After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 5

Ye Wanyin used the lunch break to finish working through the study guide from earlier, then took a short nap.

The bell rang from the speaker in the upper-right corner of the classroom. The students in the class all covered their ears one by one and continued sleeping, the backs of their heads practically lined up with the words: If the teacher doesn’t come, I’m not getting up.

Ye Wanyin sat in her seat and let her mind go blank for a while. After moving her arm slightly, she went out for a short walk.

When she came back, the teacher for the next class was already sitting on the podium. Probably because the class bell had not rung yet, the teacher did not call the students. He allowed the colorful heads below to shine brightly on their own while he took a piece of chalk and wrote on the blackboard what he would be teaching this class.

Ye Wanyin glanced at the blackboard, opened the textbook for this class, and at the same time took two new notebooks out of the plastic bag she had brought back from the school convenience store. She sorted out the homework assigned that morning into them separately.

After class began, Fang Shu did not return, just as expected. Ye Wanyin looked at the empty stool beside her, not knowing where the other girl had run off to cause trouble again.

Thinking of the mission that still had no progress at all, Ye Wanyin sighed softly. She had just gathered her energy and was preparing to listen to class when she discovered that everyone around her still had not woken up.

Ye Wanyin: “…?”

The class bell had rung just now, right? Had she misheard???

“In this class, we’ll discuss Unit Four…”

Ye Wanyin looked somewhat blankly at the teacher on the podium, who was slowly and leisurely teaching on his own as if he were hypnotizing everyone. Then she looked at the students below, all sleeping in a large patch. Suddenly, she slowly remembered that, unlike the public high school on the east campus, this school was a private high school. The students here were a mixed bunch, and the teaching standards were uneven. The more capable teachers had all been picked away by the top classes.

The two teachers Ye Wanyin had met in the morning already counted as relatively serious and responsible. They knew the students’ level, so their lesson plans crushed the knowledge points into crumbs before teaching them. The homework they assigned was not difficult either. Basically, as long as one listened a little in class, they could solve it.

This method was not completely without flaws. The knowledge points were broken down too finely, causing very little to be covered in one class. The efficiency was too low, and they could not keep up with the exam schedule. Unless the students followed along seriously for three to five years, it would be hard for their grades to show improvement.

But for the students in this class, they clearly preferred this kind of teacher who did not care about them. Aside from a few who barely opened their eyes and propped themselves up to listen, the rest either simply had not woken up, or had woken up but were lying on their desks chatting with the people around them.

The two boys in the row behind Ye Wanyin were lying on their desks and chatting.

They counted as the less reckless type. During the Chinese and math classes in the morning, they only dared to pass little notes to each other. Since this teacher did not care, they had clearly started to get wild.

Ye Wanyin heard the boy behind her say, “Did you see the group messages?”

“Haven’t looked yet.”

“Fang Shu got blocked by Ge Qin on the big sports field!”

“What’s so strange about that? Aren’t they dating?”

“??? Your news is way too outdated. They broke up last week!”

“Damn, why didn’t you tell me earlier? I could’ve gotten in line.”

“No chance anymore. Didn’t you see her exchanging looks with that person this morning?”

…

At first, Ye Wanyin did not think too much about it. She only glanced with slight regret at the boy sitting on the far left by the window. How had she not thought of it? If Fang Shu’s boyfriend was here, how could she go out alone to date someone?

But when more than half of the next class had passed and Fang Shu still showed no sign of returning, Ye Wanyin finally began to panic a little.

Speaking of which, was there a scene in the original novel where Fang Shu was blocked by an ex?

In her impression, at least in the earlier chapters, there was none. Fang Shu dated as if she were running a relay race—after finishing with one, she immediately switched to the next. She had never seen an ex come back looking for her.

Just as Ye Wanyin was hesitating over whether to pretend to go to the bathroom and look for Fang Shu, the classroom’s front door was suddenly pushed open.

“Report.”

The English teacher adjusted her glasses and glanced at Fang Shu. She did not say anything and simply waved her in.

After Fang Shu sat down, Ye Wanyin immediately could not hold back and passed her a little note.

Are you okay?

Ran into an idiot.

When Ye Wanyin saw that there was more than one ink mark inside the crumpled note, she could not help feeling excited. But when she saw the words written on it, she could not help falling silent again.

Ye Wanyin thought of what she had heard and felt that this was a good chance to bring the two of them closer, so she wrote another line.

Was it your ex-boyfriend bothering you?

The little note had just been placed on Fang Shu’s desk when someone knocked it to the floor with a piece of candy. The candy was a hard candy, and a big note had been taped to it. The words on it were not small, so Ye Wanyin saw them at a glance.

Fang Shu, I heard your ex blocked you?

Fang Shu swept a glance over it. She originally did not plan to respond, but the boy behind her poked her with a pen holder and passed on the message for the person over there.

“Fang Shu, the people over there are calling you.”

As soon as Fang Shu raised her head, she saw two boys and two girls sitting in the two rows at the very back on the far left, staring at her with shining eyes and urging her with their gazes. When she did not move for a long time, they mouthed at her several times.

Fang Shu: “…”

In the end, Fang Shu still wrote a reply. After writing it, she thought for a moment about how to throw it over. The person behind her solved the problem for her.

“We’ll pass it for you.”

Fang Shu handed the note over without thinking much.

Then, she heard the sound of the person behind her opening the note.

Fang Shu: “…”

Sure enough, not a single one of them was sincere.

