After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 4

Fang Shu was three centimeters taller than Ye Wanyin. There was a girl standing between them. The girl seemed to have a pretty good relationship with Fang Shu, and before the broadcast started, she kept leaning close to Fang Shu and whispering to her.

Ye Wanyin noticed that while the two of them were chatting, they would occasionally turn their heads to glance behind them, as if they were talking about someone.

Ye Wanyin thought of the boy who had blushed that morning. Could they be talking about him?

She did not know whether that boy had also noticed the two girls’ gazes, but his face started turning red again.

The broadcast reminder began. The girl in front was tapped on the arm by the homeroom teacher, who had walked over, and was made to move backward.

After the exercises ended, they left in order, first by grade and then by class. Not long after their class went back upstairs, the bell for the third class rang.

This class was Chinese. Unsurprisingly, Fang Shu was called on. Should she say it or not—was this the female lead’s “halo”?

The Chinese teacher was a little older and wore a pair of silver-framed reading glasses. When she looked at the book, she had to narrow her eyes and lean closer to read it clearly.

Her finger pointed to the text on the lesson plan as she waited for Fang Shu to start reciting. Fang Shu began steadily, “The six kings were finished, the four seas united; Mount Shu was stripped bare, and Epang Palace rose.”

Ye Wanyin looked at Fang Shu in slight surprise. She had actually memorized it?

The Chinese teacher also nodded.

Fang Shu continued, “Alas! Those who destroyed the six states were the six states themselves.”

Her tone was flat, and her expression was natural, as if this line was born to follow the previous one.

Chinese teacher: “…?”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Everyone: “…Pfft.”

They had underestimated her.

The Chinese teacher raised her head. “The one next to her, stand up and recite.”

Ye Wanyin stood up. After clearing her throat, she recited smoothly. During the recitation, the Chinese teacher kept nodding. When Ye Wanyin finished, the teacher looked at her several more times.

“Not bad, not bad. Ah, what’s your name? Why don’t I have any impression of you?”

This time, before Ye Wanyin could awkwardly open her mouth, the classmates answered for her. After learning the answer, the Chinese teacher’s expression was clearly even more surprised than before.

“I really couldn’t tell… All right, sit down.”

Ye Wanyin sat down as told. The Chinese teacher called on a few more people. In the gaps while they were reciting, Fang Shu stealthily took out her phone. With her head lowered expressionlessly, she played a tile-matching mini game.

Ye Wanyin hesitated between respecting another person and snatching away her phone. In the end, she decided to pass her a little note.

She pulled her schoolbag out from the desk cubby. Just as she dragged it out, a white envelope fell from it. Ye Wanyin picked it up with question marks all over her face. Fang Shu’s gaze also drifted over carelessly, but after one look, she soon withdrew it as if she had lost interest.

On the phone screen hidden beneath the Chinese textbook, the class group chat was clearly displayed. The previous topic was still stuck on everyone frantically mentioning Fang Shu and asking why Ye Wanyin had changed so much.

Unfortunately, Fang Shu could not tell at all what had changed about Ye Wanyin. She had replied with a single period to everyone, then said nothing else.

Who knew who had taken the chance to muddy the waters.

Fang Shu moved her finger and deleted several private chat windows from people who had messaged her. When she reached one certain person, she did not delete the chat window directly. Instead, she tapped into it, found the person’s profile, blocked them first, and then deleted the chat.

While doing all this, Fang Shu’s expression did not change at all. She even had the time to pick up a pen and draw a line in her textbook, as if she had heard some knowledge point worth noting. Only her fingertips hidden behind the textbook clicked frequently. If Ye Wanyin had not been sitting right beside her, one really would not have been able to tell that she was playing with her phone.

Thinking of the serious matter at hand, Ye Wanyin stuffed the envelope back into the desk cubby, found a new notebook in her schoolbag, and tore off a page.

Do you understand the question the homeroom teacher explained this morning?

Fang Shu’s little finger was nudged. There was no expression on her face, but her fingers quickly lowered the lifted corner of the open textbook. Because the phone was relatively thin, when it was pressed down, there was almost no visible bulge.

Seeing the little note, a faint glimmer seemed to flash through Fang Shu’s unfocused eyes. Ye Wanyin looked carefully and felt that the meaning of that glimmer was probably, This is ridiculous.

Ye Wanyin fell silent for a moment. Just when she thought Fang Shu would not read the note, Fang Shu picked it up.

After a while, Ye Wanyin received a crumpled little note. There was only one word written on it—

Annoying.

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Fang Shu’s current mood was not very beautiful either. Or rather, her mood had not been very beautiful these past few days. She always felt that Ye Wanyin had become even more annoying than before.

After she finished replying to the note, the recitation check over there also ended. Aside from Fang Shu, there were two more people standing in the class. The Chinese teacher stood on the podium and lectured them.

“Don’t keep thinking about playing all the time. The college entrance exam is coming soon. How long have you been memorizing Epang Palace Ode?! Especially you—Fang Shu. You’ve been memorizing it for so long and still only remember the first line. I’ll check again on Wednesday. Put some effort into it when you go back these two days, all right?”

As expected, Fang Shu stood through the entire class. During the second Chinese class, the others secretly sat down, and Fang Shu originally did not plan to stand up either. But probably because the tiny bit she had recited had left such a deep impression, the Chinese teacher let everyone else off, yet specifically called her out again and made her stand for another class.

