My older sister is a villainous rich girl

He looked at Gavin's retreating figure with a look of sympathy.

Goodbye, Gavin.

Take away your doomed, fruitless love.

However, apart from that, the atmosphere among the girls was generally cheerful.

After seeing Miss Molly off and safely sending Tasia home, only Wayne and Chris remained in the carriage.

Generally speaking, after a lively and noisy party ends, the person involved often feels a strong sense of loneliness.

It's like the saying "things have changed, people are gone, and prosperity is no more," which evokes a sense of inexplicable sadness.

Therefore, in order to alleviate Chris's possible low mood, Wayne deliberately changed his position when Tasia got off the carriage and sat next to Chris.

Well... it's just for this simple reason, nothing else.

Perhaps because she wanted to find a more comfortable person to lean on, Chris just rolled her eyes at him but didn't reject his advances.

"Didn't you say you were going to persuade Tasia to join the drama club? What happened?" Wayne asked, a little puzzled.

By the lake, it seemed he hadn't heard either of them mention the topic at all.

“She agreed as soon as I brought it up on the ship,” Chris sighed. “Tasia is so trusting.”

Wayne was silent for a moment, then asked softly, "So, are you really going to have Lawrence and Tasia play a couple?"

Lawrence's scheming nature clearly indicated he had ill intentions.

Because the story revolves around love, his scripts contain many intimate scenes of holding hands and embracing.

There's even a kissing scene at the end.

Although stage performances usually use camera tricks to convey the scene, but...

"Why would he get such a good deal?" Chris scoffed.

"The real prince actor—"

Then, from her beautiful lips, she uttered words that made Wayne's eyes widen in shock.

"It's me!"

It's me, it's me, it's me, it's me...

Wayne felt as if the words were echoing, playing repeatedly in his mind.

"Ah, this..."

He couldn't see his own face and didn't know what kind of expression he had at that moment.

But he knew it wouldn't look very good.

"Stop fooling around." Wayne couldn't help but gently pat her head.

Chris puffed out her cheeks.

“I’m not kidding!” Chris said. “Whatever, I’m going to star alongside Tasia.”

“Or I can play the commoner girl, and Tasia can play the prince.”

Upon hearing this, Wayne couldn't help but imagine Tasia dressed as a prince, leading Chris by the hand.

Wait, I can't let this image appear in my mind!

He shook his head violently, trying to banish those chaotic thoughts.

"The aura is strongest when the two of us are the main characters. Final victory will surely belong to us!"

As she spoke, Chris clenched her fist, a fierce fighting spirit seemingly burning behind her.

"Halo? What halo?" Wayne asked speechlessly.

“…Of course it is, the halo of a beautiful girl!” Chris said confidently.

Seeing her overflowing confidence, Wayne let out a long sigh.

"So, this is what you want to adjust?"

"No, casting is just the most basic change. To truly win, you still need a solid storyline."

Chris cracked her knuckles and said resolutely, "Over the next few days, I will rewrite a story that will truly shake everyone!"

Chapter 156 Is this the Drama Club's first move?

Recently, Wayne has been going in and out of the library more frequently.

Chris had almost gotten used to his changes.

After all, "frequent visits to the library" is a standard feature of top students.

Before any academic test, the library experiences a brief peak in visitor numbers, which then gradually recedes back to its usual sluggish state.

Now that the midterm exams are over, this place has unsurprisingly returned to its deserted state.

In the previous exam, Wayne, Chris, and Tasia encountered an accident and were unable to perform to their full potential.

Therefore, the academy provided them with a compensation plan.

Just as Chris had predicted, one of the items resulted in them receiving the highest score in their practical course.

"We are very sorry that there were oversights in our examination room security measures."

The teacher of the practical course even sent a representative to the Duke's mansion to visit him about his injuries.

With perfect scores in practical courses, plus Tasia and Wayne's already outstanding theoretical course grades... it's no exaggeration to say that they have dominated the entire grade in terms of academics.

Tasia came in first place, and Wayne came in second.

Even Richard could only come in third.

As for Chris, thanks to the school's compensation plan, she also received an overall rating of A this time.

However, he was at the very bottom of the honor roll, the last one in Grade A.

