"Stop, please don''t make a fuss."
Fang Ren immediately raised both hands and said, "The ss leader and I are just ordinary friends. I''ve been rejected twice in my confessions, and she has made it clear that we are only friends. You guys shouldn''t pretend you don''t know and stir up trouble."
"How can you be so dense!" Li Xinyue said with a look of helplessness.
However, she didn''t know that after Fang Ren had been rejected twice, he took all of Liu Qianqian''s previous hints as just friendly gestures and never thought too much about them.
Feeling that Fang Ren was constantly being ridiculed by the entire ss, Bai Qi couldn''t stand it anymore. He immediately reached out, pulled Fang Ren to the side, and moved about five meters away from Li Xinyue and the others.
As soon as the ss saw Bai Qi pulling on Fang Ren''s arm, they were instantly stunned, and the previousmotion quickly subsided.
She whispered to Fang Ren, "You really didn''t do anything to the ss leader, did you?"
"I really didn''t," Fang Ren frowned and said.
"Then, do you want me to help you?" Bai Qi asked.
"Of course!" said Fang Ren, nodding his head vigorously.
"Then leave it to me."
Bai Qi turned her head back and looked at Li Xinyue and the others, her expression a bit serious as she said, "There''s nothing inappropriate between Fang Ren and the ss leader. I believe them."
As soon as they heard Bai Qi speak, the whole ss was dumbfounded, especially given Bai Qi''s serious expression, which left everyone filled with doubt.
Li Xinyue was also taken aback. "Princess... what are you..."
"Fang Ren was with mest night, and it''s impossible for him to date any other girls," Bai Qi said.
Everyone was confused. They didn''t know who Fang Ren was withst night, but the girls in the dormitory knew that Princess Bai Qi had stayed in her room all night and hadn''t gone out.
Clearly, this was deliberate protection.
"This... why?" Li Xinyue was stunned.
Fang Ren is impossible to date other girls?
Why would Princess Bai Qi say that so adamantly?
With a serious face, Bai Qi said, "Because he is my fiancé. We are verymitted to our engagement, and he could not possibly have any inextricable rtionship with any other girl."
"..." Fang Ren turned to stone.
"..." Li Xinyue waspletely bbergasted.
A few secondster:
"Damn it!"
The whole ss exploded.
"Did I just hear Princess Bai Qi say the words ''my fiancé''?!"
"Princess''s fiancé? Ranzi?"
"Am I still not awake..."
"Cui Hua, give me a p!"
"Damn! For real? They''re engaged? This... what about Madame Xuan?"
...
p—
Fang Ren immediately came to his senses, grabbed Bai Qi''s arm, and ran off into the distance with her.
"They''re running! There must be some unspeakable secret between them!"
Jing Haichuan pped the desk, his face full of excitement. "There''s really something going on! Quick! Where are Jing''s condoms? Give them to Ranzi for free! No!
Even if it costs money, make sure they get delivered there!"
Li Xingwang was dumbfounded. "It''s over, turns out the girlpeting with Madame Xuan for a man is the princess..."
"Silly girl! Don''t even think about usurping the position anymore! It could cost you your life!"
"Ah! The poor ss leader, to encounter such a skilled scumbag!"
"Sorry! We won''t allow you to insult Ran God!"
"Stop talking, I''m going to sign up with Ran Godter to deeply learn the skills of charming girls."
Li Xinyue and the others still hadn''t recovered from the shock, as the information in that one sentence was too explosive.
"It''s over, Qian Qian haspletely lost hope now..."
Jian Qi''er, sitting in the back row, watched Fang Ren run away, her face full of shock. She couldn''t believe that Fang Ren had been keeping such an important secret from her!
Princess Bai Qi''s fiancé?
She had told the fiancé of Bai Qi all the secrets of her organization!
Jian Qi''er''s mind was in total chaos, suddenly feeling like she had betrayed her organization.
...
"My Princess! Are you helping or making things worse?"
Fang Ren dragged Bai Qi onto a small path, looking at her with a face full of misery.
"I''m helping," Bai Qi said, looking at him with a puzzled expression: "As long as I disclose our rtionship, they will stop calling you a scumbag and stop spreading rumors about you. It kills two birds with one stone and prevents future trouble."
"Couldn''t you have found another way to do it?" Fang Ren pped his forehead, his face full of helplessness.
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"Why can''t our rtionship be public?" Bai Qi asked as she looked at him.
"Aren''t we going to end this rtionship? Why should anyone else know?"
"If we let others know about our rtionship now, when we cancel the engagementter, can''t we just let everyone know then?"
Fang Ren had no retort for a moment; she was right, but wasn''t it better to keep it private? After all, many people knew he was cohabiting with Mu Huanqing...
And Bai Qi had no clue about any of this!
Aftermenting his situation, Fang Ren had no choice but to return to the ssroom under the weight of everyone''s stares. As he entered with Bai Qi, all eyes focused on him, casting a deathly silence over the room.
Especially the disdainful nces from the group of female ssmates, as if they were saying: Look, there''s the biggest scumbag of the year 2310!
