Lu Chi narrowed his eyes.
He stared unblinkingly at Lu Jiyang.
Lu Chi: [This damn dog, this dumbass! What does he want now?]
Guagua: [He's deliberately showing weakness in front of you, playing the victim to win sympathy!]
Sure enough.
The next second, Lu Jiyang held out a hamburger to Lu Chi.
He said, "Brother Lu Chi, I lined up at the Royal Bakery to buy these hamburgers. I specifically bought two so I could share one with you."
Afraid Lu Chi wouldn't eat it, Lu Jiyang urged him:
"Brother Lu Chi, hurry and eat it while it's hot. Even though you hit me at home this afternoon, I know it was because you were in a bad mood and had difficulties you couldn't talk about. I don't mind!"
Lu Chi rolled his eyes.
He launched into an inward rant.
[Holy shit! This little bastard really is something. He's going to keep hounding me all day, huh? He just wants everyone to think I'm a stinking piece of dog shit, that I'm bullying him, so everyone will stay away from me!]
[Ptooey! Fuck, even after being reborn, this is all he's got. Playing out these childish tricks in front of me every single day. How boring!]
Lu Chi rose from his stool and accepted the hamburger from Lu Jiyang, pretending to be touched.
He said theatrically, "Little Brother Jiyang, you're so nice, buying one for me when you buy yourself a hamburger. How can you be so kindhearted?"
Lu Chi unwrapped the hamburger and stared at it for a long while.
He pointed at Lu Jiyang in disbelief, his whole body trembling as though he were beside himself with anger.
Suddenly, Lu Chi shrieked and smashed the hamburger straight into Lu Jiyang's face.
The impact left Lu Jiyang's face covered in cream, lettuce, and meat.
He couldn't have looked more bedraggled.
Lu Jiyang: "..."
Lu Chi began his melodramatic performance.
"Ah! Little Brother Jiyang, you were clearly the one who insulted me first this afternoon. You said all the Lu family's property belonged to you and told me to get out of the Lu family instead of competing with you. You even hit me. I had no choice but to fight back.
"I know you hate me, but you shouldn't have pretended to offer me a hamburger while spitting on it to mess with me! Bleurgh~ That's disgusting~"
The moment Lu Chi said this, the classroom erupted.
"What? There was spit on the hamburger Lu Jiyang gave Lu Chi? That's disgusting!"
"Lu Jiyang is awful. He provoked him first, then tried to fool everyone by pretending to be the good guy!"
"Oh, come off it. Before Lu Chi came to our school, Lu Jiyang was a notorious little tyrant. Since when was he a good guy?"
"He only puts on that good-guy act in front of the teachers. The students he's bullied should know better than anyone what he's like in private!"
"Oh, right! If you hadn't mentioned it, I'd almost have forgotten he was a bad guy. Thank goodness Lu Chi came along, or everyone would still have to put up with his bullying. Every villain really does have another villain to grind him down!"
In that flash of lightning and thunder, the students' opinions shifted again.
They overwhelmingly sided with Lu Chi.
Lu Chi sneered.
[That dumbass Lu Jiyang came running over like an idiot to give me a hamburger, only to get slapped in the face. Was that his goal?]
Guagua: *[Host, his goal wasn't just to give you a hamburger. He secretly played the victim and asked your fifth sister, Lu Yunke, for four hundred thousand. He gave it to your class beauty so she'd take the opportunity to be nice to you, pursue you, and create the illusion of dating you.*
Once you fall in love with that class beauty, she'll start picking fights, threatening to break up, and so on, leaving you with no heart to study hard so you won't get into university. After the college entrance exams are over, he'll have her dump you.
*Actually, the class beauty doesn't want to do this either, but her elderly father fell while working at a construction site last week and was seriously injured. He's currently in the ICU undergoing emergency treatment, and her family really can't afford his medical care.]*
Lu Chi: [Huh... That's actually a thing? Wait, if the class beauty's father works construction, how can she afford this school? The tuition here is really expensive!]
Guagua: [The class beauty gets good grades. She was specially admitted with all three years of tuition waived.]
Lu Chi: [Looks like it's not much different from schools in the real world.]
Guagua: *[Mm-hmm, yes, pretty much. Host, the fake young master is using every means at his disposal to bring you down. Once you and the class beauty grow close, start actually dating, and the college entrance exams are approaching, the fake young master will go back to the Lu family,*
*and tell your parents about it. By then, you'll have lost both your education and your love, and the Lu family will think you don't study hard and have no prospects. They'll despise you! Hate you! Want to drive you out!]*
Lu Chi understood. [Underhanded! Truly despicable! But although this body is only eighteen, my mental age is already twenty-six. How could these children's tricks possibly affect me?]
While Lu Chi was chatting with the system, Lu Jiyang stood in front of him, angrily wiping the mess off his face with his school uniform sleeve.
He cursed in a tearful voice:
"Lu Chi! I noticed you didn't eat much in the cafeteria today, so I bought a hamburger to share with you out of kindness. I never thought you'd falsely accuse me of spitting on it and even hit me. You've really gone too far!"
After saying that, Lu Jiyang picked up the hamburger from the floor, flung it onto Lu Chi's desk, and ran out of the classroom.
Fuck!
Lu Chi took a tissue from his pocket and was just about to wipe the mess off his desk.
Suddenly, a slender, jade-white hand reached in front of him.
As she helped him clean up, she looked up at him.
Her eyes brimming with tenderness, she said gently, "Lu Chi, I believe you!"
Lu Chi: "..."
Although this class beauty wasn't as pretty as Su Yunian, the difference wasn't that great. She really was quite beautiful.
Lu Jiyang was truly despicable. He'd even thought of using a beauty trap.
Lu Chi hurriedly shook his head. "No need, no need. I'll wipe it myself."
But the class beauty, Li Bingqing, had already wiped the desk clean.
Ring, ring, ring~
Just then, the bell rang for class.
Li Bingqing smiled gently at Lu Chi and returned to her seat.
Even after sitting down, she glanced back at Lu Chi with a smile.
Lu Chi: "..." You have to admit, the girl is pretty.
Too bad she's not my type!
Saturday.
The Su family's old residence.
"Yunian, Zhao Min has been released!" Xie Qing said indignantly to Su Yunian, who was doing homework in the study.
"What?" Su Yunian jumped out of her chair in shock. "How is that possible? Zhao Min was clearly the one who tampered with that car. That was murder! How could she have been released?"
Xie Qing sighed helplessly and sat on the small pink bed beside Su Yunian's desk.
Her whole body felt limp, without an ounce of strength.
"Zhao Min said she wasn't the one who did it. It was her older male cousin, the mechanic. His motive was dissatisfaction with life, and he wanted to vent it on rich people."
"Huh?" Su Yunian's eyes widened. "Dissatisfied with life, so he took it out on someone? But we never did anything to him!"
Xie Qing said helplessly, "Who knows? That's what Zhao Min's cousin said when he turned himself in."
Su Yunian said nothing. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Mom, actually, I don't think the truth matters anymore. What matters is that this so-called cousin is just taking the fall for Zhao Min. She probably gave him a lot of money."
Xie Qing nodded.
Su Yunian instructed Xie Qing, "Mom, when Zhao Min comes back, fire her first."
"Mm. Keeping someone like that in our home would only invite disaster. We definitely have to fire her."
Su Yunian hadn't yet told her mother that Zhao Min was actually her father's mistress.
Her mother trusted her father far too much. To avoid stirring the grass and startling the snake, she needed to plan this matter carefully over the long term.