Xia Xiaodie's stunning change in attitude, Xu Fan's indifferent walk back to the classroom, during this time, what exactly happened? What did Xia Yanyu say to Xu Fan outside earlier?

Almost the entire class wanted to know the answer.

Yet, one was the class belle and the young miss of Jinling's Xia family, the other, a person of interest at Zijing Middle School. Although everyone wanted to discuss it, they felt too embarrassed to speak up in class.

All morning, no one spoke a word in class, silently observing Xu Fan and Xia Xiaodie, hoping to excavate the answer from them.

Unfortunately, Xu Fan spent the morning resting with his eyes closed, revealing nothing, and Xia Xiaodie, even more silent, focused solely on her textbook.

When the bell signaling the end of the morning classes rang, the crowd, still without answers, stood up from their seats languidly and walked out of the classroom with lackluster interest.

Guan Shimeng didn't rise from her chair with her backpack until nearly all the students had left the classroom.

In some ways, Xu Fan's fallout with Xia Xiaodie was good news for her, but at that moment, seeing their ongoing cold war, the feeling in her heart was far from pleasant.

Even though none of this was her fault, she still did not want to witness the scene.

She did not want to see her good friend unhappy, and even less to see Xu Fan in distress.

"Xu Fan, class is over..."

Holding her backpack, Guan Shimeng walked over to Xu Fan, who had his eyes closed, and tugged at his arm.

"Yeah, let's go."

Xu Fan opened his eyes, surveyed the empty classroom, stood up, and was ready to leave with Guan Shimeng.

She was going to live broadcast shortly, and Xu Fan did not wish to hold her up with his issues.

"No need, Xu Fan, I can go by myself."

However, Guan Shimeng pushed Xu Fan back down onto the chair. She cast a complicated glance at the solitary figure of Xia Xiaodie, then squeezing out a smile, said, "You stay here."

If gaining Xu Fan's attention came at such a cost, Guan Shimeng would rather not have it.

"Go for it!"

Raising her fist in encouragement, Guan Shimeng shouted to Xu Fan and then hurriedly left the classroom.

"..."

This girl was great in every way but never considered her own needs, Xu Fan sighed helplessly and rose from his chair.

With only him and Xia Xiaodie remaining in the now empty classroom, whether for Guan Shimeng or for himself, Xu Fan had to find out whatever attitude Xia Xiaodie, this stubborn girl, was holding onto.

Walking over to Xia Xiaodie's desk, Xu Fan directly took a seat beside her.

It was evident that she was intensely focused on a higher mathematics problem set, seemingly oblivious to his arrival.

"Ahem..."

Normally, her antics would intensify around him, so her silence today was unprecedented. The awkward atmosphere was making Xu Fan uncomfortable.

He coughed twice, but Xia Xiaodie's only response was to turn to the next page.

Her cold attitude was a mirror image of Xia Yanyu, and Xu Fan really disliked this kind of behavior. He stood up again, ready to leave.

"Sit down."

As he had just stood up, Xia Xiaodie, surprisingly focused on her writing, suddenly spoke up.

Xu Fan was taken aback and turned to look at Xia Xiaodie following her icy tone.

Though slightly immature, Xia Xiaodie's expression resembled Xia Yanyu's to an uncanny degree.

Putting down the pen in her hand, she said expressionlessly, "Xu Fan, can you answer a question for me?"

"What?"

Xia Xiaodie's attitude piqued Xu Fan's interest enough to sit down, thinking to himself, could it be that this girl is going to repeat that speech she gave before?

"Tell me honestly, am I not very talented and should consider acting instead?"

"What?"

The words that came out of Xia Xiaodie's mouth weren't those nauseating lines from melodramatic TV shows; instead, they made Xu Fan frown in confusion.

What the hell was this girl up to?

"Hehe, fooled you, didn't I?"

At that moment, Xia Xiaodie grinned mischievously, pulled down one of her eyelids, stuck out her playful pink tongue, and made a face at Xu Fan.

"I tricked all of you~"

"..."

Seemingly basking in the sense of achievement from having fooled the whole class, the girl couldn't help but cover her mouth and burst into laughter.

A vein throbbed in Xu Fan's forehead. After all this time, had this girl's aloofness been nothing but an imitation of her sister, who always looked like she had a deathly pale face?

"Having fun?"

Clutching onto his last bit of composure, Xu Fan squeezed out these three words, and Xia Xiaodie blinked playfully, giggling, "Of course it's fun."

"My sister fell for it, Teacher Zhou fell for it, Guan Shimeng fell for it, and even you, hehe, big dummy!"

"Ah! You, what are you doing!"

Before Xia Xiaodie could continue showing off, Xu Fan pinned her down on his leg and gave her a slap right on her buttocks.

"You little brat, think this is fun? Do you have any idea how many people you're making worry about you?"

Xu Fan didn't consider it a mere prank, as at the very least, Guan Shimeng had been genuinely concerned about her and him all morning!

"You think I want to be like this!"

Before Xu Fan could continue spanking her, Xia Xiaodie, lying on his thigh, suddenly roared, her voice trembling with a cry, the helplessness in her voice freezing his raised hand in mid-air.

"If I hadn't done this, I would never have been able to come to school again. I know it's not fun, but I simply had no other choice..."

Getting up from Xu Fan's thigh, Xia Xiaodie's eyes were brimming with tears as she wiped away her tears, her voice choked with sobs as she expressed her grievances.

"..."

From the first moment he saw her, she had seemed like a sunflower, always radiant with joy, always happy, even when she was held hostage by Bingdilian, he had never seen her shed a tear.

But now, she was crying in front of him like a figure made of tears, causing Xu Fan to feel utterly helpless.

"Sorry, I was too impulsive..."

Consoling a woman really wasn't Xu Fan's forte. Watching him at a loss, Xia Xiaodie wiped the tears off her face and blinked again.

"Told you I was a good actor, didn't I?"

"You?"

Hearing the girl's tone, it seemed the tears she had just shed were nothing more than part of her prank. Xu Fan looked up in astonishment, his instincts almost pinning the little troublemaker to the ground for some domestic chastisement.

But upon seeing her eyes, all his impulses dissipated in an instant.

Xia Xiaodie grinned, showing off two cute little canine teeth, and said, "Xu Fan, don't blame my sister."

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