When Yu Yao came out, she saw Zhao Chuji blushing, staring blankly eye-to-eye with Xiao Hei.
“Don’t blame Xiao Hei,” Yu Yao thought Zhao Chuji was angry because Xiao Hei had a stress response, so she quickly made excuses for Xiao Hei, “It is very good and well-behaved.”
Zhao Chuji tightly compressed her lips, gave an “um” sound, and lowered her eyes, not daring to look at Yu Yao.
She had always been shy and timid, so Yu Yao did not care about it either, and only enthusiastically picked up food with her chopsticks to put into Zhao Chuji’s bowl.
Yu Yao’s own family was extremely harmonious. Her mother loved to cook, and being influenced by what she constantly saw and heard, Yu Yao also possessed a hand of good cooking skills.
Seeing that Zhao Chuji ate two small bowls of rice, Yu Yao immediately smiled so much that her eyebrows and eyes were bent…
“I like cooking very much, but in the past when I ate alone, I did not want to cook. In the future, you come to my place to eat every night, which will also give me an opportunity to display my cooking skills…”
As expected, a kindhearted young girl like Zhao Chuji was susceptible to this approach, and she nodded her head with a red face.
Xiao Hei remained curled up on Zhao Chuji’s body the entire time. Not long after finishing dinner, Zhao Chuji took it and returned home.
The moment she arrived home, Zhao Chuji put Xiao Hei down expressionlessly, and poked its forehead with a cold face.
“In the future, when Yu Yao is sleeping, taking a bath, or going to the toilet, do not lean close to her side!”
Xiao Hei liked the scent on Yu Yao’s body very much, and let out a very dissatisfied “meow” sound. Meeting Zhao Chuji’s icy gaze, it could only tuck its tail and shrink to the side.
Zhao Chuji took a deep breath, and reached out her hand to take out a notebook from the deep depths of a drawer.
The notebook was already densely packed and filled with written words, recording all of Yu Yao’s expenses over these past few days.
Zhao Chuji added all the expenditures of this day, including the living expenses that Yu Yao had transferred over.
Knowing Yu Yao’s intentions and understanding that in the future she could use material things to give back to Yu Yao, her heart slowly settled down into a secure place.
On this night, with Xiao Hei keeping watch by her side, Zhao Chuji finally slept a good night’s sleep.
Waking up the next day, she pondered for a moment, but still took the knife out from her clothing sleeve and stuffed it back under the pillow. Looking at her expressionless self in the mirror, she slowly let out a breath.
When she raised her eyes again, her face already carried a smile, changing back into the well-behaved, lovable, and kind young girl in Yu Yao’s heart.
Her current life was already a state that she did not dare to imagine in the past. Since Yu Yao liked it, she did not mind continuously playing the role of the person she was in Yu Yao’s heart.
Yu Yao specially set an early rising alarm clock on this day.
When she arrived at Building Number 5, Zhao Chuji was already waiting downstairs carrying her school backpack.
Yu Yao let Zhao Chuji walk in front to lead the way. Seeing that Zhao Chuji had memorized the route, her heart felt very gratified.
She claimed to be Zhao Chuji’s older sister and brought Zhao Chuji to handle and complete all the procedures.
Zhao Chuji’s class homeroom teacher was a middle-aged man who looked extremely rigid, surnamed Cao. The moment he met Zhao Chuji, his facial expression looked a bit displeased.
A country person who entered halfway through to study, what kind of good grades could she have? She even grew a face that was bound to provoke trouble…
“High school is a critical period in a person’s life for learning. Student Zhao loves beauty, but the guardian cannot indulge her!”
He sized up Zhao Chuji, then wrinkled his eyebrows and looked toward Yu Yao.
Before Yu Yao could react to the meaning within his words, Zhao Chuji, who was on the side, took out a paper napkin from her bag, poured mineral water onto it, and began to wipe her face.
After wiping for several minutes, the paper napkin was still completely clean.
“Teacher, my family’s Chuji is naturally endowed with red lips and white teeth; she did not put on makeup.” Yu Yao finally pulled her thoughts back and explained aloud.
Teacher Cao lost face, and his facial expression sank even deeper as he looked toward Zhao Chuji again: “It was not easy for your family to send you in here either. It does not matter if your foundation is poor; the most important thing for a girl is to keep to her place and behave herself…”
Yu Yao wrinkled her brows: She disliked Teacher Cao’s tone of speaking very much, belittling Zhao Chuji right from the start.
Just as she was planning to speak, Zhao Chuji on the side pulled her hand, her eyes full of pleading, and she gently shook her head.
It was not easy to finally have a school to study in; Zhao Chuji did not want to have a conflict with the teacher right at the beginning.
Furthermore, the malice she had faced before was far too much; this little fuss from Teacher Cao was simply nothing to her at all.
