CHAPTER 393: CHAPTER 392: ARGUING AND JEALOUSY

Kang Jian beat a hasty retreat under Zhen Yu’s cold indifference, and Lu Huai and the girls in the same group immediately started gossiping.

Lu Huai, straightforward as ever, blurted out in front of everyone, "Hey! Zhen Yu! How did you get to know that kid Kang Jian? And how did he start sticking to you?"

"I don’t know him!" Zhen Yu’s tone was laced with a trace of chill, and anyone who knew her could tell, she was not pleased!

Lu Huai immediately clammed up wisely and started digging himself into a hole.

Yet the female classmate was still clueless, "I heard Kang Jian talking about a life-saving grace. How did you save him, Zhen Yu?"

"With us not being familiar, what obligation do I have to answer your question?!" Holding such thoughts, Zhen Yu didn’t even bother to open her mouth, sending a cold glare straight over, and cursing in her heart, "Just f*cking stop asking me!"

The female classmate wilted under her stare and awkwardly shut her mouth.

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Strange fates are elusive; it seems as if two people might never bump into each other if they don’t. But once they do encounter each other, the number of times Zhen Yu bumps into Kang Jian on campus noticeably increased.

After the morning exercises on the playground, during lunch and dinner at the canteen, or even in the corridors of the new teaching building, these could all be places for an accidental meeting!

Zhen Yu wasn’t a fool. Bumping into an irrelevant person every day for a week, it was hard for her not to have suspicions!

On May 8th, Zhen Yu took a seat early on the school-chartered bus to Harbin.

When she saw Kang Jian boarding, her first reaction was to immediately stand up and walk out!

"Hey?! Zhen Yu! Where are you going?"

"None of your business!" Zhen Yu threw back a sentence and brushed past the other party!

At that time, there weren’t many people on the bus, and Zhen Yu didn’t speak loudly, so Kang Jian’s expression managed to remain somewhat decent. He hesitated for two seconds on the spot, and eventually, he sat on the outer side of the seat Zhen Yu had just occupied.

The items Zhen Yu had with her were already placed on the luggage rack above the bus seat, just a new backpack filled with some snacks and water.

Zhen Yu, empty-handed, stood in front of the bus, annoyed at herself for arriving so early!

If she had known earlier that this tag-along Kang Jian was also part of the competition event, she would definitely have called Lu Huai in advance and arranged to meet him at the school gate before coming together!

Waiting and waiting! It wasn’t until ten minutes before the bus was due to leave that Lu Huai finally arrived, dragging his suitcase along.

He spotted Zhen Yu standing in front of the bus right away and teased, "Why are you standing outside instead of sitting on the bus? You couldn’t be waiting for me, could you?!"

Zhen Yu glared at him, "Knowing that, you should have come earlier!"

"What? You really were waiting here for me?!" Lu Huai’s eyes widened in mock surprise and delight: "Oh my heavens! It’s not easy to get this kind of treatment from you!!"

Zhen Yu remained noncommittal.

Only after getting on the bus did Lu Huai find out! All this fuss, and he was just a shield (for Kang Jian)...

Regarding Kang Jian offering his seat, Zhen Yu didn’t even spare him a sidelong glance; she acted like she didn’t recognize him from start to finish.

Lu Huai came too late; there were no more empty double seats left on the bus. It was only because Lu Huai found an acquaintance to give up his seat that Zhen Yu could sit with him.

The moment Lu Huai’s acquaintance started to make a joke, he was silenced by a terrified look from Lu Huai.

"Bro, please don’t say another word! I beg you, just don’t!"

In Lu Huai’s mind, anyone daring to spread rumors with Zhen Yu, the tigress, was probably tired of living...

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The journey from Qi City to Harbin spans several hundred kilometers, and it would take the bus four to five hours to get there.

Many classmates only had a bit of breakfast at home before they left in the morning, so not long after the bus set off, quite a few students started rummaging through their bags and began snacking and drinking.

The pretty English Teacher Xiao Zhang was the only female teacher accompanying the team.

Even though she had already ’forced’ everyone to go to the bathroom before departure, upon seeing this scene she still reminded them, "It’s okay to eat, but try not to drink too much water or beverages! Once the bus is on the highway, we can’t stop just anywhere! You’ll have to wait until we reach a service area before you can go to the bathroom! Did everyone hear that?!"

"We heard it!" A sparse chorus of responses arose amidst the sounds of chewing and swallowing.

Teacher Zhang felt somewhat helpless, but didn’t have a better solution. She could only turn back and sit down, hoping the students would be sensible!

Zhen Yu got up early in the morning and had an early breakfast! By the time the bus departed, her breakfast was digested, so she wasn’t hungry nor was she uncomfortable from just having eaten and then riding.

After asking her and being rejected, Lu Huai began to eat and drink by himself, while Zhen Yu leaned back in her seat with her eyes closed, resting.

"Zhen Yu, this is for you!"

Kang Jian’s voice was close, but Zhen Yu didn’t want to open her eyes at all.

That’s what she thought, and that’s what she did! Just pretending she was really asleep!

Zhen Yu couldn’t understand! She had already made it clear that she didn’t want to know him, so why did he insist on sticking to her like a plaster?!!

Zhen Yu, who appeared to be asleep, was actually so annoyed that she even regretted listening to that garbage’s suggestion to go "save a life!"

She should have... Oh well! At least it was a life!

But if Kang Jian thought that because she saved him, she would pay attention to him and allow him to use it as an excuse to cling to her, then he was absolutely mistaken! Not in this lifetime!

There were too many people on the bus, so she bore with it.

If he dared to "coincidentally" run into her again in a place with fewer people, Zhen Yu wouldn’t mind taking his name, reversing it, and adding a ’No’ in front!

Lu Huai watched as Kang Jian’s face slowly turned red. Even though he didn’t want to meddle, out of recognition and sympathy he reluctantly reached out his hand.

"Give it here! She’s probably asleep."

After Kang Jian passed the food to Lu Huai, he wanted to turn back to his seat, but Lu Huai unceremoniously spoke up from behind him! And he didn’t even care that there were five teachers on the bus!

Of course, the tactless Lu Huai didn’t think there was anything wrong with his words that needed hiding!

"I’m telling you, lad! That’s enough! It’ll be too late if you actually get beaten up!"

Lu Huai’s message was simple: he was advising Kang Jian not to provoke Zhen Yu.

But to the other students and the five teachers, it sounded like jealousy and a threat! Especially to the group of brothers who had given up their seats for Lu Huai, it felt as if a whole glass of water had been spilt in their laps! You say you haven’t peed?! Who would believe that...

Kang Jian obviously misunderstood as well, and quite thoroughly at that!

After hearing that sentence, he turned back to his seat without a word, with an ashen face!

Just like that, without Zhen Yu and Lu Huai’s knowledge, they automatically became a ’couple’ in the eyes of the teachers and classmates...