The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 75

Xi Ruan ended up going to school alone, feeling exhausted. Fortunately, she had money, so her parents hired someone to take her to school. Others handled all the luggage; she just had to go through the procedures inside the academic building.

Ji Mingxiao was now a part of the student council’s leadership team, so she didn’t have to sit and work. She just had to show up and oversee things occasionally.

When she arrived, she immediately spotted Xi Ruan in the queue. Ji Mingxiao remained calm. She looked around, found a spot to write a note, which had the character “Ji” on it, followed by a phone number.

Then she went to the distribution area for military training uniforms and helped out.

When Xi Ruan saw a girl smiling at her, she had a very strange feeling.

“How tall?”

“160.”

Ji Mingxiao found a uniform set, put the note under it, and slipped it into Xi Ruan’s hand.

Xi Ruan looked at Ji Mingxiao again, “Thank you, senior.”

“You’re welcome, little junior,” Ji Mingxiao said with a smile.

No one else thought anything of it, but hearing that “little junior” made Xi Ruan’s skin crawl. She subtly rolled her eyes at Ji Mingxiao and left.

Ji Mingxiao handed out a few more uniforms, her face constantly lit up with a smile that made the hearts of many male and female freshmen flutter. Of course, no one’s heart was fluttering more than Ji Mingxiao’s.

Many freshmen were bold enough to ask for her WeChat, but Ji Mingxiao declined, only saying she was from the external relations department. This led to a large group of people expressing their desire to join external relations.

Ji Mingxiao smiled and said nothing. She figured she would likely be the student council president next year. After all, she was so outstanding, and with the protagonist’s halo, there was no way she couldn’t get the position of student council president.

Now that she had found Xi Ruan, there was no need to stay any longer. She went to check out a few other places and then left.

The start-of-school matters required the cooperation of the entire student council, but to be honest, it didn’t have much to do with her external relations department.

“Host, why are you so happy? You’ve met her in the previous worlds too.”

“I’ve always wanted to confess to her when I’m eighteen and have a campus romance. Now, it’s finally happening.” Ji Mingxiao’s steps were light and quick.

System A hesitated for a few seconds, “Host, are you going to confess in this world?”

Before Ji Mingxiao could speak, the system added, “Even if you confess, she might not accept it, and even if she does, she’ll forget about it when you go back, right?”

“Just shut up.” She felt her good mood instantly vanish with System A’s few words. “Do you systems not learn how to speak properly before you start working?”

System A was silent for a few seconds. “Isn’t honesty a virtue?”

Ji Mingxiao: …

“Do you like hearing lies?” System A said again. “You humans are so strange.”

“Shut up,” Ji Mingxiao snapped.

She bought a cup of bubble tea and returned to her dorm. Xi Ruan had already added her on WeChat, very quickly.

For security, Ji Mingxiao had changed her WeChat password earlier because it seemed Jian Huanhuan knew it, and that was very unsafe.

However, Chu Qing didn’t know Jian Huanhuan’s WeChat password.

【Xi Ruan: …】

【Chu Qing: Little junior.】

【Xi Ruan: Speak properly.】

【Chu Qing: How is calling you ‘little junior’ not speaking properly? Be good, say ‘senior’ for me.】

【Xi Ruan: Blacklisted. Goodbye.】

Ji Mingxiao curved her lips into a smile.

【Chu Qing: What’s your major?】

【Xi Ruan: Literature.】

【Chu Qing: A direct junior sister! Then where’s your dorm?】

【Xi Ruan: Fangya Garden, Building 17.】

【Chu Qing: …】

【Chu Qing: You’re at the very east, we’re at the very west. It’s so difficult. It takes half an hour to cycle over.】

【Xi Ruan: Looks like fate wants you to stay away from me.】

【Chu Qing: Do you have money?】

【Xi Ruan: If this weren’t a virtual world, I would’ve already deleted you.】

【Xi Ruan: I didn’t have any originally, but yesterday my dad’s lottery ticket suddenly won. Eighty million.】

【Chu Qing: I just wished for your family to be very rich yesterday.】

【Xi Ruan: …】

Xi Ruan knew it. How else could her family have suddenly won the lottery?

Ji Mingxiao went into the dorm building and then went out again, heading to the nearest lottery station to buy a lottery ticket and a few scratch-offs. She won five dollars.

She couldn’t understand why her wish for a supporting character to win a lottery would come true, but her own wishes for herself were completely useless. By all logic, wasn’t she the chosen one? Her luck should be the best.

System A now understood Ji Mingxiao well enough to know what she was thinking just by looking at her expression.

“Because you’re the protagonist, if there were any major changes, a series of chain reactions would follow, and the impact would be too great.”

Ji Mingxiao was silent for a few seconds. “The moment I appeared here, this world was no longer going to develop the way you imagined it would. So, why can’t I win the lottery?”

System A was suddenly speechless.

After a few seconds of silence, it said testily, “It just can’t be.”

Ji Mingxiao sighed, holding the lottery ticket. Why couldn’t she be the one to win?

