"What do you want to eat, play, or buy? Just say the word."
Wu Liang spoke generously. After all, he understood Ning Shuang quite well.
For someone like Ning Shuang, who lacked for nothing, she could not possibly make any overly difficult demands.
"Wow, as expected of a young master. You really are generous. I'm touched~~~"
Ning Shuang widened her eyes and spoke in surprise. She could name any condition she wanted? Wu Liang really was quite generous.
"Daga, kotowa ru."
Ning Shuang revealed a strange smile and crossed her hands in an X over her chest.
Honestly, there was nothing she particularly wanted and nothing she particularly wanted to do.
The condition Wu Liang offered was not enough to move her.
"..."
Wu Liang looked at Ning Shuang speechlessly. She deliberately told him about Yao Shi, yet refused to explain clearly.
Couldn't this girl be a little more serious? What benefit did she get from screwing him over?
"Unless you agree to one request of mine, I won't tell you."
Seeing that Wu Liang had stopped talking, Ning Shuang sprang up from her chair with a faint smile.
"Go ahead."
Ning Shuang's thoughts always jumped from one thing to another, far more erratically than most people's.
Wu Liang truly did not know how his former self had managed to get along so peacefully with someone like her.
"You owe President Su Qian a favor. Now, I also want you to do something for me."
"As for what that thing is, I haven't decided yet. But don't worry, I won't make any excessive demands."
Ning Shuang puffed out her chest and stood before Wu Liang, looking down at him from above.
In every other regard, she was inferior to Su Qian. But in this one matter, she did not want to lose to her.
"Are you sure you don't know Su Qian?"
Wu Liang stared at the fired-up Ning Shuang with a face full of dark lines. Why did she insist on comparing herself to Su Qian through him?
"I don't know her. I absolutely don't know her. Not even a little."
Ning Shuang gave him a triple denial. How could she possibly know someone like President Su Qian, who stood at the very peak of the academy...
Han Yu's Other Side
"I don't know her. I absolutely don't know her. Not even a little."
Ning Shuang turned her head to the side and stopped looking at Wu Liang.
How could she know President Su Qian? The two of them lived in different worlds and would never cross paths.
They were merely strangers. There would be no further contact between her and Su Qian.
"Then why do you care so much about me owing Su Qian a favor?"
Wu Liang shot Ning Shuang a look. If she truly did not know Su Qian, she would not have kept harping on the favor he owed Su Qian.
It seemed these two women had some unspoken secret between them. Tch, why was this game's plot getting more and more off track?
"Can't I just be curious? What are you, the encyclopedia? Why do you have so many questions?"
"Do you still want to know where your little maid went?"
Ning Shuang turned around and glared at Wu Liang with puffed cheeks. Why did this guy have so many questions?
Would knowing what had happened between her and Su Qian do him any good?
Or had even Wu Liang been charmed by that woman Su Qian!? Though Su Qian really was beautiful...
"Just pretend I didn't say anything. Can you tell me where Yao Shi and the others went now?"
Seeing Ning Shuang suddenly throw a tantrum, Wu Liang did not press the matter further.
Even if there truly was something between Su Qian and Ning Shuang, it had little to do with him.
The matters before him were already enough of a headache. He had no time to concern himself with Su Qian.
"Your little maid went toward the main building. From the look of things, she was planning to find the person in charge here."
"It was the first time I'd seen your maid give off such a chilling aura. I was so far away, yet I still felt creeped out."
Recalling how Yao Shi had looked outside the infirmary earlier, Ning Shuang suddenly shivered.
She clearly looked like nothing more than an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old girl, yet the coldness surrounding her was nothing like that of an ordinary person.
Not even the bodyguards at Ning Shuang's home possessed such an aura. She truly did not know what kind of person that girl was.
"The main building?"
Wu Liang held his chin and pondered in confusion.
Why had Yao Shi and Milutin suddenly gone to the main building?
And this was the first time Yao Shi had acted on her own without informing him, which greatly concerned him.
Yao Shi rarely left the Wu residence, much less came to the academy where he studied.
"No, I need to find her and ask."
Wu Liang shook away the distracting thoughts in his mind. He needed to ask Yao Shi in person.
If Yao Shi and Milutin really had come to find the person in charge of the academy, why had they deliberately kept it from him?
"Ning Shuang, Liu Yan has something to take care of. Watch this place for me. I'll be right back."
Wu Liang stood and instructed Ning Shuang beside him before turning to leave.
Yao Shi had been acting far too strangely today. It seemed he had to get to the bottom of this.
"Hey! You're going to leave me here alone again??"
Seeing Wu Liang trying to slip away, Ning Shuang hurriedly grabbed the hem of his clothes and spoke with a resentful expression.
She had only just arrived, and this guy was already trying to run off again. Couldn't he keep her company for a little while longer?
"Special circumstances. Please understand. I'll treat you to a meal next time."
