During class, You Xinghai suddenly sent a friend request to Wen Xiaoyue, catching the latter so off guard that her phone nearly slipped from her grasp.
Staring at the cute Crayon Shin-chan style kitten avatar on the screen, Wen Xiaoyue lowered her eyes and hesitated to tap “Accept.”
On the podium, the teacher was droning on with the lecture. Behind her, You Xinghai whispered urgently, “Accept it already. Why are you not adding me?”
Dark lines appeared on Wen Xiaoyue’s forehead as her finger uncontrollably tapped “Accept Request.”
[Invincible Piggy: We are now friends! Let us start chatting!]
The avatar was a cat, and the ID was a pig; she was clearly neither one nor the other.
[Invincible Piggy: (Hello.jpg) (Flower Shower.jpg)]
The stickers You Xinghai sent were also in a cute animal style, which felt completely different from the impression the person herself gave.
After finishing her internal mockery, Wen Xiaoyue typed back: [Do not play on your phone during class].
After sending the line, she stuffed her phone back into her pocket, completely ignoring You Xinghai’s subsequent messages.
You Xinghai laughed silently. Even after exchanging contact information, the young lady remains the same cold young lady!
Wen Xiaoyue’s WeChat avatar was a plain landscape of water meeting the sky, and her name followed a serious, “old cadre” style: [The Sea Embraces All Rivers]. She looked like an honest person with a rather unexciting inner world.
You Xinghai thought, Teasing honest people is my favorite thing to do!
Wen Xiaoyue’s untainted aura always managed to pique her desire to play pranks. After some time exploring, she discovered that Wen Xiaoyue was actually more tolerant of jokes than she had expected. Although the girl looked like she would explode at the slightest touch, she seemed to actually enjoy it.
No, she could not say that for sure. That impression mainly came from the two dreams she had previously. The real Wen Xiaoyue might not be as easy to talk to as the one in the dreams. She seemed to be influenced by the dream version, making it difficult to distinguish between dream and reality.
You Xinghai pondered for a moment and stopped bombarding Wen Xiaoyue’s chat interface, turning instead to browse other web pages. Unbeknownst to her, Wen Xiaoyue took advantage of the teacher’s distraction to steal a glance at her screen, her brow furrowing slightly.
Why did she stop messaging?
The incident where Chen Shiru bullied Wen Xiaoyue finally concluded with the Chen family bringing gifts to the school and the Wen residence, offering endless apologies.
Chen Shiru and her lackeys received demerits from the academy. Their misconduct was displayed on the campus bulletin board for many days, and every student in the school knew that a second-year girl had bullied the Wen family’s daughter. It remained a hot topic of discussion for some time.
To appease the anger, the school launched a special anti-bullying initiative, rooting out several hidden bullies to join Chen Shiru for public execution on the bulletin board. These events were also shared on the campus forum. The moderator seemed quite interested, separating all bullying reports and help posts into two distinct sections for future reference.
Chen Shiru’s wish to delete the videos from the forum ultimately vanished into thin air. She naturally suspected that Wen Xiaoyue was involved in the follow-up handling, but what of it? She could not afford to provoke Wen Xiaoyue, and transferring schools was impossible; otherwise, she would not be able to see Gu Yingyu. She could only act like an ostrich and play dead.
While Chen Shiru fell silent, someone else grew louder.
One day, taking advantage of Wen Xiaoyue’s absence, Du Na and several other Alphas rushed over and slammed their hands onto You Xinghai’s desk. Du Na shouted with her hands on her hips, “Damn it! When exactly are you going to change seats!”
After failing to keep an eye on You Xinghai for just two days, the woman had taken advantage of the opportunity to help Wen Xiaoyue repeatedly. Now, Xiaoyue had actually thanked You Xinghai personally in front of everyone. Who could stand this?
“Our Xiaoyue is simply too innocent; she has been completely tricked by this smelly woman!” “She definitely framed Xiaoyue on purpose and then took the chance to help. Poor Xiaoyue knows nothing!” “If you, You Xinghai, turn out to be a good person, I will chew up this desk and chair and swallow them!”
You Xinghai: “Oh, we cannot have that!”
Faced with this group of chattering bystanders who posed no real threat, her attitude toward them was almost indulgent. As long as they did not come over to argue every time Wen Xiaoyue was away, it was fine.
A quiet yet noisy week passed, and You Xinghai had basically processed all the memories in her head, integrating perfectly into this world. She had already figured out the essence of this novel world; everything revolved around the two leads. Any major event was bound to be caused by the intense push-and-pull between Gu Yingyu and Guan Yinqi. Other people went about their business-like NPCs and would not interfere with her.
In short, if Guan Yinqi suddenly worried about international refugee issues, Gu Yingyu would immediately transform into the world’s number one hidden warlord to stop the war for her!
Having clarified this point, You Xinghai’s life of “lying flat” and slacking off became even more pleasant. She felt not a single shred of guilt about wasting her precious time.