Chapter 47: Big Shots Were Always Confident

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Shen Xi and Qi Wu locked eyes as if they were evenly matched opponents as they both subtly observed each other.

A few seconds later, Shen Xi smiled and withdrew his probing gaze.

“I am your teacher for this class, Shen Xi.”

As Shen Xi started class, Qi Wu lowered her eyes.

Sometime during Shen Xi’s lecture, Qi Wu seemed to hear someone call out her name.

When Jiang Xuxu saw that Qi Wu was spacing out while Shen Xi smiled at Qi

Wu from the front, she could not help but feel anxious.

“Sweetie, Mr. Shen is talking to you!”

Jiang Xuxu whispered as she nudged awake her spaced-out deskmate.

Qi Wu snapped back to her senses. As everyone stared at her, she calmly stood up.

She glanced down and saw Tong Fei’s gloating stare.

She seemed to be very certain that Qi Wu would be punished.

Even the other contestants in the classroom thought the same.

While Shen Xi looked gentle, his silence seemed very stern. Even if he did not punish Qi Wu directly, he would do it in other ways.

Unfortunately, everyone was wrong.

Shen Xi did not care about Qi Wu spacing out and just asked her, “What do you think acting is, Miss Qi Wu?”

“Becoming someone else.”

Qi Wu answered without hesitation.

She would be shedding her shackles and temporarily turning into another person to experience another life.

The smile on Shen Xi’s face deepened. He did not comment on the answer and just told her to sit back down.

“Next, I will randomly assign you partners for the following training.”

After Qi Wu sat down, Jiang Xuxu quickly leaned over and she worriedly said,

“You scared me to death. I thought you were going to be reprimanded by Mr.

Shen.”

“Don’t worry,” Qi Wu softly comforted.

While the two of them were whispering, Shen Xi had already displayed his team assignments on the whiteboard.

Jiang Xuxu did not dare to look at it. She put her palms together and softly prayed, “Dear gods, I will offer you 5 pounds of the best meat if you will assign Qi Wu to be my partner.”

Qi Wu blinked and glanced at the teams listed on the whiteboard. Her eyes shined with a smile. “You won’t be offering anyone that, Xuxu.”

That confused Jiang Xuxu.

She opened her eyes in shock and froze as she looked at the groups on the whiteboard.

She had been assigned to a person she was not familiar with. She looked at the name of Qi Wu’s partner and she did not know that name as well.

“Qin Jiayan..

Jiang Xuxu’s eyes were filled with doubt. “I don’t recall that name at all.” Qi Wu shook her head.

At that moment, a deep but youthful voice called out from behind them. “T-That’s me…”

Qi Wu and Jiang Xuxu turned around to find a tall young man standing behind them.

The young man was nearly 6 feet tall. He looked quite fair and delicate with clear eyes that shimmered with energy.

The moment Qi Wu turned around, a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes as the back of his ears turned red.

Jiang Xuxu looked at the name label on his shirt and patted Qi Wu’s shoulder. “Your partner is here. I’ll go find my partner then.”

After that, she went looking for her partner, leaving the space for Qi Wu and Qin Jiayan.

After Jiang Xuxu left, the two of them silently stared at each other.

In the end, Qin Jiayan could not stand the awkward tension and nervously asked, “W-What should we do?”

Qi Wu shook her head. “I do not know.”

She then sat back down and pointed to the seat beside her. “Sit.”

“Oh.”

Qin Jiayan subconsciously followed her order and sat down.

After sitting down, he turned to look at Qi Wu in confusion. He was now even more nervous than before because of how close he was to her.

“Excuse me, what should I do after sitting down?”

“Space out.”

“Oka- What?”

Qin Jiayan had blindly responded before abruptly realizing what she said.

He sharply inhaled, but Qi Wu looked so calm that he did not dare question her.

Perhaps big shots were just that different.

Qin Jiayan, who did not dare to question anything, really did as Qi Wu said and spaced out.

It was not until Shen Xi arrived at the last row as he walked around the class that he saw the two of them spaced out in their seats. Should he be laughing or crying in response?

“What are you doing?” he asked.

Qin Jiayan suddenly snapped back to his senses and stared at Shen Xi who was standing beside him. There was a guilty tone in his voice as he replied, ‘We’re…

thinking, Mr. Shen.”

They would be in trouble if he said they were spacing out.

“Thinking?”

Shen Xi slowly repeated as he looked at Qin Jiayan with an inexplicably oppressive aura.

Qin Jiayan nearly broke down and told the truth.

“We’re thinking about why Jiang Yu and Cheng Cheng chose to end their relationship with a teru-teru bozu.”

Qi Wu suddenly chimed in, saving Qin Jiayan who was about to surrender.

Qin Jiayan turned around in shock and saw that there was no panic or guilt on Qi Wu’s face. She was just calm.

As soon as Qi Wu spoke, Shen Xi’s gaze left Qin Jiayan.

“What are your answers?”

“I’ll tell you when I have one.”

Qi Wu answered in an honest and matter-of-fact tone of voice.

At that moment, Qin Jiayan understood why big shots were always so confident.

If Shen Xi were not around, he would have instantly given Qi Wu a thumbs-up.

Shen Xi nodded. “Continue thinking then.”

He then turned around and left.

Qin Jiayan heaved a sigh of relief.

“You’re amazing,” he sincerely praised. “Still, what was that about Jiang Yu and Cheng Chen?”

Qi Wu glanced at him and then looked at the whiteboard at the front.

“The characters we’ll be playing during practice later,” she softly replied.

Qin Jiayan silently stared.

He seemed to see exasperation in her eyes.

No wonder Qi Wu had been looking ahead. She was thinking, not spacing out!

He was the only one who actually spaced out with his head ducked low.

Qin Jiayan instantly wanted to cry but found no tears available to him. He was dragging her down.

He was just a young man who had recently come of age, so he had not properly experienced adult life yet. While he was quite immature and naive, his sincerity was true.

“I’m sorry for dragging you down…”

Qi Wu shook her head. “You do not belong here.”

“Huh?”

Qin Jiayan suddenly looked up and stared into Qi Wu’s eyes.

At that moment, he seemed to feel removed from everything yet close to them.

Confusion flashed in his eyes. “What?”

Qi Wu spoke as if she was reciting a prophecy. “You’re going the wrong way..”