Yao Na'er instantly put on a shocked expression: "You guys... actually outnumber us and bully the minority?!"
Unbearable to watch!
Huang Li snatched Xiao Ye's chaotic draft notebook away: "It's not that I want to nag you, but can't you write a bit more neatly, my dear? How is anyone else supposed to make sense of this?"
Ever since middle school, every time she saw Xiao Ye's draft notebook, she would urge her to write more neatly, yet it was completely useless.
Whenever Xiao Ye made a draft, she would just grab whatever notebook was at hand and write wherever she found empty space, to the point where sometimes even she couldn't understand her own drafts. Because of this, she had developed the habit of always drawing a circle around her final answers after finishing a calculation.
Xiao Ye retorted righteously: "Why bother writing a draft so neatly? It doesn't give me any extra points. Besides, didn't I circle the answer? What's so hard to understand?!"
Huang Li snapped: "What the heck is the use of just circling an answer?! If I wanted the answer, I'd just look at the answer key! Isn't looking at the answer key better?"
Xiao Ye spread her hands: "Did I stop you?"
Huang Li: "If I could understand the answer key, why would I look at yours in the first place?"
Xiao Ye: "Then why are you picking faults? If you're going to pick faults, don't look!"
Huang Li blinked her eyes: "Who's picking faults?! I am not!"
Xiao Ye: "~~I just love how hypocritical you are."
"......"
Yao Na'er slammed the table: "Hey! You two! If you don't leave now, we're going to miss seeing Brother Yi!"
Xiao Ye looked at her and tilted her head: "We never said we were going with you."
"Don't pay attention to her!" Huang Li patted Xiao Ye's shoulder, pointing at a part she didn't understand and asking, "How on earth did you get this result?"
Xiao Ye leaned over to take a look: "Oh, it's just..."
Yao Na'er pounded the table: "Hey! You two! That's going too far!"
"Alright, alright!" Huang Li waved a hand, "We'll draw straws later and one of us will go with you!"
"Deal!"
Two minutes later.
Huang Li put down her pen and asked, "Are you going or am I?"
Xiao Ye thought for a moment: "Rock-paper-scissors. Whoever loses goes."
"Deal."
Yao Na'er: "......" What else is there for me to say?
"Rock-paper-scissors!"
Scissors against paper.
Huang Li slapped a hand against her own forehead.
Xiao Ye stroked her head and said gently, "Go on! I'll bring you something yummy, alright!"
"Let's go, let's go!" Yao Na'er tugged Huang Li along, not forgetting to instruct Xiao Ye, "If we aren't back in a bit, remember to have Qianzi help move a chair!"
Xiao Ye made an "OK" hand gesture to signal that she could rest assured.
...
Cafeteria.
As the line moved forward, Xiao Ye saw the rather "grim" selection of dishes and couldn't help curling the four fingers of her left hand slightly into a fist, gently biting her thumb between her pearly white teeth. Her willow-leaf eyebrows furrowed slightly, her expression troubled.
Biting her fingers whenever she was in a dilemma was a little habit of hers; sometimes she wouldn't even realize it herself before her finger was already in her mouth.
"Stop biting. Doesn't it hurt?" A warm voice came from above.
Xiao Ye instinctively looked up, and a handsome face was reflected in her eyes: He Yi? On second thought: No wonder so many young girls kept glancing over here from time to time—and here I thought they were after my stunning looks! What a waste of emotional investment!
"It's your turn." He Yi pointed forward, signaling the daydreaming little one to step up.
Xiao Ye pulled back her thoughts and walked up to the food-serving window.
"What would you like, little girl?" the cafeteria auntie asked warmly.
Xiao Ye put her thumb back between her lips and teeth, looking troubledly at the dishes.
She thought for one second.
Then, she released her thumb from her teeth, smoothed her brow, and resolutely walked out of the line.
Watching this action, He Yi asked in surprise, "You're not eating?"
"Nope." Xiao Ye turned back and answered as a matter of course.
He Yi followed her out of the line, and this move undoubtedly sparked a commotion.
"Did He Yi just follow that girl?"
"What's going on? Does the male god have a girlfriend?"
"Brother Yi wouldn't be chasing her, would he?"
"Little sister-in-law?"
"I haven't even made a move yet and Brother Yi already captured her?"
"Who is that girl?"
...
However, the two protagonists of the topic had already walked out of the cafeteria, completely unaware of how big of a commotion they had caused.
"Why?" He Yi asked, looking at the little one who was biting her finger again.