I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

Having heard that Liming was also staying at this hotel, Gu Xi wasn’t surprised to run into Liming’s students here.

Gu Xi wasn’t sure whether Gu Shao has said something to the principal that day that he went with her for her transferring process, but she heard that Liming’s school forum had been closed down for rectifications after their departure.

And the rumors about her had disappeared completely along with the other malicious speculations.

As such, even though Gu Xi would still be a little nervous when she ran into someone from Liming, it was just a slight nervousness.

After walking past the other two, Gu Xi could still hear them talking from not too far behind her.

“Was that Lin Xin?”

“I think so.”

“Didn’t we hear that she had went abroad? Was that not true?”

“The emblem on her clothes looks to be HSAU’s.”

“Did that mean she had transferred to HSAU?”

“She is representing HSAU in this competition?”

……

Over on this side, after walking into the elevator, Gu Chenyi had his hands inside his pockets. His face dropped a little the way he was looking at the two girls.

“Do you know those two from before?” He seemed to be asking her casually but his look was not all that casual.

He heard that owing to the fools of the Lin family and her instant sister, Xixi had been ostracized and bullied at her previous school. If those two had participated in hurting Gu Xi, he just might not be able to keep to his promise to his Second Uncle and stay out of trouble.

Gu Xi shook her head, “No, I don’t know them.”

Gu Xi was reading the information sent by her teacher regarding the competition the next day and was not looking at Gu Chenyi. As such, she did not notice the very different cold and solemn look on him. He looked nothing like the silly husky that she always thought of him. In fact, he looked somewhat like the solemn Gu Shao.

“The teacher said in the group chat that the competition will be completely paperless and there will not be pen and paper provided. Remember to bring your own scratch paper and pen.” Gu Xi turned and reminded Gu Chenyi.

Gu Chenyi had wiped away his solemn look and said relaxingly. “Don’t worry. I’m not stupid.” How could he possibly forget to bring pen and paper?

That being said, he was still happy that Gu Xi cared about him.

Gu Xi raised her brows and gave Gu Chenyi a quiet look.

She recalled the practice examination that they had took at school for the purpose of splitting into teams…… this young man here did not appear to be very reliable. Gu Xi decided to bring two sets of pens and papers tomorrow. That way she would have enough to share with him if he forgot.

“But, seriously, you really never had conflicts with those two we just ran into?” Gu Chenyi asked again, still worried.

“None really.” Gu Xi shrugged and said, “We just attended the same school was all.”

Ever since the rumors had started, Gu Xi hadn’t interacted with very many people and those two were not here last year when she was here for the competition.

***

Gu Xi thought running into Liming’s student was just an insignificant incident.

Lo and behold, she ran into them again the next morning when she was having breakfast.

Specifically, she was ran into.

***

“Eh, there’s a restaurant over there as well?”

“I think those are for other schools.”

“Is that so? Let’s go take a look.”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea……”

“What’s the problem? There are no rules that say each school can only dine in a specific area. We can eat over there as well. Nobody said that area was designated for another school.”

“But……”

A few voices came closer from afar.

One of the voices was only too familiar to Gu Xi – of course it belonged to Lin Anxin.

Gu Xi was surprised.

Not that she was running into Lin Anxin here; she was surprised that with Lin Anxin was able to be picked to represent Liming in this competition given her grades in school.

Even though Lin Anxin’s had always aimed to crush Gu Xi in all area, including academically. Truth was, Lin Anxin’s grades had always only been just a tad above average.

It didn’t make sense even if she was just here to cruise.