Chapter 289: Chance Encounter At The Banquet
Just as Nancy and Yating were chatting happily, Nancy suddenly felt a chill rising from behind her. She shivered and looked around, then her sharp senses detected a familiar line of sight.
【Chat next time】
After leaving this message in the trio’s chat group, Nancy decisively closed the chat interface.
“Nancy, long time no see.”
Nancy thought her earlier shiver really had been a premonition. The voice she least wanted to hear appeared right behind her at that moment.
She put away the smile on her face and turned around.
Sure enough, standing behind her was that pretty girl directly linked to the reason why their trio of childhood friends had not had a very pleasant three years in junior high.
“Oh, Sasha, you’ve actually come.”
Nancy greeted her with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes.
“I just saw that all the people who came to this banquet this time are prominent peers from various families, so I thought it would be your sister or brother coming this time.”
The beautiful girl—that is, Sasha—nearly lost her smile when she heard this, and her face also turned somewhat pale, making her look a bit pitiful.
“You’re not wrong… This time I’m not here alone. My sister is chatting with Mom on the terrace with other madams right now.”
Sasha knew Nancy was deliberately targeting her, so she quickly regained her composure and put on a full smile again.
“Is that so? Then why didn’t you go over together? This is a rare opportunity, with famous and prestigious families and company executives from the Third Fleet all gathered. I see how much you value your future development, even going so far as to attend a school in economics, all to break free from your family and make a name for yourself in the future, right?”
Nancy narrowed her eyes, her smile growing even wider.
This wasn’t something she had deliberately investigated; it was some rumors she had heard while gossiping with students from other classes during middle school.
At that time, due to Sasha and her lackeys… followers’ despicable methods, their trio of childhood friends had an extremely unpleasant time in the class, let alone developing new relationships.
Therefore, their circle of good friends from middle school had basically developed in other classes outside their own class, or even other grades.
Even after graduation, Nancy, as a social terrorist, still maintained close contact with those gossip enthusiasts she had met in junior high.
Not long ago, the things Sasha had stirred up at Nongda Affiliated High School—she had shared them in real time with her junior high gossip friends first, just so that classmates from other classes and other grades in middle school could see the jokes made by this “class flower” and her followers.
“Nancy… you don’t have to do this. I… I’m not trying to oppose you all. I just…”
Seeing her put on that pitiful weak look again, Nancy couldn’t help but shiver, feeling like goosebumps were about to break out all over her body.
“Alright, alright, you know I don’t buy this act of yours. It just makes people lose their appetite. Anyway, do you have something to say? If not, I’m going to pick some things to eat. I was busy all day yesterday, and today I’ve been bossed around by the elders at home doing this and that. I’m starving now.”
Seeing Nancy really lift her leg to leave, Sasha quickly blocked her.
“I… I just want to ask where Ainuo is? I haven’t seen him at the Li Family these past few days.”
Sasha asked this as if summoning great determination, her face flushing bright red.
“Hmm? Didn’t you hear from the other madams? He’s at Xiang Chuan’s place doing homework for the outdoor study. It’s expected to take about a month, but looking at Xiang Chuan’s current state, like her action speed has been given an accelerator, those few in the A Bite of China Club probably won’t just stand by watching either. So it’s not impossible for him to stay there until school starts.”
This wasn’t Nancy deliberately using Xiang Chuan to make things difficult for Sasha; mainly… how long has summer vacation even started?
The hot broadcast of A Bite of China, the birth of the new staple food bread, new agricultural and sideline products… Nancy even felt Xiang Chuan was preparing to give them a big surprise before school starts.
——
Hearing this from Nancy, Sasha’s face instantly turned deathly pale.
Before, when Sasha had deliberately circled around the vicinity of the Li Family and hadn’t seen Ainuo, or even seen Ouyang Yating and Nancy visiting Ainuo to play, she had faintly had some bad premonitions.
But Sasha didn’t want to face this premonition directly and could only comfort herself that maybe Ainuo had just gone traveling somewhere else?
Even though she knew herself that before the Fleet Exchange Period, it was rare to encounter people from other fleets in advance, so Ainuo was even less likely to leave the main ship for other places.
But when she really heard that Ainuo was now staying at Xiang Chuan’s home, Sasha still couldn’t help but gasp.
“She… Ainuo she… didn’t say she didn’t like that classmate club president of hers?”
Sasha asked tremblingly, mist even rising in her eyes.
“Ah? Did she?”
Hearing this, Nancy couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“I think Ainuo quite likes Xiang Chuan. Moreover, among peers of the opposite sex around us who can tolerate that temperament of theirs, besides us two, there’s only Xiang Chuan. If we can really push this troublesome guy onto Xiang Chuan in the future, it would lighten our burden a bit, and we’d even have a legitimate reason to visit Xiang Chuan to mooch food.”
With each sentence she said, Sasha’s face grew a shade paler.
“Will Ainuo’s mom and dad agree…? The Xiang Family’s history is inferior compared to both Ainuo’s and my family. As an emerging family, the Xiang Family doesn’t have much family foundation now, and Xiang Chuan the club president has nothing special besides being an information turbulence contactee…”
Hearing this, Nancy couldn’t help but sneer.
“I see, so that’s your real thought about Xiang Chuan during the visit activity back then? Then I can only say, it’s good we didn’t let you get any closer to Xiang Chuan and Ainuo at that time.”
Yes, during the joint visit activity hosted by Caida Affiliated High School and Nongda Affiliated High School before, Nancy and Ouyang Yating had keenly sensed something off in the look Sasha directed at Ai Ye, so they decisively found a way to stop Sasha from approaching Xiang Chuan again, even isolating her from Ainuo. As a result, the two protected ones seemed to have somewhat forgotten Sasha even existed after the visit activity ended.
Hearing this, Sasha suddenly glared at Nancy.
“You… you were deliberately doing it back then!”
Sasha desperately controlled her volume, but her voice still trembled a bit. The mist in her eyes thickened, and tears seemed about to fall from her eyes.
“What else?” Nancy snorted with a laugh. “That was the last group activity before summer vacation. Seeing how Xiang Chuan had been busy for the whole semester for the club, the class, even the entire fleet, we two freeloaders who often mooch food and drink were still willing to help her keep a relaxed good mood when going out for activities.”
“And you should be grateful we didn’t tell the others in Class Eight Grade One about it then. That group is now almost no different from ancient culture fanatics. If they knew someone wanted to ruin Xiang Chuan’s good mood and hinder them from mooching food and drink by Xiang Chuan’s side, you might have been nailed dead within the free activity area of Caida Affiliated High School back then.”
This wasn’t Nancy exaggerating; given Class Eight Grade One’s gluttonous attitude toward Xiang Chuan’s commands—where Xiang Chuan says one they absolutely won’t say two, Xiang Chuan says go straight and they absolutely won’t turn left or right—she felt that if they had known there was such a hidden danger in the two schools’ cooperative visit activity, they definitely would have crushed Sasha’s little schemes in the cradle, leaving her unable to turn things around at Caida Affiliated High School forever.
After all, opposing Xiang Chuan is opposing ancient gourmet food.
Opposing ancient gourmet food is opposing Class Eight Grade One’s ancient gourmet food gluttons.
