The school's cafeteria was a separate building.

It had 3 floors; the 1st floor was a spacious public dining hall, the 2nd floor was the dining area for students with higher status and was furnished with high quality furnitures and had a much luxurious feel to it. While the 3rd floor was the area for the teachers and staffs.

The feeling it gave was of a luxurious hotel instead of a cafeteria in a school.

The star academy was one of the best in the city so it was no surprise that the facilities here were the best too.

After all, it was a place where the children of different rich and powerful families came to study. To avoid provoking their displeasure, the academy had to give the best treatment and facilities to these future elites of the society.

But it was really quite a mystery how the heroine, who was probably someone from a poor background got accepted in the academy.

If the school really did accept children from poor families through scholarship then there should have at least been one person who got accepted through that method but no one did.

It wasn't like the heroine was some once-in-a-lifetime genius or anything. An academy that only enrolled children from rich families suddenly accepting a poor one was really something unreasonable.

Was it just for the love story of a poor school cinderella and a school prince? And to show that the female lead was unique among these rich kids? If yes then this whole thing was messed up!

Qin Yue and Ruan Jing Xin walked inside the cafeteria. She was still holding his hand without a care about how this could cause a misunderstanding in others' eyes.

Their arrival set off yet another commotion among the students. Adding on to their intimate gesture of holding hands, everyone made their own speculations in their head about the 'love triangle' between the two most popular students in the school and the new handsome student.

The post from this morning hadn't cooled off yet when another hot topic broke through the ranks and became the most viewed topic in the school forum. In the post were the pictures of Qin Yue and Ruan Jing Xin holding their hands all the way to the cafeteria.

Qin Yue was smiling gently as she looked at the young man besides her with gentle eyes that seemed to be overflowing with love. Well, that was what everyone thought when they saw this scene.

The arrogant and proud school belle who always showed a cold face to others was suddenly so gentle towards another man who wasn't the school prince. Who wouldn't be shocked about this piece of news?

Most of the students knew that the school belle and the school prince were engaged and that the school belle was infatuated with her fiancé. But then suddenly after the summer break ended, the school belle found another boyfriend and betrayed her fiance? Everyone was dumbstruck when they saw the post in the forum.

Some had even investigated the real identity of the new student who was most likely the new boyfriend of the school belle and found out that he was just an orphan with no background and status. Other than his handsome face, nothing was special about him.

The news about Ruan Jing Xin being taken back to the Ruan family was sealed off so no one knew about it.

So when others heard of it, they thought that the young man was being 'kept' by the school belle because of his handsome looks.

They were full of disdain towards the handsome man who was only living off a rich young lady through such disgraceful means.

Although they were also thinking of how the school belle was unfaithful to her fiance even though she was a dignified young lady from one of the big families, no one dared to voice out this matter in front of her face and just keep it in their heart.

Who would be so stupid as to reprimand the school belle who was the sole heir of one of the strongest big families in the city? That was nothing but seeking death voluntarily.

No matter what she did, no one could say nor do anything to her because of her status as the young lady of a big family. So they decided to switch the target to Ruan Jing Xin and cursed him for being a shameless man who seduced the rich and the fangirls of the school Prince also blamed everything upon him for humiliating their male god.

Under the strange looks of the surrounding students, Qin Yue calmly headed to the 2nd floor with Ruan Jing Xin in tow and found a relatively quiet seat in the corner for them to sit.

Just after they took a seat across each other, the two were interrupted by two additional men.

With a displeased look on her face, Qin Yue glared at Pei Lang, who suddenly took a seat besides her and Jiang Mo, who naturally sat besides her brother with a disgruntled look on his face.

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"What are you two doing here?" Qin Yue asked in a cold voice. She was angry for having her peaceful time together with her little brother being disturbed by these two 'strangers'.

"Joining my fiancée and my future brother-in-law for lunch." Pei Lang answered in a matter-of-fact way, a slight smile hung on his lips as he took in her annoyed look.

"Fiancée my foot!" Qin Yue cursed under her breath after hearing his words, utterly disgusted.

Fiancée? She won't be soon.

How dare he even mention that she was his fiancée when he never really cared about the previous owner! She really couldn't understand what he was scheming inside his head.

"Then what about him? Why is he here when we aren't even related in any way?" Qin Yue shot a look at Jiang Mo who was currently feeling jittery about the look given to him by the young man besides him.

He felt as if he could lose his head in the next moment after he sat down besides the young man. His glare was so cold and sharp that he wanted to cry but had no tears.

He really didn't want to join them but his friend suddenly pulled him along to have lunch with that she-devil! He even thought that his friend was possessed by some evil spirits or else how could he suddenly think about the she-devil?

