After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 43

“Is it okay now?” Ye Wanyin’s eyelashes trembled slightly, her blurry gaze looking up at the person above her.

The two of them had already had a more in-depth exchange once just now. At this moment, Fang Shu was lying on top of Ye Wanyin, slowly recovering from the aftereffects.

Although it was no longer the first time, the effect it caused was clearly no weaker than the first.

Hearing Ye Wanyin’s words, Fang Shu slightly lifted her head from Ye Wanyin’s chest. After a long while, she nodded. Only then did she belatedly realize that Ye Wanyin could not see clearly at all, so Fang Shu rolled over and moved from Ye Wanyin’s body to the side.

“Your heartbeat seems a little fast.” After wrapping herself properly in her blanket, Fang Shu lay on her back and looked up at the ceiling above her, suddenly speaking.

Because of the kiss just now, Fang Shu’s breathing was still a little disordered, and her heartbeat was also trembling restlessly. So when she spoke, her voice was sometimes light and sometimes heavy. Every word seemed to float—some landed, while others drifted away.

Ye Wanyin instinctively touched her own chest. The heart there was beating irregularly at a speed much faster than usual. Hearing Fang Shu’s words, she did not know how to answer for a moment.

Fang Shu did not wait for her voice either. She did not mind. While slowly calming her breathing and heartbeat, she closed her eyes.

Ye Wanyin was still staring with her eyes open. Her vision in the darkness was not strong. Everything in front of her looked as if it were covered in a layer of black mist. The surroundings quieted down, and she could only hear their slightly messy breathing.

That night, Ye Wanyin had another dream.

At the beginning of the dream, it was still her original world.

She seemed to be sitting at a desk in the corner of the living room. Familiar test papers were placed in front of her. She held a pen in her hand, but for some reason, she rarely could not get herself to work. Not far away was her younger brother when he was still small. At that time, he had probably just started kindergarten not long ago and had learned in kindergarten that he should help his mother do things.

And so, his slightly chubby little short legs ran back and forth through the living room. As he asked their mother what else needed help, he also asked whether he was being good.

Then their mother would touch his head and say, “Of course you’re good.”

Occasionally, her younger brother would run up to her, stand on tiptoe to look at the test paper in front of her, and ask innocently, “Big Sister, why are you always writing this? Why don’t you help Mom with things? Do you not like Mom?”

“Big Sister, today is Mother’s Day. Teacher gave us homework and asked each of us to tell Mom, ‘Mom, I love you.’ Big Sister, did you do this before too?”

“Big Sister, why are you always not talking? Don’t you miss us?”

…

For some reason, Ye Wanyin felt a suffocating aura in the dream. That aura followed her limbs and bones, gradually sinking deep into her heart, almost startling her awake from the dream. Only when a source of light drew close to her and a warm current filled her veins did Ye Wanyin sink back into sleep again.

When she woke up the next day, Ye Wanyin did not feel a heavy weight pressing on her body. She opened her eyes in confusion. Her body was clean and unburdened, though her arm felt a little hot.

Ye Wanyin looked to the side and saw that Fang Shu had changed into another position again. She did not know how Fang Shu had managed it, but Fang Shu had somehow crawled into Ye Wanyin’s blanket together with her own blanket. In the middle of the night, she had probably felt hot, so she had freed both arms from her own blanket and randomly found something to hug.

Ye Wanyin glanced at her arm, which was being hugged, and carefully tried to pull it out. At first, Ye Wanyin was still worried whether she would wake Fang Shu. When Fang Shu murmured with her movement, Ye Wanyin was so frightened she did not dare move. But seeing that Fang Shu was still sleeping very deeply, Ye Wanyin relaxed slightly and continued pulling.

Sleeping Fang Shu was not using much strength. Ye Wanyin moved Fang Shu’s fingers off her arm and finally escaped from the bed.

After washing up, Ye Wanyin did not immediately start working on test papers. Instead, she opened her phone.

Sure enough, the group chat for Fang Shu’s birthday had already reached ninety-nine-plus messages.

They had chatted until late at night.

