Chapter 107: Spectators—Firecracker vs. White Lotus
After Su Keke entered the classroom, she slipped into study mode within minutes, completely unlike everyone else’s relaxed, post-exam vibe.
Last weekend, the homeroom teacher had rearranged seats according to grades. Su Keke benefited from top-student Luo Man and became her deskmate, taking the most comfortable spot—middle of the third row. Qin Xing also joined the fun, sitting to Su Keke’s left, still deskmates with Zhao Kexin.
The four “golden flowers” sitting in a row was pretty eye-catching.
“Keke, why do I feel like someone’s watching you?” Luo Man—her brand-new deskmate—asked softly.
Su Keke nodded. “Since I came into the classroom today, a total of six people have stared at me for more than three seconds each. They are Lu Renjia after the seat change, Bao Chen… and Jiang Yueyue. And Jiang Yueyue, at about a thirty-six-degree angle from me, has looked at me especially often.”
The “degrees” she had learned not long ago—Su Keke could already apply them well now.
Luo Man was surprised. “Keke, you’ve been reading the whole time without turning around—how do you know?”
Su Keke grinned at her. “I’m a Dao cultivator. I’m more sensitive to these things.”
Deep down, Luo Man truly admired Su Keke. She’d never imagined she’d one day know a little mystic—and become close friends.
What was a straight-A student? People outside the secular world like this were the truly impressive ones.
At first, Luo Man only had a vague sense of the prying gaze. After Su Keke said it, the feeling became obvious.
If Jiang Yueyue weren’t a girl, with how often she was peeking at Su Keke, Luo Man would’ve thought she had a crush on Su Keke.
Su Keke didn’t bother with it at first, but after it happened too many times, she couldn’t pretend not to see it anymore.
She suddenly looked over and met Jiang Yueyue’s spying eyes head-on. Jiang Yueyue froze, then immediately looked away.
It wasn’t just the peeking either. Several times in the middle of class, Jiang Yueyue “happened” to pass by Su Keke—once she even bumped into her.
Of course, it wasn’t a hard bump.
Finally, during activity period, Su Keke—who couldn’t take it anymore—walked up to Jiang Yueyue. “Do you have something to say to me?”
Jiang Yueyue kept her stubborn, tough act. “Who has something to say to you? Don’t flatter yourself. You’re the one who wants to talk to me, right? Since that’s the case, I’ll just say a few words while I’m here.”
She cleared her throat and muttered vaguely, “I heard about that day from Lu Renjia. Thanks.”
Su Keke suddenly went, “Ah!” “If you hadn’t mentioned it, I would’ve forgotten. Remember to pay me my ghost-catching fee later. Market price starts at two hundred thousand. Since you’re still a student, I’ll give you fifty percent off—just give me a hundred thousand.”
As she spoke, Su Keke picked up a pen with a very serious face and wrote a string of numbers on the draft paper on Jiang Yueyue’s desk. “This is my bank account number.”
Jiang Yueyue stared at her blankly.
“Fee? One hundred thousand? Su Keke, why don’t you just go rob someone?”
Su Keke wasn’t happy anymore. “You think I’m scamming you? If I hadn’t arrived in time, do you believe you would’ve stuffed yourself to death? What’s more important—your life or money?”
Jiang Yueyue pressed her lips together, unable to speak.
Even though she couldn’t remember, after she woke up that day, she really had felt like her belly was about to burst. She never wanted to experience that feeling again.
“Fine. Got it. I’ll transfer it to you right now!”
Jiang Yueyue got ten thousand a month for living expenses. Plus the New Year money from relatives on both sides every year, she had no less than a million in pocket money. If she didn’t spend so freely, she’d have even more to use.
Su Keke didn’t expect her to be so straightforward—she said she’d transfer it and she did, and she transferred two hundred thousand in one go.
“I don’t need your discount. If we settle this with money, then I don’t owe you any favors.”
After sending half of it to Uncle’s charity foundation, Su Keke hugged her phone and counted what was left, nodding with a grin. “No debt, no debt.”
