Only Schemes Win Hearts

"All right, let's call it here for today." Shiina Hiyori was clearly still reluctant to stop, but she forcibly held herself back.

Shi Cheng noticed and hurriedly asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Shi Cheng clearly remembered when she drank iced tea, so it wasn't these past few days.

She had to have some unspeakable trouble.

Logically speaking.

He shouldn't ask.

But Shiina Hiyori had been very kind to him.

He couldn't simply ignore it.

Shiina Hiyori turned to him and smiled faintly. "Don't worry, Shi Cheng. I'm not angry anymore."

Thinking about it carefully.

Yesterday had seemed to be the day their peaceful lives suddenly changed.

Even she had been caught off guard.

Much less those who had suddenly fallen to the very bottom, into Class D.

But Shiina Hiyori didn't mean to look down on anyone.

Rather than the school's verdict.

She preferred to judge with her own eyes.

She thought Shi Cheng was quite good.

Looking at Shiina Hiyori's serious expression, Shi Cheng nearly laughed out loud.

No way, did she really think he would go back and rack his brains?

Thinking about how to coax her?

Still, it didn't seem so bad to keep letting her misunderstand.

"I knew Shiina wasn't the petty type. You'd definitely understand me."

Those words didn't sound pleasing at all.

Shiina Hiyori puffed out her cheeks.

"All right, let's head back."

After saying goodbye to Shiina Hiyori, Shi Cheng returned to the dorm.

After quickly dealing with his hunger, Shi Cheng sprawled across his bed.

"Anyone interested in the study session Horikita is organizing?"

The group chat was lively right now, but the conversation was boring, endlessly repeating old topics.

Shi Cheng joining was like stirring up a thousand waves.

"Hah, that cold-faced woman? No thanks. She looks down on us anyway."

"Exactly. We're not going."

They wouldn't attend Hirata Yosuke's session, and they wouldn't attend Horikita Suzune's either.

What the hell were they trying to do?

You had to know.

There were only two study sessions in the class.

Yet they chose neither.

Even if they wanted to remain detached from the world, they needed the ability to back it up.

Shi Cheng was a little fed up with their thought process.

"You won't even pick one of the multiple-choice options?"

Just then, someone who rarely spoke suddenly sent that message.

Seeing Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's name displayed, Shi Cheng recalled him.

He seemed to be that poker-faced guy he had met once before.

Was he helping me?

Shi Cheng was puzzled.

They didn't seem to have any relationship at all.

"No, because neither one is the right answer."

Even without seeing who had sent it, Shi Cheng could vaguely picture that tsundere expression.

It made him want to puke.

A guy being this pretentious was disgusting.

If not for the importance of first impressions.

Shi Cheng would have wanted to stop caring about these idiots.

Horikita Suzune had rarely made a request.

Even if he failed, it wouldn't matter much, but it would still leave a bad impression.

Shi Cheng suppressed his anger and made one final attempt.

"Fine, if you're not going, then don't. Horikita may be a little cold, but she's pretty. I'd be happy enjoying her company alone."

Shi Cheng directly provoked them.

"What?! Are you planning to pursue that cold-faced woman?" The message was unusually agitated.

"Traitor! Are you abandoning the team?!"

Someone was getting anxious.

It was understandable.

There had still been no progress with the Kushida Kikyo they had been pining after.

Yet Shi Cheng was about to get close to someone else.

How could they not be anxious?

If he had known what they were thinking.

Shi Cheng would have really wanted to say.

It was just studying. What the hell were they so worked up about?

"I'm really looking forward to it." Shi Cheng left behind that baffling message.

It instantly caused an enormous uproar.

Ignoring their frantic messages.

He called Horikita Suzune and explained the situation.

After she picked up, there was no sound from the other side.

Shi Cheng knew she had to be embarrassed.

"It's done. Do I get a reward?"

"Oh." Before she could say anything else, she directly hung up.

Looking at the ended call screen, Shi Cheng's eyelid twitched.

You'll end up with no friends acting like that.

He had never expected things to end so quickly with Horikita Suzune.

Shi Cheng returned to the group chat.

Watching the messages constantly pop up.

The corners of Shi Cheng's lips curled up slightly.

Let's see if you don't die from impatience.

Shi Cheng slowly left one final message, then stopped paying attention. He was going to sleep.

So now he was facing something like being afraid his brothers would have a hard life, yet also afraid they would drive a Range Rover?

Inside the Library, Shi Cheng calmly looked at the three people sitting across from him with fire in their eyes.

He smiled sincerely. "Didn't you say you weren't coming?"

"Who said that? We love studying." Yamauchi Haruki immediately opened his mouth wide in rebuttal.

His words also revealed something.

That was, Shi Cheng was not a good person.

After arguing against him, Yamauchi Haruki finally took a proper look at Horikita Suzune.

He had never dared to before.

After examining her carefully, Yamauchi Haruki's eyes lit up.

Just as Shi Cheng had said.

Horikita Suzune really was extremely beautiful.

Although Kushida Kikyo wasn't bad either.

But he hadn't won her over yet.

So before that, playing around with Horikita Suzune seemed pretty nice too.

At least, that was what Yamauchi Haruki thought.

Compared to the fantasy-prone Yamauchi Haruki, Ike Kanji was much more straightforward and knew he couldn't stand Horikita Suzune's type.

He said coolly, "If you can't satisfy me, I'm not staying here to waste my time."

Once the two talkative people fell silent.

The place finally became quiet.

Sudo Ken simply winked and gestured at Shi Cheng.

Good luck. I'm rooting for you to win her over.

He had long disliked Horikita Suzune.

So he was looking forward to seeing her act like a delicate little bird.

Ignoring the strange behavior of the three.

Horikita Suzune indifferently opened to the material they were going to review.

She only wanted to finish today's work as quickly as possible.

Every second she spent here was torture for her.

However, what happened next left Horikita Suzune in despair.

After spending some time with them.

She discovered.

The knowledge level of the three could be described as horrifyingly low.

Sudo Ken was the worst among them.

He was worse than an elementary school student. It was truly hard to imagine.

How had he even grown this old?

After ruthlessly insulting the other two, Horikita Suzune turned her fire on Sudo Ken.

"Why can't you even solve this kind of problem? Is your brain filled with muscles?"

"Hah? What do you mean?" Sudo Ken, covered in muscles, didn't react at first and thought she was complimenting him.

He just didn't know why it sounded so unpleasant.

Yamauchi Haruki quietly reminded him from the side, "Ken, she's calling you stupid."

He had long been unable to stand Horikita Suzune's sharp tongue.

He just hadn't dared to be the first to stand out.

Wasn't Ike Kanji sitting there like a quail?

Why should he be the one to speak up?

"You dare insult me?!" Sudo Ken instantly believed Yamauchi Haruki.

Because he himself had already felt that something was off.

"That's right. How will someone like you survive in society in the future? Just thinking about it is pathetic."

Horikita Suzune wasn't afraid of the enraged Sudo Ken at all, and even continued provoking him.

Sudo Ken completely snapped and stood up to grab Horikita Suzune by the collar.

A girl with such a filthy mouth needed to be taught a proper lesson.