Nie Zhen'er didn't feign her abilities, so she directly told Luan Qing Xiao that she had no money to go upstairs to eat.

    "If you are used to eating the food upstairs, I can buy the food here and then bring it to the top to eat with you." Nie Zhen'er felt the solution she came up with was excellent.

    Yet, Luan Qing Xiao said, "I'm not that picky. Everything I eat is the same, let's just eat together on the first floor."

    She didn't say another sentence. As long as it was eating with Nie Zhen'er, it didn't matter how the food tasted.

    Nie Zhen'er tried her best to keep the price of food within one hundred yuan.

    Yes, even on the cheapest floor of St. Marilyn Aristocratic Private High, any dishes started from sixty-six yuan up. If you want to eat meat, the price will definitely be over a hundred.

    If the school hadn't provided a meal card, Nie Zhen'er really wouldn’t be able to afford it.

    Luan Qing Xiao ordered a meat dish and a vegetarian dish, both of which Nie Zhen'er liked, and then ordered a bowl of rice for the staple food.

    It was a total of one hundred and eighty-eight.

    The most expensive restaurant Nie Zhen'er has been to since childhood wasn’t even as expensive as the dining hall of St. Marilyn Aristocratic Private High.

    Every bite is money, so Nie Zhen'er cherished each and every bite.

    While the two of them were eating, Zhu Xi Zheng came.

    He knew Nie Zhen'er was a specially recruited student and her family background was ordinary, so he directly looked for her on the first floor. Right after entering the canteen door, he saw Nie Zhen'er, who was eating.

    Seeing the way she was looking at the food with such a pious and cherishing gaze, Zhu Xi Zheng thought: How could a girl who cherishes even a bite of food be like how Ke Li described?

    Zhu Xi Zheng waited for himself to catch his breath before slowly walking over.

    In the morning, Nie Zhen'er was angry because he said Luan Qing Xiao liked him, so he must properly apologize to Luan Qing Xiao.

    After rehearsing it a few times in his mind, Zhu Xi Zheng walked over, "Zhen'er, Qing Xiao, I hurried over after class, but you guys have already left the classroom. I thought you might be in the canteen, so I came here to look for you."

    Because Zhu Xi Zheng was too embarrassed to sit next to Nie Zhen'er, he took a seat next to Luan Qing Xiao.

    Nie Zhen'er was still angry with him. When she saw him, she didn't look at him. She just stared at the food, "What do you want with us?"

    Luan Qing Xiao assisted her, "I truly don't like you and won't let you misunderstand again. You should go, we don't like eating with people we don't know."

    All the rehearsals Zhu Xi Zheng died in the womb.

    He froze for a long time before trying to make conversation again, "I-I came to apologize to Qing Xiao. What happened in the morning was my fault, I was talking nonsense. I really didn't mean it, I knew you didn't like me. My brain just wasn’t in the right position at the time, I really don’t know why I said that."

    "I'm sorry, Qing Xiao, I am solemnly apologizing to you here. I will never talk such nonsense again. Can you forgive me?" Zhu Xi Zheng asked Luan Qing Xiao cautiously.

    Luan Qing Xiao raised her head to look at Nie Zhen'er, "Zhen'er, what do you think?"

    Nie Zhen'er asked Zhu Xi Zheng, "You solemnly apologizing?"

    Zhu Xi Zheng almost raised his hand to vow, "Absolutely serious!"

    Nie Zhen'er nodded, "I think you can forgive him."

    Luan Qing Xiao didn't ask why, but directly said to Zhu Xi Zheng, "Then I forgive you."

    Before Zhu Xi Zheng had time to smile, Nie Zhen'er uttered again, "Forgiving you doesn't mean we can be friends with you. You should go and don't greet us when you meet us anywhere in the future."

    Zhu Xi Zheng's face immediately collapsed, "I really really, really won't make the same mistake again."

    "All men say that." Then continue making mistakes.

    No matter what Zhu Xi Zheng said, Nie Zhen'er would respond with that. When Zhu Xi Zheng asked for Luan Qing Xiao to intercede for him, Luan Qing Xiao only felt that Nie Zhen'er was right.

    Zhu Xi Zheng had no choice but to leave first.

    There were still two years left. He definitely can wear down Nie Zhen'er to like himself.

    When he left, Nie Zhen'er and Luan Qing Xiao could finally continue to eat lunch in peace.

    After lunch, the two went to the gymnasium for a stroll.

    Today's gymnasium was very quiet. There are no basketball players, only the two of them strolling around the rubber track.

    They walked for twenty minutes, then went back to the classroom and rested for a while.

    Nie Zhen'er was really relieved that she didn't see Ke Li again when they returned to the classroom this time.

    She truly never wanted to see Ke Li again.

    What kind of parents can raise such a child?

    It made her impression of Ke Zhen Zhong to suffer as well.

    After walking for that long, Nie Zhen'er felt a little hot and took off her jacket. Luan Qing Xiao pretended to accidentally see the thin silver chain between her neck and asked, "What are you wearing?"

