Chapter 18

Ch.18

Everybody was revising English during the morning self-study period, but Song Yu Meng propped the book up to hide the fact she was staring at Liu Luo Yang and smiling.

Yi Ran never actually revised during morning self-study. If she wasn’t snacking, she would be staring out the window. If she wasn’t staring out the window, she would be drinking milk while admiring the idiotic way Song Yu Meng was fangirling, just like she was now.

She pursed her lips and complained softly: “Is there something wrong with this scaredy-cat’s brain? Is she that easy to please?”

If she was the one who had done that to Song Yu Meng, Yi Ran would never have been forgiven in this lifetime.

This difference in attitudes really was saddening.

After the period ended, Song Yu Meng took the box of cakes and held it in her hand, smiling again. It was the first time Liu Luo Yang had given her a gift, and she was feeling a bit reluctant to eat it.

Yi Ran had been watching her the whole time, muttering “dumb, foolish, stupid” with some discomfort in her heart.

There were three swiss cake rolls inside and Song Yu Meng picked one up. Right as she was about to bite into it, Yi Ran grabbed the cake from her.

Song Yu Meng was about to explode at whichever asshole stole her cake, when she turned to see Yi Ran stuffing the entire cake into her mouth.

Looking back calmly at her, Yi Ran chewed on the cake, and smiled smugly.

Song Yu Meng was infuriated and punched Yi Ran’s shoulder, thundering: “Yi Ran, how can you be so shameless! This is the second time!”

The students who were busy handing in homework saw the two of them arguing again, and put it out of their minds. The two of them quarrelled every day, everybody was sick of it.

“Come on, isn’t it just a piece of cake? Why get so worked up over it? I’ll buy an identical box for you tomorrow, okay?” Yi Ran smiled at Song Yu Meng gnashing her teeth in anger.

“Not okay!”

“Not okay? Why?” Yi Ran raised an eyebrow. “Exchanging one piece of cake for an entire box, you’re the one who’s at an advantage here?”

“What advantage? I’m losing out! This box of cakes was given to me by Liu Luo Yang gege!” Song Yu Meng intentionally raised her voice to make sure the entire class could hear her, especially Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan was downfallen at once, and Liu Luo Yang immediately comforted her: “Don’t get upset, I’ll get you some tomorrow too, okay?”

Xu Yuan shook her head and asked with an innocent expression: “Luo Yang, do you like Song Yu Meng?”

Liu Luo Yang denied it in a hurry: “How could I! Xu Yuan, don’t misunderstand. Song Yu Meng is the one pestering me, I wish I could get rid of her too.”

Xu Yuan didn’t say anything, nodding with a slight smile. Looking at Song Yu Meng, she suddenly felt the other girl was really quite pitiful. Xu Yuan’s gaze moved to Yi Ran, and she suddenly had a thought.

Yi Ran was still thinking how to get out of this mess. She knew snatching someone else’s stuff wasn’t right, but seeing Song Yu Meng so happy, she couldn’t resist being a bit mean to her. Originally, she thought snatching a piece and buying a box in return would be fine, but who knew this arrogant lady would be so adamant?

Seems like she could only use her killer move.

“Alright, you can tell me how you want me to make it up to you later. For now, hand in your maths homework to me.” Yi Ran held out her right hand, with some cream still smudged on her index finger.

From suddenly arguing to asking to collect her maths homework, Song Yu Meng was at a loss. She didn’t do the maths homework at all, of course.

Seeing Song Yu Meng staring at her angrily, Yi Ran was elated.

“You didn’t do it? Well, I won’t collect homework today then. Now we’re even, okay?”

Folding her arms and pouting, Song Yu Meng stared at her, not wanting to reply to this irritating person.

“Why are you staring? You’re pouting so much, careful your mouth doesn’t cramp up.” Yi Ran laughed till her eyes were two crescents, and continued. “Oh right, did you put a lollipop in my jacket pocket yesterday?”

Yi Ran’s face was full of anticipation, eyes twinkling like stars. Song Yu Meng suddenly felt embarrassed and looked away.

Clearly knowing the answer, Yi Ran had asked just to get Song Yu Meng to say it in person.

The bell rang and the students started heading back to their own seats.

“The candy you gave me was really sweet. Thanks.”

Even though Yi Ran didn’t hear Song Yu Meng admit it herself, she knew that this arrogant person wouldn’t have said it.

If Yi Ran had just looked a little closer, she would have discovered that when she said “the candy you gave me was really sweet”, the tips of Song Yu Meng’s ears had turned red.

……

The results were out.

Song Yu Meng scored higher than Yi Ran, but they were still the bottom two in rankings.

When Yi Ran went to the back of the classroom to look at the results, Song Yu Meng said gloatingly: “Haha, Crazy Yi, I told you I’d score better than you this time! Do you believe it now? Now you’re the last ranked person.”

Rapping her knuckle against Song Yu Meng’s head, Yi Ran said: “Stop being so smug. If I didn’t spot the two questions for you, would you have scored better than me?”

Pouting, Song Yu Meng rebutted: “Hmph, this lady scored better anyway!”

“Alright, then I’ll say you’re awesome, okay?”

“Hmph, sweet-talker.”

Yi Ran had just returned to her seat for a few minutes when Xu Yuan came over with an innocent smile and said: “Student Yi Ran, if you have any difficulties with any questions in the future, you can always come and ask me.”

