Chapter 7

No, to be precise, there were two things.

The first was: she vaguely remembered that one night, while eating takeout with her ex over video call after getting off work, her ex had muttered the name Meng Qingying halfway through eating. If Feng Qingyu remembered correctly, what she had said at the time should have been: “This is so dull. I need to add a slightly crazier female supporting character. Who should I add? Ah, I’ll give the female lead a love-rival villain who can set her off! Right, an Omega… First, a name. Surname Meng. Wait, dictionary… Qing? Qingying!”

Meng. Qingying… Meng Qingying. Add in what she had heard at the school gate that morning, and Feng Qingyu’s heart sank hard.

Barring any accidents, Meng Qingying—her grandmother—should be that somewhat crazy love-rival villain who was obsessed with Xun Zhou and existed to set off the female lead.

The second thing was: they had transmigrated by soul! The kind that did not come with the original owner’s memories. At least she herself had. What about Grandma? If it was the same for her, then Feng Qingyu remembered that Grandma could not read!

Very good.

Utterly hopeless.

Looking again at that blank expression now, Feng Qingyu crushed the drink bottle in her hand with a crackle, angrily wondering why not a single mouthful from this entire bottle of water had managed to choke her to death.

Yet she still refused to give up. “Grandma, what exactly did that system say to you? Did it directly tell you the task content, or did it say you had to do a task?”

Even now, Feng Qingyu was still fantasizing that there was a possibility Grandma would not have to do any task.

But fantasies could only be fantasies.

In the next moment, the grandmother of the past, now the vicious female supporting character, lowered her head with a troubled expression and said, “I don’t know, Yu’er. Grandma can’t read… That voice only told me to work hard and keep going. It did mention the word task, but as for what exactly I’m supposed to do, it didn’t tell me.”

It didn’t tell me… didn’t tell me… didn’t tell… didn’t…

Feng Qingyu: “…”

Oh, fate, I tell you~~ whatever I fear really does come true.

But as an outstanding woman, she naturally had the ability to solve problems.

After finishing her breakdown, Feng Qingyu looked at the tireless ants on the ground and poked the dirt nearby with the bottle cap she had screwed back on. “Do you remember what those characters looked like? If you remember, can you draw them for me now?”

Hearing this, Meng Qingying really did seriously think back. Then she took the flattened bottle and scratched a few marks on the ground.

Feng Qingyu stared lifelessly at her movements, her heart like dead ashes. “Are those characters? Why do they look so much like letters?”

“Ah, right, right. It was pinyin. That ABC kind.” After saying this, Meng Qingying stopped moving.

Feng Qingyu looked at the crookedly spelled-out “qingmeng” on the ground and froze. “Qing Meng? This inhuman, inflexible system actually knows to use pinyin?”

Then why didn’t it just say it out loud!

She was convinced. Truly convinced. This thing was even more infuriating than her former leaders and clients.

Feng Qingyu slapped her own forehead twice, stood up, and read the original at bailiantales.comturned circle after circle in place. Even after making herself dizzy, her anger still had not cooled.

Unfortunately, her dear grandmother then dropped another bombshell. “Yu’er, let’s set aside this task thing for now. I want to discuss something with you. What should I do about studying?”

First-year high school students did not have to take a placement exam for the first semester, meaning formal classes would begin that very afternoon. Every single first-year textbook was like a heavenly scripture to her. Although the original owner was not exactly a model student, she had still successfully moved up to the high school section, so her grades must have at least been passable.

Seeing that her granddaughter was silent, Meng Qingying added another sentence. “Right now, I only know how to write the three characters Meng Qingying.”

After going home from military training, she had practiced whenever she had nothing to do. She had almost filled two diaries before she could barely write it about the same as it looked in the old exercise books.

If there were really homework or anything like that, she was afraid she would not be able to write it out even if someone gave her the correct answer to copy.

If she was discovered, how was she supposed to explain it?

Could she say she had become like this after waking up? She was a living, breathing person, not a machine trying to cheat a warranty repair.

