The Romance Extras Turned Out to Be a Yuri Story - Chapter 38.1

“Uncle, did you finish talking with the principal?” Lin Luoluo asked curiously.

Sang Zimo said warmly, “Yes, we did. From now on, Luoluo can’t call me uncle when you see me at school.”

“Professor Sang!” Lin Luoluo reacted quickly.

Sang Zimo smiled gently, “Luoluo is very smart.”

“Just a little bit of cleverness,” Gu Beichen scoffed to spoil the mood.

Sang Zimo shook his head disapprovingly. Lin Luoluo glanced at Gu Beichen and said nothing.

Gu Beichen said, “Mom is still waiting for you at home. She said she wants to throw you a welcome home party.”

“What about Luoluo?” Sang Zimo asked.

Lin Luoluo shook her head: “I won’t disturb your family reunion, Uncle. I’ll drop by another day.”

Gu Beichen snorted.

“Where are you going, Luoluo? We can give you a ride,” Sang Zimo offered.

Lin Luoluo was unwilling to let Gu Beichen see Zhang Qiu, so she firmly refused: “I called a car. Uncle, please go home quickly. Auntie hasn’t seen you in a long time.”

Since the young person was unwilling, Sang Zimo didn’t insist. He and Gu Beichen left the campus first. Gu Beichen drove, and Sang Zimo sat in the passenger seat, smiling as he said, “Your relationship with Luoluo looks very good. I was worried before.”

Gu Beichen’s mouth twitched. How was this a good relationship? Every time they met, they wanted to dig a trap for the other to fall into. He was curious to see what Lin Luoluo was up to.

Gu Beichen didn’t refute, only giving a fake twitch of a smile.

Lin Luoluo hailed a taxi. On the way, Lin Xiangdong messaged her, still feeling uneasy.

【Are you still at the library? Do you want me to come pick you up?】

Lin Luoluo lowered her head and replied: 【We’ve finished.】

After replying to Lin Xiangdong’s message, Lin Luoluo noticed a friend request. She clicked it and saw an unfamiliar profile picture. Frowning, she chose to ignore it. Just as she was about to message Zhang Qiu to say she was arriving soon, the same profile picture popped up with another friend request. This time, the person had added a name in the memo.

Luo Ning.

Lin Luoluo had a good memory and recognized the name. It was the tall, quiet girl standing next to Shu Bai. She frowned. Was the person coming to scold her on behalf of Shu Bai?

Lin Luoluo sneered and chose to ignore it again.

She had just typed a few words into the chat box for Zhang Qiu when the person’s friend request popped up again, persistent.

Lin Luoluo stared coldly for a moment. This time, she didn’t click ignore immediately. She first sent the information to Zhang Qiu, then pulled up the request and chose to accept. She wanted to see what the person had to say.

As soon as they were added, the person immediately apologized.

【Sorry about what happened at the library today. Shu Bai didn’t mean it, and it’s not what you think. We weren’t talking badly about senior student Zhang Qiu. On the contrary, we all respect her very much.】

Lin Luoluo raised an eyebrow and did not reply, wanting to see what else the person wanted to say.

Luo Ning continued: 【Shu Bai was very interested in the student union in her freshman year. She excitedly signed up soon after school started. It was autumn then, and the school was having a sports meet, so she was doing odd jobs in the student union.】

【At that time, I could only see her during lunch at the cafeteria and during class, and then I noticed one person appearing more and more frequently in Shu Bai’s conversations—that person was senior student Zhang Qiu.】

Lin Luoluo’s originally uninterested eyes stopped at the name Zhang Qiu.

She stared at the ‘typing’ indicator, feeling inexplicably anxious.

When something involved Zhang Qiu, she somehow became very concerned.

Luo Ning took a long time to type, perhaps because the content she was sending was quite a lot.

【Zhang Qiu is an excellent senior student. Although we had just started school, we had seen her speak at the freshman orientation. She is a scholarship recipient, Vice President of the Student Union, manager of the tennis club, a popular figure at school, excellent in her studies, and good-looking. Everyone likes her, including Shu Bai.】

【Shu Bai likes her very much, so she followed senior student Zhang Qiu and joined the student union, hoping to get closer to her.】

Lin Luoluo stared at the word likes and felt very uncomfortable, as if a treasure she had discovered had also been found by others, and they wanted to snatch it from her.

She typed an unhappy message, hitting the keyboard rapidly: 【What does this have to do with her being a hateful person behind the scenes?】

Luo Ning saw Lin Luoluo’s message and suddenly found the person very cute.

Sure enough, she was a privileged young lady; she didn’t even know how to scold people properly.

She had a smile on her lips and directly outed Shu Bai.

【She’s a lesbian.】

Lin Luoluo wasn’t surprised, just twitched her mouth, thinking, ‘Sure enough.’ Seeing the content Luo Ning sent earlier, she felt that Shu Bai’s motives were impure.

Then Luo Ning continued.

【She thought senior student Zhang Qiu was the same as her and tried to find every opportunity to spend time with her, only to discover that senior student Zhang Qiu had a boyfriend.】

Lin Luoluo could imagine how Zhang Qiu would have handled it.

A smile appeared on her lips, thinking, ‘Serves her right.’ It was just Shu Bai’s solo act. How dare she even resent Zhang Qiu? Zhang Qiu probably didn’t even know someone liked her like that.

