Chapter 15 (1/2)

Before Ke Chengwen could even form a sentence, Fu Yangxi had already walked to another row displaying a selection of masks.

A top promoter managed to guess what he wanted to buy. He immediately pushed a rack of items to him and asked, “Young Master Fu, do you need this?”

Fu Yangxi turned.

A row of various kinds of female underwear made out of silk and satin entered his vision abruptly.

His handsome face flushed red immediately. He yelled, “What is this?! Do I look like someone who would want to buy something like this?! You’ve misunderstood me!”

The top promoter was about to shakily pull the rack away.

“Wait.” Fu Yangxi called out to her.

Actually, Fu Yangxi had a suspicion that the transfer student was low on money recently because he saw how she would always be on the forum in search of tutoring jobs. He didn’t know if she could afford such things.

“I’ll take two.” Fu Yangxi pulled a long face. He refused to look at it again, so he just used two fingers to pull up some items and threw it in the luggage.

By the time he was done, his whole face was practically red.

He took another two packets of masks and threw it in. Then, he hurriedly used his leg to close the luggage. After pulling the zipper, he turned and quickly ran away with the luggage in tow.

The group of salespeople who came to observe Young Master Fu from behind a shelf watched this whole bizarre transaction with their expressions unusually brilliant.

An unexplainable expression also appeared on Ke Chengwen’s face.

The top promoter smiled.

Looks like I didn’t misunderstand him.

Ke Chengwen chased after him with small jogs. He felt resentful toward Fu Yangxi for failing to meet expectations, and he was impatient to see improvement. “Xi ge, she’s the one going after you, not the other way around. Why are you buying so many things?!”

“I know!” Fu Yangxi retorted unhappily. “I don’t like her! I’m just returning the favor for her insistence to give me desserts every day!”

Ke Chengwen wanted to continue.

Fu Yangxi’s face was emotionless. “Shut up. I said I don’t like her.”

“Okay.” Ke Chengwen had mixed feelings about this.

Fu Yangxi bought a lot of things in a muddle. Towards the end, he took two duvets.

The weather in October was unpredictable. It could turn cold whenever. When the two of them were faced with a gust of cold wind upon leaving the mall, they both sneezed.

A honk came from a vehicle not far away from them. As if it was following them, a limousine drove nearer.

The moment Fu Yangxi saw it, his expression turned cold. He placed the duvets on the luggage and pushed it to Ke Chengwen. “I’ll meet you at the library at eight.”

“Oh my god, how am I supposed to explain this amount of things?” Ke Chengwen was clearly unwilling.

Fu Yangxi said, “Idiot. Just say that you got it as a prize.”

Ke Chengwen was beginning to question his life. Who would believe that he had won so many items only for female use?

The car had already arrived. The back door opened.

A respectful middle-aged man who was wearing a suit came out. He smiled at Fu Yangxi. “Young Master.”

*

Mingxi was extremely focused on her revision in the library.

There were a few people who had yet to go home for the weekend, just about 20 of them. Some were listening to songs on their earphones, some had their legs crossed as they played games, there were also a few couples. Thus, it wasn’t all that quiet.

The system helped her to calculate the time: “You used 75 minutes to complete this paper. You’re getting faster.”

“This test wasn’t hard. It wasn’t even 80% of the difficulty of the college entrance examinations. But I am definitely getting faster than before.”

Mingxi raised her head and rubbed her eyes. She took a glimpse at the pot which was still stuck at 15 small buds.

In accordance with the increase of the small buds— which also meant that her negative luck was decreasing, she could clearly perceive the changes in her.

The most obvious one would be when she answered the test, the answers that she got wrong due to a random glitch in her brain decreased by a lot.

The system’s explanation for this was that her collected luck was currently diminishing the female protagonist’s intelligence reducing buff.

Mingxi was filled with determination.

However, she was currently worried about one thing. She had already submitted the application form for the Hundred School Tournament, but she was afraid that there would be too many outstanding people to the point that there would be a pile of application forms. Then the teacher in charge of the competing team would not even see her application form at all.

If this was true, then she would’ve immediately died in square one.

The teacher in charge of choosing students had the surname Gao. He was over 60 years old and was well-respected by everyone. He was the renowned top tournament trainer for many years. In school, no one would dare to rebut him, even the teachers would have to bow in respect to him.

Mingxi wondered if there was a way for her to directly give her application form to Trainer Gao.

Even if he didn’t choose her, she could at least say that she tried.

—If that doesn’t work, at least she would be on speaking terms with this mysterious teacher and she could try to get some guidance from him.

She must enter a good college in this lifetime.

Mingxi’s possession of her past life’s memories allowed her to broaden her web of thoughts quickly.

“Help me see if this is a request from Professor Gao’s grandchild to find a playmate.”

During her past life, when Mingxi was in college, this top trainer had already retired. Everyone felt that it was such a pity, but it was also then that they found out that he had an autistic grandson at home. As his grandson’s illness got gradually worse, he could only retire to focus on taking care of him.

The system: “Yes. It’s for 200 yuan a day so the price is not bad. If you manage to get it, it could also ease your financial burden.”

Mingxi said, “It shouldn’t be a problem. See? Practically no one replied to this request.”

This user had used a rather stiff tone in his post. The request itself was also very demanding as it required someone to play with an autistic child.

The students who needed to earn money would never take up this kind of request. Everyone was more willing to take simple jobs which could get them more money easily, like being a tutor or helping others to do their homework.

