After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 2

Ye Wanyin waited in the living room until eleven at night. She had already worked through more than half of a study guide, yet there was still no sign of the person in the room opposite coming out. In the end, she could only place her notebook on the table and go back to her room to sleep.

The next day, Ye Wanyin woke up according to her biological clock. Looking at the unfamiliar ceiling above her, she remembered the reality that she had already transmigrated into a book. Then she remembered what Fang Shu had said yesterday about class, and she instantly became fully awake.

After quickly washing up, Ye Wanyin stuffed the study guide on her desk into her schoolbag and hurried out the door. The living room was very quiet, and the room opposite was also very quiet. Ye Wanyin paced back and forth between the two doors. Seeing that it was almost eight o’clock, and that even the first class was about to start, she could no longer care about anything else. She quickly raised her hand and knocked on the opposite door a few times.

There was no response inside.

Could she have already gone out?

Ye Wanyin raised her hand again. This time, she knocked a little harder.

Finally, a faint rustling sound came from inside. A moment later, the door in front of Ye Wanyin opened.

Fang Shu stood there with a world-weary expression, wearing a loose Snow White nightdress. Her hair was messy, and her eyes were bloodshot. Although her face was expressionless, every inch of her radiated the dangerous aura of someone who had been disturbed.

“Today is Saturday.”

Sparks of murderous intent burst out from her dead-fish eyes.

Ye Wanyin opened her mouth slightly. Ah, this…

Seeing the look in Fang Shu’s eyes that said, If you don’t give me a proper reason, you’re dead, Ye Wanyin slowly came back to herself. At the same time, she remembered something and hurriedly walked to the living room, picked up the notebook she had written yesterday from the table, and stuffed it into Fang Shu’s arms.

“Perfect timing. Let’s do some tutoring.”

Fang Shu looked at the notebook in her arms. “…”

In the blink of an eye, Ye Wanyin and her notebook were shut outside the door with a bang.

Behind the door, Fang Shu walked toward her bed while habitually fishing earplugs out of her pajama pocket. When she took them out, Fang Shu looked at them a few more times. Perhaps because she stared at them for too long, the earplugs suddenly felt somewhat unfamiliar to her.

Right. When had she developed the habit of wearing earplugs?

A trace of confusion flashed through her eyes, but very quickly, that feeling disappeared again. Fang Shu frowned and felt that she was probably overthinking it. Hadn’t she had this habit ever since she met Ye Wanyin?

After putting in the earplugs, Fang Shu felt that the world instantly became peaceful. Soon, she fell back into dreamland.

Outside the door, Ye Wanyin held the notebook in her hands and frowned for the first time because of this mission.

Fang Shu slept until noon before coming out. During that time, Ye Wanyin finished the remaining half of the study guide and also added some content to her notebook.

Fang Shu looked exhausted. Her upper eyelids remained half-open, half-closed, and with her messy hair, she looked like a female ghost whose life essence had been drained in the middle of the night.

At a glance, it was obvious she had not slept well.

Ye Wanyin frowned for the second time.

She watched as Fang Shu skillfully took frozen food out of the fridge, cooked it, ate it, and then immediately pulled out her phone. While listlessly walking toward her room, she typed replies to messages.

Ye Wanyin looked down at the notebook in her hand, picked it up, and followed her.

“Do you have something to do today?”

Fang Shu did not even lift her eyelids. Her voice was weak from not sleeping well, limp and faint like the buzzing of a mosquito.

“Yes.”

Unwilling to give up, Ye Wanyin followed her. “I’ll only take up a little bit of your time.”

Fang Shu finally raised her eyes and looked at her. Ye Wanyin immediately opened the notebook. Inside were basic test questions that Ye Wanyin had created from memory. Before she started guiding the other girl to study, she first needed to know Fang Shu’s current level.

However—

A few seconds later, Ye Wanyin was once again locked outside the door.

Ye Wanyin: “…”

The wonderful weekend passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Wanyin hit wall after wall for two days and gained nothing.

If the other girl did not want to write, Ye Wanyin had no way to force her hand around a pen and make her do it.

On Monday, Ye Wanyin woke up early in the morning. The first thing she did after waking was wash up, pack her bag, and hurry to knock on the opposite door.

Fang Shu opened the door crookedly from inside. Her eyes were still closed. Ye Wanyin shook her body.

“Hurry and get up! We’re going to be late!”

Fang Shu’s body tilted to the side along with her head. Leaning against the doorframe, her whole person seemed to have entered a meditative state. Her voice drifted softer and softer.

“I don’t want to go anymore…”

Although she said that, her tone did not have its usual aggressive force. Even her morning grumpiness had weakened a lot. Clearly, she still had at least a tiny bit of a student’s sense of duty.

After realizing this, Ye Wanyin relaxed slightly. As long as Fang Shu had not completely given up on school.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry! If you don’t get up now, we’ll really be late!”

Ye Wanyin, who had no idea where the school was, which class they were in, or where her seat was, anxiously pushed Fang Shu toward the bathroom. Fang Shu was probably truly exhausted. Even while brushing her teeth, her eyes were closed. It was only after she washed her face that her tightly shut eyes finally opened a little.

She let out a long yawn, then wiped away the moisture that had gathered at the corners of her eyes. Her gaze was somewhat unfocused as she looked at Ye Wanyin, her tone flat.

“Are you going to watch me change clothes?”

Ye Wanyin urged her a few more times, telling her to change quickly, then waited in the living room.

Ye Wanyin was wearing her school uniform today. It was the classic blue-and-white color scheme. The wide pant legs brushed against the edges of her sneakers, and if she was not careful, they would easily touch the floor. Ye Wanyin squatted down and rolled up the hems of her pants.