"Besides, there are still two people in the inner room, aren't there? Aren't you good at joking around with people? Chat with them more and you'll get familiar."
Wu Liang pointed toward the inner room, signaling that Ning Shuang could interact more with He Xue and the others, then hurriedly ran out of the infirmary.
"Ah... he ran away..."
Unable to hold Wu Liang back, Ning Shuang spoke with a face full of dark lines. That guy had stood her up again.
And what did he mean by saying she was good at joking around with people? He made it sound as though she was friendly with everyone.
"I'm not friendly with just anyone... that idiot..."
Ning Shuang looked at Wu Liang's departing back and smiled helplessly. In the end, that guy still had not noticed the mask on her face.
Come to think of it, was her real face really so unattractive to Wu Liang? Why was he not interested in seeing what she really looked like at all?
Wu Liang had clearly been very interested in her true face before. Why was he ignoring her completely now?
"Am I really not pretty? Do I seriously have no appeal at all?"
Ning Shuang walked to the mirror in the corner and slowly removed the fox mask from her face, holding it in her hand.
After carefully observing the beautiful, delicate girl in the mirror for a while, Ning Shuang reached out and poked her fair, tender cheek.
"I'm not ugly, am I?"
Ning Shuang frowned and puffed out her cheeks as she spoke dissatisfiedly.
Even if she was not some breathtaking beauty capable of rivaling Venus, the goddess of beauty, Wu Liang should not be ignoring her all the time.
Could it be that Wu Liang had been tortured to the point of losing all will to live by her makeup? Was that why he had no interest in her real face?
That could not be it, right? Although she did look rather overwhelming with heavy makeup on, it should not have been enough to drive Wu Liang insane.
"Hey! You're Wu Liang's rumored girlfriend, right?"
The voice from behind startled Ning Shuang, who had been standing before the mirror lost in thought.
She hurriedly put the mask in her hand back on her face and turned toward the source of the voice.
The short-haired girl who had rushed into the infirmary earlier had already come out of the inner room and was standing at the doorway, smiling broadly at her.
"Uh... you are?"
Ning Shuang adjusted the mask on her face and looked at the other girl.
This girl seemed to be He Xue's friend. From what Ning Shuang had heard earlier, she seemed quite close to He Xue.
But perhaps it was merely her imagination. Ning Shuang felt that the girl's smile was very strange.
The girl was clearly smiling, yet Ning Shuang could not see the slightest warmth in her eyes. There was only extreme coldness.
It felt as though a venomous snake lurking in the shadows had fixed its gaze on her, making her feel uncomfortable all over.
"My name is Han Yu. I'm He Xue's best friend. It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Ning Shuang."
Han Yu elegantly brushed the hair before her forehead behind her ear, lightly pinched the corners of her skirt, and bowed to Ning Shuang.
This woman before her was Wu Liang's rumored girlfriend—a girl who either wore heavy makeup or hid her face behind a mask.
"What do you want with me?"
Ning Shuang could not help taking two steps back. What exactly was wrong with this girl named Han Yu?
Her gaze was as dangerous as a beast eyeing its prey. Was this really the harmless-looking soft girl from earlier?
"Me? I want to talk to Miss Ning Shuang about Wu Liang."
Han Yu glanced at He Xue, who was already fast asleep in the inner room, then slowly shut the door.
Next came some private time for just her and Ning Shuang...
Han Yu: Venomous Snake
"Me? I want to have a good talk with Miss Ning Shuang about Wu Liang."
Han Yu locked the door to the inner room and looked at Ning Shuang kindly.
She had long wanted to have a proper chat with Ning Shuang, but she had never been able to meet her before.
Now, this was perfect. Ning Shuang had delivered herself right to her doorstep.
"We should be meeting for the first time, shouldn't we, Han Yu?"
After securing the mask on her face and looking back at Han Yu, goosebumps instantly rose on Ning Shuang's arms.
This was not her imagination. The girl named Han Yu before her was indeed extremely dangerous.
"Yes, that's right. This is indeed Miss Ning Shuang's first time meeting me."
"But it isn't my first time meeting Miss Ning Shuang. I noticed you a very, very long time ago."
A somewhat bewitching smile curled across Han Yu's lips. She had noticed Ning Shuang long ago.
As for exactly when she had first begun noticing her, she could no longer remember very clearly.
"What do you mean by that, Han Yu? Is there something about me worth noticing?"
Ning Shuang secretly swallowed. Powerful warning signals kept blaring in her mind.
There was something wrong with this girl named Han Yu, and it was not merely a small problem.
Han Yu had cast aside her previous lively and optimistic appearance. Right now, she was like a venomous snake brimming with aggression.
"Huh? No way. Miss Ning Shuang, do you really not know how famous you are?"
"As Wu Liang's rumored girlfriend, you're a renowned figure at Huihuangxing Academy."
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