One-sentence summary: If you're a woman, you must be the strongest.
Initially, Jiang Yu Nu only wanted to survive. She tried her best to live, never giving up on herself in the face of an...
Chapter 155
No one can answer this question.
After all, someone as "crazy" as Jiang Yunu is rare even in the entire second district, let alone the entire top three districts.
But this poor and innocent young master, who just wanted to take a breath by the bridge, was not finally pulled into the water by Jiang Yunu, the "female pervert".
Because even though the surrounding light was dim, the water's edge under the bridge was even darker, like a perfect place for arson and robbery. When Jiang Yunu grabbed the man's ankle, he only brushed it with the back of his hand, and with this small area of skin contact, he could feel the fabric of the man's pants.
This made the white-haired girl suddenly think of an important question -
She asked, "Are your pants expensive?"
"...What do you want to do?" the young master, who was still holding her, asked warily.
First they grabbed him, then they threatened to drag him into the water, and now they were asking about his pants... The young master thought a lot in a short moment.
The strange girl's answer was so simple and unpretentious: "If it's very expensive, I won't drag you down. Many expensive clothes can't even be washed in water, and I don't know what will happen after soaking in water."
The young master was indeed naive. His first reaction was that the girl was simply concerned about his clothes. He subconsciously followed the topic and thought: This dress tonight is indeed expensive, about half the price of an entry-level A-level elemental weapon.
He never dressed too poorly for such occasions. He represented not only himself but also his family and his father's reputation. Not long ago, he had just emerged from the banquet hall in an undamaged dress, and he would have to return to it soon. He couldn't let anyone see his dress become indecent.
"My clothes are a little expensive." The young master finally said reservedly.
He tried to keep his tone calm, not wanting his purely objective account to sound any more superior.
The hand that was holding his ankle loosened.
"It sounds like I can't afford it," Jiang Yunu said, adding considerately, "Forget about compensating your clothes. I probably can't even afford the cleaning fees."
“…”
The young master suddenly realized: ...Oh, it seems that someone was just worried that they would have to pay him a lot of money for clothes after dragging him into the water.
Jiang Yunu heard the voice of the person talking to her become cold again: "If you can afford the compensation, will you choose to do whatever you want to others?"
"That's not the case." Jiang Yunu could hear the change in the young master's tone. She suspected that she had accidentally offended him with another word. However, she didn't ask any more questions and just answered truthfully, "With a nerve like mine, I usually have to be very interested in someone before I have the idea of doing whatever I want to them."
Her tone was also natural, as if she was discussing the temperature and humidity in the Waterscape Night Light Park tonight.
But the person she was talking to was the one who "almost had his way with her" not long ago, so the words were said unintentionally, but the listener might have some ambiguity.
Anyway, the person involved felt it was weird.
Jiang Yunu did not go ashore. Instead, he pushed his hands on the edge of the lake, moved his body backward along the current, and slid back into the lake.
"Where are you going?" the young master asked subconsciously.
"Let's go back." The white-haired girl answered as a matter of course, "I've been out for quite a while, and I've had enough of the water park here. It's about time I go back, before the people who came with me later look for me."
The young master had already determined that this girl was definitely not from the same banquet hall as him, and probably not from the same park on the same side - he stayed alone at the upper part of the connecting bridge for half a day, and no guests attending the banquet in the park on the same side came to the bridge head.
"...Are you planning to go back like this?" the young master asked again.
"I'll go ashore closer to the Crystal Corridor and then find a dressing room," said Jiang Yunu.
Thanks to Principal Tobi's previous tutoring, Jiang Yunu was introduced to several rest areas and grooming rooms around the Floating Light Hall. The Emerald Dome area was truly user-friendly, offering guests the convenience of self-care and maintaining their appearance while relaxing and entertaining throughout the area. Numerous temporary tidying areas were set up along the way.
Principal Bi said that the grooming room can not only provide a place for men and women who love beauty to touch up their makeup, but also be used for simple personal cleaning, clothes drying, etc.
This completely meets Jiang Yunu's current needs.
"I'd rather find a cleaning room that's the shortest straight-line distance from me to the shore." The girl naturally stated her needs, explaining that she wasn't born to love playing in the water.
She didn't seem to be ashamed of her untidy appearance, nor did she feel embarrassed that she still looked like a water ghost, which was a stark contrast to the still refined guests on the shore.
The young man on the shore had never seen this type of person before, and he had never seen one in a place like the Emerald Dome.
He felt a strange and familiar feeling of being unable to cope, but for a moment he couldn't remember why he felt this familiar feeling.
When he paused there and remained silent, the white-haired girl might have concluded that it was normal for a "young master" like him to suddenly stop talking occasionally.