She had class that afternoon, and Xi Ruan was busy, so talking was out of the question.

Jian Huanhuan had sent her many messages, an absolute message bombardment, like a madwoman.

【Huanhuan: Do you like someone else?】

【Huanhuan: Or did your roommate say something to you?】

【Huanhuan: You don’t believe me, you actually believe a bunch of outsiders.】

【Huanhuan: Don’t believe what they say, only I love you.】

【Huanhuan: The movie you like is showing this Saturday. Let’s go watch it together, as my apology.】

【Huanhuan: Don’t be mad. No one will like you if you act like this.】

…

There were many more messages, and Ji Mingxiao herself felt a chill just reading them.

【Chu Qing: Are you sure you don’t want to see a neurologist?】

System A: …

When Jian Huanhuan saw a message from Ji Mingxiao, she thought she was coming to reconcile. Who knew it would be a sentence like that? She frowned, so angry she wanted to smash her phone.

【Huanhuan: What do you mean?】

【Huanhuan: Are you disgusted with me? Do you think I’m not good enough for you?】

【Chu Qing: You’ve spent over a hundred thousand of my money and still have this attitude every day. A hundred thousand is enough to support a person who is obedient and sweet to me.】

Jian Huanhuan looked at the message from Ji Mingxiao and frowned.

【Huanhuan: Can our feelings be measured by money?】

【Chu Qing: It seems so. I’m willing to spend money on you. I’ve spent over a hundred thousand, and every time you buy me a five-dollar breakfast, you chatter about it for a long time.】

【Chu Qing: I saw a saying online: ‘Someone willing to spend money on you may not love you, but someone unwilling to spend money on you definitely doesn’t love you.’】

【Chu Qing: What do you think?】

【Huanhuan: Qingqing, how can you think of me like that?】

【Chu Qing: Why can’t I think of you like that?】

【Huanhuan: Do you want to break up with me?】

【Chu Qing: I do have that thought.】

Jian Huanhuan was stunned. She had only said it on a whim. Why was he suddenly like this? She still didn’t understand.

She opened her PUA exchange group and posted her situation, which immediately led to a discussion.

This was their regular communication group, with both men and women. Most were masters of manipulating emotions. Jian Huanhuan had been pulled into it by accident. Her ‘master’ had harmed countless young women and was a scoundrel, but in this group, he was a revered deity. This person once dated more than a dozen people at the same time without his boats capsizing.

Most people thought that Chu Qing must have found out something. However, it was truly strange for him to suddenly wake up after being controlled for a year and a half. In the end, almost everyone concluded that Jian Huanhuan’s skill level was not high enough.

Jian Huanhuan didn’t reply, and she was happy to have the peace.

When Ji Mingxiao’s afternoon class ended, she walked out and saw Jian Huanhuan standing at the doorway.

She glanced at her and walked past her.

“Qingqing, let’s talk. I think you’ve misunderstood me,” Jian Huanhuan said, looking at Ji Mingxiao.

Ji Mingxiao looked Jian Huanhuan in the eye. “I hope you can consider one thing: do you like me, or do you like my money? I’ll also tell you that I’m running out of money, and I won’t go to my parents for money for you.”

Jian Huanhuan froze. The people around them heard Ji Mingxiao’s words and looked at them. Jian Huanhuan was a person who cared a lot about her reputation. She grabbed Ji Mingxiao’s hand.

“What are you doing? Let go of me!” Ji Mingxiao frowned.

When the onlookers saw Jian Huanhuan’s action, they rushed over and separated the two.

“Jian Huanhuan, what do you want?”

“You’ve spent so much of Qingqing’s money, and now you want to hit her?” The person who spoke was Ji Mingxiao’s roommate.

“What did Qingqing ever do to deserve this from you?”

People are gossipy, and gossip about beautiful people is especially sweet.

The crowd of onlookers grew.

Jian Huanhuan looked at Ji Mingxiao. “Qingqing, in your heart, am I just a person who scams you for money?”

“If you’re not, then give the hundred thousand back,” Ji Mingxiao blinked her eyes. “I’ve never been in a relationship. The first time I liked someone, I wanted to give her the best, but what about you…”

Ji Mingxiao took a deep breath, and tears slid down her cheeks.

The sight of a beautiful person crying was particularly moving, and some of the bystanders already felt their hearts ache.

Ji Mingxiao’s three roommates were stunned; it was the first time they had ever seen Chu Qing cry.

Jian Huanhuan felt like she was in an impossible situation.

Over a hundred thousand yuan was a huge amount for a university student. Over a year and a half, a hundred thousand was an astronomical figure.

Furthermore, the public opinion had been swayed by Ji Mingxiao and her roommates.

Jian Huanhuan bit her lip.

“Those things weren’t given to me by you willingly?”

“If you didn’t hint that you liked those shoes and clothes, how would she know? Qingqing never wears sneakers except for physical education class, and she knows even less about the shoes you mentioned.” Fang Ai looked at Jian Huanhuan with cold eyes. Now that the matter was finally out in the open, they had to see it through.

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