【She insisted that senior student Zhang Qiu was also a lesbian and felt that everything was a pretense. She wanted to expose senior student Zhang Qiu’s false facade and tried every method, but failed to verify her sexual orientation. Instead, she became annoying and was discovered by the Secretary-General and kicked out of the Student Union.】

The Secretary-General? Wasn’t that Fang Duo?

Lin Luoluo’s impression of Fang Duo was originally negative, but hearing her name now felt very satisfying.

She could imagine Shu Bai’s situation at the time. Zhang Qiu didn’t need to step in; any random person could dispatch her. No wonder she was spreading rumors about Zhang Qiu in the library today.

Lin Luoluo scoffed. Seeing that Luo Ning was no longer typing, she sent a message: 【Why are you telling me all this?】

Luo Ning casually dropped a bombshell: 【Shu Bai and I are together.】

Lin Luoluo: Meow meow meow?

【You are Shu Bai’s type.】

Lin Luoluo: ???

【I’m clarifying this to apologize on her behalf.】

【Also, I’d like to ask you to keep an eye on her for me, in case she looks for you.】

Lin Luoluo stared at those sentences for a long time. Why did she understand every word, but when put together, it made no sense? Was there any direct correlation between these things?

She twitched her mouth.

Lin Luoluo thought to herself: It’s just the little tricks of lesbians.

However, she scrolled back up the chat history between the two of them, her gaze resting on the sentence, “She insisted that senior student Zhang Qiu was also a lesbian.”

Is Zhang Qiu a lesbian?

Lin Luoluo wasn’t sure.

After all, it’s normal for girls to hug, embrace, kiss, and be affectionate together.

Although she never had a close female friend, she had seen how others made friends.

Does this prove that Zhang Qiu is a lesbian? Besides, she had dated Gu Beichen.

Although they broke up, Zhang Qiu’s sexual orientation might still be towards men.

Lin Luoluo put down her phone and looked out the window. She had already booked the restaurant—a medicinal cuisine place. She had also checked with the doctor, and Zhang Qiu could eat some light food. Today’s meals were all specially prepared medicinal dishes for patients, and she had specifically instructed the kitchen.

As she was thinking, her mind drifted back to the phrase, ‘she’s also a lesbian.’

Although Lin Luoluo hoped she was, she didn’t dare to bet on it.

After all, this was an romance novel.

But wait, didn’t the System once say that the author admitted there was a yuri (girl-love) line in it?

Lin Luoluo licked her lip. After the System proactively appeared at the banquet last time, she hadn’t paid any attention to it. She really didn’t want to contact it, but she truly wanted to know what yuri line the author was referring to. And why hasn’t the author’s extra chapter made any move after all these days?

Lin Luoluo felt a little lost. Since the hospital was still a little ways off, she leaned back against the seat and called the System in her mind.

【System, hasn’t the author’s extra chapter been written yet?】

She knew the System was definitely there.

Sure enough, the System quickly popped up. Almost the moment her voice faded, the System appeared.

【I forgot to tell the host that the flow rate of time between the book world and the real world is different. It’s 1:10. Ten days pass in the book world for every one day in reality. It’s only been zero-point-something hours since the author said they would write the extra chapter. There are no signs of the author’s extra chapter yet.】

【Do you know what they are going to write?】

Will they bring the male and female protagonists back to the main storyline, then have them reconcile and a happy ending?

【I don’t know. We have no way of knowing the author’s affairs.】

Lin Luoluo felt a little disappointed, but quickly stammered another question: 【You said last time that the author admitted there was a yuri line in the book. Which line is it?】

The System was silent for a long time. Lin Luoluo almost thought it had gone offline before its voice appeared in her mind.

【This book was adapted from a yuri short story the author previously wrote and kept on a hard drive. The characters are directly transplanted from that yuri short story, except that one of the female leads was split up and given to the second male lead.**】

【In the short story, the vicious female supporting character and the female protagonist are a couple.】

Lin Luoluo was stunned, then ecstatic.

She and Zhang Qiu are a match made in heaven! The author, their ‘birth mother,’ even acknowledged it!

After the initial ecstasy, Lin Luoluo calmed down and asked in confusion: 【Why did the author do that?】

She thought all the characters should be the author’s children. While they had the right to separate and re-couple the characters, wasn’t this a little disgusting to the readers?

When Lin Luoluo read novels, what she hated most was when characters had prototypes.

Paper people are paper people. Substituting real people always makes it hard to ship them.

The System said: 【Yuri is always niche. Although the author likes it, they also need to make a living. Otherwise, this yuri short story wouldn’t have been hidden deep within the author’s hard drive.】

【At that time, the author’s submissions were frequently rejected. Various editors told her that her writing was not popular in the market, requesting her to write the most popular genres in female-oriented fiction at the time: romantic tyrant CEO stories, melodramatic dog-blood stories, and formulaic stories. After struggling, the author extracted two characters from the original text, then wrote this book, The Cool School Idol Fell in Love with Me. Then, with guidance from the editor, they added the classic F4 trope and some melodramatic plots, and it unexpectedly became popular.】

【Although many people criticized it, many people also read it. The author painfully chose to prioritize their basic needs, but because they betrayed their original intention, they couldn’t hold it together when writing the extra chapter.】

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