"Oh, wait, you're not aware?" She looked at him with a mix of incredulity, like, "How can you not know?" and confusion—"ou really don't know."
"Have you been living under a rock this whole time?"
"Oh." She closed her mouth, stopping her speech as she remembered that Jidenna didn't have any other friend in the class, almost showing a lone-wolf behavior.
"So you're really not aware? Well, I'll just tell you." Then she went ahead.
"Well, you see… Cheng Yuan is from a poor—I mean, average family with… average income." She brought up her two palms, cupping them like a scale.
"And you see, the second-generation students in this school are very arrogant and prideful individuals who would not bow to anyone that isn't at least their level or far better than them."