“You can’t get away this time!”
“Confess and receive leniency! Resist and face severity!”
The ones who grabbed Xu Runhui were none other than her good friends, Gao Jing’an and Qian Zaoling.
Gao Jing’an was a bit taller than Xu Runhui but much slimmer.
Her two eyebrows were extremely thick, looking at first glance like an ancient iron-faced judge.
Qian Zaoling was about the same height as Xu Runhui but sturdier, looking like a fierce girl, and her chest was much smaller.
She was the one who had previously mocked that Zhong Siji couldn’t possibly like a big-chested girl like Xu Runhui.
Gao Jing’an had almost started an argument with her over that.
Xu Runhui was now held by them one on each side and couldn’t break free for the moment.
“Just what do you want me to confess?” Xu Runhui said while struggling.
Unfortunately, as a homebody who didn’t like exercise, she was destined not to escape the capture of these heavenly soldiers.
“Still pretending!”
Qian Zaoling tried hard to squeeze her somewhat rough features, wanting to get as close as possible to the image of a fierce ancient constable.
“Hurry up and say, how did you get talking with Classmate Siji and Classmate Yan Yan?”
“Old Gao! Help me quick! Zaoling’s gone crazy!”
Unfortunately, Gao Jing’an, who always stood on her side, also shook her head.
That serious judge-like face was actually filled with gossip.
“Runhui, just give up. This time I’m standing with Zaoling. How exactly did you get connected with big stars like Zhong Siji and Yan Yanyan? Big sister is super curious too.”
Seeing that Gao Jing’an, who always spoke up for her, had also defected, if she didn’t spit out something, she would probably be annoyed to death for a while.
But Xu Runhui also knew well that in this world there were some things that you couldn’t say even if you died!
If they knew she could talk with Classmate Siji all because he had stepped forward to save her when she was being extorted by Momoi’s thugs, this would definitely become her laughingstock for three years of high school…no!
For her entire life!
In comparison, her getting talking with Yan Yanyan was purely a misunderstanding.
Because of this misunderstanding she not only tasted Classmate Yan Yan’s high-class bento, but also by a twist of fate tasted the flavor of Classmate Siji’s chopsticks… so delicious.
If possible she really wanted to taste it again… sure enough she still wanted to taste it directly!
Slap!
A light pat on her cheek woke Xu Runhui from some strange fantasy.
She had just come back to her senses when she saw two pairs of disdainful eyes.
“What are you thinking about so early in the morning? Smiling so lewdly!”
“Don’t tell me you really have something for Classmate Siji…”
Between two evils choose the lesser.
Compared to the disgraceful matter of being saved by a male classmate in such a cowardly way, mooching someone else’s bento, though not sounding great either, at least wouldn’t cause irreversible damage to her image as a girl.
“Yesterday I coincidentally mooched Classmate Yan Yan’s bento, so that’s how I started talking with her.”
Qian Zaoling recalled Xu Runhui’s abnormal behavior at noon yesterday.
“Damn it, you didn’t catch the scent from Yan Yanyan’s bento yesterday and abandon me to go mooch it, did you? To be honest, that’s way too spineless.”
Xu Runhui had bitterness she couldn’t voice.
Spineless then spineless, still better than having her cowardly side exposed.
“Zaoling, don’t get led off track by her! The point isn’t this! Runhui! Confess truthfully! How did you start talking with Classmate Siji, and how did you get so close you could even eat the bento he made!”
Compared to Zhong Siji, actually starting a conversation with Yan Yanyan wasn’t that hard.
Rather, for an outgoing handsome senior like her, not being able to talk to her would be the real difficulty.
“Right! Almost let you slip by!” Qian Zaoling suddenly realized.
Xu Runhui hadn’t expected that after passing Zaoling’s check, Old Gao’s check she didn’t pass.
Ai!
Truly you can know a person’s face but not their heart!
She hadn’t expected that thick-browed, big-eyed Old Gao was this gossipy too.
