The School Beauty from the Next Class Insisted I Confess - Chapter 34

After the movie, Liang Hao dragged Xia Yiqiu to buy milk tea. The movie was too rushed to get milk tea earlier, but they managed to buy popcorn quickly. Remembering her deskmate’s gaze at the milk tea shop, Liang Hao decided it was time to fulfill her deskmate’s wish.

Only after they bought the milk tea, and Liang Hao ended up with the drink, did she realize that Yiqiu didn’t actually want milk tea. That’s strange, Liang Hao grumbled.

They had previously agreed to eat hotpot at the mall for lunch, and since they had half an hour before their reservation, they decided to stroll around the mall.

What an unfortunate coincidence.

They arrived at the jewelry floor, heading toward a store they knew well.

Liang Hao stopped dead in her tracks at the entrance.

“Yiqiu, why are you…”

…not moving?

Before she could finish her sentence, she looked in Xia Yiqiu’s direction.

Is Xu Qingfeng…? Cheating?

Impossible, she shouldn’t be like this. How could she talk intimately with that girl, and then happily go together to pick out a bracelet?

Liang Hao felt a chill and secretly looked at Xia Yiqiu.

Oh my goodness, Xu Qingfeng, your quasi-girlfriend’s face has darkened. As the head of this CP, I advise you to fend for yourself.

“Haohao, let’s go in.” Xia Yiqiu’s tone dropped a degree.

It was even colder.

“A-alright,” Liang Hao quickly followed beside her.

Xu Qingfeng was dazzled by the different types of bracelets in front of her.

“Student Chen, what do you think of this one?” Xu Qingfeng held up a bracelet. A silver butterfly inlaid with diamonds seemed to be fluttering vividly. The light shone on it, drawing all eyes.

This is the one, Xu Qingfeng had already decided, only asking for input symbolically.

“It’s very nice.”

Chen Siyu was a little surprised; Class Monitor Xu’s taste had suddenly improved. She even wanted this bracelet herself, but unfortunately, she couldn’t take something meant for someone else.

Chen Siyu still didn’t understand. Gao Zhi’s taste might be genuinely bad, but Xu Qingfeng only believed the best was good enough for Xia Yiqiu. Just like the opulent necklace she had picked out before, Xia Yiqiu was a princess in her heart and perfectly suited it, but ultimately, she was dissatisfied. Those were still too vulgar, so she picked it up and put it down again.

“Then I’ll buy this one!” Xu Qingfeng decided with a clap.

“Buy what?”

Xia Yiqiu approached her, startling Xu Qingfeng, who quickly hid the bracelet in her palm.

Her eyes narrowed slightly, her brows lifted, and she gave a faint, self-deprecating “Tch.”

Xu Dummy is clearly feeling guilty. She’s buying it just because someone else said it was good. I bet she’s buying it for the person next to her.

“Yiqiu, why are you here?”

Xu Qingfeng gripped the bracelet tightly, afraid the surprise would be ruined early.

“What, did I interrupt your date? Aren’t you going to introduce me to this person beside you?”

Xia Yiqiu’s gaze grew colder.

Heh, still hiding! Still hiding! I saw it all; there’s something going on between you two.

A date?

Me and Gao Zhi? This can’t be called a date; it’s just shopping, Xu Qingfeng didn’t realize at all that the “date” Xia Yiqiu mentioned was with Chen Siyu.

Chen Siyu was a quick-witted person. She felt something was off between the two of them during the play. This bracelet… is it for Class Monitor Xia?

The more she thought about it, the more right she felt. Chen Siyu decided to clarify her identity first. Class Monitor Xu couldn’t see the strong scent of jealousy, but she definitely could.

“Class Monitor Xia, hello. I’m Chen Siyu from Class 5, Grade 11. I just happened to run into Class Monitor Xu today, so I came over to say hello.”

The girl standing next to Xu Qingfeng introduced herself politely to Xia Yiqiu, her words full of survival instinct.

Liang Hao, standing behind Xia Yiqiu, gave the girl a thumbs-up with her eyes. Well done, little fire extinguisher.

However, Chen Siyu and Liang Hao didn’t realize that her words did not ease the tension but added fuel to the fire.

Chen Siyu, the one who bumped into Dummy last time. How is this a coincidence? She’s clearly the second Zhao Youning.

Heh, there are blossoms of romance everywhere, one after the other. Xia Yiqiu looked at Xu Qingfeng with an increasingly dangerous look.

If only I could keep her at home all the time, so no one else could see her.

