Chapter 41: Boss Fight Preparation
In the girls’ dormitory.
When the morning wake-up bell rang, Gu Jiusheng, who had been lying awake in bed all noon without sleeping, slowly sat up and stretched.
But her tired posture, messy hair, and that unreadable expression on her face all clearly showed her poor condition these days.
She glanced at the time. With a heavy heart, Gu Jiusheng finally got out of bed and lazily started packing the things she needed for afternoon class.
These past few days, her mind had been completely filled with thoughts about Mo Ziyang’s little maid. Because of this, she couldn’t eat well or sleep soundly.
All day long, she kept thinking about how to uncover the true identity of that maid who stayed by Mo Ziyang’s side.
And since she didn’t manage to find Mo Ziyang or Lin Muxi at noon today, her mood became even more chaotic, which made her lose sleep again.
“No way, today I must ask those two about that maid’s identity.”
Determined, Gu Jiusheng finished packing, picked up her phone to check messages, and walked out of the dormitory.
“Hm? What’s this…”
Scrolling while walking, she was quickly drawn to one news push notification.
[weibo: A rich young man from the capital spotted bringing his girlfriend in a sports car to eat in a poor district.]
For some reason, when she saw this, Gu Jiusheng frowned and showed a look of disgust, like something had touched a painful spot in her heart.
Still, she slid open the news.
She wanted to see just how rich this so-called young master was. Could he really be richer than Mo Ziyang?
One day, she too would appear on the news together with Mo Ziyang.
“Let me see… Huh? Isn’t that…? Damn it, this shameless girl, she dares to openly steal a man?”
When the post loaded, the photo showed a sports car parked by the roadside, and Lin Muxi getting out of the car, hurrying to follow after Mo Ziyang.
Before she even finished cursing, Gu Jiusheng, who had just arrived at the teaching building, couldn’t hold back anymore and burst out loudly.
So that’s why they disappeared so early at noon, turns out he drove that little maid out for a meal.
The humiliation hit her full force. Even though she was furious, Gu Jiusheng still gained something useful from this.
Based on this news push and the previous deduction from an unknown netizen, her instinct strongly told her that Mo Ziyang’s maid was a student of this school.
“She better pray I don’t find her.”
Fuming, Gu Jiusheng shut off her phone and stormed into the classroom.
Meanwhile, on the other side—
Zhang Hao and Li Bin had their own “memorable time together” because Mo Ziyang and Lin Muxi didn’t come back to the dorm.
Yes, without Lin Muxi, their “living alarm clock”, the two of them had overslept again.
It wasn’t until the class bell rang in the classroom that they rushed in panic to the door.
“Damn, this is the homeroom teacher’s class!”
Peeking from the back door, Li Bin saw the teacher already inside and whispered to Zhang Hao, who was hiding behind him.
“Let’s sneak in from the back. If we get caught, we’ll be stuck standing outside the office again at sunset.”
But before Zhang Hao could finish speaking, Li Bin dragged him straight into the classroom.
Luckily, at that moment, the teacher’s back was facing them while writing notes on the board with an English test paper.
Taking advantage of the chance, the two darted in and slipped into their seats quietly.
Fortunately, when the teacher turned back, he didn’t notice them suddenly appear. He just went on explaining the test questions nonstop.
The teacher might not have noticed, but Mo Ziyang and Lin Muxi, sitting in the back row, saw everything clearly.
Especially their funny sneaky movements. It made Lin Muxi laugh so hard that she covered her mouth and let out goose-like giggles.
Her laughter made the students in front turn their heads in confusion to look at them, which embarrassed Mo Ziyang so much that he had to turn his face away awkwardly.
As expected, the small commotion below the podium was quickly caught by the sharp-eyed homeroom teacher.
With a few loud bang bang on the podium, the troublemaker Lin Muxi was scolded right away.
“Lin Muxi, if you already understand the lesson, you can do extra exercises by yourself. Don’t disturb classmates who don’t understand. Just because you know something doesn’t mean you can mess up the class. Learn more from Mo Ziyang.”
Being called out by name, compared with Mo Ziyang, and criticized in front of everyone, Lin Muxi lowered her head pitifully. But from the corner of her eye, she glanced at Mo Ziyang sitting beside her.
She didn’t believe this guy could stay completely calm.
But the result was Mo Ziyang just quietly continued taking notes, looking like he didn’t care at all.
“Tch… what a fake…”
Seeing things didn’t go as she expected, Lin Muxi muttered in dissatisfaction.
But muttering was one thing—
When she wasn’t paying attention, Mo Ziyang quietly stretched out his hand.
The next second, just like a little kitten, Lin Muxi was “caught by the scruff of her neck” by him.
“Wrong, wrong…”
The sudden tingling made Lin Muxi quickly tilt her head back, tightly gripping Mo Ziyang’s hand to ease the itchy feeling on her neck.
“As long as you understand.”
And so, time slowly passed until it was almost the end of the school day.
Only a little more time before class was over.
By now, after several breaks, Mo Ziyang’s face no longer carried that serious expression.
After all, through their conversations, he realized Zhang Hao and Li Bin didn’t know anything about those matters.
In fact, not only did they not know, those two didn’t even dare to bring their phones to school.
Feeling relieved, Mo Ziyang finally relaxed a bit, then turned to Lin Muxi and said,
“After class, change into these clothes and wait for me in the classroom. I’ll deal with something and then come back.”
“…Oh.”
Looking at the small bag of clothes Mo Ziyang had brought and put under the desk, Lin Muxi felt her face burning hot.
But since the crisis was temporarily over, and because of her previous promise, she could only grit her teeth and unwillingly agree.
A few minutes later, the bell finally rang, signaling the end of class.
“Brother Mo, Lin Muxi, are you two staying at school tonight?”
“Yeah, if not, then we’ll just hang out by ourselves.”
Before Mo Ziyang could urge Lin Muxi, Zhang Hao and Li Bin had already come over.
“No, Lin Muxi and I are going home tonight.” Mo Ziyang casually replied.
Seeing the dangerous look in Mo Ziyang’s eyes, the smart Zhang Hao immediately understood and quickly ended the topic.
“Alright then, we’re leaving.”
“Brother Mo, we’re off.”
“Mm.”
With a wave of his hand, Mo Ziyang finally sent those two nuisances away.
Now, the only one left was the obedient little “kitten” waiting to be trained.
But when he turned his head, Lin Muxi was still sitting in her chair, holding the bag.
She looked like she was either lost in thought or dazing out, head lowered, staring blankly at the bag in her hands.
“I’m going first. Remember to change and wait here for me.”
Seeing her like that, Mo Ziyang lost interest and could only say this.
“……”
But Lin Muxi didn’t reply, so Mo Ziyang simply rubbed her head like she was a silly kid, then walked out of the classroom without looking back.
“Sigh… guess I have no choice.”
After Mo Ziyang left, Lin Muxi let out a long sigh, then stood up with the bag and ran toward the computer room on the roof of the teaching building.
After all, the restroom up there usually had almost no people. Even if changing clothes made a bit of noise, it shouldn’t be a problem.
So, naturally, since she thought nothing would happen, something was bound to happen.