After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 23

Fang Shu taught Ye Wanyin how to download the app, then explained the basic rules of the game and a few common traps to her. Finally, she told her, “Don’t casually believe what other people say, especially the ones who claim to be the Seer. The harder they claim it, the more likely it is to be fake.”

Ye Wanyin nodded to show she understood.

The private room was quite large. To prevent people from peeking at others’ phones, the group spread out and sat apart. Fang Shu and Ye Wanyin sat in the corner near the door, with their backs to each other and some distance between them.

The others were either sitting on sofas farther away, beside the microphone hogs, or even directly in front of the KTV screen. Every time someone sang a line, they would bob their head.

After they sat down, they created a ten-person room and turned off the in-game microphone in advance. Then everyone confirmed their own roles.

Fang Shu, who drew the Seer right at the start: “…”

“Night falls. Please close your eyes—”

“Day breaks. Please open your eyes—”

“Tonight was a peaceful night.”

“I’m Number One. First, I’ll say that I’m a villager. Um, there’s too little information in the first round, so I can’t tell who the wolves are. Pass.”

“I’m Number Two…”

Fang Shu held her phone and listened to them speak somewhat absentmindedly. Because she and Ye Wanyin were sitting back-to-back, her sideways position on the sofa was not very comfortable, so she shifted closer to the edge of the sofa and leaned against the backrest.

When it was Fang Shu’s turn, Ye Wanyin saw her say a few words with the full aura of an expert: “I’m a good person. Pass.”

After seeing several people in front of her say long speeches, Ye Wanyin, who had no idea how she should speak, immediately learned from it. “I’m a good person. Pass.”

Behind them was Li Ming, who was sitting a little distance away. Hearing the two of them slack off so consistently even in their speeches, he struck a Conan pose.

“I won’t talk about the people in front for now, but I’m going to lightly suspect Fang Shu and the top student. The two of you are slacking way too hard. If the first person has no information and slacks off, fine. But you two are already Numbers Six and Seven. If you say you have no information at all, I don’t believe it. So in the first round, I’m planning to vote for one of you two.”

Fang Shu & Ye Wanyin: “…”

At the end of the first round, Fang Shu was voted out.

Those voted out could leave a final statement. Fang Shu revealed that she was the Seer and also protected Ye Wanyin beside her.

She was used to checking the person closest to her first.

Perhaps because of Fang Shu’s guarantee, although it did not make everyone believe she was the Seer, most people thought she was a wolf choosing a good person to clear her own suspicion. Because of this, Ye Wanyin managed to survive until the third round before finally being voted out as a wolf.

Fang Shu, who had been eliminated before her, moved a little closer to her. The two of them were now both “dead,” so they did not need to be as careful when speaking.

They only had to keep their voices a little lower.

Fang Shu asked Ye Wanyin what role she had.

Ye Wanyin showed her phone to her. Fang Shu saw that she was also a special role, the Hunter. After a moment of silence, she issued a soul-question: “Why didn’t you take anyone with you?”

Ye Wanyin said awkwardly, “I couldn’t tell who the wolves were. I was afraid of shooting the wrong person.”

“That’s still better than keeping it in your hand.” Fang Shu looked at her with bitter disappointment.

At the end of the first game, the werewolves won. Ye Wanyin looked at the werewolves who revealed themselves after the game and stayed silent for a long time. “I always thought Li Ming was a good person.”

Although he had voted for the wrong person in the first round, his analysis in the following rounds had been logical and well-founded. Most importantly, he had not claimed to be the Seer, so Ye Wanyin had subconsciously followed his lead.

Fang Shu summarized from the side, “The harder someone claims something, the more likely they are a werewolf.”

In the second game, Ye Wanyin had gotten a little familiar with the pattern, so she bravely spoke up and suspected one of the people in front of her. As a result, she was voted out in the first round.

After dying, she only left behind one sentence as her final statement: “I’m a good person.”

Fang Shu did not fare much better than her. This time, she had been killed at night. Seeing Fang Shu take out her phone and give up, Ye Wanyin could not help asking, “Did you rarely play this game before?”

