Ch. 13 - A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

“Hmph, that Wu Yaoyao just relies on her pretty face to act arrogant and full of herself.”

Another female voice rang out, sharp and mean—like the kind of jealous villainess in prime-time TV dramas who obviously wouldn’t survive more than three episodes, secretly badmouthing the naïve heroine.

“Exactly. A woman with barely any chest to speak of—I seriously wonder if you could land a drone on it.” A third girl chimed in, each remark harsher than the last.

Hey, hey, Wu Yaoyao—someone’s talking about your regrettably flat chest. Hurry over. Hearing that, I stood quietly in the storage room, listening to their conversation, unable to suppress a silent laugh.

Wu Yaoyao, who was as flat as a mirror, cared deeply about this matter. If she heard those words, there was no telling what she’d do—she might grab a bow and arrow and, with her hundred-step precision, chase them down two streets in tears.

“You three don’t need to take it so seriously. After all, I was at fault first. I accidentally touched her hand—so it was only right that she slapped me,” Lin Gu said slowly. Though his words sounded indifferent, there was a hint of grievance in his tone.

Wait a second. Wu Yaoyao had said that Lin Gu had touched her hand multiple times, even grabbing it a few times. Judging from this, either Wu Yaoyao was lying, or Lin Gu was putting on an act—a wolf pretending to be harmless.

“Just accidentally touching her hand and you get slapped?” the first girl said resentfully, then snorted coldly. “Her hand must be pretty precious.”

“I think she’s just cheap—feels good about herself and wants to use Xiao Gu to raise her own status.”

I more or less understood now—these three girls were probably the same ones from No. 2 City High School who had been glancing over when Lin Gu sat down with me earlier. Seeing the admiration they had shown toward him then, combined with what they were saying now, it wasn’t surprising.

“Look, my face is fine. It doesn’t hurt anymore anyway.” Lin Gu’s voice sounded light, but beneath that ease was a sense of forced composure after being wronged.

“Looks like someone needs to teach that self-important woman a lesson—make her behave.”

“Exactly.”

“Yeah.”

The sharp-tongued girl spoke, and the other two echoed her angrily.

“Don’t go looking for trouble with her because of me,” Lin Gu said firmly in opposition.

“But—”

“Let’s just let this matter pass. Everyone can treat it as my fault.” Lin Gu sighed, cutting her off, his voice soft as if he had suffered an injustice.

……

“Hey, it’s daylight.”

After tidying up the storage room, I returned to the corner where I had been sitting earlier and found Wu Yaoyao asleep there with her eyes closed. She must have been truly exhausted today—after all, organizing an event for a large club like the archery club meant a heavy workload for the president.

I called out, but Wu Yaoyao didn’t respond. She seemed to be sleeping deeply, completely motionless.

Was she really that tired? I sighed and reached out to shake her awake. Just as my hand got halfway there, I noticed a faint glimmer reflected in her eyes.

This woman was pretending to sleep.

I curled my lips, stopped my movement, turned my back to her, and deliberately said a bit louder, “Ah, forget it. She’ll wake up on her own anyway. I’ll just head off first.”

“Bai Qiao, you stop right there!”

As expected, the moment I finished speaking, a crisp voice came from behind me.

“Hm? Weren’t you asleep?” I asked, pretending not to know anything.

“You—you—you don’t understand a girl’s heart at all!” Wu Yaoyao, having been exposed, looked at me with slightly reddened eyes, her speech halting.

“How do I not understand a girl’s heart?” I looked at her, half amused and half exasperated. How did the one pretending to sleep end up accusing me instead?

“When you see a girl sleeping so sweetly, shouldn’t you gently pick her up and carry her home on your back?” Wu Yaoyao looked at me as if I were beyond saving.

“What kind of girl’s magazine plot is that?” I said with a bitter smile.

Was this woman reading too many of those books just to confess or something?

“Idiot… so stupid… I’m not signing the form anymore.”

Probably because I had exposed her for reading girl’s magazines, Wu Yaoyao blushed, at a loss for words. After hesitating for a long time, she could only clutch the hem of her archery outfit, look away, and use the form signature to threaten me.

I couldn’t help but smile bitterly. When girls threw tantrums, they really didn’t make sense.

If she didn’t sign, then it would mean that today’s activity had not been supervised at all—it would completely count as my dereliction of duty.

In the end, after much coaxing, I finally managed to cheer Wu Yaoyao up. Only then did she pout, look at me with great reluctance, and lightly scribble her signature on the form.

I returned the form to the student council room and placed it on Tang Xin’s desk for her to review the next day. It was already late, and everyone from the student council had gone home.

As the sun set, the entire campus was bathed in an orange glow.

“Let’s go.”

Wu Yaoyao, who had followed me over, stood at the doorway of the student council room, waiting for me to lock up.

“Mm.” I nodded and walked toward the school gate.

“Water.” Wu Yaoyao caught up to me, took out a bottle of mineral water from her bag, and held it out to me.

“Thanks.” I accepted it, unscrewed the cap, and took a sip.

There were hardly any people left on the school path. Walking this close together now was probably safe.

“Did you start liking me today?”

At the fork in the road by the school gate, Wu Yaoyao asked with a blush.

“No.”

I pursed my lips.

“Then remember to try harder to like me tomorrow, okay?” Wu Yaoyao showed her little tiger teeth, smiled, waved, and walked off along the road toward the north side of the city.

I gave a bitter smile and waved back.

I lived in the south, while Wu Yaoyao lived in the north—we weren’t on the same route.

Had I mentioned that to Lin Gu today?

Walking on the way home, I suddenly thought of Lin Gu. The idea that such a handsome guy could be a quiet pervert was quite unexpected. And those three girls had believed his lies completely—being good-looking really was an advantage.

Although Lin Gu had deceived those girls, he at least felt a bit guilty and had stopped them from going to trouble Wu Yaoyao.

Today has been a day without any trouble. I glanced at the setting sun and stretched lazily.

No—that wasn’t right.

Suddenly sensing something wrong, I stopped, turned around, and ran in the direction Wu Yaoyao had gone.

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