Seeing the cold gaze directed at him by Qin Yue, Jiang Mo felt his scalp tingle. Then after hearing her questions, he got up from his seat in a hurry.

"Right right. We aren't related in any way so I will take my lea-"

"He is your future brother-in-law and you are his future sister-in-law so there is nothing wrong for him to join us." Pei Lang grabbed Jiang Mo's arm and stopped him from escaping as he cut him off with a sentence calmly.

Jiang Mo was dumbfounded when he heard his friend suddenly tying an 'in-laws' relation between him and the she-devil. He stared at Pei Lang with his mouth agape as if it was the first time meeting with him.

Where was his friend who always treated his words like gold in front of other people? Where was his aloof and cold friend who never put any girls, not even his fiancée in his eyes? But now, he was suddenly acting so close to the she-devil he didn't like previously and looked like he was chasing after her.....

Who are you?! You can't be the real Ah Lang! Tell me where did you kidnap my friend! Tell meee!!

Although Jiang Mo thought that inside his head, he didn't dare to really question his best friend in case he got a kick in return for being over dramatic. He just accepted his fate and sat down again, feeling like he was sitting on pins instead under the eyes of the young man besides him.

'Us'? How dare he include himself under it without feeling any shame? Were all male leads so thick faced?!

Qin Yue gritted her teeth in anger as she felt like beating up the man beside her. His curved lips and the amused look in his eyes infuriated her even more.

No, you must stay calm, Qin Yue. This much is nothing at all. You can endure it. You can just add this debt upon his head for now and let him pay back with interest when you finally deal with him. But for now, you must stay rational and wait for the right time for revenge!

Qin Yue comforted herself and calmed herself down.

Forget it. If they wanted to join then just let them be. She will just act like they didn't exist at all.

Qin Yue didn't pay any attention to them after that and ordered some food for her and her brother, completely disregarding the other two men.

Pei Lang didn't mind it and instead found her actions cute in his eyes. If Qin Yue were to find out about his thoughts, she would have laughed in disdain at the spot.

Cute? Haha, wonder what he would feel after getting destroyed by the same, 'cute' her.

Pei Lang and Jiang Mo ordered some dishes as well. Though, Jiang Mo was currently suffering from this awkward situation.

Although he was complaining inside his head, he quickly removed those thoughts after the food arrived and wolfed down on his meal. There was no trace of the previous look of suffering on his face at all.

Ruan Jing Xin stayed quiet the whole time as he looked at the man sitting besides his big sis. He could tell that his big sis didn't really like this man who called himself her fiancé since the day they first met in the restaurant so he didn't have any goodwill towards him either.

Anything his big sis didn't like, they were probably the ones at fault for displeasing his big sis. Whatever his big sis did was right while everything else was wrong.

That's what Ruan Jing Xin felt and believed after getting along with his big sis all this time. She was the first person to warm his heart so he trusted her unconditionally and took her side in everything.

He was already walking on the path to becoming a sis-con this way!

...

While the four were deep in their own thoughts, the four of them together looked harmonious in the eyes of the onlookers.

They couldn't hear what they were talking about but after seeing them sitting together for a meal, everyone had their own doubts at this plot twist.

After seeing that the school prince was headed towards the school belle, everyone was anticipating an intense fight between the love rivals. But that scene never came true and instead was replaced by this harmonious and peaceful scenario.

But even without the anticipated fight, the 3 handsome men and a beautiful lady sitting together was a feast to their eyes.

So after that was a post of the four of them sitting and chatting peacefully that set off great confusion among the students who saw it. No one could guess what was going inside their head.

Some guessed that the school prince was deeply in love with his fiancée so he decided to let this matter go. While some guessed that the school prince and the school belle were breaking up peacefully in face of their families' close relationship.

While the fangirls of the school prince were either infuriated or jealous, the admirers of the school belle were feeling regretful for not making a move on her before. Maybe they could make her take a liking to them?

After all they were all from better backgrounds and had good looks, although quite lacking when compared to Ruan Jing Xin but they were still better than him in other aspects!

...

No matter what the others were feeling at the moment, the main characters of the gossips were completely unaware of it and had already finished off their lunch.

After the lunch break ended, Qin Yue accompanied her brother to his class and went back to her own with two tails following behind.

Qin Yue just continued to treat them like air until the school ended and she went to pick her brother up to go home.

But after seeing him again, the strange feeling from before surfaced in her heart again. She felt that something was wrong about her brother. But how and what it was, she couldn't point it out. Although worried, she still decided to observe for a while to see if it was just her imagination.

But until the time she realised what was wrong, she really regretted her decision.