Lin Xingjie grasped her backpack and walked ahead, with Zhu Qingyue following closely, like an obedient attendant or maid. The two of them left the school under the watchful eyes of the surrounding students.
Some were filled with curiosity, others harbored doubts, worrying if the class president might have been taken by some school bully to be mistreated outside.
However, both girls seemed utterly indifferent to the gazes of others, acting as naturally as if they had always had the kind of relationship where they went to and from school together.
As for the other theoretically involved party, Xu Xiangyang, he stood in the corridor of the teaching building, overlooking the two girls as they slowly dwindled and distanced, feeling at a loss for a while.
They had circumvented him to have a private conversation and then left the school together without him... He reflected for a moment and realized that nothing like this had ever happened before.
