After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 21

“Is it normal to dream about being intimate with someone of the same sex?” Fang Shu pressed the Enter key.

—Dreams are all fake.

—Normal. I’ve dreamed about it several times too, but I’m straight as a ruler, hey.

—Normal. This does not mean the OP has homosexual tendencies. It’s mainly a form of psychological comfort. Perhaps the OP has not trusted the opposite sex much recently, and someone of the same sex is better able to express her thoughts and emotions.*

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“It’s already been over a week.” Fang Shu lowered her head and looked at her phone, her finger sliding left and right over the calendar section.

Ye Wanyin pushed the corrected test paper in front of Fang Shu, then also sat beside her. Before starting, she asked as usual, “Have you rested enough?”

Fang Shu turned her head and stared seriously at Ye Wanyin, beginning to wonder what kind of bewitching potion this person had fed her.

“Today is Saturday,” Fang Shu said.

Ye Wanyin nodded along without understanding why, then touched the test paper with her finger, trying to bring Fang Shu’s attention back.

But clearly, Fang Shu’s mind was not on studying right now.

She counted on her fingers. “If we date for one more day, we’ll have been together for two weeks.”

This was an unprecedented situation.

In the past, she would get tired of someone in at most a week.

Fang Shu found it both novel and terrifying.

Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu’s serious, thoughtful expression, and suddenly her right eyelid began twitching wildly. This meant that an ominous premonition had come again.

“This means… we get along very well?”

Fang Shu shook her head, then leaned closer to Ye Wanyin. Seeing Ye Wanyin instinctively move back, she pressed both hands on Ye Wanyin’s shoulders.

“Don’t move.”

Ye Wanyin obediently stopped moving.

Fang Shu looked her up and down several times, then removed her glasses. The moment her glasses were taken off, Ye Wanyin became a little flustered. Her gaze also darted around helplessly. The blurry world made her eyes seem covered with a thin layer of mist, making one want to blow into them.

To see if the mist could be blown away.

About three minutes later, Fang Shu put the glasses in her hand back onto Ye Wanyin’s nose bridge. Ye Wanyin, whose vision had returned, clearly let out a breath of relief.

Fang Shu moved back a little, then commented, “I suddenly realized you seem to be pretty good-looking.”

Ye Wanyin looked at her uneasily.

“This is my first time dating someone for this long…” Fang Shu stared fixedly at Ye Wanyin, watching as Ye Wanyin’s heart seemed to hang in suspense because of her words. As if deliberately teasing her, Fang Shu waited a long time before blinking and saying, “Mm, but for now, I’m not tired of you yet.”

After saying this, Fang Shu retreated back to her original position and finally placed her attention on studying.

Ye Wanyin’s eyelid, which had been twitching nonstop, finally slowly calmed down. She looked at Fang Shu, who was looking at the corrected test paper, and quietly put her heart back into her stomach.

Just now, she had almost thought Fang Shu was about to break up with her.

Given Fang Shu’s personality of absolutely never eating old grass again, if they really broke up, Ye Wanyin did not know how she would persuade her to study anymore.

On Wednesday, the homeroom teacher arranged a math mock exam and had everyone in class move their desks and chairs into exam formation. It was just slightly more crowded than during a real exam.

Fang Shu still sat beside Ye Wanyin. The only difference was that there was an aisle between them.

The homeroom teacher handed the papers to the students in the first row and had them pass them back. Very soon, everyone in the class had received a paper. A class quiz was not as formal as an exam, so the moment everyone got their papers, they basically started working without delay.

Of course, that did not include the slackers in the back.

Fang Shu had originally been one of those slackers too. This time, after receiving the paper, she first bit the pen cap and scanned the paper. Then she randomly filled in the multiple-choice questions before going to grind through the big questions.

Ye Wanyin’s teaching these days had still had some effect. A paper written by the homeroom teacher herself belonged to the relatively simple type. Basically, for the big questions Ye Wanyin had taught Fang Shu, she could work them out after thinking a little. However, the later big questions that had not yet been taught were not so doable.

Only after she had nearly finished grinding through the big questions did Fang Shu begin to work on the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

Ring, ring, ring—

When the two consecutive classes ended, the homeroom teacher mercilessly had the students in the last row collect the papers from back to front.

Fang Shu moved her desk and chair back, listening to the boys in the back row sighing and groaning. Beside her, Ye Wanyin asked, “How did it feel?”

Fang Shu replied, “It was all right.”

Ye Wanyin did not ask more. In any case, the results would probably come out in the next couple of days.

There was no need to be especially anxious about it.

She organized the wrong questions from the study guide Fang Shu had completed into an error notebook and handed it to Fang Shu. “Look at this when you have time. You were a little careless on some questions. You made the same mistake two or three times.”

Fang Shu took it absentmindedly, flipped through a few pages casually, then set it aside. “Got it.”

