After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 26

On weekends, Ye Wanyin usually woke up fairly early. She first made herself a simple breakfast, then hung up the clothes in the washing machine, tidied the living room a little, and finally sat at the table by the balcony to start working through questions.

She had not been doing them for long when the master bedroom door opened. Ye Wanyin glanced at the time. It was only nine. She looked at Fang Shu in slight surprise. “You got up this early?”

Fang Shu had already washed up. Wearing her nightdress, she walked up to Ye Wanyin and carefully looked her over. Then, under Ye Wanyin’s puzzled gaze, she took off Ye Wanyin’s glasses. “I want to confirm something.”

Ye Wanyin opened her somewhat misty eyes and gave an “oh.” Then she sat still in the chair.

Fang Shu placed her glasses on the table. Seeing that Ye Wanyin did not ask anything and simply looked as if she would let Fang Shu do whatever she wanted, she said, “Why don’t you ask what I want to do?”

Ye Wanyin trusted her very much. “It’s fine. Do whatever you want.”

In any case, it could not possibly be anything illegal or against discipline.

She still had that much trust.

However, Fang Shu still told her in advance, giving her some mental preparation. “I want to verify whether I’ve bent or not.”

Ye Wanyin blinked. “Then verify it.”

Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin, then leaned down slightly toward her.

Outside, the sun had already risen at a speed visible to the naked eye. The pouring sunlight passed through the glass door and seeped inside, casting patches of light and shadow across the living room.

Fang Shu did not know whether it was the leftover warmth of the sunlight, or whether she had really bent. When she lowered her head, she clearly felt as if heat was spreading between them. As their bodies drew closer, that burning sensation seemed to flow, spreading toward her chest.

Fang Shu listened to her own heartbeat, beat after beat. At first, it was slow and steady. But after looking for too long at Ye Wanyin’s face so close at hand, at the other girl’s eyes that had lost focus after her glasses were removed, blinking from time to time as they met Fang Shu’s gaze with a bit of helplessness and uncertainty, Fang Shu felt her heart suddenly skip a beat.

“Are you done verifying?” There were only a few millimeters left between them. Ye Wanyin practically did not dare move at all. After all, one careless movement and their lips might brush past each other.

Fang Shu calculated the time, then straightened up and returned the glasses to her. “I’m done verifying.”

After that, she let Ye Wanyin continue working on questions, while she herself returned to her room.

As soon as she entered the bedroom, Fang Shu threw herself onto the bed. After a while, she turned over and lay on her back. She placed a hand over her heart. Her heartbeat was very calm, only occasionally skipping a beat in extremely rare moments.

She recalled the plots she had read, and very quickly came to a conclusion: she might not be bent, but she was definitely not that straight anymore.

She covered her face with a pillow, somewhat unable to understand. For the first ten-plus years of her life, she had never had any tendency to like the same sex, so how had she suddenly started showing signs of bending?

And the other person was even her…

Fang Shu felt as if something flashed through her mind, but that abnormal feeling disappeared in an instant. When Fang Shu tried to catch it again, she could no longer grasp it.

When they went to class on Monday, everyone was a little restless during morning reading. Everyone guessed that the results would definitely come out today; they just did not know whether they had done well or not.

Only two people in the whole class were as steady as mountains. Ye Wanyin knew what to expect from her own grades, while Fang Shu did not care at all. Whether she did well or badly had no effect on her anyway.

In this somewhat anxious atmosphere, they finally made it to first period.

The homeroom teacher came in holding a stack of papers. Seeing rows of eyes instantly light up as soon as she entered, the homeroom teacher slowly walked to the podium and placed the papers down. “Now you know to be nervous? Weren’t you all having a great time before the exam?”

The whole class did not dare make a sound.

The homeroom teacher opened the papers. This time, her mood was clearly not bad. “Most of you did pretty well on this monthly exam. Our class average is 72, ranking thirteenth in the grade.”

“Those whose names I call, come up and take your papers.”

…

“Fang Shu, 62 points. The question types in the monthly exam were more comprehensive and a bit harder than the ones I usually give, so your improvement this time is quite significant. But don’t get too proud. You still haven’t reached the class average. Keep working hard next time.”

Fang Shu took her paper and nodded perfunctorily.

Because the class had done fairly well overall this time, the homeroom teacher did not make the students who did poorly take their papers and stand at the back.

For the first time after an exam, Fang Shu sat so peacefully in her own seat, and she felt a little dazed.

As usual, Ye Wanyin’s paper had been taken by the homeroom teacher as the model answer, so she once again shared Fang Shu’s paper.

The first multiple-choice question was always relatively simple. Every time their homeroom teacher explained the first question, her first sentence would always be, “I originally didn’t want to explain Question One, but some of you can even get Question One wrong.”

And so, every time the homeroom teacher explained a paper, she started from the very beginning and went all the way to the end.

As for Fang Shu now, after listening out of boredom for a while, she passed Ye Wanyin a small note.

Are you still straight now?

Ye Wanyin replied to her.

Then Fang Shu continued.

Ye Wanyin did not notice at all, because her attention had already been drawn away by the system.

