Reincarnated as the Villain's Sister
Chapter 67: Being brainwashed

Chapter 67: Being brainwashed

Who knew that in the next second, Lu Qingyan would nonchalantly ask, "With how he is, does he still need to trick someone into a hookup?"

Gao Jing was stunned, but Lu Mingxuan was upset when he heard Lu Qingyan’s inexplicable praise of Wang Jingyuan.

Lu Mingxuan’s spoon paused mid-air. Slowly, his gaze turned toward Lu Qingyan with a sort of incredulous indignation brewing behind his narrowed eyes. "What, are you saying that I need to trick others, then?"

Lu Qingyan: ?

What kind of logical leap was that? She wasn’t even holding a long jump ticket, and yet Lu Mingxuan managed to fly straight off the comprehension cliff.

Was this guy really the terrifying school tyrant from the rumors?

As she thought of this, Lu Qingyan looked him up and down. Then, she very sincerely said, "With how you are, it’s still unknown if you need to trick or not."

Lu Mingxuan: ???

Lu Mingxuan’s eyebrows twitched like they were trying to launch off his face.

He gave a low sneer. "Before you pretended not to know me, and now you’re quarrelling with me over an irrelevant person?"

Lu Qingyan: ?

She had to admire the sheer volume of mental gymnastics it took to twist this into an argument. Previously, she genuinely didn’t know who he was! And even then, she hadn’t treated him with hostility. What happened to cause-and-effect?

Was there an award for this kind of mental gymnastics? She’d like to nominate him.

It was obviously his tone that was sharp enough to slice bread, and now she was being accused of picking a fight?

Across the table, Gao Jing—long since used to playing the role of human fire extinguisher—clapped his hands together with an awkward smile. "Okay, okay, Xiao Yan’s right. But that place last night wasn’t exactly a... wholesome. It’s easy for outsiders to get the wrong idea."

"Plus," Gao Jing recalled the last time when Wang Jingyuan had beaten Lu Mingxuan to the point that he wasn’t able to fight back at all.

He turned towards Lu Qingyan and said, "You don’t really know Wang Jingyuan either. He isn’t what he appears on the surface."

Although Lu Qingyan often wanted to gnash her teeth in anger whenever Wang Jingyuan put on an act at school as if he was some Oscar winning Actor, she still felt a little unhappy when she heard someone else slandering her seatmate.

After all, Wang Jingyuan and the current her now had a revolutionary friendship. She hadn’t forgotten how this Moviestar disregarded their past enmity and carried her on his back to the school infirmary.

Lu Qingyan picked up the fork, "If you’re talking about how he participates in fights, I already know."

Gao Jing was stunned, "You know?"

Lu Qingyan nodded her head, "I saw it, he’s pretty good." NovelFire

Lu Mingxuan, who sat to the side, was not used to Lu Qingyan complimenting others.

Lu Mingxuan sneered softly as he leaned on the chair and rolled his eyes. Then he said with a disdainful expression, "Tch, he’s just so-so."

Gao Jing immediately followed suit and rolled his own eyes as well.

Just so-so?

The way he talked, it was as if the person who Wang Jingyuan had nearly beaten to the ground last time wasn’t him.

Gao Jing didn’t refute him in front of Lu Qingyan, but he thought for a moment and continued, "Wang Jingyuan, this person...isn’t easy. He’s completely different inside and outside of school."

After a pause, he added, "But everyone at school thinks he’s a virtuous student with top marks and good behavior."

Although Gao Jing was very tactful with his words, Lu Qingyan felt that, intentionally or otherwise, it alluded to Wang Jingyuan being a schemer and not a good person.

So Lu Qingyan wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin, then raised her eyes to look at him and said, "So you know Wang Jingyuan very well?"

Gao Jing was stunned and listened as Lu Qingyan earnestly continued, "If you didn’t know him and decided to have this judgement based on one event, then you’re just like everyone else and don’t really understand him."

Gao Jing didn’t respond.

Lu Mingxuan frowned slightly when he heard this.

Gao Jing was silent for a moment before he smiled, "True. Xiao Yan and Wang Jingyuan are classmates, so it wouldn’t be surprising if you knew him better than I do."

He pondered for a moment before he finally invited her, "Brother Xuan and I are going to a club to hang out this evening. Xiao Yan do you want to go together?"

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After Lu Qingyan left, Lu Mingxuan, who had been quiet this whole time, picked up a fork from the table and knocked it against Gao Jing’s head, "When did I say I was going to the club?" he snapped. "Did you not shake your head enough last night, or are you trying to cosplay as a bobblehead?"

Gao Jing laughed weakly. "It was just an excuse! Come on, I thought it’d break the tension!"

"Break the tension? With a club invite? I have a brand new limited edition game console waiting to be picked up and you’re out here throwing me into shady neon dens like it’s ’Project X’." Lu Mingxuan looked genuinely betrayed.

He grumbled something under his breath about "friends being liabilities" and "brain cells dying one by one."

He remembered the way Lu Qingyan had defended Wang Jingyuan. So calmly. So instinctively. Like it wasn’t even a choice.

He clicked his tongue. "Also, that place is not suitable. Why do you want her to follow along?"

But Gao Jing only crossed his arms and muttered like an old sage. "Brother Xuan... I think your sister might be in danger."

Lu Mingxuan raised an eyebrow. "In danger of what, exactly?"

Gao Jing looked deadly serious now. "She’s being brainwashed by Wang Jingyuan."

Lu Mingxuan: ?

Lu Mingxuan thought back to how Wang Jingyuan and Lu Qingyan had unexpectedly skipped evening self-study to have a date by themselves.