The Frail, Alluring O Always Wants Me to Mark Her (GL) - Chapter 19: 019

Zhu Lexing did not know the specifics of Zhu Lin’s conversation with Lin Jiyue’s father.

But the next morning at the dining table, Zhu Lin’s expression was noticeably relaxed.

As soon as he saw Zhu Lexing, he said to her, “Xiao Yang said there was indeed some misunderstanding between her and Xiaomian. She will come in person tonight to apologize to her and hopes that Xiaomian won’t mind.”

Towards the end, he looked at Yan Mian, his meaning clear: since Zhu Lexing had stood up for Yan Mian, if Yan Mian said it was fine, the matter would naturally end there, making everyone happy.

Yan Mian was about to go straight to school but was stopped by Jiang Yue, realizing that she still had a part to play in this matter.

She had anticipated this result and said softly, “Lexing was the one who was injured yesterday.”

The ball was kicked back to Zhu Lexing.

Zhu Lin could only look at the unyielding Zhu Lexing: “You’ve been friends with Xiao Yang for so long. You should know that she’s not a bad person; she’s just a bit insensitive sometimes.”

“As for… her thinking Xiaomian likes you,” Zhu Lin said, “She denies ever having said such a thing.”

Zhu Lexing understood. This was a plea for peace.

Her good relationship with Xiao Yang was a roundabout way of saying that Zhu Lin and the Lin family had a good relationship and couldn’t afford to fall out.

Zhu Lexing also knew when to stop.

For elders, especially men, face is always more important than other things. If it were just a conflict between her and Lin Yang, Zhu Lin would undoubtedly stand by her side. But when Yan Mian was involved, things became slightly different.

Zhu Lexing bit into her bread and stood up, her voice indistinct: “Then we’ll see how sincere her apology is tonight.”

She only hoped that Lin Yang would transfer schools and stay as far away from Yan Mian as possible. Otherwise, Zhu Lexing wouldn’t mind using violence to fight violence.

Playing dirty? Who can’t!

Upon arriving at school, No. 1 High School already had banners hung up, celebrating its centennial anniversary. Flower baskets lined half the street.

Zhu Lexing guessed that half of them were sent by parents.

The layout of the teaching building hadn’t changed much, but it was noticeably cleaner than yesterday, clearly having been cleaned by students working overtime.

When Zhu Lexing entered the classroom, Song Yingying was looking down at something. She quietly walked in and gently patted Song Yingying’s shoulder—

Song Yingying instinctively looked up, seeming a little startled, her expression full of confusion. Her finger slipped on the text she was editing, canceling the send, revealing the page she was browsing—

[Gossip & Small Talk | Is Zhu Lexing performing today?

Hahaha just let me be crazy (OP): Although Zhu Lexing’s temper is the worst, her grades are the worst, and her personality is the worst, she’s good-looking. Where are the I-Xing fans?]

The post was made a few minutes ago. The three “worst” descriptions were enough to prove that the OP was an intentional troll. In the thread, Song Yingying was arguing with the OP using her account.

Zhu Lexing never expected that even after transmigrating, there would be sophisticated things like intentional trolls.

And there were even people speaking up for her.

Tears!

Song Yingying first turned off her phone and said naturally, “Thank you for… yesterday.”

Zhu Lexing put down her backpack: “It’s nothing. Just call me anytime you need anything. It’s on the way anyway.”

After saying that, Song Yingying wasn’t sure how to start another conversation. She and Zhu Lexing had absolutely no overlap in their lives; they didn’t even have topics to talk about.

Zhu Lexing tilted her head and asked, “What’s the name of the person who was arguing with you just now?”

Song Yingying remembered it clearly. As soon as she said the name, Zhu Lexing opened the forum and searched for the person.

As a New Age celebrity, always on the cutting edge of the internet, she was number one at trash-talking.

In less than ten minutes, the OP was defeated in their war of words and left in shame, not replying again.

But the thread had already become a tall building, with many people flocking to watch. After seeing [Mianmian’s fan] take on the troll one-on-one and being shocked that people could curse like that, they left a precious comment: [6].