Fang Shu flipped through a comic, propping her chin as she nodded. “I usually don’t play this kind of brain-burning game.”

Then she looked at Ye Wanyin. “But maybe you can play it more often.”

After they had played around three rounds, the KTV screen began playing the song Ye Wanyin had requested. When the group saw the “ancient” title on the screen, they thought someone had ordered the wrong song. But out of habit, before cutting it, they still asked, “Who requested this? If no one claims it, I’m cutting it.”

Fang Shu raised Ye Wanyin’s arm.

The group looked at Ye Wanyin and fell into a strange silence. In the end, someone broke the silence. “I never expected the top student’s taste to be so unique.”

Someone pressed him down. “What do you know? Do you think the top student plays around every day like you? Her heart only has studying in it.”

Ye Wanyin had already sat down beside the microphone.

If possible, she actually wanted to go outside and breathe some fresh air more.

As the intro ended, she began singing the opening line of Beijing Welcomes You.

Fang Shu took a deep breath and suddenly felt that her toes did not seem quite so itchy anymore. To be fair, Ye Wanyin sang quite nicely.

Probably because she could not fully let go, she did not sing with the same liveliness as the original singer. Instead, there was a flavor of her own in it—gentle, calm, soft, and lingering. It was like a mild breeze and soft rain, giving an old song her own color.

At first, the people around them had been curling their toes just like Fang Shu. But once they heard Ye Wanyin start singing, they began cheering.

“The top student is amazing!”

Later, they even started singing along.

Ye Wanyin’s voice was gradually drowned out by the noise. Fang Shu originally had not planned to curl her toes anymore, but now a villa was being built under her feet.

Li Ming’s voice was the loudest, and with his strength alone, he dragged the song into a rustic flavor. At the end, he even clicked his tongue and asked Fang Shu, who was not too far from him, “Sister Fang, sing with us?”

Fang Shu returned him an extremely cold expression.

A three-story villa was already enough. She did not want to curl out an entire skyscraper, thank you.

After Ye Wanyin finished one song, everyone still felt unsatisfied. “Top student, one more!”

Ye Wanyin shook her head. “No. I only know how to sing this one.”

After saying that, she sat back in her original seat.

Perhaps because Ye Wanyin had taken the lead, the songs that came after were older and older. Some were even songs from their fathers’ youth. Later, when a server came in, they almost thought they had walked into a middle-aged and elderly choir.

Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin sitting quietly beside her. When Ye Wanyin was not playing games or singing, she simply sat quietly to the side, seriously watching the people in the room.

Fang Shu sat beside her and asked while playing on her phone, “Did you not listen to other songs before?”

Even Fang Shu, who did not really search for songs, was now familiar with quite a few songs.

Ye Wanyin thought for a moment and said, “I’ve heard a few other songs, but I don’t know how to sing them. This song was taught to me by an elementary school teacher.”

Fang Shu gave an “oh.” “You spent all your other time studying?”

Ye Wanyin nodded. “There was a lot of homework where I’m from.”

Fang Shu imagined Ye Wanyin being drowned in a mountain of questions. Substituting herself into that situation, she felt deep sympathy.

The group kept making noise until almost one o’clock before finally preparing to pack up and go home. There were two people going the same way as Ye Wanyin and Fang Shu, so they shared a taxi along the way.

By the time they got home, it was completely one o’clock.

Fang Shu opened her eyes, which could barely stay open, and said sleepily, “I don’t want to go to class tomorrow.”

Ye Wanyin supported Fang Shu, who was walking unsteadily, and struggled for a moment. “How about I ask for a morning off for you tomorrow so you can sleep more?”

Fang Shu waved at her. “Someone will definitely ask for leave tomorrow. If I ask too, Old Ban will absolutely suspect something.”

Ye Wanyin thought of the few people who had still been very excited when leaving tonight and seemed to be planning to stay up all night, and fell silent.

