Volume 1 Chapter 17: Forget School! I’m Going Home to Stream!
Broken… completely broken.
Waaah—
Lin Lin looked like she had lost her soul. She staggered back into the classroom, then her vision went black.
After that, she hugged her head and shut herself off.
Gao Liang glanced at the girl who had just sat back down. Her eyes were dull, with no light at all, and she looked completely depressed. He quickly waved a hand in front of her face.
“Lin Lin, are you okay? Did that girl say something to you?”
“She… she said…”
Lin Lin stayed frozen, remembering that machine-gun-like rant. Even now, she shivered in fear.
Too… too scary.
That feeling of a knife hidden behind a smile. She was laughing and acting friendly just moments ago, then suddenly turned fierce and cruel. All of Lin Lin’s hopes of making a friend were crushed, and she was made to feel worthless.
Wuu—
She was really broken.
I don’t want to go to school anymore!
Classmates are unfriendly, her grades are bad, she has to sit next to her mortal enemy, and now she’s even being threatened by a tough girl.
Forget this school!
With tears in her eyes, Lin Lin threw the love letter that the blonde girl wrote for Gao Liang onto his desk, then turned her head away and shut down again.
Gao Liang noticed the letter. Or rather, the envelope. After all, how could he know it was a love letter without opening it?
Actually… he could.
Because there was a small heart sticker on it.
Gao Liang’s mouth twitched. He couldn’t figure out who would send him a letter through Lin Lin.
That blonde delinquent girl? Tsk…
That girl… she could really pull something like this? Feels a bit mentally unstable.
As for his small desk mate…
Heh, thinking about it, it was kind of cute in a contrasting way. She usually looked at him with gloomy, almost murderous eyes. There was no way she would write a love letter.
And judging by how depressed she looked now, it was even less likely.
She was probably bullied by the blonde girl and forced to deliver the letter.
So…
Whether he read this love letter or not really didn’t matter.
He casually stuffed the envelope into his desk, planning to throw it away later.
However, Lin Lin saw this out of the corner of her eye and panicked. She quickly turned back and waved her hands.
“Wait, wait, don’t just put it away like that! The blonde girl will think I didn’t do it properly. No, no, no…”
“Well…”
Seeing how pitiful she looked, Gao Liang gave a mischievous smile. He took out the letter, pointed at it in front of her, tilted his head, and said,
“Sorry, Lin Lin. You’re a good person, but I think we’re not very familiar yet, so…”
Pfft.
By the end, Gao Liang almost couldn’t hold it in. The corner of his mouth lifted slightly. The joy of teasing a girl quietly rose in his heart, and he barely managed not to laugh.
Hopefully this silly desk mate didn’t notice~
He carefully watched her reaction. First, she looked completely confused. Then she shook her head hard and started explaining wildly.
“It’s not me! It’s the blonde girl—ah, I mean Han Kui who wrote the love letter! I was just helping to pass it on! It wasn’t me, really!”
In the end, Lin Lin lowered her head. The light vanished from her eyes as she kept muttering to herself…
‘I got a ‘good person card’ from my mortal enemy… I got a ‘good person card’ from my mortal enemy…’
She actually got rejected by that guy. Damn it!
Why? Why, when I don’t even like you at all, do I still get a ‘good person card’? Wuu…
“Huh?”
Gao Liang didn’t really hear what Lin Lin was mumbling. He only saw her turn her head, eyes filled with tears and murderous intent, and shout, “Nothing!”
Then she quietly took out her phone and typed into her notes—
Another great shame in life, got a ‘good person card’ from my mortal enemy. X month X day. I will remember this grudge!
Phew…
After writing it down, she felt much better.
Well, technically speaking, this whole thing seemed to be a misunderstanding by Gao Liang. He misunderstood where the love letter came from and thought that Lin Lin was confessing to him, so he gave her a “good person card” in return. In theory, since she didn’t like him anyway, being rejected like that shouldn’t really matter.
In fact, it would be much scarier if the other person had actually accepted her.
But…
Being given a “good person card,” especially one that came out of nowhere, was a huge blow to the girl’s already very limited confidence. Wuuwuu—
Without a doubt, it was deadly.
At this point, Lin Lin completely gave up.
She let out a helpless sigh. The girl had already made up her mind.
Skipping school? Fine then!
She wouldn’t attend evening self-study. She would take a leave!
After making her decision, the girl started thinking about what to do tonight.
Hmm…
What should I do?
Study…
That’s impossible.
Going home means playing, of course~
And also, she couldn’t ignore the system’s tasks. After all, there was still that hard KPI requirement. One million followers in one year.
If she could stream, then she should stream.
Besides, livestreaming was actually pretty fun, right?
The problem was, she couldn’t really think of what to stream.
Hmm…
How about asking the fans for ideas?
Hmm…
The girl picked up her phone and posted an update using her account with just over a hundred followers.
【Streaming tonight at 8 PM! If you have any good livestream ideas, or want to leave a message or submission, feel free to DM Ari-chan in advance~ I’ll pick a few to read tonight! You can also tell me about things happening in your life—uh, basically… let’s gossip a bit~】
Hmm…
With a “just here for the fun” mindset, the girl sent the post and quietly put her phone away.
It would be a big problem if the discipline director doing inspections saw her.
Hehe~
So, the rest of the day’s classes became…
Simply waiting for school to end.
Livestream tonight~ Livestream tonight~
While the girl sat at her seat, happily thinking about tonight’s stream, from Gao Liang’s point of view, something felt a bit strange.
She was like a sealed jar, didn’t stand up, didn’t talk.
Hmm…
Feeling bored, Gao Liang started scrolling on his phone. As soon as he opened his feed, he saw a post from the new streamer Ari-chan, whom he had just followed last night.
Eh?
She’s streaming tonight?
………………………
“Teacher Zhu, I want to take a leave!”
Lin Lin stood in front of Teacher Zhu, speaking calmly, without changing her expression or showing any nervousness.
Teacher Zhu froze for a moment, then the corner of her mouth twitched.
“You… didn’t I just lecture you a moment ago?”
Teacher Zhu sighed helplessly, then looked at Lin Lin and asked, “What’s the reason for taking leave?”
“I don’t feel well!”
As she spoke, Lin Lin even pretended to hold her stomach. Teacher Zhu felt speechless inside.
This… this acting isn’t convincing at all.
And she even used the classic excuse of feeling unwell.
Sigh.
Well, since this kid had clearly made up her mind, Teacher Zhu didn’t feel like stopping her anymore. She reluctantly wrote a leave slip for the girl and said,
“Be careful on the way home, and make sure you study properly once you’re there!”
“Got it!”
Lin Lin happily took the leave slip and skipped away. Teacher Zhu sighed again and glanced toward the office door.
Suddenly—
Gao Liang’s figure appeared there, at a very bad time.
Teacher Zhu’s heart tightened immediately.
She had a very bad feeling.
This kid…
He’s not going to ask for leave too, is he?