After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 27

After first period ended, Fang Shu discovered that Ye Wanyin had actually ignored her for the entire class. Even when the homeroom teacher was lecturing on the podium, Ye Wanyin had looked as if she were spacing out.

This situation was a little rare.

After all, under normal circumstances, Ye Wanyin would at least consider the teacher’s face and listen seriously below. Although in reality, she was doing three things at once—listening to the lecture, reviewing, and taking notes for Fang Shu.

But because her grades were good, every subject teacher basically turned a blind eye to her. Sometimes, when they saw her listening in class, they would even use her as an excellent example to motivate the other students.

This time, since she was spacing out, the homeroom teacher, who had taught countless batches of students, naturally saw through it at a glance. However, she did not say anything. She only reminded Fang Shu to remember to take notes herself.

Fang Shu: “…”

After second period ended, Ye Wanyin finally recovered from her dazed expression. Fang Shu took her test paper back from the middle of their two desks, then, without waiting for Ye Wanyin, got up and followed everyone downstairs.

Ye Wanyin had only just finished filing a complaint against the system, and her mind was still somewhat dazed. She was several beats slow before finally following them downstairs. But by then, Fang Shu had already walked far away, so Ye Wanyin simply walked slowly behind her.

After break-time exercises ended, Fang Shu once again did not wait for Ye Wanyin. She turned around and went upstairs alone. Ye Wanyin also did not seem to feel that anything was wrong and slowly followed behind.

Third period was Chinese.

Because Fang Shu did not like memorizing ancient poems and texts, Ye Wanyin had only barely helped her grasp points from a few major questions in Chinese. But because Chinese had flexibility to it, Fang Shu could not get the points every time.

Clearly, she had not gotten them this time either.

Fortunately, the Chinese teacher generally did not care whether one’s grades were good or bad. She only looked at the simplest ancient poem dictation. If you got it wrong, you stood up. There was nothing else to say.

Fang Shu was already the class’s “standing general.” The Chinese teacher was also very helpless with her. “If you moved even a little of the effort you give to math over to Chinese, you wouldn’t get zero on dictation every single time.”

Although the Chinese teacher was talking about Fang Shu, Ye Wanyin somehow felt as if she had also been shot in the knee. When she first thought of ways to improve Fang Shu’s grades, the key points she listed for Fang Shu had also been focused on science subjects.

Because there were only so many science question types. As long as Fang Shu learned to draw inferences from one case, raising her score would not be too difficult. But with Chinese, even if she understood this question, she might not necessarily understand the next one.

So at first, Ye Wanyin had not planned for Fang Shu to rely on Chinese for points. At most, if Fang Shu was willing to work hard, studying Chinese a little would make getting into university slightly less stressful.

Thinking of this, Ye Wanyin could not help remembering her complaint form. In theory, the complaint had already been submitted. As long as she waited another ninety days, she could directly go back. That meant the energy bar in her mind was no longer of much use to her now.

So Fang Shu’s grades…

seemed to have nothing to do with her anymore.

That day, Fang Shu slacked off the whole day, and Ye Wanyin sat beside her without stopping her even once.

Fang Shu faintly felt that something was strange, but she could not figure out the reason.

The two of them somehow fell into a cold war. By evening, many people had gathered around Ye Wanyin. Fang Shu watched Ye Wanyin explain questions to them from the middle of the crowd, holding only a pen and scratch paper. The notebook Ye Wanyin used to record question types for Fang Shu had been set aside, as if forgotten by its owner.

Fang Shu suddenly felt as if she did not belong here. So, without waiting for Ye Wanyin, she went home by herself.

She left very quietly, worried about disturbing their explanations. She did not even pack her things, directly going back empty-handed.

From the corner of her eye, Ye Wanyin saw Fang Shu leave. She glanced back, unable to describe what she felt. In the end, she only silently sighed in her heart.

On the way home, Ye Wanyin brought Fang Shu a cup of milk tea. When she opened the door, she was surprised to see the living room empty. Usually at this time, Fang Shu would be lying on the sofa in the living room playing on her phone.

Ye Wanyin knocked on Fang Shu’s door.

After a while, Fang Shu came over to open it. She had probably just finished showering and was preparing to blow-dry her hair. She was wearing pajamas, and her half-dry hair was draped down her back. From time to time, a few drops of water still fell from it.

Fang Shu looked at her without much expression. “What?”

Ye Wanyin handed over the milk tea in her hand. “I brought this for you.”

Fang Shu looked at her for a long while before taking it. Her expression was still very cold. “Anything else?”

Ye Wanyin took a deep breath and decided to respect Fang Shu’s decision. “Do you still want to study?”

Fang Shu looked at her somewhat inexplicably. “Aren’t you the one who’s been chasing me to study?”

Only then did Ye Wanyin remember, then laughed awkwardly. “Sorry.”

Fang Shu frowned. “What are you trying to say?”

Ye Wanyin hesitated before saying, “In the future, I won’t force you to study anymore. But if you become interested in studying later, you can come to me anytime…”

As Ye Wanyin spoke up to this point, she thought that with only three months left, who knew how much she could teach.

Fang Shu, standing in the room, frowned even more tightly. She grabbed Ye Wanyin’s wrist. “You at least have to give me a reason.”

“You were the one who kept pushing me to study before, and now you’re suddenly saying I don’t need to study. You have to give me a reason.”

