Chapter 654 Cotton Candy


    “Harper--” Celine only had time to call out to Harper before she was pulled outside and started running.


    Though Harper seemed delicate, she was surprisingly swift when she ran. Celine found herself quickly


    left behind as Harper darted out of their ssroom, heading towards ss One.


    Upon reaching Grade Eleven ss One, Harper finally let go of Celine, peeking into the ssroom.


    Soon, she spotted An.


    Harper was beautiful and became famous as soon as she started high school. At that moment, she


    brought along Celine, who was also quite attractive. Seeing two beautiful girls near their ss, many of


    the boys from ss One were getting somewhat excited.


    School time was, but ss One was an advanced ss. Therefore, they were still many students in


    the ss. Everyone voluntarily stayed in the ss to study for another half an hour before going to eat


    and take a bath. After that, they would return for an evening self-study session.


    A girl from ss One just happened to walk out of the ssroom. Harper approached her directly.


    “Excuse me, could you please call An for me?”


    The girl nced at Harper, her expression somewhat strange, as if lost in thought.


    She nced at Celine, who was standing next to Harper. Her gaze fell on Celine''s face, and a hint of


    astonishment shed in the girl''s eyes.


    Harper knew that Celine was timid. Seeing the girl looking at Celine, Harper couldn''t help but call out


    again. “Hello? Are you there?”


    The girl only then withdrew her gaze, turned around, and returned to the ssroom. She approached


    An''s desk and tapped on it. “An, there are two girls looking for you outside.”


    The girl''s voice was neither loud nor soft, but the ssroom was quiet then. Additionally, Harper and


    her friend standing outside had already attracted the attention of many students. As soon as the ss


    One girl spoke, a few bold boys in the ss started teasing An. “That''s Harper, belle of ss Seven,


    An. I wonder if she has given up on Rowen to pursue you instead.”


    An nced sideways at Harper, who was standing by the window with a faint blush on her delicate


    cheeks.


    “Don''t talk nonsense.” As he spoke, he put down the pen he was holding, adjusted the sses on the


    bridge of his nose, and stood up to leave the room.


    Upon leaving the ssroom, An realized that a girl was standing next to Harper, one he had never


    seen before.


    He only nced at the other person before shifting his gaze back to Harper. “You were looking for me?”


    Harper nodded, pulling Celine, who was standing next to her, closer. “This is Celine, a new transfer


    student in our ss. There were a few math problems today that we didn''t understand in ss. Could


    you exin them to us?”


    Harper and An both attended the same junior high school. An was always an awesome straight-A


    student, but they were never in the same ss. They only got to know each other during an


    Ustranasion speechpetition.


    Harper''s math skills were poor, so she sought An for tutoring before the high school entrance exam.


    However, due to Isobel''s loose lips, who told the head counselor they were in a rtionship, they


    stopped contacting each other privately. Harper was afraid of causing trouble for An.


    Upon hearing Harper''s words, An nodded and greeted Celine. “Hello, Celine. My name is An.”


    Celine looked at the handsome boy in front of her, nodding awkwardly. “N-Nice to meet you, An.”


    “Should Ie to your ss to help you both?”


    It was what Harper wanted, but knowing Celine''s sensitive nature, she chose to exin things in the


    hallway. The passing students made Celine feel embarrassed.


    “Sure. Most of our ssmates have probably left by now,” said Harper.


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    “All right, you two go ahead. I''ll grab my things and join you two in two minutes.” An nodded.


    “Okay.”


    Harper yawned, then turned to Celine and said, “Let''s go back first. He wille over and exin stuff


    to uster.”


    Celine nodded. “All right.”


    The two returned to Grade Eleven ss Seven. Apart from a few students who were cleaning, almost


    everyone else had left.


    Celine was tidying up her backpack when An came over, even before she had finished.


    An was well-known in his year, consistently ranking among the top ten students in every grade.


    Everyone recognized him. Hence, when the other students saw An, they were a bit surprised, but no


    one said anything.


    Harper had already taken her seat in Rowen''s spot with her school bag. Truth be told, sitting in the seat


    of a formidable figure made her feel a bit uneasy.


    After sitting for a few seconds, Harper felt it wasn''t quite right. “Celine, let''s switch seats.”


    She didn''t want some gossipmonger snitching to Rowen and risking his wrath again.


    Celine didn''t overthink it, assuming that Harper simply didn''t like her seat. Without hesitation, she stood


    up and swapped seats with her friend.


    An was seated in front of them. Once they were settled, he smiled. “Which questions are we


    discussing?”


    Harper looked at Celine. Celine''s face turned slightly red as she took out her homework. “I don''t quite


    understand this problem-solving method.”


    Even at a nce, An could recognize the handwriting as belonging to Rowen. He was somewhat


    surprised, but he was not one to pry, so he didn''t ask any questions. “Let me take a look first,” he said.


    With a sense of gratitude, Celine handed over her homework. An looked at it for a while and quickly


    figured it out. “At which step did you start to get confused?”


    Celine pointed at the third step. An flipped the book over, allowing her to view the geometric diagram


    from a different angle.


    In that instant, Celine understood the step. Naturally, she also grasped the following steps.


    An was incredibly patient. Despite Celine''s slow responses and Harper''s inability to remember


    forms, he would wait for them to catch up. Then, he would exin the basic forms to them all


    over again.


    Twenty minutester, An finished exining the three multi-part questions. Celine suddenly


    understood everything. Meanwhile, Harper didn''t hesitate topliment, “You''re truly a straight-A


    student! You exin things so clearly!”


    An smiled with embarrassment. “It''s already a quarter before six. You two should head home before


    it gets dark.”


    “All right, thank you for today. I''ll treat you to a meal another day, okay? We''re heading home now!”


    Harper didn''t act courteously with An either.


    After speaking, she turned to Celine. “Celine, let''s go home.”


    Celine nodded, then turned to An to express her thanks.


    The three of them parted ways at the bottom of the ssroom building. An returned to his dormitory


    while Harper and Celine both headed home.


    School ended a bitte. As such, the old man who sold cotton candy at the gate was no longer there.


    Harper felt quite disappointed, a fact that Celine didn''t realize at first. It wasn''t until they got on the bus


    that she heard Harper sigh. “There was no cotton candy today.”


    After Celine realized her friend''s disappointment, she asked with a smile, “Harper, do you like eating


    cotton candy?”


    Harper stubbornly retorted. “I don''t like it. I just think it looks good.”


    Even though Celine had only known Harper for two days, she understood that her friend sometimes


    liked to say the opposite of her true thoughts. Celine chuckled yfully, which was a rare sight. “Oh, so


    you don''t like cotton candy.”


    Naturally, Harper noticed that Celine was deliberately teasing her. Her face turned red as she


    eximed, “Celine, you''re so annoying!”


    Celine covered her mouth, herughter growing even more joyful.