Chapter 34 : Chapter 34
Chapter 34. Young Master, I Wore the Black Stockings You Like
Li Nan’s expression was so serious that it had begun to look slightly twisted.
If it had been an ordinary girl, she might have agreed by now, simply because it would have been difficult to refuse him after he had said something like that.
But Zhao Mingyue was not an ordinary person.
Her way of thinking was quite different from most girls. Even after hearing Li Nan speak like that, she still maintained her position.
“Li Nan, I really do have something important to do after school. If you consider me a friend, then you should think about my situation as well. If there is something important you want to say, you can say it now. There is no need to wait until after school.”
Zhao Mingyue spoke seriously.
Then her tone softened slightly.
“My family situation is not comparable to yours, Student Li. It takes me half an hour just to return home. My schedule really does not allow much spare time. I hope you can understand.”
“I already said that I will give you money. Is that not acceptable?”
“No. We are only classmates. I will not accept your money.”
“Zhao Mingyue, you do not even earn one hundred yuan a day. I will give you ten thousand yuan—one hundred times your salary!”
Li Nan still refused to give up.
He had to find a way to make Zhao Mingyue stay today.
This was the task Teacher Chen had given him.
If he failed to complete it…
As he said this, Li Nan could no longer fully control his emotions. His voice became slightly louder.
Several students in the classroom turned their heads and looked at them curiously.
Zhao Mingyue felt a headache coming on.
She closed her eyes and gently rubbed her temples.
“Please allow me to refuse.”
“You…”
Before Li Nan could finish speaking, the class bell rang outside the classroom.
Seeing that Zhao Mingyue had already stopped looking at him entirely, Li Nan clenched his teeth and said nothing further.
Class began.
Zhao Mingyue listened attentively.
On the desk, Miss Rabbit sat quietly beside her, its head lowered slightly. Its red eyes stared at Li Nan sitting nearby.
Zhao Mingyue’s seat was by the window in the third row from the back.
Despite this, her academic performance was extremely good. She ranked highly in the entire school.
She was not among the absolute top students, but even so, her results were already quite surprising.
After all, she had almost no free time.
She was either working part-time or on her way to work.
When others were studying, she was working.
When others attended tutoring sessions, she was working.
When others were relaxing, she was still working.
In other words, Zhao Mingyue’s academic results had nothing to do with diligence.
She was purely a naturally talented student.
During the morning classes, Bai Yu observed Li Nan beside Zhao Mingyue while also occasionally watching Lu Liangting sitting in front of them.
As for Zhao Mingyue herself, there was not much to observe.
She often lost focus during class.
Various things outside the window easily distracted her.
She even took advantage of the moment when the math teacher turned around to write on the board, quickly unwrapped a chocolate and slipped it into her mouth.
Fortunately, she did not remain distracted the entire time.
Most of the time, she listened attentively.
In comparison, Lu Liangting appeared much more serious.
Li Nan, however, was the complete opposite.
He did not listen to the lesson at all and simply lay on the desk sleeping.
Perhaps because he did this so frequently, the teacher had grown accustomed to it. Even when noticing him asleep, the teacher did not bother to intervene.
At first, Bai Yu also thought that Li Nan was sleeping.
But after looking more carefully, she realized something was wrong.
Li Nan had his arms folded on the desk with his face resting in the crook of his elbow.
But he was not sleeping.
Through the narrow gap between his arms, his bloodshot eyes were staring fixedly at Zhao Mingyue beside him.
Those eyes carried extremely complicated emotions.
One thing Bai Yu was certain of was that he was definitely not thinking about becoming Zhao Mingyue’s boyfriend.
Instead, it looked as if he wanted to peel off her skin, tear out her tendons, and dismember her piece by piece.
The class lasted forty minutes.
Li Nan stared at Zhao Mingyue without blinking for the entire forty minutes.
Bai Yu had only seen such madness in the eyes of lunatics.
She began to suspect that Li Nan might have also had his identity replaced.
But the problem was that he was not female.
Among the more than thirty game participants, only two had originally been women. Even they had been modified by the game, though they remained female like everyone else.
There were now two possibilities.
Either Li Nan was a game participant disguised as a male student but was actually female.
Or he had been “modified” by one of the other participants.
The first possibility was extremely unlikely.
Although he had long center-parted hair and a somewhat delicate appearance, his bone structure and Adam’s apple would not lie.
The second possibility was far more likely.
Bai Yu knew very well that those lunatics possessed endless methods.
“Someone wants to kill you.”
Just after class ended, Zhao Mingyue heard Bai Yu’s voice in her mind.
“Kill me?”
“After class, pay attention to Li Nan.”
“Li Nan…”
Zhao Mingyue raised an eyebrow. The hand that had been about to eat another chocolate paused.
After Bai Yu’s reminder, Zhao Mingyue also noticed Li Nan’s gaze.
She pretended not to see it, but honestly, the look frightened her a little.
After experiencing two missions and encountering that other world, Zhao Mingyue had learned an important lesson from Bai Yu’s constant reminders.
Compared to ghosts, humans were often more terrifying.
Ghosts were simple.
They only wanted to kill you.
Humans were different.
Most of the time, their goals were not merely to kill you.
They preferred making you suffer a fate worse than death.
“He definitely has bad intentions toward me. Maybe he wants to kill me. If that is the case, I should strike first and kill him!”
Zhao Mingyue replied to Bai Yu in her mind.
Upon hearing this, the rabbit doll on the desk moved its head ever so slightly.
Was that really something Zhao Mingyue would say?
But just as this thought appeared, Zhao Mingyue added:
“Hehehe, did I imitate you well?”
“Imitate?”
“Yes, I am imitating you.”
“…”
“Did we not say we should strike first? Or did I guess wrong?”
“You did not guess wrong.”
Zhao Mingyue laid Miss Rabbit flat on the desk and held the toy with both hands, staring into its red eyes.
“Do you have a plan?”
“No. We will adapt to the situation.”
“Ah…”
Near the final class of the day, the otherwise peaceful morning was interrupted by a small incident.
“Young Master, this is the lunch you asked me to prepare. I have brought it for you.”
A beautiful girl wearing a black dress stood at the classroom door.
Her voice was loud enough for more than half the class to hear.
“Zhizi, did I not tell you not to call me Young Master…”
Lu Liangting sounded helpless.
“Young Master, please do not frown. It will make you age prematurely. In order to make you happy, today I wore the black stockings you like.”
Lu Liangting was the male protagonist of the manga.
And this world itself was based on a manga.
Lu Liangting came from a wealthy and noble family.
Therefore, Bai Yu did not find it strange that he was addressed as “Young Master.”
However…Was Lu Liangting’s character setting somewhat different from what she had imagined?