Chapter 176 - Ye Xinya (7)

Jiang Li raised an eyebrow at the boy. He was sure he was the helpful guy earlier supposed to receive the same punishment with the girl who gave him some food to satiate his hunger. 'Did I bully this one or something?'

When he tried to recall anything, it seemed he and this one did get into a fight a few days ago due to him getting away from punishment after bootlicking a teacher. He winced internally.

The boy was correct. Jing Mo, his Original was an annoying character because, in order to get to the teachers' good side and not get beaten up, he usually buttered up with them or used his fellow classmates as scapegoats. Last time, when he accidentally ruined a basket of origami, he pushed the blame to this boy who then had his meals for that day cut off. Given Jing Mo's character, how would it not be easy to attract aggro from the others? He was basically a traitor.

'I feel like the last time I was in a modern world, the bastard system gave me a sick character too...'

The one called a bastard felt indignant and immediately reasoned.

System: Host, I'm not a bastard. Jing Mo is not sick too... He's perfectly fine... And his wish is very easy, to escape and live an honest life outside.

'Oh... I know'        

A second later, Jiang Li gloomily frowned at himself for not noticing the system could speak. He muted the foreign being in his head. He truly disliked it when something just suddenly talks in his brain.

"You're a rare teacher's pet?"

Suspicion-filled gazes went to him yet he just shrugged. However, deep inside when he heard them asking if he was a teacher's pet, even though the Original truly was, he still felt insulted.

Even when he was in the ancient world, he never bootlicked the male lead emperor. So he said, "Don't make me laugh. Only an idiot will become one. Not to mention those gangsters are not even qualified teachers."

Jiang Li took a large bite of the bar. Remembering the question was thrown at him due to the male lead, he annoyingly turned to his right and said to the male lead. "You asked how I did it, right? You look smart. How about you guess how I lead the principal to gather people there."

Han Su answered with mild irritation, "I wouldn't ask you if I know."

The classmate who helped the girl looked meaningfully the guy who was now throwing the wrapper away after finishing the whole bar. "I'm guessing you either blackmail him somehow or trick him into it. But most likely, you're in cahoots with them. The escape had been very smooth and easy. Who knows you might have a tracker on you." Afterward, he looked at everyone. "Schoolmates. How about we go separate ways this guy since we are not sure if he's with us or not?"

"That... seems not okay?" The person who spoke was one of the six from the black house.

"But he makes sense." The others were exchanging glances with each other. And they were giving Jiang Li a complicated gaze. Many were his classmates. When he checked, it seemed the majority truly didn't have a good impression of him.

"After all I did?" Annoyance was starting to show on the interrogated boy's face. He gave the person who incited the others a good glance and thought that this guy, despite being a good looking nerd, had a huge mental problem.

The other seemingly noticed the sharp gazes so he raised his voice and replied in an accusing tone, "Jing Mo. Are you implying we can't be suspicious of you? What if the teachers are just conducting another survival game and you're tasked to do something for them? This escape could be setup so why can't we be wary of you?"

"Your proof." With a cold look, he demanded.

The busybody girl from earlier admitted everyone already had a guess about his actions. So what was with the questioning? Making difficult for him? Hehe... Wasn't he just being a sissy? And oh, speaking of being effeminate...

Jiang Li narrowed his eyes at the other guy and through the vigorous fire from the distance, he finally noticed that something was not adding up about the boy. He was too thin and his height was below average for a male... The face was also too small.

"Proof, you ask?" The odd boy stood up and walked toward him with unfriendly eyes. "Didn't I say the escape is suspiciously easy? Also, don't think I don't know you told the six from the black house to use the path. Why did you say that? Wouldn't the school people easily catch up and find us if we take that route? So what's your motive?"

Instead of admiring the series of questions thrown at him, he began pondering over the added abnormalities that he managed to observe as the subject went closer.

'Nothing's bobbing on the throat, so no adam's apple... But even if this person reasoned it's due to slow growth development, his voice is still too soft for a boy, and even if it's not the real issue, it's just still obviously faked, his tone is purposely lowered... I didn't notice these at first since even in the Original's memories, this person doesn't talk a lot.'

Mirth and admiration danced in his eyes upon realizing this. The 'boy' actually escaped from his hawkish eyes. Incredible. Was it her acting? Or was this person just excellent in staying low-key? Probably the latter.

However, the real reason for his admiration was that he realized she did all to protect herself.

True to the intention, if she looked like a mediocre guy, of course, no pervert instructor would take interest in her. And even though the mediocre-looking male students were not exempted from the corporal punishments, it was still better than getting sullied or shamed. He didn't know how many girls on the campus applied the same tactic as her, but he hoped Jiang Ying Yue's incarnation was one of them... Otherwise, he'd hope this person was her.

He amusedly told himself, 'Wow, now I know to what extent my stupid is, I should have checked the profiles more. She could be posturing herself as a man and even changed her appearance the moment she realized what kind of place she got sent to. Why did I forget she's a lot smarter than me?'