General Commander Leng Xiaoyao

  There will be three more tonight, byebye.

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  When the bell rang, signaling the end of class, the English teacher announced to Pei Pei that it was time to leave. Her decisive and calm next move inadvertently scared off a group of girls from all directions who were about to rush towards Ye Cai, as well as a plane-headed scumbag.

  Under the gaze of many puzzled eyes, Xiang Pei walked to Ye Cai's desk, deliberately ignoring Ye Cai and instead calling out to Xiao Xue who was sitting inside to go with her to the office.

  "Wait until I come back."

  Xiao Xue got up and walked out of the gap, whispering something in Ye Cai's ear, then left a comforting and warm gaze for her, and followed Pei Pei to quickly walk out of the classroom.

  So the irrelevant people in their eyes left, and Liu Youyou and Li Wei quickly set off. Then, on the passage between the first and second groups, they met by chance, and amidst confusion and suspicion, they nodded to each other in a friendly manner. However, both of them had unspoken grievances that made it difficult for them to stay together with Ye Cai under everyone's watchful eyes. Therefore, when the two of them walked to the passage between the second and third groups with anxious hearts, Li Wei, who saw Liu Youyou's destination, retreated at the last minute. Cleverly, she walked to the window, leaned against the windowsill, pretended to look at the scenery, and secretly glanced in Ye Cai's direction.

  Liu Youyou was startled and slowly stopped in her tracks, then foolishly stared at Chu Yunfei's exaggerated movements as she stepped over the obstacles on the desk, unintentionally scaring away a certain transformed girl who was about to flirt with Ye Cai. With a fierce momentum, she arrived beside Ye Cai. She immediately became flustered and quickly imitated Li Wei's random response measures, swiftly walking to the window and leaning against the windowsill together to look at the scenery, secretly glancing over at Ye Cai.

  Yezai had already sensed that the two were coming to ask something, and she felt a little uneasy, lowering her head to think about how to face them. Suddenly, she raised her eyes to find that they hadn't come over, but instead were leaning against the windowsill, gazing out at the scenery, which left her bewildered.

  Then a figure appeared in her peripheral vision, with a slanted gaze, and it was Chu Yunfei with a gloomy and cool expression.

  "Who did you think you could fool?"

  One word shocked Ye Cai's eyes, and his heart surged with a few points of astonishment and slight fear. In an instant, he squeezed out a few points of cunning smile, and teased Chu Yunfei, who was sneering and indifferent: "What's wrong? Is this a new phrase from Master Yi? Suspicion is the most powerful weapon, heh..."

  Even the most beloved hero's lines, spoken in the most gentle and moving tone, couldn't move Chu Yunfei. He let out a exaggerated cold laugh, his chin tilting upwards, as if Ye Cai, with her sweet smile, was just a ridiculous clown in his eyes. All he needed to do was maintain his icy and profound gaze, and it would be enough to make Ye Cai, this little clown, reveal her true nature in her panic.

  Even if she wasn't nervous, being stared at so intensely made Ye Cai uncomfortable. She pretended to look down on Chu Yunfei, scanning him up and down as if searching for a weakness, but couldn't find any. Perhaps it was hidden inside? She asked in confusion: "What's wrong today? Brother Fei, why are you being so cold?"

  "Hehehe......"

  When Ye Cai, who looked very cute, praised him for being cool, Chu Yunfei couldn't help but smile proudly, but as sharp as he was, he instantly realized that his emotions were not suitable and cleverly suppressed the laughter, and followed up with a sarcastic remark: "Fake it, keep faking it."

  She sensed that the other party's motives were not pure enough and their stance was not firm enough, so Ye Cai's eyes turned and she realized that Chu Yunfei was not as dangerous as she thought. Maybe in her heart, there were only a few suspicions and guesses about her, and 80% of them were unfounded and just speculation. So she understood and naturally didn't pay much attention to responding cautiously to Chu Yunfei's every word and action.

  To put it simply, she figured out that he was just a good-for-nothing who suspected things based on intuition and fantasy, so she didn't want to bother with him anymore.

  She rolled her eyes and waved her hand impatiently, shooing him away: "Stop messing around, I have something else to do..."

  Under Chu Yunfei's astonished gaze, she took out the humble English textbook from her first year of junior high school in the midst of her second-year high school classroom, and began to devour it with an air of nonchalance.

  Yes, Chuyunfei guessed it right, Yecai ignored him.

  After he came to his senses, he became angry and humiliated, and coldly asked: "Where did you put Luo Li?"

  Ye Cai was taken aback, raised her eyes and stared at him in a daze, thinking to herself: "What's wrong with this guy, why does he always remember my boyfriend? This rhythm is off."

