After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 8

The next day was Monday. During morning reading, Fang Shu was unsurprisingly called on by the Chinese teacher. The classmates around her were reciting from their books, while Fang Shu had been picked to recite aloud.

After hearing Fang Shu’s recitation, Ye Wanyin felt that the expression on the Chinese teacher’s face was exactly the same as the old man on the subway looking at a phone meme. The teacher said, “This won’t do.”

Then she made Fang Shu stand for the entire morning reading period.

Sitting beside her, Ye Wanyin advised, “If you memorize it, the Chinese teacher won’t call on you anymore.”

Fang Shu was very clear-headed. “No. If I memorize this one, then I’ll have to memorize the next one.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Why was she so clever only at times like this?

After the morning classes ended, at noon, Fang Shu was the first to walk out the moment the dismissal bell rang. Ye Wanyin was slightly puzzled beside her. She did not have time to organize her notes and hurriedly chased after Fang Shu. By the time she ran in front of her, she was already a little out of breath.

“Why didn’t you wait for me?”

Fang Shu: “?”

Fang Shu asked in confusion, “Why would I wait for you?”

Ye Wanyin asked strangely, “Weren’t you not eating with me before because you wanted to eat with your boyfriend? Now you’re single.”

Fang Shu fell silent for a moment, then looked at her almost with sympathy. She had not expected Ye Wanyin to have always thought that.

“I just thought you were too slow.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Oh. So the clown was actually herself.

The two still walked side by side, so they simply had lunch together.

After eating, when they walked out of the cafeteria together, they happened to run into the boy who loved blushing and had been badly rebuked in public at the cafeteria last time. The other party had probably had his pride hurt by Fang Shu. As soon as he saw her, he immediately turned around and went back into the cafeteria.

Ye Wanyin clicked her tongue beside her. “Look how fierce you were when you scolded him last time.”

Fang Shu gave a light snort. “Who told him to keep provoking me?”

Ye Wanyin had been a little curious for a while now. “How did he provoke you before? When I just came… I mean, before, I thought he simply loved blushing.”

Fang Shu snorted coldly. “What do you mean, loved blushing? He was doing it on purpose.”

“Before, he pursued me several times, but I didn’t like him, so I never agreed. Later, he annoyed me, so I simply blocked him. Last time, I don’t know where he heard that I broke up with my ex-ex, but he started putting on that act. Annoying as hell.”

This was Ye Wanyin’s first time standing right beside the gossip and listening to gossip. She instantly felt like she had not had enough, so she struck while the iron was hot and asked, “I’ve always been curious. When you were blocked by your ex-ex before, how exactly did you educate him?”

Logically speaking, the other party was so big. No matter how tall Fang Shu was among girls, she was still a head shorter than him, and she did not look that strong either. Ye Wanyin truly could not understand how Fang Shu had educated him.

Fang Shu glanced at her. “Want to know?”

Ye Wanyin nodded.

Fang Shu walked a few quick steps ahead and threw back one sentence.

“I just won’t tell you.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

The most painful part of eating gossip was indeed being kept in suspense.

Back when she did not know and had not asked, she had at most been a little curious. Now, however, it felt like her heart and liver were being scratched.

Unfortunately, she could not pry open Fang Shu’s mouth.

Ye Wanyin returned to the classroom with emotions. Fang Shu was chatting with someone, so Ye Wanyin asked her, “Is it still the fish you hooked yesterday?”

Fang Shu casually replied, “Mm. He asked me out tonight. I’ll go take a look then.”

Ye Wanyin said, “Oh. Will you date him then?”

Fang Shu gave her a look that said, What kind of stupid question are you asking? “I have to see how he is first.”

Ye Wanyin relaxed slightly. As long as Fang Shu did not date everyone she met.

“This is a math problem the math teacher explained this morning. Take a look?”

Ye Wanyin tried to pass a notebook toward Fang Shu, but the moment the notebook reached the middle, Fang Shu blocked it with her right hand. She pushed it back to Ye Wanyin and even drew an invisible boundary line with her hand.

Ye Wanyin gave up struggling. “Tell me. What exactly will it take for you to study?”

Fang Shu thought for a while. “If it’s my boyfriend… maybe I’ll consider it a tiny bit.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Ye Wanyin refused to give up. “If there’s no boyfriend, would a girlfriend work?”

Fang Shu: “…?”

Fang Shu even forgot to play with her phone and said to Ye Wanyin, “I’m straight.”

Ye Wanyin: “I can bend.”

Fang Shu: “???”

Fang Shu put on a face that said, What nonsense are you spouting? “I can’t.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

This life was impossible to live.

Ye Wanyin could see it now. As long as she did not talk to Fang Shu about studying, the two of them could barely act like good “best friends.” But the moment studying came up—hehe, this was the line where all ties were severed.

And so, for the entire afternoon, Ye Wanyin watched helplessly as Fang Shu chatted in front of her, read novels, and even played games with one hand. It was even the kind of rhythm game that required some skill.

