The Alluring Boss O's Slacker A (Transmigration GL) - Chapter 15

Wen Jin discovered that Ruan Tingzhi had excellent popularity.

On the first day they were punished with toilet-cleaning duty, Lu Yuanyuan organized a group of girls and cleaned the laboratory bathrooms in advance.

Supposedly, this was the welcome gift Class F gave the two transfer students.

At this point, Wen Jin still did not actually know that “cleaning the toilets” was not the hands-on, stall-by-stall scrubbing she had imagined.

In the interstellar era, bathroom cleaning was fully integrated with robots. When students cleaned toilets, they only needed to stay in the laboratory for three hours, then replace the robot’s cleaning tools every thirty minutes.

In the past, quite a few students who had gone to the laboratory to clean toilets came out and, with good luck, were able to use the year-end assessment to charge into the elite class.

Wen Jin did not know the hidden workings behind this. Considering that Ruan Tingzhi’s heartthrob attribute could unexpectedly make contributions too, she enjoyed the convenience brought by her roommate’s personal charm. After getting enough sleep, she woke up in quite a good mood and prepared to thank Ruan Tingzhi.

In the end, she discovered that she could not get a word in at all. The Omega beside her focused intently during class and was even busier after class. A crowd surrounded her, asking all kinds of questions.

Her pretty fingers rested on the exercise sheet, and in her sweet voice, she patiently helped the classmates answer all sorts of questions.

Half-covered in sunlight, Wen Jin watched Ruan Tingzhi appreciatively. After staring for a while, she got a little bored, sprawled over the desk, and closed her eyes to rest, completely unaware that beneath the black hair falling beside her, the ears of the female Omega next to her had climbed with a faint blush.

“Ruan Tingzhi?”

“Ruan Tingzhi?”

“What procedures are needed to transfer from the Pharmacy Department to the Ancient Martial Arts Department?”

The classmate beside her repeated the question twice before Ruan Tingzhi finally came back to herself. She opened her mouth, her voice very soft, and absentmindedly gave a few perfunctory answers.

Wen Jin was working at the botanical garden that afternoon. Just as she was about to get off work, Shao Yujia called.

Shao Yujia’s tone was even worse than before. The entire time, she was condescending, arrogant, contemptuous, and even full of insinuations.

Wen Jin placed the phone to the side and took a sip of health-preserving tea before finally drawing out the key points from Shao Yujia’s illogical, brainless abuse.

Wen Changrong had gone gambling again yesterday. This time, he had provoked someone he should not have. This morning, he was chased by loan sharks, and with no other way out, he called Luo Xi for help.

The reason he did not call Wen Jin was because Wen Jin had already prepared for a rainy day and blocked Wen Changrong.

“I don’t even want to talk to an ungrateful traitor like you right now.”

Wen Jin gave an “oh” and glanced at the call duration. “If you don’t want to talk, why have you said so much? It’s been ten minutes.”

Shao Yujia choked.

Wen Jin’s tone was innocent. “Where’s Luo Xi? Maybe switch to someone who can explain things clearly and talk to me?”

There was a burst of static on the line. A moment later, Luo Xi’s arrogant voice came through.

Compared to Shao Yujia, she was much more concise. “Say it in person. The sports field.”

Wen Jin raised a brow. “All right. I get off work after eight.”

After nine o’clock, there were not many people left on campus.

Under the streetlights, several male Alphas playing basketball were pouring cold water over their sweaty foreheads.

A few people had bags slung over their shoulders and left the sports field with their arms around one another.

Wen Jin went to the unmanned vending machine next door and took two bottles of functional water. Beside the basketball court, she saw Luo Xi.

She had come alone, wearing a flame-red dress. Her two legs hung naturally below the stone steps of the viewing platform.

Wen Jin noticed that there were also two crushed beer cans by the scummy A’s feet. Hearing the sound, Luo Xi impatiently turned her head.

She looked Wen Jin up and down. “Looks like you’re doing pretty well.”

Wen Jin unscrewed a bottle of functional water. “Not bad.”

Luo Xi moved her gaze to the eco-friendly bag in Wen Jin’s right hand. Inside, another bottle of functional water sat quietly.

