"Everyone, rember not to leave imdiately after the elective classes this afternoon! You need to clean out your desks and put your things in your lockers outside."
Wednesday, Far Moon Academy, Class 2-A.
At the podium, a student cupped his hands around his mouth like a gaphone, reminding everyone of the upcoming schedule before they left the classroom for lunch break.
Tomorrow, Thursday, Far Moon Academy would hold its midterm exams, so the classrooms needed to be set up as examination rooms.
The students sitting below chatted among themselves while voicing their agreent. Only Ye Shiyu sat at her desk with an expressionless face, turning a deaf ear to the announcent.
At this mont, her attention was entirely focused on her mobile phone.
It seed that ever since she got her phone back, that expressionless look had been permanently welded to her face, reducing her already faint emotions to absolute nothingness.
Listening to the student on the podium with neither joy nor sorrow, Ye Shiyu stared at her screen. Refusing to give up, her finger moved toward that purple app icon once again.
"Bzzzt..."
Opening the Tuner APP, the interface appeared completely normal, even popping up with a new task notification.
However, less than a minute later, the page froze up. No matter where she tapped, there was no response.
A few seconds later, the screen even erupted into a chaotic ss of static.
After a flurry of garbled text, the app simply crashed.
"..."
This was not the first ti this had happened. Ye Shiyu had discovered this problem last night when she eagerly opened the Hypnosis APP right after getting her phone back.
But this miraculous app had no instruction manual, let alone custor service to report a bug to.
As a result, Ye Shiyu, a complete novice with technology, could only try reopening it and refreshing the interface over and over again.
The bad news was: the Hypnosis APP was still crashing.
The good news was: after a night had passed, the app seed to stay open for longer and longer durations.
Last night, it crashed the mont she opened it, but now she could keep it open for a few dozen seconds.
This gave Ye Shiyu a certain feeling:
It was as if the Hypnosis APP had suffered a grievous injury ever since she willingly handed her phone over to her mother, and it needed ti to heal...
Ye Shiyu had no idea how long it would take to recover. The only thing she knew for sure was that the app could not hypnotize anyone in its current state.
Even if it could, the effect would be interrupted halfway through because of the crashing.
"..."
The blade in her hand had dulled, yet that wicked scoundrel was still running rampant.
The mont Ye Shiyu thought about what Spencer had done to Xiao Huan in broad daylight, her expressionless face gradually frosted over with a layer of icy chill.
"Shiyu, do you want to go grab lunch with us?"
The surrounding classmates vaguely sensed the coldness radiating from Ye Shiyu. They didn't even dare to look at her, let alone approach her on their own initiative.
In the entire class, only Gongzi had a good relationship with her and frequently invited her to hang out.
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu was just about to nod in agreent when she suddenly rembered the ssage Bai Yi had sent her that morning after she had newly added her contact.
"Ye Shiyu, I have sothing very important I want to discuss with you tomorrow at noon.
"Let's et by the lake in the park. I'll send you the location later. Don't rush to refuse; think about it carefully...
"It's about that Spencer."
Thinking of this, Ye Shiyu opened Plane again and took a quick glance.
Sure enough, Bai Yi had already sent a location pin.
Looking at the ssage, Ye Shiyu finally raised her eyes to look at Gongzi and politely declined.
"Thank you, but I already have plans with soone else."
"Oh, I see. That's fine."
Gongzi smiled dismissively, then turned and left with her companions.
"Hey, is Ou Wen really going to get engaged to you?"
"Yeah... After all, our families have agreed to it."
"The Club War last week was so intense. I just can't believe that Spencer actually dared to do sothing like that to the president in public!"
"Well, I heard she's leaving Far Moon soon anyway."
"..."
Watching the back view of Gongzi and the others as they left, Ye Shiyu silently stood up and headed toward the location Bai Yi had sent.
"Rustle, rustle..."
At noon, a gentle breeze swept through Far Moon, causing the lush greenery of the forest park to sway.
