The aloof school beauty has been reborn and is now pursuing me relentlessly.

After returning from the observatory on the rooftop of the administration building, I sat down in the classroom not long after.

Evening self-study ends.

The quiet classroom of Class 10 suddenly became noisy and bustling. Some students were just starting to pack their bags and organize their homework and textbooks, while others had already finished and darted over the desks to slip out of the classroom.

The fourth group of seats in the back row.

Lin Ran and Su Qingyan also bent down to tidy their desks and pack their bags.

There was no further communication or interaction between them; their relationship was so distant and distinct that they seemed like just ordinary classmates who were perfectly normal and reasonable.

—It's as if the time they spent embracing under the starlight at the observatory on the rooftop of the administration building never happened.

"Ran-ge, let's go back together!"

After packing his schoolbag, Zhao Ke excitedly skipped over from the next group and greeted Lin Ran.

The next second, I saw Su Qingyan, who was also packing her schoolbag and looking up.

The icy school beauty glanced at Zhao Ke with a nonchalant and indifferent look.

Zhao Ke's enthusiastic smile instantly froze on his face:

"Um... should we go back together, or not?"

Lin Ran glanced at her best friend, somewhat puzzled by the other's sudden strange tone and expression:

"Yes."

"Aren't we going the same way?"

Zhao Ke swallowed hard, completely ignoring Lin Ran, and cautiously observed the class monitor's expression:

"Monitor..."

What do you think?

His tone was so humble it was almost obsequious.

His keen survival instincts made him acutely aware of who was in charge in this matter.

The campus belle of Suzhou University glanced at Zhao Ke and calmly spoke:

"You can go back."

Feeling as if granted a pardon, Zhao Ke nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice:

"Yes, yes, we're going back, we're going back!"

Lin Ran watched this scene and asked, "?"

I don't understand what's wrong with this kid Zhao. Why did you come home with me and ask the school beauty's deskmate for her opinion?

She doesn't live on our way.

……

After packing his schoolbag, he followed Zhao Ke out of the classroom.

On the way to the underground bike parking garage, Zhao Ke looked around, then furtively approached Lin Ran and asked:

"Where did you and our Soochow University's campus belle go during the last self-study period?"

Lin Ran looked completely at ease:

“I didn’t go anywhere. I came back late from the restroom, and she came to find me on behalf of the teacher.”

Zhao Ke was completely confused: "Teacher? Did Tie Mian Chun not leave after that? Where did she go to ask her to help find you?"

Zhao Ke then looked the person up and down, his face full of gossip:

"Confess honestly—"

"Did you and the class monitor go on a secret date?"

Lin Ran chuckled to himself:

"Thinking too much."

"She and I are just ordinary classmates."

"There's no such nonsense."

Zhao Ke couldn't help but roll his eyes:

"Would a regular classmate go out to eat with a guy like you? Would a regular classmate bring you breakfast? Would they go to the convenience store with you and hold hands with you in public? Who would believe that!"

A long, uninterrupted speech, listed out without stopping.

Clearly, Zhao Ke had been holding back for too long and couldn't take it anymore; he was now looking at Lin Ran with a look of utter disappointment.

"Think about it!"

"Our class monitor is the school beauty of Yu Nan!"

"The Ice Queen!"

"Don't you think it's strange that such a stunningly beautiful, aloof woman, who's always so unapproachable, is suddenly becoming so proactive and intimate with you?!"

Lin Ran thought for a moment, then nodded naturally:

"She and I are deskmates."

"It's perfectly reasonable for classmates to help each other."

Zhao Ke almost spat out a mouthful of blood when he heard this.

What a load of rubbish!

……

I retrieved my car from the underground parking garage.

Lin Ran and Zhao Ke joined the large group of students riding bicycles home from school, slowly leaving the school gate.

As Zhao Ke left the school gate, he couldn't help but mutter to himself:

"No, I just feel like there's something going on between you two—"

"I'm so upset! When we pass by the ice cream shop later, you have to buy me an iced lemon tea to balance things out!"

at the same time.

In a corner of shadow at the school gate.

The Maybach, entirely black as if blending into the night, was parked quietly.

The rear door opened.

Su Qingyan got into the car and closed the door behind her.

My gaze swept across the scene, and through the windshield, I could clearly see Lin Ran's figure, who had just left the school gate, not far away.

There seemed to be something else following behind that person.

Didn't see clearly.

unimportant.

The driver in the front seat was a composed man in his forties.

Dressed in a well-tailored black suit that seemed out of place in the simple, rustic style of the small county town of Yunan, and even wearing white gloves, he glanced at Su Qingyan sitting in the back seat through the rearview mirror, his tone calm and respectful:

"Miss Su."

"Should we just go straight home, as usual?"

Su Qingyan's father is a well-known group boss in Nan Province. The Su family is also very large and wealthy. Su's father is usually busy with work and has little energy to take care of the family. So he specially hired a driver to double as a bodyguard to escort Su Qingyan to and from school.

The driver's surname is Zhou. He is a retired special forces soldier with a calm and resolute personality. He has been the driver for the Su family for many years and has seen many ups and downs. Even if Mount Tai collapses in front of him, he remains proud and unfazed.

If not.

How could I possibly take over the important task of protecting the Su family's daughter from President Su?

Su Qingyan, sitting in the back seat, didn't rush to respond. Her gaze, seen through the windshield, fell silently on the receding figure of someone in front of her, lost in thought.

Driver Zhou: "Miss Su?"

Su Qingyan snapped out of her reverie and spoke casually with a calm expression:

"Not in a hurry."

"Do you see that bicycle up ahead?"

She reached out, her slender fingers pointing forward through the windshield.

Following the direction Su Qingyan was pointing, Driver Zhou looked and saw that it appeared to be just an ordinary boy riding a bicycle.

"Saw."

Su Qingyan's lips curled into a faint smile as she casually gave the order:

"Follow me."

In the front seat, driver Zhou's hand, which was firmly gripping the steering wheel, suddenly trembled.

On the surface, however, he remained calm and composed, responding steadily:

"Yes."

The Maybach started slowly and smoothly without any hesitation or pause, befitting a veteran driver with twenty years of experience after retiring from special forces.

But if you could see the expression on his face at this moment.

You'll then notice that the pupils of this driver, Zhou, are trembling violently!

Driver Zhou: "!!!?"

God!

what's the situation! ?

Miss Su actually wants him to follow a boy! ??