Why Won’t the Heroine Break Up With Me? [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 27.2

Both of them turned to look toward the entrance. Since Yun Li was already standing, she volunteered, “I’ll get it.”

She walked to the door and opened it to reveal Zhu Yaqin’s delicate face.

“What’s up?” Yun Li asked.

“I was thinking of exploring the base. Do you want to come along?” Zhu Yaqin only had a backpack with her, containing textbooks and a water bottle, nothing much else. She wanted to see what she could buy with her points.

Yun Li’s interest was piqued. “Sure!”

She then turned to Tang Congyue. “Congyue, let’s go check it out!”

Tang Congyue also wanted to learn more about the base. She stood up from the sofa and quickly walked over.

“Alright, let’s go.”

The three of them left Building B together, but as soon as they stepped out, Zhu Yaqin looked confused.

“We don’t know the way…”

“I remember how to get to the trading area.” Tang Congyue said.

When Lin Daimei and the others had taken them to weigh the monster meat earlier, they had passed through the trading area, as Lin Daimei had mentioned along the way. Although they had headed straight to the trading hall at the time, they had seen numerous stalls lining the streets.

“Tang Congyue, you’re amazing!” Zhu Yaqin resisted the urge to pat her shoulder and praised her with a grin.

“Come on, I’ll take you there.”

“Okay.”

About twenty minutes later, they arrived at the trading area. As soon as they entered, they were met with a lively atmosphere. The three exchanged glances and stepped inside.

The trading area featured a three-meter-wide path, with small stalls set up on either side.

Before the apocalypse, Yun Li had always loved shopping. Seeing the trading area in such a state now, her peach-blossom eyes lit up. She tugged at Tang Congyue’s hand and said cheerfully, “Congyue, shall we take our time and stroll around?”

“Sure.”

Zhu Yaqin had no objections either, as she was also very curious.

And so, the three of them strolled along slowly, occasionally stopping to carefully examine the items on the stalls.

As they wandered, Yun Li suddenly spotted something. She quickly tugged Tang Congyue and hurried over to a stall. Just as she picked up a smooth and beautiful white jade bracelet and was about to ask the price, she heard someone else speak first.

“Vendor, how many points for this bracelet?”

Yun Li frowned slightly and turned toward the source of the voice. There, she saw a woman with a low ponytail and a gentle face, her gaze fixed intently on the white jade bracelet in Yun Li’s hand.

“How could it be you?!”

A sharp voice rang out. Yun Li snapped back to reality and glanced over, surprised to find that the girl standing next to the gentle-faced woman was the same one who had scolded her in the library earlier!

Wait, wait a minute?!

Wasn’t this the same girl who had called out Ou Yunru’s name at the cafeteria entrance?

If that was the case, then could this woman in front of her be…?!

Yun Li’s pupils contracted, and she discreetly gave the woman a once-over.

Was this Tang Congyue’s official match?

She was quite good-looking and seemed gentle?

While Yun Li was silently evaluating her, a sour feeling crept into her heart. She also subconsciously ignored the girl standing next to Ou Yunru.

Hmm, she had been wondering earlier if Ou Yunru had also come to the survivor base but hadn’t seen her around. Now, she had finally appeared…

Hearing Huang Xinyuan’s words, Ou Yunru looked slightly surprised and said, “Xinyuan, do you know this classmate?”

Huang Xinyuan crossed her arms, a faint look of disdain on her face. “Who would want to know a young lady like her?”

Yun Li suddenly snapped out of her thoughts, her gaze toward Huang Xinyuan tinged with annoyance. But she didn’t want to engage with someone like that and turned back to the vendor.

“Vendor, how many points for this bracelet?”

The vendor was a middle-aged woman. Seeing that Yun Li was pretty and young, she felt a flicker of calculation and said, “Ten points!”

She had been the owner of a jade shop. On the day the monsters descended, she happened to be in her store. After being rescued by the military, she couldn’t bear to leave her jade pieces behind, so she stuffed her bag full of them. But when she arrived at the base, she discovered that the base’s currency was points, gold and jade weren’t accepted. With no other choice, she had to work to earn enough points to survive while also trying her luck in the trading area, hoping to find someone gullible enough to buy her items.

