Chapter 308 - 178: Yes, I Do Like Her (2)
"Damn it! Calling for backup, are we?!"
Yang Ze snorted, peeking his head out from behind Shen Yuan. "We were all on the field to begin with."
Shen Yuan turned his head in confusion, looked at Yang Ze, and asked, "What’s going on?"
Yang Ze’s gaze swept over Shen Yuan and Chen Mingyu. Then, he said mysteriously, "This isn’t the place to talk. Follow me!"
Shen Yuan and Chen Mingyu exchanged a curious glance but followed Yang Ze out of the classroom and into the hallway.
Ah Jie stood at the back door of the classroom, quietly watching the three of them.
Yang Ze walked to the hallway railing, leaned against it, and faced Ah Jie with a smug smile.
Shen Yuan had been facing the railing, but when he saw Ah Jie at the back door, he turned around like Yang Ze and leaned back against it.
Only Chen Mingyu remained leaning over the railing, seemingly unconcerned with it all.
’Then again,’ Shen Yuan thought, remembering Ai Muyu’s preferences, ’maybe I can understand why Chen Mingyu is in that position.’
"Come on, come on," Yang Ze beckoned to Shen Yuan and Chen Mingyu, signaling for them to get closer.
Once the two were closer, Yang Ze lowered his voice. "Lao Yuan, remember how we guessed Ah Jie likes Zhuo Peipei?"
Shen Yuan nodded. "Yeah, but didn’t he deny it?"
"I think he’s just being stubborn," Chen Mingyu said, and Yang Ze immediately agreed.
"Exactly! That kid Ah Jie is just being stubborn!"
Yang Ze continued, "You guys probably know this, but doesn’t Ah Jie have an alt account that’s friends with the school’s confession wall page?"
Shen Yuan nodded. That was true.
"He uses it to secretly read Sugar Text, right? So what? You found out?"
In fact, Ah Jie never hid this from Zhuo Peipei, as if it were all just a move in the secret game between the former Early Love Prohibition Association and the Kissing Association.
Yang Ze shook his head. "Hell, that’s common knowledge. What I’m about to tell you is something I just discovered."
The moment Yang Ze finished speaking, Ah Jie shot forward and tried to cover his mouth.
But two fists are no match for four hands, let alone six.
The three of them pinned Ah Jie against the railing.
While holding Ah Jie down, Yang Ze prepared to continue speaking.
Just then, Ah Jie struggled and shouted, "Yang Ze! If you say it, we’re no longer brothers!"
Yang Ze snorted. "We were never brothers. We just have a cold, score-based relationship!"
"AHHH!!"
Just as Ah Jie was about to erupt, Chen Mingyu spoke in a menacing tone from the side, "Quiet down, Ah Jie. You wouldn’t want everyone to know you like Zhuo Peipei, would you?"
As his voice faded, an inopportune voice rang out near Chen Mingyu’s ear.
Sun Xiansheng stared at Ah Jie in shock. "What?! Ah Jie, you... MMPH!! MMPH!!!"
Before Sun Xiansheng could finish, Shen Yuan clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Quiet!"
Looking at Shen Yuan’s face, Sun Xiansheng gradually quieted down, though the shock in his eyes remained.
"Forget it. Damn, since you’re on this pirate ship with us now, Teacher Hou, you might as well not get off."
Shen Yuan wrapped an arm around Sun Xiansheng’s neck and said calmly, "This matter... Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know, I know, Ah Ze knows, Ai Muyu knows, He Zhiyu knows, and Li Zhizhi knows... Ah, ’Li Zhizhi’... repeating the word for my Li Bao sounds so nice."
The moment he finished, Shen Yuan noticed the others staring at him in dead silence.
A smile quickly spread across Shen Yuan’s face. "Hehe."
"Hehe, my ass!"
’Quite a few people seem to know about this,’ Sun Xiansheng muttered to himself. Although he didn’t know why Ah Jie would have feelings for Zhuo Peipei, now that he’d overheard the topic, he was naturally going to see it through.
’After all, you can go to the bathroom anytime, but you can’t always listen in on juicy gossip.’
Sun Xiansheng quickly leaned in closer, completely ignoring Ah Jie, who was struggling desperately and muttering things like, "They’re lying to you," "It’s not true," and "How could I?"
Sun Xiansheng chuckled inwardly. ’You little punk,’ he thought, ’did you really think you could fool me, a bona fide love guru?’
’I saw that you were into Zhuo Peipei from a mile away!!’
Surrounded by the group, Yang Ze continued his story. "As I was saying, Ah Jie used his alt account to lurk on the school’s confession wall. That’s not really a big deal, considering he used to be in the Early Love Prohibition Association."
"However," Yang Ze’s tone shifted, "the problem is, I discovered that Ah Jie’s alt account is also constantly active on Zhuo Peipei’s QQ Zone!"
The moment Yang Ze’s words fell, the scene went completely silent.
Then, in unison, everyone let out a long, questioning, "Huh?!"
Ah Jie, at the side, tried to struggle again, but Chen Mingyu clamped a hand over his mouth.
"Irrelevant parties will refrain from speaking. You will have a chance to speak after the presentation."
After Ah Jie was manually muted, they heard Yang Ze continue, "Actually, I’d already identified Ah Jie’s alt account a long time ago. That idiot Ah Jie tried to disguise himself as a girl, but nothing escapes my ’fiery golden eyes’!"
As Yang Ze said this, Shen Yuan glanced at Ah Jie.
The look in Ah Jie’s eyes at that moment... how to describe it? It was a look of complete resignation.
"That idiot Ah Jie always uses his alt to like Zhuo Peipei’s QQ Zone posts—basically every single one. But, he never comments."
Yang Ze chuckled. "Ah Jie thought he was being slick, but in reality, I noticed him a long time ago."
"Why?" Shen Yuan looked at Yang Ze, confused.