After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 34

As the 1/top side, Fang Shu decided to be just a tiny bit considerate toward Ye Wanyin. So she gave the other girl a moderately clear hint. “My head hurts.”

Thinking of Ye Wanyin’s blockhead of a brain, Fang Shu paused, then gave her a little special treatment by adding another hint. “From doing questions.”

If she still did not understand after this…

Before Fang Shu could even think about what came next, she heard Ye Wanyin give a thoughtful hum, then analyze in an orderly manner, “It’s probably because you’ve rested for a bit too long recently, so studying feels a little difficult now. But once you build the habit back up, studying later should feel better.”

Fang Shu: “…”

Fang Shu stared at Ye Wanyin with a blank face. For the Nth time, she wondered in her heart whether someone had placed a curse on her.

Ye Wanyin had not understood the deeper meaning of her words at all. Seeing that Fang Shu did not refute her, she became even more certain of her own guess. After correcting the few questions Fang Shu had done last night, she picked out the one Fang Shu did not quite understand and explained it to her. Then she circled a few big questions and said to Fang Shu, “You can leave the others for now. Do these few first.”

After saying that, Ye Wanyin hesitated. Looking at the five questions she had circled, she asked Fang Shu uncertainly, “You should be able to finish them before first period this afternoon, right?”

Fang Shu did not look at the questions. She only looked at Ye Wanyin and, breaking the jar now that it was already cracked, said, “That depends on your performance.”

This time, before Ye Wanyin could say anything that would ruin the mood again, Fang Shu directly moved her chair and sat beside her. In a soft voice, she said, “What I mean by tired is—”

Before she could say the latter half, Fang Shu’s cheeks had already flushed red first. In the end, this was also her first time feeling moved.

Although in reality, before being moved, she had already imagined countless scenes of what would happen afterward. This situation had naturally also been in her imagination. The only difference was that, in the scenes she imagined, the person opposite her definitely would not be this much of a blockhead!

Fang Shu took a deep breath, her volume unconsciously lowering. “I need to recharge.”

After saying this, Fang Shu felt as if her face was about to burn. She also did not look at Ye Wanyin again.

In her mind, she thought, I’ve already said it this clearly. She should understand now, right? She wondered what method Ye Wanyin would choose to help her recharge.

Fang Shu thought about it and felt she should prefer a gradual process.

So for the first time, they could keep it simple. Just casually holding hands would be fine.

Fang Shu had already lifted her fingertips.

But beside her, Ye Wanyin froze when she heard Fang Shu’s words. Then she looked at Fang Shu’s desk and saw the phone Fang Shu had not taken out all morning. She instantly understood. However, she could only say regretfully, “Sorry, I didn’t bring a power bank either.”

Fang Shu’s wandering thoughts stiffened.

What was she saying?

Fang Shu turned her head with her face still radiating leftover heat. Ye Wanyin was looking at her with an earnest and apologetic expression. For a split second, Fang Shu almost suspected whether Ye Wanyin was doing it on purpose.

Seeing Fang Shu remain silent, Ye Wanyin suddenly felt a little embarrassed. She was just about to turn around and ask the back row whether anyone had a power bank to borrow when Fang Shu beside her suddenly said, “I believe now that before this, studying really was the only thing in your heart.”

Her voice was low, her tone exhausted.

Fang Shu worked hard to exhale the pent-up frustration in her chest.

Ye Wanyin did not really understand what she meant by that sentence. Because she had been interrupted by Fang Shu’s voice, the two boys in the back row, who had been drawn in by Ye Wanyin’s movement of turning her head, had been craning their necks and looking forward the whole time. Especially when they saw Ye Wanyin turn her head but not her face, looking as if she had something to ask and also as if she did not, they waited for a good while before finally seeing the person in front turn her face as well. The two of them immediately asked, “Top student, do you need something?”

Ye Wanyin asked them, “Did either of you bring a power bank?”

Li Ming shook his head. Zhang Xiao, however, dug a fairly small power bank out of his bag and said to Ye Wanyin, “I charged it fully, but it doesn’t have much capacity. It probably can’t fully charge a phone.”

Ye Wanyin took it and said to them, “Thank you.”

The two of them looked flattered. “No need, no need.”

Ye Wanyin placed the borrowed power bank on Fang Shu’s desk. “Charge it for a while first.”

Fang Shu looked at the power bank on the desk and fell silent. Then she fell silent again. In the end, she forcefully comforted herself.

Fine.

Ye Wanyin watched her plug in her phone and put it into her schoolbag, then reminded her, “Don’t forget the questions you need to do.”

Fang Shu instantly wilted.

In the afternoon, Fang Shu handed the finished questions to Ye Wanyin. Ye Wanyin put down the question she was working on and glanced through them roughly. The ones she had circled were fairly basic question types. Fang Shu’s accuracy rate was a little over half, barely a passing grade.

