We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

"Xu...Yao?"

In the classroom of Class 2, Grade 11, Lan Shiyu, sitting in the middle, tentatively greeted her new deskmate.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Yao turned her head away and looked at Lan Shiyu in confusion. She wondered where this transfer student had come from. Not only did she sit next to her, but she had also moved into their dormitory. Perhaps there were just a few girls in their class to begin with.

"I'd like to ask, do you know who the class monitor of the class next door is?"

Lan Shiyu vaguely remembered that the girl she met at the convenience store yesterday was named Li Mubai, the vice class monitor, and the person who walked with Li Mubai at noon was the class monitor.

"The class next door? Class 1? I don't know." Xu Yao shook her head.

"No, it's Class 3." Lan Shiyu looked at her hopefully.

"Class 3, I don't know either." Xu Yao paused for a moment, "But I know who the vice class monitor of Class 3 is."

Lan Shiyu, the vice class monitor of Class 3, also knows about it!

But this isn't Xu Yao's fault; who would care who the class monitor of another class is?

"Hiss~ Who is the prettiest girl in Class 3?" Lan Shiyu decided to change her question. Although she couldn't pinpoint the exact one, based on her extensive experience with women, the class monitor should be the prettiest.

"You mean Xie Shu?" Xu Yao asked uncertainly.

Xie Shu, what a nice name, Lan Shiyu thought to herself.

"What do you think of Xie Shu?" she asked, leaning forward slightly with interest.

Xu Yao glanced at Lan Shiyu, a strange feeling rising in her heart. She unconsciously distanced herself from her and asked in return:

Why are you asking this?

Noticing the strange look in her new deskmate's eyes, she coughed a few times:

"Haha, well, first of all, I'm not gay. I just feel like she's a really interesting girl, so I'd like to be friends with her."

Interesting? A big question mark appeared above Xu Yao's head. This word didn't match the Xie Shu she remembered. The latter always seemed cold and aloof, and she rarely saw him smile.

Seeing that Xu Yao didn't speak, Lan Shiyu thought that the other party didn't believe her, so she continued:

"I'm really not gay. I'm just interested in pretty girls. I want to chat with them, play games with them, and be friends with them. I'm really not gay."

"You shouldn't have said it, now that you've said it, I feel even more certain that you are," Xu Yao thought, but she still spoke up:

"I don't know Xie Shu very well either. She seems to have excellent grades, often ranking first, and she's also frequently on the list for awards like 'Three Good Students' and 'Outstanding Class Leader'."

If a person's name only appears in people's ears two or three times, it may not be remembered. But if it appears many times, even strangers will have an impression of Xie Shu.

"Wow! This is amazing!" Lan Shiyu exclaimed in surprise, throwing out a phrase in Lingnan dialect.

Xu Yao glanced at the others in the classroom, all busy with their own things. She leaned down and lowered her voice, saying:

"I heard from others that her family is very wealthy."

"Rich? Lan Shiyu's family isn't poor either," she thought, a comparison forming in her mind, and asked:

"What constitutes being rich?"

"Someone saw her being picked up from her home, all in luxury cars worth two million." Xu Yao didn't remember what kind of car it was; she only remembered the number two million.

Two million? Her family can barely afford that, Lan Shiyu thought.

"And it seems there's more than one!" Xu Yao exclaimed dramatically.

That's fine. The Lan Shiyu family can afford one car worth two million, but two cars are not an option. They can't spend all their money on cars, right? Owning more than one luxury car proves that they have a lot of assets.

"Hiss—from what you're saying, her family must be very rich. Why would she want to go to high school and take the college entrance exam? Shouldn't people like her go abroad to study and attend international schools?" Lan Shiyu asked doubtfully.

"Who knows? Maybe it came down to earth to broaden the horizons of us mortals," Xu Yao said, shrugging half-jokingly.

Rich, beautiful, and academically gifted—why would someone so outstanding be studying in high school? Lan Shiyu suddenly thought of a daring classic scenario, but that didn't stop it from happening repeatedly in reality. Could it be…

"Could it be that she likes a certain boy, which is why she came here?" she wondered.

