Chapter 124 : Eat Your Medicine, You Dunce! 5 (2/2)
“Would you let me join even if I won’t do any work?” Shi Sheng asked this question seriously.
“Ah?”
……
In the end, Shi Sheng still joined the Drama Club. Of course she wasn’t actually doing anything—she was just there.
That was fine, though, because Lin Yin was the Drama Club’s president, and Shi Sheng still had the status of being Bei Ze’s younger sister even if he two of them didn’t really speak much to each other at all.
The celebration held for this academy of elites was quite special. Every club had to come up with some kind of programme, and the Drama Club had chosen to perform the play Snow White.
These kinds of fairy tales didn’t really interest Shi Sheng. If she were to try and write one, all that would come out would be some dark and twisted mockery of a fairy tale.
A day before the celebration, they held a dress rehearsal..
“Bei Zhi, I’m really sorry. The rehearsal is starting soon, so could you help me grab some clothes?” Lin Yin looked apologetic. “We need the clothes by tomorrow, but the place they’re held at now is a bit far away, so could I trouble you?”
Shi Sheng took her legs off of the back of her chair and lifted her head to look at Lin Yin. “Place.”
“President, President!” Right when Lin Yin was about to speak, someone else spoke up. “Ji Xiaoyu’s going, so you don’t have to get someone else!”
“Ji Xiaoyu?” Lin Yin was surprised. “But it’s so far away. How come she wants to go?”
“Ji Xiaoyu volunteered when she heard us speaking about it just now.”
A hint of a smile tugged at Shi Sheng’s lips. ‘I knew plot-sama was strong.’
In the original storyline, Bei Zhi had plotted for Ji Xiaoyu to go. The crucial point wasn’t actually the fetching of the clothes but the sudden downpour that occurred on the way back.
This downpour would allow Ji Xiaoyu to develop feelings for Bei Ze, who had been out there to run an errand and had ended up getting trapped together with her.
‘See? I didn’t do anything but Ji Xiaoyu ended up picking up this task on her own. I knew the leads are fated to meet no matter how far apart they are!’
……
In the suburbs, Ji Xiaoyu hugged a large bag while stumbling unevenly through puddles, feeling regret and grievance in her heart.
Had she known the place was so far, she wouldn’t have gone. And when she had arrived, she had been so stunned by the surroundings that she had forgotten to get the taxi driver to wait for her.
She had remembered that she needed to ask him to wait only after she had already left the manor with the clothes. At that point the car was already long gone, so she could only walk ahead on foot to see if any passing cars would be willing to give her a lift.
She hadn’t expected a heavy downpour to strike before she had even gotten far. There were no cars she could hitch a ride from, or even any places in which she could hide from the rain.
“Ah!” Ji Xiaoyu slipped and fell into a puddle. The bag in her hand opened, causing the beautifully bright clothing to fall out and get smeared with mud. Ji Xiaoyu fumbled with the clothes, trying to stuff them back into the bag, but the more she moved the more upset she felt.
She suddenly flung the clothes to the ground and stomped on them, as if to vent. Mud flew everywhere. “They must’ve done it on purpose! They deliberately let me run this far because they looked down on me! They looked down on me! So what if they’re rich?! Why the hell did they have to come all the way here to order some clothes…”
When Ji Xiaoyu had finished venting, her chest heaving, the rain cooled down some of her anger. Looking at the dirtied clothing on the ground, she finally began to feel a bit nervous and afraid.
When she had received the clothes just now, she heard the assistant say that every single one of these was worth more than RMB1,000. And, more importantly, they were to be used tomorrow.
‘I can’t shame myself in front of Bei Ze!’
Ji Xiaoyu picked up the clothes and shoved them into the bag. She hoisted the bag, which was now at least twice as heavy as before, and continued moving onwards.
‘I have to get these clothes clean by tomorrow. I’m not going to let them laugh at me!
They might look down on me now, but one day they’ll only feel envy and jealousy!’