The Buggiest System

She was excited to see her friend Zhou Lei again after so long! Well... Lin Guiying considered that a night was pretty long...

Lin Guiying skipped the whole way to school, her good mood obvious to everyone that saw her.

On the way, she attracted the gazes of several people, even under all the disguise. She even thought that someone found out about her secret ident.i.ty in school.

Pa.s.sing building after building, she arrived at the school.

In the school, the only people who knew her real ident.i.ty were the security guards, selected teachers, and of course, the princ.i.p.al. The latter set the condition that if any student found out about her, she would transfer out before things got hectic.

That was why, even though her heart ached every time Zhou Lei mentioned her real name, she could not tell him the truth.

As Lin Guiying approached the school, she saw an unfamiliar man with a large body wearing a guard uniform. He had an indifferent face as he turned his head to see Lin Guiying.

"Hmm, he must be one of the other guards..."

The security guard greeted her, albeit with an emotionless face.

Lin Guiying nodded and walked through the gate. Before she got that far, the guard tapped her shoulder.

"Um, can I get your autograph? My daughter"s a huge fan..." His voice betrayed his expressionless face as it had an excited and shy tone to it.

His two hands held onto a notepad and a marker.

Lin Guiying never expected this guard to be shy! He looked intimidating from afar... She really liked the contrast.

She took the notepad and the marker, signed one of the pages, and gave it back.

.....

Zhou Lei laughed awkwardly as the girls surrounded him.

As he avoided their gaze, he saw a familiar face enter the door.

"Lin Hanying! Over here!" Zhou Lei waved his hand over all of the girls.

Lu Xi, Fan Xinyue, Ye Muqi, and the other girls turned their heads and saw the new transfer student. They all observed her as she stood still.

Lin Guiying felt their cold gazes and froze on the spot. "...Lei, why"d you do this to me?"

None of the girls" fazes were particularly malicious, but none of them weren"t hostile either.

Although she tried to hide her intentions and succeeded in some portion, Lin Guiying felt the most hostility come from the blonde delinquent.

"This girl... her name was Lu Xi?" Lin Guiying browsed her memories.

The next girl was one that had black hair and a ponytail. She held a long wooden rod on her left hand as she stared at the girl who Zhou Lei had called.

Lin Guiying didn"t feel anything come from her. Her gaze was blank to a scary degree. "This Ye Muqi gives me the shivers..."

Finally, a girl who had long hair and dark skin looked at her with curiosity. Within this supposed curiosity was a devious and cunning gaze.

"...Fan Xinyue is probably already planning on how to get rid of me."

Lin Guiying ma.s.saged her temples as she put her bag down on the floor and sat on her chair, pretending that she couldn"t hear Zhou Lei"s calls.

Seeing that his friend ignored him, Zhou Lei felt disheartened. "No, why...?"

The three girls looked at each other before they, too, sat in their respective seats, their gazes still locked onto Lin Hanying, the new transfer.

Soon enough, the cla.s.sroom filled up with students. Most of them were oblivious to the happenings half an hour before they arrived, so their early friends informed them.

The newcomer guys looked at Zhou Lei with concern. Why would men in gimp suits try to abduct Zhou Lei?

Meanwhile, the newcomer girls looked at the early ones in jealousy... How dare they try to save Zhou Lei — I should have been the one to do that!

In their minds, they now imprinted two tasks: get smarter and get stronger.

Wen Hui entered the cla.s.sroom, scanning the whole cla.s.s as she walked in.

Coincidentally, she and Zhou Lei switched gazes at each other. They stared for a while before she turned her head away.

Zhou Lei thought in his mind, "I still have three weeks left... No pressure, no pressure!"

Everyone in the cla.s.sroom saw the exchange between their homeroom teacher and their cla.s.s prince. Their interest ignited as they formed their own conclusions as to what happened.

Lin Guiying, in particular, imagined that her best friend and her homeroom teacher were in a secret relationship...

"Ah! Dirty thoughts, get out of my head!"

With her imagination running wild, Lin Guiying felt her heart ache a tiny bit until she regained her composure.

"Eh? It couldn"t be... I felt jealous?" Lin Guiying looked at Zhou Lei with a confused expression.

Coincidentally, she and Zhou Lei switched gazes at each other. They stared for a while before she turned her head away.

Huh? Deja vu...

Everyone saw that the transfer student and Zhou Lei exchanged gazes as well, leaving it up to them to form more conclusions.

The three girls, Ye Muqi, Fan Xinyue, and Lu Xi, visualized an image of Zhou Lei in the bedroom with the transfer student and the homeroom teacher...

They shook their heads and looked at Zhou Lei weirdly as well.

Inside, they hoped that coincidentally, they and Zhou Lei would switch gazes at each other. They would stare for a while before they turn her head away.

Huh? Deja vu... Huh? Double deja vu...

Of course, Zhou Lei felt their gazes, but he ignored them. It was already awkward enough for him to get stared at by his homeroom teacher and his best friend...

When the three saw that none of them exchanged gazes with Zhou Lei, they felt both disappointed and relieved.

.....

Lunch time.

As the bell rang, everyone felt a sense of satisfaction inside.

"Ah, this bell... We are like Pavlov"s dogs..."

Zhou Lei took out his lunch box.

There were rice and some hotdogs inside. Of course, these hotdogs were the ones that Zhou Lei cooked himself. He couldn"t bother his sister again...

Anyway, the taste didn"t matter that much since he wouldn"t be able to appreciate it.

Opening the lunch box, he scanned the room and saw that multiple girls surrounded him, albeit in a safe distance. Although this was the case, Zhou Lei still felt uncomfortable.

Turning his head, he saw Lin Hanying sitting alone just as she brought out her own lunch box.

There weren"t any people eating with her. Zhou Lei felt the need to sit with her.

And that was exactly what he did.

He pushed his chair back, stood up, and walked towards her desk, bringing his lunch with him.

The girls who were watching him felt confounded by these events. They observed carefully.

Lin Guiying didn"t particularly feel anything new. She always spent her lunches alone in her previous schools, so this time was no different.

"Ying!"

Her ear perked up. Hearing her best friend"s voice, she raised her head and saw that he stood right beside her, his lunch box in his hands.

"Lei? What are you doing here?"

Zhou Lei took the chair from the desk in front of Lin Hanying"s, pulled it to her desk, and sat there. He put down his lunch box on her desk. "To eat with you, of course."

Lin Guiying saw Zhou Lei"s expression that screamed "obviously".

She felt warm feelings inside. How could she forget? Friends can eat with other friends, of course!

On the other hand, this was the first time that Zhou Lei was eating with someone as well. He felt embarra.s.sed inside as he forced a composed expression on the outside.

Both of them started eating, while talking about random stuff.

The girls were dumbfounded by this sight, especially the three who interacted with him earlier.

"So those two really had a relationship, eh? Although it doesn"t look like they"re dating, it"s just a friendly atmosphere..." As Fan Xinyue thought this, she gnawed on her nails in an attempt to restrain herself.

"Lin Hanying, how dare you... steal my future husband!" Ye Muqi"s eyes started to moisten at the scene in front of her. However, her indifferent expression didn"t disappear.

"I know who I"m gonna kill today, hehehe..." Lu Xi had a wide grin on her face.