After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 40

The next day, Ye Wanyin once again woke up from a chilly feeling.

She looked at Fang Shu beside her, who had rolled up the entire blanket by herself. Having expected this, Ye Wanyin sighed, then climbed out of bed.

Fang Shu had slept very well this time. When she woke up, she kept her eyes closed and felt around beside her. When she touched the cold space next to her, she jolted awake.

She opened her eyes and scanned the room. Seeing the open schoolbag not far away, she knew Ye Wanyin had already woken up, so she lay back down again.

After lying limp on the bed for a while, Fang Shu suddenly noticed the blanket wrapped around her like a silkworm cocoon.

Fang Shu, who had no idea that she liked rolling up blankets in her sleep, instantly understood.

This must have been Ye Wanyin worrying that she would catch a cold and specially wrapping her up!

Fang Shu lazed in bed for a little longer. Only when it was almost her usual wake-up time did she yawn and climb out of bed.

When she entered the bathroom and did not see her own toiletries, Fang Shu froze for a moment. Half a beat later, she remembered that this was not her room.

She returned to her own bedroom to wash up. When she came back out, she even moved her toiletries into Ye Wanyin’s bedroom.

Only then did she slowly walk toward the living room.

Ye Wanyin was indeed working on ques—no, she had recently stopped working through questions. She was fully focused on making notes for Fang Shu.

Fang Shu sat across from her and looked at the new notebook Ye Wanyin handed over.

“The previous one is full. This is the new one I made for you. Take a look later and see if you can do the questions.”

Fang Shu took it and roughly glanced through it. Then she remembered something and casually asked, “You mentioned before that you have a younger brother. With an older sister like you tutoring him since childhood, are his grades pretty good too?”

Ye Wanyin shook her head. “My brother likes playing more. Every time he studies, he can’t calm down. He runs off after less than an hour.”

Fang Shu gave an “oh.” She was just about to pick up her pen and start doing questions when she suddenly stopped. Her originally spirited head suddenly wilted onto the tabletop. She said to Ye Wanyin opposite her, “I haven’t charged yet today.”

Ye Wanyin glanced at her. “I thought your battery looked pretty full.”

If Fang Shu had not remembered just now, she probably would have started doing the questions directly.

Fang Shu wore an expression that said, I am very weak. Her fingers also held the pen limply, as if it might fall at any moment.

Ye Wanyin stood up and kissed Fang Shu on the cheek. Only then did Fang Shu put on a fully revived expression and start doing questions seriously.

That evening, Ye Wanyin returned to her room. When she was about to shower, she saw a toothpaste cup on the sink that clearly did not belong to her, and an ominous feeling immediately rose inside her.

That feeling became reality half an hour later.

Fang Shu once again came to her room with half-dry hair. Ye Wanyin resigned herself to her fate and dried Fang Shu’s hair for her. Seeing Fang Shu lie down on the bed, Ye Wanyin walked over and tucked the blanket corners in for her.

Fang Shu looked at the little bit of blanket left after Ye Wanyin tucked her in and could not help finding it strange. “Aren’t you going to use the blanket?”

Ye Wanyin answered her with action.

She dug out a new blanket from the cabinet and placed it beside Fang Shu.

Before Fang Shu could frown, Ye Wanyin said first, “It’s not that I dislike you. It’s just…”

Ye Wanyin was thinking about what excuse would work best when she saw Fang Shu, who was lying on the bed, pull open her own blanket and prepare to pile the two blankets together.

Ye Wanyin’s mind instantly went blank. She hurried over and stopped Fang Shu. “Are you trying to die of heat?”

The temperature difference between morning and night was no longer that large. They even turned on the air conditioner at night now. If Fang Shu slept under two layers of blankets, she would probably kick them all off in the middle of the night.

Ye Wanyin simply told the truth. “Don’t you know you like rolling up the blanket at night?”

Fang Shu looked as if she could not quite believe it. “I like rolling up the blanket at night?”

Ye Wanyin had guessed that Fang Shu did not know. She said, “You wake up late in the morning, so you probably don’t know. Both times I slept with you, I woke up from the cold.”

Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin, trying to judge the truthfulness of this statement from her expression.

After judging, she silently stuffed Ye Wanyin’s blanket back, then tucked herself in properly and lay down, looking like an emperor who wanted some peace and quiet.

Ye Wanyin lay under the blanket she had prepared and looked at the person beside her, who still looked unable to believe she liked rolling up blankets. She comforted her, “It’s pretty normal. A lot of people roll up blankets when they sleep.”

Fang Shu shrank half her face into the blanket and said muffledly from inside, “Unless you also roll up blankets.”

Otherwise, there was no cure for her embarrassment.

Ye Wanyin thought about it. Then she thought again and changed to another way of comforting her. “Although I don’t roll up blankets, I did sing Beijing Welcomes You.”

