Volume 2 High School - The Years of White Clothes Chapter 15

  Inside the classroom, apart from the humming of the ceiling fan, all that could be heard was the sound of pen tips scratching against paper. In this sweltering summer season, young boys and girls were sweating profusely, their youthfulness palpable as they struggled with various practice questions. Among them was Ai Zi Qing, the current leader of Yang City's underworld.

  "Classmate, is there a monthly exam tomorrow?" Tang Luo asked Ai Zi Qing who was diligently doing his homework.

  "Uh, tomorrow afternoon." Ai Zi Qing rubbed her aching forehead.

  Tang Luo saw Ai Zi Qing's painful expression and couldn't help but laugh, "Who told you to take leave every day except for sleeping? Now you're trying to cram before the exam, I really don't know how this top scorer in the college entrance examination was achieved!"

  "Who made me busy these days? I didn't want to!" Ai Zi Qing muttered, pouting her mouth and ignoring Tang Luo, continuing to bury her head in the sea of questions.

  Just after class, Su Hei appeared at the door of Class 2, Grade 1, and his handsome appearance caused a stir among the girls in the class.

  "Zi Qing, come here." He beckoned to Ai Zi Qing and turned around to walk away.

  Ai Zi Qing reluctantly got up, ignoring the murderous gazes of the crowd, and followed Su Xi to the corner of the corridor.

  "Want to go have dinner together tonight?" Su Hei said with a smile.

  He was just about to refuse when he was interrupted by "Everyone will be going and they all hope you'll join them."

  Ai Zi Qing was taken aback for a moment, then nodded in agreement. Since she had nothing to do that evening, she might as well gather with them. Besides, she didn't dislike Su Xi and the others; they were already considered friends.

  Su Xi saw her agree and didn't say much more, smiling as she turned around and left. "See you at the school gate."

  "Hmph, you're quite capable of flirting with others. If Xu Jian finds out, I wonder if he'll still want you?" Xue Mei said coldly as she walked out from around the corner after Su Xi left.

  "This is none of your business." Ai Zi Qing glanced at Xue Mei lightly, not wanting to explain these boring things, and thinking that saying more would be useless, she turned around to leave.

  "Oh? This year's freshmen are quite impressive! Yesterday was pretty happy eating in the cafeteria, wasn't it?" Xue Mei said sarcastically.

  Seeing Ai Zi Qing's footsteps didn't stop, and she completely ignored her words, Xue Mei was somewhat annoyed and furious "Stop right there for me!"

  Seeing Ai Zi Qing standing with her back to her, Xue Mei regained her composure and walked in front of her with a proud smile "I've seen many women like you who think about climbing high branches every day, but I've never seen one succeed. Do you know why?"

  Seeing Ai Ziying still not speaking, with an air of ignoring her, Xue Mei gritted her teeth and continued: "Because of your identity! Don't you even look at what kind of identity you have? Want to enter the provincial party secretary's family door? Isn't that too naive? If Uncle Xu finds out about this matter, without me taking action, your family won't be able to stay in Yang City anymore!" If it weren't for Ai Ziying's attitude yesterday and her usual apathetic temperament, Xue Mei felt that today she wouldn't have had to say so much.

  "Uncle Xue likes me very much, haha, and recently he has a request for my father. I think he must not want to see you appear at this time as a woman. But honestly, you are quite clever, able to navigate among these arrogant young masters, it's clear that you have some skills. However, as a woman from your family background, you still don't understand that there is an irresistible force in the world called - power."

  Ai Zi Qing didn't want to offend Xue Mei too much, she was just too lazy to bother with her. After all, Xue Mei was still in the development stage and wasn't stable yet, not strong enough to contend with those deeply entrenched and complexly connected big shots, but that didn't mean she could be bullied by anyone.

  "What are you showing off?" Ai Zi Qing asked with a raised lip and a smile.

  "What?" Xue Mei didn't expect her to answer and was taken aback by the question.

  "What are you showing off to me?" Ai Zi Qing smiled lightly, seeing Xue Mei being choked by her own attitude, and continued in a light tone "You're really not a clever woman, at this time what you should be doing is not chasing away those so-called rivals of yours, but rather going to curry favor with your man, keeping his heart locked down. What are you still afraid of?" Ai Zi Qing smiled sarcastically.

  Xue Wei was completely stunned when she first heard this remark, and as Ai Ziying walked past her, she fell into deep thought.

  "Provincial Party Secretary, surname Xu?" Ai Ziying furrowed her brow in thought. Previously, she hadn't paid much attention to the family backgrounds of people like Xu Jian, as it had nothing to do with her. But now it was different; as the leader of Jing Tian, any useful information could potentially open up new opportunities for the gang.

  A flash of insight in his mind, could it be him? How interesting!

  After school, as soon as I walked out of the school gate, I saw Su He, Zhang Yuan, Xu Jian, Kevin, and Song Xueyi standing under the big oak tree chatting. Ai Ziying walked over, just like a ugly duckling falling into a group of swans, simple and ordinary.

  "What's up?"

  "Wang Lele and Liu Fei have something at home, they can't come." Su Xi replied, Ai Ziqing was a bit puzzled, since they had made an appointment with her, Wang Lele had no reason not to come.

  "I heard that the Yang City underworld has been unified, with the Qing Society as the most respected. Originally, the public security was not bad, but in the past few days, there has been some chaos suddenly. Many industries under the Wei Gao Group have been forced to shut down, and the police station is also very busy." Xu Jian added, seeing her puzzled expression.

  "Is Zi Qing able to understand when you put it that way? Simply put, the current security situation is not good, and both directors are having a headache. As a result, Liu Fei and Wang Lele have also been implicated, and they can't stay out after school." Song Xueyi rolled her eyes.

  Ai Zi Qing was driven crazy by a few people who kept on speaking in turns, "Go eat quickly!"

  A few people walked forward, Kevin sneered "What's the underworld, it's just a group of rascals and scoundrels, cheating and deceiving, now it's just that the government doesn't want to care about it, otherwise they wouldn't be able to develop like this?"

  The crowd fell silent, and as for the underworld organization, they didn't know much about it either. However, collusion between officials and bandits was a common occurrence, not just a group of hoodlums like Kevin said, but this was something these official second-generation offspring did not want to talk about.