Lin Fan had no intention of persuading Xu Dong to stop getting involved, either.
After all, they were best friends. When something like this happened, and Xu Dong was showing such concern for him, Lin Fan couldn’t exactly crush his enthusiasm, could he?
Lin Fan’s only worry was that Xu Dong might get dragged into this because of him. He wasn’t with Xu Dong every minute of every day. He wasn’t afraid of Wang Zhengwei, but if Wang Zhengwei happened to deal with Xu Dong…
He shook his head, putting those thoughts aside for the time being. “Come on, let’s go in.”
The two of them walked inside. As soon as they entered, they saw a row of men standing side by side ahead of them, each one standing at attention as if being punished.
“What’s going on?” Lin Fan asked curiously.
“Hurry up and come with me,” Xu Dong said.
He grabbed Lin Fan’s hand and pulled him forward. Lin Fan was baffled.
“Don’t fucking shove!”
“Who’s pushing from behind?”
As the two squeezed their way forward, the people they jostled aside began cursing. When they reached the front, Lin Fan immediately understood.
Damn. A beautiful woman in a white blouse was walking ahead of them.
Xu Dong stared at the beauty, swallowing hard. He was practically drooling, his eyes fixed on her as if his soul had left his body.
“Look at you,” Lin Fan said, unable to hold back a laugh.
“You don’t know shit,” Xu Dong muttered. “Don’t tell me you don’t know Bai Tingting, one of the two campus beauties at our school?”
Then Xu Dong smacked his forehead. “Right, you took a year off school. Of course you wouldn’t know. She transferred here during the year you were gone. She’s as cold as ice, and that face of hers… She’s practically a fairy descended to earth. When she first arrived, she said one sentence to a guy, and he had a nosebleed for an entire day.”
Lin Fan asked curiously, “What did she say?”
Xu Dong said, “Two words: ‘Move.’”
Lin Fan was speechless.
He looked over as well. Bai Tingting really was different from the average student. Her looks easily surpassed everyone else’s, but her appeal wasn’t limited to her beauty. There was also that particular air about her.
It was an aura unlike that of ordinary people, one that made others feel she was best left alone.
“I see.” Lin Fan watched Bai Tingting leave, shaking his head with a smile. Then he smacked Xu Dong on the forehead. “Come on, stop staring.”
Lin Fan asked curiously, “By the way, you said there were two campus beauties. Who’s the other one?”
Lin Fan had indeed been considered a campus beauty when he was in his first year of high school, but now they were all in their third year. The campus beauty from his time had graduated long ago.
Xu Dong suddenly slapped his thigh as they walked. “Right, damn it, I forgot about that. Do you know who the other campus beauty is?”
Xu Dong said, “Su Qing! You don’t remember her?”
“Su Qing?” Lin Fan’s face displayed a level of shock that could only be described as unprecedented. “That snot-nosed girl?”
Su Qing had been classmates with Lin Fan and Xu Dong since their first year of middle school, and she had shared a desk with Lin Fan for three years.
However, the Su Qing in Lin Fan’s memories had absolutely nothing to do with the term campus beauty.
Besides, throughout the four years they shared a desk, Su Qing would cry at the drop of a hat. Once she really got going, she would even wipe her nose on Lin Fan’s clothes.
That was why nobody wanted to sit with Su Qing, leaving Lin Fan to suffer through it for a full four years.
Lin Fan said, “Come to think of it, I haven’t seen her yet.”
Other than Xu Dong, Su Qing was the person Lin Fan had been closest to at this school.
Xu Dong said with a look of regret, “She’s the center of attention now. Damn it, if I’d known she’d grow up this beautiful, I would’ve been her desk mate all three years of middle school. Maybe she would’ve gradually developed feelings for me from sitting together every day.”
Just as he said that, Lin Fan sensed someone rushing toward them from behind. He turned around and saw an extraordinarily beautiful woman running over.
Talk about speaking of the devil.
“Lin! Fan!”
Su Qing’s voice was incredibly loud!
Half the sports field could hear her. She ran up to Lin Fan and punched him in the chest, then laughed happily. “You bastard, you finally came back! Hahaha!”
“You… you’re Su Qing?” Lin Fan looked her up and down.
Su Qing was wearing a blue-green school uniform and no makeup, yet she was stunning.
In terms of looks, she was even more beautiful than Bai Tingting had been. But the two of them were complete opposites.
Su Qing was way too much like one of the guys!
At that moment, Su Qing draped an arm around Lin Fan’s neck. “Come on, come on. Let’s have a proper chat. What have you been doing this past year?”
In an instant, Lin Fan felt countless murderous glares.
He looked around the sports field. The eyes of countless boys held the unmistakable desire to tear him apart.
“Hey, hey, men and women should keep their distance!” Lin Fan tried to break free, but Su Qing held his neck tightly. “What’s there to be afraid of? Don’t put on airs with me. You weren’t this shy when you used to wipe your nose on my clothes.”
Xu Dong watched them with unconcealed envy and hurried after them. “Su Qing, here’s the thing. As Lin Fan’s brother, he doesn’t want you putting your arm around his neck, but I do. Consider it my heroic sacrifice on his behalf.”
Su Qing glanced back at Xu Dong. “Get lost, get lost! When I wanted to wipe my nose on your clothes back then, why weren’t you willing?”
Xu Dong pointed at his own clothes. “If Campus Beauty Su wants to wipe her nose now, I’ll take off my uniform for you immediately.”
“Snot-nose, give it a rest. I’m afraid I’ll get hacked to death after school,” Lin Fan said.
Su Qing looked back at the people surrounding them. Only then did she let go of Lin Fan. “What’s the big deal? We’re not strangers. By the way, I heard you and Wang Zhengwei have a problem. He’s pursuing me, so should I talk to him?”
“Uh…” Lin Fan was stunned. Wasn’t that guy dating his distant cousin? How was he pursuing Su Qing too?
“Don’t,” Lin Fan hurriedly shook his head. “Right now, he only wants to break both my legs. If you go talk to him, he’ll probably beat me to death. Also, Wang Zhengwei isn’t a very decent person. You should be careful.”
“You’re worrying too much,” Xu Dong cut in. “Wang Zhengwei isn’t the only one pursuing Campus Beauty Su. He’s just one of her admirers.”
Su Qing looked at Lin Fan smugly. “Well? What do you think? We haven’t seen each other in a year, and I’m pretty impressive now, huh?”
Looking at her, Lin Fan shook his head. “The most important thing for you now is to study hard and keep improving. Don’t think about anything else.”
Su Qing rolled her eyes at him. “I’m in the top three in the entire grade. Do you really need to lecture me about studying?”
That…
Lin Fan almost choked. There was truth to the saying that girls changed dramatically as they grew up, but Su Qing’s grades used to be about the same as his.
Now she was a campus beauty, and she was also in the top three of the entire grade. And Number One High School was Qing City’s key high school, no less.
This wasn’t a case of a girl changing dramatically as she grew up.
This was a damn genetic mutation.