After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 39

After making her decision, Ye Wanyin suddenly stopped feeling anxious.

And so, for the next few days, they still studied step by step like before. Fang Shu even felt that she had more rest time than before. Because of this, she could not help looking toward Ye Wanyin not far away, who was no longer working through her own question bank and was instead focused on making notes for Fang Shu. Fang Shu’s sharp senses stirred, and she tentatively asked Ye Wanyin, “After school starts, are you not planning to leave anymore?”

Ye Wanyin, who had not even kept this secret warm for a week: “…”

For a moment, Ye Wanyin’s expression went blank. But she quickly forced herself to calm down. She looked at the questions Fang Shu was working on and asked, “How much have you done?”

Fang Shu gave a long “oh,” ignoring her question. “I understand.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Ye Wanyin calmed herself for a while. Seeing Fang Shu sitting opposite her with an expression that said you can’t hide it from me, she choked slightly. Knowing she really could not hide it anymore, she could only sigh. “I’m not sure either. If the complaint succeeds, I don’t know whether I’ll be automatically sent back to my original world. If that happens, then everything I’m doing for you now might all be wasted effort…”

Fang Shu listened to the faint worry in her words and felt quite good. “How could it be wasted? With the knowledge you’re tutoring me in now, if I’m lucky and run into an easier exam, I might pass directly.”

Ye Wanyin did not hold much hope in low-probability events. “Hopefully.”

Fang Shu was still immersed in the good mood that came from the other girl affirming her and choosing to stay for her. The pen in her hand slowly spun between her fingers without her noticing. Her eyes stayed fixed on Ye Wanyin, as if she were thinking for Ye Wanyin’s sake. “Then what about your college entrance exam?”

Ye Wanyin had also thought about this question, but she could not give a clear answer. The system had said before that while she was in the instance world, time in the original world would be still. But no one knew whether the flow of time would change after the complaint was completed.

Ye Wanyin thought it through in her mind, then said to Fang Shu, “Don’t worry. As long as I can stay in this world, time in my original world should remain still. After your college entrance exam is over, I can still go back and continue taking my exam.”

Fang Shu looked steadily at her. The pen spinning in her hand suddenly stopped. “Ye Wanyin, aside from being bad at studying, I’m not stupid in other areas.”

Especially when it came to a problem that was practically closely related to her “specialty.”

Ye Wanyin adjusted her glasses and widened her eyes slightly. “Ah?”

Feeling as if she had been challenged, Fang Shu immediately said, “The complaint result hasn’t come out yet. Anything could happen. What if the flow of time isn’t still?”

Ye Wanyin seemed stunned for a while, then said, “Then I’ll just take the exam next year. It’s only one year.”

This time, the pen spinning in Fang Shu’s hand stopped completely.

Hearing Ye Wanyin say something like this, Fang Shu felt happy on one hand, but on the other, a deep sense of guilt could not help rising inside her.

She was just about to speak when Ye Wanyin, sitting opposite her, noticed the expression on her face and the suddenly unusual atmosphere in the living room. Ye Wanyin cleared her throat lightly, breaking the strange mood, and joked, “The complaint result hasn’t even come out yet. Why are we worrying so early?”

Seeing that Fang Shu’s expression still had not eased, Ye Wanyin tried hard to liven up the atmosphere. “There’s still time to worry once the complaint result comes out.”

Fang Shu suddenly looked at Ye Wanyin seriously. “When the complaint result comes out, you have to tell me right away. Also, remember to ask for compensation.”

Originally, this was the system’s responsibility. Asking for compensation was perfectly reasonable.

Ye Wanyin also nodded seriously at Fang Shu.

For a moment, the living room fell silent. After a while, the two of them inexplicably started laughing, and the serious atmosphere from earlier instantly vanished without a trace.

By the time the two finished doing and explaining questions, it was already eleven at night, time to rest.

Fang Shu let out a long yawn, a few physiological tears squeezing uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes. She rubbed her eyes and said to Ye Wanyin in a lifeless tone, “My brain is going to explode.”

Ye Wanyin cooperated and said to her, “You worked hard.”

Fang Shu’s eyes curved slightly. Then she yawned again, and the two returned to their rooms to shower.

On Ye Wanyin’s side, she had just finished showering and was blow-drying her hair when someone knocked on the door.

Fang Shu was standing outside holding a pillow. The moment she saw Ye Wanyin, she suddenly buried herself into Ye Wanyin’s arms, her tone carrying a bit of sleepiness. “I want to sleep with you.”

Ye Wanyin hurriedly wrapped one arm around her. The fresh scent from Fang Shu’s hair, which had just been washed and not completely dried, drifted to the tip of her nose. Ye Wanyin thought for a moment. “Is this a new charging method?”

A flock of crows flew past.

Fang Shu fell silent for a while before saying faintly, “No.”

Just as Ye Wanyin felt confused, Fang Shu finally raised her head from Ye Wanyin’s arms. Her gaze, hazy from sleepiness, fixed on Ye Wanyin, and her tone became even more resentful. “Can’t I simply come find you to sleep?”

Ye Wanyin finally understood and stepped aside. “Come in.”

Fang Shu walked in holding her pillow, then sat by Ye Wanyin’s bed, her gaze following Ye Wanyin not far away.

Ye Wanyin continued drying her hair. After drying and combing it smooth, she looked toward Fang Shu sitting by the bed. Seeing Fang Shu’s half-dry hair, she reached out and handed over the hair dryer in her hand, saying, “Sleeping without drying your hair properly can give you a headache.”

