The morning classes quickly concluded.
"Ring, ring, ring!" The bell for lunch break sounded.
All the students stood up, heading out in twos and threes towards the cafeteria.
Qin Mengxue and Qiao Xiaoyu also left the classroom together, ready to get lunch.
Only Zhou Hong remained, with no classmates inviting him to eat, sitting alone and appearing somewhat lonely.
Qiao Xiaoyu, who had just stepped out of the classroom, glanced back at Zhou Hong. Seeing him without friends, looking lost and bewildered, she suddenly felt… a bit of pity.
"Xiaoyu, what are you looking at?" Qin Mengxue asked.
"It's lunchtime now, and everyone's going to eat together. Look at Zhou Hong, he's all alone, no one's calling him. He seems quite pitiable," Qiao Xiaoyu said.
"Are you serious? He just stole your first kiss this morning, and you're still pitying him," Qin Mengxue said, feeling speechless.
"I'm just stating facts," Qiao Xiaoyu pouted.
"Didn't you want to talk to him? Let's wait for him downstairs."
"Okay, okay."
After everyone else had left the classroom, Zhou Hong also walked out. He knew everyone was going to eat, but sadly, he had no friends and had to go alone, feeling a bit lonely.
He didn't want to be a loner; he wanted a group of friends. But he wasn't good at flattering others. That's why when the classmates disliked him this morning, he became enraged. It might have had something to do with his arrogance on the Zixiao Continent.
Now, on Earth, no one indulged him. It was unlike the Zixiao Continent, where many admired his talent and feared his family background. No matter how he treated others, they would still fawn over him like lapdogs. Su Dan Novel Network
"Sigh!" Zhou Hong sighed and prepared to find a place to eat alone.
"Zhou Hong." Just as Zhou Hong stepped out of the teaching building, a girl's voice called from behind him. It was Qiao Xiaoyu, with Qin Mengxue standing beside her.
"Xiaoyu." Zhou Hong smiled and called out. He had intended to call her "wife," but then he thought that knowing Qiao Xiaoyu disliked him, saying that would only make him more detestable. He already had no friends, so he changed his address.
Qiao Xiaoyu was a little surprised. Now that there were no outsiders, he hadn't called her "wife."
"I want to talk to you," Qiao Xiaoyu said.
"Okay." Zhou Hong nodded.
"Come with me to a place where there's no one."
"Alright."
"Mengxue, you wait for me here," Qiao Xiaoyu said to Qin Mengxue.
"Don't you want me to accompany you? What if he…?" Qin Mengxue asked worriedly.
"Don't worry."
Qin Mengxue nodded and warned Zhou Hong, "Don't be rough with Xiaoyu again, or I won't let you off."
"Don't worry, I won't spank women anymore," Zhou Hong said with a wry smile.
Zhou Hong immediately followed Qiao Xiaoyu to a secluded spot behind the teaching building. The reason Qiao Xiaoyu chose this place to talk was to avoid being seen by others.
"Xiaoyu, go ahead and tell me what you want to talk about. If you want me to leave you, then there's no need to talk. Because I will become your fiancé. Your grandfather approached me himself; it wasn't me forcing myself. If your grandfather asks me to leave, I will naturally do so without question."
Qiao Xiaoyu snorted lightly. "Even if my grandfather approached you, you could have refused."
"Heh, do you know that yesterday evening, I was starving? If your grandfather hadn't suddenly approached me, I wouldn't even have had money to eat. Since your grandfather is so sincere, why should I refuse? Besides, you're so beautiful; I have no reason not to accept."
"Let's not talk about this. Did my grandfather take a liking to you because you have the appearance of an emperor?" Qiao Xiaoyu asked.
"You'll have to ask your grandfather about that. I don't know why he likes me so much."
"Alright, I have a few things to tell you now. My grandfather wants us to cultivate our feelings, but we don't have any feelings now, so…!"
"So you want me to stop dreaming of eating swan meat and leave you, right?" Zhou Hong asked with a wry smile.
"No," Qiao Xiaoyu hesitated and said.
"Uh, no? There's no reason for that. You would never look at me favorably," Zhou Hong was a bit confused.
Qiao Xiaoyu snorted lightly. "I really don't like you, but I won't outright reject someone, not even a nobody. Although you're currently worse than a nobody. But you might not be entirely useless. Since my grandfather wants us to cultivate feelings, I can give it a try."
"Give it a try? What do you mean?" Zhou Hong frowned.
"If, in the future, you can truly change my impression, and even make me develop good feelings for you, then it's not impossible for me to be your girlfriend."
For some reason, Zhou Hong felt a surge of emotion in his heart.
He had thought that everyone disliked him, let alone Qiao Xiaoyu. He had even forced a kiss on her this morning, so she should hate him to death. He thought she wanted to talk to him just to make him leave her, but it wasn't like that.
"Thank you. I thought you, like Qin Mengxue, would despise me and even warn me to leave you. I didn't expect this… Heh!" Zhou Hong said with a wry smile.
"I do hate you. You showed me no respect this morning. I can never forgive you in this lifetime," Qiao Xiaoyu said with a huff.
"What happened this morning was indeed my mistake. Because at the school gate, I saw many people kissing, and your grandfather said that kissing is reasonable and legal. We have a marital relationship, which is even more legal than those dating couples, so I…!"
"Stop talking. I don't want to hear about the past."
"Alright, I wronged you. Is there anything else you want to say?"
"Of course. If you want me to change my opinion of you, please don't be so violent in the future. You're always hitting people. You just came to school today and made the classroom chaotic. If it weren't for my grandfather intervening to protect you, you would have already been expelled by the head of the department."
"Heh!" Zhou Hong gave a bitter smile. The truth was, his grandfather hadn't intervened to protect him, but Zhou Hong was too lazy to argue.
"Okay, I don't want to be so violent either. It makes me have no friends, and eating and attending classes alone every day is meaningless. But you can't entirely blame me for this morning. When I first arrived, I was very polite. It was they who inexplicably called me an idiot and looked down on me," Zhou Hong felt somewhat wronged.
"If you knew this would happen, why didn't you study harder back then? The classmates in this class are all top students; they all scored above six hundred in the college entrance examination. Of course, they would look down on you, who scored two hundred and fifty. I scored six hundred and thirty-five, and I also look down on you. But you can't force everyone to respect you with your fists. You should slowly use your actions to gain their acceptance."