CH 11

“Stop flattering yourself.” 

Jin Siming snorted. 

In all honesty, she really wasn’t familiar with this girl either and she could be considered a busybody for what she muttered just now. In fact, according to her personality, she doesn’t like to talk unless she has to. But for some reason…she just really wanted to insult that annoying girl. 

Now she felt a little embarrassed and moved to leave, when the scene of today’s lunch flashed in her head. She paused her movements and turned her head, “Do you know Lu Yi?” 

“Which Lu Yi?” Yao Jin tilted her head in thought. “Are you talking about Senior Lu Yi? The one in Year 3? Ah, I know him~ But why does Classmate Jin suddenly follow my social circles?” 

Jin Siming couldn’t help but roll her eyes, “Yao Jin, will you die if you stop thinking about yourself so much? Why would I pay attention to you? What I care about is—” 

Halfway through her words, she glanced at the girl standing next to Yao Jin. The girl’s eyes had widened into two copper bells and the words ‘eating popcorn and watching a good show’ was written clearly across her face. She abruptly caught off her words. 

She almost gave away her feelings about her secret crush. 

Jin Siming glared at the girl, “What are you looking at?” 

“I…” The girl didn’t expect the fire of this argument to suddenly burn towards her and she choked up. 

“Ming-bao~ Over here!” 

Just then, Su Xiahang called out to her. Jin Siming snorted coldly once, but didn’t bother continuing this argument, as she took the opportunity to walk away instead. 

She left Yao Jin and the girl behind, one deep in thought and the other with a befuddled expression on her face. 

“Who were you talking to just now?” 

Su Xiaohang is near-sighted but doesn’t like to wear glasses. She squinted long and hard but couldn’t see who was talking to Jin Siming just now.” 

“No one, just some ordinary classmates.” Jin Siming said nonchalantly. 

Jin Siming had only wanted to know if Senior Lu Yi and Yao Jin knew each other. After all, she has a good impression of this upperclassman, as for Yao Jin….

Hmph, Jin Siming knows exactly how Yao Jin treats those boys and Alphas that always linger around her. In the face of confessions, love letters, and other gifts, the girl never refuses nor makes a clear statement of rejection. She also never takes the initiative or responsibility for others. 

In short, in Jin Siming’s mind, Yao Jin was the highest-ranked demon and even the great Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin, would suffer before this demon. 

So, with these thoughts in mind, Jin Siming felt that it was her duty to guard Senior Lu Yi from such a demon and help him take a few precautions. 

Su Xiaohand looked down at her phone and read a message that was sent to her. She then grabbed Jin Siming’s arm and broke her out of her daydream, “Ming-bao, let’s go to the basketball courts. Jian Xin said to go find her there.” 

Jian Xin is not in the same class as them, but they have the same gym period together and would often group up together for sports activities. 

When they arrived at the basketball courts, they saw Jian Xin standing next to an unknown girl. 

In the past, she has always come alone, but today there was someone they didn’t recognize with her. Even Jin Siming was a little curious. 

Long balkc hair, tall and slender with pale skin, double eyelids, and a pair of intelligent eyes. A beautiful person overall, hmm, barely 7/10 points. 

Jin Siming’s old habit of giving scores in her heart to potential rivals has relapsed again. 

Jian Xin quickly pulled the girl towards them when she saw the two approach, “What took you two so long? Here, let me introduce this person, her name is Zhou Ziqing….” 

“Watch out!” 

Before the introduction could be finished, a wild basketball suddenly flew towards them. The ball was about to brush past the girl’s head and then strike directly into Jin Siming’s face. So she frantically stepped forward and waved her arm around, slamming the ball to the side. 

PA!

The ball went flying. 

She used a little too much force and the basketball flew directly over the fence and landed onto the flowers of the field on the other side. 

The ball that was rushing towards Zhou Ziqing was deflected, and she clapped her hands together as little stars shined in her eyes, “Thank you, classmate Jin!” 

Jin Siming blinked in confusion and explained, “Ah, I was just afraid that the ball would hit me.” 

Zhou Ziqing lowered her head and bit her upturned bottom lip, and whispered shyly, “It’s okay, I understand~” 

Jin Siming: “….???” 

