HBWMA -Chapter 199 A Knife Scraping the Butt

When Jiang Huashan and Fu Sui’er walked into the classroom, Fu Xiaoxiao and her entourage were gathered around their phones, talking excitedly. The group glanced at Jiang Huashan, exchanged looks, and quickly toned things down, shifting their posture as if nothing had happened.

Fu Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and waved her phone at Jiang Huashan. “Hey! Jiang Huashan, did you post this anonymous thread?”

Jiang Huashan set her backpack down and looked at her from two rows away. “Yeah? So what?”

Fu Xiaoxiao wore a look of gloating satisfaction. “Nothing. I’m just laughing because someone’s about to be in trouble. Don’t say I didn’t warn you—Brother Guan He isn’t someone you can mess with.”

Jiang Huashan smiled faintly and turned away, completely ignoring her.

Fu Xiaoxiao’s face instantly darkened with anger. She stood up and walked out of the classroom, her followers quickly exchanging glances and hurrying after her.

“Xiaoxiao, class is about to start. Where are you going?”

Fu Xiaoxiao glared through the classroom doorway at Jiang Huashan. “To find Brother Guan He.”

The followers immediately went quiet. Everyone knew her intention—she said she was going to see Guan He, but it was clearly just an excuse. She was actually heading for Zhou Yanheng.

No one dared to point it out and could only follow silently.

The group reached the stairwell just as Zhou Qishan was coming up the steps.

Fu Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and deliberately blocked her path. “Oh? Why don’t I see you with Su Miao today?”

Zhou Qishan’s expression darkened. “Fu Xiaoxiao, are you done yet?”

Fu Xiaoxiao smirked even more smugly. “Oh, I get it. Your Su Miao ran off with Jiang Huashan yesterday and skipped class without you, and this morning the two of them were whispering by the flowerbed again. Looks like someone’s about to be abandoned~”

Zhou Qishan shoved Fu Xiaoxiao aside.

Fu Xiaoxiao didn’t back down and shouted after her, “Androgynous freak. Who would want to hang out with you anyway?”

Zhou Qishan paused mid-step.

Fu Xiaoxiao’s followers were so scared they started trembling. Although Zhou Qishan usually had a good temper, she was still a young lady of the Zhou family, and they didn’t dare offend her casually.

But in the end, Zhou Qishan didn’t look back. After a brief pause, she continued toward the classroom.

The group quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Xiaoxiao, don’t you like Young Master Zhou? Why do you keep going after Zhou Qishan?”

At that, Fu Xiaoxiao’s disgust toward Zhou Qishan deepened even more. Originally, she had wanted to get closer to her, but no matter how she tried to extend an olive branch, Zhou Qishan never accepted it—on the contrary, she clung to Su Miao like a dog.

Her grandfather had said that if the Fu family wanted to form a marriage alliance with the Zhou family, the biggest rival would be the Su family.

The Su family only had Su Miao as a marriageable daughter, which meant that unless Su Miao was pushed aside, Brother A-Chen might end up belonging to someone else.

Thinking of this, Fu Xiaoxiao felt increasingly unwilling. Since Zhou Qishan looked down on her, she would ruin the relationship between her and Su Miao instead. Zhou Qishan was still favored in the Zhou family—if Su Miao and Zhou Qishan fell out, Su Miao’s temperament meant she would definitely refuse any marriage alliance with the Zhou family.

But none of this could be spoken aloud. Fu Xiaoxiao shook her hair and said casually, “Brother A-Chen doesn’t care about her anyway. Let’s go.”

When Zhou Qishan entered the classroom, she properly restrained her emotions. Her gaze swept between Jiang Huashan and Su Miao before she slowly walked to her seat.

“Morning, Miao Miao.”

Su Miao was packing her bag and didn’t even look up. “Morning.”

Zhou Qishan felt a slight sense of disappointment but pretended not to care as she put down her bag and asked, “Miao Miao, where did you go yesterday?”

Su Miao paused and looked up at her.

Zhou Qishan quickly changed her question. “Yesterday, Brother Qingyu beat up Brother Guan He. Where did you all go? Why did Brother Brother Qingyut so angry?”

Su Miao didn’t want to reveal anything about the “crazy woman” for now, so after thinking it over, she brushed it off. “Nowhere. I just went out for a casual walk.”

Zhou Qishan looked slightly disappointed, but still nodded. “That’s good. I was just worried about you.”

Su Miao felt a little guilty and turned her head away without responding.

On the other side, Jiang Huashan was still thinking about Su Yun.

Why did she deliberately bump into Su Miao?

Could it be that she had sensed something?

Jiang Huashan rested her chin on one hand and looked through the glass window toward the opposite DeCai Building. She was still thinking about Su Yun when she suddenly saw a group of people carrying cameras moving back and forth in the corridor.

This immediately caught her attention. She pointed at the DeCai Building across the way and tapped Fu Sui’er’s shoulder.

“What are they doing over there? Why are there so many people?”

Fu Sui’er turned to look. “Yeah, why are there so many people?”

The boy in front seized the opportunity and quickly turned around to explain enthusiastically.

“I heard a big-budget youth idol drama is coming to our school to film. Those people are shooting on location.”

Fu Sui’er frowned. “Filming on location? Who agreed to that? Our school would actually allow this?”

The boy glanced at Jiang Huashan. “You don’t know?”

Jiang Huashan looked at him. “Should we know?”

The boy’s ears turned bright red. He quickly turned around, took out a poster, and placed it on Jiang Huashan’s desk.

“The new-generation top beauty, the national goddess Xiao Lanlan!”

“……”

Jiang Huashan and Fu Sui’er both looked like they had just swallowed a rotten egg.

Jiang Huashan couldn’t help but ask from the depths of her soul: “Who came up with that ridiculous title?”

Fu Sui’er replied, “Probably herself.”

“……”

The boy hadn’t expected this reaction at all. Isn’t Xiao Lanlan their cousin?

On the poster, Xiao Lanlan wore a pure, barely-there “no-makeup” makeup look, her watery eyes gazing into the distance with melancholy and depth.

Jiang Huashan asked, “What is she acting as? A blind girl?”

Fu Sui’er said, “I don’t know. Who exactly is this kind of content even for? How did she even get popular?”

The two of them looked at the boy in unison.

The boy swallowed nervously, reacting quickly. He immediately picked up the poster and threw it on the ground.

“I hate chasing celebrities the most.”

Only then did Jiang Huashan and Fu Sui’er’s expressions ease up.

Jiang Huashan smiled sweetly. “Do you know what they’re filming? How many days will it take?”

The boy turned around again and pulled out a booklet from his desk.

“The Moonlight Beside the Dance Studio Next Door.” It’s about a girl born for dance who resists school bullying.”

Fu Sui’er took the synopsis and skimmed it, her expression looking like an old man staring at a phone on the subway.

“She’s playing a helpless girl who gets bullied??? Knife scraping the butt—this is truly eye-opening.”

Jiang Huashan asked, “Where did you get this?”

The boy scratched his head. “This morning the crew distributed them. They said the actors they found over in DeCai didn’t really have the ‘bullied’ vibe, so they came to our side to see if anyone was willing to act. I just happened to pass by and picked one up.”

Jiang Huashan stared at the booklet in Fu Sui’er’s hand, deep in thought, about to speak when suddenly a shadow fell over them.

“Kid, explain. Did you hand this out?”