The System Wants Me To Learn To Be A 'Green Tea' (Quick Transmigration) - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Chen Zhou’s face was flushed, exuding a sickly sense of beauty that made Ye Linmu slightly distracted during class.

A beauty is a beauty; even if she looks particularly unwell, she is still beautiful.

Soon the class bell rang, and the English teacher, dressed fashionably, walked in.

Because her gaze had been constantly on Chen Zhou, the teacher quickly noticed her. The English teacher tapped the blackboard and said sternly, “Ye Linmu, stand up and answer this question.”

Ye Linmu was startled and quickly stood up. How long had it been since a teacher called her name? Why did she have to be called on to answer questions just to complete a mission?

Looking at the question on the board, she was slightly embarrassed. It had been too long since graduation; she had returned everything to her teachers.

She secretly glanced at Chen Zhou, praying that the girl would understand what she meant.

Chen Zhou did understand, and she wrote a ‘C’ on her notebook.

Ye Linmu: “!!”

As expected of the deskmate they’d been walking together with recently—how loyal!

“The answer is C!”

The English teacher nodded: “Even if you know it, you still need to pay attention in class. Constantly staring at others is not a good habit.”

Ye Linmu nodded, blushing: “Understood, Teacher.”

“I just wanted to learn more from classmate Chen Zhou.”

The English teacher: “She’s a top student. What do you need to learn from her? Sit down and continue the lesson.”

Ye Linmu sat down, reached under the desk, and gently touched Chen Zhou’s leg, whispering, “Thanks, deskmate. I’ll treat you to something good later.”

Chen Zhou jerked unnaturally, and the blush on her face deepened: “Why?”

Ye Linmu: “Huh?”

Chen Zhou: “Why are you so good to me?”

Ye Linmu said frankly: “Ah, that? Because I like you.”

Chen Zhou’s face turned even redder. Was this… a confession?

Her eyes flickered. If the other girl knew that she…

…Then she would definitely hate her.

Thinking this, Chen Zhou’s face suddenly turned pale again. She lightly bit her lower lip and whispered, “Don’t say things like that in the future.”

She was afraid she might take it seriously.

A normal person would know this was a rejection, but Ye Linmu was different. She was here to capture the target, so she wouldn’t care so much. She had to meet the difficulty head-on.

Ye Linmu: “?”

How strange. Why is this Person of Fortune so weird?

“System, are you sure she’s the Person of Fortune? She’s so pure, and kind of cute.”

The system was speechless: “Host, your mission is to be a ‘green tea.’ Maintain your ‘green tea’ persona. Don’t act like an old wingman!”

Ye Linmu pouted. Maintain the ‘green tea’ persona? Doesn’t a ‘green tea’ also have to be a good wingman to give the other person a chance to be ‘green tea’ for her?

Ever since Ye Linmu discovered that Chen Zhou blushed easily, she acted like a flirt every day in class. She would either deliberately get close to the other girl under the pretense of studying, or approach her with food, occasionally touching her hand, or leaning against her leg while helping to pick up stationery.

She was clearly taking liberties, but when she looked up, her face was one of complete innocence. Whenever Chen Zhou wanted to say something, Ye Linmu would look at her innocently, as if she truly didn’t do it on purpose.

Chen Zhou’s words would instantly get stuck in her throat, unsure whether she should say anything or not.

However, she didn’t actually reject Ye Linmu’s proximity. On the contrary, she liked it very much when Ye Linmu came close to her, especially when they touched. She had to use tremendous willpower to control herself from responding.

This kind of torment truly kept her in a state of both happiness and pain every day.

Two weeks later, Ye Linmu felt the time was right. Chen Zhou had started speaking to her voluntarily.

Ye Linmu seized the opportunity. While in class, she suddenly nudged Chen Zhou’s hand. Because Ye Linmu had been doing these little things for a while, Chen Zhou was used to it and didn’t react immediately.

Ye Linmu saw her chance and quietly leaned closer, whispering, “Chen Zhou.”

Chen Zhou blushed and lightly pursed her lips: “What?”

Ye Linmu said very seriously: “Let me hold your hand, okay? I heard that if you hold hands with someone who has a high IQ, your relationship will get better and better, and the dumber person’s IQ will also increase. It’s called ‘IQ sharing’.”

Chen Zhou: “!”

“This… this…”

She suddenly stammered, her eyes flickering, not daring to look at Ye Linmu.

Chen Zhou had reason to suspect that Ye Linmu was doing this on purpose. Did she know something, and that’s why she was deliberately testing her this way?

But should she really just let her continue like this?

“Please?”

Ye Linmu rested her head on the desk, blinking her eyes pitifully at Chen Zhou, saying in a heartbreaking tone: “Look, my IQ is so low that no matter how you teach me, I don’t get it. I can only rely on this kind of mystical method to improve. Please help me out, okay?”

Chen Zhou bit her lower lip, forcing herself to calm down, but her ears were still completely red: “N-no…”

She wanted to refuse, but looking at Ye Linmu’s wet, fawn-like eyes, the word of refusal reached her lips but just couldn’t come out.

Chen Zhou hesitated for a long time, and her voice was barely audible: “O-only… only for a moment.”

Ye Linmu nodded pitifully on the surface: “Okay, okay.”

The smile inside was about to split her face. She had her hand in her grasp; anything after this was not up to Chen Zhou.

Heh heh, I didn’t expect Chen Zhou to be this innocent. I’m almost embarrassed.