She had heard the conversation between the two earlier and saw that Yi Ran was the last ranked person.

Yi Ran was a little lost at Xu Yuan’s sudden kindness and said: “Ummm, then thanks, class president.”

“No worries, students helping each other should be how it is.”

Song Yu Meng saw Xu Yuan talking to Yi Ran and angrily held her book up to cover her face, just peeking out over the top to monitor the situation.

White lotus, why are you looking for Crazy Yi! She scolded in her heart.

The two of them didn’t even speak for more than a minute, but after Xu Yuan left, Song Yu Meng quickly walked over.

Yi Ran already felt the oppressive aura coming from Song Yu Meng and she sighed internally: Didn’t I just send one away? Why’s another one coming over now?

“You better confess honestly, what did that girl say to you just now?” She stared at Yi Ran with a “forget about lying to me” look.

Yi Ran was too lazy to lie to her anyway.

“Sigh, what else could it be? Xu Yuan said that if I don’t know anything, I can ask her.”

“That’s it?” Song Yu Meng found it a little hard to believe.

“Of course, what else did you think she said to me?”

Song Yu Meng harrumphed. “Who does that white lotus think she is? How shameless can she be to tell you to ask her if you don’t know anything?”

Yi Ran couldn’t understand why Song Yu Meng was throwing a tantrum, but she found it quite amusing.

“Why are you so hostile towards Xu Yuan? She’s just being nice.”

Once Yi Ran said those words, Song Yu Meng stared at her. “Nice? Did you fall under that woman’s spell too?”

“…… Whatever you say, I can’t be bothered to argue with you.”

“Hmph, you stay away from her. You’re not allowed to ask her anything either, you hear me?”

Yi Ran smiled: “Why not? If I don’t ask her about stuff I don’t know, am I supposed to ask you instead?”

Song Yu Meng looked at her like she was a fool. “Crazy Yi, are you dumb? Can’t you ask the teacher?”

Yi Ran “oh”-ed blandly. She thought Song Yu Meng would really say stuff like “if you don’t know, come and ask me”.

But with her terrible grades in maths and science, forget it. Her humanities were still decent though, Yi Ran thought, maybe she could really ask her for help there.

……

– Maths class –

“Students, we’ll be going through the exam answers today. Please take out your maths exam paper and answer booklet.”

Some students couldn’t find their exam paper after searching and Tang Xiang Ping said: “If you can’t find the exam paper, share your neighbour’s.”

Yi Ran raised her hand and said in a particularly innocuous voice: “Teacher, what if I don’t have a neighbour?”

A number of students laughed and Tang Xiang Ping looked at her helplessly. “You’re already so old, but you’re still so absent-minded. Share it with Song Yu Meng.”

Song Yu Meng had on a face of rejection, showing she didn’t want to share the paper with Yi Ran. Yi Ran quickly walked over and Song Yu Meng shoved the answer booklet and exam paper into her desk.

Yi Ran was utterly confused: “What are you hiding it for? Take them out.”

Tang Xiang Ping was already explaining the third question, and Song Yu Meng shook her head, not willing to take it out.

Yi Ran couldn’t be bothered to waste her breath. She stuck her hand into the open drawer and pulled the papers out. She was quite strong and easily snatched the papers from Song Yu Meng, resulting in a creased and crumpled booklet.

While Yi Ran was flipping through the booklet, Song Yu Meng played with her hair guiltily. As expected, her comic and drawings were seen.

Yi Ran put down the exam paper with a heavy look and picked up the answer booklet, flipping back and forth before finally chuckling.

“This is the reason you didn’t dare to take it out?” She smiled and put the paper on the table. “The drawing’s quite lifelike.”

Song Yu Meng pulled her hair to hide her face, feeling almost as if her secrets had been found out.

“Lame, do you really hate me that much?” Yi Ran bent over to look at her, smiling.

Song Yu Meng exchanged a look with her before hastily looking away. “Hmph, what do you think? In this lady’s heart, you’re even more hateful than that white lotus!”

“What are you embarrassed about, your face is all red?”

Song Yu Meng’s reaction was particularly big, raising the answer sheet to hide her entire face, saying: “Who’s embarrassed? I’m just feeling hot.”

Her face flushed like a ripened tomato, tempting Yi Ran to take a bite.

“You have to pay attention to the domain of the function for this sort of question……” Tang Xiang Ping eyed the pair as she explained the question.

Yi Ran noticed it, so she whispered softly in Song Yu Meng’s ear: “You hate me and Xu Yuan most, so who do you like the most?”

“Of course it’s Liu Luo Yang gege!” Song Yu Meng paused before adding: “And my idol Han Fan.”

“You like Han Fan that much, have you gone for his concerts before? Are you going to try to get tickets to his concert during winter break?”

“Of course! This lady will camp on the website when the time comes, I’ll definitely be able to get the tickets!” Song Yu Meng claimed confidently.

Yi Ran gazed at her with a smile. Tang Xiang Ping suddenly stopped her explanation, pushed up her glasses and said sternly: “Listen properly. Some students should stop disrupting the class.”

The two of them knew that Tang Xiang Ping was referring to them, so they stayed silent and listened to class obediently for the rest of the lesson.