"Xia Mi, you finally came back to class!" Isabella ran over anxiously and took Xia Mi's hand. "Is your brother all right? Everyone in class pooled five hundred thousand dollars to help you through this."
"Boo-hoo, thank you, and everyone else too." Xia Mi shed tears of gratitude. "Potato chips have been so expensive lately. Five hundred thousand dollars is just enough to buy my brother snacks."
Her classmates chattered among themselves.
"Xia Mi is so strong!"
Exactly, exactly.
"Xia Mi is so beautiful!"
You have a good eye.
"Xia Mi is so powerful!"
That's right!
"Hee-hee!"
After spending two days on a slow green train and then handing out flyers at an internet café for a day, making full use of her leave and the weekend, Xia Mi returned to Cassell's prep class with a radiant smile.
The moment she entered the classroom, Xia Mi sensed something was wrong. Her classmates had arrived far too early today. She had not come at the last minute, yet everyone was already seated, as though waiting for her.
Had that fantasy on the way here actually come true?
"Xia Mi! You finally came back to class!" Isabella, the leading figure among the girls in class, ran over.
"Boo-hoo... thank you," Xia Mi said, touched, waiting for the five hundred thousand that would follow.
Her classmates chattered among themselves.
"There really is something wrong with her!"
What, what?
"She's playing dumb and thinks we haven't noticed!"
What's going on?
"She definitely took leave to go to the Three Gorges!"
"How did you know?!" Xia Mi's expression changed drastically. Was my identity exposed? Was Cassell watching me?
At those words, her classmates rose and surrounded Xia Mi menacingly. The door behind her had closed at some point. It was a scene straight out