Volume 2 Chapter 66: Fair and Proper Judgment
Xiao Bai hesitated for a moment. But right now, this seemed like the best excuse she had. Thinking this, she handed her finished hand-written poster to Lin Lin with some helplessness.
Lin Lin took the poster and first looked over the overall layout, carefully checking it. Standing face to face with her, Xiao Bai’s expression grew worse.
Yes, she knew very well that Lin Lin definitely knew who she was. She was part of Han Kui’s circle. Even though she wasn’t very close to Sister Kui, she had been pulled into the group by friends, they were more like friends of friends.
But… Lin Lin wouldn’t care about such details.
Han Kui had targeted Lin Lin before. Lin Lin would surely target people in Han Kui’s circle in return. That wouldn’t be Lin Lin’s fault.
It didn’t matter. Anyway… she probably wouldn’t be chosen in the first place.
And besides… hadn’t she always just followed along with others?
If Lin Lin really chose her, and she later told Sister Kui, Sister Kui would give her a hard look again. So…
“Ah, this is pretty good! It works. Classmate Bai, your poster should be put up outside. Nice work~”
Lin Lin lowered the poster that had been covering her face and showed a warm, friendly smile. Xiao Bai froze for a moment, then asked in disbelief:
“Y-you… what did you say?”
“Hm? I said you passed~”
Lin Lin’s clear and direct answer left Xiao Bai feeling confused.
B-but she was…
“But I’m from Sister Kui’s group… you…”
Before Xiao Bai could finish, she suddenly realized she had said something wrong. She quickly stopped herself and shook her head.
No, no… She had spoken her thoughts out loud without realizing it.
Hearing this, Lin Lin paused for a second and blinked.
Huh? This girl is Han Kui’s friend?
Uh…
I didn’t really notice…
Lin Lin scratched her head, suddenly feeling a bit uneasy. Was this girl trying to cause trouble?
Hmm…
But looking carefully at Xiao Bai’s confused and helpless expression, she didn’t seem sharp or mean like Han Kui at all.
So maybe she really was just here to hand in her poster?
Lin Lin glanced at the name written on the poster and tried to remember. Yeah… there did seem to be such a person.
But in her memory, this girl hardly took part in the times Han Kui bullied her.
With that thought, Lin Lin’s frown slowly relaxed.
In that case, there was no problem. Even if she was Han Kui’s friend, this task had been given to Lin Lin by the teacher. And since this girl hadn’t done anything to her, it was better to stay fair.
And honestly, the drawing was pretty good.
So Lin Lin smiled and waved her hand.
“Ah, it’s fine. This is a school activity. If you have skill, you get picked. Don’t worry, I’m completely fair.”
“Ah, Lin Lin, you…”
Hearing this, Xiao Bai felt warmth in her heart. She lowered her head, not knowing what to say for a moment.
She didn’t expect Lin Lin to be so different from how Sister Kui had described her.
Instead… she was actually a kind girl.
Thinking this, Xiao Bai felt a little ashamed and awkward. After a long pause, she said very softly.
“Thank you…”
Then she turned around and ran off.
Lin Lin watched her go with a slightly complicated feeling. She thought about it for a moment, but in the end, she shook her head, turned around, picked up the colored chalk, and went back outside.
On the other side, Han Kui’s close friends, who saw everything, looked at each other. After a while, one of them nodded slowly.
Interesting… that Lin Lin girl.
………………
Anyway, after a lot of busy work, Lin Lin and the others finally finished the wall design outside the classroom. The girl raised her head and looked at the board she had spent a long time drawing. It honestly looked like the weakest one among them. She wiped the sweat from her face.
Ahem, this isn’t bad. This is called… the most imaginative one!
Pretty nice. Hey, isn’t that the vampire girl drawn by Gao Ye? And over there is the snow mountain drawn by my rival. Everyone, look at that~
Together, we’re actually pretty strong!
After looking around for a bit, Gao Liang suddenly handed her a few tissues. Lin Lin froze and didn’t take them. Gao Liang sighed helplessly, then used the tissues to wipe the sweat from her neck.
Eh—eh—eh?!
Lin Lin’s face turned red right away. She never expected Gao Liang to do that. She jumped back almost two meters. After calming down, she felt that her reaction might have been too big. He was just trying to wipe her sweat.
Hmm…
To avoid the awkward mood, she walked back over to Gao Liang, took the tissues from his hand, and while he was watching, stood on her tiptoes and slapped the tissue onto his forehead.
Ahhh—yeah, no way. I really can’t wipe sweat for my rival!
She stepped back again, her mind racing.
No, it’s not that I can’t do it. I just don’t want to.
Wiping sweat for a rival? That’s like giving up all pride. Absolutely not!
“I—I—I… I’m going to pick which posters to put up!”
She shouted that and ran back into the classroom. Gao Liang quietly took the tissue off his head and shook his head with a helpless smile.
Lin Lin still keeps some distance from me.
The vampire girl, teach me a few more tricks next time…
Meanwhile, Lin Yu blinked quietly, turned to Gao Ye, and asked, “So… can we leave now?”
“We… um… yeah! Let’s go, go, go—run run run!”
So the two people who had been forced to help draw boards for other classes quickly slipped away while Gao Liang went back inside to find Lin Lin.
When Lin Lin came out holding the selected posters, she finally realized her little brother had run off.
That guy—
With no other choice, she could only stick the posters up one by one with her rival. In the end, the result looked really good.
After that, it was a relaxed holiday break.
In the afternoon, the school was full of people walking around. Students from different classes went everywhere, and many stopped to look at the posters outside other classrooms to see if their friends had drawn any of them. Happy chatter could be heard from time to time.
Lin Lin rested her chin on her hand and looked at the crowded doorway of her classroom with satisfaction.
Looks like I really did a good job this time~
“Really nice, Lin Lin. It’s pretty lively.”
Gao Liang suddenly came over and said this. Lin Lin nodded.
Yeah, it really is~
“Tonight… do you have any plans?”
Her rival suddenly asked that. Lin Lin froze, then looked away and said,
“Ah, well… I didn’t have any plans before, but now that you ask, I feel like I suddenly have something to do.”
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