Zhu Lexing checked the OP’s past posts and found that he was in the same class as Li Nian, male, but nothing else was exposed.

She didn’t think much of it and said to Song Yingying, whose eyes were now full of stars: “People like that, even if you curse them, they’ll just pretend to be dead. Don’t bother next time.”

Song Yingying asked humbly, “Then what should I do?”

Zhu Lexing: “Of course—complain about him!”

Zhu Lexing slowly clicked the option to report the post, citing verbal abuse as the reason. In a few minutes, the website notified her that the post had been deleted.

In just a few minutes, Song Yingying’s expression gradually changed from “!” to “…” and finally to a state of calm acceptance.

“Did you learn?”

Song Yingying looked at the smug expression of the girl in front of her. She felt that, apart from also being named Zhu Lexing, the girl had absolutely nothing to do with her forum name.

She sighed deeply and said perfunctorily, “A valuable lesson.”

They were halfway through their conversation when Yan Mian entered the classroom. Her complexion was noticeably better than yesterday, and the mark on her face had also faded. Zhu Lexing secretly glanced at her a few times. After confirming that everything was fine, she withdrew her gaze.

Yesterday’s +20 favorability had directly increased her lifespan by two weeks.

Zhu Lexing was incredibly grateful and cherished this hard-won favorability even more.

She thought to herself, It’s time to activate Protection Plan B for the protagonist.

From today onwards, anyone or anything that causes Yan Mian to feel sad, upset, unhappy… or any other negative emotion, would be swiftly dealt with, leaving no room for retaliation!

During the morning reading session, many people rushed out of Class 1. Zhu Lexing glanced sideways and saw that most of them were participating in the school anniversary activities and were going to get their makeup done now.

But Yan Mian was diligently writing something. Zhu Lexing followed suit, sitting still like a quail, her heart as pure as a lotus.

Zhu Xing had planned to call them, but the three of them were silently doing their own things. He thought they already had an arrangement and didn’t interrupt.

It wasn’t until after class that Yan Mian seemed to wake up from the papers, instinctively looking out the window.

She paused, then asked Zhu Lexing, “Aren’t you leaving yet?”

Zhu Lexing: “…!”

Weren’t you the one who didn’t leave?

But she couldn’t possibly ask that. She just said coolly, “I had something to attend to. Let’s go now.”

Yan Mian felt relieved and folded the speech she had written and put it away, silently following behind Zhu Lexing and Song Yingying.

On the way to the auditorium, the system couldn’t resist asking: [What is Plan A?]

Zhu Lexing: [Plan A is, of course, reasoning with people.]

Her attitude toward Lin Yang before was relatively normal. She had a normal, polite refusal, and a normal, logical discussion.

But Lin Yang didn’t listen and even laid a hand on Yan Mian. That had already exceeded Zhu Lexing’s tolerance.

If Yan Mian hadn’t wanted to avoid making a scene at the time, she would have not only activated Plan B yesterday but also potentially…

Differentiated.

After returning to her room last night, Zhu Lexing didn’t forget to look up the reason for her sudden increase in strength. The online answers were consistent: emotional excitement could also accelerate the onset of differentiation.

The differentiation time recorded by the system was the original owner’s differentiation time and wouldn’t change just because Zhu Lexing had arrived.

But after yesterday’s incident, the remaining six months would definitely be shortened. Zhu Lexing wasn’t sure when it would happen.

As long as she didn’t differentiate while Yan Mian was present, any time was fine.

When they arrived at the auditorium, the backstage was packed with people. The regular dressing room was completely occupied by another team. Yan Mian was called away by Li Nian, and Zhu Lexing was pulled into a small cubicle by Qiao Qiao.

Qiao Qiao had already finished her makeup. After telling the makeup artist Zhu Lexing’s character, she didn’t stop scrolling through her phone. In the meantime, she didn’t forget to complain: “You’re such a busy person. You only come to get your makeup done after morning self-study.”

Zhu Lexing: “If I don’t study hard, how can I get into university?”

