Li Jingwen stood frozen in place, her body trembling uncontrollably.
Kun Chenglong was dead?!
He had actually died at Qin Siyang's hands?!
She did not dare turn back to look at Qin Siyang, but terror sent her mind racing.
When had he killed Kun Chenglong?!
Kun Chenglong had a whole gang of thugs with him. Qin Siyang could never have beaten them alone.
If he hadn't undergone Sequence Ability Awakening, Qin Siyang should have died at Kun Chenglong's hands.
So he must have killed Kun Chenglong after undergoing Sequence Ability Awakening.
But hadn't he only just undergone Sequence Ability Awakening this weekend?!
Kun Chenglong had disappeared long before that. The timing didn't add up at all...
Could Qin Siyang have awakened his sequence ability long ago and been pretending to be an ordinary person all this time?!
Why had he been pretending?
To kill me?
No, no, no. I'm a student. Even sequence ability users can't just kill students...
Then why?
To get revenge on me?
Li Jingwen's thoughts strayed into uncharted territory, beyond the safe zone of her mind.
Before long, fear consumed everything.
Just then, she suddenly felt her body, which had almost become detached from her soul, move against her will.
She looked down and realized Qin Siyang had given her hand a squeeze.
She did not dare meet Qin Siyang's gaze, but his gentle tone made it easy to hear the smile on his face.
"What's wrong? Don't you want to be with me?"
Li Jingwen shuddered and hurriedly pulled her hand away. Her face was deathly pale, and she did not dare move a muscle.
Qin Siyang did not bother with her any further. He stood up and left his seat.
Before leaving the classroom, he turned his head and said to Li Jingwen:
"I thought you'd say this was all a test of my feelings for you."
To Li Jingwen's friends, those words seemed like encouragement for her to keep pursuing Qin Siyang.
To Li Jingwen, they were the whispers of a devil.
Once Qin Siyang left, her friends immediately rushed over and surrounded her.
"Jingwen, Qin Siyang was encouraging you! Why aren't you going after him?"
"Exactly! Didn't you used to encourage Qin Siyang the same way? Just try a little harder, and you could be a sequence ability user's woman!"
"Qin Siyang has awakened a sequence ability. He's way better than Zhou Yang!"
Her friends' advice dealt a crushing blow to Li Jingwen's already fragile mind.
"No!!!"
Li Jingwen screamed and ran out, leaving her friends staring in shock.
"Jingwen!"
"Jingwen, where are you going?!"
"Don't worry. She must be going after Qin Siyang."
"Oh, that makes sense. Say, if Li Jingwen marries Qin Siyang, do you think we'll get anything out of it?"
"I don't see why not. After all, we know so many secrets about Li Jingwen and Zhou Yang's relationship. If she dares treat us badly, we'll tell Qin Siyang!"
"Good point! Hehe, the good times are coming!"
Qin Siyang checked the time. It was already eight in the morning, and the cafeteria was open.
So after leaving the classroom, he did not head straight to the Library. Instead, he went to the cafeteria to fill his stomach first.
The cafeteria had always served breakfast, but Qin Siyang had never tried it.
Ju'an School's rules only entitled students to free lunch and dinner. A small luxury like cafeteria breakfast was available only at the staff counter for teachers and school administrators.
Today, however, he could try it too.
Qin Siyang entered the cafeteria. Quite a few teachers and school administrators were already seated in small groups, naturally discussing him, the first person to break the record.
When they saw Qin Siyang enter, the teachers immediately stopped talking and watched him in silence.
News that Qin Siyang had knocked the year director unconscious at the school gates had already spread. The teachers no longer looked at the orphan with their usual disdain and irritation. Instead, their eyes were filled with fear.
A teacher wearing glasses stood up and approached Qin Siyang with a smile. "Qin Siyang, you've made our class proud! What would you like to eat? I'll order it for you."
This mild-mannered teacher was Qin Siyang's homeroom teacher.
Since Qin Siyang was a poor orphan, he could neither afford gifts for his teacher nor count on any family to back him up. His homeroom teacher had moved him to a window seat in the back corner, putting him out of sight and out of mind.
So Qin Siyang found it particularly amusing to see his homeroom teacher so eager to suck up to him.
He had little patience for exchanging pleasantries with a homeroom teacher he barely knew.
"Get lost."
Qin Siyang coldly tossed out those words and walked to the serving counter.
Apparently unwilling to miss this chance to ingratiate himself with a student who was a sequence ability user, the homeroom teacher ignored his colleagues' scornful looks and edged two steps closer. "Qin Siyang, if I've done anything wrong before..."
Before he could finish, Qin Siyang snatched up a food tray and swung it into his face.
Clang!
With a sharp clang of metal against his head, the homeroom teacher collapsed to the side.
"I tried patiently talking to you, but you wouldn't listen. You just had to ask for trouble."
The other teachers swallowed, terrified by Qin Siyang's brutality.
Qin Siyang said he'd patiently tried to reason with him?
What had you said? All you said was "get lost." That counted as patiently reasoning with someone?
In truth, this was simply Qin Siyang's way of dealing with trouble.
He had violently knocked down two teachers in a row who had tried to get friendly with him. Anyone else thinking of approaching him would probably give up now.
He had too many secrets to withstand scrutiny.
He felt deeply wary and hostile toward anyone who approached him because he had awakened a sequence ability. No method scattered these flies faster than a physical attack.
Besides, in the world as it stood, sequence ability users reigned supreme.
He could also pass off his behavior as that of a petty man who had suddenly come into power.
To the teachers, it was understandable that Qin Siyang had become full of aggression after his meteoric rise. After all, he was only eighteen, still a youth who had never suffered the harsh realities of society. He did not bother with elaborate schemes.
An outright scoundrel who slapped you immediately was still better than a hypocrite who gave you hope before toying with you until you died.
Qin Siyang stood before the serving counter. Inside, the plump woman who gave him extra food every day was so frightened that she had dropped her serving spoon.
"Ma'am, could you pack three breakfasts for me to take away?"
Only school administrators were allowed to use disposable takeaway containers in the cafeteria. Now Qin Siyang had that little privilege too.
Even though no one had authorized it.
"Ah... oh, of course. I'll get them for you right away!"
The woman hastily picked up the spoon from the floor and served a spoonful of food before realizing she had forgotten to wash it. She hurriedly apologized and fetched a new spoon.
When she finished packing the food and handed it to Qin Siyang with a forced smile, he smiled faintly.
"Ma'am, you don't need to be nervous. I remember how kind you've been to me."
Then Qin Siyang turned to the teachers in the cafeteria and said, "There's something I'd like you all to pass on to the principal."
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