Chapter 3 (1/2)

12 kilometers may sound like a lot, but it was merely a small matter of running your legs and lungs to the brink of death.

If it wasn’t because it was related to a matter of life and death, Mingxi wouldn’t understand why in the world was she trying so hard. She continued to run lap after lap with sweat barreling down her whole body.

When a boy from the International Class came over and said that he wanted to replace her, she rejected him nonchalantly.

The boy then ran back and repeated what had happened to the rest of the class.

The moment class ended, the whole of the International Class was in an uproar.

By the time it reached Fu Yangxi’s ears, it had already become the story of how the new transfer student had gladly volunteered to run laps for him. She was even running with a joyful smile on her face.

Never in Fu Yangxi’s 17 years of life had he ever seen a pursuer who was this passionate and obvious.

The small red bird in his heart puffed out its chest and happily shook its feathers. However, on the surface he still appeared annoyed. He slammed the table and yelled, “Are you all done with your gossip? What a bunch of nosy men.”

Fu Yangxi’s admonishment caused the noise in their class to pause for a short while.

Jiang Xiuqiu had been absent for the past few days as he was down with the flu. When a fellow student called him to share the gossip, he laughed so hard that he couldn’t stop coughing. In the end, he couldn’t help but to call Fu Yangxi.

“No way. You guys must be mistaken. Maybe the transfer student just has something to ask of you— You’re saying that she likes you?” Jiang Xiuqiu laughed. “What would she like about you? Your bad temper? Your resting b*tch face? Or could it be how your young urban migrant hairstyle reminds her of a dog? Also, aside from the fact that you’re rich…”

“If you don’t know how to speak properly then sew your mouth shut!” Fu Yangxi pulled a long face. After hanging up, he tossed his phone into his desk drawer angrily.

He was happy, and the transfer student was overwhelmingly passionate.

But Fu Yangxi didn’t naturally come to the conclusion that the transfer student was here for him.

He was 80% sure that she was here for the money.

F*ck.

Fu Yangxi kicked the chair beside him gloomily. After the transfer student returns, he plans to give her a sum of money and ask her to leave him alone.

*

On the other side, after Mingxi was done with the 30 laps, she felt utterly exhausted. Instead of returning to class, she headed straight to her dorm room, took a shower and went to bed.

It was almost 11.30a.m. when she woke up.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw that there were three complete buds in her pot!

It was green, sparkling, crystal-clear and shaky as it swayed under the electric fan.

In addition to the little buds that Mingxi got from furiously inhaling Fu Yangxi’s luck, she had about 3⅕ buds now.

Mingxi quivered in joy. She quickly got out of bed and rushed to the bathroom to look at the mirror.

The small dark patch on the left side of her pale face had faded substantially. If she wasn’t looking at it so closely in the mirror, it was barely noticeable.

Mingxi said, “With this speed of recovery, I’ll be able to rid myself of the mask very soon!”

System: “Of course. The unfortunate things that you had to go through was related to the negative luck of being a female supporting character. The moment you absorb some positive luck, everything will go smoother for you.”

Mingxi felt inspired. So long as she worked hard enough, the fate of an evil female supporting character could be changed!

After burning a huge amount of calories due to all that running, Mingxi was hungry. On the way to the canteen, she was still thinking about what she could do to absorb the most amount of luck in the shortest time.

This Fu family’s young master was truly one to be reckoned with. She was lucky with the incident of their homeroom teacher punishing her to do laps, else he would have definitely asked someone to move her books away.

Without this incident, it was highly possible that her books would have been coldly thrown into the trash.

Mingxi wasn’t angry. After all, she did want to ask for a favor from him.

She just felt frustrated— What could she do to get closer to him?

Mingxi quickly thought of the one thing she was best at: cooking.

For the past 15 years before she was found by the Zhao family, she had always cooked and took care of her grandmother. It was a common occurrence for her to return the ingredients given to her by her neighbors in the form of delicious dishes.

From around the age of 7 to 8, there were already people complimenting her cooking.

After she was found by the Zhaos, in order to quickly assimilate into the family, she would often cook a few specialty dishes for them.

Although her mother was a picky eater, she never said anything about her cooking.

As for Zhao Yuning, he was always the one who wanted seconds. Sometimes he would even ask her to make more so that he could eat them at school the next day.

Looks like she was gonna have to go to He Yang’s shop to get some ingredients.

As Mingxi finally had an idea, her steps were lighter and quicker.

*

The gossip about the incident that occurred this morning at the International Class also reached the ears of Zhao Yuan and her friend E* Xiaoxia.

ray note: E is pronounced like ‘uh’

Zhao Yuning walked over from the side with Year Ones to eat with Zhao Yuan. He sat beside them.

While the siblings were shocked when they heard about this from E Xiaoxia, they didn’t think that Zhao Mingxi had truly changed her target of pursuit.

What kind of joke was this? Everyone knew that she liked Shen Liyao.

They have seen how she would always doll herself up and come down from the second floor with bright sparkly eyes whenever Shen Liyao came over to their house.