After Transmigrating, I Lived with the Charismatic/Beloved Female Lead - Chapter 7
Chapter 7
Lu Yuanqiu saw the message when she returned to the dormitory.
Her expression was indifferent. After replying with a “Thank you,” she exited the chat application.
After watching Wei Yue walk into the bathroom and close the door, Lu Yuanqiu went to her desk, pulled out an ordinary notebook, which had a piece of paper tucked inside.
The paper had several names written in different areas, and the name “Wei Yue” was placed in the section marked “To Be Determined.”
She lowered her gaze, picked up a pen from the desk, circled Wei Yue’s name, and drew a question mark. She then folded the paper and placed it into another notebook.
When Wei Yue came out of the bathroom, she saw Lu Yuanqiu’s desk, which was as clean and orderly as usual, and the other girl’s straight back as she sat at the desk.
She fell into contemplation: Should I actively start a conversation with the female lead now?
She felt that after today’s events, her relationship with the female lead had been slightly improved, right? If she communicated more with the female lead, she might trigger another mission, which would allow her to continue accumulating life value.
But she is the villainess, so she definitely couldn’t speak nicely at first.
Sighing at the thought of having to put on that arrogant mask again, Wei Yue decided to relax for a moment and returned to her seat to call up the system.
After today’s “Fainting the Female Lead” and “Forum Post” incidents, her life value had accumulated to 60 hours, the OOC level was stable at 30%, and the main mission had made some progress.
According to the system panel, the four influential families Wei Yue needed to clarify relationships with were the Lu Family (Lu Yuanqiu, the female lead), the Lan Family (Lan Shangui, Male Lead No. 1), the Zhou Family (Zhou Ling), and her own Wei Family.
A green connection line appeared between the Lu Family and the Lan Family, indicating a friendly relationship, which was evident from Lan Shangui’s unconcealed enthusiasm for Lu Yuanqiu.
The connection lines between the Zhou Family and both the Lu Family and the Wei Family were red, indicating a hostile and competitive relationship.
Wei Yue: “…”
The Zhou Family and the Wei Family are rivals?!
She thought for a moment. Zhou Ling only mocked her as a useless show-off, far from the deep-seated hatred she held for Lu Yuanqiu, right?
Why is it marked as a red relationship!
The relationship lines between the Wei Family and the Lu/Lan families had not appeared, indicating that she had not yet triggered an event that could clarify the family relationships.
Indeed, according to the system’s description of the original owner’s personality, her actions were often more mindless than Zhou Ling’s, and her personal relationships often did not escalate to the level of family affairs.
The main mission currently showed a progress of 50%, meaning she had completed half. Information about her “own family” could probably be gleaned by subtly asking Wei Ling.
This first main mission wasn’t too difficult, but the reward was generous: a full 96 hours of life value!
Wei Yue felt excited just thinking about it. She opened her phone, ready to message Wei Ling right away.
Just then, Jiang Yun-juan sent a message: Student Wei, the forum teacher has already deleted the posts, and the promotional article is out too!
The forum post issue is resolved!
“Lu Yuanqiu, Jiang Yun-juan messaged that the promotional article and the forum issues are all sorted!” She subconsciously called out, turning around to show her phone to Lu Yuanqiu so they could look at it together.
However, when she looked up, she met Lu Yuanqiu’s somewhat scrutinizing gaze.
The system intervened: Reminder to the host, OOC level has risen to 40%.
“Ah, cough, what’s with that look!” Wei Yue felt a choke in her throat. “Are you afraid to look at the article? I get it, I looked radiant at the time, while you were sickly in bed. I can understand your nervousness!”
She almost went OOC again because she got too excited… Wei Yue wanted to cry but knew she needed to improve her acting skills.
Lu Yuanqiu slowly withdrew her gaze and spoke casually: “If you must know, I am indeed a little nervous, after all, it’s been many years since we last took a photo together, hasn’t it?”
“Huh? Who remembers things like that?” Wei Yue blinked, diverting the topic and clicking on the promotional article.
How would she know when the original owner last took a photo with the female lead? This unreliable system didn’t give her any hints. The more she said, the more mistakes she’d make. It was best to avoid topics about the past.
Jiang Yun-juan had very cleverly organized the content of the article.
Since it was about military training, clarifying the forum posts directly might have been counterproductive. Therefore, she started by writing about observations from the first day of military training, only mentioning Wei Yue and Lu Yuanqiu in the middle.