The next day, the homeroom teacher walked into the classroom carrying a stack of already-corrected test papers. The students in the classroom all held their breaths and nervously stared at her.

Fortunately, the homeroom teacher did not publicly execute them this time. To save time, she directly had several subject representatives hand out the papers. After everyone had received their papers, Ye Wanyin realized hers had not been handed out.

She looked toward the podium and saw that there was still one paper sitting beside the homeroom teacher. Only after the subject representatives had returned to their seats did the teacher pick up the paper and speak.

“Everyone should be able to see that the paper I made was relatively simple. Logically speaking, you shouldn’t have gotten any of these questions wrong. In the end, only six people in our class scored above 120, and only one person got a full score.”

“If you usually listened even a little in class, you wouldn’t have scored this low.”

“However, there is one student I want to praise this time—Fang Shu.”

As the homeroom teacher called her name, quite a few people in class turned to look at Fang Shu.

“Fang Shu scored 68 this time. Although the score isn’t high, compared with before, she has already improved quite a lot. She did all the big questions she could do. As for the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, it’s clear she doesn’t really know them. Continue working hard next time.”

“Ye Wanyin got a full score this time. I don’t expect every one of you to get full marks, but at the very least, you should be able to reach half of her score, right?”

As the homeroom teacher spoke, she began getting to the main topic. While walking down from the podium, she explained the questions students had gotten wrong the most. When she reached Fang Shu’s side, she knocked on the stack of textbooks Ye Wanyin had piled up. “For these two days, share Fang Shu’s paper first.”

Ye Wanyin nodded at the homeroom teacher.

After that, the homeroom teacher practically lived beside Fang Shu’s seat. Ye Wanyin saw Fang Shu staring idly at the paper, the pen barrel spinning nonstop between her fingers, spacing out from time to time. It was not convenient for Ye Wanyin to remind her, so she could only pick up her pen and help Fang Shu write down notes on the questions she had gotten wrong.

“…This question absolutely shouldn’t have been wrong. Those of you who got it wrong should all reflect properly.”

Fang Shu, who had gotten it wrong and was not reflecting at all, continued spinning her pen by herself. After a while, the homeroom teacher finally could not bear it anymore and knocked on her head.

“I just praised you and you’re already floating? Didn’t you get this question wrong?”

Then she looked at Ye Wanyin. “Let her write it herself.”

Ye Wanyin could only put down the pen awkwardly.

After class, Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu’s notes, which were written in scattered bits and pieces, and could not help saying, “You have to listen in class too.”

Fang Shu lay on the desk indifferently. “Isn’t there still you?”

In fact, although Fang Shu had already been seriously studying according to Ye Wanyin’s requirements these days, her behavior in class was still the same as before. If Ye Wanyin assigned her homework, she could more or less make do and write some of it, although she used class time to do it. But if Ye Wanyin herself was not busy with her, Fang Shu would go wild during that class.

Ye Wanyin sighed. “You can’t rely only on me.”

She was not from this world. One day, she would return. When that time came, Fang Shu would still have to rely on herself.

But Fang Shu did not take it seriously and pulled out her phone.

The homeroom teacher had already finished explaining this paper, but some students still had questions they did not fully understand and were too embarrassed to ask the teacher. So during evening self-study, they almost all swarmed around Ye Wanyin.

Fang Shu was writing science homework at the side. Since she would not finish it anytime soon anyway, she simply gave up her seat.

A few classmates felt a little embarrassed. After all, if Fang Shu did not study before, that was one thing. Now that she had started studying, they had not only taken over her deskmate, but also her seat.

Fang Shu waved her hand to tell them not to think too much about it. “It’s fine. We live together. I can ask her again tonight.”

Only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.

Because of all these questions, they went home even later than usual.

On the way back that night, Fang Shu wanted milk tea. Thinking that the milk tea shop near the plaza across from the residential compound might already be closed, she ordered delivery.

After she finished memorizing ten words, the milk tea arrived at exactly the right time.

Fang Shu felt it was perfect.

After handing one cup of milk tea to Ye Wanyin, Fang Shu returned to her master bedroom. Ye Wanyin was doing her nightly college entrance exam question review. She had already worked through more than half of the set she bought last time, and the questions leaned toward the simple side. Ye Wanyin planned to buy another set on Friday night.

One with a little more difficulty.

After tidying up the question bank, Ye Wanyin was walking toward her room when a noisy crackle of static suddenly sounded in her ears.

Her footsteps paused slightly.

The static sounded as if it had come from very far away, carrying the noise of a poor signal, constantly hissing and buzzing. Ye Wanyin listened for a while and found that there was only static. She was just about to ignore it when, at last, a mechanical voice came through.

[Beep—]

[Det… detected energy fluctuations near the host.]

[Low-power mode has been automatically activated.]