Lu Qingyan immediately recognized the note that she wrote—
"Sorry, I've implicated you. I will definitely memorize the text well next time. How can I make it up to you? How about I buy you some food?"
Wait what??
That shameful note was supposed to be destroyed! Or at the very least buried under a stack of unread textbooks never to see daylight again. Why was it now in the villain's hands?!?
Her face turned red at an alarming speed. Without thinking, she lunged with her free hand to snatch it back, but Wang Jingyuan seemed to have expected that. He quickly took a step back and withdrew his hand.
Then, he lowered his eyes to look at the two hands that were connected, there was a crack in the usually indifferent expression. He seemed to laugh angrily, "Lu Qingyan, did you not graduate from kindergarten?"
She blinked, stunned. "Huh?"
He lifted the hand with the note and tapped her forehead lightly with it. "That would explain the glue stunt."
"..."
"And the handwriting."
"...??"
"And the logic."
Immediately afterward, Wang Jingyuan said with a blank expression, "That's why you're so cu—te."
Lu Qingyan naturally knew that he was not genuinely praising her cuteness.
She's also heard rumors of how gangsters liked to "praise" their opponents for being cute before beating them.
For example— "This little thing is so cute, come here and let me give it a punch."
The class bell signaling the start of class happened to ring at this time.
Lu Qingyan clung to her last shred of hope like a drowning person grasping at air. "I'll… I'll look it up during class. There must be a way to fix this... don't worry!"
Wang Jingyuan looked over and circled her hand with his gaze.
Lu Qingyan felt that his gaze was as if he was looking at pig trotters at a vegetable market.
He said in an unusually gentle tone, "There's no need to make it so troublesome, just use a knife."
"There's no need to make it complicated," he said, sounding almost gentle. "Just use a knife."
Lu Qingyan: "...???"
A. Knife?
Sir, she was trying to survive high school, not stage a live-action horror film.
Clearly, her plan of redeeming herself in the villain's eyes had failed. Again. She could practically hear her moral score dropping.
The teacher for Chemistry entered and started scribbling questions on the board.
Lu Qingyan opened Baidu[1] under her desk with the elegance of a professional hacker. Keywords: "how to unstick 502 glue from human skin."
Who knew, before she managed to find anything, Wang Jingyuan was called by the teacher to answer a question.
"Wang Jingyuan, share how you would solve this problem."
Lu Qingyan watched Wang Jingyuan stood up next to her. Her hand shifted farther away along with his movement. There was a sudden stab of pain, she almost passed away on the spot.
So, when the chemistry teacher saw Wang Jingyuan slowly getting up, he also noticed the female classmate beside him doing the same with a grim expression.
At the same time, Tang Jie, who was seated near them and taking notes, also raised his head when he noticed that Wang Jingyuan stood up.
Tang Jie: ??
Was this Lu Qingyan confused??
Or could it be that you were startled into standing up due to being suddenly awakened after sleeping in class??
The chemistry teacher pushed up his glasses and said to the Lu Qingyan that also stood up, "This student, I was calling your seatmate. What, are there actually two Wang Jingyuan's in this class?"
Lu Qingyan glanced at the hands hidden under the two-person table that were still glued together. She bit the bullet and said, "Teacher, I found this question very interesting, so I wanted to take the initiative to answer it for everyone."
Chemistry teacher: ?
There are still people in high school who would take the initiative to answer questions??
The entire class: ???
Volunteer?
In a Chemistry class?
The teacher, clearly not used to student enthusiasm, was visibly moved. "Alright then. Please proceed."
After Lu Qingyan answered the question, the two sat down together.
She rattled off an answer, praying she didn't just suggest they mix sodium with orange juice.
Tang Jie, who was in front of her, watched her sit down as if he was looking at someone who was mentally retarded.
But Lu Qingyan didn't care. She continued to secretly search with her free hand for a method to remove the glue. After a while, she finally found that essential balm oil or nail polish remover were both effective.
After a long time, the class finally ended.
The next class was physics class and it was a lab day. Everyone in the classroom packed up their stuff in advance and went to the laboratory one after another.
Lu Qingyan searched for a long time, but couldn't find the nail polish remover.
At this moment, Wang Jingyuan suddenly stood up and Lu Qingyan was forcibly pulled along, "Where are you going?"
Wang Jingyuan raised a brow. "Bathroom."
Lu Qingyan froze. "...The bathroom??"
F*cking bathroom!!
Is she supposed to follow him in??
"You—you can't be serious!" she panicked. "Are you planning to bring me in there with you?!"
Wang Jingyuan looked calm. "I didn't invite you. You're the one glued to me."
"I—I—"
Naturally, Lu Qingyan didn't want to, so she simply asked, "In your current situation, can you perform such a difficult maneuver with one hand?"
Supposedly all boys have to use both hands, otherwise, it would splash all over the place.
She didn't know if it was true, but right now she must stop him.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
1. Baidu – a search engine like Google