Chapter 5
At first, everyone had been half skeptical, but now that they had heard the voice, they had no choice but to believe it. Some were already propping up their chins, ready to enjoy the show.
Sure enough, Shen Luoluo's voice continued.
[Does he have some kind of delusion? What's he getting at? Does he think I came to Rocket Class for him?]
[I don't even know who he is, and he thinks I like him? What an overconfident loser. Who gave him that kind of confidence?]
The boy rattled on, but Shen Luoluo hadn't understood a word. "Sorry, who are you?"
"Pfft—" Qin Shiyue, standing beside Shen Luoluo, was the first to burst out laughing.
Never one to pass up a chance to stir things up, she said, "Hear that, Sheng Mingzhou? She doesn't even know you."
"'I could never like you. Shen Anya's the only one I like,'" Qin Shiyue mimicked him perfectly. Laughter began to ripple through the class.
She went on, "Who gave you so much confidence, Sheng Mingzhou? You think everyone likes you? Have you no shame?"
"Exactly, Sheng Mingzhou," someone chimed in from below. "Even our guy Qi Yang wouldn't claim she transferred here because she's into him. How can you say that with a straight face?"
"Yeah! What's so impressive about picking on the new girl?"
"Over. Confident. Loser." Each word came out in a lazy drawl that made it all the more infuriating.
At last, everyone broke into roaring laughter.
"Qin Shiyue, you... all of you..." The veins in Sheng Mingzhou's forehead throbbed with anger.
Meanwhile, Shen Luoluo had opened the Intelligence System.
[So that's Sheng Mingzhou, Shen Anya's fiancé. I remember there's gossip about him!]
At the promise of gossip, everyone stopped laughing at once and stared straight at Shen Luoluo.
Who didn't love a juicy story?
[Oh, wow—]
[Oh, wow—]
[Oh, wow—]
After Shen Luoluo's third exclamation, everyone was getting anxious.
Enough with the exclamations! What's the gossip? Tell us!
The next second, Shen Luoluo hurriedly covered her nose.
The entire class: ???
During the wishing well segment, he dedicated his precious wish to his older sister: I wish my sister finds a good match soon.
A sharp-tongued commenter wrote: Once he marries his sister off, he can finally stop being the lowest-ranking member of the family.
Little did anyone expect Liu Huaijue's wish to work so well.
On a variety show supporting farmers, his rival Cheng Yunchi showed up as a surprise guest and stuck to Liu Xinyu—his older sister and a professor at Agricultural University—calling her "big sis" every chance he got.
The single-minded Liu Huaijue said, "I'm warning you, stay away from my sister. I'm her only little brother."
Cheng Yunchi said, "That's fine. I'll work on becoming your brother-in-law instead."
Without a moment's thought, Liu Huaijue said, "No way. You're as dumb as I am. You'd ruin our family's genes."
The commenters: Was that a case of dealing eight hundred damage to the enemy and a thousand to himself?
#I thought you were my rival, but you wanted to be my brother-in-law#
#My whole family is brilliant except me—what do I do?#
#I'll be the pretty one; my sister will serve the country#
Chapter 5
◎What was she so proud of? That grandson wasn't hers.◎
While the whole class was still confused, Shen Luoluo's voice continued—
[I thought it meant he was foul-mouthed—rude, blunt, and careless with other people's feelings. I didn't expect him to literally have bad breath.]
Bad breath! Ugh!
Qin Shiyue recoiled several steps!
[He's been constipated for a whole week. Of course his breath stinks! Sigh, the poor classmate who sits next to him has to put up with that special smell every day. And the worst part is, this guy never stops talking!]
The entire class turned in unison to look at Sheng Mingzhou's deskmate.
Eyes brimming with tears, the boy pointed at the two wads of tissue stuffed up his nostrils and nodded frantically. Finally! Did someone finally understand his suffering?
Everyone had assumed he'd stuffed tissue up his nose because he had a cold. Only he knew the stench had become unbearable. He hadn't dared tell Sheng Mingzhou to his face or talk about it behind his back, so he'd suffered in silence!
The curious looks from his classmates gradually turned sympathetic and tender.
Poor guy!
What a miserable fate!
[Huh? So he knows he's constipated and has bad breath,] Shen Luoluo kept digging.
[He even took a laxative last night!]
[Wait, a laxative? Then today, won't he...]
"I don't!" Sheng Mingzhou's face had gone from ashen with humiliation to dark red. "Shen—"
Before he could finish, his stomach cramped sharply. Grrr—
Everyone's expression changed. They shot up from their seats, but it was already too late. A rapid series of sounds rang out.
The entire class: ...
Despair. True despair was silent.
A few students near the door managed to escape. No one else was spared. The culprit left a trail of stench behind him as he bolted out of the classroom and made straight for the bathroom.
Once everyone recovered, they cursed as they opened the windows and turned on the fans. It took quite a while for the smell to clear.
Only then did Qin Shiyue bring Shen Luoluo back into the classroom. She led her to her own seat and knocked on her deskmate's desk. "Xu Lu, go sit in the back. My new deskmate's sitting here."
Of course she wanted someone this precious sitting beside her!
Xu Lu turned to look at the boy asleep with his head down at the desk behind them. His mouth drooped helplessly. "I don't dare."
That was Qi Yang back there! Did Xu Lu have a death wish? He couldn't sit beside Qi Yang without permission!
"It's fine. I'll sit in the back," Shen Luoluo said. She could see his predicament. Going by the usual novel tropes and his reaction, she could already guess what kind of person sat back there.
When she really did sit down at the desk behind them, Chen Jiashu, seated nearby, grinned. "Hey, new girl, do you know the guy sleeping next to you is the School Bully? Everyone's scared of him. He's fierce!"
He deliberately tried to scare Shen Luoluo. "Know why the seat beside him was empty? Because he yelled at every deskmate he had until they cried and ran off!"