It took three days before Shen Minyao received a call from Qin Zhi, informing her that they needed to meet that night. The fox woman also received a message from Zhao Yichen that morning, the young man apologizing for his recklessness during her visit and updating her with the changes in Gu Liuxian's condition.

Just like what Shen Minyao had expected during her last visit to Zhao Yichen, the flower fairy had eventually lost to her instincts and started to feed on Gu Liuxian. The man's health had started to deteriorate, and he had fallen sick suddenly.

Shen Minyao scoffed and locked her phone. What was it to her if Gu Liuxian died? It was the consequence of his involvement with a demon. As for Yulan, she should know better: her attachment to a human would only lead to her own death. She could not change the fact that she was a demon who fed on humans.

"You've been spending more time here at school. Don't tell me Mr. Jiang has already fired you," Shen Minyao then commented on Lu Anqi during their lunchtime.

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Lu Anqi gasped and shook her head.

"Of course not! They are not allowed to fire me! If they do, who will clean up the mess they always leave at the office," she muttered.

"Then, did something happen?" Now that Shen Minyao said it, Li Fei'er also wondered why Lu Anqi had been spending more time with them these days.

Lu Anqi huffed and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Mr. Jiang said that they can deal with the cases without me. He said that I only need to keep the office tidy and answer the calls whenever they aren't in."

Shen Minyao cupped her chin. She asked Lu Anqi this question in hopes that she could pry on Jiang Chen, whom she hadn't seen nor talked to for about two weeks now. She wondered if Jiang Chen was already aware of the case at the kindergarten.

This would be easy for her and Qin Zhi if they could get Jiang Chen's cooperation in this case. It was obvious that Qin Zhi's people weren't that proficient in doing research. Ha. Thinking about it, wouldn't this mean that they were being beaten by the humans in this aspect? Humans were naturally curious creatures, anyway.

"Well, that's better. So long as you couldn't increase your willpower to reject the spirits, I think Mr. Jiang wouldn't allow you to tag along with them," she told Lu Anqi. Because Lu Anqi was so in tune with the spirits, a moment of weakness on her part could be exploited by the malevolent spirits who wanted to possess her body. historical

"So I'm still not strong enough?" Lu Anqi frowned.

"It's not like they don't want you to join them, Lu Anqi, but I think they are trying to protect you from harm. You know how dangerous it could be for you." Li Fei'er gave her a sympathetic look before turning to Shen Minyao.

"Yaoyao, I heard that the results would be out today. Wanna join me to see if we passed the exam?"

"Oh? Is it today?" Shen Minyao almost forgot about it. The corner of her lips curled up. "Okay, let's see if I win the bet."

Before the three could reach the bulletin board where the scores were posted, someone in front of it exclaimed in shock.

"Gosh! Am I seeing things? Did Shen Minyao just topple the other honor students and take the number-one spot?"

"Hey, wouldn't this mean that she won the bet she had against Xu Shenshen and Shen Qing? I couldn't wait to see how those two would react once they knew they'd lost to Shen Minyao."

A young woman snickered with contempt.

"I would have never thought that there would be a day I would see those campus belles fall from their high horses."

"Look, even the transfer student, Li Fei'er, managed to secure the fifth place! I think there will be massive changes to the rankings this year!"

"Ah, so I did win. As expected." Shen Minyao's cold voice made everyone freeze.

They suddenly turned their heads to look at her and scrutinized her from head to toe. Shen Minyao used to be in the middle rankings before, but since her return this school year, they all felt that she had changed so much. Suddenly, she was acing the ranking!

When Shen Qing heard about the results, obviously, she was in a bad mood. She stared at the photo of the results sent by one of her cohorts. Seeing Shen Minyao's name on top of the ranking list made her extremely unhappy.

Shen Minyao!

She cursed her cousin repeatedly in her heart. Why couldn't she get rid of that useless person? She was sure that after Shen Minyao fell from that cliff, she thought that she had already won. Who would have thought that Shen Minyao would return from the dead and make Shen Qing's life a living hell?

Everyone kept on comparing her to the beautiful and elegant eldest miss of the Shen family, and of course, people liked to nitpick the inferior one—which was Shen Qing. In everything she did, Shen Minyao was bound to be better. To be repeatedly compared to Shen Minyao, how could Shen Qing not be annoyed with it?

All the things Shen Minyao was enjoying now should be hers! If Shen Minyao only died at Qingqiu Mountain, everything she had would eventually fall to Shen Qing's hands.

Xu Shenshen, who was seated next to her at the cafeteria, was also indignant upon seeing the results. Shen Minyao didn't get a perfect score, but the difference between her score to the second placer was so big that everyone could notice it.

"Shen Minyao has gone too far! She's so shameless! She must have been cheated to ace the exams!"

Of course, how could she admit defeat against Shen Minyao? However, it wouldn't change the fact that she and Shen Qing had lost the bet.