Ma Yan stared blankly ahead, her body still trembling.
Mu Anxiao watched Ma Yan's shaking shoulders, sighed, and turned away.
The school bell rang, and the classmates in the classroom tidied up their bags and left one by one.
The girl at the next desk, carrying her backpack, walked over to Mu Anxiao's desk and gently leaned on the edge, murmuring, "She won't come back, will she?" Then, she left.
Mu Anxiao looked up at the retreating figure of the girl at the next desk, reflecting on her state throughout the afternoon, a strange feeling stirring within him for no apparent reason.
"This girl is very pitiable," Zhang Yan appeared beside Mu Anxiao's desk.
"Why are you here again?" Mu Anxiao narrowed his eyes and asked.
Zhang Yan casually handed Mu Anxiao an ice cream, saying, "This is for you. I was planning to pick you up." He glanced at the girl leaving the classroom from the next desk. "It seems you have something to do now."
Mu Anxiao took the ice cream and asked, "What do you mean?"
"It means, go talk to her. Always making her worry about you, it's probably," Zhang Yan pursed his lips and smiled, "not good."
"If she talks to her friends, she'll forget about me," Mu Anxiao said, taking out the ice cream and handing the bag back to Zhang Yan. "It doesn't matter if I go or not."
"She has no friends," Zhang Yan replied, taking the bag.
Mu Anxiao ate as he stood up, saying, "Impossible. There are so many girls in this class, they spend all day together. She has no friends? Are you joking?"
"Did you see her talk to anyone today?" Zhang Yan asked.
Mu Anxiao sighed, "She's either spacing out or studying, of course she doesn't have time to talk to others."
"Something significant happened to her before, and after that, she stopped talking to anyone. Unless someone asks her, she won't open her mouth, but to you, she did," Zhang Yan said indifferently.
Mu Anxiao frowned, moved the ice cream away from his mouth, narrowed his eyes at Zhang Yan, and asked, "Don't tell me you haven't left all this time?"
"Not exactly, I left, then after buying things, I came back, and then..."
"And then you've been supervising me the whole time," Mu Anxiao interrupted Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan chuckled sheepishly, "I was just worried about you..."
Mu Anxiao rolled his eyes and said, "Tell me, do you know that girl?"
Zhang Yan hesitated, stammering, "No, I just felt sorry for her, and then..."
"Can you stop saying 'and then'? You're acting strange. You usually don't interfere in my business. Why are you so involved today?"
"I... I, I..."
"Stop," Mu Anxiao finished the last bite of his ice cream and said, "Are you hiding something from me?"
"I..." Zhang Yan grinned, "I am hiding something from you."
"What is it?" Mu Anxiao handed Zhang Yan the empty ice cream stick.
Zhang Yan looked down at the ice cream stick Mu Anxiao handed him and gave a fake smile, "Mu Anxiao, you've gone too far."
"I won't ask you now. I'm going to find that girl. If you don't want me to go," Mu Anxiao removed his hand, "then forget it."
"No, no," Zhang Yan said hurriedly, snatching the wooden stick from Mu Anxiao's hand. "You go talk to her properly."
"I know. But when you get back, tell me your secret," Mu Anxiao pointed at Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan forced a smile, "I'll... see."
Mu Anxiao's eyes widened.
Seeing Mu Anxiao's expression, Zhang Yan was startled and nodded, "Okay, I'll tell you."
"That's more like it," Mu Anxiao said, then turned and disappeared.
Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the ice cream bag and stick in his hand, and muttered, "Why did I let her eat this? Such a hassle."
The next moment, a wolf demon appeared before Zhang Yan and asked, "Why are you here?"
Zhang Yan looked around and said, "You'd better not talk to me." xxs1
"What's the big deal? Anyway, in their eyes, I'm just a..."
Before the wolf demon could finish, Zhang Yan suddenly turned to look at Ma Yan, who had not yet recovered, and said, "You did this, didn't you?"
"Isn't that obvious?" the wolf demon smiled.
"I thought that guy Mu Anxiao had already used his magic to help her recover. I didn't expect he hadn't," Zhang Yan said, bypassing the wolf demon and walking towards Ma Yan.
The wolf demon frowned and abruptly turned around, asking, "What are you doing?"
The students cleaning the room were startled and looked at the wolf demon.
The wolf demon looked at them awkwardly and walked behind Zhang Yan.
Girl number two and girl number three saw the wolf demon approach and gave up the idea of coming forward.
"Let's wait," suggested girl number two.
"Aren't you afraid of him?" girl number three asked in a low voice.
Girl number two looked troubled, "He could even scare the boss. We should have some sense."
Girl number three nodded in agreement.
"What do you want to do?" the wolf demon asked softly.
Zhang Yan drew his index finger in front of Ma Yan's eyes and said, turning his head, "I won't allow you to harm her."
"You have no relation to her, do you?" the wolf demon asked.
Zhang Yan's eyes darkened. He glanced at the seat of the girl at the next desk and said, "I don't care. If you dare to harm her, I won't be nice to you."
"You for..."
As the wolf demon began to question, Hu Yuan emerged from his body and stood in front of Zhang Yan, "It's you, her grandfather."
"Hu Yuan, why didn't you recognize me yesterday?" Zhang Yan said calmly, looking at Hu Yuan.
"I wasn't paying attention," Hu Yuan's eyes darkened. "You... you're not his real grandfather. Why are you doing this?"
"I promised her grandfather that I would protect her. You are not allowed to bully her," Zhang Yan stated firmly.
"Why didn't you come out when she bullied me? And now you're here. Are you fake?" Hu Yuan said coldly.
"You and I have no connection," Zhang Yan shifted his gaze.
"I have no connection with you, but the more you shield her like this, the angrier I get," Hu Yuan's eyes widened. He spread his hands and a ball of red light appeared, striking towards Ma Yan's head.
Seeing this, Zhang Yan hurriedly reached out and grabbed his hand. The ball of red light then shot into Zhang Yan's body, and his eyes widened considerably.
Hu Yuan's brow furrowed instantly, looking at his hand tightly held by Zhang Yan, he said, "Let go."
"If you try to touch her again, I will absorb all your magic," Zhang Yan said.
Hu Yuan's eyes widened, "This is demonic magic."
"So what? As long as I can protect her, I will do anything," Zhang Yan said, his eyes still fixed.
Hu Yuan looked at Zhang Yan's determined expression and compromised helplessly, "I won't touch her, but can you let go?"
"Yes," Zhang Yan released his hand.