Once reason returned, the girl immediately realized she had been used as a pawn! How could her impulsive nature withstand that?! She immediately stood up disregarding everything and shouted at her deskmate: "Gu Qing! Did you freaking set me up on purpose?! I was wondering why you buzzed around my ear all morning during the self-study session! All worried and speculating! Turns out you wanted to lead me astray! Am I right?!"
"I didn’t!" Gu Qing quickly stood up to defend herself: "I was just worried about the teacher and my classmates! That’s why I said a bit more! I really didn’t expect you to misunderstand..."
Still young and reckless in her considerations. Although Gu Qing’s words seemed to exonerate herself, they pushed the confronting girl into an unjust position and infuriated her even more!
Out of anger and losing her reason, the girl suddenly began to hurl personal attacks!
"Pfft! I misunderstood?! It’s your own mind that’s twisted! Do you think I don’t know you like Lu Huai?!"
Gu Qing’s face suddenly flushed red! "You,"
After taking a deep breath, the girl continued: "You must be jealous seeing Lu Tianwang acting like a lackey following Zhen Yu everywhere every day, right?! If you’re jealous, just be jealous! Why the hell did you secretly urge me to do something?! Blind I was to be friends with someone like you! We’re done!"
After these words, the entire classroom went eerily silent!
The classmates all began to speculate about the truth of the incident and started doubting Gu Qing’s character.
Because her secret crush was suddenly revealed in front of classmates she saw day and night, Gu Qing felt an extreme shame! Her face flushed and then turned pale! She didn’t even try to defend herself anymore and burst into tears, running out of the classroom like a madman.
Gu Qing’s deskmate, Li Yueru, was too overwhelmed to intervene just now. She immediately followed Gu Qing out, and while running to the classroom door, couldn’t help but turn back and yell at the girl, "You’re too much!!"
Instead of feeling any guilt for making someone cry, the girl actually felt a great sense of relief! She purposely yelled out loud: "This is called shooting yourself in the foot! Let’s see who dares to secretly manipulate others from the shadows now! Serves you right for not having good intentions and fooling others to take the fall for you!"
Some female classmates started to feel a bit of pity at this time, but what Gu Qing’s deskmate said wasn’t wrong -- everything was orchestrated by Gu Qing herself! Thus, they couldn’t really stand for justice, they could only sympathize with Gu Qing silently in their hearts.
The male classmates had a bigger reaction and quickly gathered in small groups to whisper among themselves.
"Do you think...she really is that kind of person?" asked one boy, half in doubt.
Believing it to be true, another answered, "I think so! Those words didn’t sound made up at all!"
"How did I never realize she was that kind of person before?! And, the school beauty has a secret crush on Lu Tianwang?! That’s seriously shocking news!"
"Who saw it coming?" a boy asked, only to be met with everyone shaking their heads. Neither her character nor the crush had been spotted by anyone.
"Ah... no wonder no one’s pursuits ever worked on her; the root cause was right here!"
The rest of the boys: "..."
Gu Qing directly took leave and went home.
It wasn’t a bad plan! At least it allowed her some space to avoid embarrassment and gave her classmates time to digest the situation.
Zhen Yu was completely unaware of this.
Teacher Liu called her aside simply to personally check on how she managed to come back alone, Zhen Yu replied to all queries and was then sent back to the classroom.
With Lu Huai absent and no one proactively chatting with her, Zhen Yu was able to quietly study for the day.
She even only found out Gu Qing wasn’t in the classroom for the whole day when she was about to go home after the evening self-study session!
"Zhen Yu!" Blocked at the internet cafe entrance, Gu Qing had to call out to Zhen Yu who was about to enter without noticing her.
Zhen Yu turned her head, "What’s up?"
Just those simple words choked Gu Qing. Of course, there’s something up! But what could she say...should she say she came purposefully to pick a fight?
After spinning her eyes a couple of times, Gu Qing finally found something to say!
Talk about Mrs. Zhen! Other than Mrs. Zhen, Zhen Yu surely wouldn’t respond to anything else!
"Your mom has been sick for so long! How could you not visit her?! What kind of daughter are you?!"
Zhen Yu looked at Gu Qing sternly for two seconds, then lightly spat out eight words.
"Get your brain checked as soon as possible."
Gu Qing exploded in rage! "What do you mean?!"
"Exact meaning of the words." After saying that, Zhen Yu lifted her leg and entered the internet cafe.
Gu Qing intended to stop her but unfortunately, she wasn’t quick enough and didn’t manage to halt her.
This brief skirmish ended just like that, with Gu Qing grinding her teeth at the entrance of the internet cafe for a while, and ultimately, unable to think of any recourse, she left resentfully.
Gu Qing’s unexpected appearance didn’t bother Zhen Yu at all; she simply thought it was a sudden lapse in judgement!
Lately, Zhen Yu had been extremely busy! She had only found out during the day that they had run out of apples and bananas! So when the night came, she finally could sit quietly at her desk alone, she called up the system.
Ability Points/Knowledge Points: 99/7
Ability Points available in the mall: 60
Intelligence class - Maximum score of 100
Appearance class - Maximum score of 100
Physical Strength class - Maximum score of 100
Language class - Maximum score of 100 (incremental)
Chinese: Intermediate 80
English: Intermediate 80
Skill class - Maximum score of 100 (incremental)
Female Self-Defense Skill: Beginner 60
Cooking Skill: Entry-level 34
Computer: Entry-level 40
Emotion class - Maximum score of 100
Emotional Quotient: 37
Financial Intelligence: 29
System Mall Level 2 (upgradable)
Storage Space (upgradable)
Trading Platform (Plane 1)
Having not checked for a while, Zhen Yu noticed significant growth in various areas. Especially in the Appearance category, one might not say there’s a change every day, but definitely every month! As someone who had once gone through puberty, with just a little reflection, Zhen Yu understood that these changes were due to reaching the peak period of rapid growth and development.
From the initial automatic increase in rebirth data, the hunch that had been in her mind was now confirmed by Zhen Yu! This gave her a sense of achievement, at least now it seems, her strategy of ’saving money’ by not adding points to the Appearance category was absolutely correct!