The guilty instructor didn't know how to answer Han Juyou, so he could only look blankly at Liu Muye.
Biting the bullet, Liu Muye continued, "I just think that matching boys and girls..."
Before Liu Muye could finish, Han Juyou angrily stepped out of the formation, pointed right at Liu Muye's nose, and demanded, "I just saw you bribe the instructor! What on earth are you up to, you weirdo?"
Liu Muye immediately reached out and pinned down Han Juyou's extended hand.
Startled, Han Juyou stared at the hand now being gripped by Liu Muye.
Not caring about such details at the moment, Liu Muye muttered in a low voice, "Behave yourself and don't ruin my master plan!"
With a pair of striking, fox-like eyes, Han Juyou glared coldly at Liu Muye and retorted, "I knew you were up to no good! I will never let your vicious plot succeed, you freak!"
"Tch..." Seeing that Han Juyou was dead-set on opposing him, Liu Muye hardened his heart, gritted his teeth, and threatened, "Han Juyou, let me tell you something—this school belongs to my family! If you dare to cross me, see if I don't make it impossible for you to finish your studies here!"
Perhaps having read one too many CEO romance novels, Liu Muye couldn't help himself from dropping a classic overbearing-CEO line.
"Just because your family owns the school, you think you can do whatever you want?" Han Juyou wasn't intimidated by Liu Muye's threat in the least. Standing tall with a righteous expression, she lashed out, "Do you rich people think that having money means you can do whatever you please? That having money gives you the right to casually trample on the dignity and lives of ordinary people? Let me tell you—"
"Classmate, classmate, don't get so worked up..." Seeing Han Juyou and the others arguing fiercely on her account, Shangguan Yurou immediately rushed over to play peacemaker.
As Shangguan Yurou spoke, she reached out to pull Han Juyou back—and with that single tug, she accidentally dragged Han Juyou down to the ground.
"Ah—"
Han Juyou had sprained her ankle in the fall.
"Oh!" Shangguan Yurou said with a remorseful expression, "I'm so sorry, classmate... I—I didn't mean to..."
"It's fine. I've sprained my ankle; help me to the infirmary."
With that, Han Juyou raised her head, looked at Liu Muye, and shot him a cunning look.
"Okay."
Without another word, Shangguan Yurou supported Han Juyou and started walking toward the infirmary.
"Hey... wait... no..."
Watching the two figures recede into the distance, Liu Muye couldn't come up with a single reason to stop them. Defeated, he turned his gaze toward Nangong Ye, who was still sitting off to the side watching the show.
Seeing Liu Muye stride quickly toward him, Nangong Ye asked nervously, "What... what do you want?"
"I'm helping you to the infirmary!"
"Huh?"
...
Shangguan Yurou helped Han Juyou to the infirmary and pushed open the door to find it completely empty.
Han Juyou shouted loudly, "School doctor! Is there a doctor in?"
Following closely right behind with Nangong Ye in tow, Liu Muye called out, "Stop yelling, the doctors are all on break today."
"Huh?" Hearing this, Han Juyou looked at Liu Muye with utter disbelief. "It's the very start of the semester, and right on the first day of military training, every single doctor in the school infirmary is on break? Are you out of your mind?!"
"I know, it sounds completely absurd, but I'm really not lying to you..." Liu Muye covered his face, looking rather awkward. "If you don't believe me, go look at the notice posted on the front desk."
Shangguan Yurou helped Han Juyou onto a lounge chair, then walked over to glance at the red announcement sheet with lingering doubt. "It... it really is true... The doctors have all gone away together to a major hospital for advanced training. And look, it even says that anyone who needs medicinal herbs can just take them themselves... It even tells you exactly where the bruises and pain relief medication are placed!"
"Ha?" Han Juyou echoed in surprise as Shangguan Yurou read it out. "That... doesn't make any sense, does it?"
Even Nangong Ye, suffering from advanced CEO-syndrome, voiced a normal person's confusion: "Yeah, how would they know we needed pain relief medicine?"
