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!"

Carl too?! Why are they

martial art right? So why are

looked to them with wide

warm. A

grinned outright, both hands in his pockets, and mouthed "You’ve got this" like

swelled. They kept their

renewed courage blooming in her chest,

was 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

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

turned slightly toward Arthur, brow

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

respond

looking his way, he said

Cold, clipped, just like

felt heavier, like they weren’t just words, but

off guard

like Arthur.

studied the younger man’s face again, still unreadable. Still

the trace of something else lingered

Confidence. And maybe... pride?

Elder Onyedika murmured, sitting back thoughtfully.

sitting off to the side,

silence. His focus. The subtle softness

For her?

eyes narrowed. Jealousy curled cold and sharp in

arms and scoffed under her

have his attention now. She won’t have his approval after Nicholas finishes with

who was already tightening

said under her breath, just loud enough for him to

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

expressions, for Nnenna? That

The one

things worse, she saw Carl

that soft, warm expression that used

used to be reserved for only

colleagues, maybe friends

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