"Hello, Liu."
Li Ziming greeted him properly, his voice still carrying lingering excitement.
"Hello there, Little Ming."
Liu Zheng said.
"Uh, it's Little Ziming."
Li Ziming could not help correcting him.
"Oh. Did you have fun, Little Ming?"
He asked casually.
"I did! The creatures in the Sewer were all really bizarre-looking. Even the fish looked all misshapen. But they tasted great—I ate Three Bamboo all by myself."
Li Ziming said with satisfaction.
"It's good that you had fun. What about the thing I asked you to look into?"
"I found out. There are three groups of people causing trouble for Ouma Mirai."
Li Ziming replied.
"Tch, that girl really is unlucky. Which three groups?"
Liu Zheng sighed.
"One is the big sister in her class, one is the class heartthrob from the class next door, and one is the top student in her grade."
Li Ziming said.
"What are the reasons?"
"The big sister in her class is causing trouble for her because the class heartthrob next door likes her, while the big sister likes the class heartthrob next door."
"The class heartthrob next door is causing trouble for her because he likes her, but she does not like him."
"The top student in her grade is causing trouble for her because he ranks first in almost every subject, except Ouma Mirai is first in math."
Li Ziming explained one by one.
".Were your Chinese essay scores pretty low?"
He narrowed his eyes.
"Yeah. Wow, how did you know, Liu?"
Li Ziming asked in surprise.
"With your talent for padding word count, it'd be stranger if your essay scores were high."
He rolled his eyes.
"Hehe."
Li Ziming laughed sheepishly.
Although he had been long-winded, he had basically made the situation clear.
"Then shouldn't the big sister in her