More whispers followed close on the heels of that discordant voice.
"Exactly! Why didn't this country bumpkin go to Class 1? What's he doing in our class?"
"Who knows! Young Master Lu told us to trip him up as much as we can."
"Yeah, that's right. Make his life hell!"
The nasty whispers were neither loud nor quiet, just loud enough for Lu Chi to hear every word.
Their homeroom teacher, Gao Qiliang, pointed to the seat in the farthest corner by the window and told Lu Chi, "There's an empty seat right there. Go sit there."
Lu Chi looked up in that direction.
He noticed that the girl sitting beside it was extremely pretty. She sat ramrod straight and looked very well developed.
The places that should have bulged were very full indeed.
But the girl looked icy.
One look was enough to tell she was the aloof goddess type, not someone easy to mess with.
Even if Lu Chi didn't want to sit there, he had no choice. There were no other spare seats in the class.
He could only steel himself, walk over beside the girl with his backpack, pull out the chair, and sit down.
Putting on a thick skin, he said to her, "Hi, I'm Lu Chi. Nice to be your deskmate."
Su Yunian completely ignored his existence.
Lu Chi wasn't annoyed either. He sat up properly.
Even without looking around the classroom, he could feel plenty of ill-intentioned gazes on him.
That couldn't have been more normal. This was Lu Jiyang's turf. There was no way he could come here without getting ostracized.
But what was there to fear?
With Guagua around, he would meet soldiers with generals and stem floods with earth.
After all, he'd even been an actor. Wasn't this just putting on an act? If they liked it, he'd act with them to their hearts' content!
"Everyone, take out the test papers from last class. I'll go over the questions."
The balding Gao Qiliang taught math. He had just given the students a math test last period and was now about to go over it.
Having just transferred in, Lu Chi naturally didn't have a paper.
Gao Qiliang told Su Yunian, "Su Yunian, Lu Chi just transferred here and doesn't have a test paper. Move yours over a little so he can look at it with you."
Su Yunian said nothing, but after Gao Qiliang spoke, she pushed her test paper over just a little, placing it precisely along the dividing line between their desks.
Lu Chi said, "Thank you," to Su Yunian.
Su Yunian acted as though she hadn't heard him and paid him no attention.
Gao Qiliang began explaining the questions.
Lu Chi, however, didn't want to listen to a single word.
Before transmigrating into the novel, he had already been a fine young man of twenty-six. Back in high school, he'd coasted through, unable to get into Chinese or English, while math, physics, and chemistry looked harder than heavenly scriptures.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have done so poorly for himself, still just an eighteenth-tier minor internet celebrity at twenty-eight.
Now he was supposed to listen to a teacher explain high school math? Oh boy, that was simply more complicated than climbing to heaven.
Although the original owner had good grades, he wasn't the original owner. He had no interest in academic performance.
After barely hanging on for ten minutes, Lu Chi was so sleepy he couldn't take it anymore.
He didn't dare sleep, so he could only prop his chin on his hand and stare fixedly at the blackboard.
Inside, he had long since started chatting with Guagua.
Lu Chi: [Guagua, what's that bald donkey talking about? Why can't I understand a word?]
Guagua: [He's talking about vectors right now... Ah, host, did you not study at all back in the real world? You don't even know something this simple.]
Lu Chi: [I don't know jack shit! If I did, would I have ended up doing so badly? Ugh, I need to go home and discuss this with my bargain-bin dad, see if I can quit school! Why does studying feel so much more complicated than being an eighteenth-tier minor internet celebrity?]
Guagua: [Wealthy families place the greatest importance on acquiring knowledge. You're only eighteen now. If you don't want to study, what can you do? Your dad definitely won't agree. He might even give you a beating, and then his heart will tilt toward the fake young master.]
Lu Chi: [Fuck! Other people transmigrate into novels and slaughter their way through all opposition. They're either crazy-rich tycoons or loaded moneybags, or they're sleeping with different beauties. I'm the only poor bastard stuck suffering through school here. Just thinking about it kills the mood!]
