Daily Life Of A Socially Anxious Scumbag Alpha Raising Flowers - Chapter 9

Cheng Mian suddenly remembered that Wen Xin was still using an antique phone.

Before, she had thought Wen Xin was deliberately crying poverty in front of her, performing how much she had sacrificed. She had not expected that Wen Xin was truly poor and stingy.

Furious, Cheng Mian forced down her anger and placed a video call.

Meanwhile, when Wen Xin saw the sudden incoming video call, she almost threw her phone away.

At first, she had not clearly seen the name and thought it was Dong Xun calling. But when she focused and saw that it was Cheng Mian, aside from feeling faintly unlucky, Wen Xin’s social anxiety instantly flared up. She also felt that the other party was far too presumptuous!

Calling without warning just because they disagreed!

And a video call, no less!!!

But her clever little brain roughly guessed why Cheng Mian was calling, so she still gritted her teeth and answered.

It was just that her expression did not look good at all.

And so, Wen Xin’s sour face, presented from a downward-looking angle, appeared in front of Cheng Mian just like that.

For a moment, Cheng Mian did not match the person in front of her with the Wen Xin in her memory. Her expression first went blank for two seconds before she quickly reacted.

A perfectly measured faint smile appeared on her face as she greeted Wen Xin. “Sister Wen Xin, I haven’t seen you in so long. Just now, I almost didn’t recognize you. You’ve lost so much weight. Have you been too tired from work lately? You have to take care of your health…”

Wen Xin was already barely holding it together when making calls with strangers, and she had no way of enduring the other party’s fake small talk.

“No need to talk about irrelevant nonsense. I’m unemployed now, and my family is so poor we’re about to be unable to keep the pot boiling. We’re about to die!”

“You’d better hurry and return the money to me. Otherwise, I’ll absolutely squat in front of Dingsheng Group headquarters every day and wait for your fiancée. Anyway, you two are about to get married, right? She’ll definitely be willing to help you pay back this money.”

Social anxiety was social anxiety, but she could not drop the ball at a critical moment.

Wen Xin had no good impression of Cheng Mian to begin with, and on top of that, her mind was full of thoughts about how to get the money back. Fortunately, thanks to her many years of experience reading books and watching movies, in these brief few minutes, she managed to bring out the highest level of acting skill of her entire life.

When she said those threatening words, her face was held very tightly. It actually did show a bit of that coldness she imagined herself having.

Wen Xin had never really planned to deal with the other party through legal means, because a lot of those things had indeed been voluntarily gifted. Going through legal channels would inevitably involve dragging things out over time, and she still had to eat and support her wife.

The simplest and most effective path was right in front of her. She knew what Cheng Mian feared most, so why not use it?

Having been threatened to her face, Cheng Mian finally confirmed that Wen Xin was not joking.

She was truly determined to get her money back.

Wen Xin’s eyes were unfamiliar and cold. Forget affection—there was not even warmth in them. There was no longer even the tiniest trace of the look Cheng Mian was familiar with from before.

For a moment, Cheng Mian felt a premonition in her heart, as if something had gone out of control.

“I don’t know what happened, or whether Sister Wen Xin heard some rumors from somewhere and misunderstood something, which is why you’re treating me this way. But I’ve never once thought of taking advantage of you for anything. I accepted things from you only because of the affection from us growing up together. I’ve always treated you like my own older sister…”

It was truly impressive that Cheng Mian could still hold back her emotions even now, making a pitiful yet stubborn expression appear on that pure, innocent face of hers.

She said with righteous conviction, “I’ll return the money to you as soon as possible, Sister Wen Xin. I know that after losing your job, you must feel terrible. I don’t blame you.”

After finishing, she hung up neatly.

Before hanging up, a clear tear slipped at just the right time down her snow-white cheek, beautiful and fragile.

Unfortunately, she had cried for a blind person to see.

“Wow… what thick skin. She owes money and won’t pay it back, yet she still has the face to cry!” After hanging up, Wen Xin let out an amazed sigh.

Just now, Cheng Mian had babbled on and on, but Wen Xin had not listened carefully at all. Her attention had been entirely on the other party saying she would return the money.

As long as she agreed to return it, that was good enough.

