Fate Trading System – Chapter 354

Plan B

Heart-Stealing Operation 13

When Wu Yubing went out, Chu Muyu was leaning against the doorway smoking.

Her posture was lazy and weary, and her face under the smoke mist appeared very bewitching.

Chu Muyu was absolutely the best-looking girl he had ever dated, which was also the reason he was willing to be ceaselessly entangled with her.

He thought Chu Muyu and he were the same kind of person, and facts proved this was indeed the case; moreover, Chu Muyu was even more self-centered and colder than he was.

For Chu Muyu to suddenly be this way still surprised him quite a bit.

The way Chu Muyu was a while ago could only mean that the spare tire she spoke of, the one who was going to leave her, still occupied a certain position in her heart.

This current state of hers was most likely related to that Lin Xiaohuan; some conflict must have occurred between the two of them.

Wu Yubing didn’t have much of an impression of Lin Xiaohuan before. His eyes had always only focused on beautiful things; Wu Yubing never paid any mind to those who were obscure and had a very low sense of presence.

His impression of Lin Xiaohuan was just a vague, general idea; he couldn’t even clearly remember what she looked like. He only remembered a girl with black hair who was always by Chu Muyu’s side, very silent, very obedient to Chu Muyu’s words, a very good follower.

When he saw Lin Xiaohuan at the campus singer competition, Wu Yubing actually didn’t connect the girl singing on stage with the girl who was always by Chu Muyu’s side at all.

Because the feeling they gave people was indeed one of a thousand differences and ten thousand distinctions¹.

At that time, he only felt that the name Lin Xiaohuan was a bit familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn’t remember where.

It wasn’t until just now, when that male student asked Chu Muyu about Lin Xiaohuan, that Wu Yubing suddenly remembered, so that’s what it was.

“Cooled down?”

“Don’t talk, I’m annoyed.”

Chu Muyu breathed in a mouthful of smoke and slowly exhaled it, her face showing unconcealable irritation.

“What’s wrong? You were fine just now, and suddenly you exploded. You really scared them.”

Chu Muyu didn’t know what to say and could only continue to smoke in silence.

“Did you and Lin Xiaohuan have a fight?”

“What does it have to do with you?”

Chu Muyu didn’t want to mention Lin Xiaohuan right now, continuing to swallow clouds and spit out mist²; her side profile looked somewhat cold.

“So heartless? I can’t even ask? But compared to how she was before, Lin Xiaohuan’s change is really too big.”

“You also want to ask me for her contact information?”

Chu Muyu took a deep drag, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, exhaled a mouthful of smoke, and used the tip of her foot to grind out the butt that was glowing red.

“Of course not, in my eyes, how could she compare to you? Even if she has changed now, it has nothing to do with me. I’m not that superficial of a person.”

This was what Wu Yubing thought. Chu Muyu’s bad mood was definitely because of Lin Xiaohuan, which meant she and Lin Xiaohuan had a conflict, and not a small one at that. Girls, after all, are always prone to arguing.

Wu Yubing imagined it like this: Lin Xiaohuan had made a change, completely altering her initial appearance of having no sense of presence. Her entire clothing style had changed, she became known by many people, and so she no longer placed her entire center of gravity on Chu Muyu like before, which caused Chu Muyu’s dissatisfaction.

How could a person with a personality like Chu Muyu’s possibly allow someone by her side not to revolve around her? But Lin Xiaohuan was now no longer content to just be a foil, so the two of them argued, and they still hadn’t reconciled.

It had to be said that a large part of Wu Yubing’s speculation was correct; he was already approaching the truth.

“Aren’t you?”

Chu Muyu let out a laugh. Wu Yubing wasn’t a superficial person? Who would believe that.

They all are.

Making friends, you look at the face, look at the figure, look at the money, look at the personality. They were still at this stage; only later would they look at substance.

“Don’t think so much about it. You’ll always have friends. No need to be so agitated over one person. At worst, you can just ignore Lin Xiaohuan.”

“It’s a bit complicated between us. You wouldn’t understand.”

“Girls’ friendships are always so strange, I really do have a hard time understanding. But I can introduce you to new girls, ah. Maybe you can meet a second version of the old Lin Xiaohuan?”

Wu Yubing said this, but in his heart, he knew it was unlikely. The old Lin Xiaohuan, that type was very common, but one who could be that good to Chu Muyu, there really wasn’t one.

“Forget it. How could there be someone like her around you? If there really was one that obedient, I’d have to be on guard for whether she was a man-eating flower³.”

Chu Muyu pouted. There was only one Lin Xiaohuan, whether it was the past one or the current one.

“I guess, it was Lin Xiaohuan who broke it off⁴ with you first.”

“You’re so annoying, hey… How did you know?”

“Hmph, do I not know you? If you had been the one to kick Lin Xiaohuan away first, would you be in this half-dead, not-alive state?”

Moreover, based on the state of Lin Xiaohuan’s counterattack, there was no way it could have been Chu Muyu who kicked her away first, ah.

“Who’s half-dead, not-alive.”

Chu Muyu said unhappily, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

This summer weather was what she hated the most: the sun you could never escape, the omnipresent stuffy weather, high temperatures, sweat.