Not long after Ye Wanyin finished looking through them, the class bell rang. This period was physics. Ye Wanyin did not explain the questions to Fang Shu and instead told her to first listen seriously. If she could take some notes, that would be even better.

Fang Shu looked at the physics teacher on the podium, who was lecturing with saliva practically flying. Bored out of her mind, she picked up her pen. The notebook beside her was a new one Ye Wanyin had bought some time ago. Fang Shu used a gel pen to write the title of this physics lesson on the first page.

Ye Wanyin, meanwhile, was analyzing Fang Shu’s current level. She went through it once, then wrote down the knowledge points Fang Shu had just missed beside the notebook, and finally circled questions for Fang Shu.

As soon as physics class ended, Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu’s notes. Her handwriting was actually quite neat, a delicate small regular script. Aside from the tail hooks being a little lively, the overall shape was neat.

Ye Wanyin looked at her handwriting and felt—

However, when she saw the second page, her expression stiffened slightly. She pointed at the blank second page and asked Fang Shu, “You didn’t take notes after this?”

Fang Shu lay on the desk. “He talked too fast. I didn’t understand.”

At first, Ye Wanyin wanted to say that even if she did not understand, she could still write it down first. But she was afraid that if she rushed too much, she would push Fang Shu too hard, so she forcibly stopped herself. And in the moment she paused, Ye Wanyin suddenly realized that Fang Shu might not mean what she had understood.

Their physics teacher had always had a habit. At the beginning, he liked to speak while writing on the blackboard. After the blackboard was full, the physics teacher generally would not erase it. Instead, he would start only speaking. At that time, he would deliberately speak a little slower and even remind the students which of his sentences were key points.

Originally, this kind of class should not have made it impossible to take notes. But their physics teacher spoke Mandarin with an accent. People used to that accent might be able to understand what he was saying. Those not used to it would be like Fang Shu, spending the entire class as if listening to a heavenly book—and the ancient kind of heavenly book written in some unknown dialect.

This was also why their class’s physics scores had always been difficult to raise.

So although their physics teacher was quite responsible, unfortunately, his heart was willing but his strength was lacking.

Before this, when Ye Wanyin had been explaining the science comprehensive subjects to Fang Shu, she had not focused much on physics, so she had forgotten about this matter.

Now, looking at Fang Shu’s notes, which were only halfway done and not even on especially important content, she thought for a moment. “From now on, during physics class, you should study previous knowledge first.”

Fang Shu did not speak.

She kept lying on the desk and looking at Ye Wanyin. Looking at the other girl’s bespectacled, dull little face, she sincerely sighed in her heart.

That evening, because they had resumed their previous studying method, Fang Shu did not run away during evening self-study this time. Only after evening self-study ended and everyone who wanted to ask Ye Wanyin questions had finished asking did the two of them walk back together under the moonlight.

When they returned home, Fang Shu threw her schoolbag onto the sofa. Then, just as Ye Wanyin had put down her own bag and was preparing to return to her room to get her question bank, Fang Shu tugged at her sleeve. Ye Wanyin turned back along with the force pulling from behind her. Fang Shu used a little more strength. Caught off guard, Ye Wanyin stumbled a few steps, then fell sitting onto the sofa.

Fang Shu gave the other girl no chance to react. She directly placed her head on Ye Wanyin’s lap. Ye Wanyin’s movement to get up instantly stopped. Watching Fang Shu smoothly kick off her slippers and lie across the sofa with her whole body, she could not help asking, “What’s wrong?”

Fang Shu breathed in the faint, clean fragrance at the tip of her nose and only felt that the thoughts that had been aching all day from Ye Wanyin’s mood-ruining words had finally eased. She closed her eyes, folded both hands over her abdomen, and slowly said, “What I meant by recharge is—”

Fang Shu thought for a moment about the wording that a 1/top should use, then finally said, “Let me absorb you for a bit.”

After saying that, Fang Shu turned her head slightly. Her face pressed against Ye Wanyin’s stomach and buried deeply into it. That faint fragrance from before became clearer as the distance closed.

The other girl’s stomach was very warm. The moment Fang Shu buried herself there, she got a little addicted.

Originally, Fang Shu had wanted to say “hug you for a bit,” but in those few seconds, she quickly thought it over. Hugging Ye Wanyin while lying flat would require raising her arms. She was already a little mentally and physically exhausted today, and the moment she thought about having to lift her arms, Fang Shu instantly eliminated that method of recharging.

Facts proved that she was right. Burying herself in Ye Wanyin’s stomach was almost like inhaling a cat. Both were relaxing and pleasant things.

Ye Wanyin sat stiffly on the sofa. Because Fang Shu was buried in her stomach, Ye Wanyin’s hands hovered helplessly in midair, not knowing where to place them.

After a long time, Fang Shu finally woke from a state where she had nearly fallen asleep. She then sat up from Ye Wanyin’s lap and stretched, neither too long nor too short. Feeling much more energized, she shook her head and said to Ye Wanyin, “Recharge like this next time. Understand?”