After Becoming the Love-Brained Female Lead’s Best Friend - Chapter 9

The boy who sat behind Fang Shu chased after the other boy from outside the door and shoved his deskmate’s head down under the desk.

“Zhang Xiao, you’re way too disloyal! You actually tried to sneak ahead behind my back! Fang Shu, Fang Shu, you haven’t agreed to him yet, right? You should look at me instead—”

Before he could finish speaking, Fang Shu once again went, “Ugh—”

The other party: “???”

Seeing this, the boy called Zhang Xiao took advantage of the fact that the other boy did not know what had happened earlier and burst out laughing.

“Li Ming, look at you. You disgusted her so much she threw up.”

Li Ming cursed and asked Fang Shu in disbelief, “Am I really that ugly?!”

Fang Shu took a moment to recover, but before she could speak, the people nearby who had heard Li Ming immediately shouted, “Yes!”

Li Ming turned around and angrily went to battle them.

Zhang Xiao quickly went over to join the fun.

Ye Wanyin watched them in amazement, then looked at Fang Shu. “I thought they were really confessing to you.”

She had even thought for a moment about which one Fang Shu would choose. She had not expected…

Fang Shu said carelessly, “They’re just messing around. Every time I break up, they come over to join the excitement.”

Ye Wanyin gave an “oh,” then thought of something and asked, “Can you date a top student next time?”

Fang Shu saw through her intention at once. “You want a top student to discipline me?”

Ye Wanyin looked at her with an expression that said, You guessed it.

Fang Shu looked at her and suddenly asked, “Why do you want me to study so badly? Just because we’re ‘best friends’? But do you think we look like that?”

Ye Wanyin answered in her heart, Of course it’s so I can go back and take my exam sooner.

But she still knew some things could not be revealed so easily, at least not right now. “Because I think you should have better choices.”

After receiving this bowl of motivational chicken soup, Fang Shu’s tone remained neither salty nor bland. “How do you know they’re better choices? Aren’t choices something you decide for yourself? At least, I don’t think studying is very good for me.”

Ye Wanyin tried to persuade her from her perspective. “Don’t you think it would be nice to attend class with your boyfriend in the classroom, listen to lectures together, do homework together after class, and read together after school? You can watch movies every week, every month, now and in the future. But your student life is one day shorter with every day that passes.”

“Maybe one day in the future, when you look back on your high school life, you’ll find that aside from things you could do with any boyfriend, there was nothing else.”

“Wouldn’t you feel regret then?”

This was much more effective than simply urging her to study.

As Ye Wanyin spoke, Fang Shu even followed along and imagined those scenes, then imagined herself missing them… It did seem a little regrettable!

But she had not been completely bewitched. She said indifferently, “If there’s less, then there’s less. At worst, someday I’ll find a top-student boyfriend and enjoy that for a few days.”

Seeing that she was still being stubborn, Ye Wanyin added, “Also, with your current grades… if you don’t study, getting into university will still be a little difficult. The rest of your student life might be less than a year and a half.”

“Are you sure you want to miss it?”

Fang Shu clenched her fist, still unmoved. “If I miss it, I miss it. Nine years of compulsory education plus three years of high school is enough to get my money’s worth.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Were love-brains nowadays this “rational”?

Ye Wanyin nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood, but Fang Shu had already started playing with her phone.

Ye Wanyin closed her mouth in grievance and started working on questions. After who knew how long, Fang Shu had already cleared several levels in her game when she suddenly heard Ye Wanyin deliberately lower her voice because they were in class.

“I heard xxx from the top class is ranked first. Do you want to consider him?”

Ye Wanyin decided to settle for second best. At the very least, she would first get Fang Shu to date a top-student boyfriend. If Fang Shu dated one each time, after a year and a half, her grades should improve at least a little, right?

Fang Shu also lowered her voice. “Not considering him. His looks won’t do.”