Feng Qingyu felt as if her one head had become two. Anxiously rubbing her hands, she said, “How about you find a reason to suspend your studies?”

“Suspend my studies? School can be suspended? How do you suspend it?”

Realizing that Grandma had really taken her words as a lifesaving straw, Feng Qingyu opened her mouth but did not answer. Instead, she looked straight toward the additional black-and-white school uniform not far away.

Most of her view was blocked by dense green leaves. She narrowed her eyes and waited for a while before finally seeing clearly that the face being covered was Xun Zhou’s.

Fine.

Enemies really did meet on a narrow road.

With both her nerves and chest tightening at the same time, Feng Qingyu pressed her lips together and reminded in a low voice, “Grandma, stop talking. Someone’s coming.”

Meng Qingying immediately followed her gaze and turned back. After seeing the other girl standing in the light, she let out a wow of admiration.

“…?” Feng Qingyu lowered her eyes, not very pleased. “What are you wow-ing at?”

Meng Qingying knew her granddaughter’s temperament, so she cleared her throat and began soothing her. “Nothing. I just realized the girls here are all so tall and strong. I was just sighing a little, being a little surprised.”

“Is she taller than me? Stronger than me?”

Meng Qingying put away her unnecessary expression and answered in the exact same voice as Feng Qingyu, “Probably not. Granddaughter, in Grandma’s heart, you will always be the best and most outstanding.”

Feng Qingyu’s mood smoothed out.

One second later, it was no longer smooth.

The person she least wanted to see right now was Xun Zhou, because she truly could not figure out why the system would say Xun Zhou was the female lead and even make her go seduce—seduce her. It was simply like a donkey’s lips not matching a horse’s mouth.

As her resentment rose, Xun Zhou walked up to them. Feng Qingyu, who wanted to completely give up, leaned back and sat down on the bench again. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that Grandma was still standing, so she reached out, pulled her back, and had her sit down too.

Then she attempted to meet all changes with no change. In any case, she did not want to say a single [Read on BaiLianTales]word to Xun Zhou right now.

In her understanding, asking one Alpha to conquer another Alpha was simply an impossible task.

Anyone with even a slight understanding of the ABO world knew this: only Alpha and Omega pheromones attracted each other. How many couples in these books got together because of an extremely high pheromone compatibility? Two Alphas, on the other hand, repelled each other.

Making two Alphas fall in love—how was that any different from making fire and water, the sun and moon, fall in love?

If it did not want to give her a wish, it should just say so directly.

Was there any need to take such a huge detour?

Feng Qingyu fumed inwardly. On her expressionless face, a look of defiance unconsciously appeared.

Xun Zhou stopped walking. Looking at that provocative face, her cold gaze shifted slightly toward the little Omega on the other side of the bench. Recognizing her as the person who had hidden in Feng Qingyu’s arms that morning, and also that little thing who had clung to her like sticky candy last year, the mockery on Xun Zhou’s face was practically ready to burst out.

“So you two are in this together.”

“What?” Feng Qingyu did not understand. She raised her eyes and met Xun Zhou’s contemptuous gaze, and her head buzzed.

Xun Zhou sneered. “Why pretend? You think that by finding some ignorant Omega who has no interest in studying to pester me, I’ll lose to you? Dream on. I’m definitely surpassing you in this exam!”

Oh, so she was her eldest granddaughter’s competitor. Meng Qingying looked at the arrogant girl and blurted out, “That won’t happen. Qingyu is the best. First place will definitely be hers!”

As soon as the words fell, Xun Zhou and Feng Qingyu looked at her at the same time. The difference was that their reactions were two extremes.

As surprised and delighted as Feng Qingyu looked, that was exactly how angry Xun Zhou was.

From the first time she had been pestered by this Omega until people started crowding around to watch, Xun Zhou had known that this little girl had a problem. How could anyone like someone to the point of life and death just because that person had glanced at her one more time? See? It really had been a conspiracy.

Now that she had moved up from the junior high section, she was not even bothering to pretend anymore.

That was fine too. A showdown was best. It would save her [stolen content]from causing trouble for Xun Zhou again in the future.

