Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?-Chapter 16 - 15: The Mastermind Behind the Scenes

As soon as the question was asked, Yu Shujun immediately tucked her legs under the desk.

...Guilty conscience?

Wen Nan looked at the school uniform pants blocked by the desk corner.

Yu Shujun took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly. Even though it was a summer night, it gave the illusion that her breath could condense into frost.

She still didn't answer Wen Nan's question, only raised her hand to check the watch again, then said, "Seventeen minutes and twenty-three seconds left. In this remaining time, apart from questions related to the test paper, I don't want to hear a single word from you, or else, bear the consequences."

Wen Nan raised his hand, pinched his fingers together, placed them at his lips, mimicking a zipper closing.

Yu Shujun lowered her head, refocusing on her Olympiad simulation paper.

Wen Nan stopped talking, but he didn't really intend to look at the paper.

Solving problems was impossible for him, he could never solve problems in this lifetime.

He lay on the desk, turned his head, and looked up from beneath at the profile of the girl next to him.

Yu Shujun's lashes, hidden under her glasses, fluttered slightly, probably sensing Wen Nan's gaze, but she stubbornly refused to give him a glance.

The two maintained a silent stalemate for a while.

Finally, Wen Nan broke the silence again, "I have a question."

Yu Shujun turned to look at him, her eyes saying: You better really have a question.

This time, Wen Nan pushed the paper in front of him over, pointing to the first question, "I have a problem with this multiple-choice question."

Yu Shujun looked at the question—

[Xiao Wei and Xiao Jun are designing an irrigation system for a hospital garden. They plan to install a central fountain in an elliptical garden, which can evenly irrigate the entire garden. The garden's long axis is 40 meters, the short axis is 30 meters, and the central fountain should be placed at the focus to ensure maximum coverage. The garden center's coordinates are the origin (0,0).

Question: Where should the fountain be placed to ensure optimal coverage of the garden area?

A)(±5, 0)

B)(±10, 0)

C)(±15, 0)

D)(±20, 0)]

This is the first question of the whole paper, a giveaway question, it doesn't even use senior year mathematics knowledge!

Yu Shujun took a deep breath to calm herself, then said, "What's the question, tell me."

Wen Nan pointed at the problem and asked, "I want to ask, are Xiao Wei and Xiao Jun best friends?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Shujun's pupils shrank. Even though she tried hard to conceal it, a flash of surprise appeared on her face.

But she quickly reverted to a blank face, retorting, "Do you think your question has anything to do with the paper?"

"It does." Wen Nan nodded earnestly, "This is the background of the question. If it's not clarified, I'll be very troubled while solving it."

Saying that, Wen Nan's gaze returned to the direction of the iodine patch on Yu Shujun's pants,

"Xiao Wei's knee was scraped and she was sent to the school hospital. It was already late, and besides the on-duty doctor, there wasn't anyone else in the school hospital. And Xiao Jun, who should have been in the classroom waiting to tutor Little Jiu, left midway to see her in the school hospital, why?

"Because Xiao Jun and Xiao Wei are best friends who were worried about each other being alone in the hospital, or is there... another hidden motive?"

Yu Shujun looked at Wen Nan silently, her gaze full of scrutiny, seemingly having seriously underestimated the boy's intelligence and insight in front of her.

Seeing her not speak, Wen Nan continued to talk by himself,

"If we assume that Xiao Jun and Xiao Wei are best friends, then as known, Xiao Wei previously gave Little Jiu a letter, slipped into Little Jiu's desk, inviting Little Jiu to the playground, but Little Jiu didn't see the letter, missing Xiao Wei's invitation.

"Therefore, theoretically, Xiao Wei and Little Jiu should not have been able to meet in the evening, but Xiao Wei's best friend noticed the letter in the classroom in time and told Xiao Wei, which resulted in Xiao Wei bringing the letter to the playground, leading to a moment of chaos.

"In other words, the mishap at the playground that night was not an actual accident but was intentionally caused, wasn't it?"

After Wen Nan finished speaking, he looked into Yu Shujun's eyes, speaking word by word, "Xiao Wei's best friend?"

This time, Yu Shujun finally put down her pen, turned her head, and looked into Wen Nan's eyes, asking, "What exactly are you trying to say? Is it strange that Xiao Wei has a best friend? Her best friend thought for her, afraid she would miss it, delivered the letter for her, and upon learning about her scraped knee, went to the hospital to see her. Is there any problem with these actions?"

Theoretically, there's nothing wrong.

The characters in this newbie trial instance have interactions; it's normal, like how Qiqi and her Aunt Lin Xue Mei would keep close contact, even having a blood relation.

If the school beauty Wu Yuwei and the top student Yu Shujun are best friends, standing out for a friend in trouble isn't a strange thing either.

However...

Wen Nan felt that Yu Shujun's current behavior had already exceeded the scope of a character in an instance.

Characters having their own behavioral logic is not surprising, yet Wen Nan felt that at least, for the strategy target he chose, their behavior's underlying logic should revolve around him.

For example, before Wen Nan didn't go to the appointment, Qiqi would always sit by the small flower bed outside the playground waiting for him, Small Pepper and Aunt Mei would, failing to get Wen Nan, try to find Wen Nan to complete the appointment. Wu Yuwei's actions showed some deviations, but they were always centered around the theme of confessing to Ye Jiu.

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If following this logic, when Yu Shujun hadn't met "her help target Ye Jiu" at the classroom's back door, shouldn't she have chosen to continue waiting, messaging to urge Ye Jiu, or simply angrily leaving?

She went to see Wu Yuwei in the school hospital, then came back to Class Two of the third grade pretending nothing had happened, continuing to wait for Ye Jiu. What's the purpose behind this behavior?

Actually, it wasn't just the visit to Wu Yuwei in the school hospital.

Upon arriving at the classroom and seeing Yu Shujun for the first time, Wen Nan was stunned because Yu Shujun's attire was the exact same as the person mentioned in the background stories of the other two characters—

The background introduction of Small Pepper showed that she, not being a student of Qi Middle School, wouldn't have been able to enter the campus were it not for a female student wearing a Qi Middle School uniform, thick glasses, and a high ponytail who helped her negotiate with the gate guard.

The same thing was mentioned by Aunt Mei; she said she was also led by a girl with glasses inside.

All these things combined point to one fact—

Whether it was the minor battleground when Liu Qi and Wu Yuwei appeared together earlier or the medium battleground later when Small Pepper and Aunt Mei joined in, the mastermind behind the scenes was Yu Shujun.