"What?!"

Upon hearing Tang Rou's sudden question, Tang Zhendong was momentarily stunned.

He couldn't understand why, after all the effort he had put in, Tang Rou suddenly didn't want to go abroad.

Moreover, what shocked him even more was that this was the first time since childhood that Tang Rou had objected to his arrangements!

"Dad, I... I really don't want to go abroad to study..." Tang Rou stammered, her head lowered.

"Why is that?" Tang Zhendong asked, almost subconsciously. But after only a few seconds, something occurred to him, and he asked in surprise, "Is it because of Lin Feng?"

"No, it's not... it's not because of him. I... I just never wanted to go abroad to study..."

Tang Rou was visibly distressed, her words growing more agitated as tears welled in her eyes. Before finishing her meal, she abruptly stood up, rushed upstairs, and said in a choked voice, "Dad, from now on, I'll come home by myself after school. Uncle Yun doesn't need to pick me up anymore."

Watching Tang Rou's retreating figure, Tang Zhendong couldn't help but sigh. "Alas, girls certainly change as they grow up. Rou'er's temperament is becoming more and more like her mother's..."

With that, Tang Zhendong shook his head pensively. For the first time, he felt a genuine worry for his precious daughter.

On Monday morning, after the first class, Fatty Yang Tao was vigorously shaking Lin Feng.

However, Lin Feng, deep in sleep, didn't move at all.

"Boss, the homeroom teacher is going to inspect the classroom soon! You don't want to spend the whole day in the homeroom teacher's office, do you?" Seeing Lin Feng's lack of reaction, Yang Tao tried another approach.

At his words, Lin Feng finally opened his bleary eyes, looked at Yang Tao, and said, "The homeroom teacher won't bother counting heads anyway. School assemblies, damn it! The principal always says he'll 'just say a few words,' but then he drones on for half an hour. I can't stand it. I think I'll go hide in the restroom for a bit. Once the homeroom teacher has done his rounds, I'll come back and sleep."

"That trick is old news. The homeroom teacher doesn't just inspect the classrooms; he checks the restrooms too. If he catches you, you'll be in even deeper trouble, you know," Yang Tao offered as a friendly warning.

Lin Feng stood up from his seat and said, "Either way, I'm not going to this school assembly... Fatty, cover for me, okay? Tell them I have a fever, a cold, that I'm on my period—whatever works..."

With that, Lin Feng whistled and strolled out of the classroom, leaving Yang Tao utterly dumbfounded.

To Lin Feng, the school's weekly assembly was merely a platform for the school leadership to boast and spout platitudes. He really had no inclination to stand below like a subservient yes-man, listening to a bunch of pompous fools talk down to everyone.

So, when the school assembly began and the voice of the teacher leading it started broadcasting across the school plaza, Lin Feng, figuring his homeroom teacher would be by to inspect soon, quietly left the academic building and headed for the administrative building.

Teachers from the Academic Affairs Office were also patrolling the administrative building, trying to catch truants. Lin Feng had no choice but to duck into a restroom.

Behind the first floor of the administrative building was a restroom that had been out of use for several months. It was said to be slated for renovation, so practically no one ever went there.

Lin Feng didn't care much about that; at that moment, a craving for a cigarette hit him. He walked into the men's restroom and immediately started smoking.

"...There's no time, let's just change here."

"How can we change here?"

"We can do it in this restroom."

"Hey, look carefully, this is the men's restroom, okay? The women's restroom is already sealed off."

"Men's restroom, so what? No one uses this restroom anyway. Besides, all the students and teachers are at the school assembly in the plaza right now. Only a ghost would be bored enough to hang out in a restroom..."

Just as Lin Feng was enjoying his smoke, he heard the hurried click-clack of high heels outside the restroom, followed by the conversation of two girls.

'Only a ghost would be in this restroom'... Are they calling me a ghost? Lin Feng grimaced at the girls' conversation, but then a flicker of curiosity struck him. Huh, why does that voice sound so familiar?

Before he could dwell on it, the sounds from outside grew closer. Lin Feng quickly extinguished his cigarette butt and darted into the farthest stall to hide.

A few seconds later, a stunning figure walked in. Dressed in a white military uniform, her posture was tall and erect—a true beauty.

Curious, Lin Feng peeked his head out. The sight of her striking, well-defined figure left him momentarily stunned. What the—what's going on? A girl actually came into the men's restroom? This girl looks pretty good, though I can only see her back...

Just as Lin Feng's curiosity peaked, the figure turned around. Lin Feng stared, then froze. It was the Ice Beauty, Ning Aoxue!

No wonder this uniform looks so incredibly alluring. As Jiangzhou No. 1 High's top campus beauty, her figure and face could undoubtedly outshine more than ninety-nine percent of the girls in Jiangzhou.

Seeing Ning Aoxue's attire, Lin Feng understood. Ning Aoxue was the main flag-bearer for the school's female flag team. From the looks of it, she had just come from raising the national flag at the school assembly.

But what's she doing in the men's restroom here in the administrative building?

Lin Feng really couldn't figure it out.

But at that moment, Ning Aoxue, completely unaware that a pervert was lurking in the restroom, had already begun to unbutton her military uniform, quickly starting to undress.

Lin Feng swallowed hard, utterly bewildered. Ning Aoxue came to the men's restroom to change clothes? Damn it, does she have some weird fetish, or is she trying to set some kind of unprecedented record at Jiangzhou No. 1 High? If a guy walked in now, wouldn't he see everything?

"Su Zi, keep a lookout for me outside. I'll be done in a minute..."

Just then, Ning Aoxue's words brought Lin Feng a flash of understanding.

So there was someone else standing guard outside.

"Aoxue, you need to hurry. It'll be your turn to speak on the podium soon. You can't keep all the teachers and students waiting just for you, can you?" Su Zi's anxious voice drifted in from outside the restroom.

With that, everything became clear to Lin Feng. It turned out Ning Aoxue was scheduled to give a speech on the podium shortly. So, having just finished her flag-raising duty, she needed to change into casual clothes before going on stage. The restrooms on the first floor of the academic building were probably being cleaned or something. Thus, in their haste, Ning Aoxue and Su Zi had rushed to the administrative building, not far from the academic building, to change.

The administrative building usually had fewer people, and this particular restroom had been out of commission for a while, so by all rights, it should have been empty.

Yet, Lin Feng had no idea why, as if guided by some unseen hand, he had ended up in this very restroom, seeking to evade his homeroom teacher's pursuit!

Damn, is this supposed to be fate? It seems this Ice Beauty, Ning Aoxue, hates my guts too, doesn't she?

Thinking of the explicit love letter Meng Zelong had concocted last week, Lin Feng still felt his cheeks burn.

The first time he'd ever been slapped by a girl in his life was courtesy of the very Ice Beauty, Ning Aoxue, who was undressing before him right now! Could this really be called fate?

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