    Nie Zhen'er moved the crystal out of her clothes, "Crystal, my late Grandma gave it to me."

    "Can I take a look?" Luan Qing Xiao asked, pretending to like it very much.

    "Okay." Nie Zhen'er readily agreed.

    Luan Qing Xiao thought Nie Zhen'er would take the necklace off to show it to her. Yet, Nie Zhen'er only held the crystal in one hand and moved herself towards Luan Qing Xiao. Luan Qing Xiao's gaze was so attracted by the mound behind the crystal that she almost forgot to look at the crystal.

    "Are you done looking?" For Nie Zhen'er, this action was also inconvenient.

    Luan Qing Xiao recovered. She didn’t touch the necklace with her hand, but simply looked at Nie Zhen'er's hand.

    Luan Qing Xiao asked Nie Zhen'er after seeing it, "Why don't you take it off? Is it because you’re afraid of losing it?"

    Nie Zhen'er placed the crystal back into her neckline, "It's not that I’m afraid of losing it. My grandma told me when she handed it over to me to never take it off for the rest of my life. That way I will have a better life in the future."

    "My family used to be poorer than it is now that we didn't even have our own house. Then I put on a crystal necklace and my family’s luck gradually improved. Now we even bought our own house. My mother said it’s my grandma, blessing me. So she told me never to take it off, since she’s afraid the family will return to the way it used to be because of that."

    "Sounds a bit superstition." Luan Qing Xiao commented.

    If Nie Zhen'er didn't take off the necklace, she wouldn't even be able to exchange it for a counterfeit.

    Nie Zhen'er replied, "I don't know if it's a coincidence or a superstition. Either way, wearing it doesn't get in the way."

    Luan Qing Xiao could only find another way.

    In the days that followed, for some reason, Ke Li finally let go of Nie Zhen'er, which allowed Nie Zhen'er to have a fairly pleasant campus life.

    A month after school started, the first thing they faced was not the dance competition, but the monthly exam.

    Once the monthly exam is over, the dance competition will start.

    Nie Zhen'er was quite talented in learning. Some people still need tutoring to maintain their grades, but she doesn't need it at all. She only self-studied all her questions.

    The monthly exam took place inside their classroom, they only needed to move the tables apart and arrange seats according to their grades.

    Nie Zhen'er was first. She sat at the first table in the first row by the window.

    Yong Huan was second, sitting behind Nie Zhen'er.

    Luan Qing Xiao was third, sitting behind Yong Huan.

    It took a month for Yong Huan to open his mouth and talk to Nie Zhen'er, because every time he saw Nie Zhen'er, his brain would go blank and he couldn't remember anything.

    During the exam, Yong Huan was both excited and nervous because Nie Zhen'er was sitting in front of him.

    He only had to raise his head to see Nie Zhen'er's delicate back, black hair tied into a ponytail and the thin fair neck exposed between the black hair.

    His glances soon became stares. In the end, if it weren't for the supervisor's reminder, he almost couldn't finish writing the exam paper.

    Yong Huan finally knew why there would be the term "femme fatale" in history.

    Some beauties do have charms that make men addicted to depravity.

    But Yong Huan didn't think he was a king that would bring downfall to a nation. He believed he could control his feelings well. During the high school stage, he only had to guard Nie Zhen'er silently and then he would confess to Nie Zhen'er as soon as they graduated from high school.

    Yong Huan never thought Nie Zhen'er wouldn’t like himself.

    Was there even any women in this world who didn't like him?

    His superior family background and handsome appearance gave him enough confidence.

    It took one and a half days to test all the subjects. Because all the teachers had to go score the exam papers, the homeroom teacher discussed with the PE teacher that they would have them go to the gymnasium for the remaining half of the day and practice dance steps.

    After all, the competition was tomorrow.

    Year One Class One were already familiar with the dance steps after a month of practice. However, if they want to look good overall, they still need to practice.

    Thirty people were arranged in a five by six square. Nie Zhen'er stood in the second row, while Luan Qing Xiao stood in the fourth row.

    Nie Zhen'er always became extremely focused when doing something, Luan Qing Xiao wasn’t. She watched Nie Zhen'er while practicing, yet the movements under her feet were still better than most of the people in the class.

    After practicing it one time, the PE teacher called, "Where’s Yong Huan?"

    Yong Huan stepped out of the formation. Thinking Nie Zhen'er was currently looking at him, he couldn’t help but keep his back straight.

    "In the competition, there needs to be two leading dancers, one boy and one girl. For the boy, it’s you, how about it? Have you chosen the girl yet?"

    In terms of dancing well, Luan Qing Xiao danced the best among girls. Everyone thought that Yong Huan would definitely choose Luan Qing Xiao. Ke Li knew Yong Huan wouldn’t like Luan Qing Xiao, so she mentally prepared herself in advance. So even if Yong Huan said Luan Qing Xiao, she wouldn’t be jealous.

    Yong Huan scanned the group with a faint gaze.

    Luan Qing Xiao's heart flashed with a bad premonition.

    Sure enough, the next moment Yong Huan said in a clear voice, "Nie Zhen'er."

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