Lin Yingyue leaned against the wall, silently listening to their gossip, with only one thought in her mind—
Damn!
Both of them were transmigrators, so why did she have a System while she had nothing?
This wasn’t fair.
She was about to slip away quietly, pretending she hadn’t heard anything.
“Yueyue! There you are! I’ve been looking for you for ages!”
Su Xiaoxia rushed over in a flurry and grabbed her arm.
“Hurry up, hurry up, come with me to the convenience store, I want to buy some ice cream!”
A muffled “thump” came from the cubicle, as if someone had hit the door panel.
Followed by a rustling sound.
Out of the corner of her eye, Lin Yingyue saw the cubicle door pushed open a crack, and Chen Huan poked half her head out.
Seeing Lin Yingyue and Su Xiaoxia standing outside, her expression instantly turned extremely interesting.
“When did you two get here?”
Su Xiaoxia blinked, looking confused:
“Just got here. Were you squatting in there? Squatting that long?”
Chen Huan gave a dry laugh, but her eyes kept darting to Lin Yingyue’s face, as if trying to read something from her expression.
Lin Yingyue’s expression was indifferent.
She knew Chen Huan must be feeling guilty, afraid she had heard about the System.
“I just came in to wash my face.”
As she spoke, Lin Yingyue turned on the faucet, cupped some water, and splashed it on her face.
Only then did Chen Huan relax.
It seemed they hadn’t heard anything.
As Lin Yingyue was leaving, she heard Chen Huan talking to the System again.
Chen Huan: “That scared me. Good thing they just arrived. System, see? I told you these paper characters have no brains, right? Easy to fool.”
Lin Yingyue’s steps faltered.
Paper character?
No brains?
She silently rolled her eyes.
Those who treat the people in the book as brainless transmigrators often end up dying miserably.
That mechanical voice again: “Host, according to system detection, there’s a high chance the male lead will come to school today to pick up female lead no. 2.
This is the perfect opportunity to create a meeting between the male and female leads. You need to seize it.”
Chen Huan’s tone became excited:
“Got it! I’ll find a way to get Jiang Wu to the school gate later, and hopefully stage an accidental encounter or something.
With female lead no. 2’s freakish controlling nature as a contrast, the moment the male lead sees the female lead, a tough little white flower like that, he’ll definitely fall for her at first sight!”
Lin Yingyue: “…”
So not only did you call me brainless, but you also want to use me as a tool person to set up an accidental meeting?
Who wants to be part of some play?
She walked out expressionlessly. Just as she turned the corner in the hallway, her phone buzzed.
Lin Yingyue walked to a corner of the auditorium and answered.
“Hello?”
Song Zeqian’s voice was calm:
“Wasn’t your part-time job only half a day? Where are you now?”
“I’m at school rehearsing for the choir,” Lin Yingyue answered truthfully. “My tutoring session ended in the afternoon, so I came straight here. I was afraid you were busy, so I didn’t tell you in advance.”
There was silence on the other end of the line for a few seconds.
“Send me the address. I’ll come pick you up later.”
Lin Yingyue suddenly felt a headache coming on.
His Maybach was way too flashy. If he parked it at the school auditorium entrance, those big gossips would see it and spread all kinds of rumors.
Besides, she remembered that in the original plot, the male and female leads weren’t supposed to meet so soon.
She wasn’t supposed to go study abroad that quickly either.
If Chen Huan forced the male and female leads to meet now, she’d be done for.
“No need,” she quickly refused. “The rehearsal here is almost over. I can take the subway home easily. No trouble for you to make a special trip.”
She waited for a while but didn’t hear Song Zeqian’s voice.
All she could hear was some faint music in the background over there.
She had no idea where he was.
Lin Yingyue asked doubtfully, “Hello? Are you still there?”
“Mm.”
Song Zeqian’s voice was faint, and Lin Yingyue couldn’t tell what he meant.
“By the way, I don’t know when it’ll end. You don’t have to wait for me.”
“I have time to wait.”
With that, he hung up on his end.
Lin Yingyue blinked, feeling that Song Zeqian sounded in a bad mood.
So she sent a message to coax him.
Song Corporation.
Song Xinlian leaned back on the sofa, holding her coffee cup, looking utterly annoyed.
Several familiar colleagues sat around her.
“Sister Lian, what happened with that jerk of yours? Didn’t you say you broke up last time?”
Song Xinlian snorted coldly: “He behaved for a while, sweet-talking me every day, and obediently moved in with me again.
I thought he’d really changed, so I softened my heart and gave him another chance.”
“And then?”
“And then?” Song Xinlian rolled her eyes. “Yesterday I caught him again.”
Someone exclaimed: “How did you find out?”
“The day before yesterday, he suddenly sent a bunch of messages trying to sweet-talk me, like ‘Baby, I miss you’ and ‘I’ll only love you in this life.’ I said I’d come pick him up from work, and he immediately made excuses about working overtime and told me not to come.”
“Isn’t that classic guilt from cheating? Did you go find him secretly?”
“Yeah! I went to find her,” Song Xinlian slapped her thigh. “And I saw him messing around with some hot girl.”
Everyone sighed in sympathy.
“So this time you’re really breaking up, right?”
“Broke up, broke up,” Song Xinlian waved her hand. “Keep garbage like that for the New Year?”
Song Zeqian happened to pass by, his whole demeanor cold as ice.
Seeing President Song arrive, everyone immediately scattered like birds, not daring to speak.
He saw the string of messages Lin Yingyue had sent.
【 I’m practicing the chorus with my friends. I’ll sing it for you when I get back. Heart shooting GIF】
【 I just didn’t want to trouble you, mwah mwah~】
【 You’ve been working hard, miss you mwah…】
The blue light cast onto his handsome face, making him look even more stern.
Since they got together, this was the first time Lin Yingyue had proactively sent him so many messages.
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