And she was so intimate with someone else. This absolutely hateful Xu Dummy. People who chase me line up from the school gate to the classroom door, yet this Dummy doesn’t cherish me and doesn’t confess, leaving me hung out to dry, feeling sad alone. Xia Yiqiu felt very wronged.

She struggled to hide her sadness, her voice husky, “Hello, Student Chen.”

Seeing Xia Yiqiu, whose eyes seemed to be on the verge of tears, Xu Qingfeng completely panicked, remembering Xia Yiqiu’s previous jealousy.

No way!

She tested the waters by asking, “Yiqiu, are you misunderstanding something?”

The person in front of her did not answer directly.

“What is there to misunderstand?” Her tone was dejected, and she didn’t believe the words of either person in front of her.

There’s a lot! Xu Qingfeng shouted in her heart but didn’t dare to say it aloud.

Liang Hao figured it out. There must be a misunderstanding here, and she, the top contributor, didn’t want the effort to collapse just because the main character left.

“We just saw you two with your heads close together outside, discussing something. Was it something interesting?”

Liang Hao truly lived up to her role as the Publicity Department Minister. Her emotional intelligence was top-notch when she spoke. She didn’t point out that Xia Yiqiu was bothered by this, and she gave the two people an avenue for explanation.

Whether or not Xu Qingfeng understood, Chen Siyu definitely did. For her own innocence, she decided to tell the truth.

Sorry, Class Monitor Xu, but let me give the surprise a heads-up.

“It’s like this. We were just discussing the gift Class Monitor Xu was buying for a friend.”

Buying a gift for a friend? Xia Yiqiu thought. So, it’s not for the person in front of me.

“And where were we ‘heads close together’? It must be a trick of the angle. Class Monitor Xu always keeps a distance from me, like a thief.”

Chen Siyu truly used skill to divert the situation, hitting the nail on the head and quickly easing the atmosphere.

Xu Qingfeng quickly chimed in, “Yes, I kept a distance from her.”

“Oh.” Xia Yiqiu was slightly embarrassed. Calming down, she realized her emotions had taken over.

But I didn’t completely wrong Dummy. Her birthday is next week, and she doesn’t even know it, and she’s out buying gifts for others.

For a moment, the atmosphere turned subtly strange again. Gao Zhi, who had been sitting in the waiting area, walked over.

“Ah, have you guys finished picking? I’m so hungry.”

Gao Zhi rubbed her stomach. Xu Qingfeng sometimes thought it was a miracle that the food-loving Gao Zhi hadn’t gained weight.

“We’re done,” Xu Qingfeng seized the chance to escape, leaving the rest of the people behind and quickly heading to the cashier to pay.

“Huh? President Xia, you’re here too?” Gao Zhi was surprised by their arrival. Today truly was a day of coincidences.

“Gao Zhi, didn’t you see me, your Sister Liang?”

Liang Hao made a gesture as if to knock her on the head.

“Hehe, Sister Liang, I’ve been staring at you all along,” Gao Zhi’s thick-skinned skill was always strong. “Sister Liang, what are you guys having for lunch? We haven’t decided where to eat yet.”

Gao Zhi rarely went shopping with Xu Qingfeng and wasn’t very familiar with the good restaurants in the mall. Seeing her Sister Liang, she naturally went over to ask. They all ate together at school lunch, so one more meal wouldn’t hurt.

“We’re going to eat at Ji Ji Cheng Hotpot. Are you guys coming?”

Liang Hao was asking not just Gao Zhi, but Chen Siyu as well.

“Sounds great, sounds great! I love hotpot, especially super spicy!”

Gao Zhi raised both hands in approval, but Chen Siyu wanted to escape quickly.

“I won’t go. My mom is waiting for me to go home for dinner.”

Chen Siyu waved goodbye to Xu Qingfeng, who had returned after paying, leaving only a retreating figure. Her mom didn’t call her for dinner at all. She needs to go home quickly, or there really won’t be any food for her.

Xu Qingfeng walked over, having already placed the bracelet in her shoulder bag. Xia Yiqiu glanced at it but said nothing.

“Qingfeng, let’s go eat hotpot with President Xia and them!”

Gao Zhi liked to call her Qingfeng when she was happy, and “Xu Dummy” when she was unhappy. Clearly, she was very happy now.

“Okay,” Xu Qingfeng replied. What they eat doesn’t matter; it’s who they eat with.

The group went to the hotpot restaurant and waited in line.

Inside, it was steaming hot, and the aroma was tempting. It was getting deep into autumn, and eating something warm was delightful.