By the time the little note had gone around once, even the classmates farthest away from Fang Shu knew the answer to the question, but Ye Wanyin, who was closest to her, still did not know.

Though it could not really be said that she did not know. The answer to the question was clearly obvious. Asking one more time was simply because she wanted Fang Shu to say it herself.

“Go back by yourself tonight. I have something to do,” Fang Shu said to Ye Wanyin, propping her chin on her hand.

Ye Wanyin thought of the homework Fang Shu had not touched all day. “Oh… Then can you come back earlier to do your homework?”

Fang Shu glanced sideways at her. “No.”

After saying that, Fang Shu lay down and took a light nap.

After class, someone wanted to come over and find Fang Shu, but seeing that she was sleeping, they lowered their voice and left quietly. Some people wanted to get the details from Ye Wanyin, but unfortunately, Ye Wanyin had not even had the chance to ask the question, so it was even less possible for her to know what exactly had happened.

Perhaps because too many people had asked, Ye Wanyin also became curious about the specific situation.

The second class in the afternoon was physics. As soon as the bell rang, Ye Wanyin woke Fang Shu up with a pat. The moment Fang Shu was woken up, her expression was a little dazed. In the next second, her eyes turned fierce. Her gaze rolled toward Ye Wanyin, and that expression was exactly the same as the one she had when she slammed the door in Ye Wanyin’s face over the past two days.

Only this time, what she wanted to slam was probably not the door, but the textbook.

Fortunately, Fang Shu did not actually throw a textbook at her in front of the whole class. She only glanced at the teacher on the podium, then barely propped herself up and began spacing out.

For once, Ye Wanyin did not see her take out her phone. After choosing between satisfying her own curiosity and saving her own college entrance exam, Ye Wanyin decisively took out the two notebooks she had already prepared and carefully pushed them in front of Fang Shu.

“This is the homework that has to be handed in tomorrow.”

Fang Shu glanced at the notebooks in front of her. Her eyes were lazy, and her expression was indifferent. In the end, she turned her head away.

Using the mountain of textbooks piled on the desk as cover, Ye Wanyin said, “I can teach you the parts you don’t know.”

Fang Shu ignored her.

Ye Wanyin smiled inwardly. It was fine. This was only the fourth day.

After class, a circle of people gathered around Fang Shu.

“Fang Shu, why didn’t you reply to our messages? The physics teacher was too scary. I didn’t even dare to pass you a note.”

Fang Shu took her phone out of her skirt pocket and laid it limply on the desk.

“Here.”

The screen was already shattered, and the phone could not be turned on either.

Someone clicked their tongue. “You didn’t use your phone to kill someone and silence them, did you?”

Fang Shu looked at that person as if looking at an idiot, then said carelessly, “I just educated him a little.”

“Who knew his heart would be that fragile?”

And he had even smashed her phone.

Tch.

Someone egged her on. “Tell us, Fang Shu. How did you educate him?”

Fang Shu put the broken phone into the drawer. Hearing this, she glanced sideways at that person.

“Are you expecting me to repeat it word for word for you?”

Those who had known Fang Shu for a long time all knew that although Fang Shu looked like she could date anyone, when someone truly pestered her, she could insult a grown man until he cried.

Because of this, although many people wanted to pursue Fang Shu, there was not a single one who truly dared to pester her.

“Can’t you really tell us?” someone asked pitifully.

Fang Shu gave them a look, and everyone knew that there was no room for negotiation.

It was not that she absolutely could not say it. It was just that Fang Shu was lazy. If she could summarize it briefly, she might consider it. But asking her to explain it sentence by sentence? She could not do that.

How much saliva would that waste?

After the day’s classes ended, Ye Wanyin unsurprisingly had made no progress at all. Before leaving, she made one small final struggle.

“Remember to come back early tonight.”

Fang Shu was empty-handed as she walked straight out.

“I’ll wait until you fall asleep before coming back.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Only a few people remained in the classroom.

Two of them seemed to be companions. Their original seats were not together, but now that there was no one beside either of them, they had moved together.

There was also one person sitting in the corner doing practice questions. She was blocked by the many textbooks piled like mountains in the classroom, so Ye Wanyin almost did not see her.

Their school did have self-study periods, but unlike the school next door, self-study here was voluntary. The teachers would not come to supervise either.

Ye Wanyin was used to doing self-study at school. This was a perfect chance to quickly go through the textbooks of this world and see if there was anything different.

“Hello.”

At some point, the two girls who had been sitting together had left. The one who had been doing practice questions came over from her seat, holding a study guide in her hands. She wore thick black-framed glasses and had a timid expression.

“Can I ask you about a question?”

Ye Wanyin nodded to her. “Let me see.”

The question she asked was a function problem. Because it came from an extracurricular workbook she had bought herself, the problem had been altered slightly from the basic question type the teacher had explained. Ye Wanyin explained to her where the variation was, then gave examples to illustrate it. Only after the other girl thoroughly understood did Ye Wanyin put down the pen in her hand.

“Do you understand now?”

The other girl hugged her extracurricular workbook and looked at Ye Wanyin with restrained admiration.

“I understand. Thank you.”

Ye Wanyin smiled slightly. “You’re welcome.”

“How much longer are you going to work? Do you want to go back together tonight?” After asking the question, the girl hugged her extracurricular workbook and did not leave immediately.

Ye Wanyin asked, “Do we live relatively close to each other?”

The girl replied, “We share part of the route. I rent a place near the east campus.”

The east campus and west campus were on the same road. Ye Wanyin nodded.

“Then if you’re done, let’s go now.”

“Okay.”