Fan Yushu ignored Wu Peiliang's gaze; he had long been fed up with Wu Peiliang's air of superiority—acting as if he were above everyone else just because his studies were a bit more "enlightened," looking down on this and that, treating anyone inferior to him with a haughty and aloof demeanor.
Moreover, this was not the first time the two had quarreled. Fan was used to that useless look from Wu Peiliang, the kind that merely sought to gain some face before leaving—it reminded him of a pointless "don't leave after school" challenge, which he found quite boring.
Fan suppressed the smile that had annoyed Wu Peiliang and turned to Yu Huaijin with a playful blink, no longer grinning mischievously.
At the other end of the corridor,
after the string broke, Zhao Rong looked up to meet the gazes of his classmates all around him. He smiled as he looked around, then promptly offered an apologetic bow.
