Chapter 61
The two groups of people each ate their own meals.
Xu Ying and Lin Zhongxu arrived early. The other side had only finished eating halfway when they finished. Before leaving, Lin Zhongxu gave his roommate a look and left.
My roommate muttered, "They didn't even bother to introduce us."
He was quite curious about who the girl was.
His girlfriend stuffed a piece of grilled meat into his mouth: "Eat your food."
As she spoke, she glanced at the two figures as they walked away. Although she didn't want to admit it, the two were indeed quite a good match.
Xu Ying and Lin Zhongxu drove back to the university.
Lin Zhongxu did not take Xu Ying directly to their destination. Instead, he introduced his school to Xu Ying along the way and strolled around for a while before heading to the small square where the car was parked.
"arrive."
Lin Zhongxu pointed to the car not far away, his tone sounding inexplicably reluctant.
Xu Ying chuckled and gently hugged him: "I'm leaving. You should go back to your dorm. It's still early, you can take a nap when you get back."
The sudden hug startled Lin Zhongxu, who was speechless for a moment. He could only watch helplessly as Xu Ying got into the car, rolled down the window, waved, and drove away.
Xu Ying hummed a song as she drove home.
However, she underestimated the distance. When she came, Lin Zhongxu took turns driving with her, so she didn't feel too tired. Now that she was alone, she had to concentrate the whole way, which was quite stressful.
Xu Ying left Shanghai in the afternoon, and due to traffic congestion, she didn't get home until late at night.
She got out of the car, her legs went weak and she almost fell to the ground. She stood there for a moment to move her arms and legs, then huffed and puffed as she climbed up the stairs.
She was too tired.
She would squint as she went upstairs, and as for the luggage in the trunk, she had long forgotten about it and couldn't even remember it.
After finally reaching her front door, Xu Ying held the key and tried inserting it several times before finally getting it into the lock.
It's finally open!
Xu Ying entered the house, closed the door behind her, took off her shoes, went straight to the bedroom, and fell asleep immediately.
She slept straight through until noon the next day. It was only when Grandma Wang sensed something was wrong and came over that she found her sleeping in her room.
"You silly child, I told you yesterday you were coming back, but you haven't come back yet. Turns out you're sleeping in the house!"
Xu Ying had slept for a whole morning and was almost fully awake. She woke up almost as soon as Grandma Wang opened the door.
She rolled over, rubbing her eyes and laughing, "I was so tired when I got back yesterday that I went straight to sleep and didn't have time to tell you."
She sat up, stretched on the bed, then got up to wash and brush her teeth. After brushing her teeth, she suddenly remembered that her suitcase was still in the car, so she shuffled downstairs in her slippers.
"What are you going to do if you're not going to eat?"
Grandma Wang didn't know what was going on. She saw her washing her face and suddenly rushing out the door, so she quickly called out after her.
"I'm going downstairs to get my suitcase, I'll be right back!"
Xu Ying responded and came up with her suitcase a few minutes later.
*
After Xu Ying returned, she rested for another day before the fatigue from driving seemed to completely disappear.
She sat down in front of the computer after a long absence and began writing her novel, "After Live-streaming Cooking, I Became a Star Influencer."
The Yuan Family Restaurant has been passed down for a century, but by the time it reached the generation of Old Master Yuan, it had already fallen into decline.
Grandpa Yuan was hoping that the next generation could revitalize the family business, but his son was good at eating, drinking and having fun, but had no talent whatsoever in cooking.
Mr. Yuan sighed, thinking that his century-old foundation was about to be destroyed.
Just then, Yuan Wenwen was born. From a young age, she showed amazing talent in cooking. Grandpa Yuan was overjoyed and took his granddaughter under his wing to teach her personally.
Yuan Wenwen is very promising.
She not only mastered everything her grandfather taught her, but she also went out to learn from various masters, both from the southern and northern schools of thought, as long as it was delicious, she was willing to learn it.
And so, by the time Yuan Wenwen turned eighteen, she was already capable of handling things on her own and had become a shining example of success for the Yuan family restaurant.
Grandpa Yuan can finally rest easy now.
Before he passed away, he specifically entrusted the restaurant to his granddaughter, fearing that his son would disobey him and ruin the family business after his death.
Yuan Wenwen lived up to expectations, becoming the head of the restaurant at the age of eighteen and holding that position for over twenty years, thoroughly establishing the reputation of the Yuan Family Restaurant.
......
Xu Ying wrote all afternoon.
She only stopped and left the house when Grandma Wang called her for dinner.
After finishing her meal, she took a short break to digest before sitting back down at her computer. She had already written the first three chapters of her new novel that afternoon, and now all she needed to do was correct some typos and awkward sentences before uploading it.
That's right, it's uploading.
This time, Xu Ying didn't offer pre-orders; she just dropped the thread and published the story directly.
Her sudden post was not the problem; it drew out a huge number of readers late at night, keeping them awake.
-Holy crap, what's going on?!
- That was really unexpected! Luckily, I check it every day, and I fell in love with it as soon as it started, hehehe.
Great authors have that kind of confidence...
-What are you talking about? I don't understand.
- Ah, I'm so envious.
-Isn't this book title a bit strange?
-That's really weird. I've never seen such a long name before. It's practically a sentence, isn't it?
- Oh my god, it's already surpassed a thousand favorites, and it's only been less than half an hour...