Ye Wanyin: “…”

So it turned out that as long as a person did not study, they could perfectly unlock all other skills.

Seeing that Ye Wanyin finally no longer seized every chance to talk to her about studying like before, Fang Shu’s expression toward her became much more tolerant. She even assigned her a task.

“Help me watch for the teacher.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

She would not help with that.

Fang Shu had only said it casually. Seeing that Ye Wanyin’s expression was unwilling, she let it go.

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend again. After tidying herself up, Ye Wanyin walked out of her room. The living room was quiet and empty. Fang Shu was clearly still catching up on sleep in her own room and had not come out. Ye Wanyin ate a simple breakfast, then sat in a well-lit spot in the living room to work on practice questions. Along the way, she also translated the manuscript she had taken from the office building.

Around ten o’clock, Fang Shu came out of her room.

Ye Wanyin was still surprised that Fang Shu had come out so early today. When she looked up and saw Fang Shu’s outfit, she could not help freezing.

Fang Shu’s appearance belonged to the bright and striking type. When she usually looked at people lazily, she was like a cat with its claws tucked away.

At this moment, she had put on light makeup and wore a light-colored knee-length spaghetti-strap dress. Her medium-length hair had been braided from the top of her head all the way down to the ends in a French braid, and the ends were decorated with a flower clip. Her whole person stood somewhere between gentleness and temptation, like a cat master raising its paw, leaving no one knowing whether it wanted to act spoiled toward you or scratch you.

There was a beauty to her that blurred the boundaries of age.

Ye Wanyin stared blankly for a moment. “Are you going out?”

Fang Shu carried a bag that matched her dress and came over, lowering her head to change shoes. “Mm. My boyfriend asked me out. I’m leaving.”

“Wait.” Ye Wanyin’s right eyelid had been twitching nonstop, and she had a very ominous feeling. “Where did your boyfriend ask you to go?”

Fang Shu said carelessly, “A small park near the east campus. Is there anything you want to eat? I’ll bring it back for you.”

Ye Wanyin had heard a little about that park. It was said to be a sacred spot for couples. There was an hourly hotel nearby, so if some people with poor self-control accidentally “set off sparks,” they could conveniently go next door to put out the fire.

“My right eyelid keeps twitching.” Ye Wanyin did not know whether it was psychological, but after feeling that her right eyelid would not stop twitching, her heart also started to panic.

Fang Shu touched her forehead. “Is your eye cramping?”

Ye Wanyin gritted her teeth. “If my eye is cramping, why are you touching my forehead?”

Fang Shu did not take it very seriously. “Left is bad, right is good. Maybe it means money is coming.”

“Where I’m from, the saying is left is good, right is bad.” Ye Wanyin’s heart was panicking badly. “Can you not go tonight?”

Fang Shu hesitated for a moment. Ye Wanyin continued, “Date someone else instead. I just have a bad feeling.”

“Probably not,” Fang Shu said. She actually had a pretty good impression of her current boyfriend. He was a senior, good-looking, and had a good personality. He fit the image of the male lead in a novel Fang Shu had recently read.

Ye Wanyin paced anxiously in front of her. “Really. Change to someone else. Anyone else is fine.”

Seeing that Ye Wanyin looked serious and did not seem to be acting, Fang Shu took off the shoes she had put on.

“All right. I’ll hook another fish instead.”

Seeing that she was no longer going out, Ye Wanyin let out a soft breath of relief. She felt the panic trapping her heart finally slowly ease.

That afternoon, there was a torrential downpour. Ye Wanyin shut the doors and windows properly. Looking at the trees outside being pressed until their branches bent, with quite a few leaves and branches falling to the ground because of it, she could not help frowning.

“Did the weather forecast say it would rain today?”

Fang Shu did not raise her head. “No. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have chosen today to go out.”

Fang Shu had already changed back into her home nightdress. The French braid she had tied earlier had been undone, and this time, there was only a headband on her head. On the table lay one of the many novels she had picked up with her package yesterday, and her phone was placed beside it.

Ye Wanyin walked back from the window. “Has your boyfriend contacted you?”

Fang Shu corrected her. “Ex.”

Ye Wanyin nodded along. “Ex-boyfriend.”

Fang Shu said, “Don’t know. I blocked him as soon as I got back to my room.”

Ye Wanyin felt relieved. “That’s good.”

The two sat peacefully on opposite sides of the table, one working on problems and the other reading a novel.

After a while, Fang Shu suddenly raised her head. “I suddenly want milk tea.”

Ye Wanyin was in a state where she was about to enter meditation through problem-solving and vaguely heard her voice. “Hm?”

Fang Shu had already sat up and picked up her phone. “Let me see if any shop will accept an order…”

“If no one accepts, then forget it,” Fang Shu muttered. She found the shop she usually ordered from, placed an order, and even asked Ye Wanyin if she wanted anything.