Now, it seemed she had found just such a person…

The woman glanced at Yun Li, her mind already calculating.

“Ten points? Are you joking? Ten points can buy a whole pound of rice!” Zhu Yaqin exploded.

The woman showed no guilt and insisted, “Little sister, you can’t say that. This is a genuine white jade bracelet, with excellent clarity. In a store, it would cost tens of thousands! Asking for ten points now is already a bargain!”

“Ten points can get you thirty days in a shared dormitory. Can this white jade bracelet get you thirty days of shelter?”

The woman was left speechless. Finally, she said stiffly, “If you don’t want it, forget it. There will always be someone who knows its value.”

“Ten points, right? I’ll take it.” As she spoke, Ou Yunru pulled out a points card from her backpack.

The woman’s eyes lit up instantly.

But Yun Li frowned unhappily. “I never said I didn’t want it.”

After speaking, she subtly glanced at Tang Congyue.

Tang Congyue happened to look over at that moment, raising an eyebrow as if asking what was wrong.

Yun Li didn’t respond, slowly withdrawing her gaze.

Ou Yunru was also taken aback by Yun Li’s words. “But didn’t you say this white jade bracelet was too expensive?”

“I didn’t say that. It was Yaqin who said it.”

Zhu Yaqin: “…”

She awkwardly rubbed her nose.

Ou Yunru understood Yun Li’s implication, she also wanted the white jade bracelet. But…

Her gaze involuntarily fell upon the white jade bracelet, and a voice inside her seemed to insist: Get this bracelet, you must get it!

“Classmate, I really like this white jade bracelet. Could you please let me have it?”

Yun Li smiled faintly, just as Ou Yunru thought she would agree, she said instead, “Why should I? I really like this white jade bracelet too.”

As she spoke, she lifted her pretty little face, proud as a peacock, but someone couldn’t stand seeing her like this.

“Yun Li, are you doing this on purpose?” Huang Xinyuan couldn’t take it anymore.

“Doing what on purpose?”

“Purposely opposing our Yunru!”

Yun Li swept a glance at Huang Xinyuan from the corner of her eye.

Hah, she was opposing Ou Yunru? How ridiculous, she had noticed this bracelet first! Almost the moment she laid eyes on it, she was captivated.

Since she liked it, why should she give it up to Ou Yunru? Just because she was Tang Congyue’s official match?

She couldn’t care less about that!

“Classmate, I should inform you, I saw this white jade bracelet first. Shouldn’t things follow the principle of first come, first served?”

If Ou Yunru hadn’t suddenly interrupted, she would have already bought the bracelet, what did any of this have to do with them?

Watching their confrontation, the stall owner’s eyes darted around. It was unclear what she was thinking, but she suddenly smiled.

“I’ve changed my mind.”

Yun Li and Ou Yunru both turned to look at her.

“Whoever offers the highest price gets the white jade bracelet!”

Zhu Yaqin: “…”

A swindler! A total swindler!

Yun Li also frowned slightly, but at that moment, Ou Yunru suddenly declared, “Twenty points! I bid twenty points!”

She was determined to get this white jade bracelet!

“I bid thirty.”

Ou Yunru snapped her head around, her crimson lips pursed slightly. “Classmate…”

“The stall owner said the highest bidder wins.” Yun Li said with a smile.

Hearing this, Ou Yunru felt a surge of frustration. “Forty points!”

“Fifty points!”

“Fifty-five points!”

“Sixty points!” Ou Yunru gritted her teeth.

“Seventy points!”

“Seventy-five!”

“Eigh-”

Before Yun Li could finish, Tang Congyue suddenly spoke up, “One hundred points. We’ll take it.”

Ou Yunru felt a lump in her throat.

One hundred points!!!

She only had a thousand points on her, she couldn’t possibly spend over a hundred on a white jade bracelet. Knowing it was pointless to argue with Yun Li, she turned to Tang Congyue instead. “Classmate, I really like this white jade bracelet. Please, let me have it.”

“Sorry, but my A-Li likes it too, and she saw it first.” Tang Congyue replied without even glancing at her.

Ou Yunru: “…”

Seeing Ou Yunru’s face darken, Yun Li nearly laughed out loud, then cast a meaningful glance at Tang Congyue.