If offline mode was compared to a phone being turned off, then the reason it had taken until night last time to activate low-power mode was probably because it took time for the “phone” to power on.

And this time, it almost appeared immediately. At first, it was still the standard emotionless mechanical voice.

[Energy fluctuations detected near the host.]

[The system has automatically exited low-power mode.]

As low-power mode exited, Ye Wanyin saw an energy bar appear in her mind. The current progress of the energy bar was about ten percent. At ninety-five percent, there was a white line on the energy bar.

Ye Wanyin guessed that this was probably the progress displayed according to Fang Shu’s grades.

Looking at the progress on the energy bar and thinking of how long she had already stayed in this world, Ye Wanyin fell silent for a moment.

Then she called out in her mind, “System?”

There was still no response.

If last time the system could be said to have too little power to come out because it was in low-power mode, then now that it had already exited low-power mode, Ye Wanyin did not believe it still could not come out.

She called out again. Seeing that the system still did not answer, she simply made a request in her mind. “May I ask where the complaint channel is?”

Probably to ensure that the host’s appeals could be submitted, the complaint form did not require the system to appear. It automatically appeared in Ye Wanyin’s mind.

It was an ordinary A4 sheet of paper, with several questions written on it that needed to be answered for the complaint. Ye Wanyin only had to answer according to those questions.

Writing in her mind was relatively simple. Whatever Ye Wanyin thought would quickly appear on the paper.

The first question was soon completed. Ye Wanyin was just about to write the second question and report the system’s unscrupulous behavior when a voice suddenly sounded in her mind.

“Host.”

Ye Wanyin paused in her writing but did not close the complaint interface. She waited for the other party to speak.

Knowing that it might truly be reported this time, the system’s tone clearly no longer dared to be so arrogant.

[It was my fault for not explaining the contract requirements to you back then, but I really had no other choice.]

[The system world conducts a performance review once every year. A system whose performance does not meet the standard will be warned the first time, and the second time, it will be recalled and destroyed.]

[Last year, my performance ranked last among the systems, and I was already warned once. This year is already more than halfway over. All the hosts I found before chose to go back after hearing the contract requirements. I was really at the end of my rope QAQ.]

At the end, it even tried to act cute.

However, Ye Wanyin was not moved in the slightest. “That is not a reason for you to use an information gap to deceive others.”

“I don’t know what the other systems in your system world are like, but since the contract agreement says the host’s wishes must be respected, then using an information gap to force a host to carry out a mission is a violation of the rules.”

Seeing that she still wanted to continue filing the complaint, the system nearly exploded. Thinking that it was now restrained by someone else, it barely forced itself to continue playing the emotional card. “Host, although I violated the rules, at least one thing is beneficial to you. Time in the mission world is still compared to your original world. Aren’t you basically getting more than a year of extra review time in the mission world compared with everyone else?”

Ye Wanyin was extremely calm. “That is still unfair to others.”

Seeing that she was preparing to continue writing the complaint, the system gritted its teeth and opened the points store interface in front of Ye Wanyin, tempting her. “Look, as long as you complete the mission, you can use the points you earn to exchange for the things in here. Whether it exists in your original world or not, whatever you want, this place has it all.”

Because the store interface had been deliberately opened in front of Ye Wanyin by the system, she inevitably saw the content on it.

The first item was a Revival Pill, priced at 10,000,000 points. It could revive a designated person. The second was a Reincarnation Ticket, priced at 5,000,000 points. It could take a designated person from the mission world to another world. The third was…

Ye Wanyin moved her gaze away from the points store, then said to the system, “You violated the rules.”

She still remembered that the mission manual had written that the points store would not open before the mission was completed.

The system had not expected her first sentence to be this. For a moment, it was somewhat speechless. “Are you really not tempted at all? Look at this ‘Parents’ Favoritism’ pill. You should need it very much, right? With it, your parents won’t favor sons over daughters anymore.”

Ye Wanyin continued writing the complaint. “My parents don’t favor sons over daughters.”

The system said anxiously, “Your emotional intelligence is low, so you can’t see it. Do you think system data can’t see it either? According to the data…”

Before the system could finish speaking, Ye Wanyin had already submitted the complaint. The system almost let out a scream. A sharp mechanical sound exploded in Ye Wanyin’s ears, making her tightly furrow her brows.

[Complaint feedback has been received. The system will reply to you within seventy to ninety working days.]

Fang Shu saw Ye Wanyin’s expression and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Ye Wanyin shook her head and said it was nothing.

Then she said to the system in her mind, “Although my emotional intelligence is low, data isn’t necessarily more accurate than the feelings of the people closest to you. They don’t favor my younger brother more. They’re just more at ease with me.”

The system could no longer listen at all. In Ye Wanyin’s mind, it broke down and said, “If I get destroyed, don’t think you’ll have it easy either! I’ll never help you again! Just wait for Fang Shu to break up with you!”

After saying this, the system stopped making a sound. Ye Wanyin saw that the energy bar was still there and that the points store had automatically closed. Thinking that she should be able to leave immediately once the complaint result came out, she no longer cared about the system.

In any case, none of it affected anything.