I rejected your confession, but you took my best friend home?

Chapter 197: Perhaps it's a ploy to lure him in?

"That's not necessarily true. You can't be too careful. What if she put laxatives in the exam? Tomorrow's the exam, and it's possible she could use that method to affect other people's exams!"

Zhou Heng stretched out his chopsticks, picked up a small piece, took a bite, and smacked his lips a few times.

"Tsk..."

Zhou Heng frowned slightly, then carefully tasted the flavor again...

"How is it? Could something really have happened? It shouldn't have taken effect so quickly, right?"

Yin Mengran looked at Zhou Heng with some concern and patted him on the back.

Zhou Heng shook his head, put down his chopsticks, and said softly:

“She didn’t make this. If she did, she shouldn’t be a student; she should be a chef.”

Yin Mengran was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened suddenly, and she asked, "Huh? What...what does this mean? Does it mean it's delicious?"

"No, it has nothing to do with whether it tastes good or not. There are subtle differences between what a restaurant chef makes and what you make at home. You can taste the difference. If she didn't buy this from a restaurant, it means she has several years of cooking experience and is an experienced chef. Her cooking habits are different from ours."

"Oh...then she must have bought it? Then why did she say she made it herself?"

"I don't know. Let's be careful with this person. But this dish should be fine. I don't think she would use such obvious methods. Let's eat first."

Zhou Heng placed the plate of chicken wings on the table, preparing to eat with Yin Mengran.

Although they were both thinking about Yu Lingxue at that moment, neither of them said it aloud.

They all felt something was off, but couldn't quite put their finger on it, leading them to wonder if they were suffering from paranoia...

After dinner, Zhou Heng and Yin Mengran went to study. They took showers and went to bed later that night.

Zhou Heng even listened to the sounds from next door; it was quite quiet, he couldn't hear anything. But then again, he wasn't expecting to hear anything strange...

The next morning, the two got up early, preparing to go to school early, since they had an exam that day, and going early would allow them to review and temporarily strengthen their memory.

But the moment they stepped out, they heard the sound of the door opening next door!

"Click——"

"Ok?"

Zhou Heng and Yin Mengran simultaneously looked next door, their brows furrowing slightly. They had guessed this before leaving home that morning.

Will I run into Yu Lingxue when I go to school?

That's why they left home a little earlier than usual this morning. They never expected that they would still run into each other.

After Yu Lingxue opened the door, she saw Zhou Heng and Yin Mengran, and naturally smiled and extended her hand to greet them:

Good morning, you two!

"Ah... good morning..."

Yin Mengran raised her hand and responded softly, while Zhou Heng remained silent, simply watching her.

Contrary to Zhou Heng's expectations, Yu Lingxue did not walk with the two of them. Instead, she stepped forward first and said:

"I'll be going now! See you at school!"

After saying that, she didn't linger and walked past the two of them, leaving the place.

"Uh?"

This action left Zhou Heng and Yin Mengran puzzled once again.

This simultaneous departure made them suspect that someone was planning to leave with them and was deliberately waiting for them to come out...

But now... he said hello and left on his own?

This made them suspicious. Could it really be a coincidence?

"Maybe it's just a coincidence..."

Yin Mengran looked up at Zhou Heng and whispered.

"Maybe...otherwise, it wouldn't make sense for them to wait for us so early in the morning just to say hello..."

Zhou Heng watched Yu Lingxue's departing figure, lost in thought, but he couldn't figure it out...

The two of them also went to school, and after arriving at their classroom...

Zhou Heng then told Tang Zhi about this.

Tang Zhi thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "It's really hard to say. It could be a coincidence. If it's still like this tomorrow, then it's definitely not a coincidence. But if she did it on purpose, she wouldn't be so stupid as to create coincidences for two days in a row."

"But... what's the point? What's the significance? I originally thought she wanted to get close to Yin Mengran, but now it seems I'm a little unsure..."

Zhou Heng couldn't understand it at all. He looked towards Yin Mengran and Yu Lingxue.

Yesterday, Yu Lingxue practically clung to Yin Mengran, constantly pestering her with questions, but today... she wasn't like that at all, acting as if she didn't recognize Yin Mengran...

She sat there studying normally, and even when she didn't understand something, she asked her deskmate instead of Yin Mengran, who sat in front of her.

Tang Zhi stroked her chin, frowned slightly, and whispered, "Perhaps it's a case of playing hard to get?"

"Why? Is it necessary?"

"Perhaps it's necessary for her, you just don't know it."

"..."

The exams were about to begin, and regardless of what schemes Yu Lingxue might be plotting, Zhou Heng and Yin Mengran decided to ignore them for the time being and focus on the exams first.

Zhou Heng knew he had no chance of directly ranking in the top 20; he wasn't capable of that yet...

So as long as he makes progress as much as possible, and as long as he is better than last time, that is a success, changing his long-standing stagnation.

The morning exams ended, and it was noon.

Zhou Heng, Yin Mengran, and Tang Zhi were still eating together.

At this time yesterday, Yu Lingxue was also there...

But today...

Zhou Heng looked at Yin Mengran and asked in a low voice, "Didn't Yu Lingxue speak to you today?"

Yin Mengran thought about it carefully for a moment, then shook her head and said:

"No... she didn't say a word all morning, but... I think I heard her sighing a lot... like she had something on her mind..."

"That's it..."

Zhou Heng turned to look at Yu Lingxue and noticed that she was sitting alone there at noon today.

His head was lowered, and he was engrossed in eating. From behind, he looked particularly forlorn...

"What's up with her?"

Yin Mengran was puzzled. Everything was fine yesterday, so why is it like this today?

Yu Lingxue kept her head down, eating bite by bite, but... each bite was very small, as if she was deliberately controlling her eating speed...

at this time...

A voice came from behind Yu Lingxue: "Um..."

Yu Lingxue's eyes opened for a moment, as if they had lit up for a brief instant.

But after listening carefully to the voice, her eyes instantly turned icy cold, and her brows furrowed slightly...

She looked up and glanced to the side; standing beside her was Kong Yue...

Kong Yue chuckled, looked at her, rubbed his hands together, and said softly:

"Why are you eating lunch alone? Haven't you made any friends yet? My name is Kong..."

"roll."