He could sweet-talk Madame Xuan into bed and charm the ss leader with his tardiness-forgiving spells, and amid it all, flip the heart of a clueless girl, oblivious to the fact that he''s the fiancé of a princess!
Right then, Fang Ren just wanted to find a mouse hole and scurry away.
The whole of Yangming University knew of his cohabitation with Mu Huanqing, and at the athletics meeting, he even kissed her in front of everyone.
He had once dered he would marry Mu Huanqing, yet now he was Bai Qi''s fiancé...
On one side stood Madame Xuan, and on the other, Princess Tianjiang – either of whom could shake the world to its core. Should the news break globally, his novice practitioner''s life would be over!
During the ss, neither Jing nor Li sat next to Fang Ren, instead swiftly abandoning the rear seats before the lesson started.
Bai Qi''s books were still not ready, and she was sharing a desk with Fang Ren. Jian Qi''er, on the other hand, took advantage of her Oscar-worthy acting skills to find a reasonable excuse to sit by Fang Ren''s side.
Just before ss began, Liu Qianqian walked in looking distraught, her eyes red and her gaze vacant, expressionless.
"I thought Li Xinyue and the others were joking this morning, I didn''t expect it to be true."
"My goodness, is this for real? Fang Ren and the ss leader were a casual tease in ss, how did it turn serious all of a sudden?"
"Fang Ren always seemed like a good guy, it was just a joke to call him a scumbag. How could he actually do something like this?"
"Looking at the ss leader''s state, she must have cried a lotst night. I wonder what really happened."
...
The quiet whispers spread among the students; Li Xinyue immediately turned and red at Fang Ren, then hurriedly pulled Liu Qianqian to the seat next to her, whispering something in a low voice.
Fang Ren was as surprised as anyone by Liu Qianqian''s demeanor. He had thought it a simple misunderstanding: Liu Qianqian must have been drunkst night because of her mother''s issues and happened to utter his name in her sleep.
But seeing her like this... it didn''t look that simple.
"Did you really not do anything to herst night?" Bai Qi asked in a hushed tone, frowning.
"I didn''t," Fang Ren whispered back.
"You must tell the truth, Fang," Jian Qi''er immediately said, wearing a righteous expression.
"I REALLY didn''t."
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The ss was ufortable for Fang Ren; he felt eyes on him from every corner whenever he looked down, as if he were being watched by the entire ss.
Misunderstandings... are truly frightening things.
At noon, Bai Qi didn''t join Fang Ren for lunch but bid him farewell before rushing off campus to look for a job.
Jing and Li caught up with Fang Ren and bombarded him with questions about his rtionship with Bai Qi and what exactly was going on with the ss leader.
Fang Ren found an opportunity to slip away, without offering any exnations. After all, any attempt to rify matters would look like he was two-timing.
Ordinary people wouldn''t understand what a forced engagement meant; they thought if you didn''t like someone, you should just call off the wedding, not understanding that some marriages aren''t up to those involved.
As Fang Ren sat alone in the garden, avoiding everywhere else, a figure suddenly appeared before him.
He looked up to see Jian Qi''er, who had removed her sses and swept her hair up.
"You''ve certainly made a name for yourself today."
Jian Qi''er sat beside him with a schadenfreude smirk, crossing her legs encased in flesh-colored stockings.
"I don''t think gloating is your main purpose here," Fang Ren said with a sigh, ncing at her.
"Right, I wanted to ask how you suddenly became Bai Qi''s fiancé?" Jian Qi''er said. "I told you everything, yet you still kept secrets from me."
"I found out about it only recently myself; it left me stunned. It was a childhood arranged engagement," said Fang Ren. "Bute on, your organization can dig up my background but can''t find out about my engagement with her?"
"Who would have guessed you two had such deep connections?" Jian Qi''er waved her hand dismissively. "But it''s a good thing; I was afraid you were siding with Bai Qi. If your rtionship with her was so close that you could share anything, that would''ve spelled disaster for our Nightshade."
"Is there anything else?" asked Fang Ren.
"Yes, big news," Jian Qi''er said, reclining in her chair to gaze at the sky with a worried expression. She sighed, "Just now, our organization spotted a fifth-order Void Beast lurking in the forest on the outskirts of the city."
"A fifth-order Void Beast?" Fang Ren was taken aback. "But we don''t have any Void Holes around here, where did that thinge from?"
Jian Qi''er replied, "When our organization spotted the Void Beast, they also saw members of the Indra Sky organization. Based on preliminary assessments, that fifth-order Void Beast is likely an experiment of Indra Sky."
"An experiment?" Fang Ren was shocked. "Their experiments involve not just human practitioners?"
Jian Qi''er looked at him, saying, "We don''t know; our understanding of them isn''tplete."
"From what you''re saying... the war is drawing closer," Fang Ren remarked.
"It''s not just drawing closer; it could happen anytime," Jian Qi''er said. "Maybe the next second, an hour from now, or even tomorrow..."
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