Becoming Number One with Confession Attacks - Chapter 3

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Aiden, who had somehow completely removed the cursed cloth and returned, carefully placed it by the window. Not forgetting to give Sonnet an eye smile.

As soon as he sat down next to her, Sonnet said.

“Are you really going to date me?”

“I said I like you.”

Their gazes met calmly. Aiden’s eyes became strangely sharp.

“You’re not joking around with something like this, are you?”

At those words, Sonnet’s mouth opened and closed before she finally shut it.

“Caseed has been meeting a girl lately too and dropped 10 places.”

She recalled the story she heard in front of the bulletin board where report cards were posted. Come to think of it, they said grades drop when you’re in a relationship.

‘If we hang out together and I observe how Aiden studies and interfere…’

It didn’t seem too bad. Though the current situation was flowing strangely different from her expectations.

“As if it’s a joke, I’m serious.”

Sonnet lied. Anyway, it was the best answer in this situation.

Besides, there must be a reason why Aiden was suddenly acting like this.

What could be the reason he wouldn’t accept confessions from other girls but easily accepted the crazy confession Sonnet made?

Who knows?

Maybe Aiden also had ulterior motives to eliminate competitors like her.

‘I’ll pretend to date Aiden while finding out his schemes too.’

Sonnet barely organized her thoughts and strengthened her resolve.

Soon Professor Dorideus with a long beard entered.

Aiden took out his Ancient Temple Texts book while also taking out a weapons-related book. He naturally opened the weapons book first.

Sonnet sneered inwardly. Professor Dorideus spoke quickly and didn’t write much on the board, making note-taking very difficult.

She didn’t know if Aiden had high overall grades, but she thought he was below her in this class at least.

Sonnet quickly caught Professor Dorideus’s speech patterns and repetitive words, diligently taking notes in her notebook.

Glancing to the side, Aiden was taking notes but didn’t seem very focused.

His gaze was on the weapons that showed nothing but silver gleam anyway.

Sonnet secretly looked down on him inwardly and focused on Professor Dorideus’s words again.

Then the inkwell on her desk fell.

Sonnet bent down and searched everywhere for the inkwell, but it had rolled somewhere and was nowhere to be seen.

Sighing inwardly, she straightened up at her desk when an inkwell wrapped in luxury packaging was placed in front of her.

Sonnet didn’t even thank Aiden and unwrapped the packaging around the inkwell.

She quickly opened the inkwell and moved her pen busily.

While taking notes for a while, she felt a gaze from beside her.

Even when Sonnet tried to ignore it, Aiden’s stare was blatant.

Enough to be distracting.

At this unfamiliar feeling, Sonnet’s hand holding the pen hesitated.

‘Is this what it’s like when you date a guy?’

Since this kind of attention was a first, Sonnet felt a little awkward. No, very awkward.

Moreover, with Aiden sitting right next to her, his presence felt larger than ever.

She could even smell the subtle mint scent from him, making her feel strange.

Usually the seat next to her was always empty. Everyone disliked her so much they wouldn’t even sit nearby, let alone next to her.

But with Aiden right beside her, she felt stuffy and a little breathless.

Especially the mint scent from Aiden was a fragrance Sonnet liked, one she wanted to keep smelling.

‘He just played Madou games but doesn’t smell of sweat and smells like mint instead.’

Then Professor Dorideus said.

“Since I’ve said this twice, you understand how important this is, right?”

Sonnet’s pen lost its way and wandered.

Though this happened occasionally, this time was particularly flustering.

She had been thinking about Aiden and couldn’t hear Professor Dorideus’s words.

Then a notebook with neat handwriting slid into her view.

When Sonnet turned around, Aiden naturally smiled and gestured toward the notebook with his eyes.

Sonnet hid her flustered feelings and examined Aiden’s notebook. The beautifully written text had perfect spacing and perfect content.

‘How did he write only the key points like this?’

Sonnet couldn’t help but let out an exclamation of admiration.

