Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

He Wanyi found that she couldn’t refute Ning Yan’s words, so she gave him a thumbs up and said, “You’re amazing! Your words are really insightful!”

Ning Yan raised his eyebrows. “When will you take your second brother out with you and have some fun? You’re both from the He Family. Why is he so different from you? He is such a geek. I never see him in bars!”

“My second brother said it’s a waste of life to kill time with you guys in bars.” Wearing a smile, He Wanyi patted the speechless Ning Yan on the shoulder, walked back to her rest area and sat down. Looking at Xiao Jinning, who was acting absent-mindedly, she smiled faintly and said to her assistant, “I wonder how she had the cheek to brag about her professional dedication! She is totally absent-minded after receiving a small blow. I really feel ashamed for her.”

At this time, Ning Yan came over and dragged her out. Dragged outside the studio, He Wanyi stared at him with a smile as she said, “What are you doing? There are paparazzi everywhere. If they take a picture of us, people will think I’m dating you!”

“They already think so!” Not taking her words seriously, Ning Yan looked around and lowered his voice as he asked, “Regarding Xiao Jinning, have you heard of Xiao Hongli’s daughter?”

“Xiao Hongli has a daughter?” He Wanyi shook her head. “I remember that Xiao Hongli only has three sons. Where did he get a daughter?”

“Alas, you are a star! Why don’t you pay some attention to gossips! He held a press conference for his daughter when she came back to the Xiao Family. Didn’t you know about it?”

Ning Yan was absolutely worthy of his identity. He was very interested in gossips; however, he only paid attention to talk about people he was familiar with or cared about. Otherwise he wouldn’t give a sh*t.

He Wanyi laughed and said, “Should I pay attention?”

“She’s Xiao Yao’s sister!” Ning Yan looked at He Wanyi with great seriousness. “I heard Xiao Yao dotes on his sister. Won’t you cotton up to her?”

He Wanyi frowned. “What’s Xiao Yao got to do with me?”

“Phew!” Ning Yan curled his lips. “Nothing, nothing at all. Don’t cry in secret when he marries someone else then!”

He Wanyi glared at Ning Yan and pursed her lips. “I haven’t seen him for a long time. Even if we meet, we have nothing to talk about. I don’t have anything to do with him. Don’t get us wrong.”

“Forget it.” Ning Yan snorted. “I’m not going to talk about Xiao Yao with you. I heard news from the Yang Family that only a few of my friends know—that girl is actually Xiao Hongyi’s daughter, but he didn’t want her back. I heard it was because of Xiao Jinning.”

He Wanyi widened her eyes in astonishment. “Really? Why didn’t Xiao Hongyi want his daughter back?”

“There must be something we don’t know,” Ning Yan glanced at Wanyi and said in a low voice. “Keep it to yourself. I just want to remind you not to mention it in front of Xiao Yao when you meet him. I heard he doesn’t like people saying that the girl is not from his family.”

In the school, Tang Xi was a bit absent-minded the whole afternoon after she heard about what happened to Qiao Liang at noon. She was not in the mood to listen to the class. Besides, she had almost studied all the contents of the classes, so she looked up blankly at the blue sky outside the window. Just then, a boy sitting two tables away from her was called to answer a question by the teacher. When he stood up, he happened to block the sunshine.

Tang Xi looked at the boy. He was standing there, looking up at the teacher and answering the question seriously, and Tang Xi’s thoughts floated away.

She had met Qiao Liang in Empire High School, and he was the only student from City A there. They happened to be deskmates. She remembered it was a hot summer. Even the air conditioner in the classroom couldn’t bring down the room temperature, so she was drowsy in class. She happened to sit by the window. In one class, the power went out, and the generator also failed, so the students rolled the curtains up and open the window for ventilation. The sun had shone on her fair-skinned face and it was scorched red by the sunshine. At that time, Qiao Liang, who had been sitting by her side, had taken a look at her and then suddenly stood up.

The teacher asked him why he stood up, and he said that he dozed off because it was too hot without an air-conditioner, so he wanted to stand in class. The teacher was glad that he studied so hard, so she didn’t stop him.

At first, Tang Xi had thought this boy must have something wrong with his brain. He didn’t study hard normally. Why did he suddenly become a good student? But later she found out that when he was standing there, the sunshine was blocked by his body. As the breeze blew in, although it was still hot, it became more comfortable for sleeping. The moment she fell asleep, she thought it was great the sunshine was blocked by the standing boy.

Later, when they were together in college, he demurely told her that he had stood up to shield her from the sun.

He used to be so romantic, but he looked so cold when she saw him today. In reality, he had a sunny side to him in the past. Was it because of her that he became like this?

Tang Xi didn’t realize that the student who was answering the question was greatly distracted by her gaze. He looked back at Tang Xi only to see that she was smiling at him. He blushed, thinking, “Does Student Xiao Rou have a crush on me?”

As his mind was filled with wild thoughts, he completely forgot the next question the teacher asked and just stood there, blushing.

The teacher glared at the student and looked back only to see that Tang Xi was smiling at the student, holding her chin with a hand. He was very angry, but thinking of Ms. Cao, he restrained his temper, wrote the answer to the question on the blackboard and asked the student, “Student Chen Weichen, now do you know the answer?”

Chen Weichen embarrassedly scratched the back of his head and nodded with a red face, replying, “Yes, sir.”

The teacher nodded and asked him to sit down. After sitting down, Chen Weichen couldn’t help looking back at Tang Xi again only to find that she was still staring at the same spot in the same position. He raised his eyes, took a look at that spot, and sadly realized that Student Xiao Rou hadn’t been looking at him; he had just happened to stand in the scenery she was enjoying.

Obviously, the teacher had also noticed this. He coughed and felt lucky that he didn’t blame Xiao Rou just now.

After a moment of thought, he decided to check on Student Xiao Rou’s basic knowledge, so he wrote a question on the blackboard and asked the students who could answer it. Everyone was silent. The teacher nodded and then called Xiao Rou to answer it. Since none of the other students could answer the question, she wouldn’t be too embarrassed even if she couldn’t answer either, and then he could explain it to her.

The teacher thought he was truly clever.