Rejected on Her First Ever Invitation to a Boy

In the blink of an eye, the weekend passed, and Monday arrived once again—the most dreary and exhausting day of the week.

That morning, after finishing getting ready, Li Sichen picked up his schoolbag and walked out of the villa. Just as he was about to ride his battered old electric scooter, he was surprised to find Lin Siyu standing by the Mercedes-Benz that usually drove her to school. Waving at him, she said, "Why don't we catch a ride to school together?"

Though Lin Siyu's sentence consisted of a mere eight words, she had summoned a tremendous amount of courage to speak them. Had anyone looked closer, they would have noticed that her palms were slick with sweat at that very moment.

From childhood until now, Lin Siyu had never proactively invited a boy to do anything.

She had even prepared what she would say once Li Sichen got into the car: *I'm letting you ride with me not because I have any special feelings for you, but entirely because I don't want my sister to worry about the awkward tension between us.*

Even she herself didn't believe such a flimsy excuse. But regardless, it was still far better than admitting she had developed a crush on Li Sichen!

Having a crush on a boy... how utterly embarrassing that was!

*Yes, exactly, everything I'm doing is for my sister... Stay calm, Lin Siyu, keep your composure. You are completely calm right now...* Lin Siyu continuously comforted and hypnotized herself inwardly.

However, to her utter dismay, things did not go in the direction she had anticipated.

"Thanks. But I really can't ride in that car of yours. I think I'll stick to this electric scooter instead." Li Siyu patted his second-hand electric scooter and politely declined Lin Siyu's kind offer.

"Ah..." Lin Siyu's expression froze instantly.

Rej... Rejected?

Li Siyu actually rejected my invitation?

Lin Siyu never imagined that the first time in her life she invited a boy out, it would end in rejection.

"O—Okay then." For a moment, deeply stricken, Lin Siyu had no idea what she ought to say. After offering an awkward response, she ducked straight into the Mercedes-Benz.

As the Mercedes-Benz started up and drove out of the villa, she slowly recovered from her awkwardness.

Glancing back at Li Siyu, who was wobbling along leisurely on his electric scooter, she pouted her lips and hummed with dissatisfaction. "This Li Siyu is simply infuriating, turning down my invitation just like that. I really don't get it, what's so great about that beat-up old electric scooter? Could it possibly be better than this Mercedes? Passing up a comfortable car to ride a piece of junk—is there something wrong with his brain?"

Lin Siyu probably never would have guessed that the reason Li Sichen chose the electric scooter over the Mercedes was precisely because the scooter was shabby and poor enough...

Given his current fate, enjoying luxurious things would only bring him bad luck!

Upon arriving at school, the classroom of Class 3, Grade 1 was already occupied by quite a few students. Gathering in groups of twos and threes, they were all chattering about what had happened over the weekend. The most frequently discussed topics were the karaoke brawl on Saturday night and the subsequent fire.

After all, for these students, those two incidents were far too thrilling. They were destined to remain a staple of their gossip for a long time to come.

"Brother Chen, you're here." Seeing Li Sichen walk into the classroom, Zeng Yi waved at him with a beaming smile. As Li Sichen drew near, Zeng Yi chattered excitedly, "We were just talking about what happened Saturday night. Everyone is saying how incredibly cool you looked when you were fighting. Hey, do you know martial arts? Can you teach me a few moves?"

Because the students of Class 3, Grade 1 had left early, they had no idea that Li Sichen had been taken to the police station. Naturally, they wouldn't discuss that aspect. Although Lin Siyu and Tan Xiaoxiao knew about it, both had chosen to keep it a secret and said nothing.

"Forget it. You can't even last through a twelve-hundred-meter run, and you want to learn martial arts?" Li Sichen teased with a smile. Hanging around these vibrant and energetic students not only improved his physical condition and destiny, but also made him increasingly cheerful and full of life.

Such a scene was vastly different from his former state as a "living corpse."

After chatting for a while, the class bell rang. Everyone returned to their respective seats, pulled out their English textbooks, and began morning reading.

At the end of the second class in the morning, right after returning to the classroom from morning exercises, Zeng Yi crept up with a mysterious expression and whispered, "Hey, Brother Chen, do you know? Cheng Haoyu from the next class didn't come to school today."

"Oh?" Li Sichen genuinely hadn't known about this.

However, calculating mentally, six days had passed since he altered the feng shui of Cheng Haoyu's home. The situation at Cheng Haoyu's house must have deteriorated drastically by now. Under such circumstances, it wasn't surprising that he hadn't come to school.

Ordinary-looking though Zeng Yi might be, he possessed an uncanny talent for digging up gossip and insider news.

He continued eagerly, "I went and snooped around just now, and according to one of Cheng Haoyu's best friends, something seems to have gone wrong at Cheng Haoyu's house. I also heard that in order to fix these problems, Cheng Haoyu's old man specially invited a very famous feng shui master all the way from Xiangjiang..."

A feng shui master?

Li Sichen raised an eyebrow slightly, a cold smile playing on his lips as he thought to himself: *Heh, looks like Cheng Haoyu's old man is quite smart after all, actually guessing that their family's bad luck stems from a feng shui issue. A feng shui master from Xiangjiang, is it? I'd like to see just how capable this master really is, daring to come and break the feng shui array I've set up!*

"Brother Chen, what are you thinking about?" Zeng Yi asked curiously.

Li Sichen smiled. "I'm wondering how much help this feng shui master can possibly give Cheng Haoyu's family."

"What a coincidence, I was wondering about that too. Hey, Brother Chen, why do you suppose Cheng Haoyu's family went out of their way to hire a feng shui master to handle their problems? Could it be that what they're encountering at home is some kind of supernatural haunting?" Zeng Yi couldn't help letting his imagination run wild, conjuring up horror-movie scenarios of the Cheng family being tormented by vicious ghosts...

Soon, it was twelve o'clock.

When the bell for the last class of the morning rang, Zeng Yi couldn't wait to drag Li Sichen to the cafeteria.

For him, fighting for food was the most important event of the day.

However, Li Sichen didn't go with him. Instead, he waved a hand and said, "You go ahead. I have some matters to attend to, so I won't be eating at school today."

Li Sichen was heading to Cheng Haoyu's house.

He intended to go and cross paths with that feng shui master from Xiangjiang!