<h4>Chapter 40</h4>


    "Yan Xi! Over here!" Ji Yao familiarly looped her arm around hers, the two had grown close due to the chemistrypetition.


    The two walked arm in arm on the small campus paths, looking intimate. Ji Yao was outgoing and would always chat about girly topics with Yan Xi after school.


    "No wonder so many people like her, she seems much more charming than you!"


    Pandora was also surprised, in just two short weeks, only during the short walk home from school, the two girls quickly went from walking home together to intimate besties! Even though they weren''t in the same ss, they seemed to have endless things to talk about whenever they met!


    Is this what friendship between girls is like?


    The rtionship has progressed rapidly, it literally feels like a "one night stand"!


    Oh, as for Qi Yili and Tu Qingluan, the two bodyguards walking them home from school?


    Qi Yili of course needed to adapt to the new campus, after all he had just transferred in through the backdoor, and was disconnected from his ssmates, so he naturally had to cram to catch up on coursework during the day and visit his mother at the hospital after school.


    And Tu Qingluan?


    Who knows what Yan Xi said to him, he hasn''t been clinging to her the past few days.


    "The question I asked you yesterday, there was one point you exined that I didn''t really understand, could you exin in more detail?"


    "No way, you''re too dumb!"


    "You didn''t even score higher than me on thest chemistry quiz! Who''s the real dumb one here?" Ji Yao retorted yfully hearing this.


    "A smart and beautiful girl like you should know it all, right?" Yan Xi teased her.


    "Ohe on, just tell me please, I''m begging you!" Ji Yao put on a cute act, pretending to be pitiful.


    Those amber eyes stared unblinkingly at Yan Xi, innocent and adorable.


    Yan Xi pretended not to see and walked faster ahead by two steps.


    "Wow you actually resisted that!"


    "As expected of a great beauty, such strong willpower against cuteness huh?" Ji Yao bounced up behind her like a little white rabbit.


    At this time, the small paths on campus had more people than before, all preparing for the uing Christmas party, hanging ribbons, balloons and such.


    The two standing together caught countless eyes, but no one dared disturb them.


    "Yan Xi, are youing over this weekend? We can discuss studying?" Ji Yao seemed to think of something.


    "Come to your ce? Isn''t that inconvenient?" Yan Xi let her hold onto her arm.


    "It’s no problem, my parents aren''t at the small apartment I live at, I’m already financially independent actually."


    "Oh? Financially independent?" A sh of darkness swept past Yan Xi''s eyes.


    "Shh! It''s a secret!" Ji Yao acted mysteriously.


    "If youe over I''ll tell you, and make you some gingerbread men, how about it?"


    "Ok~ok~" Ji Yao coaxed as she shook her hand.


    "Since you asked me, I''ll agree then."


    Yan Xi smilingly replied.


    ???


    The passing male student identally overhearing this was dumbfounded.


    What did she mean by e over... I''ll make...for you"?


    What did she mean by "if you ask me, I''ll agree"?


    Could it be what he was thinking? No way right!


    He looked at their intimate locked arms, and asional whispers in each other''s ears.


    He felt for a moment he had discovered the truth! So the school belle''s were privately exclusive!


    No wonder no one has gotten either school beauty all this time!


    Holy crap!


    His heart felt like it was smashed by a meteor, full of pits and holes! Like it was trampled by millions of pigs, battered and bruised! Like it was drilled through by a jackhammer, defenses shattered!


    Groundbreaking news!


    He hurriedly opened up the hottest gossip section on the school forums.


    And with flying fingers made a new post titled:


    "The inside story that must be told about the new and original school belle''s"


    At least he shouldn''t be heart broken alone! Misery lovespany!


    ———————


    "Don''t you feel Ji Yao''s existence affects your extreme value gains?" Pandora said in her mind.


    "Sowing discord is not a good habit, Pandora."


    "I just hope you can hurry up and max out your extreme value, and get loaded in, or you can exit this school side quest now, after all your extreme value is already 1100." Pandora said impatiently.


    "You still haven''t exined to me what this loading in is, Pandora? Shouldn''t you exin something first before letting someone make a choice?"


    And that 1100 extreme value hasplicated sources.....


    Pandora thought about it, and finally stopped being cryptic.


    "Your judged extreme value has already exceeded 500, you''ve already passed the Skin Merchant''s test, and loading in, is just meeting other merchants~"


    Pandora didn''t say anything more after finishing that sentence.


    Yan Xi sensed gratuitous malice from those words.


    Meet?


    What''s there to meet about? Is it to exchange feelings?


    And that mysterious electronic voice said she was from the Chapter 3 timeline? So she inferred, the other merchants must not be from this timeline?


    This game did still have quite a few deaths...


    Interesting.....