Bai Yi sat beneath a tree by the lake wearing her Bluetooth earbuds. She had bought a spam sandwich for lunch.
While eating, she held her phone in one hand, conversing with her agent, Ji Lin.
"Yiyi, when I went to Golden Lion Entertainnt today to play your new song for Director Milos, he suddenly asked about your school."
Ever since Bai Yi signed with the Golden Lion Group as a singer, Zuo Jiangqin rarely interfered with her work affairs, entrusting Ji Lin with full authority to liaise with the company.
Bai Yi frowned, her chewing slowing down.
"About my school?"
"Yeah. He asked what grade and class you're in at Far Moon Academy, and how your relationship with Aria Spencer is..."
"How did you reply? You didn't say anything stupid, did you?"
"How could I say anything stupid? I just told him you guys have t once, and nothing else."
"Uh-huh. And then? What did he say?"
"He said you should build a good relationship with Eldest Miss Aria at school from now on. It would be good for you."
"..."
Staring at the ssage Ji Lin sent, Bai Yi stopped eating her sandwich altogether.
She replied with an 'I understand,' but countless thoughts flashed through her mind.
'From now on at school?'
'Does that an...'
Just as Bai Yi was lost in thought, the sunlit lawn around her was gradually devoured by the shadows of overcast clouds.
"Whoosh—"
A cold wind suddenly howled, and the surrounding temperature seed to drop a few degrees.
A shuddering sensation instantly welled up in her heart, prompting her to quickly raise her eyes and look ahead.
Before her stood Ye Shiyu, gripping her mobile phone. She stared down at Bai Yi with an expressionless face.
"Eek!"
Bai Yi jumped in fright and quickly hid behind the tree, pointing at Ye Shiyu as she exclaid.
"Are you a ghost or sothing?! You don't even make a sound when you walk!"
"..."
Although Ye Shiyu maintained her indifferent expression, her profound eyes revealed a hint of pity, as if she were looking at an idiot.
In the next second, she raised her finger and pointed at Bai Yi's ears.
Bai Yi blanked for a mont before realizing she was still wearing her Bluetooth earbuds.
Her face flushed slightly red. Embarrassed, she hurriedly took off the earbuds...
But she didn't apologize for her rude outburst.
"Ahem..."
Ye Shiyu didn't mind. From beginning to end, her gaze toward Bai Yi had always lacked human warmth anyway. She simply asked.
"Why did you look for ?"
"...Don't rush. There's still one more person who hasn't arrived."
"..."
'Another person?'
Before Ye Shiyu had ti to ponder who that person might be, the faint sound of panting suddenly drifted from behind her.
"Hah... Hah..."
Hearing the noise, Ye Shiyu and Bai Yi turned their heads simultaneously to look at the source.
They saw Sakuramiya Hitomi leaning against a tree trunk, her forehead covered in sweat and her face slightly pale.
She gasped for air, holding onto a branch while wiping her sweat. With an awful expression, she questioned Bai Yi.
"What's the matter... Hah... Couldn't we just talk in the Teaching Building? Why did we have to co all the way to this park... Hah... Hah..."
"...Isn't it just that your stamina is too weak?"
The mont she saw Sakuramiya Hitomi, Ye Shiyu retracted her gaze and looked back at Bai Yi.
The stare gave Bai Yi goosebumps, prompting her to voluntarily stand up and inch closer to Sakuramiya Hitomi.
Even though Hitomi's fra was frail, being near her seed to warm Bai Yi's body temperature up a bit, allowing the words that followed to flow out more smoothly.
Thus, Bai Yi made a polite gesture of invitation toward Sakuramiya Hitomi and took the initiative to speak.
"First... let's not rush. I invited both of you here, and the matter we need to discuss is the sa."
Ye Shiyu didn't utter a word. She just stared at her quietly.
Sakuramiya Hitomi, on the other hand, glanced at Ye Shiyu, analyzed the composition of the three people present, and connected it to what Bai Yi had ntioned about Spencer...
