Abandoned Princesses
Classmate

Liu Liwei's.

Qiao Rong had not expected to meet such a familiar face on his first day at the Crescent Academy.

And the man really greeted her with a big smile.

Qiao Rong returned Liu Liwei's greeting forcefully. However as soon as Liu Liwei walked towards Qiao Rong, a man who looked younger than Liu Liwei followed him from behind.

The extremely filled man approached Qiao Rong curiously behind Liu Liwei.

"New disciples? You familiar?" The man snorted and looked at Qiao Rong as if probing him from head to toe.

"Ah ... this—" Before Liu Liwei unpacked his true identity, Qiao Rong hurriedly cut off the man's remark.

"Hua Rong's. Accidentally meeting Young Master Liu on the way, and finally getting to know each other." Qiao Rong smiled down.

The man snorted, then turned towards his chair again.

"Thus ... Miss Rong?" Liu Liwei smiled mischievously. Qiao Rong simply replied with a laugh.

They chatted at the end of the class before Qiao Rong withdrew to find a comfortable seat.

He chose a chair that was not too far away from the classroom.

When Qiao Rong sat down, it seemed that his classmates were aware of the new student's presence. He immediately became the target of eye glare that led from all corners of the class.

"Beautiful! Ice Goddess Mingran seemed to have a new rival!"

"Look at his shirt, is he a commoner?"

"It looks so."

The whispers that Qiao Rong could clearly hear continued until the first hour of study began.

And the professor who first entered into their class was Professor Luo, who happened to be teaching her schedule this time was just cultivation theory alone.

Class was very boring.

That was the feeling that Qiao Rong felt honestly. He was made sleepy by the long explanation he had known from a thousand years ago.

Even Qiao Rong instead held back his smile when Professor Luo stated some incorrect facts. Yet Qiao Rong also could not blame Professor Luo fully considering that this world had indeed experienced a drastic decline in terms of cultivation in this thousand years.

Liu Liwei noticed Qiao Rong's bored demeanor and kept her sleepiness in check.

The man smiled gently.

But his smile did not last so long.

*****

After Professor Luo's lesson was over, Qiao Rong immediately withdrew Liu Liwei's hand in a hurry.

Which caused the man's face to slightly blush, as well as confusion.

They reached a corner of the place in the desolate Crescent Academy. After sensing that there was no one around them with qi, Qiao Rong immediately took out something from within his sleeves.

The hue from Liu Liwei's face and the smile that was clearly plastered on his face earlier disappeared instantly.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Liu. I had the opportunity to restore this when you visited before, but due to the matter of the Moon King I ended up forgetting this. But now I really can't have this much longer." Qiao Rong extended his hand holding the token towards Liu Liwei.

The wind rustled, and the trees around them swayed slowly.

Liu Liwei was aware of the pain and tightness that filled his chest at this moment. This woman who was in front of him, despite being small in stature and already commonly underestimated, he was sure there must be more than what was rumored about Qiao Rong.

Curiosity becomes an opium.

And Liu Liwei's admiration for Qiao Rong increased every time he saw her. From the moment Qiao Rong defeated her in the Four Seasons Competition, until now, when he learned that the woman was in the same class as him.

Or even this second as well, when the ends of Qiao Rong's hair that were straight down moved by the wind slowly. How the woman was so beautiful when viewed up close, and how the woman returned her family tokens.

Liu Liwei was speechless for a few seconds.

"You gave your family tokens to a commoner woman?" And the voice behind him broke the silence.

*****

"Ding Fanfan! You eavesdropping?!" Liu Liwei could not hide his anger towards the fat man who had been acting rather impolite towards Qiao Rong this morning. But he was also relieved because of the interruption from the man, he did not have to immediately choose to receive the return of the token or not.

"Who also told the woman to hold your hand and drag you quickly out of the classroom? I was just curious so follow you. How do I know you're talking when I come." Ding Fanfan flicked his shoulders.

Hearing Ding Fanfan's words, Qiao Rong immediately put the Liu Family's token back into his sleeve. It made Liu Liwei's chest feel very relieved.

"I'm sorry." Qiao Rong immediately hurriedly left to leave the two classmates behind.

"Qi-Hua Rong!" Liu Liwei called out to Qiao Rong, hoping that the woman would stop walking.

Qiao Rong had indeed stopped stepping. But only to be limited to turning around for a while and displaying a respectful smile to Liu Liwei and Ding Fanfan.

"You're really stupid? Is your brain consciousness declining? Or should I check you out with a healer? You could have been poisoned." Ding Fanfan shook his head. In his heart he wondered what kind of relationship the two had.

What was so special about that woman that she made the prime minister's son give her a family token?

"You're the fool." Liu Liwei nudged Ding Fanfan's head in annoyance.

At first he felt that there would be no problem if the son of the Yuan Kingdom's defense minister went with him to the Crescent Academy because the father of the child wanted to send his son with the prime minister's son.

At least he thought Ding Fanfan who was famous for his arrogance, accepted and was willing to change according to the rules of the academy where his students should not look at other students with degrees or social status.

But with only Qiao Rong's modest attire, and his identity covered up, Ding Fanfan instead easily looked down on the woman.

What if Ding Fanfan found out that Hua Rong who he thought was a commoner woman was actually a princess? Liu Liwei even snorted angrily at the thought that Ding Fanfan would still look down on Qiao Rong because of the bad rumors the public knew.

Liu Liwei once again threw a look full of anger and disappointment at Ding Fanfan and finally left with an annoyed face.

Meanwhile, Ding Fanfan just stared with a puzzled face.

"What's my fault? You crazy man. Which son of the prime minister gives the family token to the woman unless the woman is his future wife? Which turns out to be commoners, ckckck." Shaking his head, Ding Fanfan continued walking back towards the classroom with his hands crossed over his chest.