"By the way, there's an opening exam tomorrow. It's about basic economics theory. It's a spot check to consolidate last semester's content. Students can go back and prepare."

As soon as the words fell, the classroom immediately erupted in a miserable wail, "No way."

"We have to take the exam right after the school starts?"

"Why do I feel like I'm back in high school?"

"Yeah, this is too perverted."

Qiu Yishi expressed deep sympathy for their experience. Although he had also been through it, he was absolutely unwilling to go through it again.

He comforted them, "Okay, go back and review early, you still have a chance."

After saying that, he left in a leisurely manner, leaving behind students who had lost all hope in life.

When Qiao Xi was about to leave, most of her classmates had already left. Before she even reached the classroom door, she heard a voice saying, "Stop."

Qiao Xi knew very well who the voice belonged to, but she pretended not to hear it and continued walking out of the classroom.

Upon seeing this, Chu Junze immediately ordered his followers to surround Qiao Xi. He looked displeased as he looked down at her and said, "Qiao Xi, I told you to stop. Didn't you hear me?"

Qiao Xi had no choice but to turn around, looking at him helplessly and said, "Mr. Chu, what are you talking about? I have a name and a surname, how could I have known that you were calling me."

"You can do it. Why didn't I notice it before?" Chu Junze looked at Qiao Xi carefully and felt that she was different from before, but he didn't understand where she got the confidence from.

"I know what your family does. It would be difficult for you to become a member of the Jinghua Family with your status, right?" Chu Junze said tentatively. "Not to mention the pen numbered 001 in your hand. Even my dad can't get it."

"Han Linlin couldn't even get a numbered one, so she had to use a fake one."

Qiao Xi was very clear about the implication, but Chu Junze's performance also surprised her. In her eyes, he has always been a cynical... school bully, whose motto was to do nothing and be idle. But she found that he suddenly became smart.

Qiao Xi smiled and asked, "So what does Mr. Chu want to explain?"

"Let me see your pen again." Chu Junze stretched out his hand directly to her.

Qiao Xi had no intention of giving it to him, "Master Chu also suspects that my pen is fake?"

Chu Junze said as a matter of course: "I have helped you anyway, why can't you just let me take a look?"

"No." Qiao Xi refused flatly.

"You..." Chu Junze didn't expect to be rejected so easily!

Qiao Xi didn't want to get involved with him too much and just wanted to get out of it as soon as possible. "Mr. Chu, just treat it as fake. I don't care that much. If Han Linlin hadn't been looking for trouble today, I wouldn't have brought it out."

After saying that, Qiao Xi took advantage of their inattention, found a gap, and slid away easily to escape. Before leaving, she felt that she should still say thank you to Chu Junze, "Mr. Chu, thank you for what you did today."

Chu Junze realized it belatedly and chased after him for a few steps, "Qiao Xi, stop right there!"

In a flash, Qiao Xi disappeared.

Chu Junze cursed angrily, "You stinky woman, how dare you disobey me! Just wait, I'll make you pay tomorrow!"

As soon as he escaped from the trap, he encountered a dog blocking the way.

Qiao Xi wanted to ignore him, but he was coming right for her, and he looked worried about her. "Xiao Xi."

If I ignore her at this time, she will seem petty.

Qiao Xi kept a certain distance from him and asked him politely, "Mr. Lu, is there anything wrong?"

Lu Mingxuan stepped forward, his face showing complete trust in Qiao Xi, and said to her sincerely, "Xiao Xi, others may not believe me, but I believe you."

Qiao Xi asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Student Lu, what are you talking about?"

"How could your pen be fake? You are the heir of the Jinghua family." As an insider, Lu Mingxuan spoke with great confidence, and seemed to be intentionally reminding Qiao Xi of his identity.

In her previous life, Qiao Xi had conflicts with her grandfather and uncle, so she didn't like her identity as the heir of the Bai family and didn't even want to admit it. At that time, it was Lu Mingxuan who repeatedly emphasized her responsibilities and was always by her side to "encourage" her.

Only she knew how touched she was at that time, and she didn't even think about what his purpose was in doing so.

Qiao Xi sneered and said, "So... the heir of the Jinghua family can't use fake ones?"

Lu Mingxuan immediately put away the fake sincere smile on his face, "Xiao Xi, I don't understand what you mean."

Qiao Xi shrugged helplessly and said, "I don't understand what Schoolboy Lu wants to tell me."

Lu Mingxuan was speechless for a moment. He felt that his hint was very accurate. Did she really not understand, or...

What she did in the stationery store before really made him angry, but if she was willing to apologize first or fulfill her previous promise, he would let bygones be bygones and continue to maintain that kind of relationship with her as if nothing had happened.

Lu Mingxuan's face then broke into a flattering smile, and he had no choice but to remind her, "Xiao Xi, have you forgotten? You said you would give me a surprise when school starts."

After he reminded her of this, Qiao Xi remembered something.

In her previous life, the hand-painted pen numbered '001' in her hand was a surprise she gave him. It was a gift she specially wanted to give to Lu Mingxuan.

On the first day of school, when she saw him for the first time, she gave him the pen.

But in this life, Qiao Xi not only did not give him a gift, she didn't even look at him.

But she really didn't expect that he would take the initiative to ask her for it.

Qiao Xi frowned suddenly and asked in confusion, "When did this happen? Why don't I have any recollection of it?"

Lu Mingxuan also frowned, but quickly recovered and smiled as he continued to remind her, "Just last month, you called me and said you had a surprise for me when school started."

Qiao Xi nodded in understanding and said to him in a pretended apologetic tone, "I'm so sorry, I'm not prepared."

Lu Mingxuan swallowed his words and said, "Xiao Xi, isn't that the surprise you mentioned?"

Before he finished speaking, the fake smile on Qiao Xi's face gradually turned into disgust. Where did he get the confidence to think that the pen was a surprise from her?

In her past life, or now, she seemed to have never told him that this pen was a surprise for him. Was he prophetic? Or was he just self-righteous?

Lu Mingxuan seemed to realize that he was a bit abrupt, but he thought Qiao Xi wouldn't mind, so he didn't want to explain anything.

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