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Zhao Mingyue rarely used chat apps to chat with others because she had no friends or family. Basically, no one would contact her on the chat app except for classmates, and even classmates wouldn’t contact her every day. It was considered a lot if they chatted once a week.

This was all told to her by Zhao Mingyue before, and it indeed matched her actual situation.

However, today during the day at the convenience store, Bai Yu saw her often lowering her head to play with her phone, chatting with someone for quite a long time.

Bai Yu glanced at the sunny and handsome teenage selfie in the profile picture, and then disappeared into the room.

Zhao Mingyue drowsily opened her eyes, her snow-white arm reaching out from under the quilt to grab the charging cell phone for a look. She half sat up, and with her movement, the thin quilt slid down from her shoulders. A strand of hair also fell down, and she reached out to tuck it behind her ear.

“It’s already eleven…”

Leaning against the headboard, she pulled up the quilt, but her delicate, snow-white shoulders were still exposed.

Bai Yu wanted to remind her, but Zhao Mingyue tapped on the phone screen and switched the video call to a voice call.

“Hello, Li Nan, what’s up?”

The person who video called Zhao Mingyue, a girl, at 11 in the evening was Li Nan, Zhao Mingyue’s deskmate. He was also the only one who would frequently chat with Zhao Mingyue and always take the initiative to contact her. Even Lu Liangting didn’t have his frequency.

As soon as she finished speaking, a man’s voice came from the other end of the phone, deliberately deep and “magnetic,” which sounded awkward.

“I’m very sorry to disturb you so late. It’s like this, Mingyue. I’m moving to a villa area in the city center, right? Just now, when I was organizing the books on the bookshelf in my study, I found a book that you had lent me before. I’ll bring it to you tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

“Ah, look at my memory. This book has been with me for two months, right? I forgot about it. As compensation, I’ll bring you a small gift when I go to school tomorrow.”

“No need, just give me the book.”

“You have to. Don’t refuse. It’s a little apology.”

“Really, there’s no need.”

“Mingyue, if you keep this up, I’m going to get angry, you know. We’re friends, after all. It’s perfectly normal.” Li Nan emphasized the word ‘friends’ heavily.

“I…”

“Alright, alright, it’s settled then. See you tomorrow, Mingyue~”

Beep~

The caller had hung up.

Zhao Mingyue wanted to say something but stopped. In the end, she just sighed, put her phone on the bedside table, and continued to crawl back into the quilt to sleep.

She was already used to it. Li Nan was just like this. He liked to do these meaningless things for no reason.

Bai Yu didn’t appear again. As for the situation just now, she felt it was quite normal. With Zhao Mingyue’s figure and appearance, it would be strange if no one pursued her at school. If it weren’t for her special situation, where her free time was either spent working or on the way to work, there would be even more people pursuing her.

After all, as the female protagonist of a romance manhua, Zhao Mingyue’s charm was undeniable. Her lethality to young boys was definitely not small. If she dressed up a bit more, the love letters she received would probably be overflowing.

The downside was that among the men pursuing her, there were definitely some who were not the brightest. These simple-minded people were very easy to deal with, but their existence often became a smokescreen for certain people behind the scenes.

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“Bai Yu, look at my strength, has it gotten bigger? Have my arms gotten much thicker?”

In the living room early in the morning, Zhao Mingyue, who had a good night’s sleep, was brimming with energy. She got up at 6:30 AM, and after washing up, the first thing she did was eagerly show Bai Yu her slender arms, which didn’t show any obvious muscle contours.

The reason was that when she got up in the morning, she inexplicably felt that her strength had increased a lot.

Then she thought of the [Strength +1] reward for successfully completing the task on the black cell phone yesterday, and how could she not be happy about it.

“Strength plus one, the increased strength is probably ten percent of your original strength. If you have better talent, it can reach twenty percent. Moreover, the effect of the same strength increase in the future will be greatly weakened. Don’t be too happy too early.” Bai Yu was pulled by her arm and said expressionlessly.

Zhao Mingyue stopped, pondered for a moment, and nodded, “Ten percent is not bad. Hmm… it seems that the thickness of the arms has nothing to do with this.”

As she spoke, she glanced at Bai Yu’s arms.

She went up to compare and confirmed that Bai Yu’s arms were even thinner than hers, clearly just a doll that had come to life.

But if they compared strength, she still couldn’t beat her.

“It doesn’t matter. As long as I can increase my strength, it’s good. Bai Yu, if I keep completing tasks like this, will there be a day when I can surpass you in strength?”

Zhao Mingyue deliberately got close to Bai Yu, smiling and leaning over, her eyes showing a bit of mischief. It was hard not to suspect that she intended to do some strange things if her strength surpassed Bai Yu’s.

Bai Yu was 1.5 meters tall, while Zhao Mingyue was 1.7 meters tall.

So there was a feeling: compared to Zhao Mingyue, Bai Yu was indeed just a stinky little sister. If some strange things were done to her, she could only ‘whimper’.

Bai Yu didn’t say anything and walked into Zhao Mingyue’s shadow.

At 7:00 AM sharp, Zhao Mingyue set off on time.

By the time she arrived at school, it was already 7:30. Sunshine Apartments was not particularly far from Zhao Mingyue’s “Linyang Private Middle School”, but Zhao Mingyue’s means of transportation were not very good.

Today, Zhao Mingyue’s outfit was eye-catching.

A black school uniform with an over-the-knee pleated skirt, her calves were clean and straight, her skin was white and delicate. She wore white knee-high socks and brown leather shoes. Her short hair that fell to her shoulders was casually tied into a ponytail with a hair tie and hung behind her. A black rabbit hairpin was clipped on her forehead.

Actually, this was just a very normal student outfit, just a standard girl’s school uniform. If worn by others, it would seem ordinary. At most, it would make people think of how nice it is to be young and beautiful. But on Zhao Mingyue, it gave a completely different feeling.

It was as if she had magic on her body, attracting the gazes of passersby. Even in this world where purity is often associated with green tea b*tches, it wouldn’t make people frown in disgust. Even the lowest people would only think:

‘What a pure and cute girl.’

Perhaps after the initial reaction, some might fantasize about Zhao Mingyue in various shameful positions, then sigh with regret, thinking if only they could return to that age, then they would definitely do this or that.

Zhao Mingyue was already used to this feeling. She carried her schoolbag and returned to the classroom.

The first thing she saw when she entered the door was a red heart-shaped box of chocolates on her seat, with a book tied with a pink ribbon on top.

At this time, there were many students in the class.

Zhao Mingyue didn’t go in immediately. Her delicate brows furrowed slightly, both because of this box of chocolates and because of the whispers in the class.

Yes, whispers, which had never happened before, but today several girls and boys were huddled together, talking about her in hushed tones. When they saw her enter the classroom, they instantly fell silent, just staring at her, pretending as if nothing had happened.