Chapter 21

“You really don’t need me to help take you inside?” Shen Chi asked in an indifferent tone.

“No need.” Xu Zhaomu refused to yield.

“All right.” Shen Chi stepped on the brakes and pulled the car up to the curb. “Get out.”

Xu Zhaomu had forgotten a very important fact. Shen Chi was a petty man.

She rolled her eyes at him and stomped off in a high and mighty manner. What kind of person was he? She had never met anyone like him before.

Much later, Xu Zhaomu grew to understand a certain principle. If you don’t hold a place in a person’s heart, the person will not care at all about how you feel.

Xu Zhaomu, feeling pitiful, lugged her bag toward the school. She almost burst into tears. She was still a long distance away.

After she got out of the car, Shen Chi reversed and sped off without a moment’s hesitation.

Xu Zhaomu had only turned her head to look at him once she was sure that his car had driven off. However, she wasn’t able to catch an image of the black Maybach.

“He ran off even faster than a rabbit. I guess that’s how unwilling he was to take me inside.”

Xu Zhaomu grumbled and stamped her feet angrily.

After reversing the car, Shen Chi drove onto another road that ran parallel to the road Xu Zhaomu was on and that also led toward her school. From this road, he was able to see her every move while remaining seated in the car.

He only drove off and went to work after watching her step through the school gates.

When Xu Zhaomu reached her classroom, it happened to be on a break between lessons.

Yu Weiwei was the first to run over. “Zhaomu, the teacher mentioned that you had had a fever.”

She’d had a fever?

She was 80 percent sure that Shen Chi had made up this lie.

“Indeed, I am feeling a little uncomfortable. I ran into a nasty man on the way here,” Xu Zhaomu said listlessly.

“Then are you all right now?”

“I’m fine.” Xu Zhaomu scrutinized her friend. “Eh, didn’t you say that you were wearing a miniskirt today?”

Not only had Yu Weiwei forsaken the miniskirt, but also she was completely covered from head to toe. She looked practically impermeable to the elements.

Had she also caught a fever?

“Don’t mention it, please. I also ran into a nasty person, just like you.” Yu Weiwei appeared quite upset.

Xu Zhaomu instantly became quite riled up. “You didn’t check your fortune before leaving the house? Which vile person did you run into?”

“Who else could it have been? It was obviously the mad, tyrannical Eldest Young Master of the Li Family, Li Beiting.” Yu Weiwei rolled her eyes.

“Oh, Eldest Young Master Li. Tell me about it.”

Yu Weiwei explained everything from start to finish in a sulky tone.

Early that morning, she had decided to wear her miniskirt to class. However, the moment she stepped out of the Yu family residence, Li Beiting’s flashy red Maserati had blocked the entrance of her house.

Li Beiting was five years older than Yu Weiwei. He was the same age as Shen Chi. However, Li Beiting insisted that they were related based on the fact that his grandfather’s grandmother’s older cousin’s stepmother was Yu Weiwei’s grandmother’s younger cousin’s third uncle’s older sister.

Li Beiting insisted that Yu Weiwei address him as Second Uncle. If Yu Weiwei refused, then he wouldn’t allow her to attend class.

She’d had no choice but to call him Second Uncle with great reluctance. As a result, this chap had continued to take a mile after gaining an inch and kept sticking his nose in her affairs. He’d barred her from wearing miniskirts, saying that she was corroding public morals.

Yu Weiwei was furious. Li Beiting had restrained her and dragged her to a department store without any conversation.

And this was why she had come to school in such an impermeable set of clothes.

Xu Zhaomu roared with laughter to the point that her belly hurt. Both she and Yu Weiwei came to the same conclusion—men were all busybodies.

The first lesson of the afternoon was mathematics. Something about functions, complex numbers, and cosines. Xu Zhaomu was so bored she started to fall asleep.

Yu Weiwei prodded Xu Zhaomu’s arm and handed her a magazine surreptitiously.

Xu Zhaomu quickly propped up her mathematics textbook to cover herself, before lowering her head.

It turned out to be an entertainment magazine. The quality of the magazine wasn’t bad. A beauty with an oval face coupled with shapely eyebrows and an exquisite makeup job was on the front cover.

The beauty was wearing a red evening gown. A wide, flirtatious smile was on her face.

“What a perfect beauty.” Xu Zhaomu clicked her tongue.

Her best feature was the area under her collar. It was as inspiring as the roaring sea.