Ye Wanyin was not picky and said anything was fine.

So Fang Shu ordered the same thing for her.

One minute later, the shop accepted the order.

Fang Shu placed her phone on the table and slumped in her chair, holding a book in her hands. The room became quiet again.

Before long, Fang Shu probably felt that this posture was uncomfortable, so she moved from the chair by the table to the sofa.

Buzz, buzz—

“Ah, the delivery’s here.”

Fang Shu got up from the sofa, opened the door, and took the delivery. When she handed it to Ye Wanyin, she heard the sound of a car starting downstairs. She casually glanced over.

“So food delivery is such a profitable industry.”

Even delivery workers were driving cars.

Ye Wanyin was always ready to pull her onto the right path. “Don’t narrow your future path.”

Fang Shu inserted the straw and happily drank milk tea while reading her novel, ignoring her.

On Sunday morning, the sky was still very gloomy, with the feeling that wind and rain were about to arrive. While it was not raining yet, Ye Wanyin went out early to hand in the translated manuscript. Along the way, she brought back a few more manuscripts.

That side paid according to the number of manuscripts that passed review, usually settling on the spot. When Ye Wanyin came back, she had brought back a sum of wages.

Although it was not much, if she saved for a few weeks, she should be able to buy a slightly cheaper phone.

Whether in her original world or this world, having no phone was truly inconvenient.

Ye Wanyin sighed softly.

At noon, Fang Shu came out of her room. Ye Wanyin saw that her complexion did not look good. “What’s wrong?”

Fang Shu covered her mouth. “I’m going to throw up.”

Ye Wanyin: “???”

Ye Wanyin’s first reaction was, “Did you eat something bad?”

Fang Shu originally planned to drink some water to calm herself down. But after taking one sip, she seemed to think of something and suddenly covered her mouth, ran to the bathroom, and threw up.

Ye Wanyin tried hard to stop her brain from thinking in unreliable directions. She walked over and supported Fang Shu, asking her, “What exactly happened?”

Fang Shu grabbed her arm and tried to speak. However, the moment she opened her mouth, it was—

“Ugh—”

Ye Wanyin: “???”

No one knew how long had passed. Fang Shu, who had finally recovered slightly, handed her phone to Ye Wanyin and let her look for herself. Meanwhile, Fang Shu sat at the other end of the table, desperately controlling herself so she would not think of the scene she had seen that morning.

The interface Fang Shu showed Ye Wanyin was already open. There was only one video on it. Ye Wanyin tapped it open and regretted it the next second, immediately closing it.

If Fang Shu had not told her beforehand that the person in it was her ex-boyfriend—of course, Fang Shu no longer acknowledged him now—she would have thought someone had sent her an AV.

Fang Shu looked at her with a weak face after vomiting.

Ye Wanyin: “Ugh—”

Still frightened, Fang Shu said with relief, “Good thing you stopped me back then. That guy is disgusting.”

Fang Shu slumped in the chair, one arm across her forehead, looking weak. “No, I think I’m a little afraid of men now.”

Ye Wanyin also said with some relief, “Good thing you didn’t go back then.”

That area was near an hourly hotel, and it had rained yesterday. It was not hard to imagine what might have happened if a man and woman were alone together.

This video had been posted last night and was now spreading wildly across the various high schools. Although the school on the east campus was already doing its best to suppress it and telling students not to spread it anymore, how could students’ curiosity be suppressed?

Although it was no longer being spread on the surface, many small private group chats had opened in secret.

Now, every group chat was in an uproar, digging up that guy from the inside out. It was said that this was not his first time taking girls into an hourly hotel, and that he had always had the habit of juggling several people at once, claiming he had never once been exposed.

From the video, that day, the guy had gone into the hourly hotel three times alone. There was even a stretch of free time in between—Ye Wanyin felt that she could not think too deeply about it. If she did, she might not be able to resist finding that guy and beating him up.

The reason the guy’s car overturned was because he was unlucky. Before him, there had been a couple who liked to play around and had left a small camera in the room, forgetting to take it with them. When they went back the next day to retrieve it, they discovered a “treasure.”

Now both sides seemed ready to go to court, but that was no longer within Ye Wanyin’s scope of concern.

She handed the phone back. “Next time, remember to keep your eyes sharper.”

Fang Shu almost threw up again. “For the near future, I don’t want to date anyone anymore.”

Now, just seeing men made her physically uncomfortable.

Ye Wanyin sighed.

On Monday, when they went to school, Ye Wanyin heard everyone discussing the weekend topic as soon as she entered the classroom. Fang Shu sat down at her seat as if it had nothing to do with her.

“Fang—Shu—”

A boy, the one who sat behind Ye Wanyin, ran in from outside excitedly. His hands slapped excitedly onto Fang Shu’s desk, and his eyes shone brightly.

“Fang Shu, are you single now? Is it too late for me to get in line?”

Fang Shu looked at him and suddenly—

“Ugh—”

Boy: “???”