I Fall Every Time I Meet an Alpha [Transmigrated into a Book] - Chapter 35

Zhong Xiaoxiao nearly dropped her jaw when she saw Meng Yuqing return.

It had been nearly two weeks since the incident, and Zhong Xiaoxiao had enjoyed a period of stress-free days. But the moment Meng Yuqing reappeared, her heart instantly grew heavy, as if weighed down by a stone.

“Zhong Xiaoxiao, long time no see~” Meng Yuqing floated over to Zhong Xiaoxiao’s seat and greeted her airily.

“…” Zhong Xiaoxiao stared at her, momentarily at a loss for words.

After exchanging greetings, Meng Yuqing returned to her seat with a triumphant smile.

Feeling the presence of the person behind her, Zhong Xiaoxiao felt as if needles were pricking her back.

The villainous female supporting character! The villainous female supporting character! Should I be grateful? At least she spared my life! But now that she’s left me alive, she’s back to cause trouble again!

Calm down! As long as the villainous female supporting character isn’t dead, and I’m not dead, then I’m still the female lead! The most important one!

After muttering to herself for a while, Zhong Xiaoxiao felt the temperature around her drop sharply. Indeed, sharing the same space with the villainous female supporting character made it hard to breathe.

The school was already oppressive enough.

Previously, the students had boycotted classes and studied on their own every day. When classes finally resumed, everyone had grown lazy, and the atmosphere had deteriorated terribly.

This school was practically finished. Back in the real world, when Zhong Xiaoxiao had been exploited to the extreme, she had wished for her company to go bankrupt. Now, she wished the same for this school for it to collapse so everyone could just scatter.

Meng Yuqing sat behind Zhong Xiaoxiao, reading her thoughts. The corners of her lips curled up unconsciously. Seeing Zhong Xiaoxiao again filled her with a strange sense of familiarity.

Zhong Xiaoxiao wasn’t from this world, which made her endlessly curious. She wanted to explore her world to delve deeper into it.

The other classmates were equally shocked to see Meng Yuqing return. But no one dared to speak up or joke about it. Clearly, they all still saw Meng Yuqing as fragile, like glass, and didn’t dare provoke her. They feared her before because of her ferocity, now because of her fragility.

With Meng Yuqing’s return, Meng Yuzhou’s seat was now empty.

Zhong Xiaoxiao felt an inexplicable emptiness where the seat to her left had been. Had he stopped coming to school because he was heartbroken over their breakup? But wasn’t he the one who initiated it? And didn’t he say he wanted to focus on his studies? Shouldn’t that mean he’d come to school even more?

For the moment, Zhong Xiaoxiao couldn’t make sense of the siblings’ situation one was here, the other wasn’t.

“My brother is sick. As his girlfriend, shouldn’t you go see him?” On the way to the restroom between classes, Meng Yuqing deliberately slung an arm around Zhong Xiaoxiao’s shoulder and spoke close to her ear.

Zhong Xiaoxiao shuddered at her proximity, goosebumps rising on her skin. Sick? What kind of sickness? A cold? A fever? Wait that wasn’t the point. The point was, “Your brother and I already broke up. How can I go see him now?”

“He got sick because of the breakup. You know that, right?”

“How would I—” Ugh! How would I know that? I’m not some fortune-teller! Can I read minds or something?

Meng Yuqing heard her internal screaming, contrasting sharply with her calm exterior, and couldn’t help but chuckle softly. Someone who looked so adorable on the outside was so fiery on the inside.

“Uh, I need to use the restroom. Stop holding onto me.” Zhong Xiaoxiao pulled her arm away and entered an empty stall. Meng Yuqing stood right outside the door, and Zhong Xiaoxiao finally snapped, “What are you doing? Don’t you need to go too?”

The thought of Meng Yuqing standing right outside the toilet stall watching her use the bathroom made Zhong Xiaoxiao’s hair stand on end. Even though the door was closed and she couldn’t actually see, the psychological pressure on Zhong Xiaoxiao was immense.

“I’ll wait for you. I’ll go after you’re done,” Meng Yuqing said, standing by the door watching her.

Hearing this, Zhong Xiaoxiao felt her temples throbbing. “You, you’re insane! There are so many empty stalls right next to us!”

Zhong Xiaoxiao couldn’t hold back her urge to yell. It was obvious many people had scurried away the moment they entered, as if they were carrying some contagious disease. Those people hadn’t been afraid of her before, so clearly, they were afraid of Meng Yuqing. Meng Yuqing, this lunatic!

With Meng Yuqing just standing there outside the stall, Zhong Xiaoxiao, desperate to relieve herself, slammed the door shut without a second thought and locked it. Who cared? If Meng Yuqing dared to come in, she’d scream!

As Zhong Xiaoxiao did her business, she strained her ears to listen for any movement outside. Meng Yuqing’s footsteps shifted it sounded like she had left. Zhong Xiaoxiao exhaled in quiet relief. Good heavens, was this ever going to end? Here she was, a woman in her twenties, being driven to the brink of nervousness by a little brat, let alone the female lead, who was just a teenage girl.

The bathroom was eerily quiet now, devoid of any sound. But soon, a rhythmic knocking came from the next stall, accompanied by a ghostly female voice: “Out of toilet paper… do you have any~? Any~? Any~?”

The moment Zhong Xiaoxiao heard it, her heart leaped into her throat, and cold sweat broke out down her back. The empty bathroom amplified the knocking, thump, thump, thump echoing louder and louder in her mind. The woman’s voice grew increasingly sinister. Zhong Xiaoxiao’s mind flashed with scenes from horror movies about haunted bathrooms, and terror gripped her.

What the hell?! A bathroom horror show?!

Her heart pounded wildly as she glanced at the partition only to see a pale, slender hand reaching out from underneath, fingers clawing and waving frantically. It was as if a female ghost was crouched there, ready to crawl over. The sight sent chills down Zhong Xiaoxiao’s spine.

This psycho! Cursing inwardly, Zhong Xiaoxiao crumpled up some toilet paper and tossed it toward the hand before bolting out of the stall and fleeing the bathroom.

Another second in there, and she would have lost it.

Outside, the sight of the security bars on the windows deepened her gloom. Even the once-bright sky now seemed veiled in shadow.

Zhong Xiaoxiao realized she hadn’t washed her hands but didn’t dare go back. Whatever, she’d just wash them before eating. She hurried back to the classroom, back to where there were people.

Meng Yuqing gave her such a terrible feeling that she wanted nothing more than to avoid her at all costs. And with rumors of some kind of illness, she wanted even less to do with her.

Before long, Meng Yuqing returned to the classroom too. Spotting Zhong Xiaoxiao, she smirked triumphantly. The moment Zhong Xiaoxiao sensed her sitting down behind her, she desperately wanted to flee the room.

Good grief, how had the plot taken such a bizarre turn? Wasn’t this supposed to be a youth romance? Why had it turned into a school horror flick?

System 666: Are you out of your mind? Why mess with the female lead for no reason?

Meng Yuqing: Was I messing with her? I was just talking to her normally.

System 666: She looked terrified, her face went pale! And you’re saying you weren’t messing with her? Don’t forget, you just jumped off a building. What seems like a joke to you is real to them.

Meng Yuqing: If I don’t interact with her, do you think she’d pay me any attention?

System 666: Your methods are a bit extreme.

Meng Yuqing: Fine, I’ll take it slow then.

After class in the afternoon, Meng Yuqing still clung to Zhong Xiaoxiao like a persistent ghost.

“Come to my house to see my brother. He’s sick.”

“No… I’m going home.”

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