The way everyone looked at Gu Jiao had changed from before—full of admiration and even a touch of closeness.
Zhou Tong kept sneaking glances at her.
"What’s up?" Gu Jiao got annoyed from being stared at.
With one small glance from her, Zhou Tong’s heart nearly leaped out of his throat.
But thinking of what happened in the alley, Zhou Tong felt he shouldn’t be so afraid, "Tha-thank you! And, sorry!"
Gu Jiao said, "Why do you keep apologizing to people?"
Zhou Tong chuckled awkwardly, "I... The apologies to them were forced; it wasn’t me who tripped them, he deliberately stuck his foot out to trip me—they from the Wuyue Academy love to bully us." Realizing he was getting off track, he quickly got back to the point, "The reason I’m apologizing to you is because... I misunderstood you..."
He thought she was like those violent and overbearing Wuju students from Wuyue Academy, but he was proven wrong.
Her martial arts were not for bullying people.
"You... you don’t actually like to fight, do you? You took on the Horse King yesterday to save Miss Su, and today you beat them up to protect us? Brother Xiao, you’re a kind-hearted good person!"
Suddenly receiving a ’good person card,’ Gu Jiao: "..."
After a delay in the alley, by the time Gu Jiao and her group arrived at the Xianluan Pavilion, the game was over, and Mr. Meng had already left in a horse-drawn carriage.
Zhong Ding, thinking of his missed opportunity to meet Mr. Meng, couldn’t help but burst into tears: "I didn’t get to see Mr. Meng; it’s so tragic! That was the closest I ever got to Mr. Meng! I’ll never have another chance in my life! Wah wah wah!"
Gu Jiao didn’t care about Mr. Meng; she was there to find Mu Qingchen.
However, Mu Qingchen had also gone back to the inner city.
Gu Jiao suddenly remembered something: "We’ll get penalized for skipping classes, why won’t Mu Qingchen?"
Does this guy have some special skill for skipping classes or what?
Zhong Ding enviously said: "Even though he rarely comes to class, he always gets first place in the exams. Just like that, they dare penalize him? After three penalties you’re expelled from the Academy. Such a promising student, do you expel him or not? So, the Principal granted him permission to study at home."
Gu Jiao asked, "Don’t the other students have any objections?"
Zhong Ding sighed, "If they have objections, they can challenge Mu Qingchen to a test, but so far, no one has outperformed him."
Gu Jiao stroked her chin: "Is he that impressive?"
Zhong Ding, wiping away his tears, said, "But I heard he isn’t going back to study this time; there’s some family matter that requires him to leave Shengdu temporarily."
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