Early in the morning, while eating breakfast, Ling An was stung in the eyes by two red exclamation marks.
Unbelievable could it be that the male lead never even saved his contact info? He’d actually been deleted outright, Ling An thought gloomily.
He had expected Qin Yeling not to reply to his messages, but he never imagined Qin Yeling would delete him. That was certainly direct enough.
Finishing breakfast in low spirits, Ling An headed back to school. Only when he saw Qin Yeling’s cold, aloof, aristocratic handsome face did his gloominess ease a little.
Sure enough, looking at beautiful things lifts one’s mood.
He didn’t even sit in his own seat, he picked up his chair and set it down right beside Qin Yeling.
He sat down next to Qin Yeling, and as he sat, he deliberately and sneakily rubbed his shoulder against Qin Yeling’s.
This made Qin Yeling’s voice pause mid-sentence, but when he turned his head, he saw Ling An looking at him with a completely innocent face, his eyes full of great confusion.
As if to say: “Boss, why are you looking at me? Boss, why did you stop talking? Boss, keep going, I’m listening carefully.”
This left Qin Yeling somewhat bewildered too. It must have been an accidental bump, surely not intentional.
Just then, a burst of commotion suddenly came from the doorway, and Qin Yeling faintly heard his own name amid the noise. His attention was instantly drawn over.
He shot a glance at the follower in front of him, and the follower immediately caught on, bellowing, “What’s all this? Blocking the doorway everyone, move aside.”
The noisy crowd, seeing it was Qin Yeling’s follower, very obligingly revealed the person at the center of the commotion.
It was none other than the female lead. She was holding a worn but clean lunch box, and on her face was a clear handprint.
At that moment she was stubbornly holding her head up, tears blurring her eyes, looking utterly wronged and pitiful.
The very picture of heartbreaking loveliness.
Lin Shuang, watching this scene from the side, was so furious her teeth itched, and she couldn’t help slapping her again.
With a crisp smack, the female lead was knocked to the ground by Lin Shuang’s slap.
The lunch box in her hand crashed to the floor along with her, and the beautifully made food inside scattered everywhere.
Everyone who saw this scattered with a gasp, as if afraid of being contaminated by something filthy, keeping far away.
It seemed this was the blow that broke her. Large teardrops fell from her eyes one after another as she wept silently, like a kitten abandoned by its owner, helpless and pitiful.
But Lin Shuang felt no sympathy for her. Seeing that the female lead actually dared to cry, Lin Shuang’s mood grew even more irritated.
This poor student truly didn’t know death when she saw it. A few days ago, Lin Shuang had seen this poor student deliberately bump into Yeling-gege on the sports field.
She had clearly given her a warning at the start, telling her not to go seducing Yeling-gege again.
Who knew she hadn’t listened at all, yesterday she’d even pulled those little tricks on the staircase. Luckily Yeling-gege was held back, or he would have been pushed down the stairs by this bitch.
Today, before Lin Shuang had even gone looking for trouble with this bitch, the girl had come running over on her own and Lin Shuang had caught her red-handed.
Claiming she was there to apologize to Qin Yeling, and that she’d personally made him a lunch box.
Claiming Qin Yeling would surely like it, claiming Qin Yeling would forgive her once he ate it.
These words made one’s teeth grind with irritation just hearing them.
Who did she think she was, actually making Yeling eat her food? A shameless bitch who didn’t know her place, even Yeling had never eaten anything she’d given him.
The more Lin Shuang thought about it, the angrier she got. She walked over and kicked the scattered lunchbox across the floor, then gave the lid an extra kick for good measure, sending it flying too.
After kicking it away, Lin Shuang stepped on the female lead’s back and wiped her shoes clean on it.
Once her shoes were spotless, Lin Shuang delivered another kick to the female lead’s shoulder, knocking her back down to the ground.
In an instant, the female lead’s hands and clothes were covered in the spilled food, looking far more wretched than before.
Lin Shuang was the second young lady of the Lin family. The families that could rival the Lins were the Qin family and the Wang family.
Moreover, a rumor circulated in their circle that the Lin family’s second young lady and the Qin family’s second young master had been betrothed to each other since birth.
So no matter how outrageous Lin Shuang’s actions toward the female lead were, no one would say a word in the girl’s defense.
Instead, they would cheer Lin Shuang on, this poor scholarship student really had no eyes, daring to covet Lin Shuang’s fiancé. She didn’t know her own limitations.
By the time Lin Shuang had kicked the female lead’s lunchbox away, the female lead had already stopped crying. She just stared pitifully with tear-filled eyes at Qin Yeling, who was sitting there.
But who was that man beside him? Lin Yu just couldn’t remember.
She had never seen him in her dream, but he seemed very close to Qin Yeling. She knew Qin Yeling well from her dream, he had a severe obsession with cleanliness, yet Qin Yeling actually allowed him to get this close.
The two were practically pressed together. She even sensed a hint of something ambiguous between them.
The moment this thought appeared, Lin Yu hurriedly shook the terrifying idea out of her head.
This man seemed to be nothing more than Qin Yeling’s follower. In the dream, not long after she and Qin Yeling got together, this follower was gone, he probably wasn’t anyone important.
With this thought, Lin Yu pushed the strangeness out of her mind, ignoring the odd looks from the people around her, and just stared straight at Qin Yeling.
She believed the feelings between him and Qin Yeling in the dream weren’t fake. If the him from the dream were here, he would surely be heartbroken, he would never have the heart to watch this.
If Ling An knew what the female lead was thinking, he could only say: Sorry~ your destined prince has already caught my eye. You two have no chance of being together anymore, so hurry back to your own timeline.
The male lead had just seen the female lead get kicked. Perhaps influenced by the original plot, he instinctively wanted to protect her.
But the moment he tried to stand, Ling An sensed Qin Yeling’s intention.
A hero saving the beauty? Not on his watch.
The male lead didn’t have any real feelings for the female lead yet, it was just a momentary instinctive impulse. That was easy to control.
Ling An reached out and wrapped an arm around Qin Yeling’s slim waist, then pulled him closer.
Qin Yeling’s face filled with shock, and he immediately tried to break free from Ling An’s grip.
Ling An took a moment to appreciate Qin Yeling’s flustered expression, then unhurriedly leaned in close to his ear and said, “Boss, were you about to help this poor scholarship student? My head still hurts, you know~”
His lips brushed lightly against Qin Yeling’s earlobe, his warm breath spilling over the tip of his ear as he spoke.
Qin Yeling’s body jolted as if electrocuted, half of him going weak and tingly from Ling An’s words.
A faint fragrance drifted from Ling An’s body toward Qin Yeling.
Qin Yeling only thought it was because they were pressed too close together, he was smelling Ling An’s natural scent.
It was a fragrance of some unknown kind, but it smelled wonderful wisps and threads of it, faint and elusive, drawing one in with the desire for more.
Though the scent was not strong, it was far more seductive than any heavy perfume, capable of ensnaring a person completely without their even realizing it.