"What are they doing?"
Behind the bushes at the edge of the plaza, Anya leaned curiously toward the mist mirror in her hands, spying on the two figures not far away.
To avoid drawing attention, she had used the glass Mirror Surface of another office building to refract the light and capture the image from the other side.
But there was too much dust on the glass, making the image excessively blurry and constantly rippling. She could not make out their lips, and the wind rose and fell too erratically for her to hear what they were saying.
"Wow, the Vice Principal's student is crying."
Anya nudged the companion beside her with her elbow, full of astonishment. "Could this be the legendary campus bullying? Shouldn't we righteous people step in?"
"..."
Yuan Yuan sat in the chair beside her, still holding a violin bow in her hand. She sighed helplessly. "Anya, did you drag me here just to watch this?"
"Huh? Was there something else?"
Anya turned back in confusion. "Didn't you look like you really wanted to see it too?"
"It's not like I especially... especially..."
Yuan Yuan got halfway through her sentence, fell silent for a long while, then suddenly remembered that she was sitting beside a human lie detector. It made her feel awful.
"Especially what?"
Anya leaned closer curiously and scrutinized her. "Your expression was so scary that day, after you found out Teacher had a child..."
"That isn't Teacher's child!"
Yuan Yuan raised her voice instinctively.
"Yes, yes, yes, Teacher is pure and chaste, untouched as jade, all right?" Anya propped up her chin, her smile turning gleeful. "But really, with a face like that, it's not very likely for a man not to fool around everywhere..."
With a snap, the string of reason broke.