A boring person like Shen Chi would certainly like this type of beauty.

“I heard she debuted quite recently. She has reached the heights of popularity.” Yu Weiwei sighed, saying, “A certain wealthy man in C City promoted her and made her popular.”

However, Xu Zhaomu was completely uninterested in this. She lowered her voice and bent toward Yu Weiwei.

“Do you know any tricks to help attain a big chest? It would be perfect to have something like this.”

Xu Zhaomu’s little finger pointed at the magazine, specifically at the area below the beauty’s neckline.

Yu Weiwei widened her eyes. “Why do you want a big chest?”

Unfortunately, Yu Weiwei had spoken too loudly. The classroom instantly subsided into absolute silence as a few dozen pairs of eyes turned in their direction simultaneously.

It was too embarrassing. Xu Zhaomu wished that she could bury her head underground.

She was on the verge of throttling Yu Weiwei to death.

The mathematics teacher pushed her spectacles up her nose. Her face appeared quite stern, and her eyes were burning with anger.

“Xu Zhaomu, Yu Weiwei, visit the staffroom after class!”

Yu Weiwei shoved the magazine under the desk hastily. This beloved magazine was too precious. She hadn’t read it yet, so she couldn’t let it get confiscated.

However, the mathematics teacher had sharp eyes, and she detected Yu Weiwei’s subtle movements immediately. She stormed over from the teacher’s desk.

“Take it out!”

Yu Weiwei dug out a harmless literature magazine and passed it to her.

“The other one!”

This time, Yu Weiwei refused to budge.

Xu Zhaomu’s eyes got panicky. If Yu Weiwei refused to give it to her, they would be in huge trouble if the mathematics teacher chose to look through their desks.

They had a trove of treasures in their desks.

Xu Zhaomu took the entertainment magazine from Yu Weiwei’s hands. She passed it to the mathematics teacher.

“Teacher, we’ll surrender it. Please deal with us leniently.”

Xu Zhaomu grinned like a blooming flower.

The mathematics teacher harrumphed coldly. She rolled up the magazine and tossed it onto her desk. Only then did she finally let this matter go.

After the school bell rang, Xu Zhaomu and Yu Weiwei followed the mathematics teacher obediently toward the staffroom.

“Both of you read such garbage during class?” The mathematics teacher flipped open the magazine.

“Teacher, we were wrong. We only bought it from the bookshop in a moment of curiosity.” Xu Zhaomu bowed her head and confessed.

Yu Weiwei added hastily, “Teacher, we promise that we won’t read such things again. If you don’t believe us, we can also sign an oath.”

“I can’t keep track of this. I’ll get your class monitor to oversee it. I think I’ll have to invite your parents over.”

They were finished.

Xu Zhaomu squeezed out a few drops of tears. “Teacher, we’ve truly realized our mistake. We know we shouldn’t have read such magazines during lessons. We all understand that the college exams are important. Please give us another chance. We will definitely pay attention during class. Truly.”

“I’ve already explained this. I can’t keep track of you, nor can I be bothered to. Are you girls supposed to read these types of magazines? I’ll be confiscating this magazine. Tomorrow, I’ll invite your guardians over for a visit.”

Finished, finished, they were finished.

If Shen Chi found out about this, she would definitely have to suffer the consequences.

Yu Weiwei was also frightened. She joined in begging with Xu Zhaomu. “Teacher, please give us another chance. We only committed this mistake in a moment of folly. In the future, we won’t purchase these kinds of magazines again.”

The mathematics teacher remained completely expressionless. She put the magazine under a pile of textbooks and waved her hands at them.

“Both of you can leave now. Invite your guardians over tomorrow. I will also have a good talk with your class monitor.”

After she said this, the teacher left to refill her cup with coffee.

They had no choice but to invite their guardians…

Xu Zhaomu and Yu Weiwei returned to their classroom dejectedly, at a complete loss of what to do next.

However, Xu Zhaomu had not forgotten her question that she had yet to receive an answer for. She nudged Yu Weiwei.

“Weiwei, tell me. Do you know any method to attain a big chest?”

Yu Weiwei scrutinized Xu Zhaomu’s figure from top to bottom. Finally, her wicked eyes paused at her neckline. “It seems quite full to me. Ah…there’s no need to enlarge it.”

To be honest, Xu Zhaomu found the Shen family’s meals quite nutritious. However, Shen Chi still didn’t appreciate them.