- Few people know about this now. Wait until tomorrow to see if it breaks 10,000.
I suddenly understand what it feels like to have conjunctivitis; I'm actually a little jealous of her now.
-After all, she's a great author. Even with a name like that, she still gets a lot of people fawning over her.
- Ugh, I can almost smell the sourness from upstairs through the screen.
Li Qinqin was exhausted after a long day at work. She didn't even eat dinner before lying in bed and scrolling through her phone.
She was unaware that February Sky had started writing, but after seeing the cryptic comments on the forum, a thought suddenly occurred to her:
Is the main character everyone's talking about February Sky?
Thinking this, her breathing quickened. She clicked on February Sky's homepage with a mix of trepidation and anticipation. Sure enough, a new novel with just over 10,000 words was prominently displayed on her homepage.
"ah-----------"
Li Qinqin suddenly screamed in bed.
The dog lying next to her was startled and jumped off the bed as if fleeing, standing on the floor and turning its head to stare at her pitifully.
"I'm so sorry, Pudding, come up here quickly! Mommy is just so happy, hahaha!"
The dog sensed its owner's good mood.
It stuck out its tongue, approached the bedside, and wagged its tail vigorously. Only after its owner urged it repeatedly did it jump back onto the bed and find a place to curl up.
Li Qinqin reached out and stroked the dog's head a couple of times to soothe her precious pet. Then she lay back on her pillow and eagerly opened the new novel to read.
......
Yuan Wenwen fainted due to overwork, and when she woke up again, she found herself in a high-tech room.
The house was surrounded by impenetrable walls, and after groping around for a while, she still couldn't find the door.
Just as she was feeling a bit lost, the nanny robot that she hadn't noticed in the corner suddenly spoke up: "Baby, it's time to eat."
The mechanical sound echoed in the room, startling Yuan Wenwen and giving her goosebumps all over her body.
"Don't call me baby."
Her family has never called her that.
The little robot with some molted skin on its head was still standing in the corner. Upon hearing Yuan Wenwen's words, blue light surged around it, as if its data had fallen into chaos.
Yuan Wenwen was no longer afraid.
She couldn't help but laugh and said, "I'm all grown up now. From now on, 623 can call me Wenwen."
623 is the name of the nanny robot.
The robot responded: "Okay, Wenwen, it's time for Wenwen to eat."
Where is the food?
Yuan Wenwen was indeed a little hungry. Her stomach had been burning ever since she woke up. She knew she was hungry, but being in a foreign place, her first thought was certainly not to eat.
But things are different now.
The little robot called her just now, and a new memory instantly appeared in her mind—the original owner's memory.
She time-traveled, she time-traveled to the interstellar era.
The owner of her current body is a girl with the same name as her, Wenwen. The only difference between the two is that the original owner is much younger than her, and seems to be two months away from turning eighteen. Moreover, she is an orphan and currently lives in welfare housing provided free of charge by the Federation.
"ah!"
Yuan Wenwen was startled.
In my memory, federal welfare housing only allowed orphans to live there for free until they turned eighteen. After that, they would be evicted and required to gradually repay the government's subsidies over the years.
Yuan Wenwen: "......"
What kind of ridiculous rule is this? Orphans have to pay back money for welfare housing? Does that mean she owes a huge sum of money even though she did nothing?
That's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that she will be homeless in two months.
So her immediate priority is to find a job and earn money to rent a place; she can worry about the government debt later.
"Wow, is this time it's interstellar?"
Li Qinqin was somewhat surprised.
She had certainly heard of the concept of interstellar space, but novels with interstellar backgrounds were mostly found in the science fiction category, and she had never seen one in a female-oriented novel.
She had always thought that interstellar literature was cold, mechanical, cruel, and realistic, but after reading the descriptions in February Astronomy, she inexplicably found the little robots somewhat cute.
Interstellar literature seems quite interesting, haha!
The female lead is a bit pitiful; she starts out in debt and homeless, and I feel worried for her.
Yuan Wenwen's meal was hard to describe.
623 brought her a bag of nutritional supplements. She took a sip with the idea of trying it, and almost couldn't hold it in and vomited. It tasted terrible, like cheap plastic glue.
"How can there be such awful food in the world..."
Yuan Wenwen sighed, then pinched her nose and gulped it down in one go.
The nutritional supplements were hard-earned; the original owner of this body had worked hard to earn them by doing odd jobs everywhere, and she couldn't waste them.
"I want to make money!"
After finishing her drink, Yuan Wenwen couldn't help but make a vow to 623.
As a chef with expertise in both Chinese and Western cuisine, she is more discerning about food than the average person, let alone this nutritional supplement that most modern people would look down upon.
It's practically poison to human taste buds.
"Beep beep beep, it's time to work! It's time to work!"
623 suddenly rang.
It even doubles as an alarm clock! Well, it's the interstellar age now, so the 623 is probably all-powerful; it can do all sorts of housework and cleaning.
If that's the case, what else can humans do?
The thought flashed through Yuan Wenwen's mind, and without giving it much thought, she went out to work, following her memory. However, she soon learned the answer.
Humans are destined to be abandoned.
The restaurant owner fired her because she needed wages and rest, while the robot could work anytime and, importantly, it was free.
Yuan Wenwen: "..."
The female lead is so pitiful, but for some reason, Li Qinqin just finds it funny.
Hahahaha!
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