The System Wants Me To Learn To Be A 'Green Tea' (Quick Transmigration) - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

The strange conversation between the two finally caught the attention of others. Wang Yinhua, Ye Linmu’s deskmate who had returned from the restroom, frowned: “Zhuo Rui, don’t always target Linmu. She’s a very nice person.”

Zhuo Rui’s cheeks flushed with anger: “…”

Was it her fault?

It was clearly Ye Linmu!

All these people were fooled by Ye Linmu’s face!

Chen Zhou sat down again, her expression returning to its usual calmness: “If you can score within the top ten in the class in the next monthly exam, you can choose to sit with me.”

She seemed to be helping no one, yet she implicitly agreed that Ye Linmu could be her deskmate.

Zhuo Rui’s face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot. What did that mean?

These people were all tricked by Ye Linmu’s ‘green tea’ face; she herself was not like that at all!

Ye Linmu curled her lips, but the system frantically reminded her not to get too carried away and to always maintain her image in front of the Person of Fortune, not to ruin it.

Ye Linmu shrugged. This system was too timid.

With Chen Zhou’s tolerance, Ye Linmu became even bolder. Every day, both during and after class, whenever she encountered a problem, regardless of the subject, she would bother the other girl about it.

Looking at Chen Zhou seriously and solemnly explaining the problems to her, Ye Linmu felt deeply impressed. As expected of the Person of Fortune! That ability, that appearance—simply outstanding.

Ah, I really like her.

She loved dealing with upright people like this.

Zhuo Rui’s face was green with envy. Every day, she watched Ye Linmu constantly asking questions, and the relationship between Ye Linmu and Chen Zhou grew closer. Chen Zhou treated Ye Linmu as if she had opened a back door for her, treating her ridiculously well.

It was another self-study session, and Ye Linmu was tugging at Chen Zhou’s sleeve to ask her a question. Although repeating the third year of high school felt like starting over, only those who experienced it knew the misery.

Ye Linmu hadn’t grasped many things. Daily memorizing texts and vocabulary, writing notes, and doing practice problems were almost killing her.

That night, slumped over her desk in her room, Ye Linmu felt completely drained.

“System, can you speed up the flow of time, or let me choose the time point to go to? If this continues, I’ll go crazy. I really will be driven mad by this daily grind of solving problems and memorizing things. Then you won’t have a host.”

She pushed her pen away, completely exasperated.

System: “Host, this is all for the mission! Don’t worry, I will speed up the flow of time that is unrelated to the Person of Fortune.”

Ye Linmu narrowed her eyes and threatened: “You had better, or else…”

“Ding-a-ling!”

The alarm clock on the desk rang. She instinctively hit the snooze button. She was about to ask the system what it was doing when she realized that the sky had unknowingly brightened again. She checked the alarm clock—5:30 AM.

Ye Linmu: “…”

The system stood tall and proud (metaphorically): “Host, how is it? It’s a new day. Go for the capture!”

Ye Linmu smiled through gritted teeth: “I truly thank you.”

She had only attended class for one day yesterday, and barely a minute had passed, yet she had to get up again to memorize vocabulary and go to class. Wonderful.

Because of the system, the desire to sharpen her knife against it flared up inside her.

The system shivered. Why did it feel a bit cold?

No, that’s impossible. It was a system. How could it feel cold?

Something must be broken. It needed to go check.

The Ye Linmu of this world lived in the house alone. Her parents died in an accident, leaving only an insurance payout, so no one noticed that the core inside the body had been swapped.

After washing up and steaming two corncobs, she ate one while walking to school.

Her house was close to the school, only two streets away, so she could hear the school bell.

When she sat down in her seat, quite a few people had already arrived, with only a couple still not there.

Chen Zhou had also arrived. Ye Linmu thought, Capturing the target, well, that naturally means being nice to her. As long as she was good enough to the other person, they should be moved and eventually captured successfully, right?

After thinking, she handed over the other corncob in her bag: “Want some?”

Chen Zhou, who had only eaten half a bun that morning, looked at her in surprise, seemingly taken aback by the sudden friendliness. After all, Ye Linmu had previously been very indifferent to her.

Perhaps the other girl is trying to study hard lately, and after interacting with me, feels it’s okay and wants to become friends?

Chen Zhou pondered. She felt that the corncob in the other girl’s hand smelled really good, different from what she had eaten before. She was tempted to try it.

But she was debating whether to accept it.

Zhuo Rui, who rushed in beside them, saw Ye Linmu deliberately trying to curry favor with Chen Zhou again. She quickly ran over and handed over the meat bun she had bought, deliberately swatting Ye Linmu’s hand away, saying, “Chen Zhou, eat mine. I just bought this bun, and it’s still warm.”

Chen Zhou looked at the meat bun in her hand: “…”

She didn’t have much appetite for meat buns, and very few people knew that she was actually allergic to pork.

“Thank you.”

Chen Zhou raised her hand and took Ye Linmu’s corncob: “How much is it? I’ll pay you.”

“No need. As long as you like it.”

Ye Linmu secretly shot a triumphant look at Zhuo Rui, who was so angry she wanted to jump up and fight her.

Zhuo Rui saw Chen Zhou accept Ye Linmu’s corncob and felt utterly wronged. She and Chen Zhou had been deskmates for so long, yet Chen Zhou never let her touch anything, rarely spoke more than a few words to her, and even when she asked for help with problems, Chen Zhou wouldn’t say more than a few words.

Yet now, she accepted Ye Linmu’s corncob and patiently taught Ye Linmu problems.

