Dong Ran listened to Tang Xian's definite and certain tone. Although she straightened her tall chest, she lowered her noble head.
She dared not look at Tang Xian.
Believing in the illusion that if she didn't look at Tang Xian, she wouldn't be seen by Tang Xian's penetrating gaze.
"You can't tell me about Li Xiaoyu's affairs because there's something wrong with Li Xiaoyu's personality. If she knew you messed up or betrayed her, she would do something a thousand times more terrifying than losing your virtue to me."
"Making a man no longer a man, making a woman no longer a woman, she often comes up with such tricks."
Tang Xian lifted Dong Ran's chin, not needing to look into Dong Ran's eyes to see the data on the panel.
But this time, his look wasn't one of disdain; instead, it had a hint of encouragement.
Had Dong Ran been one of Li Xiaoyu's people, then this poor girl must have been living in fear.
Dong Ran felt a bit warmer inside as she looked into Tang Xian's eyes.
"You don't have to fear her, nor do you have to fear me. I'm not some devil. Just do as I say, and she won't be suspicious."
"Why?"
Dong Ran was puzzled.
Tang Xian had clearly discovered that she was a spy, yet he was still helping her?
"Li Xiaoyu must have just come of age, right? You don't need to respond, I'm well aware that she's not all there mentally."
"When I first met her, I had one more year until I graduated from the Selection Trials, and she, a twelve-year-old child, joined our class."
"Li Xiaoyu cannot be described as merely intelligent. Speaking of IQ alone, she's the second smartest girl I've ever met. She is strong in computation. But when it comes to her brain, she belongs to those who act without thinking."
"A twelve-year-old child studying with eighteen-year-olds is either isolated or spoiled. She was an exception; she wasn't isolated; she isolated everyone else."
"In Li Xiaoyu's own words, these people were too stupid. Breathing the same air as them was a defilement to herself."
Left with no choice, Dong Ran bit off the part of the Bogen Fruit resembling a head. Although it didn't taste good, she felt invigorated after taking a bite.
As she listened to Tang Xian's last sentence, she remembered the Second Miss's demeanor and involuntarily nodded her head.
Even she didn't notice this nod.
She thought to herself that the Second Miss was indeed the smartest person in the world... Tang was wrong to say she lacked brains; few people had a better mind than the Second Miss.
But the Second Miss... did indeed think the world was full of idiots.
She just hadn't expected that the Second Miss and Tang were classmates.
"I was somewhat bored at the time, and a few top students in my class had been schooled by Li Xiaoyu at Go, and it just so happened that these few had a good relationship with me."
"I was still quite hotheaded due to my youth, so I challenged Li Xiaoyu to a match, and that was when the trouble began."
Seeing Tang Xian frowning, Dong Ran wondered if Tang had lost?
It made sense, after all, the Second Miss was very strong in areas that required calculation.
"She had never learned Go, yet she won against the best in our class on her first try. I did the same to her; I hadn't learned it either, then I beat her."
His brows were deeply furrowed.
Tang Xian still remembered the reaction of that imperious little girl after losing, as if she was questioning her entire life, as if the world had collapsed in an instant.
"Kids just love to whine about nothing—it's just a game of chess, right?"
Tang Xian shook his head.
Dong Ran was stunned.
Her first impression had been that Tang was bragging, but then she thought about it, Tang was indeed very intelligent.
"After that, things got tricky; for some reason, she started paying attention to me."
"In the first half of the sixth school year, I encountered being stalked at least seven times. There were also two instances when my roommates told me someone was inquiring about me through them."
"What happened next convinced me that Li Xiaoyu was a troubled child, there was something amiss here." Tang Xian pointed at his head.
"At first, there was a girl who aspired to go into the mining fruit industry. This specialty's exam was earlier than the others and didn't include a talent test. Fearing she might fail, she frequently asked me all sorts of questions over a few days."
"I patiently answered them. But on the third day, the girl no longer dared to come near me. She didn't ask me any questions and eventually treated me like a stranger. I heard her father gave her a severe scolding, and his business went bankrupt."
"I didn't mind it; everybody has their own secrets. Every family has its own hardships, and I was happy to be left in peace."
"Later, another girl invited me out for a meal, claiming it wasn't a nutritional meal but an ancient dish she'd learnt from reading historical periodicals, which I couldn't refuse. We even made plans for next time."
"But she never sought me out again, although her cooking skills were very average and I wasn't particularly concerned, I learned later that her family's small business had been acquired."
"Bearing in mind that once is a chance, twice is a coincidence, I started to suspect that these incidents might be related to me."
"When the girl looked at me afterwards, her eyes darted all over, and I was certain it had something to do with me."
"I began investigating."
Tang Xian's eyes grew cold.
"In gathering intelligence and prying into secrets, I'm quite skilled. It didn't take long to find a common point in these incidents—they all stemmed from the powerful Li family on the sixth level, significant in both commerce and politics to the entire Huaxia."
"So my thoughts turned to a classmate with the surname Li—your master, Li Xiaoyu."
"The matter wasn't difficult. Afterward, I generally refused to interact with girls who approached me. Later on, even the boys almost... ran into trouble."
"Ke used to follow me around quite closely since he pretty much worshipped me. One day, he told me that three men in black, without a word, pulled down his pants."
She didn't understand what this meant.
"Li Xiaoyu's mind is twisted. Seeing that I stopped interacting with girls, she wanted to test if I was gay or if Ke, often seen with me, was gay."
"She thought if Ke really was gay, he would react to the provocative dance of the muscular men in black."
"Luckily, Ke's orientation was completely normal; otherwise, he might have become the greatest weapons designer at the Stronghold Fifty-One, while also being a eunuch."
"I became certain of one thing—your young miss is obsessed with me, and she would make anyone who's close to me suffer, regardless of whether they are male or female."
Dong Ran was shocked; she hadn't expected the second young miss to have done such ludicrous things.
"Her background is so significant that those harmed by her received substantial compensations. Some people, for those compensations, would be willing to cut out their tongues, slice off their fingers, and even lose arms and legs."
"But the fact that she is brain-damaged cannot be changed."
Tang Xian looked at Dong Ran, confused, and said:
"So I'm very curious, how could she possibly send you to serve me? If she had sent a straight male spy, I would have understood better."