I Became the Rich Second-Generation Villain

(Lunch Break)

Xu Muyan was done with her homework. She then wanted to take a little rest to settle her mind so as to make herself concentrate well in the afternoon classes.

Wen Jing, who also happened to be idle at the moment, amusedly asked her, "Yan Yan, Chu Bai today doesn't really seem like the same person. Ah, now that he seems so eager to study, he must be determined to win the bet. Doesn't that bother you at all?"

"Don't mock me. I still feel depressed when I think about it." Xu Muyan rolled her eyes.

"Haha, your dad must be quite a genius if he could actually deceive his own daughter like that." Wen Jing said lightly.

"It must be." Xu Muyan genuinely agreed.

"It's fine. Suppose Chu Bai won the bet but you don't acknowledge it, will he continue to chase after you?"

"I will never acknowledge the bet!"

Although one must fulfill their promise, Xu Muyan certainly would never joke about her own happiness. She had long since made up her mind not to fall in love before giving her college entrance examination.

"Then why do you seem so bothered?" Wen Jing asked.

"Chu Bai is a narrow-minded person. He doesn't care about others' feelings. If by chance he did win the bet but I refuse to go out with him, he would for sure start to pester me and perhaps he might make our bet public in order to embarrass me." Xu Muyan grumbled by cupping her hands over her pretty face.

"That's true." Wen Jing nodded.

At this moment, Wang Haoran happened to return back to the classroom from the veranda. He stood between the duo.

"Were you guys discussing something important?" Wang Haoran asked casually.

"Nothing! There's nothing important we're discussing here!" Xu Muyan shook her head resembling a rattle drum. (TL: It was used as a percussion instrument to harmonize with other instruments in musical pieces.)

"Then there must definitely be something. Would you mind telling me?" Wang Haoran had already vaguely guessed the reason.

"Yan Yan and Chu Bai placed a bet. If at all she loses, she'd have to become his girlfriend."

As Wang Haoran was the one that asked, Wen Jing immediately answered him.

"Jing Jing, You! You! You!... This matter is between us. How can you tell him about it?" Xu Muyan asked angrily.

"I'm sorry, Yan Yan." Wen Jing apologized. However, she then muttered to herself, 'It wasn't me, but you that revealed the matter. You were overheard by Wang Haoran when you called last night, so you really can't blame me!'

Of course, Wen Jing would never say it aloud.

"What's done is done. Let it be." Xu Muyan didn't continue to blame Wen Jing but turned to Wang Haoran and said, "You have to keep this a secret. Don't disclose it to others."

"Rest assured, I don't gossip." Wang Haoran replied.

"It's fine. There's nothing to worry about. Now that Chu Bai is making a hasty last-minute effort, how would he, a weak student, all of a sudden become a top ranker?" Wen Jing said to soothe Xu Muyan.

"That's right!" Xu Muyan firmly nodded her head.

"In regular exams, it is practically impossible but what if he... cheats?" Wang Haoran asked nonchalantly.

"This... It wouldn't happen, right?" Xu Muyan who just relaxed once again tightened up.

"I think this must be what Chu Bai planned to do from the start. He deliberately baited you as he must already have prepared ways to cheat through the exams to improve his grades." Wang Haoran began to sway Xu Muyan.

"Do you remember him seeming confident when he made a bet with you?"

"Right, that's right! He seemed very confident when he said that!" The more Xu Muyan thought about it, the more she believed what Wang Haoran said.

"That's right. Even if I myself am now a top ranker, I'd definitely not say so carelessly that I'd become the top ranker of the class again. What makes him, a weak student, so confident?" Wang Haoran asked rhetorically.

"Yes, I must have thought so!"

After hearing what Wang Haoran said, Xu Muyan was convinced that Chu Bai was planning to cheat in the exam.

However, she nevertheless doubted it.

"Cheating isn't that simple, right? Bringing a crib sheet can't improve one's grade by such a long margin."

"Do you think cheating is all about bringing crib sheets? Can't it be buying exam keys and then bribing the invigilator?" Wang Haoran asked.

"Huh... Can it also be done that way?..." Xu Muyan was filled with awe.

As a top ranker, she had never considered cheating and was unaware of various malpractices that could take place during the examinations.

Wang Haoran saw her worried look and felt that it was almost time. He then indifferently said, "In fact, all this is just my guess. It might be that he wasn't really cheating. I have nothing more to say."

After saying that, Wang Haoran turned around and was about to take his leave.

"Wait."

Xu Muyan anxiously pulled Wang Haoran's hand.

Wang Haoran stopped his steps and turned to look at her.

Xu Muyan blushed and immediately let go of his hand and whispered, "Can you help me?"

"This..." Wang Haoran pretended to hesitate.

"Please, I beg you, okay?" Xu Muyan pleaded.

"Then... I'll give it a try." Wang Haoran 'reluctantly' agreed to her request.

"Thank you. I'll have to treat you to milk tea then!" Xu Muyan intently gazed at Wang Haoran with a sweet smile.

[Ding! Xu Muyan, one of the heroines, favorability of the Host has been increased by 10 points. The current total favorability is 40. (Intimate)]

[Ding! Host succeeded in influencing the plotline, rewarding 200 villain points.]

"Her favorability of me just increased?!"

Receiving the prompt from the system, Wang Haoran was inwardly delighted.

Preventing Chu Bai from cheating in the exams was what he'd certainly do.

Helping out Xu Muyan was just an excuse.

He didn't really expect to reap favorability points from Xu Muyan. It was something to be delighted about.

*****

A few days soon passed in a flash.

The seating arrangement was prepared. The seats were randomly allotted to the students in the examination room.

On Friday afternoon, the students were informed of their examination room numbers and their hall tickets were handed over to them to let them familiarize themselves with the examination rooms ahead of time.

The examination rooms were actually the classrooms for the underclassmen that were now vacated to serve as temporary examination rooms for all the senior students.

In the corridor of the examination rooms, the examination time along with the name of the invigilator in charge of the particular subject was stuck to the wall.

All the senior students had come to their respective examination rooms systematically and sat in the seats with their names and hall ticket numbers on them.

The invigilator then distributed the copies of the English test paper.

Not long after, everyone received their own demo copy of the English test Paper.

Chu Bai was allotted the last desk of the examination room.

This position was simply a fortune for Chu Bai.

If at all he used his X-ray vision, he could penetrate his gaze to see the test answers of around one hundred and fifty students.

Of course, as it was just an English demo test paper, Chu Bai wouldn't really bother cheating now.

What he wanted to do was to lock the seats of the students with good grades.

It wasn't much of a difficult task for Chu Bai.

Chu Bai knew the top rankers of every class as they were often praised in the assembly.

Chu Bai already spotted three students in his class, each of them being one of the top rankers in the school.

One must never underestimate the top rankers of their school.

Mizusawa High School exam standard was too high. From their past history, each of the top rankers from their school could enter the prestigious universities of their country.

Xu Muyan and Wang Haoran, the top rankers from their school also happened to be present in the same examination room.

As long as Chu Bai could copy the test answers from the three, he could for sure rank into one of the top ten ranks of his class.

And then, he could get Xu Muyan to be his girlfriend!

"Hehehehe..."

Chu Bai seemed so excited that he couldn't wait to fast forward the time to the day when their exam results would be out.

"You there! Are you dumb or something? Why are you staring at everyone and giggling to yourself?!"

The invigilator of the examination room noticed Chu Bai's abnormal behaviour.

*****

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