Hidden clues

Claude and Qiaoliang exchanged glances, maintaining poker faces while discreetly surveying the circle of students with sideways glances.

"Are you still not going to answer that call?" Claude quipped at Qiaoliang. "Your ex-boyfriend might have an emergency and need to reach you."

Blinking, Qiaoliang bit her chopsticks, looking up at him, slightly puzzled by his insinuation.

"Are you going to ignore it completely?" Claude repeated. "I sense some seriousness there. Isn't it a tad cold-hearted?"

Understanding dawned on Qiaoliang. She slammed the table, startling nearby students and nearly causing them to choke. Then, she furiously stood up and unleashed a string of colorful curses at Claude, calling him every name in the book.

Her loud outburst drowned the detector's beeping with her voice. Fortunately, Claude, with his dog-like acute hearing, pinpointed the source amidst the limited number of students from the intermittent detector sound.

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