He had even seemed to be looking at the weapons book earlier too.

She felt Aiden’s gaze. Sonnet ignored the subtle reverence rising in her heart and copied the notes with a stern face.

‘I can just pick out only the helpful things like this.’

Sonnet moved her pen busily. She mechanically offered the notebook back to Aiden and looked at Professor Dorideus.

Strangely, every time she tried to concentrate on Professor Dorideus’s words, she felt Aiden’s gaze. Her cheeks stung.

Unable to concentrate at all, Sonnet turned to look at Aiden.

It was time to settle this. As soon as Sonnet made eye contact with him, she smiled brightly. Everyone usually disliked this and was disgusted.

But Aiden was different.

As if moved, his eyes lit up with life and he raised the corners of his mouth.

Sonnet’s face hardened for a moment. She immediately turned her head to look at Professor Dorideus.

Aiden always moved in ways she didn’t expect.

This was the first time in her life experiencing such a thing.

She couldn’t predict what would happen next, and thinking there was nothing she could control made her heart feel stuffy like she had fallen into a ditch.

‘What the hell is this?’

Even she herself was flustered. It’s not like Aiden had done anything improper.

He just persistently stared at Sonnet. Yet Sonnet was flustered.

This was the first time feeling so out of control while attending Rosefield.

Her grades always came out according to how much she studied, and school life always flowed as expected.

But today it completely ended.

‘It’s like I’m the one caught in a trap instead.’

Aiden Rosefield’s trap at that!

The more she thought about it, the more negative her thoughts became, so Sonnet stopped thinking about Aiden and tried to look only at the professor.

She couldn’t concentrate at all.

Amazingly, Aiden offered his notebook whenever she couldn’t focus.

Each time, his handwriting was perfect and full of content she wanted. Now Aiden was resting his chin on his hand and looking at Sonnet.

As if all her actions had become lovely and interesting.

Sonnet tried not to look at Aiden, didn’t smile, and treated him indifferently. Eventually Professor Dorideus finished speaking and left the classroom.

Students busily got up from their chairs while glancing at where Aiden and Sonnet were sitting.

Sonnet felt somewhat liberated and quickly closed her notebook.

Then Aiden stood up.

He rummaged through his pocket and held out a ticket in front of Sonnet. When Sonnet looked puzzled, Aiden smiled naturally and said.

“Make sure to come watch.”

When Sonnet just stared without taking it, he placed the ticket on Sonnet’s desk, picked up his bag, and left the classroom.

Sonnet stared intently at the ticket Aiden had given her. It was a Madou game tournament ticket.

The ticket that people around had been crying about being hard to get, already sold out successfully a week ago.

Looking at the marked seat, it was almost at the very front.

Being the Rosefield family and him being the captain of the Madou game team, they probably set aside such precious tickets separately.

Sonnet pondered for a moment, then put the ticket Aiden gave her in her pocket and got up from her seat.

She ruthlessly pushed past students who were glancing at her and escaped the classroom.

The looks of annoyance were a bonus. Such negative gazes were so familiar that Sonnet didn’t think anything of them.

On the other hand, the way Aiden looked at her was…

Suddenly Sonnet stopped right there in the corridor where various students were passing by.

‘Was I thinking wrong?’

Even as that thought crossed her mind, she suddenly remembered the notebook Aiden had offered her. The perfectly organized study notes written in flawless handwriting that even made her admire them.

Sonnet soon shook off her distracting thoughts and confidently straightened her shoulders as she moved forward.

In the long run, the fake relationship with Aiden would be very helpful.

If she was doing this, how could Aiden be any different?

Surely it would be disruptive for Aiden in many ways too, so all she had to do was keep her wits about her.

Sonnet tried to ignore the feeling of being caught in a trap.

Thinking that this was merely a strategy for honor and survival, nothing more.

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The next day, Sonnet happened to overhear a conversation among students traveling in a group in the dormitory corridor.

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