Gao Zhi’s mouth was watering again. She didn’t come to the mall for nothing today.

Sitting on the waiting bench outside, Xu Qingfeng was shelling salted peanuts. She carefully shelled them and placed them together. When her palm was almost full of peanut kernels, she cupped them and offered them to Xia Yiqiu.

“Yiqiu, here, eat these.”

The person holding the peanuts had bright, innocent eyes. Yiqiu was being neither warm nor cold towards her right now, and she felt something was wrong. She hadn’t even linked arms with her when they walked just now.

Xia Yiqiu’s expression didn’t change, but her tone was a little softer, though slightly muffled by what was in her mouth, “Put them there.”

She pointed to a clean tissue on the table. Lunch was about to start, and she didn’t want to eat too much right now, besides, salted peanuts weren’t very good to eat a lot of. Xia Yiqiu, with her cheeks puffed out from the free candy she was sucking on, symbolically tried one.

Xu Dummy is really something. I only said I wanted some, why did she shell so many? And I’m still eating candy; how can you mix salty and sweet?

“M-mm, okay.” Xu Qingfeng was a little disappointed.

Just as Xia Yiqiu was about to comfort her and eat a few more, the straightforward Gao Zhi piped up.

“President Xia is eating candy, so she definitely won’t like your salted peanuts. I’ll gladly accept them.”

Gao Zhi quickly wrapped the peanuts in the tissue, took them, and started eating them one by one.

“Mmm, not bad. Little Xu shelled them nicely.”

“Gao Zhi, share some with me.” Liang Hao seized the opportunity to loot.

Gao Zhi grabbed a handful for Liang Hao with good grace.

It’s fine, I guess. Xia Yiqiu felt that if they weren’t going to waste them, it was okay for them to eat them, which solved her dilemma.

Xu Qingfeng was indirectly enlightened by Gao Zhi and didn’t mind being called “Little Xu.” She normally wouldn’t let Gao Zhi off the hook, but she was happy again, thinking of finding something else to fuss over for Xia Yiqiu.

Xia Yiqiu saw that she was still trying to busy herself and immediately stopped her, “Don’t f-…”

“Table 53.”

Before Xia Yiqiu could finish her sentence, the waiter called their number. They were early today and had only waited for less than ten minutes.

“Coming, coming,” Gao Zhi responded, urging everyone to get up.

Liang Hao took charge of ordering, asking everyone what they wanted. Xu Qingfeng said she would listen to Xia Yiqiu; she had no opinion.

Xia Yiqiu didn’t know that Xu Qingfeng couldn’t eat spicy food. Gao Zhi, the scatterbrain, had forgotten too, her eyes glued to the menu, showing no concern for her best friend. The three people who liked spicy food ordered a spicy pot, not even considering a split pot. It was true that in daily life, it was hard to tell everyone’s preferences when they ate from a large pot.

After the hotpot meal, everyone noticed Xu Qingfeng’s lips had turned bright red, and they finally ordered an egg-fried rice for her to eat.

Quietly eating her egg-fried rice in the hotpot restaurant, Xu Qingfeng was content.

After the meal, Gao Zhi dragged Liang Hao to the third-floor arcade to play street fighters and basketball. They had planned this during dinner and quickly vanished.

Best friends and girlfriends? Who are they?

In their eyes, there was only one goal: “King of the Arcade.”

“Let’s go, Dummy. We’ll go take a look too.”

Xia Yiqiu had completely regained her senses by then. She needed to reflect on how she could have had such dangerous thoughts earlier.

Xu Qingfeng looked at the hand that was once again holding hers, her smile almost reaching the back of her head.

After a few steps, Xia Yiqiu recalled the bracelet Xu Qingfeng had hidden tightly. She hadn’t seen it clearly from a distance, only knowing that it was very shiny and dazzling.

“Who did you buy that bracelet for?”

Xia Yiqiu asked naturally, as if she had just remembered it casually.

“That?” Xu Qingfeng was a little nervous, her body stiff, and her words not flowing smoothly.

After a long pause, she finally calmed herself and looked directly into Xia Yiqiu’s eyes.

“I bought it for someone very important to me, someone I really like.”

A very liked friend? Xia Yiqiu thought. An important friend is fine, but I need to ask what kind of liking it is.

“What kind of liking is it?” Xia Yiqiu pressed on.

“It’s a very deep, deep liking.”

A liking so deep that I want to give her everything, including myself.

A liking so deep that I don’t want to be just friends.

But she couldn’t say it.

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