Chapter 623: Lovesickness to the Bone (3)
Chapter 623: Chapter 623: Lovesickness to the Bone (3)
Vera Xavier had just told off Crystal Quinn in front of everyone. A carefree and somewhat naive girl asked Vera, "I’ve heard a lot of rumors about you, but after meeting you, I see you’re not quite like what they say. Do you have some kind of backing, too?"
The moment she asked, all the other girls fell silent and turned to look at Vera Xavier in unison.
They were actually curious about this as well. Although classes had only officially started two days ago, Vera Xavier had definitely become one of the most talked-about figures among the first-year students.
Whether it was her perfect scores in every subject, saving someone and then confronting Susan Caldwell yesterday, or Susan’s deliberate attempts to slander her, everything had made everyone intensely curious about her.
The speculation about her having backing was mainly related to her hitting Susan Caldwell the day before. After all, Susan was well-known for her powerful connections, yet after Vera hit her, she acted as if nothing had happened and faced no punishment.
Susan Caldwell hadn’t reported Vera Xavier to the school administration. On one hand, the thirty laps Sheldon Caldwell had made her run yesterday made her understand clearly that the Caldwell Family wouldn’t let her abuse her privileges at school. If the incident blew up and Winter Sullivan got involved, she felt the consequences would be even more severe.
On the other hand, it was due to her own arrogance; she believed that even without the school administration getting involved, she had her own ways of dealing with Vera Xavier.
Seeing all the girls staring at her, Vera Xavier smiled calmly. "Backing? Of course I have that!"
All the girls’ eyes lit up, and they began to weigh the pros and cons of befriending her.
Although the students who got into Veridia University were all smart and capable, that was only in the context of their previous schools. Things were different now that they were at Veridia University.
When you put a group of exceptional people together, there will always be someone who stands out even more.
It wasn’t that they were trying to form cliques, they just wanted their daily academic lives to be a bit smoother and more comfortable.
Vera Xavier saw their expressions, leisurely poked at the rice in her bowl with her chopsticks, and said just as unhurriedly, "My family has a huge feature wall."
Fiona Wright let out a "PFFT" and nearly spat out her rice.
The girls who had been planning to cozy up to her were instantly stunned. She wasn’t playing by the script at all!
’Forget it. We should probably just stick to learning her stretching and muscle relaxation techniques. While she isn’t cold or aloof, she’s definitely not the easy-to-approach type, either.’
Vera Xavier wanted to laugh when she saw the looks on their faces. ’Now *these* are the expressions normal eighteen-year-old girls should have. Not every girl is as good at putting on an act as Cara Preston and Susan Caldwell.’
Speaking of Cara Preston, Vera Xavier felt a flicker of curiosity. ’I wonder where those people took her?’
’Back when I set that trap for Cara, I didn’t give it much thought. I didn’t particularly care where she’d be sold off to. To me, she was already in a miserable state with no chance of ever making a comeback, so her location didn’t matter.’
Fiona Wright and Shirley Ewing, however, felt their lips twitch. They had both discovered that if Vera Xavier wanted to take someone down, her verbal combat skills would go off the charts, delivering a takedown so brutal it would make you question your very existence. But in daily interactions, she was actually quite friendly and not the type to constantly pick fights.
After finishing their meal, the girls rested for a bit before preparing to head back to their dorms.
Just then, the sound of a bugle call for assembly suddenly echoed from the athletic field.