Goosebumps dropped all over Fang Shu.

She pulled her face out of the blanket and looked faintly at Ye Wanyin. “So you do know what embarrassment is.”

Ye Wanyin laughed. “I really was quite embarrassed at the time.”

Fang Shu thought of Ye Wanyin singing and told the truth. “Actually, you sang pretty well. It wasn’t that embarrassing.”

It was the group of people who followed along and sang afterward who had turned the song into something that made Fang Shu curl her toes in embarrassment.

Ye Wanyin reached for the light switch and said to Fang Shu, “I’m turning off the light?”

Fang Shu gave a hum. Then the room fell into darkness.

When Ye Wanyin woke up again, she was finally no longer in the middle of cold air. Her whole body was wrapped in a blanket, warm and cozy. The only downside was that this blanket seemed a little heavy.

She opened her eyes and saw Fang Shu, rolled up like a caterpillar, sleeping on top of her.

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Had she evolved again after becoming a caterpillar?

The curtains were drawn, so Ye Wanyin could not tell if the sky outside had brightened. She reached out and took the phone from the head of the bed. Seven o’clock.

This was the time she usually woke up during holidays.

This time, Ye Wanyin still prepared to get up. First, she slowly lifted her upper body and leaned against the headboard. Then she carefully tried to pull out her legs—she could not. Both of her legs were being pressed down by Fang Shu.

Ye Wanyin glanced at Fang Shu and decided to move her off first.

She first held Fang Shu’s “caterpillar” head and was just about to gently use some force to move her to the side when she heard a disturbed murmur from inside the blanket.

Ye Wanyin immediately froze and did not dare move.

After Fang Shu quieted down, Ye Wanyin looked at the “caterpillar” almost completely stacked on top of her and suddenly thought: after moving her head, she still had to move her body. After moving her body, she might still have to move her legs.

Any movement during that process could wake Fang Shu up.

So in the end, Ye Wanyin slid her body down and tucked herself back into the blanket.

Forget it. She would sleep in today.

Sleeping after going back to bed was especially worthwhile. By the time Fang Shu woke up, Ye Wanyin had just fallen deeply asleep.

When Fang Shu woke, she felt a little hot. Before even opening her eyes, she pulled the blanket off her head. It was already daytime. Even the most airtight curtains could not block the fact that the sky had brightened.

The light in the room was not especially strong, but it was enough to see the surroundings clearly.

Fang Shu first subconsciously propped up her upper body, then keenly sensed that something beneath her was not right. It did not feel like a Simmons mattress. Instead, it felt like…

Fang Shu reached out and grabbed it.

It was a blanket.

Early in the morning, Fang Shu’s brain was not yet nimble enough. She was a little confused. Why would it be a blanket?

This feeling was clearly like…

Only then did Fang Shu clearly see the scene beneath her.

Ye Wanyin’s sleeping posture was very good. The blanket covered her neatly, neither rolled up nor kicked to the side. Her head was properly exposed outside the blanket, while everything below her head was hidden inside.

Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin, whom she had used as a bedsheet, and finally belatedly realized that her sleeping posture might indeed be not very good.

Fang Shu quietly climbed off Ye Wanyin, then opened her phone to check the time. Past ten.

She glanced at Ye Wanyin again. Still asleep.

Between “Ye Wanyin might have already woken up” and “Ye Wanyin had not woken up yet,” Fang Shu unhesitatingly believed the latter. Ye Wanyin must have overslept today. It absolutely could not be because Fang Shu had been pressing down on her and made her unable to wake up.

And so Fang Shu lay beside her and played on her phone, glancing at Ye Wanyin from time to time.

After once again sighing that Ye Wanyin’s sleeping posture was truly standard, Fang Shu took a photo of it. Maybe if she looked at it more, she could also develop this kind of sleeping posture.

When Ye Wanyin woke up, she no longer felt weighed down. She had just slept for too long, so she somehow still felt a little sleepy.

Seeing Ye Wanyin yawn, Fang Shu looked at her with surprise, then blinked. “Did you sleep well?”

Ye Wanyin recovered from the lingering effect of the yawn. Still feeling a little sleepy, she slowly sat up. “It’s still better to wake up early. Sleeping too much makes you sleepy.”

As if infected by her yawn, Fang Shu also slowly yawned and leaned against the headboard like her. “Sleeping in feels so comfortable though.”

Ye Wanyin stretched and finally dispelled some of her sleepiness. “Although it’s comfortable, it easily makes you sleepy. If you’re not careful, the whole day might pass by while sleeping.”

As she spoke, Ye Wanyin got out of bed. Fang Shu also got out of bed with her.

When the two stood by the sink, Ye Wanyin moved aside to make room. “You wash first?”

