Chapter 169: Is Senior Wen Yichen around? (Second Request)

Looking at those comments, a gentle smile surfaced once again on Wen Yichen's clean face. When the last comment caught his eye, he subconsciously tapped on it. With his fingertip softly touching the screen, he typed the two characters "Whatever" into the input box, only to delete them all a moment later. Sending this right now did not seem quite appropriate yet.

With that thought, Wen Yichen exited the interface, gently placed his phone on the bedside table, and slipped beneath the covers to sleep.

Time passed quickly. Life in the third year of high school seemed identical every single day. Everyone huddled in the classrooms day after day, working through test papers endlessly, night and night.

As the days drew closer to the end of the semester, Jiang Muwen looked at the empty desk in front of her during a break, and a trace of doubt inevitably arose in her heart. "Xiaoxi, where is Yin Lize?"

Come to think of it, it was rather strange; Yin Lize had not been appearing in the classroom very often these days.

As soon as Jiang Muwen finished asking, Gu Nianxi lifted her head naturally. Her gaze lingered on the vacant desk for a moment before she spoke in a leisurely manner, "He went for training."

"Training?" Jiang Muwen looked at Gu Nianxi with a puzzled expression. Didn't Yin Lize say he wanted to study hard? Why did he go for training again?

"He is going to take the art exams," Gu Nianxi patiently explained to Jiang Muwen. It seemed that Yin Lize was truly determined to be admitted to the City A Drama Academy.

Gu Nianxi had once felt puzzled by this as well. With so many art institutions, why had Yin Lize set his heart on just this one? Because of this, she had specifically asked Yin Lize about it. However, the reply Yin Lize gave her was, "Go ask Brother Gu Niancun." Yet when Gu Nianxi actually went to ask Gu Niancun, Gu Niancun had simply given her a lukewarm retort: "You'll know in the future."

What medicine those two boys were selling in their gourds was probably known to no one except the two of them.

The conversation between the two girls was only halfway through when it was interrupted by a female voice coming from the doorway.

"Is Senior Wen Yichen here?" The soft, gentle voice drifted carefully into the classroom, sounding tentative, as if afraid of disturbing everyone.

As the words fell, the classroom instantly plunged into a quiet hush. Everyone raised their heads simultaneously, casting their gazes in unison toward the girl at the door.

The girl looked somewhat unfamiliar, appearing to be a freshman in her first year of high school. She seemed very shy, standing obediently at the classroom door with a pair of clear, sparkling eyes blinking. The next second, her gaze swept across the classroom, as if searching for the person she wanted to find.

Hearing this, Jiang Muwen's heart trembled involuntarily. Raising her eyes, she fixed her gaze tightly on the junior girl. Her intuition told her that this girl's visit definitely had an unusual reason.

Wen Yichen was not usually in the habit of interacting with junior students, and the teachers who taught them now only taught the third-year senior class.

Jiang Muwen watched the junior girl; the little girl's hands were kept behind her back all the time, as if she were hiding something. The next second, a rather bad premonition suddenly surged into her heart.

After hearing the junior girl's words, the boy sitting near the door wore a gossipy smile on his face. "Wen Yichen, huh?"

The ending syllable was deliberately dragged out, and once his voice faded, two or three rounds of teasing laughter began to echo around.

However, at that moment, Wen Yichen was dozing off with his head resting on his desk, and thus he was completely unaware of the situation. The group of friends around him all began to grow restless.

Bai Xu stared blankly at the girl standing at the door, seemingly slow to recover her senses. Semester after semester, Wen Yichen's romantic prospects never seemed to stop. From the start of the term until now, he had already returned two or three gifts on Wen Yichen's behalf. He had thought that as the end of the semester approached, the little girls would finally start to quiet down, but unexpectedly, another one had struck today.

A moment later, Bai Xu snapped back to reality, hastily raising his hand to pat Wen Yichen's desk twice.

The crisp sound dropped into the air, and the junior girl at the door seemed to have found her direction. Once her gaze locked onto the boy sleeping with his head down on the desk, a gleam of delight flashed in her eyes.

The sound of patting the desk was not loud to begin with, but at that moment, Wen Yichen's ear was pressed against his textbook, and the textbook happened to be resting directly on the desk. With Bai Xu's heavy pat, the sound seemed to be magnified countless times. The deafening noise pierced into Wen Yichen's ears, startling him awake as if he were waking from a dream.

A trace of sleepiness still lingered in the youth's clear eyes, mixed with a sleepy irritation after being abruptly awakened. Frowning unpleasantly, his eyes slightly ajar, even his voice carried a hint of hoarseness. "Bai Xu, what are you doing?"

As he finished speaking, Wen Yichen sensed the surrounding quietness—a quietness that felt somewhat abnormal.

"At the door! At the door!" Bai Xu said excitedly, pointing toward the junior girl at the doorway.

Wen Yichen looked over in the direction Bai Xu was pointing. Their eyes met, yet there was not an extra expression on Wen Yichen's face. He looked at the junior girl, making her feel somewhat embarrassed for a moment.

"Senior Wen Yichen," the junior girl greeted him awkwardly, and then shyly averted her gaze from Wen Yichen's.

Wen Yichen had zero impression of the girl standing at the door. He looked at her, and for a long time, offered no response at all.

After a brief moment of silence in the air, the junior girl spoke up once again. "Senior, I have something to talk to you about. Could you please come out for a moment?"

Her voice was not very loud, but Wen Yichen still heard it.

Wen Yichen's gaze landed fixedly on the junior girl. Seeing her appearance like this, he could already guess the reason why she had come to look for him with near certainty.

Watching the junior girl standing there persistently was rather awkward, so Wen Yichen reluctantly stood up and slowly walked toward the classroom doorway.

Seeing Wen Yichen approaching, the junior girl took a step back voluntarily, as if preparing to discuss something with Wen Yichen outside the classroom door.

However, Wen Yichen did not step outside as the junior girl had expected. When he reached the doorway, his body instinctively leaned against the doorframe.

The surrounding air seemed to grow quiet at that moment. Before speaking, Wen Yichen instinctively glanced over at Jiang Muwen. After a brief moment of eye contact, Wen Yichen looked away again.

"Is something the matter?"

His lukewarm voice dropped into the air, followed once more by silence.

The girl was standing outside the door, so the classmates inside the classroom could not hear very clearly what she was saying, nor could they tell if the junior girl had actually spoken.

Jiang Muwen feigned calmness as she sat in her seat, but her heart had long since grown restless. For a split second, she even wanted to stand by Wen Yichen's side to hear what that junior girl was saying.

The girl looked quietly at the boy in the doorway, but in the next second, the youth turned his head, and his gaze landed squarely upon her.