Of course it didn't make sense. Back when Liu Muye was writing this scenario to quickly heat up the romance between the protagonist and heroine, he had acted on impulse and decided to send all the school doctors away for training, setting up a plot where the male lead finds the pain relief medicine through the notice and applies it to the female lead.When he originally wrote it, Liu Muye hadn't found it unreasonable at all. But now, experiencing it firsthand, he realized the plot was full of loopholes and made zero logical sense.
Liu Muye quickly stepped in to smooth things over. "Well, bumps and scrapes are bound to happen during military training. It makes total sense for the school doctors to anticipate that we'd come looking for liniment."
Prompted by Liu Muye, both Nangong Ye and Shangguan Yurou silently nodded. They actually believed him—they really were that gullible after all.
That made sense, too. After all, besides falling in love in the book, the two of them loved nothing more than listening to the vicious female villain's instigations and gossip, which they would believe without a hint of doubt. Then came the falling out, the reconciliation, another falling out, another reconciliation—over and over again.
Only Han Juyou, with her exceptionally high emotional and intellectual intelligence, wasn't fooled by his far-fetched explanation.
"It makes zero sense, okay?" She looked at Liu Muye's panicked expression and said, "Why do I feel like you orchestrated this on purpose?"
Liu Muye retorted, "Don't talk nonsense. I was right there doing military training with you guys just now."
"Didn't you just tell me earlier that this school belongs to your family? Wouldn't it be a piece of cake for you to pull off something like this?" Han Juyou rested her chin in her hand with an expression that said she had already figured everything out. "There is only one truth!"
Han Juyou pointed first at Nangong Ye, then at Liu Muye, and said, "If my calculations are correct, you and this guy must be friends. He's got his eye on my girlfriend here, so he faked a sprained ankle. Then you used your status to bribe the instructor, getting the instructor to order her to help your buddy to the infirmary. You had already cleared out the school doctors in advance and left behind that notice, all to intentionally manufacture an opportunity for them!"
If this weren't a world inside a book, Han Juyou's deduction would have been infinitely close to the truth.
"No way, why are you channeling Conan now? Seriously, you're actually playing detective, sis!" Sweat began to bead on Liu Muye's forehead.Liu Muye genuinely never expected that the vicious female supporting character in his book would have such a high IQ, with quick thinking and razor-sharp logic. When someone like that turns malicious, they are truly formidable.
Han Juyou pressed her lips together and smiled faintly. "I knew I was right. You're starting to get nervous."
"Fine, fine, fine. You're right."
Liu Muye couldn't be bothered to argue with her anymore. As long as his identity as a transmigrator wasn't exposed, nothing else mattered.
Listening to their conversation, Shangguan Yurou looked over at Nangong Ye in astonishment.
Nangong Ye sensed her gaze, raised his eyes, and met her eyes.
In Shangguan Yurou's mind: "This guy... likes me? We've never even met before, why would he like me? But... why do I feel such a strange emotion the moment I look at him?"
In Nangong Ye's mind: "What on earth are these two talking about? I've never even met her, how could I like her? Besides... why is this girl a bit unusual? The moment I saw her... I had this strange feeling?"
Watching the two of them gaze into each other's eyes, Liu Muye assumed it was love at first sight and felt overjoyed.
He thought to himself, "After all these twists and turns, I managed to steer the plot back on track after all."
Acting as though it had all been rehearsed, Liu Muye reached into the second shelf, middle row, third compartment of the medical cabinet, took out two bottles of liniment, and shoved one into Shangguan Yurou's hand.
Then he spoke up. "Beauty, my buddy fell in love with you the moment he laid eyes on you. The two of you should go into the ward and have a nice chat. I'll take good care of this female classmate here."
"Ah?"
"Hey, wait—"
Before the two of them could react, Liu Muye shoved them both into the ward and locked the door from the outside.
"Perfect!" Liu Muye breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
Then he turned his head to look at Han Juyou, who was sitting on the lounge chair.
Seeing the mischievous look in Liu Muye's eyes, Han Juyou crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"What... what are you trying to do?"