Book Mountain Hall belonged to Jiuyou Academy, after all, and most of the students there were from Jiuyou Academy.
No matter how much Jiuyou's students disliked Nicholas, they would never allow two Alpha Academy students to poke him in the chest in public. It was an insult to all of Jiuyou.
So, before Zheng Qing could decide whether to get up and go downstairs, several upperclassmen in red robes rushed out of Book Mountain Hall and separated the two sides.
The situation was quickly brought under control, and everyone involved, including Nicholas, left one after another.
After being rescued, Nicholas did not enter Book Mountain Hall with the other students. He merely looked up at Book Mountain in the distance, then quietly left with his textbooks clutched to his chest.
Judging by the direction he took, he was probably heading back to the dormitory.
Zheng Qing noticed that Liu Feifei was not by his side. He did not know whether she was in the cafeteria or had been called away by the Student Union. As the top student of Jiuyou Academy's first-year class, she had taken on plenty of Student Union work besides her studies.
"He should keep a low profile around school for a while, like me," the young publicly funded student said softly.
"Are you keeping a low profile? Hasn't he been low-profile enough? In a situation like this, can pretending to be deaf and mute solve anything?" Xiao Xiao's three consecutive rhetorical questions made Zheng Qing give up struggling completely.
"Do your homework, do your homework." He raised the Quill Pen in hand and urged him repeatedly. "You've been drawing that line chart for almost an hour... We still have to go to D&K tonight to check the accounts."
Checking the account books was naturally just an