Maintaining her pitiful expression, she slowly extended her hand toward Chen Zhou’s lowered hand: “So… here I come?”

Chen Zhou, with a serious face, blushed: “Mm.”

Ye Linmu’s fingers slowly touched Chen Zhou’s hand. Under the other girl’s stiff restraint, she pushed her luck and took hold, even consciously lacing their fingers together, not giving Chen Zhou a chance to refuse.

Chen Zhou trembled as if shocked by electricity, and then her neck turned red as well.

Ye Linmu noticed it, a smirk playing on her lips, and she deliberately said, “Chen Zhou, your hand is so warm, and it’s sweating.”

Chen Zhou’s forehead was sweating from the heat. She strained for a long time and only managed to squeeze out: “S-sorry.”

“Pffft…”

Under Chen Zhou’s confused gaze, Ye Linmu quickly wiped the smile from her face and looked at her with an expression more bewildered than her own: “What’s wrong?”

It was as if she hadn’t been the one laughing just now, merely an illusion.

Chen Zhou swallowed. She looked away and reminded her: “It’s time to let go.”

Ye Linmu let out a regretful sigh: “Ah, but the book says the longer we hold hands, the more similar we’ll become.”

“I really hope I can become a super-smart top student like you, Chen Zhou. That way I can easily get into the same university as you and continue to be classmates.”

Chen Zhou swallowed more frequently. She hesitated, and the hand she was about to pull away stopped: “Do… do you really want to be classmates with me?”

“Yes.”

Ye Linmu said with an envious look: “Chen Zhou, you’re amazing. I don’t just want to be your classmate; I want to be your roommate, too. That way we can always be the best of friends.”

Chen Zhou’s mind went blank: “…”

Ye Linmu… does she know what she’s saying?

Chen Zhou’s gaze unconsciously fell on their tightly clasped hands. Can this kind of relationship be called ‘friends’?

Her throat was dry, and she felt increasingly uncomfortable.

She suddenly couldn’t understand Ye Linmu. Why could the other girl say such things so naturally?

“Chen Zhou?”

Ye Linmu looked at her in confusion, pouting: “You don’t want me to be your roommate? I’m very well-behaved. I’ll do whatever you tell me to do. I definitely won’t embarrass you.”

Chen Zhou: “No…”

She paused, then said unnaturally: “Then keep holding it.”

Her breathing became heavy, as if she were enduring something.

Ye Linmu was genuinely confused now: “?”

“System, why do I feel like something’s wrong with Chen Zhou? Why is her breathing getting heavy? Is she allergic to people?”

She just wanted to complete the mission, but she didn’t want to accidentally kill anyone.

System: “Host, don’t worry. We are not the kind of system that disregards human life. We will ensure the safety of the Person of Fortune.”

Ye Linmu: “Fine then.”

Unknowingly, Chen Zhou allowed Ye Linmu to hold her hand for the entire class period.

This made the students sitting behind them desperately want to pluck out their eyes and wash them, to check if they had misseen things.

Otherwise, how could Chen Zhou, who was always aloof and never willingly touched anyone, let Ye Linmu hold her hand for a whole class?

And not only did she hold her hand, she specifically switched to writing with her left hand!

Incredible! Big news!

As soon as class was over, the student behind them couldn’t resist rushing out to share this great wonder. Zhuo Rui’s face twisted into a complex mask when she heard the news.

She had been Chen Zhou’s deskmate for a year and hadn’t touched Chen Zhou twice. Every time she tried to get close to Chen Zhou, the girl’s expression would instantly turn extremely nasty, looking as if she wanted to die on the spot and that Zhuo Rui was garbage, sinking her heart into the abyss.

But fortunately, Chen Zhou was like this with everyone else, so she could tolerate it.

But why…

Why was Ye Linmu different?

She was unwilling to accept it!

How was she inferior to that ‘green tea’ Ye Linmu?

Thinking this, she stormed over to Ye Linmu’s desk. Looking at Ye Linmu, who had just withdrawn her hand from Chen Zhou’s, she was absolutely livid.

“Chen Zhou, why did you hold Ye Linmu’s hand?”

Chen Zhou looked at her in confusion. Why was this person questioning her?

Were they that close?

Seeing Chen Zhou’s expression, which suggested that she was crazy, Zhuo Rui’s eyes instantly turned red. Her tears flowed uncontrollably like a broken string of pearls.

“Where am I worse than her! Why would you rather touch her than play with me?!”

Zhuo Rui’s roaring voice echoed throughout the classroom and the entire floor, startling Ye Linmu out of her sleepiness. She dug her fingers in her ears and said pitifully, “You’re so mean.”

Zhuo Rui glared fiercely at Ye Linmu: “You shut up!”

Then she looked back at Chen Zhou: “Tell me, why exactly?”

Chen Zhou: “…”

What is all this about?

Why should she answer this kind of question?

Her mind wasn’t broken.

“Excuse me, are we that close?”

Chen Zhou’s cold voice was like ice water in the dead of winter, instantly extinguishing all of Zhuo Rui’s fire and dissatisfaction.

Her tears stopped. Her whole being felt desolate.

Although she didn’t like Chen Zhou in that kind of way, she genuinely wanted to regard Chen Zhou as a friend and an idol—the person she most admired.

So even though being Chen Zhou’s deskmate had many demands, she tried to change herself to meet them, solely because she liked the lofty Chen Zhou, the way this top student looked down on all ordinary mortals.