  Chu Yunfei thought she wanted to pretend to be stupid and muddle through, so he elaborated on the terrible impact of the recent "Lu Li's mysterious disappearance" event to thoroughly crush her lucky psychology: The school investigated and searched in all directions, the family members of the parties involved waited bitterly at the school gate, and even attracted the attention of the police...

  Ye Cai listened to him with a naive and confused expression, telling the story of Luo Li's disappearance with a nose full of snot and tears. When she heard the key part, she showed a few points of tension and surprise, as if she was worried about Luo Li's disappearance like Chu Yunfei. However, in her heart, she kept muttering to herself: "Damn it, Luo Li is just trying to escape reality, what's the point of finding me?!" She doesn't even call herself Luo Li anymore, but Leng Xiaoyu, does she know that?!

  The onlookers nearby couldn't help but stare at the scene of the tall boy crying in front of his shorter sister, while Liu Youyou and Li Wei by the window on the left side of the classroom also looked stunned. It wasn't until they saw a hint of disdain in Ye Cai's eyes that they awkwardly withdrew their gaze. Then, unintentionally, their eyes met, and they both saw similar colors in each other's eyes. They stood there together, hesitating about whether to greet each other as fellow travelers.

  "Hmm... I think I saw you when I was a kid." Liu Youyou took the initiative to break the silence, gazing at him with a gentle and serene smile.

  However, Li Wei was still bewildered, blinking her eyes repeatedly, and secretly trying hard to recall the image of this elegant new student in her life experience, but couldn't find any. She murmured: "When I was a kid, how old was I?"

  But Liu Youyou didn't think Li Wei was truly bewildered, but rather pretending to be confused, because deep down she still thought of herself as Ai Ziyu, thinking that the other party could see the shadow of "Ziyu Ge" from her childhood ponytail on her. After reacting, she thought that she had unintentionally touched Li Wei's unmentionable grey childhood, making her embarrassed for her own rashness, scratching her temples and saying: "I must have remembered wrong, it doesn't seem like it after all..."

  Li Wei smiled awkwardly and said: "I see..."

  "Hahaha..."

  Liu Youyou chuckled dryly and shifted her gaze, pretending to admire the view. Then she noticed Li Wei also leaning against the windowsill, feigning interest in the scenery with a thoughtful expression, narrowing her eyes slightly. After a moment of hesitation, she smiled faintly and asked: "Did you know Ye Cai before?"

  Li Wei's mind went blank as soon as Liu Youyou mentioned the two words "Ye Cai". She was filled with all sorts of suspicions and guesses, but she had never seen this elegant girl in front of her before. This intangible sense of crisis made her even more uneasy, so she pretended not to have heard clearly and smiled awkwardly, continuing to look at the scenery with a cold sweat.

  Noticing the other person's shifty and uneasy eyes, Liu Youyou started to tease her by chasing after her gaze. Li Wei kept dodging and avoiding, but Liu Youyou was satisfied with the game. With a sly smile, she said: "You really look like a girl..."

  Like a girl!?

  Li Wei was stunned again, lowering her head and opening her small mouth but unable to speak, then subconsciously using her right hand to wipe away the wind-blown fringe of her hair.

  It seems that she likes to see people being attacked by her words, getting flustered and embarrassed. Liu Youyou's mouth curled up with a hint of playfulness, and her dark eyes kept sizing Li Wei up and down: "Although you're dressed in a masculine style, but... your bone structure, skin, and... Adam's apple..."

  Her pupils contracted.

  In extreme panic, Li Wei suddenly covered her white and smooth neck, and after reacting, she pretended to be puzzled and stroked up and down, smiling helplessly: "Yes, they all say that, delayed development is just helpless..."

  Teasing people should have a limit, Liu Youyou didn't want to make Li Wei too embarrassed, so she secretly threw a ridiculous white eye in the direction where no one was looking, then turned her head and put on an expression of surprise, exclaiming: "Cute boy? Hmm... I've never seen one before, oh wait, you're the second one."

  Li Wei followed Liu Youyou's cunning gaze and looked towards Ye Cai together, while at this time Ye Cai didn't even bother to pay attention to the chattering airplane head beside her. When she realized that they were staring at her, she immediately pretended to remember something urgent under Chu Yunfei's astonished gaze, quickly got up, nodded goodbye to the bewildered Chu Yunfei, and hastily ran out of the aisle, giving Liu Youyou a subtle glance along the way.