“Wow, Tang Congyue pulled such a move. If I break up with her later, wouldn’t it turn into a ‘chasing my wife into the crematorium’ scenario?”

Thinking this, Yun Li clicked her tongue inwardly.

Tang Congyue had no idea what Yun Li was thinking. She pulled a 100-point credit card from her backpack and was about to hand it over when she noticed the vendor’s sly expression. Narrowing her eyes slightly, her tone carried a hint of warning.

“Know your limits, or you might end up with nothing.”

The vendor’s expression froze. After hesitating for a few seconds, she was about to take the credit card from Tang Congyue when Ou Yunru spoke again, her voice tinged with barely concealed frustration.

“I bid 150 points!”

The vendor immediately turned to Ou Yunru, beaming, and shot Tang Congyue a smug glance.

Tang Congyue’s tone grew even colder. “Two hundred.”

Ou Yunru wanted to raise the bid again, but Huang Xinyuan quickly pulled her back. Although she didn’t like Yun Li, she couldn’t let Ou Yunru waste over 200 points on a useless white jade bracelet.

“Yunru, that’s enough! Calm down.”

“But…” Ou Yunru understood Huang Xinyuan’s point, yet she couldn’t help feeling resentful. Still, reason told her she couldn’t spend so many points on a white jade bracelet…

She took a deep breath, her eyes slightly reddened.

Seeing that she wouldn’t bid further, Tang Congyue took out a credit card from her backpack and spent 200 points just like that.

The vendor, now 200 points richer, grinned from ear to ear.

At that moment, Yun Li slipped the lustrous, beautiful white jade bracelet onto her wrist. Then, deliberately, she smiled at Tang Congyue. “Congyue, does it look good?”

Her wrist was pale and slender, and the white jade bracelet accentuated its beauty. If not for the inappropriate setting, Tang Congyue would have wanted to kiss it.

Ou Yunru, who hadn’t left yet, felt as if her heart had been hollowed out, leaving an empty void.

“Let’s go.”

With that, Yun Li linked arms with Tang Congyue and turned to leave.

Zhu Yaqin followed behind them, inwardly marveling.

Spending a fortune for a beauty, truly, that was Tang Congyue!

“They’re going too far!”

Watching the three of them walk away, Huang Xinyuan couldn’t help but exclaim.

Ou Yunru, her eyes still red, forced a bitter smile. Then, as if remembering something, she asked, “Xinyuan, do you know them?”

“Yes. The most beautiful one is Yun Li, the one who looks sickly is Tang Congyue, she’s Yun Li’s girlfriend. The other one is Zhu Yaqin.”

Ou Yunru paid no mind to Zhu Yaqin but silently repeated the names Yun Li and Tang Congyue in her heart.

“Let’s go.”

“Alright.”

…

Yun Li and the other two continued exploring the trading area. Noticing a supermarket inside, they went in to browse and emerged carrying several shopping bags filled with daily necessities and women’s clothing.

About half an hour later, they finished touring the trading area. By then, Yun Li was tired, so the three of them returned to the residential area. Before parting ways, Tang Congyue said to Zhu Yaqin, “Yaqin, can you help me find Fang Huijing and the others?”

Fang Huijing and the others didn’t just make one exchange with Tang Congyue’s group. Over the following days, they traded compressed biscuits for another four jin of monster meat. Now, they still had three jin of meat left with Tang Congyue, who had exchanged the monster meat for some points. Since those belonged to Fang Huijing’s group, she needed to return them.

“Sure, leave it to me.” Zhu Yaqin said, quite adept at handling such matters.

“Alright, once you find them, give them these points. They were exchanged using their monster meat.”

A total of sixty points, enough for Fang Huijing and the others to use for quite some time.

Zhu Yaqin took the points card with a serious expression. “Mm, I’ll take care of it.”

“Thanks.”

“No need, it’s nothing.”

With that, the three of them returned to their respective rooms.

As soon as she entered her room, Yun Li pulled out a set of pajamas, a bath towel, and toiletries from her shopping bag, then eagerly headed to the bathroom.

A shower!

She was going to take a shower!

