The Unregistered Phone Number

During their lunch break, Lim Xian and his buddies were usually seated on the table they always considered as part of their territory near the sliding table. The students here are normally scared of them and their presence alone that no one dared to sit on that spot.

As usual, their main topic for today was regarding Xian and if he was already able to pull his and Wang Qing He's plan of making his target fall in love with him.

"Ah, so Wang Qing He was able to come out of that plan huh. Very smart of you, my buddy." Liu Yang smirked in his direction while he took a sip of his iced tea.

Yang Shunyuan took a bite from the desert that he bought from the counter earlier before he started speaking. "So, any progress yet?"

Even though Lim Xian doesn't say anything, the gloom on his face says it all. Liu Yang can't help but laugh his ass off seeing how dreadful his friend's face is.

"He is being hopeless," says his three friends to themselves as they look at his desperate face.

"Oh, man! I never thought this girl would be so difficult to crack! She must be really unique, huh?" Liu Yang stated and wiggled his eyebrows teasingly.

In response, Lim Xian only snickered at him and said, "Unique, my foot. It won't be long enough before that girl agrees to be my girlfriend, trust me."

Liu Yang immediately stopped laughing the minute he sensed the confidence from his voice right now. He knows that if his friend Xian is being like this, then he must be hiding something from his sleeve.

"Ooh, is it just me, or our boy Xian is being unusually confident now?" Liu Yang teased some more. "It looks like you've got something in mind, yes?"

"Of course I do! What do you take me for?" Lim Xian smirked to himself. Then he added, "Just wait and see. Sooner or later, that girl will be under my spell in a few days."

Speaking of the devil, Lim Xian spotted his target outside the cafeteria with her other loser friends passing by the cafeteria on their way to the student lounge, a place that is being considered as the hangout place for the losers.

He focused his gaze on the girl's face as he whispered this to himself, "Just you wait, peasant girl."

***

In their last-period class, most students are already way too sleepy to even pay attention to their teacher but they still tried their best to pretend that they are still up for it.

However, among all these students, Li Meilin was the only one who is still perky to participate in the oral recitation. She would literally do anything that could help her earn high grades by the end of the semester to maintain her scholarship.

In the midst of their boring class, the bell suddenly rang, which immediately awakened the senses of all the people present here. Even the teacher was somehow glad to know that his work here is done already.

Before dismissing them though, the teacher didn't miss the opportunity to provide them their homework for the week to which all the students groaned but were still obliged to take note of that.

Afterward, the teacher quickly dismissed his class and left the classroom. As soon as he left, some students hurriedly placed their things inside their bags and went out of the room as fast as they could.

Zhao Chen and Mi Wei quickly approached Li Meilin to bid goodbye to their friend before they each proceed to their corresponding activities. Of course, Li Meilin quickly dismissed the two while she was still fixing her things neatly inside her bag.

By the time she finished doing so, her two friends had already left the room to go to their respective after class activities. As for her, she has to go back to her demon master's house directly to help with the household chores before she spends the rest of her time studying and doing her homework.

On her way to the ground floor, she can't help but overhear some students gathering in one corner of the hallway how they brag about the cool stuff they got from their parents for getting high marks this semester.

If only her mom is still alive, Li Meilin is quite sure that she would also get something from her as her reward as a job well done for maintaining her high grades.

But since she is not here with her any longer, Li Meilin then knew that she just had to pat herself now and acknowledge her own achievements by herself. No one would do that anymore except herself from now on.

Just the mere thought of it makes her sad all of a sudden.

"Geez, stupid rich kids!" Li Meilin whispered to herself before she purposely walked faster than before so as not to overhear them bragging about their stuff any longer.

Why is it that all the rich kids do is brag about their things and show off their flashy cars? The more Li Meilin stays here, the more it annoys her. But anyway, one year from now she will graduate from her high school which she also considered as a hell hole.

"I can't wait to graduate college and have a nice degree!"

She was already near the campus gates when she felt her cell phone ringing from the small pocket of her bag. With a confused look plastered on her face, Li Meilin grabbed for it and saw an unregistered phone number calling her right now.

"And whose number is this?" she asked herself. Yet nonetheless, she answers the call almost hesitantly.

"Hello--"

"Why do you have to answer your goddamn phone after ten rings huh?!"

Before she could even finish her sentence, that familiar rude voice suddenly interrupted her. Li Meilin looked at her phone screen once again and made an immediate guess that this unregistered number must belong to her young demon master.

"What do you want?" Meilin asked in a toneless voice. She wasn't surprised how her demon master got a hold of her phone number since he has his connections.

"Get your ass here in our hangout spot as fast as you can. And oh, bring five soda cans! There's a Vendo machine on your way to our hangout place. Bye!"

Before Meilin could even have the chance to react, Lim Xian already hung up. Talk about being rude!

Without any second thoughts, Li Meilin immediately adds his unregistered phone number to her contacts under an alias: MY YOUNG DEMON MASTER.