Because of this incident, Murong Beichen left early, taking a soaking wet Xu Chun with him. Moreover, due to the massive commotion he caused, Qiao Wei and Chang Wen, considering the safety of the students, ended the spring outing early.
Zhu Yaya didn't really mind. Anyway, the mission had been triggered and the reward was in her hands, so the trip wasn't a waste.
However, on the bus ride back to school, Yan Heng, who was sitting next to her, suddenly turned his head and looked at her very seriously: "I know."
Zhu Yaya: ...
What?
Know what?
What did you know?
Could it be that he knew what she had just gone to do?
Feeling guilty, Zhu Yaya was just about to ask when she saw Yan Heng turn his head back and close his eyes to rest.
Looking at Yan Heng's profile, she suddenly remembered the song she had played and sung with her guitar---"I Like You So Much, You'll Know It". Could Yan Heng's "I know" be a response to that?
Zhu Yaya's face instantly flushed red. She blinked and stole a few secret glances at Yan Heng.
After this spring outing, Zhu Yaya thought Murong Beichen would make a fuss for a long time over the incident between Shen Wandan and Xu Chun, but unexpectedly, everything was calm again.
A few days later, Zhu Yaya saw Murong Beichen and Shen Wandan playing and joking around.
Zhu Yaya: ...What's going on? Didn't she remember that Murong Beichen used to treat Shen Wandan very poorly because of Xu Chun?
Not long after, while cleaning up, Zhu Yaya went to take out the trash with her deskmate Xu Baoying, and accidentally bumped into the supporting male lead Ling Yiming and the female lead Xu Chun alone together.
Zhu Yaya: ...Why did she always feel like something was going to happen?
Zhu Yaya's intuition had always been accurate. So, she simply stepped up her efforts in keeping an eye on Xu Chun and Murong Beichen, bringing watermelons with her every single day. Watermelons could now be seen in Zhu Yaya's fridge at home every day. The most frequent packages Zhu Yaya received were watermelons bought online.
Zhao Jing reminded her that the sugar content in watermelons was very high, and eating them could cause sugar to accumulate in the body, which easily converts into fat and leads to obesity.
Zhu Yaya smiled bitterly; she didn't want this either! Wasn't it all for the mission! Therefore, to avoid getting fat, Zhu Yaya still hadn't dropped her habit of going for a morning run every day.
Zhu Yaya's intuition was not wrong.
Later on, something indeed happened.
It was almost mid-April now, and the school's monthly exams were coming up again.
Early this morning, Zhu Yaya felt her head throbbing a bit. School was finally over, but the thought that she still had to stalk Xu Chun made Zhu Yaya feel miserable.
There was no helping it. For the sake of her bright future, Zhu Yaya gritted her teeth and repeated her daily routine: going upstairs to find Yan Heng, and then stalking Xu Chun.
Strangely, when Zhu Yaya went upstairs to Class 17 of the second year today, she surprisingly didn't see Xu Chun and Murong Beichen. Yan Heng was the only one in the entire classroom. That wasn't right. Weren't Yan Heng, Xu Chun, and Murong Beichen usually the last ones to leave?
Zhu Yaya asked Yan Heng blankly, "Yan Heng, where is Xu Chun?"
Yan Heng stepped forward and took Zhu Yaya's schoolbag. "Didn't notice."
Sigh, whatever, they probably left early. Then she wouldn't go stalking Xu Chun today.
This was good too! She would just treat it as giving herself a day off!
Zhu Yaya stopped dwelling on it and grabbed Yan Heng's arm. "Since they left first, I won't follow them to the West District today."
Yan Heng nodded to show he understood. "I'll walk you straight back to the South District."
"Okay."
Zhu Yaya and Yan Heng arrived at the first floor.
The weather today was very sunny. It had been cloudless just a moment ago, but by the time Zhu Yaya and Yan Heng came downstairs, the entire sky had darkened. Dark clouds gathered, cold winds blew in gusts, and before long, thousands upon thousands of pea-sized raindrops fell upon the earth.
Zhu Yaya stood under the eaves and reached out her right hand. The large raindrops hit her hand. She didn't like rainy days, and her head drooped. "Why is it raining?"
Zhu Yaya checked the weather forecast every day, and it was supposed to be sunny these past few days! She hadn't even brought an umbrella!
"I didn't bring an umbrella. Yan Heng, did you bring one?"
Fortunately, Yan Heng had brought an umbrella. Yan Heng's umbrella was a bit old. Zhu Yaya even saw that the frame inside was a little rusty.
Yan Heng's umbrella wasn't large, and there was only so much space underneath it. To ensure neither of them got wet, Zhu Yaya pressed tightly against Yan Heng, instantly closing the distance between them.
Zhu Yaya felt her face burning and was very embarrassed. They were way too close! In this tiny space, Zhu Yaya couldn't help but feel a kind of ambiguous atmosphere spreading through the air.
Zhu Yaya tried to secretly pull away a little, but Yan Heng pulled her into his arms. Yan Heng shoved Zhu Yaya's schoolbag back to her. He held the umbrella with one hand and protected Zhu Yaya in his embrace with the other. Zhu Yaya was immediately enveloped by the fresh scent of soap on Yan Heng, feeling like her head was about to smoke.
"Wh-what are you doing?" Zhu Yaya heard her own stammering voice.
Then, Zhu Yaya felt Yan Heng's palm land gently on her head. He rubbed Zhu Yaya's hair and lowered his voice: "Don't move, the rain is heavy."
What a deep, resonant voice!
Mesmerized by his deep voice, Zhu Yaya obediently nestled in Yan Heng's arms.
Suddenly, Zhu Yaya felt she didn't hate the rain anymore.
But this rain was truly too strange.
When Zhu Yaya and Yan Heng reached the school gates, they found it wasn't raining anymore. The ground was completely dry.
What was going on?
Yan Heng closed the umbrella. Zhu Yaya also stepped out of Yan Heng's embrace.
She caught a glimpse of Yan Heng's white shirt, noticing some spots were wet from the rain.
Feeling a bit too shy to face Yan Heng directly, she shifted her gaze upward and tilted her head to look at the sky.
The sky was clear. Let alone rain, there wasn't even a trace of a cloud to be seen.
Zhu Yaya: Umm, what's going on?
Yan Heng flicked the rainwater off the umbrella outward, looked back at the sky above the teaching buildings behind them, and his expression froze.
"Yaya." Yan Heng's face was stern. "Look behind you."
"What?" Zhu Yaya was confused, but she still followed Yan Heng's words and looked back, her pupils shrinking sharply.
Behind them, several teaching buildings were shrouded in gloomy rain.
Why was it like this?
Zhu Yaya was dumbfounded, standing frozen like a statue.
Thick dark clouds continuously loomed over those teaching buildings, forming a stark contrast with the sky above where she and Yan Heng stood.
The sky above the entire Scott High School seemed to have been split in half by someone, half sunny, half rainy, distinctly separated and not interfering with each other.
Zhu Yaya frowned.
Why would this kind of situation happen?
Yan Heng narrowed his eyes slightly, taking a few glances at this somewhat abnormal sky. "Yaya, let's go."
"No rush, no rush," Zhu Yaya said slowly.
Zhu *Master Fortune Teller* Yaya pinched her fingers to calculate, looking completely serious. When there are anomalies in the sky, there must be a strange encounter.
The next moment, the system popped up---
"Congratulations on successfully unlocking the seventeenth mission. Please proceed immediately to the central plaza near the Academic Building of Scott High School. Witness Murong Beichen and Xu Chun's first argument firsthand and enjoy the drama."
