Rebirth: Daily Face Slaps - Chapter 34

“Tingting, over here!”

As soon as Lin Mengting reached the classroom door, she heard a familiar voice calling out to her. She paused mid-step.

Despite being mentally prepared, seeing Qin Dong’s self-important, deeply affectionate demeanor again made Lin Mengting’s teeth itch with anger. The rage she had painstakingly suppressed flared up as if doused in boiling oil.

She really, really wanted to strangle him!

Unfortunately, this was a lawful society.

Without needing to look around, she could feel her classmates’ curious and peculiar gazes. Lin Mengting sighed inwardly, grateful that she usually came and went quickly. Almost half a month had passed, and she still hadn’t made any close friends. Otherwise, she wouldn’t know how to deal with their relentless gossip.

Of course, what Lin Mengting was most thankful for was that in modern society, apart from a few truly nosy strangers, not many people paid much attention to others’ romantic lives.

Especially in S City, where there were many out-of-towners.

…

While these thoughts swirled in her mind, Lin Mengting glanced indifferently at the overly excited Qin Dong and sat down at a desk facing the podium.

Having learned about Lin Mengting’s preferences from his sister Qin Mei, Qin Dong had deliberately chosen a seat by the window. Seeing her sit somewhere else made his smile freeze momentarily.

[Does she really think acting ‘cold’ and ‘distant’ will get rid of me? What a naive and laughable idea!]

[To ‘win’ Lin Mengting, he, who always hated studying, had forced himself to attend this pre-exam class, enduring the lectures of these old-fashioned teachers!]

“Tingting, why are you ignoring me?” Qin Dong got up without hesitation and sat next to Lin Mengting, complaining in a tone of mixed grievance and confusion, “I told you, for those of us who are already working, practical experience is the most important. A degree is just a stepping stone for newcomers. But you wouldn’t believe me and insisted on spending your hard-earned money on this class. Sigh! I don’t understand why. Even if you really want a degree, you could take the self-study exam! You know, adult education degrees aren’t valued as much as self-study ones, yet they cost two or three times more in time and money. Not to mention, adult education requires attending classes every evening and on weekends, with roll calls. After a tiring day at work, you still have to rush to class, leaving no time for your brain to rest. Then there’s homework and preparation for the next classes. It’s pure self-torture!”

“You don’t have to come.” In both her past and present lives, Lin Mengting never realized Qin Dong could be such a chatterbox and a narcissistic one at that!

“I’m doing this for you!” Qin Dong spread his hands and shrugged, looking helpless yet filled with a deep affection that others would envy.

“I can’t bear to see you work so hard alone, so for your sake, I spent 1500 yuan to join this pre-exam class!”

“This is a classroom, and everyone here is aiming for the college entrance exam.”

Lin Mengting frowned slightly, no longer giving Qin Dong face, and bluntly said, “We were just colleagues for three months and have no other relationship. Please stop saying these nonsensical things. Otherwise, I’ll have to sue you for defamation.”

“Tingting…” Qin Dong clutched his chest, his face full of shock and disbelief, along with a deep-seated resentment, “Aren’t we friends?”

“Qin Dong, here’s a suggestion for you.”

“What?!” Obviously not expecting Lin Mengting to be so ruthlessly cold, Qin Dong’s mind couldn’t keep up, and he reflexively asked.

“You’d better move to the back row before the teacher arrives.”

After saying this, Lin Mengting looked away and began to read the book in front of her.

Stunned by Lin Mengting’s unexpected words, Qin Dong sat there with a bewildered expression.

What… was going on?!

As more students arrived, whether they came alone or in groups, they all gave Qin Dong, sitting in the middle of the front row, a look of mixed sympathy and pity.

Soon, Qin Dong understood why.

But it was too late for him to do anything. The elderly professor who came to teach that day, with a stern face that could frighten children and a sharp tongue, started berating him from head to toe!

[What the heck, is it just because I’m tall, broad, older, and sitting in the front, blocking the view of the students behind me?!]

[What the heck, is it because I pulled some strings and paid some money to get into this ‘best performing’ class halfway through the course, even with zero scores on the entry assessment?!]

[What the heck, is it because I talk a lot and am a bit relentless in pursuing Lin Mengting, so what?! How does that offend this old guy?!]

[Just wait! These ‘blind’ people will regret looking down on me when I succeed in the future…]

“You, move to the back!” The professor’s single sentence determined Qin Dong’s fate of sitting in the back row for the next few months.

Lin Mengting lowered her eyes slightly, her long lashes hiding the mockery and ridicule within.

She wanted to see what kind of “good life” someone like Qin Dong, who thought the world revolved around him, with memories and knowledge of the future, could lead!

Did he plan to use all his tricks to exploit her for endless benefits?

Ugh!

In her past life, without “mind-reading” or “rebirth” foresight, she had to follow her instincts to narrowly avoid many schemes by Qin Mei and Qin Dong, though it was a bumpy road. So what?

In the end, the most vicious plans of Qin Mei and Qin Dong in her past life hadn’t succeeded as they expected. How could this life be any different?!