That night, Fang Shu fell asleep the moment she finished showering.

However, she still had a dream.

This time, she dreamed that she was being chased by a group of people. Every single one of them was holding a loudspeaker and shouting at Fang Shu, “Beijing welcomes you~”

The tune had run far off course, and the final note was dragged ridiculously high.

Even in the dream, it had a deafening effect. The most terrifying thing was that the group of people even wanted to drag her into singing with them.

Fang Shu, who had no intention of joining their depravity, kept running in the dream until her legs were about to break. Then someone said they would help her.

The Fang Shu in the dream was very cautious. “What are your conditions?”

The other person looked Fang Shu up and down several times before finally saying, “Nothing much. You just need to be with me.”

At this moment, Fang Shu was no longer love-brained. Instead, she kept looking at the other person as if they definitely had ulterior motives. It was not until someone discovered her that Fang Shu immediately panicked, not knowing where to hide.

But the person in front of her suddenly pulled her over and had her hide behind them. When someone searched over, the other person helped her send them away.

After almost everyone had left, the other person finally turned around. “I helped you escape danger. You should be with me now, right?”

Before Fang Shu could agree, she felt the other person’s face getting closer and closer to hers…

And then Fang Shu woke up.

Ye Wanyin happened to knock on her door at that moment.

When they arrived in class, aside from the group who had left early, among those who had continued at KTV later, five or six people did not come. Almost all of them were from the last row too, so it looked extremely obvious.

During English morning reading, the homeroom teacher always entered through the back door and first glanced through the window. The last row was in the window’s blind spot, so at first, when the homeroom teacher saw everyone inside seriously doing morning reading and could hear the sound from outside, she was in a very good mood.

Until she walked in through the door and saw the almost empty last row at a glance. Her blood pressure shot up.

Fortunately, she did not lose her temper at the innocent students. She only walked toward the only male student remaining in the last row and asked him, “Where did the people beside you go?”

That student frantically shook his head. “I don’t know.”

The homeroom teacher’s expression clearly turned even darker. But she did not say anything. She only carried that expression and kept walking around the classroom.

That morning, everyone memorized vocabulary with the effect of twice the usual number of voices. During the break-time exercises, a few of the people who had not come in the morning slipped back.

In the afternoon, as soon as the homeroom teacher entered and saw the few scattered people in the last row, the anger she had suppressed all morning finally erupted. “You few, stand up!”

“Tell me. Why didn’t you come this morning?”

One boy argued, “Teacher, I overslept.”

The homeroom teacher threw a piece of chalk at his head. “Are you a pig? Overslept? Why don’t you just sleep until next year before coming back?”

Seeing this, another boy quickly surrendered. “Sorry, Teacher. I wasn’t feeling well this morning. I originally planned to ask you for leave, but my parents weren’t home, and I don’t have a phone…”

The homeroom teacher walked down from the podium. The boy who had spoken felt his heart pounding. The homeroom teacher stopped in front of him and tapped his desk with a triangular ruler. “Empty your pockets.”

The boy began stammering.

Three minutes later, the homeroom teacher confiscated a phone from the boy’s pocket.

The class burst into an uproar.

“The college entrance exam is almost here. Can you put a little effort into this? You have time to think about your hair, but no time to do homework or wake up? Our school doesn’t even force you to attend evening self-study, right? School ends at six in the afternoon. Even if I assume your house is more than ten kilometers away from here, you should be home in at most an hour, right? More than ten hours still isn’t enough for you to rest?”

The homeroom teacher was so angry that she scolded them for a full hour. It was not until more than ten minutes into the second class that she finally stopped. But she did not teach either. She drank some water and simply let them study on their own.

The people below quietly wrote their homework and carefully passed notes. Fang Shu had originally wanted to take out her phone, but seeing the homeroom teacher’s face on the podium, dark as a storm cloud, she still did not dare.

Only when lunch break came did Fang Shu finally dare openly take out her phone. She opened Baidu and typed a line:

“Is it normal to dream about almost kissing someone of the same sex?”