Thinking this, Moore Audrey lowered her head again, continuing to seriously memorize her vocabulary along with Thompson Miguel’s voice.
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A day of serious study quickly passed. As the warm glow of the setting sun bathed the scene, Moore Audrey walked slowly down the road with Jade, her bag slung over her shoulder.
Halfway through, Jade suggested going for milk tea, but Moore Audrey refused.
Jade: “Are you really that devoted to studying? You won’t even accompany me for milk tea…”
Moore Audrey: “… I need to inspect my family’s haunted house. Are you sure you want to be a mountain on my path to inherit the family business?”
Jade: “… Do you think that excuse can convince me?”
Moore Audrey: “… You’re really Detective Jade.”
But in the end, Moore Audrey couldn’t shake off Jade, and with no other choice, she took Jade to the haunted house.
Once the little girl settled Jade in the work area, she seized the opportunity to sneak into the monitoring room, planning to see if the top student, Thompson Miguel, had come to the haunted house to do homework today.
It wasn’t that she was forgetting her friends for the sake of appearances; it was just that the top student loves doing homework in the haunted house, which was Thompson Miguel’s privacy. How could she casually disclose someone else’s private matters?
After watching the surveillance for a while and confirming that she hadn’t captured the top student on video, Moore Audrey felt a bit frustrated inside.
If the top student, Thompson Miguel, didn’t come to the haunted house to do homework, how could she connect with him?
Moore Audrey, furrowing her brows in distress, stepped out of the monitoring room and gazed out at the ground outside, lost in thought for a moment.
Finally, she decisively decided to head to the exit for a stroll and to ask Bryson if Thompson Miguel, the top student in her grade, had come to the haunted house today to complete his homework.
With her mind made up, Moore Audrey took the nearby staff passage to the back door.
Just as she reached the back door and was about to greet Bryson, who was steadfastly on duty, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly rang out ahead.
“Moore Audrey !!”
The girl instinctively looked up sharply and immediately spotted a tall, coolly composed boy standing just a meter away from the exit.
She froze for a moment oh… the top student, Thompson Miguel, had come to do homework today too~~
After a brief pause, Moore Audrey snapped back to reality and, without thinking, walked towards the boy, her brows arched in greeting:
“You came to do homework today, too?…”
Thompson Miguel paused, looking at her smiling face, and shook his head to deny her assumption: “No… I came to find you today…”
Moore Audrey couldn’t help but feel puzzled: “???“
The boy glanced around, paused for a moment, and then looked back at her:
“Shall we talk while we walk?“
Moore Audrey looked at him, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded, “Alright!“
She then followed the top student, Thompson Miguel, outside, completely forgetting that her friend Jade was patiently waiting in the haunted house’s tea room.
As they walked together, Audrey successfully learned that Thompson Miguel, the top student, lived in the same neighborhood as her, and then… it turned out that Thompson Miguel coming to the haunted house to do homework was actually a very important matter.
On the road at the entrance of the bustling neighborhood, the girl expressed her disbelief:
“So! You came to the haunted house to do homework just to treat… facial paralysis!!!“
Moore Audrey slightly parted her lips, looking up at the calm-faced top student.
A sudden, inexplicable sense of amusement rose in her heart, but adhering to her fourth principle, she made a great effort to keep her mouth shut, pressing her lips together to suppress her smile, and for a moment, her expression turned serious.