She endured for a moment, but in the end, she still could not hold back. “Aren’t you giving it to me?”

Wen Jin swallowed the mouthful of water in her mouth and looked at Luo Xi strangely. “You want to drink this?”

Luo Xi scoffed and kicked away the can by her foot.

“Stingy.” She said, “Do you think I would lower my status and drink cheap radiation water like this?”

Wen Jin patted her chest in relief and sincerely let out a breath. “Good thing you don’t drink it.”

Luo Xi was choked speechless by her sincere boundary-drawing.

She barely managed to move her gaze away from Wen Jin’s bottle of water, took a vicious deep breath, steadied herself, and began questioning her. “You should know why I called you out.”

When she was about one meter away from Luo Xi, Wen Jin found an empty step and sat down slowly. She nodded, somewhat curious. “Every grievance has its debtor. Shouldn’t you be looking for Wen Changrong?”

Luo Xi neither confirmed nor denied it. She took an IOU out of her bag and handed it to Wen Jin. Wen Jin glanced over it and saw that the signature on the IOU was in the original owner’s handwriting.

Wen Jin could not help furrowing her brows. She had not expected Wen Changrong to have such ability, actually keeping the original owner’s handwriting.

Then she could not deny it.

Wen Jin turned to look at Luo Xi. “How much does he owe you?”

“Three hundred thousand Federation coins.”

“I don’t have it.” Wen Jin told the truth. In the dark night, she lifted her eyelids. Those eyes were like cold jade, her gaze landing on Luo Xi’s face as if assessing her. Her thin, tender-red lips pressed into an almost heartless curve. The dim yellow streetlight happened to fall across Wen Jin’s beautifully structured side profile.

She was clearly sitting, yet for some reason, Luo Xi felt as if she was being looked down on.

At the same time, bathed in Wen Jin’s cool gaze, Luo Xi discovered that half her body had gone weak, and her heartbeat skipped half a beat.

Recalling the endless spring dreams she had had every night lately, and the bedsheets that were wet in the morning, the momentum Luo Xi had puffed up earlier leaked away like air from a balloon. She was a little angry and somewhat embarrassed, but more than anything, she was irritated.

“Two choices.” Luo Xi held her face stiffly, strong on the outside and weak within. “Either pay in installments. Twenty-five thousand per month, paid off in one year.”

Wen Jin yawned. “What’s the other one?”

Luo Xi pressed her lips into a straight line. Her gaze shifted elsewhere. After pausing for a moment, she said, “Simple. Transfer departments, then move your dorm back.”

“If you want to live in a two-person dorm, I’ll think of a way to apply for one. You come back and live with me.”

Wen Jin finally reacted a little. Her face was full of astonishment.

What did this scummy A mean? Judging from that tone… why did it seem a little off?

Wen Jin suppressed the emotion that kept wanting to say “fuck.” After thinking for a while, she probed, “You’re targeting me everywhere because I’m living with Ruan Tingzhi?”

Luo Xi neither confirmed nor denied it.

So that was it. Wen Jin relaxed. As long as Luo Xi was not interested in her, then this conversation could still continue.

Even Luo Xi herself did not know why she would say something that lowered her own status this much.

That afternoon, Shao Yujia had sent her a photo of Ruan Tingzhi intimately picking up Wen Jin’s arm. Right now, Luo Xi felt blocked up from head to toe.

She kicked over the can and looked over expressionlessly. “You know you’re mine, right? Even if you want to run, you can’t run to Ruan Tingzhi’s side. How are you being fair to me?”

“Now the whole of Federal University is laughing at me. My person became someone else’s…”

Her words were arrogant and self-important, treating other people as objects in a transaction.

Wen Jin abruptly stood and walked to Luo Xi’s side, lowering her eyelids as she stared at Luo Xi. “I didn’t know when I became your anything.”

“The way you say that makes it sound like I slept with you, or like I have some friends-with-benefits relationship with you.”

Luo Xi defended herself. “That’s not what I meant.”

“Then you mean you never treated me like a person. Only objects get labels saying who they belong to.”

