6. Hang out with us

"Let's see who treats whom and whose money is used more?" Li Zhilan said with a confident smile.

The whole time before break, both Li Zhilan and Qi Longwei kept a close watch on eachother so as to not miss the other crossing the line and missing their opportunity to eat off the other.

Even though the teacher started teaching a completely new concept, the two of them kept a shred of their focus on eachother, yet their speed to understand and copy what the teacher taught and wrote on the white board didn't diminish even by a bit.

"Yes! You crossed it." Li Zhilan said as she did a fist pump to celebrate her first win when she saw that Qi Longwei's elbow was crossing the line.

The smile on her face was so bright and genuine that Qi Longwei didn't even realize he was staring at her with the corner of his mouth slightly lifted, showing a contended smile.

"Don't you dare back out." Li Zhilan said as she pointed her index finger at him and warned, dead serious.

"No one said anything about backing out." Qi Longwei sneered as his expression turned back to his normal arrogant one.

When it was time for break, a girl walked up to Li Zhilan.

"Hi... Wanna hang out with me?" The girl offered as she gave a sweet smile to Li Zhilan. The girl wasn't any taller then 165cm and she also had pale skin with black hair. Her eyes were also of the same colour as her hair covered with a gold rimmed, circular glasses which made her look like a typical nerd with a timid personality.

"Tantan, let's go." a brown haired boy said. He was 180cm tall with a thin physique. He had rectangular glasses covering his light brown iris.

Next to him was another boy and girl. All four of them had few similarities. They were all dressed in contrast to their surroundings. It was not shabby but compared to those branded clothes worn by the rest, theirs stood out by quite a large margin.

The other similarity was the air around them, humble and meek instead of haughty and arrogant.

"So you are the other one. We were wondering who the other one would be. We even placed bets on your gender." The other girl said as she noticed Li Zhilan beside Mu Tan.

"Pay up." She said as she looked at the two boys."By the way, I'm Shi Qiaolian. He is Su Zhaohui" she said pointing to the one who's called out to Mu Tan and then pointed to the one beside her and continued, "and he is Hao Zhen"

"Hey, I'm Orchid. I'm sorry I don't feel comfortable using my real name, so..."

"It's ok, it's ok. You can tell us when you are comfortable. There's no hurry. But you better hang out with us." She said waiving her right in the air.

"Perfect. I don't know anyone here so you solved my problem."

"You don't have an option other then to hang out with us." Hao Zhen said. After noticing Li Zhilan's confusion, he clarified, ''There is a strong following of hierarchy out here. So we, the scholarship students, better hang out together."