Mu Ning stiffened. Turning around, she saw Liam slowly walking toward them.
He looked completely expressionless. Mu Ning blinked before smiling brightly.
"See, Teacher? I wasn't lying. We're not friends after all; he belongs to a prestigious family, while I am a peasant."
Liam nodded without changing his expression. "Indeed. Nowadays, people can be ungrateful while still pretending to be kind-hearted."
Mu Ning's lips twitched. She leaned toward Teacher Rui and whispered,
"Teacher, look at him. With a poisonous tongue like that, do you really think he'd mentor anyone? He'd probably criticise me to death before teaching me anything."
Before Teacher Rui could reply, Liam calmly spoke. "Who said I don't want to mentor you?"
Mu Ning frowned. Just as she was about to refuse, hurried footsteps echoed through the hallway.
"Teacher!"
Sun Haoran jogged toward them. "I can mentor Mu Ning."
