"Ha ha..." Bai Junwang laughed a little stiffly. "You really know how to joke."
"Funny, right?" Xia Shule asked.
"Funny..." Looking at Xia Shule's serious face, Bai Junwang corrected himself. "Not funny."
The others said nothing more, because they knew the more they said, the more likely they were to slip up. Whether Song Dimu had connections or had been shoehorned into the group was something the audience would judge for themselves after his debut.
Xia Shule quietly asked Song Dimu, "Does this guy usually give you a hard time?"
Song Dimu gave it serious thought. "No."
Verbal jabs probably didn't count, right? After all, every time Bai Junwang made some snide remark, the instructor scolded him. He always said, "You're not even doing as well as him in practice, and you still have the nerve to say that!"
Xia Shule had asked the question with an answer already in mind. This guy certainly didn't look like someone who genuinely never gave Song Dimu a hard time.
Despite what Song Dimu said, Xia Shule still didn't believe it. He only wondered whether Song Dimu wasn't too bright and couldn't tell when someone was mocking him.
Xia Shule said nothing more. He could just have Su Jin keep an eye on things.
Xu Suidong hadn't left the room either. Two of them seemed to know him and kept talking to him inside. Beside them, Bai Junwang also struck up a conversation with Xu Suidong through those two teammates.
Since they were juniors, and he was also afraid of giving people something to criticize, Xu Suidong kept answering Bai Junwang's toddler-like questions.
He appealed to Su Jin for help along the way, but Su Jin pretended not to notice. That was what he got for losing his temper earlier.
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