Almost instinctively, the red-haired girl had already taken several steps back.
She did not even know why she had been so obedient. By the time she reacted, she realized she had already done it.
The next instant, the redhead felt a surge of embarrassed anger at having "lost face." She immediately wanted to recover some dignity, perhaps by slamming the table and demanding what kind of tone the transfer student had used when speaking to her just now.
But when her gaze landed on Xu Zhi's profile as she withdrew her eyes, the little bit of anger in the redhead's chest abruptly dissipated, leaving behind only an inexplicable sense of fear.
She thought, forget it. A grown-up did not stoop to a child's level. It was not that she was scared; she was merely giving this new transfer student some face.
Clinging stubbornly to the thought that she knew she had chickened out but refused to admit it aloud, the redhead returned to her usual seat. The moment she sat down, her friend leaned close with a gossipy look in her eyes.
"What do you think of the transfer student?"
The red-haired girl had been about to say "nothing special," but her gaze inadvertently caught Xu Zhi's retreating back again. She swallowed the words that were about to leave her mouth and replied with a somewhat stifled expression, "...I think she's not simple."
The friend who had asked immediately rolled her eyes. "No kidding. With those scores, she obviously can't be simple. I mean specifically—what kind of impression does she give you? What attribute does she seem like?"
Although students could visit the testing rankings at any time to update their scores, the rankings did not state a student's attribute. If classmates wanted to know someone else's attribute, they had