Lu Mingfei followed the instruction and headed up to the second floor. A teasing voice sounded by his ear. "Well, look at you. You're the Academy's superstar now, the center of everyone's attention."
He did not need to turn around to know who it was.
"Senior Sister, stop making fun of me." Lu Mingfei hung his head helplessly. "You know what I'm made of better than anyone. It's all because the senior students have been looking after me."
"Too much humility is just pride." Chen Motong chuckled and waved her hand casually. "All right, get on with your serious business."
With that, she walked off on her own. Her figure quickly vanished into the shadows cast by the colonnade, as though she had never appeared at all.
Caesar's gaze lingered on Lu Mingfei's face for a moment, his voice calm. "You know her well?"
Lu Mingfei immediately felt awkward. Being asked face-to-face about his relationship with another man's fiancée made him feel inexplicably guilty, as if he really were the "man next door" being confronted by the rightful boyfriend.
He hesitated for two seconds before ultimately choosing honesty. "I don't know many people at the Academy... Senior Sister took pretty good care of me during recruitment."
"She's a very special girl." A proud curve rose at the corner of Caesar's lips, and rare tenderness surfaced in his ice-blue eyes. "Like a cunning, ever-changing witch. She's a book I'll never finish reading."
Winning Nono's heart was indeed one of the achievements he was most proud of in his life.
It was not merely about love. It also symbolized the freedom he had won by breaking free from his family's shackles. Falling in love with Nono was his finest retaliation against the arranged marriage imposed by the Gattuso Family.
Amon's expression turned