Meng Hongchen ate in dainty little bites, the food in her mouth lending her voice an adorably innocent quality. "Oh, right, my grandfather is the headmaster of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy. The original plan was to begin the exchange after this Soul Master Tournament ended, but for some reason, your Shrek Academy suddenly became impatient. So my older brother and I came here in a bit of a rush."
That was a lie.
Although Shrek Academy had long been planning an exchange with the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy, it had never intended to move the program forward.
Meng Hongchen had begged her grandfather, and Jing Hongchen had negotiated with Shrek Academy, which was why the exchange program had begun in such a hurry.
Meng Hongchen only said this because she did not want Ao Yao to become suspicious of her and cause the Diary to punish her.
Shrek Academy took the initiative to move the exchange program forward?
Then... Meng Hongchen wasn't the one who requested it?
Going by Meng Hongchen's explanation, her appearance at Shrek Academy, and before him, did make sense.
Still... Ao Yao felt that something was a little off.
Forget it.
Even Huo Yuhao could be expelled from Shrek Academy, so Meng Hongchen showing up here was hardly earth-shattering news.
As for whether Meng Hongchen could actually read his diary, that remained an open question, one worth observing more closely.
Beside them, Ning Tian was about to explode with anger.
It was bad enough that Meng Hongchen was flirting with Ao Yao right in front of her, but she could not even be bothered to spare her a glance, as though she had never seen her at all.
Wasn't this just picking on someone who was too nice?
Ning Tian cleared