Under the watchful eyes of all (Part 1)

  The revised and polished version is available for those who didn't quite understand it; feel free to re-read from the beginning.

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  "Turn off your phone and stand up!" The teacher's stern gaze shot over.

  Ye Cai, being stared at by the whole class and the teacher on the podium, seemed a bit dazed and didn't immediately follow the order to stand up. Instead, she mumbled to herself, took out her phone from the drawer in a daze, looked at the caller ID "Liu Youyou", and couldn't help but reveal a look of great confusion.

  So, under the gaze of everyone, she turned her head to look at Liu Youyou, but was met with a cold and annoyed expression. It seemed that Liu Youyou was afraid of being implicated by her, just like that day at the amusement park when she proposed sitting together on the rocket bungee jump, showing a resistant and annoyed attitude.

  It left her feeling somewhat disheartened and disappointed.

  Bang! Bang! Bang!

  Suddenly, the teacher slammed the book on the desk with all his might, startling many classmates who were unprepared.

  "Get up! Can you hear me?! Get up!"

  At these words, Ye Cai was taken aback, and with a thoughtful expression, she withdrew her gaze, lowered her head, slowly stood up, and remained silent.

  Seeing this, the teacher threw a disgusted glance, cleared his throat and continued to teach. However, the classmates' gaze gathered on Ye Cai's body did not leave, buzzing and whispering, entwining in her ears.

  "You look like a girl..."

  "He thought it was Liu Youyou calling, haha..."

  "Heh heh, the toad wants to eat swan meat..."

  The pupils gradually constricted, at that instant...

  Ye Cai's ears suddenly became quiet, as if the world was sinking into silence and withering away.

  She felt as if she had become stark naked, her frail and delicate body wrapped in a gray mist, with an irresistible pressure pushing her to retreat rapidly, everything around her gradually moving away from her sight.

  She could feel the mocking and disdainful faces of the people around her without intentionally observing them. The gaze from all directions was like a heavy hammer that made it hard to breathe. At the same time, unexpectedly, she felt the puzzled gazes of her classmates on her, and saw Liu Youyou deliberately showing a cold and disgusted face, as well as his self-reproachful eyes.

  But she didn't mind, although she seemed to feel heartache and loss, this painful feeling was soon overwhelmed by something.

  At this moment she seemed extremely rational, her heart would no longer jump, so much so that it became as numb as a rock.

  She deeply understands that Liu Youyou's actions are justified and even very rational - as a new girl, she shouldn't get involved with someone like him, an outcast, a weirdo, and a sissy boy in the class, otherwise it would damage Liu Youyou's reputation for cultivating a goddess-like aura, and even expose her dark past, which would be the heaviest blow to Liu Youyou.

  But overall, the so-called warmth and mutual dependence between them are doomed to never see the light of day. Liu Youyou has become dependent on someone she shouldn't have gotten close to.

  Slowly lifting up his frail shoulders...

  Deeply, deeply, take a deep breath of heavy air.

  Having figured out the pros and cons, she tried to extricate herself from that inexplicable feeling of loss after being seemingly ignored. Gently closing her eyes, she told herself: Her reputation in class and even in school was already sour enough, she shouldn't drag down Liu Youyou, who had finally made up her mind to start a new life. In the eyes of the public, she should be radiant and dazzling, not tainted by her own mistakes.

  She nodded slightly in self-approval, realizing that in the public eye, she couldn't be with Liu Youyou together, nor could they have any communication or interaction. Otherwise, simply because of her proximity, it would be enough to make Liu Youyou's tireless efforts go down the drain and even be ridiculed and despised.

  But to get rid of this situation that makes each other feel guilty, repressed and painful, we can only thoroughly erase those idle words and phrases that make us deliberately alienate from each other, erase the hateful eyes that make Liu Youyou fearful and uneasy, erase the vulgar classmates around, and even, erase the existence of the entire mundane world!

  Thus, Liu Youyou and herself, as well as the transforming women who are uneasy about the world, can obtain eternal, carefree, peaceful, happy and warm happiness.

  Suddenly, Ye Cai felt a strange sensation in her chest, as if this task was too heavy, making it hard for her to breathe.

  But in an instant, she exhaled a breath, and then confidently raised the corners of her mouth. Because, she still had transforming cigarettes!

  In her opinion, as long as the secret of transforming into a cigarette is cracked in the future, it will be almost effortless to complete that task.

  She glanced sideways, full of hostility and vigilance, at Xiao Xue who had just tried to steal her transforming cigarette. The other party pretended to be careless, licking his lips and lowering his head, with a guilty conscience in his eyes. This made her pupils dim, and she sighed softly, feeling an unspeakable entanglement and melancholy.