Ye Wanyin scrolled up and read through the messages. Seeing that they had already arranged the whole schedule, she finally relaxed.

Fang Shu came out of the room. Seeing Ye Wanyin sitting in the living room, she slowly walked over. In the end, bonelessly, she leaned back against the chair.

Ye Wanyin cleared the table a little, then brought out the food she had cooked in the kitchen.

After the meal, Ye Wanyin watched Fang Shu clear the table, then asked as if very casually, “Do you have anything to do tomorrow?”

Fang Shu glanced at Ye Wanyin, who had practically written what she wanted to do all over her face. Fang Shu endured for a long time before pressing down the corner of her mouth that was about to curl up. Then she also pretended not to know anything and replied, “I should… only have homework, I guess? Do you have something tomorrow?”

Hearing this, Ye Wanyin said, “You can leave the homework for the day after tomorrow. Should we go out tomorrow?”

The plan they had discussed yesterday was to first have Ye Wanyin bring Fang Shu out, then “accidentally” walk to school. While the two of them were strolling around, they would “accidentally” run into the others, and finally go to the classroom to see the surprise they had prepared.

This.

Ye Wanyin had seen all their reasons. Each one was well-founded, and she also felt this location was pretty good.

Then she looked at Fang Shu, her eyes full of anticipation.

Fang Shu was hit hard by that look.

She had originally wanted to tease Ye Wanyin a little. But looking at Ye Wanyin’s eyes, she inexplicably gave up on that thought and directly agreed.

Ye Wanyin immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

“Oh, right. We may have to wake up early tomorrow,” Ye Wanyin suddenly reminded Fang Shu.

Fang Shu bit the end of her pen and replied absentmindedly, “Then remember to wake me.”

Ye Wanyin gave a sound of agreement.

Considering how long Fang Shu slept every day, Ye Wanyin canceled her tutoring time that evening and chased Fang Shu into bed before seven o’clock.

Fang Shu stared with eyes that had no sleepiness at all and sighed faintly. “I can’t sleep.”

At this moment, Ye Wanyin understood the benefits of sleeping in the same bed. She pulled the curtains shut and turned off the light. After the room fell into darkness, she climbed onto the bed and covered Fang Shu’s eyes. She said to Fang Shu, “Close your eyes and you’ll be able to fall asleep.”

Fang Shu obediently closed her eyes, but her mouth still did not stop. “But I still can’t sleep.”

Ye Wanyin reached out again and covered Fang Shu’s mouth. “If you don’t talk, you’ll be able to sleep.”

With both her eyes and mouth covered, Fang Shu’s nose was filled with the scent of body wash from Ye Wanyin’s palm after her shower. It was light and not unpleasant, but she still could not sleep.

She had slept all the way until noon in one go that morning and had only been awake for one afternoon. Right now, Fang Shu was so energetic it was ridiculous.

Her covered lips moved slightly against Ye Wanyin’s palm. “Why don’t you explain questions to me? Maybe I’ll be hypnotized.”

But before Ye Wanyin could speak, Fang Shu suddenly thought of something else. “Actually, that might not work. You explain questions to me every day now, and I’ve already developed resistance. Unless it’s someone like the English teacher.”

Ye Wanyin could not produce the mysterious hypnotic effect of their English teacher, but Fang Shu’s words reminded her. “Then recite a few ancient poems now. After memorizing a few, you should be able to sleep.”

Fang Shu immediately shut her eyes tightly in resistance. “Change it.”

For things like theoretical knowledge, Fang Shu could accept it just fine. After all, once she learned one question type, she could solve most of the related questions by drawing inferences from one case. The sense of accomplishment from solving those questions could also immediately cover the frustration of the few questions she could not solve. In the end, it formed a positive cycle overall.

But for things that required memorization, like English words—ten words a day—Fang Shu already had a bit of a shadow over them now. Because the more words she memorized, the more she had to review. Up until now, whenever she saw vocabulary, she felt like her head was about to faint and her eyes were about to spin.