No, wait a minute, what do you understand? Girl, are you sure you aren’t misunderstanding something instead? 

Jin Siming was about to clear up the misunderstanding when a strong-looking boy suddenly ran over and stood between them. 

“I’m sorry, did the ball hit you just now?” 

The boy completely ignored everyone else and stood right in front of Zhou Ziqing as he spoke in a gentle tone. 

This scene seems quite familiar….

A lightbulb went off inside her head. Ah, no wonder she felt this scene was familiar! Before her differentiation, more than one Alpha would use this method to start up a conversation with her. In fact, she has developed a bit of a trauma for basketball courts because of this….

If you’re going to flirt with a girl then just flirt with her!  At least aim a bit and get your target right! How dare you throw a ball at me? 

Jin Siming clenched her fists. 

“It’s alright, classmate Jin stopped the ball for me.” 

Zhou Ziqing looked directly at Jin Siming with starry eyes, completely ignoring the boy beside her. 

The boy’s face darkened as he realized his plan had failed and he glanced in Jin Siming’s direction with an unsightly face. However, when he saw her face clearly, his expression instantly changed. 

“S-Siming?” 

Jin Siming was stunned for a moment as she recognized the boy as Zhao Yang. Then she quickly recovered and smiled nastily. 

So, it turns out to be him. No wonder he used this trick again. 

This Zhao Yang was actually one of the several Alphas who secretly blocked her after her differentiation. 

Zhao Yang had a secret crush on Jin Siming before, but he never expected Jin Siming would differentiate into an Alpha that was not only taller than him, but also higher-ranked than him. 

One must know that ranks are important between Alphas. A higher-ranked Alpha can easily use their pheromones to suppress a lower-ranked Alpha. 

Zhao Yang could not accept such a change in his former crush and so he quietly blocked Jin Siming’s number. 

And now he felt embarrassed seeing her here. 

The person who he wanted to flirt with not only ignored him, but was also staring at Jin Siming with heart eyes. The humiliation was too much and so he quickly left to go find his ball instead. 

However, he looked around and couldn’t find a hint of his basketball. He could only bite the bullet and ask, “Siming, did you see where my basketball fell?” 

Jin SImign pointed at the field on the other side of the fence, “Over there.” 

Zhao Yang: “…..” 

Looking at Zhao Yang’s embarrassed back, Jin Siming’s only regret was that she didn’t smash the ball away hard enough. 

After this little incident, Su Xiaohang led the group to a little pavilion in the school’s garden. She still had homework to copy and the pavilion was shaded and cool so the others followed without objection. 

On the way to the pavilion. Zhou Ziqing kept chatting nonstop with Jin Siming. Asking her this and that, and annoying the hell out of Jin Siming. However, for her friend Jian Xin’s face, she held back her annoyance and patiently answered each question. Fortunately, the girl had other things to do and left after a while. 

Once the noisy little bird left, Jin Siming breathed a sigh of relief and then glared at Jian Xin. 

Jian Xin sighed, “Alright, alright, I’ll confess. Zizi and I are both fans of the same star, and I wasn’t able to get a ticket for said star’s concert. But she said she could get me a ticket if i….” 

Su Xiaohang raised an eyebrow, “If you sold out our Ming-bao?” 

Jian Xin quickly defended herself, “What, don’t say such nonsense! Zizi only wanted to get to know our Ming-bao a little.” 

“Ai, forget it. Seeing so many little Os chase after our Ming-bao, this old mother actually feels very relieved.” 

Su Xiaohang smiled teasingly and quickly dodged Jin Siming’s slap on the head as she quickly changed the subject: “By the way, White day is coming up soon. What are you going to do about it?” 

Jian Xin replied blankly, “What is there to do? Aren’t they holidays that are only celebrated by the popular good-looking people?”

Su Xiaohang also lamented her unpopular fate, and then bowed her head to get to copying her homework. 

Hearing them talk about these holidays, Jin Siming sighed inwardly. 

In the past, these kinds of holidays would become a silent battle between her and Yao Jin. They would secretly compete to see who received the most gifts on Valentine’s day. 

But this year….she can only hope she won’t be too humiliated.