They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 537

Chapter 537: You Keep Looking at That Girl

Arthur’s voice, cold but steady, from the car that morning.

"I’m your sensei.

You don’t have to be nervous."

Nnenna’s spine straightened.

"That’s right," she whispered under her breath. "I can do this."

Her name was called, alongside Nicholas’s.

Cheers rippled through the audience.

"She made it this far? I didn’t think she would survive the top six."

"Nicholas will finish it here."

"Don’t be so sure. Did you see what she did to Adam?"

"She’s like a cute assassin. You never see it coming."

As she turned toward the stage, Nnenna’s gaze briefly flicked to the judges’ platform, and froze.

Arthur’s eyes were already on her. They softened, not with surprise, not with confusion, but with something reassuring.

Belief.

He didn’t nod or smile, but he didn’t need to. Nnenna understood him now.

She was about to turn away when the sound of shifting feet and surprised gasps swept across the arena. Heads turned toward the entrance.

More figures were entering.

Somto. Carl. And several high ranking officials.

Their presence was magnetic. Conversations paused. The energy in the room changed.

"Is that...?"

"It’s General Somto!"

Prince Carl too?!

in year three martial art right?

stage, Nnenna looked to them

gaze found hers, calm and warm. A quiet promise in

both hands in his pockets, and mouthed "You’ve got this" like it was a private code between

swelled. They kept their

blooming in her chest,

fixed solely on her. The tip of his pen hovered, unmoving. His chin rested on his hand, but his jaw had subtly tensed. His eyes did not follow Nicholas,

beginning of the exam. At first he was not certain, but now he

slightly toward Arthur,

Third place out of all the year three students is impressive... but this might be the

respond at

his way,

words were simple. Cold,

weren’t just words, but a statement wrapped in quiet

taken off

like

man’s face again, still unreadable. Still

of something else lingered

Confidence. And maybe... pride?

Onyedika murmured,

to the side, watched all

silence. His focus. The subtle

For her?

narrowed. Jealousy curled cold and sharp in

arms and

won’t have his approval after

who was already tightening

mercy," she said under her breath, just loud enough for him

get a flicker of Arthur’s attention. But no matter what she did, it always came back to that person. That dead person. A shadow

showing expressions, actual expressions, for Nnenna? That girl who came out of

stayed. The one who had waited. Not some random girl who just dropped into their

to make things worse, she saw

Nnenna with that soft, warm expression that used to

used to be reserved for only Arthur,

maybe friends had never gotten that smile

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