Volume 1 Chapter 80: Even Spicy Comics Can Be Used as Reference

After a simple wash, and after cleaning the house, Shen Jingyi changed into clean clothes and then came to the convenience store.

The morning sunlight shone on her body, giving her skin a soft glow.

She checked her phone.

It was not even 7:30 yet.

The convenience store had just opened, and there were no customers yet.

Sister Li had not arrived either.

Only her junior schoolmate was sitting behind the counter, holding her phone and reading something unknown.

Beside the table was a cup of hot soy milk.

She looked extremely excited while reading, smiling widely, shaking with laughter, and even slapping her thigh from time to time.

No matter how one looked at it, she clearly was not working.

The girl was obviously fully focused on her phone and did not even notice Shen Jingyi entering through the door.

Only when someone walked past her did she suddenly react.

“S-s-senior!”

The frightened girl quickly reached to press the power button. But in her panic, she pressed the volume button instead.

She then hurriedly pushed the phone backward and quickly tried to stand up.

But because she moved too suddenly, she knocked over the soy milk beside her.

Luckily, Shen Jingyi reacted fast and prevented the hot soy milk from spilling onto the floor.

Shen Jingyi knew this junior liked reading all kinds of strange things. Sometimes she would also excitedly share gossip with her.

But Shen Jingyi had never been interested in such things and was too lazy to ask what was on her phone.

She helped move the soy milk farther onto the table and handed her some tissues. She was about to casually remind her to be careful.

But her eyes accidentally passed over the phone screen, and she suddenly froze.

Her junior was reading a comic, and it was not a normal comic.

On the screen, a tall girl with half-open clothes was pressing another girl in fancy clothes under her body.

Then she held the other girl’s chin and said, ‘Don’t you want to try it, my young lady?’

Shen Jingyi’s pretty face stiffened.

She could not stop herself from remembering the scene from last night’s dream.

In that dream, the usually hard-to-read Miss Bai had also held her tightly in her arms.

That shy and soft smile, so different from her usual proud attitude, made her seem more like... a spoiled little cat.

Although the positions in the dream seemed opposite from the comic...

For some reason, Shen Jingyi still overlapped the comic girl’s face with Bai Muxue’s face.

Wait.

Then doesn’t that mean...

I was imagining pressing her down...?

Damn it! What am I thinking?

Was that strange dream still affecting her?

Had she become strange too?

Shen Jingyi suddenly came back to her senses, but a light blush quietly appeared on her cheeks.

Seeing Shen Jingyi’s strange reaction, the junior thought her serious senior was unhappy after seeing such a bold comic.

She quickly pressed the power button and laughed awkwardly.

“Ahaha, Senior Shen came so early... Have you eaten?”

Shen Jingyi gave a small “Mm.”

Then she picked up the broom from the storage room, swept all the dust and trash in front of the door into the trash can, changed into her work uniform, and walked behind the counter.

The girl secretly glanced at Shen Jingyi beside her.

She quickly closed the comic page and started arranging the goods on the shelves. But she could not focus at all.

From time to time, she secretly looked at her senior’s expression.

Reading that kind of comic during work hours and getting caught by her serious senior. She felt so embarrassed she wanted to disappear.

Shen Jingyi was carefully checking the accounts.

But seeing the girl acting suspiciously and secretly glancing over several times in just a few minutes, she could not help sighing.

After a moment of silence, she softly asked, “That comic... was it good?”

“What was it about?”

Hearing that, the girl was shocked and almost knocked the snacks off the shelf.

She quickly looked at Shen Jingyi with uncertain eyes.

But Shen Jingyi was quietly looking at the account book, her delicate side profile as expressionless as usual, as if she was only asking casually because she had nothing else to talk about.

Only then did the girl slowly relax.

She organized her words in her mind and carefully said,

“Uh... it’s okay, I think it’s pretty okay, yeah.”

“As for the story... it’s that kind of common plot. A top student girl from a poor family meets a noble young lady. Then the young lady takes interest in her, brings her home to be her private tutor, and then sparks begin to fly between them...”

Hmm... talking about this kind of thing with Senior Shen feels strange.

The plot itself was normal enough, but the scenes inside the comic...

The more she spoke, the guiltier she felt. Her voice became softer and softer, and she almost lowered her head into her chest.

Naturally, she did not notice that Shen Jingyi suddenly froze after hearing those words.

Her jade-like fingertips rested on the account book and did not turn the page for a long time.

After a moment, Shen Jingyi continued checking the accounts. From time to time, she looked up at the computer screen. Her expression was as cold as ever.

“What happened later in the story? How did their relationship develop?”

“???”

Senior Shen was discussing the plot of a spicy comic with her?

Was the world finally ending?

She looked suspiciously at Shen Jingyi.

Although Senior Shen’s tone was serious, like discussing academic research, her expression showed nothing strange.

It really seemed like she was only chatting casually because she did not want to work.

Only then did the girl relax and continue,

“Um... at first, the young lady only thought the heroine looked cold and distant, so she wanted to tease her for fun.”

“But the heroine never gave in.”

“And as they spent time together, they slowly discovered each other’s good points.”

“Especially because the heroine first thought the young lady was arrogant and looked down on others, but later realized she was actually very caring and gentle...”

“And the young lady was also small and cute, so the heroine slowly developed protective feelings for her... something like that.”

Hearing the girl’s stuttering explanation, Shen Jingyi seemed a little interested.

“You said that young lady was originally quite difficult?”

“Y-yes?”

“Then why did the heroine fall for her?”

Why did she fall for her...?

Because that’s how the author wrote it!

Otherwise what are we reading for?

The girl complained silently in her heart, but still kept making things up.

“Because she looks sweet and soft, very cute? Even in comics, looks matter too, hahaha...”

“What else? Besides appearance.”

Shen Jingyi glanced at the girl and asked casually.

“Uh... also, the young lady was a bit weak and sickly, so the heroine often took care of her and slowly developed feelings?”

“What else?”

“Um... and although the young lady looked glamorous on the outside, she actually had no true close friends. No one could really enter her heart... except the heroine.”

Shen Jingyi looked out the window.

“Mm. Continue.”

Seeing this, the girl became more confident.

Although Senior Shen did not say much, her eager curiosity had clearly awakened the girl’s desire to recommend the comic.

So she spoke more boldly,

“And the heroine herself did not have many friends either. She was poor, cold in personality, and had little communication with others.”

“So between the warm-outside but lonely-inside young lady, and the cold but gentle heroine...”

“There was probably a feeling of understanding each other deeply?”

After hearing that, Shen Jingyi stopped working again. Her eyes stayed fixed on the computer screen. Her expression remained calm and focused.

But her index finger restlessly played with a strand of hair near her ear.

“In the comic... although that young lady looked arrogant and spoiled... She never really crossed the line with the heroine, right?”

Her voice had lost its usual cold calmness. Instead, it carried a slight trembling of unease.