"Daisy, aren't you worried? Your homeroom teacher said she's going to call your parents today."
The two girls lay on their respective beds and chatted at night.
After a day of desensitization, Lu Xiaoyao has gotten used to the fact that the delicate and lovely girl next to her is her classmate and roommate.
From feeling shivering at the mere sound of Mona's voice to now taking Mona's concern for her in stride, Lu Xiaoyao has come to terms with it all.
Mona knew that Lu Xiaoyao did very poorly on the afternoon pop quiz.
After all, Lu Xiaoyao's situation had deteriorated to the point that she was called in for a talk by her homeroom teacher right after school. According to the teacher, Lu Xiaoyao not only had poor grades but also a bad attitude towards learning, so her parents had to be called in!
"Let him shout. If he shouts, I might get to see my dad!"
When Julian wasn't around, Lu Xiaoyao felt no qualms about calling him "Dad." Of course, it would be a different story if he were there.
"I'm just worried that your dad is as busy with work as mine. What if he doesn't have time to come, and instead of your mother... wouldn't Aunt Sheila come instead?"
"If Hillary comes, that would be fine too."
In an instant, Lu Xiaoyao forgot her own persona and her dislike for her stepmother, Sheila.
What she was thinking now was that since she couldn't see Julian, she could at least meet with Hu Yue to exchange information.
Aren't you afraid she'll speak ill of you to your father?
Mona looked at Daisy curiously, and seeing that Daisy really didn't care at all, a hint of struggle flashed in Mona's own eyes. She then asked, "What if... your father gets a bad impression of you because your mother said bad things about you?"
"Huh? Does he not have a brain? He just believes whatever others say?"
Lu Xiaoyao didn't understand Mona's dilemma. Instead, she turned over and sat up abruptly, and said, "If someone who claims to be close to you doesn't have their own opinions about you based on what they've seen and heard, but instead has a bad impression of you based on hearsay, then what kind of close person are they?"
"Come on, that's impossible. There's not enough room for someone as important as you. Please move over. There are plenty of people who want to be close to me; I don't need you!" (M.cascoo.net)
Lu Xiaoyao curled her lip in disdain at this kind of person and said, "If my dad is the kind of person who's not smart and is blind, he and that awful stepmother should just disappear from my sight as soon as possible. Who can live without whom, really..."
Lu Xiaoyao's memories of her father were actually quite faint, but she vaguely remembered him as a very warm and strong man.
Then she thought of her mother's madness over the years, which made Lu Xiaoyao often wonder if her father was blind to marry someone like her mother who wasn't very bright, or if love made people lose their minds and caused her mother's personality to change so drastically.
"Daisy... your ideas... are really amazing!"
Lu Xiaoyao was lost in her own memories and didn't see the strange light flickering in Mona's eyes when she heard her words.
There were sighs, admiration, confusion, and disagreement... It was filled with all sorts of contradictory and complex emotions.
"Are you alright?"
Lu Xiaoyao came to her senses and smiled awkwardly, wondering if she had been too forward with Mona, given their casual acquaintance.
"Hey, that's not what I meant just now. The main point is... don't take other people's opinions too seriously. It's your life to live. As long as you don't break the law, don't cross moral boundaries, and don't dare to write anything illegal or disorderly, then you should just be comfortable."
For example, humph~ that homeroom teacher, who cares if I lost a hair? Who knows if it's because I lost hair, or if his hair is just too oily and that's why it fell out..."
Lu Xiaoyao felt uncomfortable when she mentioned that fat and greasy homeroom teacher. She didn't know if she was being paranoid, but she always felt that the man's gaze was a bit lewd.
Small but focused, and it's the kind of lewd 100,000-volt light that's focused.
Lu Xiaoyao felt uncomfortable all over.
"Is Mr. Doug alright? He's just concerned about us."
Seeing that Lu Xiaoyao's target for criticizing others had changed, Mona also started talking about the homeroom teacher.
"Are you sure? What's wrong with him as a good person?"
As Lu Xiaoyao listened to Mona's comments, she turned her head and stared intently into Mona's eyes.
Seeing that her eyes were still so clear yet murky, not only Lu Xiaoyao, but even Mingmei watching the live stream would exclaim, "This is unbelievable!"
This boss doesn't look like some kind of monster. Instead, he seems like a naive little fool!
"What's wrong?"
After successfully finding a job during the day, Mu Chen took Ming Mei to a mala tang restaurant in the game that had a lot of random NPCs to eat mala tang that evening.
Before the hot pot was even cooked, Mu Chen helped Mingmei open a bottle of soda, and then Mingmei suddenly said something like this.
"Is the BOSS really at 100% corruption level this time?"
Mingmei always felt that Mona's clean and pure aura made her seem anything but someone who had turned evil.
At most, sometimes she felt that the other person's words were a bit manipulative.
"Yes, otherwise Mr. Yan Hui wouldn't have sent this game to us in this way." Mu Chen had never met Mona before. After all, there's no rule that the bosses in the Escape series of games have to have a dinner party, right?
What would happen if they met?
Are a bunch of lunatics discussing how to "manipulate" players?
To make everyone wish they were dead?
Yan Hui isn't that perverted, is he?
"But Mona seems pretty normal to me."
Mingmei told Mu Chen everything she had seen that day, and Mu Chen listened carefully, but didn't quite understand anything.
"If our intelligence is correct, then Mona is faking it, or at least her acting is quite good."
"But why pretend?" Mingmei couldn't understand. "Is she doing this to tease Lu Xiaoyao?"
"Who knows?" Mu Chen chuckled and shook his head. "But from what you've said, at least this villainous BOSS seems to be in a relatively stable emotional state for now, and probably won't have an outburst anytime soon. If there really aren't any Zerg in the school, at least we'll have plenty of time to search for any trace of that Zerg outside."
"By the way, have you... seen any strange NPCs?"
Mingmei still remembered what the enforcer had said in the previous game: "See you in the next game." Now that they had entered the game, she still hadn't spotted the enforcer.
"Strange? What's strange about it?" In the previous round, Mu Chen had seen the law enforcement officer who looked exactly like his future father-in-law from afar. Then he heard Ming Mei say that the officer's true face should be different from Ming Yi's, but she hadn't seen it. Mu Chen became interested in that officer.
"Gentlemen, your spicy hot pot is ready."
Just as they were chatting, a staff member from the shop brought over their spicy hot pot. Mingmei and Muchen subconsciously looked up and saw it—
Wow!
Whoever you say, that's who!
This law enforcement NPC with the bright, fatherly face has appeared once again!
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