Huanhuan winning. What happens if you lose?"
Su Lin spread his hands. "You decide. As long as I can do it and it isn't illegal, I'll agree to anything."
Seeing the indulgent look in Su Lin's eyes, Lin Xiaowan's heart trembled.
That look was too sweet, too easy to get lost in.
She looked away and said, "Okay! Then it's settled."
After saying that, she looked at Su Lin again. "Su Lin, you're definitely going to lose."
"Hehe, we'll wait and see!!!"
A Fatal Blow—Asking for Flowers and Votes
Seeing Su Lin's calm smile, Lin Xiaowan asked with some amusement, "Su Lin, you really think that highly of Ye Feng? What's your basis?"
Naturally, Su Lin could not say that Ye Feng was practically cheating now, with his enhanced memory making him a monster.
No one would believe him even if he said it, so he casually made something up. "The power of love, of course."
"Although Ye Feng and Yan Huan were never together, Ye Feng's feelings for Yan Huan were real. Think about it—if someone you truly loved treated you like that, wouldn't you work hard to better yourself?"
Lin Xiaowan nodded. "That makes sense. Although I've never been in a relationship, if something like that happened to me, I'd work hard to better myself too."
"But Su Lin, you overlooked one thing. There isn't even a full week left before the monthly exam. Even if Ye Feng studied without stopping, his grades couldn't improve that quickly, could they?"
Su Lin shrugged. "Not necessarily. Human potential is limitless."
"Hehe, I'm already thinking about what to make you do after you lose."
Su Lin stroked his chin and smiled. "Then I should start thinking about where to take you. I heard an amusement park opened at the border between Jiangning District and Changning. Xiao Wan, when the time comes, let's go try the haunted house there."
"Ah!!" Lin Xiaowan immediately froze.
Ever since she was little, she had feared almost nothing, except ghosts, zombies, and things like that.
She knew they were fake, but she could not help being scared.
She had not expected Su Lin to want to take her to a haunted house. If Ye Feng really won, she would have to go. Just imagining the scene made Lin Xiaowan shudder.
Su Lin chuckled and did not continue scaring Lin Xiaowan.
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