During lunch, Freya's face was filled with constant smiles.
Alex looked toward Kiara, but Kiara shook her head, indicating she didn't know either, so Alex didn't pursue it.
The afternoon was still filled with tedious studying. In his past life, Alex had long since passed the age of attending high school, and he had forgotten much of the knowledge. To better integrate into high school life, he had to catch up with the study pace as quickly as possible.
In the evening, Kiara didn't stay for dinner; she went home to ask about her own bride price. Alex, having free time, returned to his room to type.
Because of what happened that morning, Freya didn't dare to disturb him again; she pulled the curtains and did yoga in the living room. Alex took a break to take a peek and nearly had a nosebleed, so he quickly hid back in his room.
Although he didn't pay much attention to An Suling's warning, it seemed that making a move on Freya would have a significant impact on her, so for now, Alex tried his best to avoid intimate contact with this woman, fearing he wouldn't be able to restrain himself.
Fortunately, he had been living a happy life in his dreams recently, which reduced his longing for women. Otherwise, living with a great beauty who seemed half-willing, Alex really wasn't sure if he could hold back.
However, dreams are dreams, and they had no effect on reality; otherwise, the physiological reaction wouldn't have occurred this morning. Regarding this, Alex didn't have any good solutions for the time being, so he would just take it one step at a time.
An Suling hadn't appeared since she left yesterday. Today, she called Alex and asked him to look after Freya for a few days.
An Suling was currently leading people to clear out the remaining eyes and ears of hostile forces in the city, while also muddying the waters. Before leaving, she had set up a diversion to make the hostile organization mistakenly believe that the person they were looking for had been taken away by her. These few days were a critical period.
Alex naturally didn't refuse. Thinking that he wouldn't be able to protect Freya after going to school, he simply used the excuse of feeling unwell to take a week off, planning to protect Freya while also getting some writing done.
On Monday night, Alex opened his computer and discovered that the reading index for legend of fengyun hualong had been stuck at 180,000 for a long time without rising; it seemed to have saturated.
Alex exited the forum and searched the internet using keywords; the pirated copies found were pitifully few.
His novel had only uploaded six or seven chapters, so pirates couldn't be bothered to repost it.
However, Alex wasn't in a hurry. Anyway, he wasn't going anywhere for these seven days, so he would just write to his heart's content. If he wrote twenty or thirty thousand words a day, in a week he would have over two hundred thousand words, and by then, the reading index would see explosive growth.
During this week, An Suling would sometimes call Alex to tell him the general situation. After about three or four days, An Suling said it was basically safe, and he could go to school.
Alex finally felt relieved, but since An Suling hadn't returned yet, and he had taken a week off, Alex planned to wait until the week was over.
A week passed, and although An Suling still hadn't returned, the situation had stabilized, so Alex went back to school.
Seeing him, Kiara was very happy. Although she had wanted to visit Alex during that week, Freya kept saying she was afraid of contagion, which prevented her from doing so. Now that she saw Alex was healthy and well, Kiara was very happy.
They chatted a few words on the way to school, and Kiara suddenly asked, "Alex, do you think a high bride price is normal?"
"Of course it's not normal," Alex said.
Kiara asked again, "Then, if it were a girl you really liked, the kind you planned to marry, and her mother asked you for a very high bride price and also required a house, would you still marry her?"
"That depends on how high it is."
After answering, Alex grumbled internally that if he encountered this situation in reality, he would tell the girl's family to get as far away as possible.
Kiara hesitated for a moment and said, "A bride price of one hundred million, is that high?"
"One hundred million?" Alex looked shocked.
"Is it very high?" Kiara asked.
Alex looked at her as if she were an idiot.
Although Kiara didn't hear his answer, she basically knew the response. For some reason, she became somewhat flustered and smiled awkwardly, saying, "How could it be one hundred million? I was just joking with you."
Alex said seriously, "You should make fewer jokes like that; it makes me feel like the world has gone crazy."
Kiara rolled her eyes at him and didn't speak.
Arriving at school, it was still early. Kiara hadn't been in the mood to eat that morning and was now a bit hungry. She was just about to ask Alex if he wanted to go to the school cafeteria to eat something when she saw a girl with wheat-colored skin and a large chest running toward Alex, patting his shoulder intimately, looking as if he had been disloyal.
"Alex, where did you go this week? You skipped class without telling me, boring me to death."
Alex said to the girl, "I didn't skip class; I took leave. I wasn't feeling very well last week."
"You actually took leave?" Miao Meiyuan looked shocked.
Kiara thought to herself that this girl must have something wrong with her brain; shouldn't one take leave?
Noticing her gaze, Miao Meiyuan immediately turned her attention over, narrowing her eyes, looking rather unfriendly.
Kiara felt a bit uneasy and didn't dare to look at Miao Meiyuan again.
Miao Meiyuan sized up Kiara for a while, then suddenly a plan came to mind. She intimately linked her arm with Alex's and said in a cloying voice, "So you were sick, Alex? Why didn't you tell me? I could have gone to visit you. Your complexion still looks a bit pale; is your illness not fully recovered? Come on, let me take you to the Infirmary to rest."
Miao Meiyuan dragged Alex away without giving him a chance to object. In public, it wasn't convenient for Alex to struggle, so he turned back and waved at Kiara.
Kiara smiled at him, but after his figure disappeared, her smile became somewhat forced.
After class at noon, Kiara walked toward the cafeteria with a few close classmates. From afar, she saw Alex and Miao Meiyuan walking together. Their bodies were pressed quite closely, and Miao Meiyuan was hugging Alex's arm just like in the morning, her chest brushing against him intentionally or unintentionally.
Kiara hesitated for a moment and pulled her classmate, "Let's go this way."
"Eh? We're almost there, why take a detour?"
"I'm thirsty. Let's go to the milk tea shop first; I'll treat you all to milk tea."
The backs of the girls disappeared.
Alex looked back and sighed helplessly, "What exactly are you trying to do? Xiao Fu didn't offend you, did she?"
The two had been walking just fine, but after Kiara appeared, Miao Meiyuan suddenly took on a clingy, slutty air. Alex even suspected if his whip had whipped her so comfortably that she had fallen for him.
Miao Meiyuan curled her lip in disdain, "That kind of good girl, I don't even have the desire to bully her. But you, as one of us, are walking so close to her; it's really infuriating."
Alex thought about it; this was probably jealousy on Miao Meiyuan's part, not that she liked Alex. Miao Meiyuan's situation was like a guy discovering that a pretty female classmate he was close to was suddenly walking very close to another boy; even if the guy didn't like the girl, he would suddenly become jealous.
Regarding Miao Meiyuan's display of anger, Alex felt helpless; he couldn't distance himself from Kiara just because of Miao Meiyuan.
Miao Meiyuan obviously thought of this too and became even more furious, "Ahhh, whatever! You made me unhappy, so you have to compensate me!"
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