Meeting Zhao Chuji’s gaze, Yu Yao could only swallow the words at the back of her throat, and watched with her eyes as Zhao Chuji entered Class 3 of High School Grade 1.
Sure enough, the moment Zhao Chuji showed her face, she triggered a wave of discussion because of her outstanding appearance.
Teacher Cao’s brows instantly knitted even tighter. After Zhao Chuji finished her self-introduction, he found the absolute corner seat and let Zhao Chuji sit into it.
Next, Zhao Chuji began her classes. It was not convenient for Yu Yao to stare the whole day either, so she could only return home.
Her heart still contained some worries, and she could not help but contact “X” again.
“Have you entered the school now?”
“X” replied very quickly: “Rest assured, I entered the school yesterday to work as a cleaner.”
Yu Yao instructed “X” again to care more about the dynamics on Zhao Chuji’s side, and only then did her mind set at ease a little bit.
Now, the matters on Zhao Chuji’s side could be considered to have initially settled down.
There were estimated to be still many years before Zhao Chuji would realize her dream and detach from the world, and Yu Yao also had her own things to do.
The Space-Time Administration had a rule passed down by word of mouth: Every task-taker, while completing the task, must do as many good deeds as possible in the small world.
This rule could be traced back to the beginning of the creation of the Space-Time Administration.
At that time, the planes were not stable, and natural disasters descended from time to time, until a person of great destiny emerged as the times required.
That was a woman named Jian Wan, who was publicly recognized as the most breathtakingly brilliant and talented person throughout the ages.
In the early days, Jian Wan’s strength was outstanding, and her heart was set on helping the whole world. She pitied the sufferings of all living beings, thought of a way to open the spatial rifts, made deals with the small worlds, and repaired the small worlds that were on the verge of collapsing to exchange for destiny points, consolidating her own plane.
The small worlds that had been repaired by her felt deeply grateful and attached themselves one after another, which was how the world Yu Yao was in turned into a high-end plane.
But Jian Wan’s strength alone was limited after all. Afterwards, she established the Space-Time Administration, and organized the invention of various kinds of machinery used for space-time travel, with each department responsible for its own duties, jointly taking charge of the repair of small worlds.
Unfortunately, Jian Wan later fell into a state of madness, and during a certain task, she actually attempted to destroy a small world to steal destiny, which was detected by someone…
The events of that year were too chaotic, and no one could say clearly what exactly happened.
The people of the world only knew that in the end, the world consciousness forcefully intervened, descending all the malicious aura that symbolized bad luck and attack onto Jian Wan’s body. Jian Wan’s soul and spirit were completely destroyed, dissipating into the space-time tunnel…
In historical records, the evaluations of Jian Wan were mixed.
On one hand, Jian Wan indeed saved the entire plane; on the other hand, she severely injured the world consciousness, causing the world consciousness to remain asleep up until now.
After the world consciousness fell asleep, no person of destiny had been born, and everyone in the high-end plane had equal opportunities, so it instead developed even more prosperously.
After so many years, to most people, whether the world consciousness woke up or not was no longer important.
But in recent years, it seemed that some folk organizations had appeared, attempting to awaken the world consciousness…
Jian Wan’s name was a taboo of the Space-Time Administration and even the entire world, but the task-takers of the Space-Time Administration followed her past practice by conventional arrangement: while completing the task, try their best to seek welfare for the residents of the small world.
Only after knowing Zhao Chuji did Yu Yao learn that there existed many women who suffered persecution in this world.
She wanted to establish a women’s aid foundation to help these pitiful women.
But although she currently possessed a small amount of assets, compared to the things she wanted to do, it was still a drop in the bucket.
Yu Yao wanted to earn more money.
She had her own advantages; compared to the masses of people, she, who had watched countless small world case studies, possessed more foresight.
This world had already reached the high-speed development period of civilization, and the trend window for the next few years was bound to be the development of AI and artificial intelligence.
She planned to gradually get in touch with some start-up companies in related industries to inject capital.
Washing gold out of the sand, she could always find a few companies with potential.
Yu Yao spent the entire afternoon browsing related messages and information, until it reached the time school dismissed, and she received a message sent over by “X”.
“Zhao Chuji came back after school. Everything was normal today, only a few little boys came over to strike up a conversation, but Zhao Chuji’s mind was solely on learning and she did not pay attention to them.”
“Understood, thank you very much!”
Seeing that Zhao Chuji passed her first day in school safely, Yu Yao let out a sigh of relief, stretched herself, stood up, and made dinner.
She, however, did not know that at this time, “X” was rubbing his head and going to the pharmacy.
His head was aching in bursts, as if it had been hit by something, and within his subconscious mind, he even faintly felt that he had forgotten something.
But he had been weeding in the flowerbed in front of the teaching building the whole afternoon; what could he have forgotten?