  They watched Ye Cai run out of the classroom together, until her figure was swallowed up by the area blocked on the left side of their field of vision. Only then did Liu Youyou and Li Wei exchange a glance. Faced with Li Wei's half-admiring and half-resentful expression, Liu Youyou nodded slightly under her gentle face, turned around and walked towards the classroom door.

  ……

  The figure of Xiao Xue, who had repeatedly reminded Peipei to do a good job on Ye Cai's psychological work, but at the same time could not slow down her studies, and finally bid farewell with a pretended intimacy by holding her hand and inviting her out for a treat, gradually appeared in the corridor from the second-floor stairway. At this moment, she was carrying a dazed expression filled with thousands of words, and as soon as she came to her senses, she suddenly realized that Peipei had already known Ye Cai's true identity, otherwise she wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about it. Because in the future when entering society, boys who should bear the burden of family survival during their school days would not need multiple rescues and sympathy if they were willing to slack off, but girls lacking survival abilities are different, and Ye Cai, who had transformed from a boy to a girl and was at a loss, is even more different.

  Yes, Ye Cai is no longer a boy who can survive in a decadent manner. She's a delicate and weak girl who needs to be rescued both physically and mentally!

  A loud crash——

  Xiao Xue's expression turned solemn as she raised her chin, as if the heavens had entrusted her with a great mission to save the world, and a surge of heroic passion burst forth in an instant. Her gaze was filled with an unyielding determination that was both terrifying and awe-inspiring, sweeping across the entire corridor. The momentum continued unabated, gradually receding into the depths of the corridor, causing the girls on either side to shriek in alarm as they covered their flying skirts. Meanwhile, the faces of passersby on either side became indistinct and unremarkable in her eyes, just like the two rows of willow trees outside the window that seemed to be receding into the distance as she traveled to the mountains. None of them were worthy of her attention. Her target was the door to Class 2-2, Ye Cai, her arms, every pocket and pouch on her person, and that pack of mysterious cigarettes that Leng Xiao had said was terrifying enough to destroy the world.

  But she suddenly lost her enthusiasm...

  Her footsteps slowed down, and she stared at the two figures in the distance, one short and one tall, walking away from her with their backs to her.

  Is that the new one, Liu...Liu Youyou?

  Is it just Leng Xiao Yao that I need to pay attention to?

  Oh no, something's wrong! The two of them have run off to some secluded spot, they must be venting their anger at each other, and they're definitely avoiding me on purpose...

  What's going on?!

  Xiao Xue was flustered and uncertain, pacing back and forth, but finally thought of a plan in a flash of inspiration - to find the commander of the "Special Task Force for Saving Lolita", Leng Xiao Ya!

  She took out her phone and immediately made a call, but all she got was the cold sound of the dial tone, leaving her staring at the two figures walking further and further away, breaking into a sweat.

  ……

  Leng Xiaoyao, who had always regarded "God of Fighting" as her ultimate goal in life, was now wearing a black tight-fitting thermal underwear, sitting cross-legged in front of the TV in her hotel room on the second floor of the restaurant, waving her small fists and staring at the TV with disappointment and indignation. The TV was playing the afternoon session of the "Fighting Storm" national fighting selection tournament on Yagu Longwei TV, where her usually supported but currently weak stable player "Death God Xiao Dong" was using all his might to cheer on his son who was not living up to expectations.

  Ah! Ah! Oh no! Oh my god!!!

  She was furious, the "Grim Reaper Xiao Dong" who had been making her nervous all along was punched a few times by the opponent, listening to that effeminate pain cry, Leng Xiaoyu really wanted to get into the TV and stab the host who was crying in pain for "Grim Reaper Xiao Dong" with a knife. He was already at a disadvantage, as a host, not giving him encouragement was one thing, but instead, he was mocking him and crying out in pain, what the hell did he think this was, some kind of ridiculous variety show? This behavior was simply too annoying.

  Ding ding ding!

  Suddenly, the old mobile phone that had been repaired with 50 yuan and was placed on the bed rang out. Cold Xiaoyu, who was feeling annoyed and restless, couldn't move her butt or open her eyes. She quickly sat up, pulled over the bed sheet, picked up the falling phone, pressed the answer button, put it to her ear, and then saw "Death God Xiao Dong" being punched in the chin.

  "Ah!"

  She suddenly looked terrified and shouted at her phone for her ideal candidate.

  On the other hand, at Luoshui Middle School, Xiao Xue was shocked as soon as she made a phone call and heard a scream.

  "Hey!? Who is it!?"

  A moment later, a irritable voice shouted from the other end of the phone.

  "Hey, it's me, Xiao Xue. Something's wrong! Xiaoyao and Cai Baichuan probably know about our plan now. What are we going to do?"

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