The more Zhuo Rui thought about it, the more wronged she felt. Where was she inferior to Ye Linmu?

“Why won’t you eat my bun?”

“Isn’t my bun tastier than a corncob? Can a corncob be better than meat?”

Zhuo Rui felt isolated. Everyone around liked Ye Linmu, thinking she was incredibly frail. But Ye Linmu was actually a ‘green tea’ girl, absolutely awful.

But when she told them, no one believed her, thinking she was spreading rumors instead.

All these people were blind!

Chen Zhou was puzzled by Zhuo Rui’s questioning. She didn’t understand why she had to be questioned about whose food she chose to eat. She could eat whatever she liked.

Her gaze fell squarely on Zhuo Rui. Seeing the girl’s eyes well up with tears and looking like she was about to cry, Chen Zhou pursed her lips and said bluntly: “Zhuo Rui, you are too nosy.”

Zhuo Rui: “…”

“Waaah!”

Her kindness was treated like dirt! She would never speak to Chen Zhou again!

Wow, what was happening?

The people around looked at the completely distraught Zhuo Rui with expressions of watching a good show.

Ye Linmu watched Zhuo Rui’s tears fall like a breached dam, flowing instantly. She felt a surge of emotion: Truly like the rain in June, falling without warning. With that volume of tears, won’t she get dehydrated?

The system looked at Zhuo Rui and trembled nervously: “Host, take it easy. Don’t cause her a mental breakdown. She’s still a child!”

Ye Linmu rolled her eyes at it. Child, what child? She’s eighteen, still a child?

Besides, what did she even do?

She didn’t do anything.

Chen Zhou frowned, confused, watching Zhuo Rui cry sadly. What is going on? What is this person crying about?

Did I do something?

Zhuo Rui cried for two minutes. Seeing that no one came to comfort her, she immediately felt embarrassed, covered her face, and ran out.

The whole class: “?”

Ye Linmu blinked, silently taking a bite of her corncob.

Kids these days are so fragile. They can’t handle a couple of words.

The system silently watched her: “Yes, unlike you. You have no sense of shame whatsoever.”

Ye Linmu: “Thanks for the compliment, thanks for the compliment.”

The system was speechless. It felt it shouldn’t have bonded with her. She was more suited for a ‘Thick-Skinned’ system.

No one initially paid much attention, but when it was time for morning study, Zhuo Rui and the homeroom teacher walked in. By this time, Zhuo Rui’s expression had returned to normal, though her eyes were still slightly red.

The homeroom teacher pushed up his glasses: “Based on classmate Zhuo Rui’s opinion, she no longer wants to be deskmates with classmate Chen Zhou. Is anyone willing to switch with her?”

Ye Linmu saw a great opportunity and immediately raised her hand: “Teacher, me, I’m willing.”

The teacher saw it was Ye Linmu and nodded: “Then you can switch with classmate Zhuo Rui.”

Zhuo Rui’s eyes widened. She absolutely did not want to switch with Ye Linmu!

“Teacher, I don’t want to sit over there. I want to sit on the other side.”

The homeroom teacher frowned. They were in the third year of high school now. Students shouldn’t be causing trouble instead of focusing on class. Switching seats was such a hassle.

But Zhuo Rui was determined. She absolutely would not let Ye Linmu succeed.

Ye Linmu clicked her tongue. She hadn’t expected Zhuo Rui to be so petty.

“Is there anyone else willing to switch with her?”

Everyone looked at each other. Finally, a student raised her hand: “Teacher, I’m willing.”

Her seat was miles away from Chen Zhou’s, and Zhuo Rui was satisfied with that.

After both agreed, as they were moving their desks, the person who had just agreed to switch with Zhuo Rui bumped Ye Linmu’s desk: “I’ll sit here. You go next to Chen Zhou.”

Ye Linmu was pleasantly surprised. Wasn’t this exactly what she needed—a pillow delivered when she was drowsy?

What a great person!

“Okay, okay!”

Ye Linmu quickly moved her belongings and desk. Zhuo Rui’s eyes were wide. She hadn’t expected the other girl to want to switch with Ye Linmu. Why would she switch with her then?

She could have just switched with Ye Linmu directly, right?

But the other girl ignored her. After Ye Linmu moved her things, the girl, with the help of Wang Yinhua, moved the desk in.

Zhuo Rui felt like she wanted to grind her teeth to powder. Why were all these people indulging Ye Linmu, who had that ‘green tea’ face!

Ye Linmu sat next to Chen Zhou, not minding the distance the other girl kept between them, and smiled happily: “We’re deskmates from now on. I didn’t expect this day to come so quickly, hehe.”

Chen Zhou hadn’t expected it either. She could only nod: “Mm.”

“Please take good care of me from now on, deskmate.”

Looking at the hand the other girl extended, Chen Zhou paused. Not shaking hands seemed a bit impolite, but…

“Hmm? Not shaking hands to celebrate our revolutionary friendship?”

Chen Zhou: “…”

Under the astonished gazes of the other students, she slowly reached out and held Ye Linmu’s hand. Though her face was still cold, a flush had crept up her neck, and a sickly redness gradually appeared on her face.

“Mm, please take good care of me.”

Ye Linmu smiled widely. Just as she was about to withdraw her hand, she felt something secretly rub her palm.

“?”

She looked at the stone-faced Chen Zhou, who withdrew her hand, and hesitated for a moment, thinking it must have been an illusion. After all, the other girl didn’t look like that kind of person. Chen Zhou seemed very upright.

So, she quickly dismissed the feeling as an illusion.