Wen Jin locked onto Luo Xi with a smile that did not reach her eyes. She was usually lazy, but at this moment, her eyes were dyed with an icy chill.

She braced one hand beside Luo Xi. Luo Xi could not say a word. That gaze seemed able to pierce through the human heart. When it looked down faintly, it carried the sense of being glanced at by a flower on a high ridge. Luo Xi discovered she had been looked at until she was wet.

She pressed her legs together. Wen Jin thought Luo Xi wanted to fight, so she narrowed her eyes and smiled. “Want to play?”

But Wen Jin did not want to play. Too troublesome.

She put her meaning right on her face. In Luo Xi’s eyes, it became a picky withdrawal of her gaze.

Then Luo Xi watched as Wen Jin restrained that entire cold, forceful beauty of hers. The speed at which her face changed was extremely fast. Lazily, she straightened and asked, “Can it be a little less?”

Luo Xi: “What?”

Wen Jin: “The Federation coins.”

Luo Xi did not react for a moment. Dark clouds gathered across her face. In her heart, this wave felt like an expectation had somehow fallen empty.

So Luo Xi’s tone was not good when she refused. “No.”

“Cash payment.”

It was obviously a deliberately difficult tone.

In the future, Ruan Tingzhi might indulge this kind of person and discuss things properly with her, but Wen Jin would not.

Black words on white paper could not be denied. There was still one year’s time. Wen Jin would have money then. She did not need to use her brain at all. It was merely spending money to avoid disaster.

The original owner’s current account had more than twenty thousand Federation coins. This was the bonus Professor Pang had paid Wen Jin in advance last time.

Part of it had been transferred to Wen Changrong, that ticking time bomb. Chief Ji had waived the medical fees, so Wen Jin had not spent money there.

The only Federation coins she had spent recently were on meals and daily expenses, totaling fifty Federation coins. Wen Jin lifted her eyes and looked at the overbearing Luo Xi.

She did not plan to continue arguing with her.

Wen Jin slowly opened her phone and saw the message Ruan Tingzhi had sent ten minutes ago.

When are you coming back?

Wen Jin squeezed the mineral water bottle. In truth, her mental quality was pretty good. From the moment she decided to retire, she would never lightly abandon her principles and build too deep a relationship with the protagonist. But perhaps after spending several days together, subconsciously, she had already treated Ruan Tingzhi as a friend.

First, Ruan Tingzhi did not like Wen Jin, and her mind had left behind her peers by several streets. Second, the other party had her own principles and bottom lines. She was quiet, had no bad habits, slept on time, did not smoke or drink, had good living habits, and had her own firm inner goals. She would not easily become deeply involved with others.

Most importantly, being with Ruan Tingzhi made Wen Jin feel calm.

So it was not strange for Wen Jin to treat her as a friend. At present, they would still be bound together for at least half a year. Since their relationship already existed, then for a small matter like borrowing money, of course Ruan Tingzhi was the first choice.

There was also no need to worry about trouble afterward.

Ruan Tingzhi’s social app avatar was a blank white paper.

Wen Jin hesitated for a moment, then tapped on the other party’s profile picture. Ruan Tingzhi.

After a while, Ruan Tingzhi replied: Mm?

Can you lend me fifty Federation coins?

Ruan Tingzhi was clearly stunned. She quickly replied: Transfer?

Wen Jin said: Probably not. It needs to be cash.

Twenty-five thousand in cash. Do you have it? But I’m only borrowing fifty. When I get home, I’ll transfer the rest of the Federation coins to you.

Ruan Tingzhi: Not right now. My bag is locked in the training field locker today.

Wen Jin said: Then… if cash won’t work, transfer is fine.

I only said I don’t have it right now. I’ll have it in a little while. Where are you? I’ll bring it to you.

Wen Jin was a little touched. She could not quite describe it.

Slowly, she reported a string of numbers, then replied one final line: Thankies.

Ruan Tingzhi said: Wait for me there.

Ruan Tingzhi had just finished showering and stood in the dormitory corridor with a dry towel, wiping her hair. Wan Shishi was beside her. But after finishing a call with Ji Lan, she saw that the family head was no longer wiping her hair or smoking.