"You really dare to think that way." Xu Yao marveled at Lan Shiyu's bold guess. She recalled for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be... right? She doesn't seem to have had any 'scandals' with anyone. It seems like only Xing Yi from Class 1, but that's all just rumors spread by other people."

As she said this, she recalled the last time she went to see Li Mubai. She was about to become friends with Li Mubai, but was interrupted by Xie Shu who suddenly appeared.

I remember the latter saying that a teacher was looking for Li Mubai. Now that I think about it, was it really that coincidental? Why did they have to look for him at that particular time of year?

Moreover, one Friday after school, she saw Li Mubai and Xie Shu walking together.

Seeing that Xu Yao remained silent, resting her chin on her hand in thought, Lan Shiyu secretly thought she had guessed correctly. She was really smart. But who could it be?

Li Mubai? Obviously not. Xie Shu seemed to treat him with a purely businesslike attitude at noon.

No matter who it is, she will save Xie Shu from the quagmire of being love-struck. I'm going to win over Xie Shu!

The first step is to let the other person get to know you...

"Hey, Lan Shiyu, where are you going? The stairs are this way, you'll have to take a long detour if you go that way."

After evening self-study, Xu Yao followed Lan Shiyu out with her schoolbag on her back. She saw the latter walking towards Class 3.

"Oh, I'm used to walking a little more to exercise."

"Hmm—then I'll go with you. No. 6 Middle School isn't very big, but it's not small either. I'll show you around the campus."

Xu Yao hesitated for a moment, then decided to follow the other person. She didn't want to go to the third class's area unless absolutely necessary, because it was easy to run into someone who would embarrass her.

But what if Lan Shiyu gets lost? She's in an unfamiliar place, it must be so pitiful.

Besides, haha, after asking her about Xie Shu for so long before evening self-study, who would believe that Lan Shiyu just wanted to take a walk out of boredom? Don't let her do anything stupid!

Seeing Xu Yao following behind, Lan Shiyu curled her lip in the darkness.

Sigh, what can I do? This pretty girl is just too charming. She won over her new deskmate in less than a day, she thought to herself.

Lan Shiyu kept her eyes on the front and back doors of Class 3. When she was almost there, she deliberately slowed down and moved over slowly.

Xu Yao wasn't sure if Li Mubai had left or not, so she walked very slowly, not wanting him to suddenly appear when she reached the entrance of Class 3.

A boy carrying a schoolbag walked out of the back door of Class 3. He glanced at the two people who were moving like snails and frowned slightly.

The moment he appeared, Xu Yao lowered her head awkwardly, hoping he wouldn't see her, hoping he had already left...

"Hey, handsome, we meet again tonight." The person next to her greeted him first.

"Hmm, what are you doing here?" Li Mubai asked.

"Nothing much, just getting familiar with the campus and seeing what each class is like," Lan Shiyu said naturally. She then glanced at Xu Yao, who was looking down awkwardly beside her, and wondered a little.

"This is my new deskmate, Xu Yao," Lan Shiyu introduced.

"Hi," Xu Yao greeted stiffly.

"Yes, I know him." Li Mubai nodded, and seeing that no one was there to see him, he said goodbye and left.

After he left, Lan Shiyu immediately turned her head and asked:

"Do you know Li Mu Bai?"

Xu Yao rolled her eyes. She wanted to ask Lan Shiyu about it! If she had said they knew each other earlier, she wouldn't have come. She had made Lan Shiyu feel awkward.

"We've crossed paths before." Xu Yao paused, then asked, "What about you? How did you meet him?"

"We met through family."

Introduced by family?

"A blind date?" Xu Yao asked uncertainly.

"No, you said I have a big imagination, but I think your imagination is even bigger than mine. It's just that my parents know each other and met before I transferred schools. I asked him to show me around the campus."

Lan Shiyu smiled helplessly. Blind dates were out of the question; she would never get married in this lifetime.

"oh."

"Haha, I feel like I've made a little progress today. If this continues, won't I get into Tsinghua University in the college entrance exam?"

A cheerful female voice rang out, and Lan Shiyu looked in the direction of the voice to see Xie Shu and two other girls leaving through the back door of the classroom.

"Ah, Xu Yao, it's getting late, we should head back to our dorms." Lan Shiyu pretended to realize something, then quickened her pace to catch up with them.

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