Wen Xin turned off the screen recording and saved the recorded video properly. This was evidence, after all.

Only after everything was done did she have the time to recall Cheng Mian’s appearance in the video just now.

“She’s just so-so. Not even one-tenth as pretty as Dong Xun,” Wen Xin could not help muttering quietly.

In truth, if she did not carefully try to recall it, she could not remember the other party’s appearance at all. She only remembered that Cheng Mian was dressed quite delicately and that at first glance, one could tell she was a beauty, but she simply did not give Wen Xin any feeling or leave any memorable impression.

But when Wen Xin first saw Dong Xun, she had only felt that her breath nearly stopped.

Dong Xun was simply a hundred times prettier than her.

Wen Xin could not help cursing the original owner again for having no taste.

But when she saw the twenty thousand yuan she had just received on her phone, her mood instantly brightened again, and she happily transferred half of it to Dong Xun right away.

Now that she had money, she could be a little less anxious about finding work. At least there was some buffer time to transition.

To be honest, finding a job was the one thing that had given Wen Xin the biggest headache since transmigrating here. There was no “one of.”

She herself had never worked before and had no work experience at all. Whether she could even find a job she was competent at was still another matter. Secondly, if she went to work, leaving Dong Xun, whose condition was unstable, alone at home was something she truly could not feel at ease about.

Wen Xin propped her chin on her hand and let her thoughts wander for a long while without reaching any conclusion. She sighed heavily, then let her mind drift into an empty state.

If only there were some kind of job that could be done from home.

Such a thought suddenly flashed through her mind.

Wen Xin suddenly sat up straight, her eyes shining.

She could do self-media!

“That’s right! Why didn’t I think of this at the start? I really was confused by this world. Even if it’s an ABO world, there should at least be cultural and entertainment activities, right? I can totally be a video blogger and film some cooking videos… Anyway, I have to cook every day, so filming videos would just be something done along the way.”

The more Wen Xin thought about it, the more she felt this idea was feasible.

She suddenly remembered the video app she had opened once or twice on her phone before. She carefully studied some of the rules and terms for registering a creator account and found that becoming a registered creator was very easy, with no real threshold.

Then she specifically searched for the food channel.

After watching several videos with a frown, she found that aside from frying and deep-frying meat, which counted as relatively normal, many of the other cooking videos used exactly the same cooking method: boiling everything in one pot, then adding all kinds of seasonings. In truth, it could be said there was no cooking technique at all. And the people in this world truly loved eating raw vegetables; they did not cook them at all.

Right. Their life-sustaining meals were nutrient fluid, so occasionally eating some raw vegetables and fruit seemed reasonable too.

Among these videos, the one with the highest number of likes and saves was actually a video on making homemade nutrient fluid.

Wen Xin truly admired the people of this world. Nutrient fluid, that stuff so sweet it could kill—what exactly was so good about drinking it?!

Wen Xin searched through videos with the food keyword and confirmed that this was a world where food culture had declined. Suddenly, she felt that maybe she really could grow an account.

She was someone with strong execution ability.

Once she decided to do it, she did it. Wen Xin immediately deleted the original owner’s account. It was full of sad little essays the original owner had written while emo late at night, and every single sentence revolved around Cheng Mian.

What a self-moved one-sided crush. Wen Xin could barely keep her eyes open while reading it.

After deleting the original account, she used the original owner’s identity code to register a new one. This world had no concept of phone numbers. Communication numbers, bank numbers, and all kinds of other numbers were all based on the identity code assigned to each person at birth.

So one person could only use their unique identity code to register one video account.

Wen Xin named her new account [Cozy Flower-Raising Daily Life].

Of course, it was not really about raising flowers. The “flower” inside actually referred to Dong Xun.

The first time Wen Xin saw Dong Xun, she had felt that Dong Xun truly looked like a flower. She was beautiful in a very direct way, the kind of fragrant great beauty who made people feel as if she must smell good just by looking at her.

Flowers were miraculous things. They could bloom brilliantly, and they could also wilt in decline. But no matter how many times they withered, when the next warm spring wind arrived, they would still bloom again, growing freely and dazzlingly.

