I Helped My Best Friend with Her Romance—and Fell for the Enemy’s Strategist - Chapter 67

To be honest, helping robots fall in love is downright difficult.

To put it bluntly, I’ve ended up dating one of the robots myself.

I even gave my first kiss to the other robot’s strategist.

Compared to the robots, the high-attack, low-defense strategist is much better.

They say strategists don’t go to the battlefield.

Not only have I stepped onto the battlefield, I’m practically sharing the same bed now.

Lin Ruocheng doesn’t dare use her ultimate move, or she’d be devoured completely.

Yet these two robots haven’t made any progress at all.

Sometimes she wonders if these two are even dating. Or maybe in their eyes, dating just means being a little closer than ordinary friends? If that’s the case, it’s better not to date at all, just kidding.

Now it all depends on which side figures it out first.

Once they do, everything will be fine.

Lin Ruocheng scrolls through their chat history.

How should I put it?

It’s… complicated.

[Song Wanqing]: [Video] Check this out, it’s hilarious.

[Yu Qiuli]: Hahaha, that’s amazing, I’m dying of laughter.

[Song Wanqing]: Right, dying of laughter (facepalm laughing-crying) *3.

[Yu Qiuli]: Yeah, dying of laughter (facepalm crying-laughing) *4.

Scrolling up a bit more, it’s like this:

[Yu Qiuli]: I feel like eating out today.

[Song Wanqing]: Then eat out.

[Yu Qiuli]: But I don’t have time to eat out tonight.

[Song Wanqing]: Then don’t eat out.

[Yu Qiuli]: So hungry (puppy crying).

[Song Wanqing]: Don’t be hungry. Just endure it, it’ll pass.

Lin Ruocheng can hardly bear to look at it.

She’s afraid she might have a heart attack.

Can’t these robots switch to manual mode, huh?

What she really means is she wants you to order takeout and eat with her, or maybe go out for a late-night snack later!

Who replies like that?

She’s genuinely curious now, how on earth did these two even start dating?

Are they faking it?

How is that possible?

Even if she doesn’t know the other one well, she knows Song Wanqing inside out.

Though not exactly a robot, she’s not far off.

Fu Yanxi is driving.

While waiting at a red light, she can’t resist reaching out to pinch Lin Ruocheng’s chubby cheek.

“Getting worked up over the two robots?”

“A little, but it’s fine. I just don’t understand how they even started dating. Look, us strategists are already so passionate, you’d think we’ve set at least a little example for them. How come they still don’t know how to date?”

“Are we… passionate?”

“Aren’t we?”

Aside from the final step, haven’t we done everything else?

At the very least, we’ve kissed.

That’s still much faster than Song Wanqing and the other one.

I heard they haven’t even kissed yet.

They say strategists never go to the battlefield.

But I’ve already stepped onto it.

Playing matchmaker these days is just too hard. This money isn’t easy to earn at all.

Still, I had my own reasons for agreeing to date Fu Yanxi. Initially, it was to let the two robots learn properly, so they’d have a stronger sense of immersion. Plus, my yuri otome game needed some real intimate moments, and I needed to find that dating feeling, so I agreed.

So far, dating Fu Yanxi feels pretty good.

Fu Yanxi knows my motives aren’t pure.

I wouldn’t just date anyone casually.

Of course, I wouldn’t just casually kiss anyone. It was because I felt quite interested in her that I agreed to her pursuit, allowing our feelings to deepen for each other.

“It feels intense to me.”

Fu Yanxi withdrew her hand and started the car again.

A little over half an hour later, they stopped at the entrance of a middle school. Lin Ruocheng got out of the car and looked up. Wasn’t this the same middle school she and Fu Yanxi had attended together as kids? Did she bring her here to reminisce about their youth?

“This is the place,” Fu Yanxi said, also stepping out of the car, carrying some gifts in her hand. She walked ahead, exchanged a few words with the elderly security guard, and was let in. Lin Ruocheng followed behind.

“You brought me to our middle school for a date? Does it hold some special meaning?”

“To tell you about my seven-year crush,” Fu Yanxi replied, her voice cold, as if recounting someone else’s story.

They walked one after the other across the school grounds, carrying the gifts, and first headed to their familiar teacher’s office. Their former homeroom teacher was inside.

Fu Yanxi knocked on the door.

“Come in.”

“Hello, teacher…”

“Hello… Fu Yanxi? Lin Ruocheng?”

“Hello, teacher,” Lin Ruocheng quickly greeted.

Back in middle school, she hadn’t been a well-behaved student. Although she excelled academically, she had given her teachers plenty of headaches.

The homeroom teacher was delighted and promptly began boasting to the other teachers about her star students. “You didn’t have to bring anything! So, what brings you two back…?”

“Just visiting you, teacher…”

The homeroom teacher chuckled teasingly. “It looks like you two ended up together, huh? When I first started teaching your class, I was still young and completely missed the signs. I thought you just disliked Xiao Chengzi. But it’s good that you two are together now.”

The teacher’s words left Lin Ruocheng bewildered. Wait, the homeroom teacher knew about Fu Yanxi’s crush on her? How come she herself had no idea?

But it made sense. Back then, she would never have considered dating early. Although she enjoyed teasing some of the girls, she was completely clueless about romance and found direct confessions from boys or girls utterly annoying. At that time, she was proud, perhaps too caught up in her own self-importance.

“Alright, you two go ahead and look around. I have one more class to teach. How about we have lunch together after I’m done?”

“Don’t worry about us, please focus on your work,” they replied.

The homeroom teacher watched their retreating figures with a knowing, affectionate smile. A few younger teachers came over to ask about them.

“These two are my star students, the ones with the best exam results.”

During the high school entrance exams, Fu Yanxi had been specially admitted to an elite international high school, while Lin Ruocheng had entered the top high school with the highest math score in the province. They were arguably the best students she had ever taught, though their personalities couldn’t have been more different.

Lin Ruocheng was the type to sleep in class and nap during breaks, yet she could answer any question quickly and accurately. During breaks, her desk was always surrounded by chattering boys and girls, and she received countless love letters. Many people adored her.

In contrast, Fu Yanxi was quiet and reserved, often darting away at the sight of her. She had excelled in elementary school, but in middle school, Lin Ruocheng always outshone her.

Fu Yanxi led Lin Ruocheng around the school, strolling casually.

“Do you remember this place? It was the year we first entered school, and also the first time I saw you. You were giving a speech as the outstanding student representative, and I spotted you right away from the side. The sunlight happened to be shining on you just then, and your smile was truly beautiful.”