"It's not a chicken egg. It's a duck egg."
At those words, Zhuang Jianhui fell silent, and the smile vanished from his face.
The others were embarrassed as well, especially Lin Zida. Because of Zhuang Jianhui's bragging, he had been about to pick up an egg, only to find that the thing was not even a chicken egg.
That embarrassment was even worse than running into acquaintances from school.
Li Shi recovered fairly quickly. Sure enough, she had run into Xue Yuantong again. She still remembered the little girl quite clearly. Her impression was that she was simply too innocent.
She remembered the Sports Day held during their first year of high school, when she had seen Xue Yuantong eating jelly by the parallel bars.
Li Shi never ate the stuff. She had even told Xue Yuantong to eat less of it, but who would have thought that the other girl failed to catch her meaning and actually offered her some jelly?
Li Shi could not help finding it amusing. Though the girl studied well, she was clearly naïve about the ways of the world.
Even Li Shi could not bring herself to dislike someone like that.
Besides, Li Shi only had it out for Jiang Ning. She could not stand how Jiang Ning, who came from such an ordinary family, had somehow managed to get involved with Ding Shuyan and stand on equal footing with her.
Li Shi was tall and slender, more than ten centimeters taller than the 1.66-meter Chuchu, taller than many boys.
She looked down from above. There was none of a delicate girl-next-door air in her brows and eyes, only an arrogant bearing as she asked, "Where's Jiang Ning? Where did he go?"
Lin Zida felt that her edge was too sharp, making things rather