Xu Shuangrong: "?"
[System: ?]
The silence was deafening.
But the thirty-second eavesdropping window had already started. They couldn't waste it, no matter what.
And so Xu Shuangrong and the system were forced to listen to Xie Mi's thoughts for thirty seconds.
[Xie Mi: Go on, try annoying me again. Actually, nobody annoyed me. I'm just imagining someone annoying me. I actually have a pretty good temper. I don't usually get angry easily, but if someone annoys me, I still don't get angry easily. Unless they really, really annoy me. Then I still won't get angry, because I'm someone who doesn't like getting angry.]
Xu Shuangrong's hand trembled.
[Xie Mi: Ten years, the living and dead lost in endless sorrow. Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. Longkodo, Empress Mother. For jelly, I want Strong.]
Xu Shuangrong already wanted to pull her hand away.
[Xie Mi: This disciplined, stylish guy got up at seven this morning to get dressed. Today, he's going for a really cool hairstyle, paired with a suit and leather shoes, so he looks like a boss.]
Xu Shuangrong slowly loosened her fingers.
[System: Don't let go! Hang in there! We're bound to hear something useful! We have to...]
[Xie Mi: A weak acid is still an acid, and a weak base is still a base, so a weak intellect is still an intellect. I suppose I needn't worry about that.]
[System: Let go.]
Xu Shuangrong released her hand and looked at Xie Mi with a complicated expression.
"Teacher Xie, be more careful next time. I only grabbed you because you were about to fall." She hadn't forgotten to explain her actions, at least.
"Thanks. I'm off, then."
Mission accomplished, Xie Mi turned and left with effortless swagger, leaving Xu Shuangrong and