Guagua: [Host, there's only half a year until the college entrance exam. Just endure it a little longer. Once the exam is over and you go to university, won't you have seas vast enough for fish to swim and skies high enough for birds to fly? You can sleep with as many women as you want!]
As Lu Chi chatted on and off with Guagua,
he noticed Su Yunian beside him looking at him as if she'd seen a ghost.
There was shock in her eyes, and... disgust.
Lu Chi couldn't figure out how he'd offended her.
Had she noticed him zoning out instead of listening to the lesson and started looking down on him?
[Is the girl beside me nuts? Never mind being ice-cold and ignoring me when I talk to her, now she's looking at me with disgust. Do I really disgust her that much? This girl must be a lunatic!]
[Host, this is Su Yunian, the school's famous campus belle. She's also the goddess of all the boys in school, someone everyone wants to marry. Let me tell you, the fake young master Lu Jiyang likes her a lot too. He comes up with different ways to pursue her every day, but she never pays him any attention.]
Lu Chi had been about to curse inwardly, asking what Campus Belle Su was acting so high and mighty for.
Hearing Guagua say that Lu Jiyang was pursuing her and that she never paid him any attention, Lu Chi instantly found this campus belle, Su-whatever, much more pleasing to the eye.
As the saying went, an enemy's enemy was a friend. Anyone who didn't get along with the fake young master Lu Jiyang was his, Lu Chi's, friend!
Su Yunian looked at her new deskmate in utter shock.
Had she seen a ghost, or what?
She could actually hear his thoughts!
He was talking to something called Guagua.
Guagua was probably his system.
Novels hadn't lied to her. Systems really existed.
But this filthy lecher actually wanted to sleep with beauties in his arms? That was utterly disgusting.
He even dared complain about her and call her a lunatic.
If she could tolerate this, what couldn't she tolerate?
Su Yunian suddenly grabbed the test paper lying between them and yanked it back, setting it squarely in front of herself.
The rustling sound gave Lu Chi quite a fright.
[I just called her a lunatic, and she snatched the paper back. This girl doesn't just have an icy expression. She's not normal at all. Fine, I won't look. I didn't want to listen to that old bald donkey drone on anyway.]
Being called a lunatic again, and hearing him call their homeroom teacher an old bald donkey too, sent Su Yunian's fury soaring.
Just then, Old Gao asked, "Does anyone know the triangle rule for vectors and the steps for solving this problem?"
Su Yunian raised her hand. Her voice sounded lovely, but it was still icy.
"Teacher, my deskmate said he'd like to answer."
Lu Chi, who had been spacing out and dozing: "..." Fuck!
Wasn't this screwing him over?
I can't even fucking understand it, and you want me to answer?
"Mm, very good. Lu Chi, answer the question, then."
Lu Chi: "..." He stood up in bewilderment, inwardly hurling endless curses at Campus Belle Su.
"I..."
[Guagua, quick, quick! How do I answer?]
Guagua: [Don't worry, host. I've got everything covered. The answer is: vector AB + vector BC = vector AC. The solution steps are...]
Lu Chi said, "Vector AB + vector BC = vector AC. The solution steps are..."
Lu Chi copied Guagua's words without missing a single one.
Beside him, Campus Belle Su gave a speechless, cold snort.
How useless. He didn't even know something this simple and needed his system's help.
Gao Qiliang said, "Lu Chi, your answer was completely correct. I hope you keep up the good work."
Lu Chi gave an awkward smile and hurriedly sat down.
Mocking laughter sounded around the classroom, quiet but perfectly audible.
"Hahaha, he actually had the nerve to stand up and answer such a simple question. He really is a country bumpkin!"
"Tch, trying to show off on his very first day. Such a simple formula, such an easy question. I'm going to die laughing!"
"Young Master Lu was right. This older brother of his came back just to make a fool of himself for everyone."
[What a bunch of dumbasses. They actually dare mock me so openly. Pah!]
[Host, those people mocking you all have some major gossip. Let me tell you...]
After listening to Guagua, Lu Chi let out a few villainous cackles in his mind.
He slowly raised his right hand. "Teacher, I have something to report!"