Ye Wanyin did not give up. “What about second place? He should look decent.”

Fang Shu said with disdain, “Too short. He isn’t even as tall as me.”

Ye Wanyin: “Third place?”

Fang Shu turned around and advised her instead, “Stop thinking about it. West High’s grade levels are seriously divided. There are only a few people with good grades, and I’ve already looked at them all. Not a single one suits my taste.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

Ye Wanyin remembered what Fang Shu had said earlier. “Then how are you going to enjoy it?”

Fang Shu was not worried at all. “Wait for the next grade.”

“What if the next grade doesn’t have anyone you like either?”

“Then it’s simply not meant to be.”

Ye Wanyin: “…”

“You two in the back! What are you doing? Talking during class? Do you already know how to do all the questions? Both of you come up here and solve problems for me.”

At first, Ye Wanyin had not realized the homeroom teacher was talking to her. It was not until a piece of chalk hit her head that she raised her head in confusion. The homeroom teacher tapped the chalk on the podium.

“Burying your head so low, did you think I couldn’t see you? No one else in the class is talking. I can only hear the two of you muttering. Why don’t you just come up here and teach? I’ll give the podium to you.”

Ye Wanyin lowered her head awkwardly.

Then she stood up dejectedly. She still remembered that the homeroom teacher had told them to solve problems. When she got up, she patted Fang Shu. Fang Shu gave her space.

Ye Wanyin walked out.

Fang Shu sat down.

Ye Wanyin: “…?”

Another piece of chalk flew over. This time, the teacher probably missed. It was supposed to hit Fang Shu’s head, but it ended up hitting Ye Wanyin instead. However, this did not affect the teacher’s performance.

“Fang Shu, are you still sitting there like an emperor? There are two questions on the board. One for each of you. You’re not allowed to go down until you finish.”

Fang Shu knew she could no longer pretend, so she could only sigh and stand up. When they reached the podium, Ye Wanyin helped her choose a problem.

“That one is a little easier. You can solve it by substituting into the formula on the board.”

The homeroom teacher went down to walk around the classroom. When she reached the last row, she suddenly remembered something and said to the two people at the podium, “Even after you finish, don’t go down yet. Wait until I check that it’s correct before you go.”

Ye Wanyin was publicly acknowledged as the top student in the class, so it was obvious who those words were meant for.

Fang Shu drooped her head and looked at the formulas on the blackboard.

First, she wrote “Solution,” then copied one of the formulas from the blackboard. Someone one meter away tried to send her a sound transmission.

“Wrong—”

Fang Shu did not turn around.

She heard the voice behind her whispering again, “Use a system of linear equations in three variables—”

Afraid of being heard by the teacher, the other person used a breathy voice.

Fang Shu’s ears practically perked up. However, perhaps because the breathy voice was a little shaky, it was truly difficult for Fang Shu, whose mind normally contained not a single formula, to connect with the other person’s signal. She could only vaguely hear something like “Sangyuan,” “one by one,” and a bunch of other unclear words. She could not help thinking, What the hell is that?

Although she knew the other person probably did not mean that, after hearing their breathy voice, only those words could appear in Fang Shu’s mind.

After all, she did quite like going to Sangyuan.

Sangyuan was a large shopping mall in the plaza across from their residential compound. There was even a small cinema inside. Couples often went there, and Fang Shu herself also liked going.

Her mind was instantly occupied by all sorts of messy things.

Meanwhile, the person below noticed that the homeroom teacher had circled back to the middle. If they shouted again, they would be heard, so the classmate who had been trying to secretly transmit the answer quickly shut up and worked on their own problem.

Only after the homeroom teacher circled to the back again did they speak up once more.

“System—of—linear—equations—in—three—variables—”

Afraid that one person’s strength was not enough, several more people joined in this time.

They looked as if they were desperately afraid she would not be able to come down.

However, Fang Shu: Ah, I suddenly want to watch a movie.