Chinese poems and prose were even worse. Although logically speaking, Chinese should be easier to memorize, some poems were fine because they rhymed and were short. But some poems were not only long, their rhymes were also extremely irregular—to Fang Shu, at least. As a result, Fang Shu often memorized the first section and forgot the later section. If she memorized too much, she even easily mixed poems together.

Ye Wanyin naturally also knew how painful it was for Fang Shu every time she memorized ancient poems, but she insisted on not changing it. “Choose between reciting poetry and sleeping.”

Fang Shu muttered under her breath about Ye Wanyin being scheming, then chose sleep without hesitation.

For the first half hour after saying she would sleep, Fang Shu practically had “I can’t sleep” carved on her forehead. She kept unable to control herself from tossing and turning. Only after Ye Wanyin said that if she moved again, she would get up and recite poetry did she gradually quiet down.

After that, Fang Shu did not know when she fell asleep.

Ye Wanyin was used to waking early, but she glanced at the time they had agreed on and stayed sitting at the head of the bed. She sat there until almost nine o’clock before waking Fang Shu.

Because she had gone to sleep too early last night, Fang Shu was clearly much easier to wake than usual. After being called awake, she sat on the bed in a daze for a while before becoming fully alert. Since they were going out, Fang Shu washed up and returned to her own room to change.

Fang Shu’s gaze swept through the closet for a long time. In the end, unable to decide, she went out to see what Ye Wanyin was wearing today.

Seeing the school uniform Ye Wanyin was wearing, Fang Shu openly showed a bit of disdain. She took several deep breaths before asking, “You’re wearing that today?”

Ye Wanyin was packing her schoolbag. Hearing this, she nodded without hesitation.

Fang Shu clutched her heart, feeling as if it were leaking blood. In the end, after immense internal struggle, she dug out the school uniform that had been pressed at the bottom of the box and had not been worn for years.

As she complained about what kind of taste those people had, and how a group of people who usually looked as if they had thrown their uniforms away long ago would actually wear uniforms on this day, she still changed into the uniform in the end.

When she looked in the mirror, Fang Shu found it awkward no matter how she looked. The uniform was too loose. It should clearly have been a fitting uniform, but when worn on Fang Shu, it looked a size too big. Back when she had first gotten the uniform, Fang Shu had only glanced at it before tossing it aside. Only now, after putting it on, did Fang Shu sincerely think: she really could not be blamed for disliking uniforms. Putting aside the ugly color, even the size was bad.

Fang Shu tied her loose hair into a half-bun, then turned once in front of the mirror, conflicted. Maybe she should just take it off after all.

But before she could make up her mind, the door that had not been fully closed was knocked lightly. Although the knock was very gentle, the door was still pushed open slightly. Ye Wanyin’s voice came from the doorway. “Fang Shu, have you changed?”

Fang Shu clumsily tried to take off the uniform pants, her face flushing red. Looking at herself in the mirror, she really felt she looked improper.

It was too ugly. She could not get past that hurdle in her heart.

“You…”

Fang Shu turned her head in a bit of panic and saw that Ye Wanyin had probably not heard her voice for a while, so at some point, she had come in. Seeing Fang Shu wearing the full school uniform, Ye Wanyin’s expression clearly froze for a moment. Then she praised, “You actually look pretty good like this.”

Fang Shu tugged at the drawstring of the uniform pants. Because of the shame of being seen, her whole face and neck turned completely red. Her forehead even faintly seemed about to sweat because of the sudden rise in temperature. Fang Shu looked at Ye Wanyin uncertainly. “It really doesn’t look weird?”

Ye Wanyin said sincerely, “Of course it doesn’t look weird. Isn’t it normal for students to wear school uniforms?”

There was even a bit of relief in her tone.

Fang Shu looked back at the mirror again. Aside from her red face, it seemed the only flaw of the uniform was that it was too oversized.

But that happened to make her look petite, and standing beside Ye Wanyin did not seem abrupt at all.

Fang Shu slightly relaxed. Enduring the remaining embarrassment, she said, “Then let’s go out.”

Ye Wanyin nodded, and before leaving, she conveniently sent an OK sticker in the group chat.