“High-intensity training inevitably leads to moments of exhaustion, and when unexpected situations arise, the precious bond between classmates is revealed…”
She actually… framed her and Lu Yuanqiu’s incident as mutual help between classmates?
Reading through it, Wei Yue had to admire Jiang Yun-juan’s narrative skills. Describing the incident from this new angle made it completely different.
It claimed she accidentally missed a step on the stairs and collided with the physically exhausted Lu Yuanqiu, and then, despite her injured knee, she insisted on accompanying Lu Yuanqiu to the school clinic and stayed to look after her during her unconsciousness.
Scrolling down revealed the photos taken at the time.
Wei Yue sat on the chair, eyes lowered, looking focused on applying medicine to her knee; Lu Yuanqiu, lying on the bed with her eyes closed, had a warm glow on her normally pale face from the sunlight filtering through the window.
The light breeze gently moved the pale curtains. Although the two people seemed to have no interaction, they looked surprisingly harmonious in the same frame.
Wei Yue was slightly surprised as she looked at the photos.
Due to some unknown psychological block, she had always been resistant to being photographed. That’s why when Jiang Yun-juan suggested taking photos, her first instinct was to object.
Looking at them now… it doesn’t seem so bad after all.
Below the photos were interview segments, mostly from students and military training reporters who were present, describing the events as “eyewitnesses” to prove that the incident was not what the rumors claimed but a genuine accident.
Simultaneously with the article’s release, the posts on the BBS were deleted and the accounts involved were banned.
The BBS supervisor issued an official announcement using an administrator account, strictly forbidding slander and rumor-mongering against students on campus. Accounts that followed the post and spread rumors were banned for periods ranging from one week to a month. Although the original poster was anonymous, the school had IP tracking for every account. Due to the severe impact of the incident, the school planned to personally contact the original poster.
With the multiple eyewitness interviews and the harmonious photos of the two involved parties in the article, coupled with the authoritative nature of the administrator’s announcement, the public opinion on the BBS completely reversed.
Wei Yue even saw a post titled: “Don’t know if I should say this, but the new article kind of hits my fetish.”
Clicking in, she saw the poster had included those photos of her and Lu Yuanqiu from the article.
1L: Although the official article says their fall was an accident, that original poster also mentioned their backgrounds. If that part is true, then they’re a perfect match who love-to-hate each other! They clearly dislike each other so much, but when one faints, even with an injured leg, the other insists on following her to the clinic and diligently staying by her side! Isn’t that a kind of love!
Her and Lu Yuanqiu, love-to-hate?
Wei Yue watched the poster’s wild theorizing and couldn’t help but think that if the original owner saw this post, she would probably die of anger.
3L: Are you really mentioning that old post, Poster? Be careful not to get banned!
8L: I just thought the photos were pleasing to the eye, but what the Poster said actually makes it seem a bit shippable…
15L: You guys are shipping this? If those things were true, they’d just be love rivals with only mutual hatred!
Wei Yue: “…”
Shipping everything will be the death of you!
“You… you like reading these kinds of posts?”
Wei Yue was still inwardly criticizing the post when a soft female voice suddenly sounded by her ear. A puff of warm air hit her ear. Wei Yue looked up and realized that because she was so engrossed in the post, the distance between her and Lu Yuanqiu had become extremely close.
She saw her own reflection in Lu Yuanqiu’s amber eyes.
A faint, pleasant fragrance, the same one she smelled when she fell in the morning, wafted to her nose.
“You…”
Lu Yuanqiu also realized the distance was too close, but she didn’t quickly retreat.
Hearing Lu Yuanqiu’s voice again, Wei Yue finally fully reacted.
“Whoa!”
She cried out, instinctively moving backward, but since she was still sitting in the chair, her legs got tangled, and she instantly lost her balance.
With a thud, Wei Yue fell to the floor along with the chair.
Lu Yuanqiu: “…”
Looking at Wei Yue, who was sprawled on the floor with a blank expression, she, for the first time, showed a look of slight exasperation.
Such a dramatic reaction. Was she some kind of monster?
Wei Yue also felt an overwhelming embarrassment, like her toes were curling. Why does she always mess up in front of the female lead!
To avoid further humiliation, Wei Yue scrambled to her feet.
“Wait!”
