Xia Yingluo looked up, staring at Ye Chen in a daze.
"You, are you talking to me?"
Ye Chen looked at the girl in front of him, a wry smile in his heart.
They say girls change a lot as they grow up. Who would have thought that the ugly duckling, the little transparent in the class, would one day become a famous Beautiful CEO in Huaguo?
Xia Yingluo was actually very pretty, but she didn't know how to dress herself, and she always had a sour smell, so her classmates didn't want to get close to her.
Perhaps because she was an orphan, Xia Yingluo had always kept herself isolated, never proactively speaking to her classmates.
In class, Xia Yingluo was an oddity.
Ye Chen smiled, "That's right. It's Senior Year of High School now, a time to supplement nutrition. You can't keep skipping breakfast."
"Wow, what's going on? Why is Ye Chen giving chinese crepe to Stinky?"
"Doesn't Ye Chen like Gao Qian? Has he fallen for someone else?"
"Impossible. Who could stand Stinky's strange smell? I get it, Ye Chen must be playing hard to get."
"Exactly, Gao Qian is so beautiful. Ye Chen must be crazy to like Xia Yingluo, who smells bad."
Gao Qian's face fell as she listened to the discussions around her.
Although she didn't like Ye Chen, everyone in class knew Ye Chen liked her.
That chinese crepe, in her opinion, should have belonged to her.
Now, Ye Chen actually gave it to the most inconspicuous girl in the class, which was simply an insult to her.
"Childish. Trying to make me jealous with this method? You're overthinking it."
Gao Qian snorted coldly, clenching her teeth in anger.
Li Sitong also covered her small mouth in surprise.
"Is this guy out of his mind today? Why would he give breakfast to Xia Yingluo?"
Xia Yingluo seemed to feel the burning gazes around her and lowered her head.
"I'm not hungry, I don't want it."
Ye Chen smiled and picked up Xia Yingluo's homework from the desk.
"Lend me your homework to copy, consider it payment."
Saying that, Ye Chen leaned closer to Xia Yingluo and whispered in her ear, "Give me some face, okay? So many classmates are watching. If you don't eat it, I won't have the face to show up in class anymore."
Xia Yingluo felt a damp sensation by her ear. Ye Chen's soap scent was very pleasant.
Her pretty face couldn't help but flush red.
Because of her scent, other boys in the class avoided her.
They even gave her a humiliating nickname, Stinky.
This was the first time a boy had gotten so close to her.
"Ye Chen, I'm really not hungry."
"If you don't eat it, I'll announce to the whole class right now that I like you," Ye Chen said leisurely.
The ballpoint pen Xia Yingluo was twirling in her hand clattered onto the desk.
She grabbed the chinese crepe from the desk, her cheeks as red as ripe apples.
"I... I'll eat it."
Xia Yingluo ate the chinese crepe with her head down.
Her heart was filled with shyness and grievance.
This man is so overbearing.
By the way, it turns out chinese crepe is so delicious.
Because chinese crepe was too expensive, she couldn't bear to eat it.
Before, Xia Yingluo would only smell it when passing by a chinese crepe stall, but she had never actually eaten one.
Eating the fragrant chinese crepe, Xia Yingluo felt warmth in her heart... Ye Chen walked towards his seat, holding the homework.
Looking at Ye Chen's back, Xia Yingluo was somewhat dazed, and tears unexpectedly flowed from her eyes.
Ye Chen had just walked past Gao Qian when a haughty voice suddenly sounded behind him.
"Ye Chen, is it interesting for you to use such a childish method to get my attention?"
Gao Qian felt that Ye Chen was humiliating her.
Everyone in class knew Ye Chen liked her, yet Ye Chen gave food to Xia Yingluo, the ugliest girl in class with an odd smell. To her, it was a great humiliation.
Ye Chen looked at Gao Qian and said indifferently, "Sorry, you're overthinking it. Whether you pay attention to me or not has nothing to do with me. If you insist on an explanation, I apologize for bothering you before. From now on, we are just classmates, nothing more."
After speaking, he returned to his seat amidst the stunned gazes of Gao Qian and all the other students.
Li Sitong stared at Ye Chen as if looking at a monster, touching Ye Chen's forehead with her hand.
"You don't have a fever, do you?"
Ye Chen said, "No, why?"
"I feel like you're a bit different today."
"Different how? Have I become more handsome?"
Li Sitong rolled her eyes at Ye Chen, "Vain. I think you've become smarter, finally seeing Gao Qian for who she really is. But speaking of which, you have rather peculiar taste, to actually like Xia Yingluo."
Ye Chen said calmly, "Xia Yingluo isn't an ugly duckling. When she turns into a swan, I'm afraid you'll all be shocked."
Hearing Ye Chen's words, Li Sitong was startled. For some reason, she felt a pang of sourness in her heart.
At this moment, Xia Yingluo finished eating the chinese crepe, and a long-awaited voice echoed in Ye Chen's mind.
"Congratulations, Host, for completing the first investment."
"Investment Target: Xia Yingluo."
"Rating: Five Stars!"
"Congratulations, Host, for investing 5 yuan and receiving a rebate of 50 yuan, which has been deposited into your bank card."
"Congratulations, Host, for completing the first investment mission and receiving system rewards: Top Student Halo, Charm Enhancement Capsule."
On Ye Chen's desk, a bank card appeared at some point, and his phone beeped.
He took out his phone and saw a notification for a transfer of 50 yuan he had just received.
What Ye Chen valued most was the Top Student Halo.
"Top Student Halo: The Host will possess the abilities of photographic memory, thorough comprehension, and the ability to infer other cases from one instance, which can help the Host quickly become a Top Student."
"Charm Enhancement Capsule: Can increase the Host's charm value, including appearance, voice, and temperament."
That's amazing!
Ye Chen took out his math book and flipped through it.
He was terrible at math in High School, let alone after graduating many years ago.
Now, he was ten times worse than before.
But when he opened the math book, he was completely stunned.
He now understood how powerful the Top Student Halo was.
He glanced at the knowledge in the book, and it was thoroughly comprehended and imprinted in his mind.
One page, two pages, three pages... The speed made her I can't help but complain:"Ye Chen,Are flipbook games fun??"
At this speed of reading, Li Sitong didn't believe Ye Chen could actually learn anything. He must just be flipping through the book out of boredom.
She didn't know that the content of an entire book had already been imprinted in Ye Chen's mind.
After finishing the book, Ye Chen decided to put it into practice, picking up a test paper and starting to do it.
In less than ten minutes, the blank test paper was completed.
Ye Chen checked his paper against Xia Yingluo's.
All correct.
Haha, I never thought I could become a Top Student too.
In his previous life, not studying hard in school had always been Ye Chen's regret.
This also caused him to suffer greatly after entering society.
Now that he had the Top Student skill, he could finally make up for this regret.
Ye Chen gave the test paper to Li Sitong: "Here's your homework."
Li Sitong didn't think much of it: "You finished copying so quickly. Ye Chen, you can't keep copying other students' homework. How will you copy during the National Higher Education Entrance Examination? How about I tutor you after school?"
Ye Chen smiled: "Tutoring? Thanks, but no need!"
Hearing Ye Chen reject Li Sitong's tutoring suggestion, many boys gnashed their teeth in envy.
This was an opportunity they dreamed of having alone with Li Sitong, yet Ye Chen rejected it.