Chapter 1425 - 1424: Go Say Hello

Chapter 1425: Chapter 1424: Go Say Hello

"Brother Xiao Yu, didn’t you have dinner with Hou Baiyu and those geniuses? Is it true?"

A teenager across the table asked with a grin.

Jia Xiaoyu looked up, with little expression and without the smugness others might expect. He said casually, "Yes, I did."

The teenager leaned forward and asked, "Is Hou Baiyu easy to get along with? What’s your relationship like?"

Jia Xiaoyu thought about it. He had a few chances to interact with Hou Baiyu, but it was all thanks to Brother Xiao Rui, who called him along. Hou Baiyu was cold and indifferent to others, but his expression softened when he was with Brother Xiao Rui and those people.

Then there’s Fu Xuan Ge. He always seemed so arrogant, yet when he’s with Brother Xiao Rui’s crowd, he turned into a show-off, which wasn’t so bad.

Thanks to Brother Xiao Rui’s influence, neither of them looked down on him. On the contrary, they seemed quite calm and approachable, making the interactions feel less distant.

"Feels pretty good," Jia Xiaoyu said.

He didn’t deliberately try to please anyone. He was invited by Brother Xiao Rui and couldn’t lose face for him. Moreover, he didn’t intend to curry favor; only personal effort mattered. Getting things backward wouldn’t work.

The teenager across the table exchanged looks with another person, both noticing disbelief in each other’s eyes. If Hou Baiyu were so easy to get along with, he wouldn’t always be alone and only hang out with genius Fu Xuan Ge.

Their standards were high, and it’s impossible for people like them to mingle together.

Before, when rumors circulated about Jia Xiaoyu dining with Hou Baiyu, they didn’t believe it. Now, it seemed to them like Jia Xiaoyu was just stubbornly insisting.

In the Songya School, Jia Xiaoyu was among the top, but at this exchange conference, he didn’t even rank, and it was unclear if it affected him.

Although all belonged to the same school, Jia Xiaoyu’s genius halo was too annoying, inevitably arousing jealousy among some, though not too malicious, yet seeing him embarrassed did bring some schadenfreude.

This reflects the psychology of disliking those who outperform oneself.

"Brother Xiao Yu, please don’t lie. Is Hou Baiyu really so easygoing?" The teenager’s sidelong glance spotted a few figures entering through the doorway, among them Hou Baiyu, and he asked intentionally.

Jia Xiaoyu nodded, "He’s actually quite nice."

"So, does that mean your relationship with Brother Xiao Yu is also good?" the person asked.

Jia Xiaoyu didn’t know how to answer this question. He felt the relationship was good, but what about them?

Surely, it can’t be one-sided, especially with such a gap in capability.

"It’s alright," Jia Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment and said.

The others observed this ambiguous answer and the prior hesitation, further believing he was just putting up a front.

"I didn’t expect, our Brother Xiao Yu actually has a decent relationship with such a great genius. Brother Xiao Yu, he’s just arrived, do you want to say hi?" The teenager’s face brimmed with a big smile, his tone subtly holding a sense of anticipating a spectacle.

Jia Xiaoyu could sense it. Not all family geniuses are surrounded by others. On the surface, they won’t offend him, but covertly, there’s some exclusion. After all, he’s unlikely to wield power in the future and may be cultivated as a spiritual pillar.

Families like theirs, being second-class, can’t hope to place the hope of spiritual pillars and heirs on a single person, even if they wished, they’d have no one with such ability.