When the hair dryer almost reached Fang Shu, Fang Shu looked at it, then wordlessly fell backward.

Ye Wanyin hurriedly walked over in a panic and supported Fang Shu before she fell, then said helplessly, “I’ll dry it for you.”

Fang Shu, who had been waiting for exactly those words, immediately sat up obediently. Ye Wanyin glanced around, then told Fang Shu to move toward the head of the bed, since there was no socket here.

The moment her hair was dry, Fang Shu could not wait to lie down. She had deliberately not brought her own blanket, and since Ye Wanyin’s was right there, she slipped under it without any burden.

Ye Wanyin watched her lie down, put away the hair dryer, then opened the cabinet and took out another blanket.

Fang Shu, lying inside the bed: “???”

Fang Shu clutched the blanket and followed Ye Wanyin with a faint, wounded gaze. “Are you avoiding suspicion with me?”

A question mark also appeared in Ye Wanyin’s mind. She did not know how to say that Fang Shu liked to roll away the blanket, so she shifted the problem onto herself. “My sleeping posture isn’t good. I might roll away the blanket on your side.”

Fang Shu gave an “oh,” feeling a little more comfortable. Then she said generously, “It’s fine. I don’t mind you.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu’s expectant eyes, then at the blanket in her own hands. In the end, she put the blanket back.

Forget it. It was only one night anyway.

Ye Wanyin turned off the light in the room, then also lay down. Fang Shu moved a little closer to her. “Are you sleepy?”

Ye Wanyin had just closed her eyes and replied, “I’m okay.”

Fang Shu turned sideways and hugged Ye Wanyin as if she were a body pillow. Ye Wanyin’s body stiffened for an instant, but she still let her do as she pleased.

Fang Shu rubbed against her contentedly and asked, “Why do you think the system set us up as best friends?”

Ye Wanyin guessed, “To make completing the mission easier?”

Fang Shu suddenly raised her head. In the darkness, her eyes looking at Ye Wanyin glimmered faintly. “Did you have a best friend before?”

Ye Wanyin shook her head without thinking much. “The girls in our class seemed to have some strange filter toward me, so they never dared get close to me.”

Fang Shu gave an “oh,” then said with a sense of fellow suffering, “I don’t have a best friend either.”

Ye Wanyin was not surprised to hear this answer. If Fang Shu had a best friend, the system would not have arranged Ye Wanyin to be her best friend. However, she was still a little curious. “Isn’t your popularity in class pretty good?”

Fang Shu let out a long sigh. “But that doesn’t stop me from not having a best friend.”

“At the beginning, when no one knew each other yet, there were indeed a few people who seemed interested in developing that kind of relationship with me. But I’m the kind of person who’s always lukewarm toward others, so everyone stopped pressing their warm faces against my cold butt.”

Seeing the faint loneliness in her expression, Ye Wanyin comforted her. “Actually, you’re quite good to friends. You just look hard to approach. If people get close to you, they’ll be able to feel how good you are.”

Fang Shu let out a long sigh. “And by then, everyone already has their own good friends.”

Just like now.

Everyone had found their own group, so Fang Shu could only be ordinary classmates with them.

Ye Wanyin also got stuck for a moment. After thinking for a while, she said, “Once you get into university, you’ll be able to meet new friends.”

“When the time comes, if you change your habit of not liking to smile, you’ll definitely be able to make good friends.”

Fang Shu was not very convinced. “Do I really dislike smiling that much?”

She clearly felt that the corners of her mouth had been curved a lot lately.

Ye Wanyin chose her words carefully. “Actually, when I first met you, I was always worried that you might accidentally jump off a building.”

Back then, Fang Shu always looked at people lazily and wearily. Occasionally, one could even glimpse a bit of irritation and depression between her brows. It was not that Ye Wanyin had never seen students who disliked studying. But at their school, even students who disliked studying would still put on an act. Even if they got dead last, they could still confidently show off to others, “Look, if you round it up, I’m basically first!”

Just like the other students in their class with red hair, blond hair, and rankings of last, second-to-last, and third-to-last.

But Fang Shu had been too still.

She was like a pool of stagnant water. Occasionally, she pulled people down to play with her, and once she had played enough, she sent others back. But she herself remained sunk in that dead water, neither hoping for others to save her nor planning to save herself.

After hearing Ye Wanyin’s words, Fang Shu did not feel offended. She only laughed. “Then what do you think now?”

Ye Wanyin stared at Fang Shu in the darkness, as if thinking for a long time. Finally, she said, “Wait for me to put on my glasses and turn on the light.”

Fang Shu: “…”

Fang Shu punched Ye Wanyin lightly, then gave a dissatisfied “Hey.”

Ye Wanyin had not really planned to turn on the light and put on her glasses. She was only thinking about how to describe it. “If the old you was like a pool of dead water, then the current you is like water with a fresh stream flowing into it. Although the flow is still very slow, at least it no longer makes people worry.”

This time, Fang Shu fell silent for quite a while. In the darkness, Ye Wanyin could not see the expression on Fang Shu’s face and thought she had said something wrong. “Sorry. I shouldn’t have used that kind of comparison.”

But Fang Shu hugged her tighter, briefly exposing the true thoughts in her heart.

“I suddenly don’t want you to leave anymore.”

“Or you can take me with you.”

Ye Wanyin could not tell whether Fang Shu was joking or not, so she rubbed Fang Shu’s head and said nothing.