Chapter 258 – Chapter 256: Collaborative Event
It was a simple sentence, spoken by Ye Ziming in a joking tone.
But to Xiaomuqing, his words were incredibly hurtful, even bordering on cruel.
Being spoken to like that by her good brother, Xiaomuqing was, of course, displeased. She narrowed her eyes and pouted, about to retaliate.
But as she opened her mouth, glaring at her good brother and about to speak, Ye Ziming shot her a deceptively kind smile and nonchalantly raised his eyebrows.
“Mm?”
He let out a light hum, his eyes narrowing slightly, and continued to gaze at Xiaomuqing without a word.
On the surface, it seemed like nothing, but Xiaomuqing, who knew Ye Ziming well, understood that this was the calm before the storm.
It meant that if she dared to say those words (like “Boss is cute”), the storm would arrive immediately.
“Uh… Hehe.”
Under his gaze, the fierce little cat instantly turned into a docile, well-behaved kitten, not daring to act out at all.
She chuckled to cover the embarrassment on her face, then blinked and quickly averted her gaze, lowering her head as if to seriously read her book.
Time flew by, and soon it was time to go home for lunch.
For some reason, she, who was usually very low-key, received goodbyes from many girls today. It was as if every girl who left made sure to say:
“Lin Muqing, bye-bye~”
“Ah, bye-bye.”
Confused, Xiaomuqing couldn’t understand. Whenever someone spoke to her, she would politely reply and wave goodbye.
What she didn’t know was that after Wang Wenxin received the ‘secret technique’ from the homeroom teacher, she quickly spread it throughout the entire class.
Girls wanted to become as beautiful as her, and boys wanted to become as popular with girls as her.
With some encouragement from Meng Wenhao, Lin Muqing eventually became a “big shot” in everyone’s eyes.
At the same time, everyone was curious: how could someone with good grades, high颜值, and good popularity be so low-key?
It was their second year of high school, and they only just discovered such an “influential” person in their class, whom they had never paid close attention to before.
“emmm, Boss, I’m hungry.”
Leaning on her desk, seeing that most of the students had left the classroom, Xiaomuqing reached out and poked her good brother’s arm.
Then she looked at him expectantly, pouted, and said softly.
“Let’s go.”
From Xiaomuqing’s eyes, Ye Ziming successfully received her request, so he quickly nodded and stood up.
He then took her home for lunch.
Xiaomuqing: Yay ヾ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ
Meanwhile, on the other side of the classroom, Wang Wenxin, who had just stood up to leave, happened to glance over at the two of them interacting while talking to her deskmate.
Then… she thought of two words: so cute.
She herself could hardly believe that there was such a guy who could be so adorable, much more so than she, a girl.
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Back home, after lunch, Xiaomuqing happily played on her phone while sitting on the sofa.
After scrolling through a post about a game, Xiaomuqing rolled over, quickly moved to her good brother’s side, and said to him, holding up her phone:
“Boss, let’s go eat fried chicken together.”
“?”
Ye Ziming, who was watching TV, turned his head in confusion to look at Xiaomuqing, his brows furrowed, clearly not wanting to agree to this sort of thing.
Fried chicken wasn’t the problem; the issue was that someone was on her menstrual period and particularly liked spicy food (bad at playing, addicted to playing).
“Look at this. If you go to this nationwide chain restaurant to eat fried chicken during this period, you’ll get this.”
Xiaomuqing, not noticing her good brother’s change in expression, continued to explain from her phone.
It was a collaborative event between a game company and a fried chicken restaurant. As long as you purchased a specific set meal within the event period and said a somewhat chuunibyou phrase, you would receive a commemorative gift.
“No.”
Upon seeing the set meal, Ye Ziming frowned and decisively refused her request.
“Oh? Don’t be like that. This is a commemorative item for the game’s fifth anniversary; it won’t be available after this event.”
“…”
After being rejected, Xiaomuqing pouted unhappily and then began to act cute and whine. Unfortunately, Ye Ziming was clearly unmoved.
However, under Xiaomuqing’s constant nagging and pleading, Ye Ziming finally relented, but with conditions.
In the event’s promotional material, there was a cat-girl loli character wearing a JK uniform. Ye Ziming’s condition was that Xiaomuqing had to wear that outfit and go shopping with him.
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