Ye Wanyin could not talk about the system, so she could only say vaguely, “Sorry. Before, because of certain things, I wanted to raise your grades. Now that the matter has been resolved, if you don’t want to study, I won’t force you anymore. But if you still want to continue, then…”

Fang Shu had read too many novels and immediately guessed in the wrong direction. Her brows furrowed tightly. “Did you make a bet with someone?”

Ye Wanyin stared at her in slight confusion, a question mark slowly appearing over her head.

…What?

But Fang Shu had already been brainwashed by the plot she had guessed herself. “Did you bet with someone that as long as you could raise my grades a little, you would win? No wonder you’ve been thinking about making me study every day…”

Seeing her grow more and more outrageous, Ye Wanyin slowly brought up her own setting. “Haven’t I been pulling you to study since we were little?”

She couldn’t have been betting with someone her whole life.

Fang Shu suddenly fell into a strange silence. Then she asked Ye Wanyin a question she could not answer. “When you say ‘since we were little,’ how little are you talking about?”

Ye Wanyin thought for a moment, then looked at Fang Shu, then thought again.

“…”

…It was not written in the setting.

Fang Shu suddenly calmed down. She leaned against the doorframe and looked at Ye Wanyin with a faint urge for her to explain.

Ye Wanyin: “…”

…Help.

Ye Wanyin thought for a long time. Fang Shu waited beside her for a long while, looking completely unhurried. In the end, Ye Wanyin turned her head to the side, stared at the dark sky outside the balcony, and said, “It’s dark.”

Ye Wanyin’s skill at changing the subject was truly rather clumsy. So clumsy that Fang Shu did not even feel like following her topic and glancing at the scenery outside the balcony.

She looked steadily at Ye Wanyin. Many problems that had once been inexplicably ignored now sprang up like bamboo shoots after the rain.

“How long have you known me? How much do you know about me? How old was I when I dated my first boyfriend?”

Ye Wanyin was stunned by the questions.

Fang Shu threw out the final bomb. “How much substance do you think there is in this ‘best friend’ relationship of ours?”

Finally, a question came that Ye Wanyin knew the answer to. However, she did not dare answer.

The manual had written that one could not actively disclose information about the system world to people in the mission world.

At the same time, she also found it strange. She remembered that the manual had said that when an external intervention carried out a mission, the system would automatically interfere with the mission target’s memory, disturbing that part of the memory before seeds of suspicion were planted.

“I’ll never help you again! Just wait for Fang Shu to break up with you!”

The system’s voice suddenly rang in Ye Wanyin’s mind. If what the system had said referred to the system bound to her…

Then it seemed to make sense.

Because she remembered that when she read the manual, there had been an annotation: except in offline mode, the interference function was assisted by the host’s bound system.

Seeing Ye Wanyin remain silent, Fang Shu seemed to understand something. Then she crossed her arms and asked, “You’re not from this world? Or are you from the future?”

“I shouldn’t have known you before. What method did you use to alter my memory?”

Ye Wanyin remained silent, mainly because she did not know how to say it.

Fortunately, Fang Shu did not seem to need an answer. She had read many novels, so she could roughly guess what could not be answered. In the end, she changed to a more tactful question.

“Will you leave later?”

When Fang Shu said this, there was no change in her expression at all, as if she were only asking casually.

Ye Wanyin was silent for a while before slowly nodding.

Fang Shu nodded as well. “I understand.”

Then she entered her room.

And locked the door.

Ye Wanyin stood at the doorway for a while before returning to her own room. She looked at the furnishings inside. After being tidied up for some time, the room had already become a little more lived-in.

After showering, Ye Wanyin lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling above her. Suddenly, she felt as if she were dreaming.

Perhaps because she had finally confirmed the date of her departure, when Ye Wanyin thought back on everything that had happened these past few months, she felt a vague, illusory sense of unreality, as if she were stepping on clouds and her toes could not touch solid ground.

That night, Ye Wanyin dreamed of her parents and her biological younger brother. The family sat around the dining table in the living room. Her parents had already prepared the meal. Her brother was still young and kept tapping his chopsticks, saying he wanted to eat. Their mother slapped the back of his hand. “Your sister isn’t back yet.”

Ye Wanyin watched herself in the dream standing at the doorway the entire time. It was clearly only the distance of one door, but the inside and outside seemed separated by an entire world.

The next day, Ye Wanyin woke up late.

As soon as she opened the door, she saw Fang Shu crouching at the entrance putting on her shoes. Seeing her, Fang Shu froze slightly. “You didn’t leave?”

Ye Wanyin subconsciously answered, “I can’t leave for a while…”

As expected of someone who had read many novels, Fang Shu instantly understood that Ye Wanyin had misunderstood. “I meant, you actually haven’t left for school at this hour.”

Ye Wanyin suddenly gave an “oh.” Then she somewhat embarrassedly clenched her fingertips. “I woke up late.”

So Fang Shu took off her shoes and sat in the living room to wait for her.

By the time they arrived at school, the morning reading bell had already been ringing for a while. When they passed through the corridor, they saw a small row of people standing outside the door, punished by the homeroom teacher for being late and made to do morning reading outside.

Ye Wanyin and Fang Shu went to the front door and reported in. They were just about to take their books and stand outside together when the homeroom teacher saw the two of them and directly waved for them to sit down.

A row of envious and jealous gazes immediately swept over from outside.

Fang Shu asked Ye Wanyin, “How long can you stay?”

The question was tactful, and Ye Wanyin, who had not caught the topic in advance, was stunned for a moment. Only after Fang Shu asked again did she react. “About three months, I think.”

Fang Shu gave an “oh.” “On the day you leave, we’ll hold a farewell party for you.”