Shi Momo naturally stared at Yan Ruoruo, raising an eyebrow: "Your boyfriend sent you a message, take a look."
Yan Ruoruo pursed her lips into a smile, opened her phone, and looked at the message: Are you out yet?
Beside her, Zhang Yan naturally glanced at Yan Ruoruo's phone and laughed: "Are you out yet? This makes it sound like something happened to her."
Mu Anxiao watched Zhang Yan's expression and frowned, thinking: It's not right for you to look at her phone like that.
Zhang Yan shifted his gaze from her phone to Mu Anxiao and said: "Are you sure you want to follow her?" He pointed at Yan Ruoruo.
Mu Anxiao glanced at Yan Ruoruo and thought: Otherwise, this is the only way to keep Shi Momo from getting angry.
"I really think your judgment is wrong."
Impossible. Mu Anxiao's eyes widened.
"Alright, alright, you're not wrong, not wrong." Zhang Yan said insincerely, sighing: "That Yan Shan might have really misunderstood."
Mu Anxiao's heart sank. It's okay, I'm back, I'll explain it to him.
"Explain..." Zhang Yan broke out in a cold sweat for Mu Anxiao, saying: "Okay, I can only wish you good luck."
Mu Anxiao remained silent.
At school, during the break, Feng Qishi took out his phone and checked his messages, only to be shocked: "How is that guy Mu Anxiao with Yan Ruoruo?"
A girl at the next desk heard Feng Qishi's words and turned to ask: "Are you talking to me?"
Feng Qishi ignored her, thought for a moment, and replied to Yan Shan via text: Did you hear what they were saying?
At the mall, Yan Shan stopped at the entrance of the underground parking lot and texted Feng Qishi back: She kept praising Shi Momo.
Is that so? Well, I know about this, she was... helping me. Feng Qishi sent the typed text.
Yan Shan scanned the text and replied: Is it convenient to talk on the phone.
I'll call you. Feng Qishi sent a text and then got up, bypassing the desk and chairs, and left the classroom without even looking at the girl at the next desk. He then went to a corner and called Yan Shan.
Yan Shan went up the stairs to the first floor specifically for a better signal. After the phone vibrated for a while, it was finally answered on the last ring: "Hello, can you hear me?"
"Yes." Feng Qishi replied, glancing sideways at the passing classmates. "Last night Shi Momo brought her sister to my place and there was some unpleasantness. I asked Mu Anxiao to go talk to her and tell her not to bother me. As for Mu Anxiao praising her, there's a reason for it. Don't worry, she doesn't see Shi Momo as a friend."
"Do you know, I saw that scene just now, and I was so angry. I thought she deliberately planned it yesterday." Yan Shan confided his thoughts to Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi smiled: "Don't worry, she's on my side."
"Then I can rest easy. I'll treat you to a meal next time." Yan Shan said calmly.
"Alright, I'd be happy to accept." Feng Qishi said, and then the bell for class rang: "Well, I can't talk anymore, I have to go to class."
"Okay, bye."
"Bye." Feng Qishi hung up the phone hastily.
Yan Shan breathed a sigh of relief and went back down the stairs.
In the coffee shop, Shi Momo sat at the coffee table, turning her head to look through the floor-to-ceiling window at Mu Anxiao's retreating back following Yan Ruoruo. She curled her lips: "That girl is truly foolish."
Zhang Yan looked at Shi Momo's smug expression and muttered: "So calculating. Alright, I think Mu Anxiao's idea was correct." With that, he walked through the glass window and quickly followed Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao walked behind Yan Ruoruo and said: "Could she be a scammer?"
"Impossible, she's the best person I've met online." Yan Ruoruo said without looking back.
Zhang Yan snorted: "Naive. She thinks anyone who is nice to her is good, I really don't know that people's hearts are hidden."
Mu Anxiao glanced at Zhang Yan who had spoken up, and just as she was about to open her mouth, Zhang Yan reached out and covered her mouth, saying: "You don't even fight back when I call you stupid. If you tell her what I said, I guarantee you, this person will kick you out in minutes."
Mu Anxiao pulled Zhang Yan's hand away and remained silent.
"Let's go, let's take the bus." Yan Ruoruo pointed to the bus stop not far away.
"Why not take a taxi?" Mu Anxiao asked.
"You only brought a hundred yuan, and later you'll say you don't have change, and I'll have to pay again. Instead of that, we might as well squeeze onto the bus, which will only cost me two yuan." Yan Ruoruo held up two fingers.
"You're quite good at calculations." Mu Anxiao couldn't help but sigh.
"Of course, there aren't many diligent work-study students like me."
"I don't understand what you're saying." Mu Anxiao said faintly.
"I knew you wouldn't understand." Yan Ruoruo pouted, took out two yuan from her pocket, and handed it to Mu Anxiao: "Follow closely, then do as I do."
"I know." Mu Anxiao nodded.
Zhang Yan glanced at Mu Anxiao, then at Yan Ruoruo and said: "Honestly, she might as well drop out of school, it's a waste of the family's money."
Mu Anxiao still couldn't quite understand Zhang Yan's words, so she didn't reply.
Arriving at the station, Mu Anxiao looked confusedly at the people standing on both sides, then at the dense numbers and station names on the bus schedule, and asked: "There are so many, which one do we take?"
Yan Ruoruo was somewhat accustomed to Mu Anxiao's ignorance. She reached out and grabbed Mu Anxiao's arm, saying: "I'll pull you along, you keep up."
"Okay."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Mu Anxiao agreed, Yan Ruoruo suddenly pushed Mu Anxiao towards the crowd squeezing onto the bus below the pedestrian walkway, then let go and said: "Keep up, I'm right behind you." With that, she retreated back to the sidewalk.
Mu Anxiao ignored everything else, followed the people in front to get on the bus, and then, imitating the aunt in front of her, she discreetly put the two yuan into the fare box and walked towards the carriage.
Zhang Yan looked helplessly at Yan Ruoruo, who was standing on the curb looking maliciously at Mu Anxiao in the carriage. He sighed, took a step forward, passed through the crowd, and came to stand beside Mu Anxiao, who had found a seat, saying: "You've been tricked, look down there."
Mu Anxiao didn't react at first. Hearing Zhang Yan's words, she quickly looked out the car window at Yan Ruoruo waving at her from the curb, and frowned, saying: "She tricked me." The car had already started moving.
"Just consider it an experience. That girl didn't want you to follow her at all."
"But..."
Mu Anxiao spoke just one word as she stared out the window. Zhang Yan grabbed her arm: "Alright, get off at the next stop and figure something out."
Mu Anxiao frowned, nodded, and said: "That's all we can do." As she spoke, she inadvertently glanced at an old man standing behind her, then looked down at the young man sitting in a seat pretending to sleep, and said: "You get up."