Water slid along her smooth cheeks and sank into her collar, yet she held her phone and chatted with someone in a very un-Ruan-Tingzhi manner.

Wan Shishi found it strange to death and was just about to ask, “Who is it?”

Then she saw Ruan Tingzhi turn off her phone screen, throw the cigarette butt into the trash can, and skillfully spray some breath freshener into her mouth.

Turning her head, she shoved the dry towel into Wan Shishi’s hand and asked, “Do you have money? Cash.”

There were not many people left on the empty sports field now.

Luo Xi lifted a bottle of beer and poured a mouthful down her throat. Her tone was mocking. “You’d rather beg her than yield, is that it?”

Wen Jin smiled. “Say whatever you want.”

She was in a pretty good mood now. Her long, narrow eyes lifted as she asked Luo Xi, “What? Feeling bad?”

“Does it disgust you?”

Luo Xi was disgusted to death. Her heart felt blocked by a stone.

But Wen Jin did not give her any chance to vent.

Without even lifting her eyelids, the woman said, “You’d better remember this feeling. The next time you lend Wen Changrong money, maybe you’ll get disgusted again. Because I have no money to pay it back. Every time, I’ll have to ask Ruan Tingzhi to borrow money. What? Do you like her?”

Luo Xi froze, unable to react for a moment to what Wen Jin had said. But that earlier aura of cold abstinence opened fully again and pressed down.

Deadly alluring, especially when those peach-blossom eyes narrowed, the corners of her eyes sweeping over like hooks.

Luo Xi’s legs went weak.

In the end, Wen Jin did not mean it that way. She slowly walked over and patted Luo Xi’s shoulder. “You can’t like someone like this. If you want Ruan Tingzhi to like you, shouldn’t you at least have some shining points?”

“Look at what you have, aside from an Alpha father.” Wen Jin’s tone paused. She swept a picky glance over the distracted Alpha before her and regretfully concluded, “Completely useless.”

When had Luo Xi ever been humiliated like this? Especially tonight, when half her body had gone weak again and again, and then she remembered the recent dreams of Wen Jin arching her waist and her own wet bedsheets the next morning. Luo Xi instantly flew into embarrassed anger, and the mental pressure belonging to an S-rank pressed over.

She was trying to reclaim the dignity of the Luo family’s eldest young lady. In truth, even Luo Xi herself could not believe she had done something that lowered her status this much.

But Wen Jin was entirely unaffected. She leisurely withdrew her hand and lifted her eyes. Those glazed eyes suddenly looked over, carrying a faint pressure that enveloped Luo Xi from above, sharp as a blade scraping across her cheek.

Luo Xi’s nerves all hurt. For no reason, she stepped back. Just then, Ruan Tingzhi walked over, and Wen Jin withdrew the aura around her.

She came very quickly. Her hair was not dry, and her thin cotton-linen dress clung to her back.

Surprise appeared on Wen Jin’s face. She took off her jacket.

While draping the jacket over Ruan Tingzhi’s back, she took the money from Ruan Tingzhi’s hand.

Ruan Tingzhi lowered her eyes. From the corner of her eye, she saw Luo Xi on the stone steps. She asked nothing and only said to Wen Jin, “Remember to pay it back.”

Her tone carried none of the charity or anything else in Luo Xi’s voice. It was as if she were talking about today’s weather. As she lifted her head, her hair ends still carried sweat mixed with damp water droplets rolling down her cheek.

The walk from the dormitory to the sports field was not short. From such a distance, Wen Jin did not know how Ruan Tingzhi had managed to arrive in such a short time.

But Wen Jin felt the other party’s quiet thoughtfulness. A thread of genuine smile spread through her eyes. “All right.”

When she smiled, the corners of her eyes lifted like blooming peach blossom petals, charming and seductive.

Who could withstand that? Ruan Tingzhi froze. She closed the jacket carrying Wen Jin’s scent around herself and quietly turned sideways, blocking Luo Xi’s prying gaze.

“Then you…”

“If you need money again next time, just come to me.” Ruan Tingzhi looked away, gazing at the ground. Then she curled her lips and said, “It’s not a big deal.”