“You’re backing her? Fine. Just wait and see.” Xun Zhou lowered her eyes and hooked up the corner of her mouth. “I will definitely disappoint you.”

Feng Qingyu felt uncomfortable from the sweep of her condescending gaze. Suppressing the urge to pounce up and beat her, she rolled her eyes at Xun Zhou’s back and turned her head to promise, “First place will definitely be mine.”

Under the sunlight, Xun Zhou’s steps paused. She held back the urge to turn around and hit someone, pressed the corners of her mouth together, and walked away.

Meng Qingying trusted her granddaughter very much. “Mm. Grandma knows. About that suspension of studies you mentioned just now, explain it properly. How do we do it?”

Feng Qingyu propped a hand against the back of the bench and glanced toward the cafeteria. Over there, just like when the bell had first rung, large waves of people were starting to pour out. It was no longer convenient to whisper. After thinking about it, she felt it would be better to be cautious. “Let’s wait first. That person just now said you were ignorant and had no interest in studying. When you go back after school this afternoon, look through your past report cards and see exactly how many points you can score. Then we’ll think about this.”

“Past grades?” Without even pausing, Meng Qingying began reporting scores. “Sixty, fifty-six, sixty-two, thirty-nine, twenty, fifty-one, forty. Total score, three hundred twenty-eight.”

“Three hundred twenty-eight? Isn’t our school’s admission score over seven hundred? Whose score is that? Are you sure our grade has someone like that? A new transfer?”

Back in the classroom, after Feng Qingyu showed off her memory, she listened to Xiang Chen’s shock bailiantales.com and blinked expressionlessly. Suddenly, she understood what Xun Zhou meant by “ignorant and having no interest in studying,” as well as why Xun Zhou had used that phrase to describe Meng Qingying.

So she was last in the whole school.

In that case, whether she suspended school or not did not seem very important.

Right now, Feng Qingyu only wanted to know how Meng Qingying had moved up to the high school section.

As for this question, Xiang Wan, who disliked how Xiang Chen made a fuss over nothing, gave the answer. “I mean, it’s one thing for Qingyu not to remember, but do you really have to react like that? What year has our school not had a million-yuan class? Forget scores in the three hundreds. If you want to find someone in the two hundreds, it isn’t hard either.”

With her reminder, Xiang Chen slapped her thigh and nodded. “Right, right, right. I really did forget. The million-yuan class doesn’t participate in rankings. Three hundred-something points isn’t unusual for them.”

Feng Qingyu: “What million-yuan class?”

“Exactly what it sounds like. A class you can get into by spending over a million. That class takes fifty people every year, and the spots are auctioned to outsiders for a limited time.” After Xiang Wan finished speaking, she switched to propping her cheek up with her other hand.

In other words, Meng Qingying had bought her [bailiantales.com]way in with money. Then Grandma’s new family conditions really were pretty good.

As Feng Qingyu was distracted by this thought, Xiang Chen, who was sitting beside her, chuckled and patted her shoulder with emotion. “Speaking of which, we really should thank these classmates. Without them, our school’s cafeteria, infirmary, library, and laboratories would probably all have to drop several grades.”

The money was spent on the students?

In that case, it did not seem unacceptable.

Feng Qingyu nodded thoughtfully. She figured that, if this was the case, she could slowly arrange some tutoring for Grandma and teach her some basic things. It probably would not arouse suspicion from the people around them either.

She had been in such a rush after returning just now that she had forgotten. Before school ended, she had to go ask for Grandma’s contact information.

When she was thinking, her gaze drifted aimlessly like a small fish in water. When it landed on Ding Xueyao, it paused for a moment. When it moved to Xun Zhou, it paused again.

…Strange.

It seemed that whenever she looked at them, there was something at the edge of her vision.

Her attention drawn, Feng Qingyu deliberately looked back. Sure enough, that strange feeling appeared again.

She raised a hand and rubbed her eyes with the back of it. After frowning and looking over again, she placed the center of her vision on that additional, not particularly obvious halo.

Then, with a swish, a panel so transparent it was almost invisible unfolded before her eyes.