At Jiang You’s words, her three little followers immediately nodded. Sister You must have her reasons for doing this. They just had to trust her!
Whatever Sister You did was right!
The evening self-study session hadn’t ended yet, but Jiang You had already taken her three little followers out for a shopping spree.
"Sister You, this bag is pretty," Yu Lin said, looking at her cautiously.
"Buy it." Jiang You glanced over, barely lifting her eyelids.
’It’s just a bag worth a few million, who cares? Buy, buy, buy.’
"Thank you, Sister You!" Yu Lin said happily.
Whatever bags the other two followers wanted, Jiang You bought them all!
After spending tens of millions, Jiang You felt much better.
’Before I go bankrupt, I’m buying everything!’
Her three little followers were ecstatic, and their devotion to Jiang You seemed to deepen.
In the past, Jiang You had been generous to them, but always within limits.
Now, they felt that Jiang You truly treated them as her own people, not just as servants to be summoned and dismissed at will.
’We will follow Sister You forever!’
Jiang You was unaware of her three little followers’ thoughts.
She returned to school and went back to her dorm.
She had just finished showering and was blow-drying her hair when there was a knock on her dorm room door.
"Student Council inspection!" a cold voice called from outside.
Jiang You put down the hair dryer and shuffled over in her slippers.
’A Student Council inspection? For what?’
The moment she opened the door, a group of Student Council members filed in. They wore red armbands indicating they were on duty, and the person in the lead said, "Contraband appliance check."
He was speaking to her.
Jiang You’s eyelid twitched. ’It’s been so long since I was in college, I completely forgot about things like contraband appliance checks.’
She stood by the door, watching the on-duty Student Council members begin scanning with their instruments.
’As expected of an interstellar society. Even contraband appliance checks are much more high-tech.’
Jiang You’s gaze was initially on the members conducting the inspection, but then she seemed to notice someone else standing nearby.
She turned her head and saw a cold, expressionless young man leaning against the doorway. He had short, neat black hair, almond-shaped eyes with ash-gray pupils, and a silver cross earring that glinted on his earlobe.
’It’s the Student Council President, Gu Qing. Also one of the male leads.’
Gu Qing noticed Jiang You’s gaze but didn’t spare her a glance in return, his entire being exuding an aloofness that kept everyone at a distance.
Jiang You’s pink eyes flickered, and she looked away.
’This male lead is very cold and heartless. In the novel, his romantic storyline with the heroine was the slowest to develop.’
’He really is cold. He won’t even look at people.’
"President, these are the contraband appliances we found." A Student Council member walked over, holding several items.
Curling irons, clothes irons...
"Confiscate them," Gu Qing said indifferently, just as he turned his gaze to Jiang You.
Suddenly, he heard a mechanical voice.
[Task Fourteen has been issued.]
Jiang You heard it too. She had been feeling gloomy about her appliances being confiscated, but at the sound of the system issuing a task, she paused. Then, schooling her expression, she strode toward Gu Qing with a haughty look on her face.
"Hey, you must have a crush on me, don’t you? First you deliberately cornered me at the school gate to get my attention, and now you’re deliberately coming to my door to confiscate my appliances just to see me. Since you like me that much, I suppose I can reluctantly give you my contact info!"
She said this with the air of someone bestowing a great charity, opening her terminal and presenting her contact info. "Go on, add me!"
[Task Fourteen complete.]
Gu Qing looked at her, his ash-gray eyes seeming to shift for a moment, though perhaps they hadn’t at all.
He raised his lean, strong wrist and used his terminal to scan Jiang You’s friend interface. The two successfully added each other as friends.
Jiang You froze. ’The male lead isn’t following the plot again.’
Before she could react, Gu Qing lowered his gaze, did something on his terminal, and said, "I’ve sent the disciplinary warning to you. Be sure to check it."
With that, he didn’t look at Jiang You again and turned to leave.
The Student Council members froze for a second. Disciplinary warnings were always sent from the official Student Council account to students who violated the rules, never from a personal one.
They all lowered their eyes, not daring to speak.
’This was the big shot who had been parachuted into the Student Council presidency the moment he arrived as a freshman.’
The Student Council members took Jiang You’s contraband appliances and left with Gu Qing.
Jiang You’s lips moved. ’So he added me just to send a disciplinary warning.’
’And here I was thinking, could it be that I’m just that charming? That’s why Gu Qing added me?’
But Gu Qing’s cold, distant demeanor, the kind that kept everyone at arm’s length, really didn’t seem like that of someone interested in her. Even the novel’s heroine had to get hurt for him multiple times and nearly die for him before his attitude showed any change.
Jiang You figured she must have been saying too many narcissistic things lately. She was getting a bit full of herself.
From ten to twelve that night, Jiang You was back to the intense grind, studying with Teacher Zhou.
Whenever Jiang You had a difficult question, she would ask Teacher Zhou, and he would always explain it to her with great patience.
She could faintly hear some noise on his end, but she couldn’t make it out clearly.
「In the backstage lounge of a bar.」
Zhou Yu’s lips were indeed a bit dry from talking. He was not a man of many words and had never spoken so much before. When teaching other students, his explanations were always concise, but with a student like Jiang You, he was extremely detailed.
After two hours, Jiang You felt she had learned a great deal. "Thank you, Teacher!" she said, then added out of subconscious curiosity, "Teacher, what is your Beast Soul?"
On the other end, Zhou Yu listened to the young woman’s voice. It seemed to change slightly after coming through the microphone, but it was still sweet. Without her usual high-and-mighty tone, she sounded very well-behaved.
Through the headset, it was as if the young woman were speaking right next to his ear, incredibly close.
For some reason, his Adam’s apple bobbed. He lowered his brows and said softly, his voice a bit hoarse, "Ice Soul Snake."
’An Ice Soul Snake sounds like an offensive type.’
Jiang You didn’t think too much about it. "Mine seems to be a Healing Pink Cat."
’It looks just like a normal cat, but its whole body is pink. There’s nothing special about it. It has no combat ability, only healing.’
"It will evolve," Zhou Yu said gently. "And it’s not impossible that you could awaken a second Beast Soul in the future."
"Okay, thank you, Teacher." Jiang You didn’t disturb him any further. After paying, she ended the lesson.
A little curious, she summoned her Beast Soul.
Jiang You raised one hand and, following the summoning method she had learned, a translucent pink soul body soon appeared in her left palm. It was a small pink cat, completely pink all over, with nothing else remarkable about it.
Suddenly, she felt an itch in her right palm as well.
At that thought, Jiang You raised her right hand.
Another translucent pink Beast Soul appeared in her right palm.
Jiang You’s eyes widened. ’I have two Beast Souls?’
’But why does this new Beast Soul look almost the same as the one on the left? It’s another pink kitty!’
The new Beast Soul opened its eyes. They were red.
A Charm System Beast Soul.