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Chapter 1.5

WUQIONG'S POV

"Hey Xunmei! Would you like to come play with us after school?" Bei Yuan cheerfully called out to the class's ice queen as the prince, myself and those who were there to suck up to Lin Yinze looked up from our corner. Lin Yinze turned to face Zhi Xunmei with a soft and amicable smile, seemingly indifferent to the invite his friend extended, but displaying a welcoming aura. However, I already knew that this scheming prince was the one to text Bei Yuan about initiating an invite this morning, 'pft what a pretentious prince'.

Zhi Xunmei's luscious black hair draped over to cover her stoic, but beautiful face from plain view. She twitched in response, slightly pausing her hand on the pen she was etching notes with, yet did not look up as if ignorant to the hawk-like attention on her by the whole class. With a hidden sullen and displeased face, her cold voice rang out softly in the classroom, "no it's ok.. I have an errand to run. Thank you for the invite classmate."

I felt Yinze's muscles slightly tense up next to me and raised a brow as I saw a visible dark glint flash past his eyes, 'this prince really does not handle rejection well ah'. Bei Yuan looked down in amusement at Yinze, he had been the prince's right hand man their whole school life in Hua Lin Academy, how could he not know what the inwardly stubborn and vicious, but outwardly friendly and gentle prince was thinking. 

Whilst I made these observations under my eye, the cat-like youth suddenly turned towards me and widened his smile further, his eyes narrowing into sinister slits- the earlier mirth having already dimmed away. We held the stare for a few seconds, despite the furious beating of my heart at the surprise of being caught, until Bei Yuan broke it to join into the other's conversations. Unconsciously, I let out a sigh of relief. 

'What a sinister bastard'.

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THIRD PARTY POV

During recess, a slender and elegant figure could be seen briskly heading towards the school's reclusive storage shed, the expression on his gorgeous face one of satisfaction and mirth. Humming a lively tune under his breath as he walked, he was the picture of a pure, untouched and carefree youth with seemingly no worries in the world. Unknown to the clueless Wuqiong who appeared as a moving song to the imaginative students, he had actually gained a nickname in the academy already: the untouchable 'white lotus'.

With this morning's event travelling fast as the hottest news around the school, this beautiful 'flower' was currently moving in the direction of the plot to fulfil his most important scene that the original Wuqiong also experienced- catching the FL being bullied by a horde of angry girls. Specifically, angry girls who couldn't contain their rage that some chick had been invited to hang out with Lin Yinze's group. Zhi Xunmei? An icy beauty, you say? So? Whoever this stuck up girl thinks she is, she's about to find out what happens when you break the rules. They went forward with this thought, even ignoring the fact that the mentioned girl had politely rejected such an invitation earlier this morning.

Afterall, who was Lin Yinze?

Obviously, he was the school prince (and a real prince); it had long been established through unsaid rules among the females that no girls were allowed to go near the prince unless they wanted to suffer the collective wrath of the female population. Ever since primary division, this strange behaviour regarding Lin Yinze's matters was treated as the standard due to the silent sanction that Lin Yinze had shown through not speaking against it. Afterall, keeping the ladies at bay at a polite and comfortable distance meant less of a headache for him. What he needed at his side was a strong queen, these ordinary bugs could not move the prince.