There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Chapter 54.1

When she saw clearly that the people who spoke were Qin Hanyi and Yin Chuanfang, Qin Ke’s expression turned cold.

The expressions of those two were even more complex.

Yin Chuanfang silently looked Qin Ke up and down for a few seconds before forcing a smile.

“Xiao Ke, it was so hard for us to find you—you came all the way here to study without telling your parents?”

“Ke Ke? They are…”

Qiao Xiaoyun, hearing how this middle-aged couple referred to themselves, looked at Qin Ke in surprise—she clearly remembered that Qin Ke had told her before that her birth parents had passed away in a car accident when she was very young.

Qin Ke lowered her eyelids, concealing the coldness in her eyes.

“I’ve mentioned them to you before. They are my adoptive parents.”

“Ah, so they’re the ones—”

Qiao Xiaoyun was about to say something angrily but was stopped by Qin Ke.

Qin Ke: “You should go back to school first. I’ll return by myself after I finish talking with them.”

“Are you… sure you’ll be alright?” Qiao Xiaoyun asked worriedly.

Qin Ke smiled reassuringly.

“It’s fine.”

“…Alright then.”

Qiao Xiaoyun walked towards the school gate, looking back every few steps.

As she approached the school gate, she saw the three of them standing still for several tens of seconds, then saying something before walking together towards the coffee shop diagonally across from the school.

Qiao Xiaoyun hesitated and paused.

After thinking for a long time while standing there, Qiao Xiaoyun finally made up her mind. She turned her head and ran quickly towards A University next door.

…

Twenty minutes later.

Qiao Xiaoyun finally found the required course classroom for the first-year Financial Management class at A University’s Business School.

Outside the front door of the classroom, Qiao Xiaoyun bowed to the female student who had brought her there, “Thank you, senior!”

The gentle-looking upperclassman adjusted her glasses and asked helplessly, “Are you sure you’re not here to confess to junior Huo Zhonglou?”

Qiao Xiaoyun shook her head vigorously, “No, no! I really have urgent business with him!”

“That’s good then. But don’t say I didn’t warn you in advance—there have been more than a few cases of girls crying even before confessing after being scared off by junior Huo Zhonglou.”

“…”

Qiao Xiaoyun widened her eyes in shock, “Is he that scary?”

The senior smiled gently.

“So, this is as far as I can help you. See you around if we have the chance.”

She held her books with one hand and waved lightly at Qiao Xiaoyun with the other before turning to leave.

“…”

Qiao Xiaoyun stood frozen for several seconds before finally coming to her senses. She bit her lip and stiffly walked towards the front door of the classroom.

It was still before class time.

The classroom was very noisy. Generally speaking, the attendance rate for freshman classes in any major was the highest—this could be understood as freshmen just out of high school still being relatively well-behaved, or maintaining the self-discipline of being good students carried over from secondary school—this point would gradually wear off for most students as they later focused on different aspects of university life.

However, the attendance rate in this classroom at this time could no longer be described as just “high.”

Because it was over.

—An attendance rate of over 100% meant that the classroom allocated by the school based on class size could not accommodate everyone, and there were even quite a few late-coming students awkwardly standing at the back of the classroom or in the aisles between the three desk areas.

Clearly, a large proportion of the students in the classroom weren’t there for the class at all, and many weren’t even from the Business School.

Their target was so obvious, their gazes so unrestrained, that they inadvertently helped Qiao Xiaoyun, who had just stepped into the classroom, locate Huo Jun’s position immediately.

—

Half the girls in the classroom were looking in that direction.

Qiao Xiaoyun spotted him, bit her lip, and walked over with her heart pounding.

Huo Jun was sitting on the edge of a middle row in the leftmost section of the classroom. When Qiao Xiaoyun was still about six or seven meters away, the boy sitting next to Huo Jun chuckled.

“Brother Huo, another admirer coming to you.”

“…”

Huo Jun didn’t look up, but his brows furrowed first.

He raised his eyelids and swept a fierce glance forward.

Qiao Xiaoyun, caught in his gaze, suddenly froze mid-step.

Now she finally understood how it was possible for several girls who wanted to confess to be scared to tears before even speaking, as the senior outside the classroom had mentioned earlier.

—

This, this person was way too fierce.

If it weren’t for Qin Ke, Qiao Xiaoyun would probably have already felt her legs go weak and turned to run away.

Thinking of Qin Ke, and then of the irresponsible adoptive parents she had briefly mentioned, Qiao Xiaoyun clenched her hands and continued walking forward.

The surrounding area had clearly noticed this young girl who stood out from most of the students in the classroom, and it had become a bit quieter.

Qiao Xiaoyun, nervous and pale-faced, finally stopped in front of Huo Jun’s row.

“Senior… Senior Huo…”

Huo Jun looked at her with cold eyes.

A hint of hesitation flashed in his dark eyes—for a moment, he felt the girl looked somewhat familiar, but he couldn’t recall any clear impression.

Thanks to this vague sense of familiarity, Qiao Xiaoyun unknowingly gained the opportunity to finish her first sentence to Huo Jun—

“I’m from… from the neighboring high school…”

Qiao Xiaoyun’s voice was as thin as a mosquito’s buzz.

But Huo Jun’s gaze suddenly stopped.

This sentence instantly made him think of Qin Ke, and immediately brought back that sense of familiarity in his memory—in the basketball hall, the girl sitting next to Qin Ke seemed to be this one.

Huo Jun’s expression changed abruptly.

Without thinking, he stood up, “What happened to her?”

Huo Jun’s reaction drew the attention and surprise of even the farthest students in the classroom.

Since the start of the semester, everyone had seen various forms of Huo Jun’s coldness and expressionlessness, but this was the first time they had seen such an anxious reaction from him.

The large lecture hall suddenly fell silent.

Qiao Xiaoyun was so startled by Huo Jun that she instinctively stepped back, then spoke in a trembling voice. “Ke Ke’s, her adoptive parents came to find her…The situation…the situation doesn’t seem right…”

As soon as Qiao Xiaoyun finished speaking, Huo Jun had already left his seat and was heading towards the classroom door without looking back.

Qiao Xiaoyun hurriedly followed.

Meanwhile, Huo Jun’s roommate who had been sitting next to him just came to his senses, stunned, and instinctively called out, “Brother Huo, class starts in two minutes, you—”

Before he could finish, Huo Jun, who had reached the door, unfortunately ran into the professor entering with books in his arms. As they faced each other, the other students in the classroom wore subtle expressions.

Just when everyone thought Huo Jun would retreat, they saw the young man give a slight nod and quickly walk out.

“Emergency leave, thank you, professor.”

As he finished speaking, he was already out the door.

This was truly…

Arrogant.

The classroom instantly fell silent.

The old professor came to his senses, turned back to scan the whole class, and seemed not to be angry, smiling and asking,

“You all don’t have emergencies and need to take leave too, do you?”

“…”

The students who had come with other intentions and were just about to sneak out suddenly froze.