Before, at the library and cafeteria, she had wiped herself down with water, but that was nothing like a proper bath. Fortunately, the weather had been mild during that time, so she hadn’t sweated much and didn’t have a strong body odor. Otherwise, she would have gone crazy!

Yun Li spent a full thirty minutes in the shower. When she emerged, she felt as if she had been reborn.

“So comfortable!” she sighed contentedly.

Tang Congyue, sitting on the sofa, couldn’t help but chuckle softly.

“Is it really that exaggerated?”

“You’ll understand what I mean once you take a shower.” Yun Li said, drying her damp hair as she spoke.

Tang Congyue raised an eyebrow, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, and picked up her own pajamas and towel to head to the bathroom for a shower.

The single apartment didn’t have a hairdryer, so Yun Li could only use the towel to dry her hair as much as possible. As she lifted her hand, her peripheral vision caught the white jade bracelet on her wrist. For some reason, it brought her inexplicable joy, and she couldn’t resist gently stroking its surface with her fingers.

As she caressed it, suddenly, Yun Li felt something bite her finger. A sharp pain made her cry out, and then, to her horror, she noticed that the originally lustrous white jade bracelet was now stained with faint traces of blood. She also felt something sucking her blood!

What was happening?!

Terrified, Yun Li tried to let go of the bracelet but found her finger stuck firmly to it. As time passed, she began to feel dizzy.

No way?

Was she going to die here before even completing her mission?

Even though she wouldn’t truly die, she would still have to endure the agony of death!

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, her vision darkening.

No! She couldn’t die here!

Yun Li desperately tried to calm herself, but the dizziness only intensified. She didn’t know how much time had passed before her consciousness faded, and she collapsed onto the bed. Within seconds, her figure abruptly vanished.

…

Mmm…

The beautiful woman lying on the black soil let out a soft moan. Her face was pale, exuding a fragile beauty, and her thick, curly eyelashes fluttered slightly. After a moment, she slowly opened her eyes, confusion filling her gaze.

Was she dead?

Recalling what had happened before she lost consciousness, Yun Li’s eyes widened abruptly. She quickly raised her hand, only to be stunned to find that the fingers that had touched the white jade bracelet had no wounds at all!

What was going on?

Thinking she must be seeing things, she looked again, only to confirm that her fingers truly had no injuries!

How strange.

At that moment, she remembered the white jade bracelet and glanced sharply at her wrist, only to find that the bracelet was gone! In its place, a thin line of intertwined jade and blood-red hues circled her wrist, resembling a red string tied around it.

What in the world was happening?!

Unable to make sense of it, Yun Li decided to set the thought aside for now. It was then that she noticed the abnormality in her surroundings.

Where… was she?

Pushing herself up, Yun Li sat and scanned the area, realizing she was sitting on black soil with a small farmhouse standing not far away.

This…

A look of confusion crossed her face, but as a thought struck her, she glanced sharply at her wrist again.

The white jade bracelet, the blood-sucking…

In a flash of insight, a possibility dawned on her.

No way, no way, had she actually stumbled upon a spatial artifact?!

Wasn’t that the standard equipment for a female protagonist in novels?

Wait, hold on!

Didn’t she snatch this from Ou Yunru?!

Well, no, it wasn’t exactly snatching. She had spotted it first, so how could it be called stealing? But then again, if she hadn’t gone to the trading area or seen the white jade bracelet, this spatial artifact would most likely have ended up with Ou Yunru…

Ah, this is a mess.

Feeling at a loss, Yun Li scratched her cheek. She had taken the female lead’s golden opportunity, could she still return it now?

She glanced at the blood-red line that no longer resembled the white jade bracelet. Clearly, it was impossible…

Moreover, she couldn’t understand: shouldn’t a spatial artifact like this only bond through a blood pact with its destined owner? Why, in her case, had it actively drawn her blood instead?

Could it be… they were fated?

Unable to resist, Yun Li reached out to touch the white jade bracelet that had transformed into a thin line, but she felt nothing except her own skin.

It made no sense.

Truly baffling.

Deciding to stop overthinking it, Yun Li reasoned that since the artifact was already in her possession and couldn’t be returned, she might as well accept it and make the best of the situation.

With that thought, she felt much more at ease and began to take a closer look at the space around her.