My Dating Sim Just Got an Update - Chapter 33

Hey, hey, hey! Who said I’m with you!

Ren Chenxi was extremely annoyed by Mu Ning’s presumptuousness, but because of Fan Juntian, she stayed silent. No matter how much she resisted Mu Ning, she loathed Fan Juntian—that despicable, disgusting, lowly scoundrel even more. She couldn’t afford to have a falling out with Mu Ning right in front of him.

“With you?” Turning to Mu Ning, Fan Juntian put on a nauseating act of deep affection. “Mu Ning, don’t misunderstand. I just saw that things weren’t easy for her as a girl and wanted to look after her. But… you already have an injured person to care for, and now there’s one more… Eh, why isn’t that trash Ren Muhui looking after his own sister?”

Fan Juntian’s last question was a blatant probe.

Mu Ning ignored his fishing. She simply kept a cold face and tugged at Ren Chenxi, who was restlessly trying to slip away, before answering icily: “Ren Muhui isn’t here, so naturally, I will be the one taking care of his sister!”

Is Ren Muhui just “not here,” or is he dead? Fan Juntian wondered. Is his sister so desperate she’s been left in someone else’s care? His eyes darted back and forth between Mu Ning and Ren Chenxi. Seeing Mu Ning grow impatient, he smiled and continued his fake-devoted act. “Oh, I see. But Mu Ning, I only just noticed you brought back more than one person today! A lot of them look like our juniors from school. I’ll say it again—if you need help, I will do everything in my power for you! Mu Ning, you know that all these years, my feelings for you.”

“Enough! Stop putting on a show. If you actually cared about our Boss, you’d control those lackeys of yours!” Chen Gu interrupted, his face sour. “Stop treating our Boss like a reservoir, shamelessly coming to beg for water every single day! It’s the apocalypse, understand? Water is precious! Tell them to stop asking our Boss for water just to flush their toilets! If they’re that desperate, tell them to go handle their business in the wild!”

“You!” Fan Juntian’s face darkened. He had been about to pour his heart out, and being cut off mid-sentence made him livid. However, with Mu Ning present, he forced the anger down and asked Chen Gu with feigned concern: “Oh? Which of my brothers is being so inconsiderate? Sigh, I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t kept an eye on them… I’m truly sorry. I’ll definitely have a talk with them when I get back!”

“Tsk, keep acting! Did Li Jie and Liao Lan really come for water without your orders? For all we know, you were the one who wanted that toilet water!” Chen Gu rolled his eyes hard.

Fan Juntian clenched his fists, took two deep breaths, and put on an innocent smile. “I really didn’t know. Maybe Liao Lan wanted it for himself? Mu Ning, you shouldn’t look after Liao Lan too much. Even if he and Ren Muhui were close in the past, precious water resources shouldn’t be wasted like that.”

Claiming water is precious while emphasizing how “close” Liao Lan was to Ren Muhui… this guy…

Chen Gu and his team all looked grim.

Mu Ning didn’t want to look at Fan Juntian’s hypocritical face for another second. “I have to take them to register. I don’t have time for small talk,” she said flatly, pulling Ren Chenxi toward a building on the other side of the base gate.

Fan Juntian watched them leave, his expression turning venomous.

“Hmph! Acting so high and mighty just because you’re a water-type? Just wait! One day, I’ll have you under me!”

When Ren Chenxi looked back, she caught the malice glinting in Fan Juntian’s narrow, distorted eyes.

“Actually… my brother was on very bad terms with that Liao Lan,” Ren Chenxi said suddenly while they were waiting in line to register.

She might not love Mu Ning anymore and didn’t want to be near her, but seeing Mu Ning provide unlimited water to a “friend” who was nothing more than a parasite made her incredibly annoyed. It was even more irritating than Mu Ning telling Fan Juntian she would “look after” her.

“?” Ren Chenxi’s sudden, contextless remark left Mu Ning confused. Since they met, Ren Chenxi had never initiated a conversation. Mu Ning even wondered if the comment was actually directed at her.

While Mu Ning was dazed, Chen Gu reacted immediately. “Sister Xi, are you saying your brother and Liao Lan didn’t get along, so the Boss should stop giving them water?”

“Yeah…” Ren Chenxi replied reluctantly.

“How do you know they were on bad terms?” Mu Ning asked, her focus not on the warning, but on the source of the info.

