"You're the dummy!" Feng Xiaoxiao sniffed. "Fine, I'll go — who's afraid of who?"

Yesterday Feng Xiaoxiao and Shen Yushu had failed to settle which of them was the better; now that an opportunity had come around today, Feng Xiaoxiao naturally would not let it slip by. Of course she had no idea that this was Shen Yushu taking the initiative to approach her. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had already talked it over, and agreed to let Wei Zhao date Feng Xiaoxiao during the final stage of her life.

But if things went on as they had yesterday, conflict was bound to break out; and if the shift came too suddenly, Feng Xiaoxiao would certainly grow suspicious. So Gu Mengyao told Shen Yushu to find some way to draw closer to Feng Xiaoxiao — at the very least, their future meetings would not be so abrupt.

"Wei Zhao, hold my phone for me — keep it safe." Feng Xiaoxiao took the phone from her pocket, handed it over, and said.

Phones were not allowed in the gymnasium. Partly because carrying one got in the way of training, and partly because someone with ill intentions might bring a phone in and snap pictures at random, catching classmates in compromising shots — that would be a real problem!

So an electronic-device detector stood at the gym entrance. In time, nobody brought a phone along any more; even leaving it in the box by the door left you uneasy, afraid someone might swipe it in passing.

"Sure." Wei Zhao nodded, took Feng Xiaoxiao's phone, and watched her leave the classroom together with Shen Yushu.

A smile grazed the corner of Wei Zhao's lips. It looked as though Shen Yushu had already made her move. Knowing Xiao Shu's methods, he reckoned the two little terrors would be thick as thieves before long.

Wei Zhao's guess was not wrong: Shen Yushu was indeed making her move. Her plan was to first establish herself as Feng Xiaoxiao's rival, then occasionally team up with her to pull pranks on others; their relationship was bound to warm steadily all the way.

Wei Zhao's own phone had been smashed by Ma Zhu, so he was using a cast-off of the Eldest Miss's — a phone much like the flip phone Xiao Shu had used to have, only with fewer functions, a non-smart operating system, and no games worth playing.

The girls had PE this period, which for the boys amounted to a self-study period: you could sit and read in the classroom, and if you felt like going out to the playground, nobody would stop you. But third-year senior students had some discipline of their own — with the national college entrance exam right around the corner, who would go off playing? And even if you did, whom would you play with? Play by yourself?

Wei Zhao might listen carefully to his teachers in class, but he never opened a book to review afterwards.

Once Feng Xiaoxiao had gone, Wei Zhao picked up her phone more or less at random, brought up Plants vs. Zombies, and began playing it out of sheer boredom.

"Boss, you and Feng Xiaoxiao — you two are together?" Kang Xiaobo waited until every girl in the classroom had filed out before turning around and asking, eyes darting furtively.

"'Together'? Must you put it so crudely?" Wei Zhao smiled wryly.

"Heh heh — I was sitting up front and heard you two whispering away all through the class. Didn't it sound like Feng Xiaoxiao was even asking you to feel her up?" Kang Xiaobo said with a sly grin.

"..." Black lines streaked across Wei Zhao's forehead. Kang Xiaobo had heard all of that? All he could do was answer, speechless: "I didn't touch her just now. You know what she's like — there's nothing she won't say."

"Oh, oh!" Kang Xiaobo nodded. "I know you didn't. But you two are moving fast, aren't you? And at noon today I saw her coming in with Tang Yun."

"Mm." Wei Zhao nodded.

"No way — she and Tang Yun are on such good terms? Tang Yun actually approved of you and Feng Xiaoxiao?" Kang Xiaobo's eyes went wide with astonishment. He had already guessed that Tang Yun and Feng Xiaoxiao must have made peace, since when he saw them at noon the two were chatting and laughing together, with no sign of hostility at all. Yet even so, hearing Wei Zhao confirm it in his own words, Kang Xiaobo raised his thumb in awe: "Boss, you're incredible! Absolutely incredible! I admire you from the bottom of my heart! Your way with women — you're the best of the best!"

"Sweat..." Wei Zhao broke into a sweat on the spot. "Actually it was Tang Yun who accepted Feng Xiaoxiao first, and only after that did she have me accept her... You've got it backwards..."

"Huh?" At Wei Zhao's words Kang Xiaobo was so stunned he nearly rolled his eyes back in his head. Tang Yun had accepted her first? And then let Wei Zhao accept her? Was he hearing right? How was that even possible? Tang Yun — helping Wei Zhao find himself a mistress?

"All right, it's a bit complicated. I'll explain it to you in detail later." Wei Zhao had no intention of hiding Feng Xiaoxiao's illness from Kang Xiaobo; only if Kang Xiaobo understood all of it could he coordinate with him more smoothly.

"What is it? Tell me now." Kang Xiaobo's curiosity was instantly piqued.

"Hmm... I suppose so." Wei Zhao nodded. "Let's go out for a walk, then..."

Kang Xiaobo rose to his feet and followed Wei Zhao. The two left the classroom and headed downstairs.

Meanwhile, Xie Yufeng, Wang Congming, and Li Panghu were huddled together, muttering and scheming about something.

"Young Master Xie, I hear that when the girls have PE they wear next to nothing in the gym — some even flash a little more than they mean to!" Wang Congming whispered.

"Oh?" Xie Yufeng's interest was caught at once. "Really?"

"Of course it's true! Think about it — it's summer now, and the gym is sweltering to begin with. Once they start exercising, they'll be covered in sweat before you know it, and then... heh heh!" Wang Congming laughed a lewd laugh.

"Then wouldn't there be plenty of peepers? You only just transferred here and you already know — how could the students who've always gone here not know?" Xie Yufeng was still half in disbelief.

"Of course they know. But the gym windows are all terribly high — the lowest of them more than three meters up. Who could climb up there to look?" Wang Congming laughed. "Only a master like you, Young Master Xie, could fly up there!"

"Hmm... but it isn't really proper, is it? What if someone sees me..." Xie Yufeng hesitated. Peeping might be a thrill, but he could not afford to throw away his reputation — especially since he still meant to chase girls at school. A moment of bliss from peeping, and if he were caught, his name would be mud!

"Behind the gym is the school's back hill — who could possibly see?" Wang Congming grinned. "I've already scouted out the terrain!"

"You've had this planned all along, haven't you?" Hearing that the windows at the back of the gym faced the school's back hill, Xie Yufeng relaxed and nodded.

"You bet I have. I've thought it all through: when the time comes, I'll use a camera to snap compromising shots of Feng Xiaoxiao and the rest, and use them to blackmail them. If they won't submit to Young Master Xie, we leak the pictures straight out and let everyone see whether they have any shame left!"

"Brilliant!" At Wang Congming's scheme Xie Yufeng at once saw that it would work. Girls all cared about their faces; if such photos were published, their reputations would be ruined. They would do far better simply to submit to him!

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