In the classroom, besides the whirring sound of the ceiling fan, the only sound you can hear is the rubbing of the pen tip against the paper. In this hot summer, boys and girls are sweating, mixed with the breath of youth, struggling with all kinds of exercises. Including the only leader of the underworld in Yang City today - Ai Ziqing.
"Classmate, is there a monthly exam tomorrow?" Tang Luo, who was late for school in the morning, turned around and asked Ai Ziqing who was doing the exercises seriously.
"Yes, tomorrow morning." Ai Ziqing held her forehead with a headache.
Tang Luo found Ai Ziqing's headache a little funny, "Who told you to sleep every day except for taking leave? Now you know to sharpen your gun before the battle. I really don't know how you passed the exam for the top scorer in the high school entrance examination!"
"Who told you to be busy these days? I don't want to do it!" Ai Ziqing pouted and muttered, and then ignored Tang Luo and continued to work hard on the sea of questions.
Just after class, Su Xi appeared at the door of the first and second grade classroom. His handsome appearance caused a whisper among the girls in the class.
"Ziqing, come here." He waved at Ai Ziqing and turned to walk out.
Ai Ziqing got up helplessly, ignoring the murderous gazes of the crowd, and followed Su Xi to the corner of the corridor.
"Let's go to dinner together tonight?" Su Xi said with a smile.
Just as she was about to refuse, he interrupted her, "Everyone will go, and they all hope you will come."
Ai Ziqing was stunned, then nodded and agreed. Anyway, she had nothing to do in the evening, so she might as well get together with them. Besides, she didn't dislike Su Xi and others, and they had long been considered friends.
Seeing that she agreed, Su Xi said no more, turned around and left with a smile, "See you at the school gate."
"Hehe, you are quite capable of flirting. If Xu Jian knew, I wonder if he would still want you?" After Su Xi left, Xue Mei walked out from the corner and sneered.
"This is my business." Ai Ziqing glanced at Xue Mei lightly, unwilling to explain these boring things, and there was no point in saying more, so she turned around and wanted to leave.
"Oh? The freshmen of this class are quite arrogant! You were happy eating in the cafeteria yesterday, right?" Xue Mei said sarcastically.
Seeing Ai Ziqing walking without stopping and ignoring her words, Xue Mei was a little angry and said, "Stop right there!"
Seeing Ai Ziqing standing there with her back to him, Xue Mei regained her composure and walked around to her with a proud smile, "I have seen many women like you who always want to climb up the social ladder, but never succeeded. Do you know why?"
Seeing Ai Ziqing still keeping silent and ignoring her, Xue Mei gritted her teeth and continued, "Because of your identity! Don't you look at your identity? Want to enter the home of the provincial party secretary? Aren't you too naive? If Uncle Xu knew about this, your family would not be able to stay in Yang City without my help!" If it weren't for Ai Ziqing's attitude yesterday and her temperament of not caring about anything, Xue Mei felt that there was no need to say so much today.
"Uncle Xu likes me very much, haha, and, ah, Uncle Xu has recently asked my father for help, I think he must not want to see a woman like you at this time. But to be honest, you are quite scheming. You can get along with these arrogant young men. It can be seen that you really have some means. But a woman with a family background like you doesn't understand that there is an irresistible force in the world, it is called - power"
Ai Ziqing didn't want to offend Xue Mei too much, but just didn't bother to pay attention to her. After all, she is still in the development stage and is not stable. She is not strong enough to compete with those big men with deep roots and complicated relationships, but it doesn't mean that she can be bullied.
"What are you showing off?" Ai Ziqing asked with a smile.
"What?" Xue Mei didn't expect her to answer, and was stunned by the question.
"What are you showing off to me?" Ai Ziqing chuckled. Seeing Xue Mei was choked by her attitude, she continued lightly, "What a stupid woman. What you should do now is not to drive away your so-called rivals, but to please your man and keep his heart. What are you afraid of?" Ai Ziqing smiled sarcastically.
Xue Mei, who heard such remarks for the first time, was completely stunned. She looked at Ai Ziqing's back as she passed by and fell into deep thought.
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"Provincial Party Secretary, surnamed Xu?" Ai Ziqing frowned and thought. She didn't care about the family background of Xu Jian and others before, because it had nothing to do with her, but now it was different. As the leader of Qingtian, all useful information could open up a new situation for the gang.
A light flashed in her mind. Could it be him? Interesting!
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After school, as soon as she walked out of the school gate, she saw Su Xi, Zhang Yuan, Xu Jian, Kevin, and Song Xueyi, these handsome men and beautiful women, standing under the big banyan tree and chatting. Ai Ziqing walked over, like an ugly duckling falling into a group of swans, simple and ordinary.
"Where's Lele?"
"Wang Lele and Liu Fei have family matters and can't come." Su Xi answered. Ai Ziqing was a little confused. Since Wang Lele had made an appointment with her, there was no reason for him not to come.
"I heard that the underworld in Yang City is unified, and Qingshe is the most respected. The public security was good, but it has suddenly become chaotic in recent days. Many industries under the Weigao Group have been forced to close down, and the police station is also very busy." Xu Jian saw her confusion and added.
"It's so complicated, Ziqing, can you understand it? To put it simply, the public security is not good now, and the two directors are very troubled. Liu Fei and Wang Lele are also implicated. They can't stay outside after school." Song Xueyi rolled her eyes and said.
Ai Ziqing was annoyed by the chattering of several people, "Let's go eat!"
As they walked forward, Kevin sneered, "What's the matter with the underworld? They are just a bunch of hooligans, cheating and deceiving. Now the government doesn't want to pay attention to them, otherwise, would they be allowed to develop like this?"
Everyone was silent. They didn't know much about the underworld organizations, but collusion between officials and gangsters was common. It was definitely not just a bunch of hooligans as Kevin said, but such words were indeed what they, the children of officials, did not want to say.