My Unconventional Online Dating - Chapter 40
“No need, I can handle it in two days.”
Ji Rongxue’s current condition didn’t allow for further delays. She needed to figure out what exactly had happened to her.
Given Ji Rongxue’s already fragile health, if she remained depressed for too long, it could lead to serious problems.
“Go ahead, go ahead,” Lian Qiushui joked. “I’ll log you out for you.”
It was better to log out sooner rather than later—otherwise, she might end up throwing a tantrum to stop Xiao Nianyuan from leaving.
The next day, Xiao Nianyuan heard Ji Rongxue getting up and followed suit. She wanted to shadow Ji Rongxue to see if she could uncover who her roommate had met that day.
For two days, Xiao Nianyuan trailed Ji Rongxue, but Ji Rongxue didn’t go anywhere unusual—she just carried on with her usual routine. By the end of the second day, seeing that Ji Rongxue wasn’t sneaking off alone anymore, Xiao Nianyuan realized there was nothing more to uncover and gave up.
Over those two days, Ji Rongxue’s complexion had grown increasingly pale, and the dormitory atmosphere had turned stifling. None of the four roommates knew what to say.
Late at night, Xiao Nianyuan quietly logged back in using her device. Lian Qiushui was thrilled to see her online, but her excitement faded the moment she noticed Xiao Nianyuan’s expression.
“Didn’t things work out?”
Xiao Nianyuan nodded, frustrated and unsure how to resolve the situation. “I still don’t know who that person is.”
Lian Qiushui asked, “Can’t you just ask your roommate?”
Xiao Nianyuan had considered it, but Tan Xialan and Du Xiaotong weren’t certain either. Besides, they’d gone to great lengths to keep it from her—asking them directly wouldn’t yield answers.
Lian Qiushui pulled Xiao Nianyuan closer, placing her fingers on her wrist with exaggerated seriousness. “It’ll be resolved soon. Don’t worry.”
Xiao Nianyuan laughed. “Since when do you know how to read pulses?”
“Heaven’s secrets must not be revealed,” Lian Qiushui said mysteriously. “But trust me, this will be over before you know it.”
After spending some time online, Xiao Nianyuan’s mood improved significantly. She wanted to stay longer, but Lian Qiushui shooed her off to sleep.
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Ji Rongxue had always been observant of Xiao Nianyuan, so there was no way she hadn’t noticed being followed.
She didn’t dare react, pretending everything was normal—attending classes, going to the library, acting as if nothing had ever happened.
After two days of being shadowed, Xiao Nianyuan finally stopped on the third day.
Before leaving campus this time, Ji Rongxue double-checked to ensure no one was following her. Confirming she was alone, she set off again.
This time, she wasn’t meeting Meng Xingwen. Since he refused to clear Xiao Nianyuan’s name, she had to find another way.
She hadn’t threatened him before, but if he wouldn’t cooperate, she had other methods. If he later complained to Xiao Nianyuan, so be it.
No matter what, she couldn’t let Xiao Nianyuan keep bearing the label of a fraud. The rumors at school were escalating—some even claimed Xiao Nianyuan had gotten into university through deception.
Ji Rongxue contacted all the victims Meng Xingwen had scammed and arranged to meet them at that secluded café.
She had compiled all the evidence and planned to take everyone to the police station to file a report.
While the individual amounts scammed weren’t large, the collective sum was enough to warrant legal action.
Meng Xingwen likely never expected his victims to unite—which was why he had kept each fraudulent transaction small.
They had transfer records and some evidence pointing to Meng Xingwen.
Although the chain of evidence wasn’t complete yet, the suspect was in the same school. If the police really pursued the investigation, they might quickly find decisive proof.
The café wasn’t on the main road—it required passing through a few narrow alleys. Just as Ji Rongxue was walking through one of them, she heard the sound of a car speeding up behind her.
Instinctively, she moved to the side of the road, only to realize the car was heading straight for her.
When the car hit her, she didn’t feel much pain—just a sense of bewilderment and regret.
She hadn’t even helped Xiao Nianyuan resolve the matter yet. How could she have gotten into an accident?
In her dazed state, she heard a vicious curse: “You deserve to die.”
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I have mixed feeling about this story. In one hand, I absolutely adore the relationship between Xiao Nianyuan and Lin Qiushi, despite the rocky start, their relationship quickly evolve into a very soft and clingly relationship where Xiao Nianyuan get to indulge her need for physical contact through Lin Qiushi due to the fact that she’s less self conscious about it with her initially since she’s an NPC, and Lin Qiushi get to indulge in her need for companionship through Xiao Nianyuan, who is pretty introverted and as such don’t interact with other players or NPC in the game, so Lin Qiushi get to have all of her attention. As time goes on, they become pretty clingly with each other, both physically and emotionally.
My main gripe is that I don’t think enough time in the story is dedicated to their relationship
A good third of the story is dedicated to a rather boring mystery about a classmate of Xiao Nianyuan who’s using her photo to scam people online in order to ruin her reputation and take revenge on her over a perceived slight about his scolarship, but it feels pretty disconnected from the main point of the story, Xiao Nianyuan never actually exchange a single sentence with the perpetrator, outside of once, when he’s about to get caught.
The mystery of the sky city take another large chunk of the story, but in my opinion, it really wasn’t all that interesting. Xiao Nianyuan caught a glimpse of a silhouette that she recognized in the sky city early on, and then obsessed over the sky city to try to find that person and find out what’s the sky city is. While the story doesn’t explicitly said it, the person is most likely Ji Rongxue, who Xiao Nianyuan thought was dead. But the mystery is revealed in a rather boring fashion and so is the true nature of the sky city.
I also have a slight gripe with the ending, I do think that Xiao Nianyuan and Liu Qiushu relationship benefited a lot from the dynamic of one of them being a real person and the other being an NPC who was stuck in a virtual world, and while I always expected this barrier to eventually fade for an happy ending, I do have a slight problem with how it happened. Firstly, it’s a personnal preference but I would have prefered if they had started their relationship in the game, while Liu Qiushu was still an NPC, and secondly, the story kind of brush off all too quickly how Liu Qiushu was actually a real person with her memory sealed inside of the game, so it almost feels like Xiao Nianyuan end up with a different Liu Qiushu than the Liu Qiushu we got to see for the entire story (since their meeting happen in the last chapter).
Also, there is some hints of a relationship between Ji Rongxue and Jing Siyan (another NPC), but it’s never explicited, Jing Siyan get deleted due to a virus and there’s no resolution on that front, which is pretty sad.
Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts! <3