  She naturally understood that in the end, it was all for her own good, and that Xiao Xue and Leng Xiaoyao were only trying to help her, even if they didn't understand themselves.

  Ye Cai thinks that destroying the transforming cigarettes is completely wrong. Why should the transforming girls compromise with this world? She believes they should establish their own stance and let the world recognize the existence of the transforming girls as a special group.

  In her eyes, Ling Xiao's intention to destroy the transformation cigarette in order to make her face reality was wrong. This competition is meaningless and almost equivalent to retreating when facing a great war because someone retreated at the last minute. In Ye Cai's opinion, they should be on the same front line against the entire world.

  Yes, her plan is to lead all the transformation girls she created with her own hands, just like taking her daughters, to find true happiness, to fight for their own status, and specially create a new social concept for "transformation girls", build a paradise that only belongs to them.

  Furthermore, atone for your own sins of manipulating their lives at will.

  Yes, even she herself didn't know, she hadn't considered how she would end up.

  In short, the road ahead is still very long and bumpy.

  She knew she had to numb her heart and maintain absolute rationality, not be affected by those boring negative feelings, and must keep moving forward in that direction!

  ……

  Xiao Xue, who had failed in her actions and was likely to be discovered by the target, carefully observed several times, and suddenly saw a terrible extreme ideological glow in Ye Cai's eyes, which were full of fatigue, similar to a kind of madness hidden under the guise of rationality.

  This made her feel flustered and uneasy, with a sense of unknown crisis gradually spreading in her mind. It wasn't until then that she realized Ye Cai might have become even more determined in his beliefs, which made her feel apprehensive, destined to be unprepared, and even without the courage to carry out the next theft. She was afraid, so she thought of seeking help from Commander-in-Chief Leng Xiaoyu.

  After class, she ran to a corner and made a distress call to Leng Xiaoyu.

  Leng Xiao asked her to elaborate on the specific process, so as to analyze how to take the next step.

  Xiao Xue then recounted the events one by one, and said that Ye Cai may have become even more determined to create a paradise after this incident, to the point of losing her rationality, and may be vigilant and hostile to the extent of being unreasonable. She was very afraid and didn't dare to have any thoughts about Ye Cai's extreme transformation into a cigarette.

  Facing the intention of retreating for self-protection as the only comrade-in-arms in "Loli Rescue Special Action Group" - Xiao Xue Ming Zhe, Leng Xiaoyu fell silent. Until Xiao Xue urged her several times and even wanted to give up, she coldly informed Xiao Xue that at dinner time, come to the school gate to meet with her, and she would make a clean break no matter what the cost was.

  However, at the same time, what "Loli Rescue Special Operations Group" led by Leng Xiaoyao didn't know was that Ye Cai secretly found Liu Youyou, transformed into a cigarette and asked Liu Youyou not to approach her no matter what happened during dinner.

  Yes, Ye Cai, who deeply understands her boyfriend's style of doing things, guessed that the helpless Leng Xiaoyu would eventually take a violent approach to snatch the transforming cigarette. And given Leng Xiaoyu's impatient personality, it wouldn't be long before she made her move.

  And at dinner time, it was her best chance to make a move. Ye Cai dared to be certain that she would definitely come then.

  Then, for the rest of the time, Ye Cai slept soundly and replenished her energy to prepare for the battle at dinner.

  At last, the bell rang and she woke up. Under Xiao Xue's complicated and guilty gaze, she lazily got up, picked up her meal card, twisted her neck and shook her shoulders, stretching her muscles as if no one was around, walking towards the passageway.

  Under the disdainful and disgusted gaze of her classmates, she walked out of the classroom alone. Then, to everyone's surprise, including Liu Youyou who had deliberately kept her distance, a seemingly naive and silly figure chased after her with a meal card in hand.

  Under the astonished gaze of her surrounding classmates, Su Xiaoqiu symbolically raised her right hand and put it on Ye Cai's shoulder, who was stunned, and the two slowly walked towards the depths of the corridor.

  "Leaf picked at her lips, avoiding the gaze of those around her, and whispered: 'Don't come near me.'"

  "Why? Aren't we friends?" Su Xiaoqiu's face was full of puzzlement.

  Ye Cai's eyes were dim and his expression was weak, he sighed and quietly led Su Xiaoqiu away from the crowd. Only then did he explain with a serious face: "In this class, in this school, my reputation is very bad! If you are seen walking with me in public, you will be implicated."

  Under Ye Cai's almost icy gaze, Su Xiaoqiu slightly pouted her mouth, raised her eyes, and then narrowed them thoughtfully. After a moment, she smiled innocently: "How smelly is it?"

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