Wen Xin also hoped Dong Xun could be like a flower, blooming again in the next spring. Her life should not be ruined because of one scumbag. It was not worth it.

After registering the video account, Wen Xin immediately began thinking about what would be best to film for her first video.

She thought of many things she could film, but there were no ingredients at home.

She needed to go out shopping.

Wen Xin looked out the window. It was currently April.

Spring was at its best, the sun bright and lovely, making it very suitable for going out on a spring outing.

She could take Dong Xun out for a walk to relax, then on the way back, they could buy ingredients and return home to cook.

Although Wen Xin had social anxiety, as long as she did not have to socialize with people, going outside was fine. She actually quite liked seeing all kinds of different scenery. In her previous life, it was simply because her health had been poor, so she could not go anywhere and could only stay in the hospital ward. Now that she had a healthy body, of course she also wanted to go out and see more.

She went to ask for Dong Xun’s opinion.

Dong Xun, of course, had no objections.

“Then is there anywhere you want to go?”

Dong Xun shook her head.

Wen Xin was not discouraged either. “Then I’ll randomly search for a place on my phone. When you have somewhere you want to go, just tell me, and we’ll go there next time.”

On a social platform, Wen Xin found a free scenic area. The scenery there was beautiful. Not only were there flower gardens where one could look at flowers, there was also a river where one could fish. Wen Xin had learned fishing from her grandfather when she was little, so she was immediately tempted.

After happily deciding just like that, Wen Xin pulled Dong Xun out again.

This time, she learned from her lesson and did not go fully armed. She only wore a simple mask. This way, she did not look so out of place and would not attract strange looks.

After parking the car, they walked into the scenic area.

As they walked, they looked at the scenery on both sides of the road. The temperature was just right now. The sunlight felt warm on their bodies, and the wind was gentle, making them feel very comfortable. Everywhere the eye could see were green forests and grass.

“This place is so pretty!” Wen Xin could not help taking in a big breath of fresh outdoor air. She turned to look at the person beside her and asked eagerly, “Dong Xun, how are you feeling now? Do you like it here?”

Dong Xun nodded lightly. “I like it.”

She rarely had time to go out and enjoy herself.

After finishing high school, she had gone to work. Every day, she had been busy earning money. Even on rest days, she had never dared to relax and rest. Instead, she would go find day-pay part-time jobs to earn extra money.

Back then, it seemed she had never thought of going out to have fun. She only desperately earned money.

Because her mother had promised her that as long as she earned enough tuition, she would agree to let her continue on to university.

She was actually someone without dreams. She also did not know what she wanted to do in the future. But back then, she had only one strong wish, and that was to go to university.

Although later, her mother still deceived her.

She took away the tuition money Dong Xun had earned, but did not let her go to school.

Feeling the slightly cool wind brush over her cheeks, that heavy feeling that had always pressed down on her heart seemed to truly become lighter because she had come to such an open place.

Dong Xun thought that she did like it here.

They walked along the winding path and passed through the dense woods.

At first, they walked side by side.

But later, a little bird that had been foraging suddenly jumped out from the grass, scaring Wen Xin into instinctively holding Dong Xun’s hand. After that, she held her hand and never let go again.

“Dong Xun, this flower is so pretty. Do you like it?”

“Dong Xun, look! The leaves on this tree are shaped like hearts!”

“Dong Xun, do you know this kind of mushroom? It looks really tasty. If it’s not poisonous, let’s pick more and bring them back to cook!”

“…”

Wen Xin was a curious baby. She remained curious about everything she had never seen before, and because she had unconsciously become close with Dong Xun, she began to turn into a chatterbox.

Yet strangely, Dong Xun did not feel that Wen Xin’s chattering voice was noisy. Perhaps it was because Wen Xin’s voice itself was very pleasant to listen to, clear and crisp like water droplets falling onto a stone platform, lively and cheerful.

When asked a question, if Dong Xun knew the answer, she would tell her.

At those times, Wen Xin would open her round little deer eyes and look at Dong Xun in surprise, praising her for knowing so much and being truly amazing.

Usually, Dong Xun would not speak again after that.

At those times, only the spring wind knew that the ears hidden beneath her black hair were quietly heating up.