Perhaps because Ye Wanyin was anxious, as she stared at the watch face on her wrist, she felt as if the second hand was running at high speed, like it had been fitted with an accelerator. Her heart also jumped along with it, trembling beat by beat.

This watch was something Ye Wanyin had gone out of the residential compound to buy on Saturday afternoon. She really could not endure days when she could not see the time. She had specifically bought one with a calendar on the face. It was cheap too, making it the best choice at the moment aside from a phone.

At this moment, Ye Wanyin watched helplessly as the time on the watch ran from six-thirty in the morning all the way to six-forty-five. She almost wanted to rush into the room and drag Fang Shu out. How could changing clothes take this long?

Fortunately, just as Ye Wanyin thought this, Fang Shu came out in the next second.

However, what she was wearing was obviously not a school uniform. She had on a doll-collar blouse paired with an A-line skirt, with a cardigan trimmed with ruffles over it, revealing a pair of long, slender, pale, straight legs. Her previously messy hair had been combed smooth, with a braid along one side. It was tucked behind her ear together with the loose strands nearby, and behind her ear was a flower-shaped hair clip. Her whole person looked youthful and beautiful. Walking on the street, she would have a one-hundred-percent head-turning rate.

Fang Shu gave a small yawn, clearly still a little sleepy. She rubbed the corner of her eye and slowly strolled to the entryway. After changing into small leather shoes, she said to the stunned Ye Wanyin,

“Let’s go.”

Ye Wanyin snapped back to herself and only then realized that she had actually stared at someone in a daze. As she changed her shoes, she reflected on herself. It must have been because the contrast was too great.

On the first day she transmigrated here, she had been completely confused and had not paid attention to what Fang Shu looked like at all. The next two days had been the weekend. Fang Shu had worn pajamas with a fifty-percent chance of matching someone else’s and kept a head of chicken-coop hair, looking utterly listless. If someone said she had just been born from a chicken coop, Ye Wanyin would believe it.

That was why, now that she suddenly saw Fang Shu properly dressed, she was unsurprisingly stunned by how beautiful she was.

After changing their shoes, the two of them walked out together. They lived in an old residential compound. Each building only had five floors, and outside the door was the stairwell. Fang Shu’s little leather shoes made crisp tapping sounds in the stairwell, quickly landing on the concrete road outside.

Many people lived in this old residential compound, because there were two high schools nearby, one to the east and one to the west, and the compound happened to be stuck right in the middle.

In the early morning, there were many day students heading out. Each of them had a steamed bun or flatbread clenched between their teeth as they rushed out all at once, then split up at the gate of the compound.

Ye Wanyin discovered that almost all the students with dyed or permed hair who were not wearing school uniforms went left, while the students wearing school uniforms, with no dyed or permed hair and ponytails tied up neatly, went right.

When they were about to leave the gate of the residential compound, Ye Wanyin absentmindedly turned right very naturally. Before she could even take a step, someone hooked her school uniform sleeve.

Fang Shu tugged at the white elastic band on her sleeve with one little finger, her expression careless.

“Where are you going?”

Ye Wanyin’s expression stiffened.

She looked at the group of students ahead, all with permed or dyed hair, not wearing uniforms, some even with tattoos on their bodies, and felt her breath stop.

Looking at it this way, Fang Shu was actually dressed quite normally.

Because there were barely any students at this school wearing uniforms, the moment Ye Wanyin, dressed properly in a school uniform, with no dyed or permed hair and even a good-student high ponytail, followed Fang Shu into the classroom, everyone’s eyes instantly focused on her. When she took one step, those gazes shifted one step with her.

Ye Wanyin felt as if there were thorns stabbing into her back.

“Who’s that? Why do I feel like I’ve never seen her before?”

“Ye… Ye Wanyin? I think it’s her.”

“Why do I feel like she wasn’t this noticeable before? Is that really her?”

“Should be, right? Isn’t she the only one in our class who wears the school uniform?”

…

Fang Shu also noticed the strangeness in the class. Her gaze swept around the classroom, and she asked oddly,

“You’ve been classmates for a year and a half. You don’t recognize her?”

“We do, we do. It’s just that she feels… kind of different, haha…”

Hearing this, Fang Shu looked back at Ye Wanyin. The other girl was wearing the familiar black-framed glasses of a good student. Her hair was tied meticulously, and her face was also the same face in Fang Shu’s memory. If one had to say something was wrong… there did not seem to be anything wrong.

So she frowned slightly. Her head unconsciously tilted a little, the movement very small.

“Where is she different?”

“Maybe it’s because you two spend so much time together that you can’t tell. To us, it looks pretty obvious.”

Fang Shu could not see it, so she was too lazy to torture herself over it. She directly pulled Ye Wanyin over to her seat and sat down.

Ye Wanyin secretly memorized where her seat was as she listened to their conversation. In her heart, she vaguely had a guess. After all, this identity of hers had been fabricated by the system. According to the manual, the real her had not actually participated in this world, so what the system had changed should only be their memories.

As for why two kinds of deviations appeared, Ye Wanyin suspected that it might be the difference between passerby cannon fodder and the mission target.

After roughly making this deduction, Ye Wanyin could not help looking to the side. Fang Shu was propping up one cheek and had placed her phone on the desk to play with it.

Looking at Fang Shu’s seemingly habitual action, Ye Wanyin could not help reaching out and straightening her head for her.

“Don’t always tilt your head. It’s bad for your cervical spine.”

Fang Shu stared at her with dead-fish eyes. “…”