"Please accept the memories of this world, host."
A string of unfamiliar memories flooded Shen Muqing's mind. The female lead, An Ning, was a junior in college, and the male lead, Lu Ze, was a well-known shooting game streamer on the Orange website. The female lead worked part-time to earn money to tip the male lead. The male lead arranged to meet the female lead offline and slept with her. Later, this was exposed by a big fan. The male lead had no choice but to marry the female lead and used her to market himself as a devoted and responsible person, which made him even more famous than before.
Shen Muqing: "Is this something a human being would do? How am I supposed to protect their relationship?"
"Host, the current timeline is that the female lead is about to commit suicide because she can't stand the cyberbullying. Your main task is to prevent her from committing suicide and to bring the male and female leads together to get married."
"Wait, why did I succeed in my last mission?"
The voice, codenamed 000, remained cold and emotionless: "No comment."
He logged off immediately after saying that, without pausing for a moment.
Shen Muqing sat on the stool, pondering the plot. He wondered why someone like this could be the male lead. Was the person who created this world out of their mind? Was the female lead being treated like a dog?
no.
With a "bang".
Shen Muqing slammed her fist on the table, making a loud noise; she had forgotten that she was in class.
People in the front row all looked toward the source of the noise, and the teacher at the podium also gave him a death stare, holding the microphone and saying sternly, "Does the student who slammed the table have a problem with me? If so, please come to me privately to discuss it in detail."
Shen Muqing came to her senses. Good heavens, where did this damn system send her? It has no sense of propriety at all. She stood up and said awkwardly with a smile, "Teacher, I have no objection. I just thought your lecture was so good that I couldn't help but punch you to cheer you on."
The audience burst into laughter. The teacher rubbed his forehead and said, "This student doesn't need to be like that. Sit down."
Perhaps encouraged by Shen Muqing, the teacher became more and more excited as he spoke, immersing himself in his art.
"Muqing, what's wrong?" asked the baby-faced girl sitting next to Shen Muqing, her face showing concern.
"It's nothing, Chu Chu, just think I'm going crazy." Shen Muqing already wanted to leave this planet and go to a planet more suitable for her.
"Okay, shall we go eat at the newly opened chicken hot pot restaurant later?"
Ye Qingchu blinked her big eyes and asked Shen Muqing for her opinion, but Shen Muqing was still engrossed in the plot and nodded casually.
After she had collected her thoughts, she asked, "Chu Chu, where is An Ning?"
The female lead, An Ning, should be in the same dormitory as her, so why is she nowhere to be seen in class?
Ye Qingchu pointed to the girl in the last row, "There she is, Qingqing. What do you want with her? Have you forgotten what happened to her recently?"
Shen Muqing turned around and saw that only the female lead was sitting in the last row. There was no one around her. She was looking down and her expression was not visible. All that could be seen was her hand tightly gripping the pen.
"What's wrong with her?"
"Qingqing, why are you acting strange?" Ye Chuqing looked at her in confusion and explained, "Didn't she get exposed a few days ago for dating that streamer and seducing him? Now everyone wants to stay far away from her."
"I just slept too much and got dizzy, so I forgot."
"Do you also dislike her?" Shen Muqing asked.
Ye Chuqing was conflicted, her eyebrows furrowed.
"Actually, it's not really true. It's just that she often goes alone, so I don't know her well. But once when I was short of money on my water card, she lent me some. I felt that she wasn't the kind of person described online. But after it happened, she didn't try to explain herself, which I found very strange."
"Perhaps she has her reasons. The online world is full of truths and lies; who knows what's real and what's fake?"
Ye Chuqing looked at An Ning. She couldn't believe that An Ning would do such a thing, but An Ning didn't usually communicate with them, so she was powerless to do anything about it.
Girls are soft-hearted, and Ye Chuqing, after hearing this, said, "Why don't we wait and have dinner with her later?"
“Okay,” Shen Mu replied readily.
Their conversation reached the ears of another person nearby, Xia Youran, another roommate in the dormitory. Her family was extremely wealthy, and she had an arrogant personality, making her a typical rich heiress.
She sneered, "Be careful they don't take your kindness for granted."
"You Ran, would you like to come along?" Ye Chuqing invited her, but she naturally refused with a haughty air. Who wanted to eat at a roadside stall with them?
"I advise you not to get involved in this mess, or you'll be drowned in the online spittle." The young lady has a bad temper, but she's kind at heart.
"I know, Youran, you're so sweet!" Ye Qingchu said to Xia Youran in a coquettish tone, her voice as sweet as honey.
The bell rang, and Xia Youran left the classroom with a sentence: "You guys better not be so overly compassionate and just mind your own business."
Ye Chuqing sat in her seat and hesitated before asking, "Qingqing, shall we still go?"
Shen Muqing firmly stated that she would go, of course she would go, since she was the female lead and she didn't believe the female lead was really as described online.
An Ning, sitting in the last row, waited until everyone in the classroom had left before slowly packing her bag and getting up to leave.
Shen Muqing and Ye Chuqing chased after them, calling out, "Anning, wait for us!"
To her surprise, Anning heard someone calling her and walked even faster, gradually starting to run.
It must have been tough for the people chasing behind, like an 800-meter race. The key was that An Ning ran incredibly fast, without stopping for a single moment.
Shen Muqing stopped, panting heavily, and helped Ye Chuqing up. "Chuchu, how can she run so fast?" She could compete in a sprint championship with that speed.
"Huff...huff...I don't know either, should we continue?" Ye Chuqing asked, bending over and panting softly.
"Let's go eat instead."
Summer evenings are always sultry, but an occasional breeze can dispel some of the heat.
Inside the new chicken pot restaurant, Ye Chuqing and Shen Muqing sat by the window. Ye Chuqing liked the baby bok choy, which resembled her face, while Shen Muqing preferred the crunchy enoki mushrooms.
Seeing that Shen Mu had counted a large pile of enoki mushrooms, Ye Chuqing whispered, "Qingqing, don't eat too many enoki mushrooms."
"Is it because enoki mushrooms are bad for your health?" Shen Muqing naively thought that she was being advised that it was bad for her health.
"Qingqing, haven't you heard that enoki mushrooms are enoki mushrooms both when you eat them and when they come out?" Ye Chuqing was amused by her own words.
"It's okay, I have a strong digestive system."
"All right."
A large pot of chicken stew was served, and Shen Muqing ate it while sweating profusely. It was spicy and hot, and so satisfying.
Just as she was about to grab a tissue to wipe her sweat, her gaze casually swept across the store, and she met a sharp, cold gaze. Startled, she looked away.
She said that something felt off as soon as she entered the store, as if someone was watching her, and it turned out that it wasn't just her imagination.
She moved behind Ye Chuqing to avoid those dark eyes that made her heart clench. "Chuchu, is there something on my face? Or is there chili pepper stuck in my teeth?"
Ye Chuqing stared intently at her face. "No, you're as beautiful as ever."
"That's good," Shen Muqing breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to check if it was a coincidence, she was caught by that gaze again. She couldn't understand—did she know him?
But the other person was wearing a mask. It's strange that they would wear a mask when they come to eat. They're so pretentious.
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