Chapter 30: The Stolen Painting

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As Gu Xiqiao returned to her desk in class, a system notification sprang up.

 [Ding! The system has detected that Wu Hongwen and Xiao Yun have high affection towards you, do you want to add them to your Friends List?]

 “Sure, do that.” Gu Xiqiao didn’t refuse this time. “Show me the map.”

 As she said so, a screen appeared in front of her with the map of the school, and there were two green points and an orange point on it.

 She glanced at it cursorily, before folding her arms on the desk and burying her head into her arms, going to sleep.

 Xiao Yun didn’t know what to say about Gu Xiqiao. There were so many rumors about her, how could she fall asleep? Did she truly not care at all?

 It turned out that not only did she fall asleep, but she even slept peacefully without even waking up through all the classes in the afternoon. The teachers didn’t mind that she was sleeping in class, because she would be able to do well in her studies anyway.

 When she woke up, school had already let out. Gu Xiqiao reached inside her drawer, realizing that her oil painting had disappeared.

 [Hey, Er Qiao, your oil painting disappeared!] The system spirit exclaimed in shock in the void.

 Gu Xiqiao rubbed her forehead. “Don’t act like you just knew this.”

 [Fine…But Beauty Qiao, this oil painting wasn’t taken by dangerous character Gu Xijin.]

 “I know.” Gu Xijin had always been extraordinarily careful in doing these things and would have never come to steal the painting herself.

 “Are you leaving or not?” Xiao Yun spoke up from the entrance of the class. Why was this girl so lazy?

 Gu Xiqiao took a few papers offhandedly, planning to do them later.

 All of the students in the class would take home revision notes and notebooks so that they could check them when they didn’t know how to do a specific question. Meanwhile, Gu Xiqiao would only have to take a few papers home and by the next morning, these papers would be completed without a single flaw. “What do you have in that head of yours?”

 Gu Xiqiao glanced at Xiao Yun. “My brain nucleus, a limbic system, a cerebral cortex, one trillion brain cells, and about one hundred billion memory storage cells, I think?”

 Xiao Yun’s eye twitched slightly. “What do you do every day, only bringing back a few papers?”

 “I draw.” Gu Xiqiao sighed softly. She had just finished the oil painting the day before, and it was stolen so quickly by Gu Xijin.

 Xiao Yun suddenly thought of how Gu Xiqiao had been carrying around a drawing canvas for the past few days, and how she went to the art studio at school sometimes. Xiao Yun had never seen her paintings, but she guessed that they wouldn’t be half bad. She wouldn’t be surprised if this girl that was good at studies and medicine could be able to paint well too.

 Wu Hongwen was waiting at the stairs, and he glanced at Gu Xiqiao to asses her mood

 As the trio walked towards the school gates, Wu Hongwen had wanted to speak up and comfort Gu Xiqiao, but he didn’t know what to say, so he could only trail behind her, staring dazedly at the back of her head.

 There were a bunch of people there at the junction in front of Building F, and they were all Rocket Class students. Wu Hongwen looked at them, sparks in his gaze and almost bursting out in anger.

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