After the class monitor left, the girl lingered at her desk for a while. Only after she was certain that the monitor had truly departed did she shoulder the backpack she had packed long ago and head toward the door.
However, just as she reached the exit, she was blocked by another girl.
Subconsciously shrinking back, the girl’s voice was soft and thin. “Um… excuse me… could you let me through…?”
“So, you’re Ye Xingmian?” the other girl asked, clearly already knowing the answer.
“Yes… is there something you need?” Hesitant, the girl could tell this person was looking for her for a reason. And judging by her haughty, arrogant attitude, it clearly wasn’t for anything good.
“I’m Li Li. You recognize me, right?”
There were only a few names in the class that the teachers called on frequently, and Li Li was one of them. The girl had forgotten whether she was a subject representative or a committee member; she only remembered that Li Li seemed to have a good relationship with the class monitor. Thinking of this, the girl subconsciously grew tense.
“Yes… Student Li… so, why were you looking for me?”
“I’m saying, you’ve been getting pretty close to the monitor lately.”
The girl froze upon hearing this. Had the other girl come all this way just for that? Was the next sentence going to be a demand for her to stay away from the monitor? The girl hesitated for a moment before saying, “Sorry… I didn’t mean to… it won’t happen again…”
To her surprise, upon hearing these words, the other girl didn’t show any sign of satisfaction. On the contrary, her expression became even more disgusted.
“Hey, I’m asking you, are you even a man? Saying stuff like that—don’t you have any feelings for the monitor at all?”
The girl was stunned, completely baffled. “Student Li… what do you mean…?”
“Don’t you get it yet? I’m trying to help you! You definitely have feelings for the monitor, don’t you? I’m her friend; I can put in a good word for you.”
What was going on? Had her secret thoughts been discovered by accident? That shouldn’t be possible…
The girl had only realized today that she might actually like the monitor. She had clearly tried her best to hide it, avoiding the monitor the entire afternoon. How did this person know?
The girl felt a wave of intense unease. She instinctively blurted out a denial. “That’s not it, Student Li… I… I don’t feel that way about the monitor…”
“Oh? You say you don’t, so you don’t? How are you going to prove it?”
The girl was left speechless. She was already feeling guilty, and now she didn’t even dare look at Li Li’s face. After a moment of silence, she suddenly darted through a gap beside the other girl and fled.
“Sorry, Student Li! I have things to do at home. I’m leaving now!”
She didn’t look back at the other girl’s expression. Even though Li Li was nominally there to “help” her, from any perspective, all it had caused her was massive distress. The girl fled all the way to the most remote staircase, panting as she slowly descended the steps. Very few people ever came here; it was a path the introverted girl took often.
She couldn’t understand at all where she had slipped up, or why that Li Li had suddenly mentioned helping her. But she simply couldn’t agree, so in the end, her only choice was to run. This made her a little afraid—could her feelings have already been noticed by the monitor?
Her heart was in a state of chaos. The girl clutched her chest, her expression turning bitter.
Not that… please not that…
She carried those feelings down the stairs. Perhaps the luckiest thing about today was that she hadn’t run into Qin Haiyue. After all, Qin Haiyue had threatened her yesterday to meet at the restroom entrance, but she had stood her up. It was hard to imagine what kind of treatment she would face if she were caught again. The girl truly didn’t want to experience that feeling of despair a second time.
And then there was… she still had to give her sister an answer to that question tonight. When it came down to it, did she really have any room to resist? With the leverage her sister held over her, it seemed no matter what was asked, she could only obediently comply.
It felt so suffocating…
She let out a sigh. Truthfully, if it was just a matter of wearing women’s clothes and acting as a body pillow for Lin Ziyang, she could potentially accept it. She was just afraid her sister would get handsy while she was asleep. Although she had no experience being a girl and was somewhat ignorant about many things due to her secluded life, she still knew that a girl’s purity was very important. Even though she hadn’t thought about marriage, protecting her body had become part of her instinct. If she were to lose her virginity for no reason… she felt like she might go crazy.
And then there were her foster parents… if they truly found out, what would they do to her? No matter how much her sister tried to protect her, a beating would be the lightest consequence. After all, in their eyes, she was still a boy…
No matter how she thought about it, everything felt so troublesome, so terrible.
Actually, if the day ever came where she had to give her purity to someone… she hoped that person would be the class monitor.
Though that seemed unlikely, since the monitor probably wasn’t into girls. But if… if that day really came, she hoped it would be the monitor.
As she thought about it, the girl couldn’t help but blush.
If it really came true, what would that day be like? Would the monitor be a bit rough with her, or gentle? It would probably be gentle. After all, that was just the monitor’s personality—that soft, considerate feeling that made one feel like they were wrapped in warm cotton… Eh? Wait, no, why did she instinctively think of herself as the one on the bottom? She used to be a boy; no matter how you looked at it, she should be on top!
No, no, what was she thinking! It was time to go home.
Covering her burning cheeks, the girl sighed in the cold wind. It took a long while before the temperature on her face subsided. No matter how she looked at it, that was impossible. She still had to face reality.
Lost in her wandering thoughts, she finally reached the first floor and arrived at the main path leading out of the school. The girl intended to keep walking, but when her peripheral vision caught sight of someone, her footsteps suddenly froze.
Coincidentally, the other person saw her too, revealing a smile that suggested this was exactly what she had expected.
It was the class monitor…
Lowering her head and instinctively taking a step back, the girl watched as Liu Yinuo approached her.
The monitor stood with her arms crossed over her flat chest. Even though they were roughly the same height, the girl felt a sense of pressure.
“Alright, tell me. Why are you avoiding me?”
It was an interrogation right from the start. The girl immediately panicked. So the monitor had already realized she was intentionally dodging her? She had thought she was hiding it well, but it had been exposed so quickly.
“I’m not… sorry, Monitor… I have something to do… I have to go…”
Stuttering out a few nonsensical words, the girl turned to run, but her right hand was caught by Liu Yinuo.
“Don’t be in such a hurry to leave. How about I walk you home? It’s not safe for you to go home alone.”
The girl didn’t respond. Realizing this was her last chance to escape, she violently wrenched her hand from Liu Yinuo’s grasp and fled toward the school gate in the distance.
Naturally, only a thoughtful Liu Yinuo remained standing in place.
If it had been right after school, she definitely would have chosen to chase after the girl and wouldn’t have let her go, no matter what she said. But now…
Liu Yinuo looked at the hand that had just gripped the girl, her expression somewhat complex.
Better let it go for now…
She spoke to herself, as if offering advice.
Yes, she had more important things to think about.