Jiang Yunu was quite experienced in dealing with this kind of situation—he just did what he had to do and treated the suddenly deep-minded young master as an NPC who randomly triggered a conversation. It was normal for an NPC to occasionally fail to trigger the conversation.
"Goodbye." Jiang Yunu raised one arm from the water, finally causing the most obvious splash of water tonight.
Before leaving the dimly lit area, she said with a smile, "You're so preoccupied with the idea of someone like me that you're not worried about what happened before, are you?"
The people on the shore were stunned.
There was no time for him to ask any further questions. The girl had already dived into the lake in a blink of an eye, and swam away underwater with her strange swimming ability.
"..." At least, he understood why the other party was able to be so quiet when he walked from the center of the lake to under the bridge, and why he almost didn't hear any movement.
Jiang Yunu didn't know that when she was "water escaping", there was a person who couldn't even see her complete appearance throughout the whole process. She was really distracted and doubted for a second whether she really met a water ghost in the Shuijing Night Light Park.
But even if she knew, she might not care too much and would just laugh at most.
A water ghost is a water ghost, there is nothing wrong with it.
Jiang Yunu's surprisingly optimistic attitude has remained to this day. She kept in mind Principal Bi's popular science explanation, and combined with her own sense of direction, she successfully found a dressing room closest to the scenic lake and landed at a lakeside near the dressing room.
To express her joy when she reached the shore, she supported herself on the soft, moist soil by the lakeshore with both hands and exclaimed, "I'm finally here."
Unexpectedly, there was a couple on the nearest bench by the water, making love in the dark.
Jiang Yunu's faint sigh by the water at night, echoing with the slight sound of water on the surface, startled the couple like birds in their love nest who were suddenly sawed down by someone, and they all flew away in surprise.
Jiang Yunu looked at the two people fleeing in different directions and tried to call out: "Look back at me."
Just one look at her and you can tell that she is just a little idiot who took the initiative to jump into the water for a while, but she probably hasn't left the "human" species yet.
However, after she called out, the fleeing couples fled even faster!
Jiang Yunu had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and walk towards the cleaning room.
On the way, she met the public patrol service robot of the Emerald Dome area. The robot recognized her status as "urgent help needed" at a glance, and slid over to her hurriedly, asking if she needed anything.
"I need to go to the tidying room, and maybe I need to quickly dry all the clothes." Jiang Yunu said.
The robot took the initiative to lead her and provided her with a special washing room and drying equipment.
While thanking her, the white-haired girl reminded him, "I came up from the lakeshore over there, and I dripped water on the garden tiles along the way. I might need to dry and clean this section of the road."
Keeping the entire area clean is the job of the service robot. The small robot immediately conveyed the instructions to the mobile cleaning machine and asked the cleaning machine to deal with the road surface.
Jiang Yunu arrived at the tidying room smoothly and found that there were two large suites inside and outside. The outside was like a professional styling room, equipped with a series of smart equipment and tools for makeup and haircuts; the inside was a bathroom, where clothes could be dusted and dried quickly, and people could also clean up at the same time.
...So luxurious!
This is actually a public facility built in the park!
Jiang Yunu took a shower in the stall shower room here. During the shower, all her clothes were cleaned and dried by the accompanying robot. When she took the free toiletries provided here, she took a look at the brand logo on it - a daily necessities brand that she would definitely skip in the daily necessities area when she went to buy daily necessities herself.
"The principal is so kind."
After finishing her personal care, the little girl stood in the bathroom which was as spacious as a living room and spoke sincerely.
She felt like she had gotten free food, drinks, and entertainment tonight, and she also had access to high-standard bathroom facilities that she couldn't normally enjoy.
Her clothes have been carefully taken care of by the robot, not only quickly cleaning and drying them, but also doing basic ironing.
"Whatever kind of clothes are dirty, can they be cleaned and dried here?" Jiang Yunu asked the robot as he changed into new clothes.
A stream of thought flashed across the robot's screen, and it replied earnestly, "Only clothing with a fabric fragility rating of B or lower is acceptable. If you're providing clothing with a fragile and expensive fabric rating of A or higher, the equipment here probably won't be able to clean it. You'll need to schedule a high-level cleaning service commensurate with the value of the clothing."
"..." Jiang Yunu stopped putting on her clothes and thanked herself sincerely. Fortunately, she stopped by the lake, otherwise she might really go bankrupt just after arriving in the second district because of an expensive dress from an unknown young master.
When Jiang Yunu returned to Fuguang Hall, the supervisor, Ms. White in a long trench coat, was no longer there, and her principal's face was beaming.
The irrepressible joy was almost showing through Bi Huaishu's dark complexion, competing with the lights in the banquet hall.
"Good news!" The principal patted Jiang Yunu on the shoulder with his big hand. "A special prize will be set up for the district competition in the first half of this year, and each participating school will be awarded a fund specifically for player training!"