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly grabbed her, her expression serious: “Don’t move. Your knee is bleeding again.”
“What? Hiss…” Wei Yue was stunned by her words and then belatedly felt a burning pain spreading from her knee.
She looked down and saw that she had accidentally scraped the wound on her knee again. Bl00d was now seeping out.
Lu Yuanqiu quickly pulled out iodine and cotton swabs from her drawer and pressed them toward Wei Yue’s wound.
“Wa! Be gentle! Ouch, ouch, ouch…”
Wei Yue hadn’t expected Lu Yuanqiu to immediately press down with the iodine-soaked swab. The alcohol hitting the wound intensified the pain. She couldn’t help but cry out in agony, furiously scolding the system in her mind:
“Where is the gentle female lead you told me about! Her touch is too rough! System, you liar!”
The female lead definitely still resented her!
“Ah, sorry, I might have been a bit too hasty…”
“Then be gentle, Lu Yuanqiu!”
In the brief chaos, Wei Yue’s phone, placed to the side, vibrated constantly, but the sound was drowned out by the conversation and went unnoticed.
Zhou Ling was in her independent apartment. She had planned to skip military training for a rest at home but unexpectedly received a call from the person she detested the most.
“Hello?”
“Zhou Ling, do you think you can do whatever you want now that you’re an adult?”
The deep male voice in the earpiece made Zhou Ling feel sick. She said impatiently, “What do you want? Why are you trying to control me!”
“If you don’t have the capability, don’t provoke others. I will immediately have the family reduce your allowance so you know your own worth.”
“What did you say? Zhou Jing! How dare you! Hello!” Zhou Ling shouted into the phone, her eyes wide.
“You know what you did. I will be at K University this weekend. I hope you’ve resolved this issue by then and haven’t caused any trouble for our family.”
Zhou Ling’s face instantly dropped. She opened the K University BBS and found that all the sarcastic remarks about Wei Yue and Lu Yuanqiu had completely disappeared, replaced by discussions about her own identity as the anonymous poster.
She clicked on the school’s official account and saw the latest promotional article.
When she scrolled to the photo of Wei Yue and Lu Yuanqiu, she honestly doubted her own eyes.
Why would Wei Yue agree to take a photo with Lu Yuanqiu? Especially for a clarification?!
She usually did things that were self-destructive just to drag Lu Yuanqiu down!
This was why Zhou Ling felt so secure mentioning it in the post.
Zhou Ling then recalled the united front Wei Yue and Lu Yuanqiu formed against her in the cafeteria yesterday. Full of resentment, she opened her chat application and called Wei Yue, but the other party kept not answering.
“Wei Yue! You wait and see!” she yelled in frustration.
She wasn’t worried about the school’s handling of the matter. If it wasn’t too serious, they would usually smooth things over, and given Lu Yuanqiu’s personality, she certainly wouldn’t be too hard on her in the end.
What truly bothered her was Zhou Jing. She’d rather apologize to Wei Yue and Lu Yuanqiu right now than face Zhou Jing.
Wei Yue and Lu Yuanqiu in the dorm room were, of course, unaware of Zhou Ling’s breakdown. Amidst Wei Yue’s loud cries and Lu Yuanqiu’s poker face, the process of applying medicine to the twice-injured knee was finally completed.
Wei Yue tentatively stood up, indicating a desire to distance herself from Lu Yuanqiu for a while.
She picked up her phone and noticed a pile of new message notifications.
Zhou Ling had sent her 18 messages.
Wei Yue clicked in and saw that the initial ones were voice call requests. After they weren’t answered, they turned into a few questioning messages, asking why she helped Lu Yuanqiu.
Sigh. Who made Lu Yuanqiu her Tree of Life now? If she didn’t help now, how would she get close to her later to trigger missions with multiplied rewards?
Wei Yue ignored Zhou Ling’s messages. She scrolled further and found a message from Wei Ling.
Yueyue, Mommy saw the news. They say you fell at school. Can Mommy come to K University tonight after work? I heard Yuanqiu also fainted. Is she better? Why don’t we have dinner together tonight?
“Uh, that… Lu Yuanqiu…” Wei Yue could now speak to Lu Yuanqiu normally.
Hearing Wei Yue’s voice, Lu Yuanqiu looked up, her expression composed.
Wei Yue said directly: “My mom said she wants to have dinner with you tonight.”