"..."
After hearing Qian Annie's ill-timed question, Chen Xiwan froze for two seconds, but her expression quickly twisted into barely controllable fury.
"Get away from me!" She abruptly raised her hand and struck Qian Annie's pen-holding right hand, knocking the black pen straight to the floor. Her glare brimmed with venom. "What does anything about me have to do with you? It's bad enough that Lu Xiaoxiao keeps sticking her nose in! You're an outsider with nothing to do with this, so why are you trying to make yourself matter?"
"Whoa! You're so scary! You scared me to death!"
Startled by Chen Xiwan's movement, Qian Annie hurriedly backed away the instant the pen went flying. She hugged her notebook tightly to her chest with her left hand, finding a moment to shoot Lu Xiaoxiao a troubled look that said, What do I do? She really isn't cooperating, before turning her gaze back to Chen Xiwan.
"I didn't mean any harm! I just wanted to fill in what happened from a different perspective... What a shame. I was even thinking that if you had some hardship behind all this, I might spare you a second of sympathy. But you really are impossible to like!"
By the time she finished muttering those complaints, Qian Annie had backed all the way to the doorway.
The girl pouted and shook her head, her cute twin ponytails swaying slightly with the movement. Her disappointment at failing to learn more was plain to see.
But she clearly had no intention of trying again. She did not even bother picking up the pen from the floor. After shaking her head, she simply looked away, took hold of Lu Xiaoxiao's sleeve, and said, "Let's go!"
Lu Xiaoxiao had wanted to leave for a while. Hearing that, she said