She hadn’t forgotten the system’s requirement to convey positive energy. As the makeup artist powdered her face, she said stubbornly, “I’m going to the best university!”

Qiao Qiao rested her chin on her hand, looking at her: “You have quite the dream.”

Zhu Lexing said, “If you don’t have a dream, what’s the difference between you and a salted fish?”

Besides, a dream is a dream! What’s wrong with thinking about it? It doesn’t cost money.

Qiao Qiao said, “That’s a good line. Let me borrow it to post on StarNet—”

Zhu Lexing: “…”

Seriously! She can “borrow” that too! How trendy!

After Qiao Qiao posted on StarNet, she refreshed the comments section. Seeing the barrage of compliments, she asked happily, “Do you have a StarNet account? Let’s follow each other.”

Zhu Lexing remembered the account she had canceled on the first day of transmigrating. She answered honestly, “No.”

Qiao Qiao looked at her strangely: “Didn’t you have one before? But you kept posting boring photos, so I unfollowed you.”

Zhu Lexing: “…A person isn’t allowed to realize how boring those things are, turn over a new leaf, and cancel their account?”

But at Qiao Qiao’s insistence, Zhu Lexing registered an account on the spot and followed her. Following each other on StarNet wasn’t enough. Qiao Qiao then asked, “What about the forum? What’s your forum name?”

Zhu Lexing thought of her ID: “…”

“Can we have some privacy?” Zhu Lexing said.

“We’re all students. What privacy do we have?” Qiao Qiao said. “Why are you so reluctant? After the show, I’ll post a promotion on StarNet. I’ll tag you and Yan Mian to boost your popularity. Isn’t that great?”

Qiao Qiao meant well.

But Zhu Lexing couldn’t get over the public embarrassment.

While she was still squirming and agonizing, Qiao Qiao had already opened the forum and said casually, “Huh? Why is Zhou Yang the first thing I see? How unlucky.”

The next second, she read the post title: “The whole story of Zhou Yang’s account cancellation… Why did he cancel his account? Let me see.”

Zhu Lexing didn’t think much of it, assuming it was juicy gossip. She excitedly opened the forum app as well.

The post Qiao Qiao was talking about was prominently displayed on the homepage. But as soon as she opened it, her smile froze on her lips—

[The Cause: Zhou Yang challenged zlx on the forum, was first mocked by @SoftlyWhispering, and the two exchanged heated words…

7:15, @Mianmian’s fan made a grand entrance, taking on Zhou Yang one-on-one, humiliating him into nothing. The post was deleted twenty minutes later, and at the same time, Zhou Yang canceled his account…]

“Mianmian’s fan?” Qiao Qiao flipped through the comments and scoffed, “Who is that, taking such a stupid name.”

The next second, she lowered her eyes, wanting to see what Zhu Lexing was looking at. What she saw was Zhu Lexing’s forum ID.

The owner of the “stupid name” was sitting right next to her.

Their eyes met. Before Qiao Qiao could react, Zhu Lexing was already mentally running through the full suite of public embarrassment.

She understood that as long as she turned passive into active, by admitting it, she would forever stand on unconquerable ground!

Zhu Lexing took a deep breath and sneered: “What? I’m Mianmian’s fan. Are you not satisfied?”

The sound of the door opening covered the sound of approaching footsteps.

“Zhu Lexing—”

Xu He opened the door. Song Yingying was linked arm-in-arm with her, followed by a few other members of the stage play.

Their voices fell simultaneously. The expressions of the few people instantly became incredibly profound.

Zhu Lexing felt like she needed oxygen.

Just when Zhu Lexing thought this was the peak of public embarrassment.

She looked up.

And saw Xu He—

And Yan Mian standing behind her.

Zhu Lexing: “…………”

Help! Help! Why does Yan Mian always have to be there for these moments of peak public embarrassment!

At the same time, Qiao Qiao’s gaze lingered between the two of them. She slowly whistled.

“Allow me to interject.”

Qiao Qiao’s tone was light, completely unmasking her identity as a gleeful spectator: “Mianmian’s fan… which ‘Mian’ is it?”