After the True Heiress Travels Back-Chapter 52: The Habit of Not Brokering for Others

Shi Yaoguang was startled by her excited attitude.

"What’s the matter?"

Cheng Lingdang held her face with a silly expression, "Aww, so shy~" fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

Shi Yaoguang: "??"

She blinked, still puzzled.

She and Cheng Lingdang seemed to be on different wavelengths.

After enough coquettish behavior, Cheng Lingdang finally said, "Bro Shi, you actually called me little Lingdang~"

Shi Yaoguang: "..."

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Cheng Lingdang cleared her throat and laughed sheepishly, "Ahem, I was too excited, getting off-topic, let’s continue our previous conversation!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she was mocked.

"Oh, isn’t this our top student Cheng? Why are you hanging out with the one at the bottom of the class?"

The speaker was Cheng Lingdang’s classmate, named Sun Hanyi.

"I just love being with my Bro Shi, what’s it to you?" Cheng Lingdang glared at Sun Hanyi and then hugged Shi Yaoguang’s arm, looking blissfully happy.

"I think you’re just jealous of the good relationship I have with Bro Shi!"

Sun Hanyi rolled her eyes and said sarcastically, "You think everyone is like you, treasuring the bottom-dweller as if they’re a gem?"

"Tch!" Cheng Lingdang rolled her eyes, "It’s not your place to judge my Bro Shi, but... I do have something to say."

"What do you mean?"

Cheng Lingdang made a teasing face at her, annoyingly smug, "Before you get sour at me, better improve your grades first. Being consistently outperformed by me, don’t you feel ashamed? I’m embarrassed for you."

Sun Hanyi’s face immediately darkened.

This was the sore point she didn’t want to touch upon.

She prided herself on having a slightly better family background than Cheng Lingdang, being slightly prettier, and working slightly harder in her studies.

Yet, despite what she believed to be her multiple advantages, she still lost to Cheng Lingdang every time.

In terms of family background, what she had, Cheng Lingdang did not lack, and even what she sought but couldn’t get, Cheng Lingdang could easily obtain.

In terms of looks, standing next to Cheng Lingdang, she was definitely the one who got ignored.

In academics, Cheng Lingdang always scored a few points more than her.

It was these slight differences that formed a chasm as wide as the heavens, standing right before her.

"Don’t get too proud of yourself, so what if you’re better than me in every way? You’re still degenerate."

Sun Hanyi could not surpass her, so she tried to start with Shi Yaoguang.

To ridicule Shi Yaoguang in order to mock her.

Cheng Lingdang simply couldn’t stand it when she spoke like this.

Being old rivals, Cheng Lingdang was well aware of what kind of person Sun Hanyi was, and she had heard plenty of unpleasant things.

But if it was because of her that someone was mistreating Bro Shi, that would be crossing her line!

"Sun Hanyi, slander can be criminal!"

She warned vehemently, "Say one more word, and watch out for Bro Shi to beat you up!"

Sun Hanyi opened her mouth to speak, but upon looking up, she saw Shi Yiqing walking arm in arm with another female classmate, looking very chummy.

Cheng Lingdang followed her gaze and turned back to look.

"Shi Yiqing?"

Shi Yaoguang also turned around.

Shi Yiqing and An Siqi walked hand in hand towards her and greeted her.

Especially An Siqi, her face wore a smug smile.

She strode quickly to Shi Yaoguang’s side, with a boastful tone, "How about that, you didn’t expect to see me here, did you?"

Shi Yaoguang shook her head.

An Siqi pursed her lips, exchanged a warm look with Shi Yiqing, and then snorted coldly, "If it weren’t for your leaving me to die, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet Qingqing. For that, I still need to thank you."

"If it hadn’t been for your facilitation, I wouldn’t have known what a real friend is."

"No need to thank me," Shi Yaoguang replied calmly, "your becoming friends has nothing to do with me."

An Siqi curled the corner of her mouth, "No, I still have to thank you. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have realized that only girls like Qingqing are worth my true friendship."

Shi Yaoguang insisted, "Really, no thanks are necessary. I don’t have the habit of matchmaking for others, and the fact that you two hit it off has nothing to do with me. After all, birds of a feather flock together. Even without me, there would have been another opportunity."

An Siqi: "..."

Shi Yiqing: "..."

Don’t think they couldn’t understand what ’birds of a feather’ meant in this context.

Shi Yaoguang’s gaze swept over their intertwined hands, revealing a sly smile.

Seeing this, An Siqi’s heart skipped a beat, and an inexplicable fear arose, "What, what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing much, just that..."

She paused, her voice tinged with a hint of pity, "you two might soon part ways as friends."

Shi Yiqing looked down, her eyes swept around uneasily.

An Siqi furrowed her brows and asked, "What exactly do you mean?"

"It’s nothing serious. Didn’t I ask the principal to make the examination papers public? This morning, news came out that the examination papers were destroyed..."

She hung her head, twirling her fingers, the very image of anxious despair.

Seeing her like this, Shi Yiqing felt a sense of relief.

An Siqi rolled her eyes, "And here I thought it was something serious. It’s just an examination paper, isn’t it?"

"Given your grades, scoring a total of a hundred would be impressive; the destruction of the paper might turn out to be good or bad for you," she said.

Shi Yaoguang raised an eyebrow, "Is that really what you think?"

"What else?"

An Siqi’s attitude showed no anomaly because she did not yet know the purpose behind Shi Yiqing asking her to destroy the examination papers.

In her eyes, Shi Yaoguang was still the same hopeless fool as before.

Shi Yiqing had asked her to destroy the papers simply to frame Shi Yaoguang and to make troubles for her.

It never crossed her mind that Shi Yiqing’s objective might actually be to cover up her own deceit and plagiarism.

This, An Siqi did not know, but Shi Yaoguang was all too aware of it.

She glanced at Shi Yiqing and said with an implied meaning, "With the examination papers destroyed, no matter what I say, no one will believe me. If the person who destroyed the papers isn’t found, I might have to withdraw from school."

As she spoke, her eyes were tinged with sorrow, "I don’t want to withdraw, Siqi, can you please help me?"

An Siqi’s insides swelled with pride when she saw her pleading to herself, but she showed a troubled expression, "I’m just a regular student, what can I do to help you?"

Shi Yaoguang then turned to Shi Yiqing, "Little sister, aren’t you? You were even willing to have a trial marriage for my sake, so with your sister facing difficulty now, you surely won’t stand by and do nothing, right?"

Shi Yiqing never expected that after she had conspired against Quan Sicheng like that, Shi Yaoguang would still have the gall to ask her for help, and her expression stiffened.

Upon seeing this, Shi Yaoguang urged, "Little sister, speak up! I hardly ever ask anyone for help, so please, help me this time."

Shi Yiqing bit her lip, her face showing difficulty, "Sister, it’s not that I don’t want to help you, but what you did was too much. Even if I wanted to, I simply don’t have the power to help."