Qin Yeling couldn’t help swallowing, suppressing the flutter in his heart. He quickly exchanged a glance with Ling An, then just as quickly looked away. Who knew what the male lead was thinking about.
Ling An watched as Qin Yeling’s ears flushed red all the way down to his neck in an instant.
Qin Yeling seemed to sense Ling An’s puzzled gaze, and he coughed lightly.
With just that one light cough.
The female lead lifted her head in delighted surprise, her eyes fixed on Qin Yeling with anticipation.
Meanwhile, Lin Shuang stared at Qin Yeling in disbelief and fury.
The chatter of the onlooking students around them instantly quieted down. Then someone suddenly whispered: “My god, could the second young master of the Qin family actually be about to help this poor student?”
Though the words were whispered, miraculously everyone present heard them perfectly clearly.
At this, all eyes in the room converged on Qin Yeling, as if everyone took it for granted that his light cough had been meant to defend the female lead.
But they were disappointed that cough was not meant to help the female lead at all.
Qin Yeling gave a light cough, stood up without paying any attention to the people watching him, swept his gaze across the room, and said coldly: “You’re all so damn noisy.” With that, Qin Yeling left.
The moment Qin Yeling stepped out the door, the system’s voice sounded: Host, the male lead’s affection toward you is fluctuating abnormally.
Some followers wanted to follow him, but Qin Yeling sent them all away. Without bringing a single person, he left the school.
Everyone stared at Qin Yeling’s departing figure, full of confusion. It didn’t seem like it should have gone this way but then again, he was a young master of the Qin family, so being a bit arrogant was only normal.
In everyone’s eyes, this was normal behavior. He was a young master, after all, if he was displeased, he’d just walk away.
But the female lead Lin Yu’s face went pale. How, how could this be? How could he just leave like that?
For a moment, Lin Yu was thrown into confusion. On one side was his merciless departure; on the other was the doting look in his eyes from her dream.
The collision of memories from two worlds made Lin Yu’s face grow even paler.
Suddenly, something occurred to her, and her eyes lit up. Right, right, this was exactly like Qin Yeling’s personality.
His attitude before that incident happened had always been like this. She had just been too impatient. Yes, that was it, she had been too impatient.
The bar from her dream was opening tomorrow. She needed to hurry.
With that thought, the female lead no longer stayed seated on the ground. She stood up and walked toward her own classroom, preparing to gather her things and leave the school.
Seeing her about to leave, Lin Shuang refused to let it go. She grabbed the female lead’s hair and cursed: “You shameless bitch! You were so good at playing the victim just now, why stop now that Yeling-gege is gone?”
Lin Yu staggered from the pull, nearly falling again.
But this time, Lin Yu wasn’t going to let her have her way. She slapped Lin Shuang’s hand away directly.
Then, grabbing Lin Shuang’s hair in return, she leaned close to her ear and said in a low, cold voice: “You think you’re worthy of calling me a poor student? You’ve known who I am all along. Haven’t you?”
With that, Lin Yu flung her hand away, releasing Lin Shuang, and turned to leave.
Lin Shuang, meanwhile, was frozen in place by those words. How could this be? She knew about it then why had she been posing as a poor student?
What was her real goal? Countless questions lingered in Lin Shuang’s mind, so much so that she didn’t even notice when she got home.
Hearing the female lead’s words, Ling An was momentarily stunned. “System, what’s going on with the female lead? What did she mean by that? Why did she look so vicious just now, did she break character?”
“Here’s the thing, Host. According to the System’s monitoring, this world’s female lead has developed some glitches, and those glitches may have slipped in through the very crack you used to transmigrate here.”
“To put it simply: the female lead has some memories of the plot. In those memories, she learned that the Lin family’s second daughter, Lin Shuang, is actually a fake heiress and that the real heiress is her.”
“At first the female lead didn’t believe it. After all, she thought those plot fragments were just dreams. But she couldn’t help searching online for photos of the Lin family’s matriarch.”
“The moment she saw the matriarch’s photo, she knew everything in that dream was real.”
“Because she looks about eighty percent like the Lin family matriarch. And it’s not just the resemblance just from the photo alone, the female lead felt a sense of closeness. That’s the bond of blood and kinship. That kind of intuition is never wrong.”
“In the original plot, the female lead only saw the Lin family matriarch at her wedding to the male lead. Later, after the male lead had people investigate, she finally learned her true origins.”
“However, because relations between the Qin family and the Lin family were somewhat strained at the time, the female lead never went to acknowledge her birth family, she still leaned toward the Qin family, even though the Qin family had looked down on her back then.”
“Later, when the male lead took over the company, he was able to quickly crush the Wang and Lin families because the Lin parents had discovered the female lead’s identity. Out of guilt toward their daughter, they didn’t resist the Qin family’s pressure at all.”
“The Lin parents’ only wish was for the female lead to accept them, but she felt they had failed in their duties and never reclaimed her identity as the Lin family’s second daughter.”
After hearing the System’s explanation, Ling An couldn’t help but chuckle. Before, she wouldn’t have but now, who knows? Just look at how she proactively confessed the matter to Lin Shuang.
Judging by how hurriedly she left, she was probably preparing for tomorrow night’s big show.
But this time the female lead might be disappointed, the male lead would still be his tomorrow night.
“Host, you’re acting like a villain. Being this arrogant will get you noticed by the Heavenly Dao.”
Hearing the System’s pathetic remark, Ling An really wanted to flick its forehead.
He had figured it out by now: this thing called the System possessed great powers but seemed to lack basic common sense.
It was like a three-year-old child, naive and exceptionally easy to fool.
What was their purpose in coming to this world? Wasn’t it precisely to disrupt the world’s order and siphon the Heavenly Dao’s power?
Their behavior already made them super villains.
Yet this System seemed unaware that it was actually the big villain, still thinking that his breaking up the male and female leads was some minor villainous deed.
He might not have noticed when he first arrived, but the first time he got close to the male lead to siphon (tease) power, he discovered it, the Heavenly Dao’s Divine Sense was on the male lead’s body.
This wasn’t even a case of being discovered by the Heavenly Dao, he’d practically shoved it in the Heavenly Dao’s face while draining its power.
And he still hadn’t been kicked out. Either this Heavenly Dao was powerless against him, or it was in seclusion, leaving only a wisp of Divine Sense on the male lead, a wisp that would emerge to protect him whenever he was in danger.
So Ling An wasn’t the least bit worried in this world. Tomorrow was the main event.
Since the male and female leads had both gone back, there was no reason for him to stay at school either.
Getting in the car, Ling An told Uncle Zhang to drive to the company.
When he arrived at the company, Ling An took the elevator up to the top floor and walked to his father’s office, pulling a stack of documents out of his backpack and placing them on the desk. He spoke up: “Dad, I want to start a company. This is my plan.”
These were all business opportunities Ling An had extracted from the plot, resources that would fuel the female lead’s later growth.