Even though she could wear pretty skirts and nice clothes, Chu Muyu still couldn’t bring herself to like this place.

“Hey, seriously, Wu Yubing, if I want to pull Lin Xiaohuan back to be friends with me again, what should I do?”

“Pfft, no way? Are you really Chu Muyu? You’re even thinking like this, ah? I thought you would be thinking about how to get revenge on Lin Xiaohuan.”

“Why would I get revenge on her? She didn’t do anything to wrong me. I’m the one who hurt her feelings, so she wants to make a clean break⁵ with me and doesn’t plan on being my friend anymore.”

“But you can’t bear to part with her as a friend?”

“Yeah.”

Wu Yubing couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Chu Muyu shot him a dissatisfied glare.

“What are you laughing at? Is it that funny?”

“It is, it is! What on earth did you do that was so heaven-angering and people-resenting⁶ that even a good-tempered person like her couldn’t stand you and wanted to break it off with you? Could it be that you stole her boyfriend? Or got together with the person she fancies?”

One of the best ways to break up the friendship between two girls is to have them fall for the same person, or in other words, a love triangle. In short, something like feelings is not very able to withstand tests.

“No, what kind of messy things are you thinking? Can you give some proper advice?”

“As the saying goes, you get up from where you fell. Whatever you did to wrong her and hurt her heart, you should start from that matter. Really, for a friendship between you girls, you actually need a big old guy⁷ like me to tell you what to do.”

“That won’t work.”

Chu Muyu thought of something and shook her head frantically.

If she were to start from that matter, wouldn’t that mean she and Lin Xiaohuan would have to develop that kind of feeling… Liking girls, she had never even thought about this matter before!

“Why are you reacting so strongly… This won’t work and that won’t work. Then you should just try to please her. However you normally please a boyfriend, please her in the same way. Girls, you know, are very easy to coax.”

“How can that be the same? One is a friend, one is a boyfriend. And it’s always been others who coax me.”

What Chu Muyu said was the absolute truth. Because she was good-looking and had money, it had always been boys falling over themselves to coax her. When had there ever been a time she had to coax others?

“Just treat her to a meal, then watch a movie, buy things she likes. Don’t you girls all like to discuss things like shoes, bags, and cosmetics together? Wouldn’t it be fine to just buy her those? Then, when the atmosphere is better, you can apologize to her. That should be able to resolve it perfectly.”

In Wu Yubing’s eyes, girls were just that easy to coax. When they were angry, coax them a bit more, buy a gift, then admit you’re wrong, and that should be about enough.

“Then I’ll try.”

Chu Muyu’s mood improved, and she made up her mind.

But what Chu Muyu didn’t know was that her mom was already planning to act one step ahead of her.

Although their two objectives were different, the planned processes were surprisingly similar.

The next morning, Su Xin only had class in the first and second periods. As she walked out of the school, she received a message sent to her by Chu Yanxi.

Su Xin looked around and saw the sedan that Chu Yanxi was in.

A driver sat in the driver’s seat, and a man also sat in the front passenger seat, completely cutting off Su Xin’s idea of wanting to sit in the front passenger seat. She had no choice but to open the car door and sit in the back.

“Hello, Auntie.”

“Hm?”

“Yanxi…”

Su Xin called out again in a low voice, her face slightly red.

It was clearly just calling a name, so how did it end up like some kind of shame play⁸?

Chu Yanxi was satisfied and signaled for the driver to drive.

The driver and the man in the front passenger seat chose to be selectively deaf and blind, pretending they hadn’t seen or heard anything just now.

But in reality, the assistant sitting in the front passenger seat was having an internal breakdown, lowering his head with a horrified expression.

What a bizarre feeling.

The boss actually allowed a little girl to call her by her first name. Ah, no, it should be said that the boss actually required a little girl to call her by her first name. This was simply unbelievable, and the boss’s attitude was really too strange.

Mr. Assistant expressed that in all his years following the boss, this was the first time he had seen the boss like this.

This little girl was fair and soft; she shouldn’t be a relative of the boss either.

Mr. Assistant had secretly memorized the relationship chart. He had also met the several other young ladies and young masters, and none of them matched this one.

“Good girl.”

Chu Yanxi’s lips curved. She wanted to touch the little girl’s hair. And as she thought it, she did it.

Su Xin’s hair had been cut a bit shorter and had been taken care of since her rebirth; it looked to be of very good quality.

“Mmm…”

Su Xin raised her head and glared at Chu Yanxi. My hairstyle is messed up, hey!

After messing it up, Chu Yanxi quickly patted it down a couple of times to keep Su Xin’s hair from sticking up, even though she thought that was also quite cute.

“Is it too early to go eat now?”

Su Xin patted away Chu Yanxi’s fidgeting hand and fixed her hair herself.

The feeling of her hand brushing against her made Chu Yanxi’s heart skip a beat. She steadied her mind.

“So we’ll go look at a house first.”

“Hm?”

“I have one under my name, not far from your school. It’s very convenient.”

“But…”

Su Xin tilted her head, looking up slightly at Chu Yanxi, but didn’t continue her sentence.

Because Chu Yanxi’s finger was pressed against her lips.

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