Chapter 4: Your social anxiety is that severe?
“Zhao Rui is driving me back now, he can pick you up and we can go back to the city together,” Lin Ruowei said.
Perhaps in their eyes, coming to pick her up was already an act of great mercy.
"No need, I'm already home," Ning Wanwan said.
Lin Ruowei asked in surprise, "You're already home? Who took you home?"
"I met a kind person on the way." Ning Wanwan didn't want to say more. "It's very late, I need to wash up, I'll hang up now."
Her soft voice betrayed her weariness.
Lin Ruowei: "...Okay."
After Ning Wanwan hung up the phone, Lin Ruowei said to Zhao Rui with a mixture of surprise and annoyance, "Ning Wanwan has really made something of herself; she's the first one to hang up on me."
Zhao Rui didn't care at all and scoffed, "He only has the guts now. He'll come up to you again when you see him in person tomorrow."
"But you should also be careful not to let your little follower step on your head."
Lin Ruowei initially agreed, but upon hearing the last sentence, she laughed instead: "How could that be?"
She knew very well how hard Ning Wanwan had tried to please her.
...
The next morning, Ning Wanwan was woken up by the system.
[You have to go to school today. The main character and several supporting characters are also at school. You absolutely can't let anything go wrong!]
Your mission is to survive, maintain the smooth progress of the plot, ensure the male lead ends up with the female leads, and bring a happy ending to this novel world!
"Okay." Ning Wanwan yawned and walked to the bathroom mirror to wash up.
The mirror reflected the slender figure of a young girl. She had fair skin, black hair, and black eyes. Her eyes were slightly rounded, clear and beautiful, like pools of water. Soft strands of hair fell down, the slightly curled ends landing on the "A" lettering on the chest of her school uniform.
She has a very harmless appearance, which perfectly matches Ning Wanwan's own personality.
Ning Wanwan didn't care about her appearance; she just looked at her reflection in the mirror and murmured in surprise.
"This looks exactly like me..."
Strictly speaking, this is actually your own body, but in everyone's perception, you are the original owner of this body. The underlying principles are very complex...
In short, due to the constraints of the plot and the limitations of your physical body, this is one of the reasons why you can only live as an ordinary person.
"I see," Ning Wanwan replied perfunctorily. She didn't really have any desire to explore overly complex principles and logic.
This is not her world, and the original owner of this body is not herself.
Ning Wanwan just wanted to witness the story reach its end as soon as possible, and then return to her own world, shrinking into her ordinary little home to live her own ordinary and peaceful life.
Let's go.
Because it was morning, the time for commuting to work and school, the elevator was quite crowded. Ning Wanwan hesitated for a moment, then put on the new mask she had brought with her before leaving home.
[Your social anxiety is that severe?]
Ning Wanwan answered the system in her mind: "Yes... but the more important reason is the cheat code I drew before..."
Although it seems unlikely to be love at first sight based on last night's events, what if it was because she was wearing a mask?
What if it's really that absurd, like the literal meaning, that it will make someone fall in love at first sight?
Ning Wanwan was quite afraid that the cheat system would really produce such unreasonable effects, and if that happened, she would really want to escape from this world.
Speaking of this misplaced cheat ability, the system's tone became somber and weak: "Don't worry, if it were really that powerful, it would have been used up long ago."
[Other systems had previously told me that, according to the rules, the higher the world level and the more important the character, the weaker the effect of the cheat system. Not to mention that the world we're in is a top-level SSS world, making any intervention extremely difficult!]
At this point, the system also offered some words of comfort to Ning Wanwan: "So actually, it's not a big deal if you don't get the 'instant riches' bonus. After all, no matter what kind of cheat it is, its impact on this world is negligible."
The elevator doors opened, and Ning Wanwan squeezed in with everyone else. No one gave her a second glance or spoke to her, which made Ning Wanwan feel a little at ease.
That "love at first sight" cheat code is probably really useless.
In a narrow, enclosed environment, being too close to others makes it difficult to even look at anything, so one tries to distract oneself by chatting with the system in their mind.
"Is this world really that powerful?"
[Yes, the level was too high. I wouldn't have dared to touch it, but due to an unknown error, the novel is missing its most important final chapter. It abruptly ends just as the male protagonist is about to defeat the villain, and even the outcome of the romance is very ambiguous.]
If it were just a small world, that would be fine, but this SSS-class world has too much influence. If something goes wrong, the consequences would be unbearable...
At this point, the system seemed to realize that it couldn't say anything more, so it stopped talking.
Ning Wanwan finally got out of the elevator and breathed a sigh of relief.
Fresh air flows into your nose, carrying with it the aromas of various breakfast foods such as soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, and sesame cakes.
Ning Wanwan touched her empty stomach and sighed with a touch of melancholy.
She ate the piece of bread the villain gave her yesterday, and if she doesn't eat breakfast today, she'll probably repeat the terrible fate of almost fainting from hunger.
"Two dollars and eighty-one cents... that should be enough for a breakfast."
Of course, it would be even better if there were some left over.
As for what to do at noon, Ning Wanwan had already thought of another way.
After entering a breakfast shop, Ning Wanwan tried to avoid the passageway by turning her body to the side. She stared at the menu on the wall for a while, skipping over the fried dough sticks, steamed buns, fried dumplings, and steamed cakes, and chose two steamed buns that were the most filling and cheapest.
After paying, she only had 81 cents left in her balance.
Because there were quite a few people in the store, after getting her breakfast, Ning Wanwan could only sit at the table closest to the door, and she had to sit with other people.
At the next table, a mother was urging her son to eat breakfast so she could take him to school quickly. There were also a few office workers eating.
Ning Wanwan was about to eat a few bites when she suddenly realized that she was still wearing a mask.
Come to think of it, you can't wear a mask forever... and the system has already assured us that the cheat system doesn't work.
Otherwise, try it here... If there are no problems even after taking off the mask, then it really has no effect.
Thinking of this, Ning Wanwan touched her mask with her fingers, hesitated for a moment, then slowly took it off, pretending to take a small bite of the steamed bun normally, while secretly glancing at the others out of the corner of her eye.
There was no response. No one responded.
Only the mother sitting next to her looked back with some confusion when they met eyes.
Her son followed his mother's gaze and glanced at the female lead, then looked away without pausing, hurriedly stuffing the last piece of fried dough stick into his mouth and shouting, "Mom, we can go now!"
The mother and child at the next table had left. Ning Wanwan felt a little awkward because of the eye contact they had just made, but she was in a good mood.
It didn't work!
Just as the system said, it's basically a useless cheat.
So Ning Wanwan completely abandoned the idea of "love at first sight".
After all, it's exhausting to always be worrying about this and that.
The store was getting busier and busier. Having finally resolved a worry, Ning Wanwan took off her mask, which had been in the way, and started eating her steamed buns faster.
Just as she was engrossed in eating, a voice rang out above her head.
"Excuse me, is this table taken?"
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