The female lead, Zhou Yan, had gone to turn in homework and wasn’t back yet.
Jiang You needed to make Yang Qi kneel and feel pain when the female lead returned.
The system hadn’t specified how to make him feel pain.
’A kick should do the trick later, right?’
At this thought, Jiang You, who had been sitting slightly turned with her legs under the desk to look at Yang Qi, moved her legs out from under it.
Yang Qi saw Jiang You’s legs move out and rest in front of him. She was now sitting facing him directly, arms crossed over her chest, looking down at him coldly.
Her slender legs were right in front of him. He could wrap his hands around them and caress them with just a slight movement.
Yang Qi’s Adam’s apple bobbed. He suppressed his inner restlessness and tilted his head up to look at her. His slightly swollen eyes under the sunglasses began to ache. "Sister You, are you unhappy?"
Jiang You was watching the back door out of the corner of her eye. The female lead wasn’t back yet. She couldn’t start her performance.
When the female lead came back to the classroom, she’d definitely have to pass through this aisle to get to her seat.
"Yeah," Jiang You replied nonchalantly.
"Sister You, don’t be unhappy." Yang Qi slowly lowered one knee to the ground, then the other.
He knelt with his knees spread, trapping her slender legs between them.
Jiang You had been focused on the situation outside the door. Who would have thought the person in front of her would suddenly kneel?
Her eyelid twitched violently.
’Wait, I haven’t even told him to kneel yet. Why is he already kneeling?’
Just then, Zhou Yan happened to return.
Jiang You snapped back to reality. ’He’s already kneeling, so I might as well move on to the next step.’
She lifted her foot and kicked his knee, asking with a deadpan expression, "Does it hurt?"
Yang Qi swallowed. "It doesn’t hurt."
Jiang You fell silent. ’That doesn’t hurt?’
She thought of another way to make him hurt.
Jiang You reached out and snatched his sunglasses off. Yang Qi didn’t have time to stop her.
"Take off your mask too..."
Her gaze paused on his bruised eyes. She stopped mid-sentence and then spoke again, "You got beaten up?"
Seeing that Jiang You had already noticed, Yang Qi didn’t bother hiding it anymore and took off his mask as well. He averted his gaze slightly and explained, "You know me, I get into fights a lot. Getting hurt is pretty normal."
He didn’t say why he had been fighting.
Jiang You didn’t care about that. She saw that his eyes were swollen, his lip was split, and his cheek was bruised purple.
A glint flashed in her eyes. She reached out, grabbed the bruised flesh of his cheek, and squeezed hard. "Does this hurt?"
As expected, Yang Qi winced in pain. His hand immediately wrapped around Jiang You’s wrist, his eyes fixed on her. Though in pain, he couldn’t help but smile, his voice becoming breathy. "It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."
He exuded a foolishly fawning aura.
[Mission 16 complete.]
Jiang You watched the female lead’s movements. According to the plot, she should have stepped in to stop this.
Zhou Yan saw the scene, quietly exited through the back door, and then walked back to her seat from the front of the classroom.
From Zhou Yan’s perspective, the boy seemed to be enjoying it...
She also recognized him as the guy who had brought people to corner her that afternoon.
She recalled what he’d said when he cornered her and knew it was because of Jiang You.
When Jiang You realized the female lead hadn’t intervened and had even taken a detour back to her seat, she froze. Her fingers were still pinching the flesh of Yang Qi’s cheek.
Yang Qi was giving her a foolish, sycophantic grin.
’According to the plot, he’s supposed to feel humiliated.’
’I can’t do this anymore.’
Jiang You was at her wit’s end. She abruptly let go of Yang Qi’s cheek.
"You can go," Jiang You said, kicking his knee lightly. She moved her legs back under the desk, apparently done talking to him.
"Sister You, have you let out all your anger?" Yang Qi swallowed. It was as if he’d grown a dog’s tail that was wagging furiously, though thankfully, no one could see it.
He cupped the cheek Jiang You had just pinched, his red eyes burning as he looked at her with a fawning expression. The desire to please was written all over his face.
"Yes. You can go now," Jiang You said, waving her hand dismissively.
Yang Qi didn’t really want to leave, but seeing Jiang You’s impatient expression, he knew staying would be counterproductive. He had no choice but to go, but before leaving, he still asked, "Sister You, are you sure you don’t want to skip class and hang out with me?"
He wanted to take her out and cheer her up.
Jiang You refused.
So, Yang Qi could only leave.
Outside the classroom, his lackeys were waiting.
They were already used to seeing Yang Qi like this.
Whenever his goddess was unhappy, she used him as her punching bag.
And he was more than happy to be his goddess’s punching bag.
He was truly the ultimate simp.
"Let’s go. Get more guys, we’re going after that Zhou Jin." Yang Qi winced, his cheek still aching. "Fuck, he’s just jealous I’m handsome, always going for my face."
His few lackeys hurriedly left with him.
Jiang You was boredly doodling in her textbook.
A slender figure appeared beside her.
A book was offered to her.
Jiang You paused, following the book with her eyes until she saw Zhou Yan. She seemed nervous as she placed the book on Jiang You’s desk, her gaze trembling. "Jiang, these are my notes on raising soul beasts. I hope they can be of some help to you."
For a moment, Jiang You didn’t register what was happening. "What?"
Quickly, she expressionlessly pushed the book back into Zhou Yan’s arms and said, "I don’t need it."
Zhou Yan clutched the notebook tightly and had no choice but to return to her seat.
Jiang You was about to skip evening self-study again.
Her three followers were also getting ready to leave with her.
However, just as Jiang You reached the doorway, she ran into Xu Che standing there.
He stood in the doorway, the cool night at his back.
He had a cold and aloof aura.
Jiang You looked at him blocking her way, her gaze clearly asking, ’Why isn’t he moving?’
"Jiang, class isn’t over yet." Xu Che’s cool, dark eyes shifted, his gaze landing on her.
Before Jiang You could speak, her three followers launched their attack.
"Xu, I thought you knew your place. Are you starting to get dense now?" Yu Lin said, looking darkly at Xu Che.
"Yeah, hurry up and scram. Don’t block Sister You’s way," Chen Yu added.
"People who don’t know their place don’t tend to have happy endings, you know," Lin Xue said with a smile.
Jiang You’s gaze also fell on Xu Che. She coolly said two words: "Move aside."
Xu Che’s brows furrowed slightly, but in the end, he moved aside.
「Inside the dormitory.」
After washing up, Jiang You flopped onto her bed, getting ready for an all-night study session over a voice call when her phone rang again.
She glanced down and saw it was Shen Lan.
Annoyance flickered in Jiang You’s eyes. ’This boyfriend is really getting in the way of my studies.’
’And what happened to me just being a background-character girlfriend?’
’What’s with him calling again?’
Maintaining her persona, Jiang You answered the call. Her first words were exceptionally narcissistic: "What’s up, boyfriend? Miss me already?"
"Yeah, I missed you." Shen Lan’s voice was tinged with a doting smile, both heart-melting and flirtatious.