The Master's Mask Unveiled Again

Chapter 324: Chapter 323: How Could Sui Yuan Have a Jointly Signed Book? (Add More)

Fu Man showed little emotion. “He should come back.”

Lu Xi furrowed his brow. “Mom, why didn’t you mention that tomorrow is the 6th, Lu Mian’s birthday?”

Lu Mian and Lu Xinnuan were twins, but Lu Mian was born on the 6th in the late evening, after ten o’clock, while Lu Xinnuan was born in the early hours of the 7th. Just two hours apart, yet not on the same day.

As Lu Xi brought up this name over and over, Pei Jinlan also grew a bit impatient.

“Alright, the food is getting cold, let’s eat quickly.”

—-

The next day at school.

After class, Lu Xinnuan walked past Sui Yuan’s desk and saw Sui Yuan packing up her desk hole, seemingly looking for something.

Among her stacks of books, Lu Xinnuan suddenly caught sight of something and, curious, walked over.

“Sui Yuan, what is this book?”

She pulled out a book that was barely visible under the pile. Holding it in her hand, she was surprised. “Sui Yuan, this is Ya Qing’s ‘Her Secret’! How do you have this book?”

With lips bitten, Sui Yuan straightened up from the desk hole and spoke timidly, “It’s mine.”

“Yours?” Lu Xinnuan was clearly not convinced.

Everyone knew how hard it was to buy this book. Even if Era Middle School had donated a thousand copies to the school, that wasn’t enough to go around, not even for the first year students.

Now seeing such an unknown person as Sui Yuan with it, she was quite surprised.

Several classmates craned their necks to look over.

“Really! Sui Yuan, where did you buy it?”

“It’s very hard to get. It’s probably a pirated copy, I guess…”

While this discussion was going on, Lu Xinnuan had already opened the front page of the book, and then—

She saw the bright signature on the title page, and was shocked.

“A signed edition?”

“And it’s a joint signed edition by Ya Qing and Cang Xue!”

The whole class was shocked; a joint signature by Ya Qing and Cang Xue was extremely rare! The last book, “Bouncing Back”, had a signed edition that ended up on the market and was even auctioned off for hundreds of thousands.

This showed how precious a joint signed edition book was.

Someone checked the signature on their phone and confirmed it was real, causing an even greater shock.

The last book had only one co-signed edition.

So, how did Sui Yuan come to have such a book?

“Sui Yuan, where did you get this?”

“I… I… It’s mine…” Sui Yuan was frightened, as so many people looked at her with that kind of gaze, she could barely speak.

Moreover, she didn’t know how to explain.

“If you just had a Ya Qing signed book, that would be understandable, since our school had a few copies before. But now with a joint signature edition, it’s very suspicious.”

“Could it be stolen…” someone whispered.

“Ah? Sui Yuan steals things now?”

“Could it be something taken from Era Middle School? They should have enough signed editions there, right…” With Sheng Zijin around, they definitely wouldn’t be short on those.

“Damn, if they find out that someone from our school stole their stuff, that would be a huge disgrace!”

Sui Yuan shook her head in protest, “I didn’t… Give it back to me…”

But her timid voice was quickly drowned out in the commotion.

It wasn’t until a boy walked through the back door and called out coldly to this side, “That’s hers!”

Everyone turned around and saw that it was Su Jue. They were taken aback.

“Su Shao, how do you know it’s hers?”

Su Jue glanced indifferently at Sui Yuan, pulled the book back from Lu Xinnuan’s hand, and returned it to Sui Yuan.

Sui Yuan immediately put it away safely.

He said, “It seems you haven’t heard.”

“Heard what?”

Su Jue’s gaze swept over Lu Xinnuan, carrying a hint of mockery, “Lu Mian from Class 1 (25), is Cang Xue.”

“Ah…”

“This has already been proven to be false news, Lu Mian is an imitator.”

Su Jue shook his head, “But last night, she admitted herself that she is Cang Xue.”

He had also heard about this from Su Luo.

Last night, Su Luo told him a lot, including things he didn’t know and misunderstandings he had had, saying that the reason he was still alive and well was all due to his grandfather’s influence.

As for the fate of the Bai Family, that was the best example.

He hadn’t slept all night.

After sobering up, he no longer had the same spirit as before.

“She showed her Weibo account to the students in her class. She’s indeed Cang Xue herself,” Su Jue paused, “It’s not surprising that Sui Yuan and Lu Mian know each other, she has a copy of the new book with a joint signature.”

The classroom was in shock, unable to react.

Su Jue spread his hands, “If you don’t believe me, you can go ask the people from Class 25; I bet they’ve already started to spread the word.”

“…”

The classroom was extremely quiet, everyone was embarrassingly silent, apologizing and returning to their seats.

Only Lu Xinnuan had an expression of world-shattering horror, as if she’d swallowed something distasteful.

Her idol, the one she had always been imitating…

Turned out to be the person she hated the most!

—-

At this moment, the students in Class 1 (25) were living it up like every day was a festival, with new bombshell news every day and fresh “Lu God slapping faces and punishing jerks” series of events to watch daily.

The news that Lu Mian was Cang Xue had gone out, drawing countless students to their class doorway, asking for autographs, asking for photos…

Pang Hao and Shouhao were both troubled.

Brother Mian’s popularity was too high, and their Milky Way Protection Squad for Mian had reached full capacity.

“How come Brother Mian hasn’t arrived yet?”

“It’s good that he hasn’t. Look at the queue outside the door waiting for autographs.”

Last night, a student who had attended the party whispered, “Hey, didn’t you guys forget about Lu Mian hitting Director Qi last night?”

“…”

They were fine until this was mentioned, but once it came up, everyone started to worry, nervously sweating over Lu Mian’s future.

Until Ding Cai arrived to teach the first class.

“Tomorrow, the school will be bidding farewell to Era Middle School. The school praised our class for performing well this time, so they want someone from our class to give a speech. Does anyone want to volunteer? You’ll just need to read a script. It’s very simple.”

Ding Cai had barely finished speaking when the students looked at each other with strange looks.

Then, a name burst out in unison from the class.

“Lu Mian!”

Ding Cai was startled, “You can’t let Lu Mian do everything; she’s already done enough.”

“But teacher, she is Cang Xue! It’s confirmed!”

“If Lu Mian used the voice of Cang Xue to read the script, I bet the people from Era Middle School would never forget it!”

“Wouldn’t that be an even bigger slap in the face?!”

Lu Mian is Cang Xue?!

Ding Cai stood on the podium pinching the philtrum between his nose, completely disheveled.

He happened to see Lu Mian, who was late, entering the classroom, and he called out, “Cang Xue?”

Lu Mian ‘oh’ed, sitting back in her seat expressionlessly.

Ding Cai: My quick! relief! heart-saving! pill!

After Lu Mian sat down, she listlessly slumped onto the desk, no longer like usual, sitting at the back reading novels.

The whole class was staring at her, and soon noticed something was off about her.

Ding Cai hurried down from the podium, “Lu Mian, what’s wrong with you?”