Since the start of the semester, Chris's lax attitude has finally dragged her down. Even with a perfect score in the practical course, her overall ranking still didn't surpass that of Gothic College.

Wayne sat with his head down on the sofa in the library's rest area, holding a book in his hands, seemingly very engrossed in the book.

However, he was actually keeping a discreet eye on the people entering and leaving the library.

Why hasn't it appeared yet?

She usually comes to the library around this time...

Just as he was hesitating about whether he should go to the tea restaurant outside, a girl with long, smooth hair walked in from the entrance.

Upon seeing that familiar figure, Wayne's eyes lit up, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

He pretended to close the book and got up, feigning that he was going to get another book to read.

Maintaining a certain distance, he followed behind Ge Li and entered the crisscrossing, dazzling library area.

Seeing that there was no one else around, Wayne moved closer.

"Miss Ge Li, are you here to borrow books too?"

Upon hearing his voice, Ge Li paused slightly as he was about to take a book from the bookshelf, but then resumed his normal actions.

She clutched a beautifully bound book that didn't look too thick to her chest, ignoring Wayne's pointless ramblings, and turned to go somewhere else.

—You didn't come here to borrow books, did you come here because you have nothing better to do than be bored like me?

Wayne pursed his lips and followed her soft footsteps inside.

As she stood on tiptoe, trying to reach for the books on the higher shelves, Wayne used his height advantage to take them down for her first.

"Talk to me for a bit." He handed her the book.

Ge Li did not look up at him.

After a two-second silence, she took the book from his hand and hugged it to her chest.

"I never thought you were the type to talk nonsense before," she said coldly and sarcastically.

Wayne smiled.

Have you read all the letters I wrote?

These days, he writes long letters to Ge Li almost every day.

Although the content consists of ordinary daily observations and some random, imaginative thoughts, the sheer number of words makes each piece a thick stack.

This might be quite a burden for her...

“Perhaps I really didn’t like talking nonsense before,” he sighed softly. “It seems that Miss Geli has changed me.”

Beside her, Ge Li's slender fingers, which were holding the book, tightened.

A moment later, her soft voice rang out.

“You… don’t need to write about what random things you saw on the street every time.”

Wayne's gaze softened as he looked at her profile, which she was deliberately avoiding.

"But when I saw them, I thought that if Miss Ge Li had seen those things with me, she would have found them very interesting."

He stepped forward.

"Can I... hug you?"

Upon hearing this, Ge Li gritted his teeth.

"Don't ask me that kind of question!" she muttered resentfully.

Wayne closed his eyes and held her in his arms.

With visual interference avoided, the perception of other organs becomes more acute.

A pleasant, subtle fragrance emanated from Miss Ge Li, just as refreshing and elegant as the impression she left on everyone.

All I could hear was her slightly rapid breathing.

Panic.

But the affection is deep.

Wayne felt very thirsty at that moment.

Just as he lowered his head, trying to find that sweetness, Ge Li suddenly pushed him away.

"Okay."

These three words acted as a closure, suppressing the escalating tension between the two that seemed poised to spiral out of control at the slightest provocation.

Wayne's Adam's apple bobbed, and he silently withdrew his hand.

Neither of them spoke.

For a moment, only the erratic heartbeats and breaths spoke of the unrest here.

After calming down a bit, Wayne turned his face away and placed his hands on the bookshelf.

"Was the competition that your orchestra agreed to this time still planned by you?"

He asked in a low voice.

Ge Li, standing beside him, didn't dare to look at him and awkwardly straightened his clothes.

“Of course,” she said.

"Don't compare." In his haste, Wayne tried to grab her hand.

But as soon as he raised his hand, he hesitated.

After a brief pause, he pretended to be nonchalant and tidied the hair on his forehead.

"Even if we're going to have a competition, it's best if you don't step in."

Ge Li sneered, "What's so special about this? The drama club's first move is for you to launch an attack on me?"

“No…” Wayne didn’t know what to say.

"It's not because of our relationship that I'm asking you to back down or anything, but... it's because you really have a good chance of losing."

Wayne racked her brains trying to figure out how to convey what she wanted to say in a way that wouldn't be offensive to her.