Chapter 88

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Wang Fei and Li Peizhen turned to watch the drama unfold, but they didn't expect it to end in a tragedy. The girl who had made the first move was cruelly rejected by the heartless and unfeeling young man, and she left in tears.

"This kid, he's got a heart of stone!" A hint of admiration appeared on Wang Fei's chubby face.

Not everyone can remain calm and unaffected in the face of beauty.

"He's just putting on an act, playing hard to get, and teasing Yao Jina. Don't you know human nature is base? The harder something is to get, the more people want it. Just wait, Yao Jina won't give up. She'll continue to seduce Xiao Fei, and her advances will only get more intense. Xiao Fei will fall for it," Li Peizhen said resentfully.

Almost a month after the remedial class started, Xiao Fei finally came to register. Li Peizhen didn't think Xiao Fei's grades would remain at the top in the remedial class.

After all, everyone's levels were not that different. During the remedial year, everyone studied as if every second counted. Wasting a month would definitely put him behind others.

Li Peizhen was firmly convinced that she, Wang Fei, and Zhu Xiling could firmly keep Xiao Fei under them.

Yeah! Just wait and see! Today is Thursday, and a weekly exam will be held the day after tomorrow. At that time, Xiao Fei's weak nature will be completely exposed.

At that time, we'll see how Li Tangqiu's attitude changes.

Right now, Wang Fei and Li Peizhen were unhappy with Li Tangqiu's excessive favoritism towards Xiao Fei, feeling that they were being neglected in comparison.

"Hehe! I think he'll sit this one out," Wang Fei said with a smile.

"You mean, he won't take this week's exam?" Li Peizhen asked.

Wang Fei nodded. "He just got here, and he hasn't touched a book for almost two months. Do you think he won't be worried about failing and losing face?"

Li Peizhen thought about it and agreed.

"How about we find a way to provoke him into taking the exam? That way, he'll embarrass himself and disappoint Li Tangqiu," Li Peizhen said.

"That's easy. We can ask someone to quiz him with some difficult math problems. If he can't solve them, he'll lose face. As for how to get him to take the exam, we can tell him at lunch that we hope he takes it and even challenge him to a competition. If he doesn't accept, we can spread it around school to shame him," Wang Fei suggested.

"Sounds good, let's do it," Li Peizhen nodded.

Speaking of which, Yao Jina wiped her tears and turned to leave, and the onlookers also dispersed.

Xiao Fei looked at Yan Zhang and You Gui, shrugged, and smiled. "There's only one seat. Who wants to sit here? How about we play rock-paper-scissors? By the way, am I really that popular?"

"Go to hell! Do you really think I want to sit next to you? I'm just worried you'll be lonely and bored in the back, so I thought I'd come and keep you company," Yan Zhang said, flipping him the middle finger in disdain.

You Gui glanced at the departing Yao Jina and laughed. "Just now, you said that having someone sit next to you would be a distraction. To avoid affecting you, and to prevent you from blaming me if you fail the college entrance exam next year, I'll let you sit alone in the back."

The two of them moved their books back to their seats.

Seeing that Yan Zhang and You Gui had left, no one else dared to sit next to Xiao Fei, fearing he would reject them and make them lose face.

What Xiao Fei didn't expect was that this incident would leave a significant aftereffect: rumors began to spread that "Xiao Fei is very arrogant."

Of course, that's a story for later.

At the moment, Xiao Fei was quite depressed to see that the people who had been vying to sit next to him were now abandoning him.

But, it wasn't all bad. Sitting alone, he could write his drafts during class without having to hide them.

Xiao Fei looked at Xu Fengjuan sitting at the front of the classroom and felt a mischievous urge to tease her.

She must have seen him reject Yao Jina's offer to sit next to him.

He wondered what she was thinking.

Would her dislike of him lessen?

Taking advantage of the time before class, he tore a piece of paper from his notebook and wrote a message: "Xu Fengjuan, I like you. I liked you from the first moment I saw you. I will definitely make you my wife in this lifetime, I promise!"

He signed his name, "Xiao Fei."

This kind of paper-passing game was common in his previous life, even during class when the teacher was lecturing.

He slowly folded the paper into a heart shape.

"Pass this to Xu Fengjuan," Xiao Fei handed the heart-shaped paper to a boy sitting in front of him.

The boy looked at Xiao Fei, then at the heart-shaped paper, smiled knowingly, and turned to tap the student in front of him.

The paper was quickly passed forward until it reached Xu Fengjuan.

Xu Fengjuan was talking to her desk mate.

Actually, it was her desk mate, a skinny girl named Wang Min, who was rambling on about Xiao Fei's earlier actions.

"Too cool! I didn't expect Xiao Fei to reject Yao Jina so straightforwardly. There are so few men these days who aren't swayed by a fox spirit," Wang Min chattered.

"Uh-huh," Xu Fengjuan said, her eyes on her book.

She hadn't forgotten the two times Xiao Fei had expressed his affection for her.

The first time was after the college entrance exam, when he stopped her at the school gate and called her by her nickname. It was strange because she had never met him before.

How did he know her?

And how did he know her nickname?

The second time was after she started remedial classes at the high school. One day, he came to the classroom door and looked at her with such intensity that it made her heart race and blush.

At the time, her dislike of him was simple: she was wary of strangers. How could she trust someone she didn't know?

Moreover, Xiao Fei's bold actions were something no other boy would dare to do. No one had ever been so bold and direct in expressing their feelings to her. She couldn't accept it at the time.

The last reason she resisted him: she was a very ambitious girl, always diligent and hardworking, with her eyes set on the college entrance exam. She had no time for anything else.

Romance was secondary to her.

She couldn't be foolish enough to let a relationship ruin her chances of getting into college.

Xu Fengjuan was always a girl with high aspirations. She was ambitious and strived to be the best in everything she did. This was true for the college entrance exam, and if she got into her dream university, she could then pursue a romantic relationship with the right person.

"Fengjuan, it seems Xiao Fei has a thing for you," Wang Min continued to gossip.

"That's impossible, don't make things up," Xu Fengjuan blushed and said to Wang Min.

At that moment, a classmate behind her gently tapped Xu Fengjuan's back. "Someone passed you something."

Xu Fengjuan turned to see a heart-shaped paper ball. Her heart started pounding. Before she could take it, Wang Min snatched it. "Let me see! Who passed this to Xu Fengjuan, and what does it say?"