Jiang Yueyue looked at her with disgust. “Look at you—so poor and pathetic. How little have you seen of money? Perfect timing—this Friday night I’m throwing a masked ball at my villa. You should come too. It’ll broaden your horizons.”
Su Keke replied crisply, “Not going. I’m busy.”
Jiang Yueyue snapped, “Fine, don’t come then. You think I’m begging you?”
They parted on bad terms, but Su Keke didn’t care at all—because she had just gotten another deposit.
“Keke, don’t you feel like Jiang Yueyue isn’t as annoying as before? She even stopped being sarcastic to me,” Qin Xing suddenly leaned over and whispered in Su Keke’s ear.
Su Keke smiled slightly. “Yeah. Jiang Yueyue is pretty cute today.”
She said she’d give fifty percent off, and the other party still paid her two hundred thousand—how cute was that?
Qin Xing muttered, “It’s an illusion. It has to be. No way getting possessed by a starving ghost once makes her better.”
Luo Man nodded too. “She does seem gentler today.”
However, by lunchtime, they were proven wrong.
Jiang Yueyue and her school-belle sister had a huge fight in the cafeteria—so huge it got loud.
When Su Keke and the others arrived, Jiang Yueyue was pointing at Jiang Fangfei’s nose and cursing viciously:
“Stop acting in front of me! You disgusting white lotus! If you like Xu Hao, then fine—I don’t want him anymore. I’ll give him to you! You scumbag man and trashy woman, stay the hell away from me from now on—get lost!”
Jiang Fangfei had fallen onto the ground, crying softly, as if someone had shoved her down.
“Jiang Yueyue, are you done making a scene?” A boy beside Jiang Fangfei shouted. “I’ve told you a long time ago—I only ever saw you as a younger sister. You’re the one who was delusional and thought I liked you!
The person I’ve always liked is your sister. Even now, your sister still considers your feelings and doesn’t dare accept my pursuit. She thinks about you in everything—yet how do you treat her?”
The boy beside Jiang Fangfei helped her up.
Su Keke stared at him for a moment—so this boy was Xu Hao?
She’d seen him at Old Master Xu’s birthday banquet before—some grandson of Old Master Xu.
His physiognomy… hmm. A lifetime of mediocrity, and plenty of messy romantic entanglements too.
Jiang Yueyue looked at the boy in front of her, her heart still aching dully.
Childhood sweethearts—so that’s all it amounted to.
Their bond from growing up together couldn’t compare to someone who came later.
She liked Xu Hao—but hadn’t Xu Hao said he liked her too?
“Brother-sister my ass!” Jiang Yueyue shouted. “Xu Hao, back then you kept saying you’d marry me the moment I graduated college—who the hell said that? If you liked Jiang Fangfei, you should’ve told me sooner! If you’d said it, I would’ve happily ‘fulfilled’ you two—this scumbag man and trashy woman!
And how did I treat her? Want to pull the CCTV and see exactly what I did to her?
I was eating my meal just fine—she had to come over and disgust me. Don’t tell me it wasn’t on purpose. I barely bumped her, and she fell on her own. How weak can she be!”
Jiang Fangfei stepped forward to grab Jiang Yueyue’s arm, practically begging now. “Yueyue, if there’s something, let’s talk at home. Don’t let others laugh at you.”
Jiang Yueyue felt sickened and flung her arm away. “Enough already! You two are the ones who came to provoke me, and you still say I’m making it big? I didn’t even want this trash man anymore, and you’re still coming to show off?
I said get lost—both of you, get lost!”
Qin Xing frowned. “How is Jiang Yueyue still this stupid? Why act so strong in a setting like this? If she keeps this up, how can she possibly beat a ‘white lotus’ like that?”
Su Keke suddenly asked out of curiosity, “Daxing, the ‘white lotus’ you guys talk about isn’t the kind that grows in water, right? What does it mean?”
Qin Xing: …