This woman. I’m kindly warning her not to be a human reservoir, and she questions me? No good deed goes unpunished! Ren Chenxi’s face soured. She wanted to snap back that it was none of her business, but seeing the pleading looks from Chen Gu and the others, she suppressed her temper and explained crossly: “My brother told me. He was only casual acquaintances with his old roommates. Why else would he have moved out? As for Liao Lan, he had disgusting habits. He’d use other people’s body wash, shampoo, and toothpaste without asking. He’d use someone else’s face basin to soak his feet. Once, when another roommate offended him, he used that guy’s toothbrush to scrub the toilet…”

“Ugh…” Several girls listening to the gossip looked like they were about to be sick.

“That’s not all. He was a thief, too. He’d swipe spare change left in the dorm. Because the amounts were small, no one bothered to report him to the counselor. My brother couldn’t stand him, so he moved out.”

Ren Chenxi wasn’t making this up. In the original game settings, Liao Lan had exactly these character flaws. On her first day playing the game for her brother, she had seen Liao Lan casually using her toothpaste.

That was why Ren Chenxi had been in such a rush to move out the next day—partly to hide her gender, but mostly because Liao Lan was revolting.

“Ew… that guy is seriously gross!”

“So, Boss, if Liao Lan brings people to ask for water again, don’t give it to them! Look at Jiao Xueyi; besides the tasks for the base’s water supply, he makes everyone pay with nuclei if they want water!” As Chen Gu spoke, he helpfully explained to the newcomers that Jiao Xueyi was the base’s other water-type user.

The South Sea Base was a large-scale survivor camp, yet it only had four water-type users. Natural-element users were rare to begin with, and water types were the rarest of all. This was why Fan Juntian—even though his family had seized half the base’s power and he had lusted after Mu Ning for years—didn’t dare to use force to take her.

The founder and current primary leader of the base, Qi Sheng, placed immense value on Mu Ning, a Level 5 dual-type user of Water and Wood.

While Chen Gu briefed the newcomers on the base’s politics and its two major factions, Mu Ning stared fixedly at Ren Chenxi and pressed: “But Liao Lan was the one who told me Ren Muhui had gone to H-City for a trip. He said they were best friends, which is why Muhui told him.”

Hearing this, Ren Chenxi curled her lip in disdain. Tsk. This Liao Lan is truly disgusting. He loved freeloading before the apocalypse, and now he’s still using someone else’s name to get ahead!

“Give me a break. Liao Lan claims to be ‘best friends’ with everyone! My brother did consider H-City, but he didn’t tell Liao Lan; he told a few actual friends, and Liao Lan just happened to overhear. Besides, my brother isn’t in H-City, is he? Liao Lan’s info was wrong. My brother went to the Great Grasslands first, then headed south to Y Province…”

“Then why… why didn’t he come back when the semester started?”

“…” He was having too much fun and forgot the time! Ren Chenxi looked away from Mu Ning and said stiffly, “How should I know what he was thinking! He’s gone now, why do you care so much!”

Reminded once again of the “fact” of Ren Muhui’s death, Mu Ning’s mood plummeted again.

By then, Chen Gu had finished explaining the base’s factions. Finally, he gave the newcomers a stern warning: as newcomers, they must never, ever provoke Fan Juntian’s faction, nor should they ever associate with them.

“The people close to Fan Juntian are all lunatics and freaks!”

Hearing this, Ren Chenxi instinctively asked, “Is it because they’re all drug addicts?”

Before the apocalypse, Fan Juntian had tried to pull a dirty trick on her, and Ren Chenxi had made him suffer the consequences. Later, he claimed he was taking a medical leave of absence, but Ren Chenxi was certain he had gone to forced rehab. But was a drug addiction that easy to kick? She didn’t believe a man like him had the willpower to fight it.

She was sure his addiction remained; in fact, it had likely worsened. Even setting aside the fact that he had withered away despite having good living conditions—with dark circles, sunken eyes, and a sallow complexion—Ren Chenxi could tell just by looking at the debuff icon next to his health bar.

The debuff clearly read “Drug Addiction” with a small number “5” in the corner. A five-stack debuff.

The moment she spoke, silence fell over the group. The newcomers were shocked by her question. Even after two years of apocalypse and seeing all kinds of scum, they hadn’t encountered drug use.

As for Chen Gu and his team, they were stunned by her perceptiveness. Truthfully, while they knew about Fan Juntian’s group’s addiction, most survivors in the base remained completely in the dark.

So, the question was: if the base survivors didn’t know, how did a newcomer like Ren Chenxi know?

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