She had really misjudged her!
Luckily she had thought of a strategy.
“At the time Classmate Siji was also eating his bento. He seemed to be troubled by something. Classmate Yan Yan enthusiastically went forward to ask and learned he was worrying about not knowing how to make a bento for his little sister. Classmate Yan Yan and I then volunteered to help, and that’s how we started talking with Classmate Siji.”
Xu Runhui gave an extremely simplified explanation of yesterday’s situation and dumped most of the responsibility onto Yan Yanyan.
Hearing Xu Runhui’s explanation like this, Gao Jing’an and Qian Zaoling looked at each other, and actually believed Xu Runhui’s explanation.
Qian Zaoling let go of Xu Runhui as she said, “I knew it! At most Runhui would dare borrow a book or ask about class from Classmate Siji. Where would she get the guts to approach Classmate Siji? This is still just riding Classmate Yan Yan’s coattails!”
She regretfully punched her thigh.
“Damn it! If I knew Classmate Siji was this easy to talk to, I would have gone up to talk long ago.”
Gao Jing’an shook her head.
“Why don’t you take a piss and look at your own face? Even if you got talking, then what?”
“At least I’d be better than Runhui, right?” Qian Zaoling unhappily showed off her muscles.
Although it was just a little contour, it was still much better than Xu Runhui’s fruit-on-slender-branches figure.
Of course that was only true in the current world.
“Look at these muscles of mine. If I had been the one eating Classmate Yan Yan’s bento beside her at the time, I could have eaten Classmate Siji’s bento too.”
“Wouldn’t that still be relying on Classmate Yan Yan? What does it have to do with those two taels of muscle on you?” Old Gao shook her head.
“Then after getting talking, if Classmate Siji sees these muscles of mine and thinks I’m bursting with femininity (masculinity) and falls in love with me, then what?”
“Do you believe what you’re saying? Especially with Classmate Yan Yan right there.”
“…Then at least I’m more of a woman than Runhui, right? At least the favorability would be a bit higher.”
“That’s true.”
At least on this point Gao Jing’an highly affirmed it.
“I say, aren’t you two going too far! How does this make it sound like I only started talking with Classmate Siji thanks to Classmate Yan Yan?” Xu Runhui heard this and stared at her two damaging friends with wide, furious eyes.
Angry!
So angry!
“Isn’t that what you said yourself?”
Oh, seems like it.
Now not angry.
Xu Runhui hurriedly changed her words.
“What I wanted to say is, without Classmate Yan Yan I wouldn’t have been able to start talking with Classmate Siji?”
“…….Hahahahahahahaha!!”
“Pfft…….hahahahahahaha!!”
The assembled guests rejoiced.
Just as Xu Runhui was about to transform into a demon amid her damaging friends’ laughter, Qian Zaoling finally stopped laughing and said to her hesitantly, “Stop making your mom laugh. Look how long it’s been since you borrowed the book? Look, do you dare go up and say one damn sentence to him?”
“Then… then at least I talked to Classmate Siji myself! I didn’t rely on Classmate Yan Yan to do that either!”
Xu Runhui now somewhat regretted dumping everything onto Yan Yanyan, but she had no choice but to dump it!
The real situation would be much more embarrassing.
Qian Zaoling just continued laughing upon hearing that, while Gao Jing’an patted Xu Runhui’s shoulder.
She said nothing, but it was as if she had said everything.
Suddenly, Xu Runhui only felt a surge of fire rush from her dantian straight to the top of her head.
But a thought, an idea suddenly popped into her mind: Why did I say it was Classmate Yan Yan who went forward first to ask? Couldn’t I have said that Classmate Yan Yan and I went forward together? Even with the book-borrowing incident beforehand, if I said I went forward first to ask, they would believe it, right?
But why had she subconsciously said it that way?
Xu Runhui, who either couldn’t figure it out or had already figured it out, had her rage instantly doused by a bucket of ice water, left with only ice-cold from body to heart.