Ye Wanyin felt both distressed and amused watching her, but it did not affect Fang Shu much. She still played when she wanted to play.

Ye Wanyin tried reminding her, but Fang Shu ignored her, forcing Ye Wanyin to once again doubt the authenticity of this “best friend” relationship. Could this system really be secondhand?

Ye Wanyin was worried that too much movement on her side would attract the teacher’s attention, while Fang Shu played on her phone quite freely and did not take Ye Wanyin seriously at all.

After the fourth class ended, it was lunchtime. Fang Shu habitually walked alone. But when she reached the door, she felt that something was not quite right. In her impression, Ye Wanyin seemed to have always walked beside her.

So she frowned and waited for Ye Wanyin. The other girl did not notice at all that Fang Shu was waiting for her. She was still holding up her glasses and looking at the blackboard, insisting on writing down the last bit of knowledge before slowly walking out. When she saw Fang Shu standing at the door, clear surprise appeared in her eyes.

Fang Shu patiently waited for her to walk to her side. Then she discovered that it felt even stranger—she was very unused to having one more person walking beside her.

Sure enough, she was still better off walking alone.

After getting their food, Ye Wanyin, who had finally found a time for the two of them to be alone, could not help chattering nonstop.

“I went to ask the homeroom teacher about your grades this morning. Actually, you’re only a bit weak in the science subjects. For Chinese, if you memorize properly, you can raise your score a little. For English, I can teach you some small tricks for multiple-choice questions later. For math, physics, and chemistry, if you learn just a few question types, your score can improve by a big margin. For biology, memorizing a few knowledge points can raise your score a lot…”

“In short, your grades have a lot of room for improvement. Don’t give up.”

Fang Shu treated her words as wind passing by her ears.

Of course there was a lot of room. Just math and science alone had more than three hundred points of room for improvement.

As for why Ye Wanyin said she was only a little weak in science, Fang Shu believed for no reason at all that the other girl must think there was no saving those two subjects.

But none of that had anything to do with Fang Shu.

“By the way…” Fang Shu had just opened her mouth, but before she could speak, someone cut in.

The person who came over was an unfamiliar boy. Ye Wanyin had never seen him before, but Fang Shu seemed to know him. She glanced at him without paying much attention.

“Something wrong?”

“Are you free this weekend?”

Fang Shu replied, “We’ll see.”

Who knew whether she would be free by then?

The boy watched as Fang Shu lowered her head and began eating seriously after speaking. He seemed to want to say something, but he felt too embarrassed to disturb her, so in the end, he could only leave.

During this, Ye Wanyin kept awkwardly lowering her head to eat. Thinking of the brainless remaining plot she had skimmed on her first day, she felt that she had grasped something.

Ye Wanyin had not actually finished reading the novel. At the time, she had read for an entire day, roughly finishing the first part and the final chapter. Then she deeply felt that there was really no need to read the middle.

The beginning described how Fang Shu dated someone in middle school, received her enlightenment in romance, and from then on became an uncontrollable love-brain. After that began the romance plots between her and Male One, Male Two, Male Three, Male Four, and many other cannon-fodder boys.

Here, Male One, Male Two, Male Three, and Male Four did not refer to the amount of screen time they had. They referred to the first cannon-fodder boy to appear, the second cannon-fodder boy to appear… Judging from the ending Ye Wanyin had seen—“Because the female lead focused only on romance and had no heart for studying, her grades became too poor and she failed the college entrance exam”—this book probably did not have a male lead.

The only thing Ye Wanyin found a little comforting was that the author was still somewhat human. Although they had not written Fang Shu very well, they had not made her especially scummy either. At the very least, even though the people pursuing her were as many as mountains and seas, she would not two-time anyone.

And so, Ye Wanyin looked sympathetically at the boy walking away in disappointment. She felt that this person’s timing was really unfortunate. He had happened to ask Fang Shu out while Fang Shu was currently dating someone.

After eating for a while, Fang Shu remembered what she had been interrupted from saying earlier. She raised her head and said to Ye Wanyin, “From now on, let’s eat separately.”

Ye Wanyin was stunned at first, then realized that Fang Shu probably wanted to eat with her boyfriend.

She said okay.

After eating, Fang Shu did not return with Ye Wanyin. The two separated at the teaching building, and Fang Shu walked straight toward the sports field.

There were a few scattered people walking on the track, and several couples lay on the grass in the middle, basking in the sun. Fang Shu walked along the track. Before long, a boy ran over and slowly fell into step beside her.

The boy was tall and had healthy wheat-colored skin. His hair was also a neat buzz cut. He was not wearing a jacket, only a short white T-shirt. Standing beside Fang Shu, he made Fang Shu look especially delicate and dependent.

When Fang Shu saw him, she knew the person she was waiting for would not come. She turned around and left.

However, it was obvious the other party did not intend to let her go so easily. The moment she turned around, he grabbed her arm.

“Was it fun playing with my feelings?”

Fang Shu was a little annoyed. “I thought I already made things very clear to you.”

“Let’s date again. This time, I’ll definitely make you accept me wholeheartedly!”

Fang Shu pulled her hand free and said with disgust, “You’re insane.”

Probably stung by Fang Shu’s gaze, the boy grabbed her arm again and forcefully pulled her to the side.

“I don’t care. Hurry up and say yes to me!”

The other people on the sports field were startled by the commotion. When they saw who it was, they hurriedly ran away in panic.

Fang Shu clicked her tongue, not even wanting to give the person in front of her a single glance.