Volume 4 Chapter 25
by Golden DragonVolume 4 + Chapter 25: Back To Daily Routine
“Qianxue, what exactly is our relationship, anyway?”
After Bai Yuxuan asked this, the classmates who had been crowding around her all swarmed over to Ouyang Qianxue.
“Yeah, yeah, Qianxue, what’s your relationship, really?”
“It must be that kind of relationship, right!” Faced with the interrogation from his classmates, Qianxue was utterly flustered.
(Damn it, that wretched Bai Yuxuan, he’s dumped this whole mess on me!) Qianxue shot a fierce glare at Bai Yuxuan, who only smiled back even more brightly.
“There is no relationship between me and Bai Yuxuan!” Qianxue called out loudly. After a moment’s thought, he decided that was the safest answer, because if he said they were just friends, his classmates would certainly be suspicious, after all, the two of them looked so perfectly matched in everyone’s eyes. It was only thanks to their previous pretense of being ordinary classmates that no rumors had ever spread.
“Oh? No relationship? Qianxue, you really are quite heartless, we’ve even stayed together in a hotel…”
At these words from Bai Yuxuan, an uproar broke out.
“Aiya! Qianxue, you two are so daring, you’re only in your second year of high school and already…” One of the girls nearby covered her flushed cheeks and said.
“Qianxue, you’ve been hiding things deep all this time! Usually when we chat, you blush just at the mention of kissing, but who knew you’d already gone all the way in secret!” Another girl nudged him with her elbow.
“No, that’s not it at all! Don’t listen to his nonsense!” Qianxue hurriedly denied it, but while he was still frantically trying to explain, Bai Yuxuan seemed to think the commotion wasn’t big enough, she kept undermining him.
“Let me tell you all, Qianxue’s skin is so smooth that when I placed my hand on her back and gently pressed, it just slid right down without any resistance! The only drawback was that her chest was a bit lacking, rather bony to the touch…”
At this, Bai Yuxuan, like a storyteller at a teahouse, sat down on a desk and began giving a detailed account of her tactile experiences with every part of Qianxue’s body. The surrounding students listened with red faces, some of the boys even pulled out notebooks and started taking notes.
“Bai Yuxuan, stop talking nonsense! When did you ever touch…” Qianxue was about to explode when he saw Bai Yuxuan mouth something to him. The moment he read her lips, the rest of his words got stuck in his throat.
Because what she had mouthed was. “Massage parlor.”
“Bai Yuxuan, stop with your lies! Don’t you dare slander Senior Ouyang’s reputation!” Just as Qianxue was at a loss, a voice rang out from outside the crowd. The students followed the sound and saw that it was Duan Haichen.
“Someone as noble as Senior Ouyang would never stoop to be with someone like you!”
But facing Duan Haichen’s rebuttal, Bai Yuxuan merely smiled faintly.
“Oh, if it isn’t Junior Duan. What’s the matter? Realizing you’ve already lost your chance, so you can’t accept reality?” Bai Yuxuan hopped off the desk, walked up to Duan Haichen, and taunted him.
“Who’s the one who can’t accept reality? You know it in your heart!”
“Hmph, know it in my heart, you say…” Bai Yuxuan let out a cold laugh.
She leaned down and, in a voice too low for the other students to hear, said to Duan Haichen, “Then do you know in your heart why Qianxue left Xijiang this time? And do you know how much hardship hides beneath your Senior Ouyang’s seemingly gentle surface? You don’t know a thing, that’s why when your Senior Ouyang left Xijiang, you were at a complete loss, not knowing where to find her.”
Upon hearing this, Duan Haichen’s defiant demeanor crumbled instantly. He clenched his fists in regret, because Bai Yuxuan’s words were entirely correct, during the time Senior Ouyang had been away from Xijiang, he truly hadn’t been able to help in the slightest.
Seeing Bai Yuxuan whisper something in Duan Haichen’s ear and then watch him hang his head, the surrounding students began murmuring among themselves.
“Hey, what do you think Bai Yuxuan said to Duan Haichen that made him so dejected?”
“I bet Bai Yuxuan was emphasizing how he’s better than him in every way, and that’s why Duan Haichen looks so frustrated.”
“Naive!” A boy with glasses pushed them up.
“My guess is that Bai Yuxuan told Duan Haichen. ‘Your senior was amazing last night!'”
Hearing the speculations of the students around him, Ouyang Qianxue nearly coughed up three pints of blood. He felt he was on the verge of blurting out his true gender right then and there.
Meanwhile, watching the crestfallen Duan Haichen, Bai Yuxuan felt a surge of complex emotions. The reason she had disliked Duan Haichen before was jealousy, because in her eyes at the time, Duan Haichen possessed everything she longed for, without the constraints of family power. And Duan Haichen was a boy, which meant he could openly pursue Qianxue.
But now the tables had turned, Duan Haichen had no idea that what had once been his gender advantage had now become an insurmountable barrier on his path to pursuing Qianxue. So Bai Yuxuan actually felt a bit of sympathy for him. The reason she had done this was to make Duan Haichen give up on Qianxue as soon as possible, and that was for his own good, since Duan Haichen wasn’t a bad person.
“Alright, the jokes end here.” Bai Yuxuan clapped her hands.
“Actually, there’s nothing between Ouyang and me.”
“Who’d believe that? Bai Yuxuan, you described things in such detail. And besides, Wang Qian even thanked you earlier for bringing Qianxue back.”
“Exactly.” Faced with Bai Yuxuan’s sudden reversal, none of the students in the class bought it.
“You’ve all misunderstood. When Wang Qian said ‘brought Qianxue back,’ she meant that yesterday, while I was driving into the city on business, I happened to run into Wang Qian. It was already late, there were no cars near the airport, and I was passing by, so Wang Qian asked me to give Ouyang a ride on my way back.”
“That’s right, the reason I thanked Bai Yuxuan earlier was exactly for that,” Wang Qian chimed in, helping cover for them.
“As for how Ouyang and I usually are at school, you’ve all seen it with your own eyes. Besides, personally speaking, I haven’t yet met a girl who interests me, I can swear to that. Anyway, I have matters to attend to at the student council, so I’ll be going now.” With that, Bai Yuxuan left the classroom.
“What a letdown, I was actually expecting something.” Hearing Bai Yuxuan go so far as to swear an oath, the students who had been hoping for gossip all wore disappointed expressions.
Meanwhile, walking down the corridor, Bai Yuxuan’s smile grew wider and wider. The reason she hadn’t rushed to expose their relationship was that she didn’t want to be disturbed, once rumors about her and Qianxue spread, every move they made would be watched. Given Qianxue’s shy nature, it would be hard to carry out her subsequent “conquest plan.” Besides, there was no need to rush things at school, because…
At that thought, Bai Yuxuan wore the smile of someone whose scheme had succeeded.
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