Fang Shu glanced at the sink, which was quite large and more than enough for two people to wash together, then looked up at Ye Wanyin. “Can’t we wash together?”

Ye Wanyin seemed to think for a moment. Then she shook off the strange awkward feeling in her heart and stepped forward. “Then let’s wash together.”

When she was not going out, Fang Shu was rather casual. After washing her face, she casually tied up the hair on her head and left the bathroom.

Ye Wanyin carefully tied her hair into a ponytail, then changed out of her pajamas before leaving the room.

Both of them had woken up late today, and Ye Wanyin did not make lunch, so Fang Shu suggested ordering takeout.

Ye Wanyin had no objection. After they finished eating, Ye Wanyin handed the mistake notebook she had organized last night to Fang Shu and said, “Just consolidate these today. I have something to go out for.”

Fang Shu was flipping through the mistake notebook in front of her. Hearing this, she casually asked, “What is it?”

Ye Wanyin answered vaguely, “Just a small thing. I’ll be back soon.”

Fang Shu, who had originally not felt anything was wrong, immediately raised her head.

There was something going on!

However, Fang Shu did not show it on her face. She only told Ye Wanyin to go and come back quickly.

Once Ye Wanyin left, Fang Shu immediately logged into QQ. First, she found the girl in class with the sharpest ears and asked her, “Do you know if anyone has been looking for Ye Wanyin lately?”

[s: You mean asking questions? Quite a lot of people ask her.]

[Fang Shu: No. I mean, is anyone harboring other thoughts toward Ye Wanyin?]

[s: I don’t think so? Who would dare have improper thoughts about the top student?]

[s: What’s wrong? Did someone confess to the top student?]

[Fang Shu: No. It’s nothing.]

[s: …]

Fang Shu went to look at the group chat again. Ye Wanyin occasionally answered questions in the group. As soon as Fang Shu opened the group messages, she received over nine hundred and ninety-nine messages.

Fang Shu took a deep breath, then directly jumped to the top of the unread messages.

The first message was from four days ago. After Ye Wanyin finished answering questions, the group fell silent for a while. Only after confirming that Ye Wanyin had completely left and would no longer pop up did a few people take the lead and start chatting about other things.

After confirming they were all useless messages, Fang Shu swiped past several pages. Only when she reached the time Ye Wanyin appeared again did she slowly reduce the speed of her scrolling.

After flipping through several thousand messages, Fang Shu discovered that Ye Wanyin only appeared to explain questions. Once she finished explaining, she left. After she finished, the ones chatting in the group came out to bubble again. Those messages had no reference value.

And so, for a moment, Fang Shu fell into confusion.

Then what had Ye Wanyin gone out to do while hiding it from her?

On the other side, Ye Wanyin was walking around the plaza across from the residential compound. After the students went on vacation, the flow of people at the plaza actually decreased quite a bit. Only occasionally could someone be seen in the milk tea shops with air conditioning.

Ye Wanyin walked around once, then first entered a toy store.

In the shop window by the entrance, several huge rabbit plush toys were displayed. The shop owner sat at the counter, a fan blowing beside her, lazily not really wanting to move. From a distance, she asked, “Buying a gift for someone?”

Ye Wanyin vaguely gave a sound of agreement, then began looking at each item one by one.

The shop owner did not bother her either and continued enjoying her fan.

After looking around, Ye Wanyin felt that nothing was particularly special. She was just about to walk out when the phone in her pocket suddenly vibrated once, followed by a series of vibrations like an earthquake.

Ye Wanyin did not have many classmates added. Someone who could bombard her like this must have something to ask her, so she took out her phone.

At the top of QQ was a group chat. The messages were all popping out from the group chat.

Ye Wanyin had previously only joined one group, and she had already set that group to Do Not Disturb. Looking at the bright red number notification on the right side of this group chat, Ye Wanyin tapped in.

[s: So has everyone thought of what to give? Let me copy some homework.]

[aaa: Copy homework +1.]

[Li Ming: I’ve already chosen, but I’m keeping it secret.]

[Xu Yang: Who pulled him in? Kick him out!]

[Zhang Xiao: I’m giving a crystal ball. The internet says “girls are moved to tears when they see it.” (picking nose)]

[s: Uh…]

[Li Ming: Is that gift not okay? It looks good displayed at home too!]

[Xu Yang: Let’s talk about how to celebrate Fang Shu’s birthday when the time comes.]

[s: Since it’s her eighteenth birthday, it has to be meaningful, right? Should we decide on the setting first?]

[Xu Yang: Sure. Then first, we…]

Ye Wanyin looked at the messages in the group chat and only felt a warm current flow through her chest.

At the same time, another emotion surged up—one even she could not describe.

Ye Wanyin walked out of the toy store and once again fell into the question she had faced when she came out.

What kind of gift should she choose?