This was the reason why despite this post having been left up there for the past six years, only a few comments like “???” and “Are you for real or is this just a trick?” were there.

If it wasn’t because Mingxi had been given a second chance at life, she would never have connected this post to the ever strict Professor Gao.

As Mingxi wanted to attempt this, she sent a private message to this user, stating that she wanted to take up this job.

However, after she sent it, there was no reply for a whole 10 minutes. There wasn’t even a sign that it had been read.

The system: “Is this idea useful? I think you should just try to find out Professor Gao’s address and head there yourself.”

“That’s too purposeful. Judging by Professor Gao’s personality, he would definitely hate it.” Mingxi contemplated before continuing, “Let’s just give it some more time. It’s getting late, and considering Professor Gao’s age, he must be asleep by now. We’ll check on it again tomorrow morning.”

Mingxi flipped through her calendar and was reminded of something. The time was fast approaching when the Dong family would come back after the end of the Hundred School Tournament in her past life.

The Dong family was her grandmother’s neighbor back when she lived in the small town. Although they were poor, they would always lend a helping hand to Mingxi and her grandmother.

About three years ago, Uncle Dong struck gold with his business. Then, they all left overseas.

In her past life, after the Dong family came back, they would constantly invite Mingxi over to their house.

Their whole family thought that Zhao Yuan was a dog in a manger, hence they all treated Zhao Yuan badly— It wasn’t hard to conclude that they were quite the formidable villains in the original novel as well. They kept on making appearances but were always met with retaliation from the people around Zhao Yuan.

Additionally, although the Dong family was rich, they were painfully straightforward— In the original novel, they were cursed with little IQ and repeatedly made a fool out of themselves.

Although Dong Shen who transferred here was extremely good-looking, due to his poor mannerisms, he was taken as a joke in A High all the time.

Ultimately, the end of the Dong family was no different than the resolution of Mingxi and He Yang’s family.

As Mingxi couldn’t remember phone numbers, she couldn’t make the first contact with the Dong family. However, she circled the date on her calendar and decided that in this life, she would use her luck as the female protagonist to protect this family.

At the very least she would want them to distance themselves from Zhao Yuan.

Also, the first thing she would do the moment she meets Dong Shen would be to bring him to buy new clothes.

There were many things she had to do. Mingxi planned them out neatly in her mind.

Nonetheless, the foundation of doing all these, the core itself, was to quickly stimulate the growth of the small buds in her pot.

Mingxi had just finished rubbing her eyes and was about to continue doing her next test paper.

Suddenly, the chair opposite her was pulled back.

A familiar black bag was placed on the table. Then, a similarly familiar hand opened the school bag and took out a thick Tournament Question Set, a pen and a paper.

“…” Mingxi raised her head. As if on accident, she made eye contact with Shen Liyao.

Shen Liyao glanced at her. He placed his bag on the seat beside him and sat on the seat across her.

“Why are you here?” Mingxi looked around. She did not see the neighboring school’s Kong Jiaze nor did she see anyone else there. Shen Liyao actually came alone— most importantly, he actually sat opposite her voluntarily.

Shen Liyao looked at her with emotionless eyes. As he was trying to put out the rage in his heart, his tone was unkind, “Why can’t I be here? Does your family own this library?”

What the heck? Why is he so angry?

Mingxi was baffled. So much anger. Did you eat a bomb? Did I trigger you?

Shen Liyao’s gaze landed on the pile of neatly stacked test papers beside her. Three words were written gracefully on the upper left side of the papers: Fu Yangxi.

Mingxi followed his gaze. “What’s up?”

Shen Liyao’s felt a headache coming. “Why are you doing his homework?”

“I’m willing.” For the past two days, Mingxi had been helping Fu Yangxi do his homework. On the one hand, she could gain more luck. On the other, she could use it as practice. The more she wrote, the stronger it would be imprinted in her head. But she didn’t want to explain this to Shen Liyao.

“…” Shen Liyao almost choked. The flame in his heart immediately burned even stronger.

Suddenly, he felt as if he noticed something. He knew why for the past two days he would feel annoyed whenever he heard the name Zhao Mingxi and Fu Yangxi appear together in one sentence.

Shen Liyao’s tone deepened, “Are you done with this nonsense—”

Mingxi looked up.

The words ‘Why must you approach someone like Fu Yangxi? Why did you stop appearing in my life?’ were at the tip of his tongue, but due to a young man’s pride, Shen Liyao couldn’t say them out loud.

Instead, what left his mouth was, “You can’t stay in school forever.”

Mingxi originally wanted to greet him, but for some reason she received a scolding from him. She was merely doing her work.

Furthermore, he was speaking on behalf of the Zhao family.

Even with Mingxi’s good temperament, she could no longer stand it.

“God Yao, we’ve only known each other for two years. You were the one who said that we’re not even friends, so you don’t have any right to advise me.”

Shen Liyao held the core areas of the Hundred School Tournament in his hands, but he seemed to have forgotten the reason why he came. He gritted his teeth and glared at Mingxi before rebutting, “Only known each other for two years?”

—Then what did she mean when she said she liked him for the past two years?

“Yes.” Mingxi looked around her. When she saw that no one was paying attention to them, she immediately stood up and started to pack her things.

“I was ignorant for bothering you back then. I’m sorry. But I won’t do it anymore, so please stop meddling in my affairs.”