Forced into a Secret Marriage with the Villain, We Now Have a Child - Chapter 21.2

Which eye had it been? Or was it the first glance?

Jian Chun couldn’t figure it out, and by now, her brain was too fried to digest any more physics. The second period was Chinese, and she spent the entire hour spacing out. Her thoughts were tangled into such a tight knot that her head felt ready to explode. Because she was so obviously distracted, the Chinese teacher called her name several times, drawing the attention of the entire class.

Knowing that her gaze was among those watching made Jian Chun feel even worse.

When the bell finally rang, Jian Chun took a deep breath. she marched toward the third row in the center of the room and tapped on the desk of the grade’s top student.

As Yu Siyi looked up, Jian Chun felt a wave of reluctant embarrassment. “Hey,” she said quickly. “Step outside for a second.”

Her voice wasn’t particularly loud, but it was enough to draw the eyes of everyone nearby. The whole class was watching. Yu Siyi didn’t move; she simply lowered her head back to her work.

Zhu Feifei, Yu Siyi’s protective best friend, didn’t bother her friend but began whispering to those around her, wondering what kind of “problem” Jian Chun was having now.

Jian Chun also felt like she had a problem. She waited outside for a while, but when she looked back, she saw that Yu Siyi hadn’t moved an inch. Instead, she was buried in her work, writing furiously.

The combination of her own agitation and the sweltering heat finally snapped Jian Chun’s self-control. She walked back in and stood right in front of Yu Siyi. “Could you please cooperate a little?”

Zhu Feifei stood up first, acting like a mother hen guarding her chick. She glared at Jian Chun. “What do you want with Siyi?”

Jian Chun was speechless. She had known since she arrived in this world that she and Zhu Feifei didn’t get along. She snapped back, “What could I possibly do to her?”

Jing Ge, Jian Chun’s loyal follower, chimed in from behind, “Asking Yu Siyi to come outside is giving her face! It’s not like we’re going to cripple her.”

“You want to fight? Go ahead. I’ll tell the teacher, and you little deliquents can write another self-reflection letter.”

Jing Ge immediately launched into a shouting match with the group.

Throughout the chaos, Yu Siyi remained seemingly unmoved. However, after Jian Chun had stood there for five minutes, Yu Siyi finally finished a problem and looked up. She even gave Jian Chun a small smile.

Jian Chun saw exactly what was behind that smile: Mockery.

Jian Chun bit her lip. She grabbed a piece of scratch paper from Yu Siyi’s desk, snatched her pen, and scribbled a line of text. When she finished, she pressed the paper down and said with a dead serious expression, “This is for your eyes only.”

Zhu Feifei reacted instantly, reaching for the paper. “Is it an insult? Siyi, let me read it! I can curse her out in a hundred different ways without repeating a single word!”

Aggressive Zhu Feifei, Jian Chun thought. God, she’s annoying.

Jian Chun held the paper down firmly and repeated, “Read it yourself.” Then, she turned on her heel and left the battlefield she had just ignited.

A flicker of curiosity was finally sparked in Yu Siyi. After reading the note, a smile appeared on her lips—though if one looked closely, the smile was chillingly cold. She looked toward Jian Chun with a gaze full of baffled bewilderment.

Meanwhile, Jian Chun’s heart was pounding. She kept telling herself that this high-school version of Yu Siyi was much easier to handle than the one from the future. As long as she was assertive enough, she could steer her future back onto the right track!

Filled with this new determination, Jian Chun stole a glance back at Yu Siyi.

Naturally, her eyes were caught immediately.

Jian Chun took a deep breath in and a long breath out. In that moment of eye contact, Jian Chun narrowed her eyes. Gone was her previous arrogance; instead, she looked confident and even offered Yu Siyi a smug smile.

This brief, few-second confrontation left Jian Chun with a massive sense of victory.

Yu Siyi looked back down at the note, unable to comprehend the logic. Did she lose her mind while writing that self-reflection letter?

On the note, written in neat, elegant handwriting that actually matched the girl who wrote it, was a single sentence:

“I know you have a crush on me. I suggest you give up early; there’s no future for us.”

Without a second thought, Yu Siyi crumpled the note into a ball and tossed it into the trash can.