A second later, Sakuramiya Hitomi had a pretty good idea of what was going on.
She threw a side-glance at Bai Yi and suddenly declared.
"Aside from that Spencer, the real reason you called us here is actually the president, right?"
Bai Yi was slightly surprised by Sakuramiya Hitomi's keen intuition. She paused for a second before chuckling, openly and frankly admitting it.
"Yes, that's right."
"..."
"And I can bluntly confess right now: I do have those kinds of feelings for Yan Huan."
Sakuramiya Hitomi furrowed her brows. Behind her, Ye Shiyu remained expressionless, only tightening her grip on her phone a fraction more.
Two terrifying waves of pressure invisibly encroached from the front and back. Caught in the middle, Bai Yi inexplicably broke out in goosebumps and a cold sweat.
In her pocket, her pocket watch seed to sense the danger as well, quietly materializing.
But just as it appeared—before the second hand even started ticking—it suddenly sensed the awful expression of Sakuramiya Hitomi in front and the icy deanor of Ye Shiyu in back...
In the very next second, the pocket watch silently concealed itself once more, disappearing entirely.
At this critical mont, Sakuramiya Hitomi smiled elegantly and spoke up.
"Far Moon is certainly not lacking in girls who harbor a crush on the president. Calling us all the way out here to waste our lunch break just for this is really..."
"But I dare say that the three of us present are the closest to Yan Huan, and the ones with the most hope, right?"
Sakuramiya Hitomi froze slightly at the interruption, raising her eyes to look at Bai Yi.
She watched as Bai Yi turned her head, pointing at Ye Shiyu behind her to introduce her on her behalf.
"Senior Student Ye, the only daughter of the CEO of Ye International.
"I realized it back when Yan Huan and I were shooting our music video at the Golden Lion Mansion. CEO Ye is practically like an adoptive mother to Yan Huan, isn't she?
"Which ans, Senior Student Ye, you are one of the very few family mbers Yan Huan has had while living alone in Linn all these years. And the kind without blood ties, too.
"Therefore, there's absolutely no problem calling you the person closest to Yan Huan, right?"
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu offered no response, but her tight grip on her phone loosened slightly.
Sakuramiya Hitomi, however, grew secretly puzzled.
She knew about the president shooting a music video with Bai Yi, but she had no idea they had bumped into Ye Shiyu there as well.
To think, that was back when her caras hadn't been dismantled yet.
Even when they weren't dismantled, there were things she didn't know. Now that she had no caras at all, she had absolutely no clue what the president was up to...
That intense desire to spy on Yan Huan reared its head once again, causing Sakuramiya Hitomi such unbearable distress that she dug her nails into her palms, trying to use the pain to suppress her urges.
Right at that mont, Bai Yi turned her head to look at Sakuramiya Hitomi again.
"Vice President Sakuramiya, the only Inner Court Student in the Student Council. Furthermore, ever since Yan Huan beca the student council president, you've been right by his side assisting him.
"From enrollnt up until now, as his first year is about to end—for an entire year, it could be said that Yan Huan's university life has been completely tied to you, hasn't it?
"So, there's absolutely no problem calling you the person who has accompanied Yan Huan the longest, right?"
Sakuramiya Hitomi, who was just about to flare up, paused slightly, her gaze shifting away sowhat unnaturally.
"Well, about that..."
But she didn't even get to relish the complint for more than a second before she realized sothing. She shot a highly suspicious glare at the smiling Bai Yi.
"Wait a minute. You said the three of us are the closest to the president and have the most hope?"
"Mhm~"
"...Senior Student Ye and my situations are both easy to understand. But let
ask you: exactly how are you close to the president, and why do you have the most hope?"
At those words, the smile on Bai Yi's face grew even wider, as if she had been 'just waiting for you to ask that.'
She turned up her nose slightly, lightly running a hand through her black hair, and flashed a confident smile at Sakuramiya Hitomi.
"Vice President Sakuramiya should know about that song, "Fan A
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