Chapter 188: The Ones Who Can’t Be Shaken Off (7)
Rong Rong first said that she was at a critical stage of completing her assignment, and asked Tang Yiyi if she could have her roommate go downstairs to help her get the takeout.
Because of her usual obedience, President Tang didn’t suspect much. She just told her to rest, and then, regarding the gift that Po Er wanted to send, Rong Rong directly filled in the name of a company that was closest to her school, planning to contact the delivery driver to sign for it.
Then, she would just give it to the students in her department.
As for her little cousin Rong Si—
Although, in terms of difficulty, Tang Yiyi was actually the most suitable one to be the first to sever the ties of love.
First of all, Tang Yiyi was already a successful person with her own career. She wasn’t the type to give her all to love.
So even if she liked Rong Rong a lot, at most, she would feel offended by her obedient girlfriend’s rebellion, but she wouldn’t take her life for disobeying her.
There were two ways to break up safely with people like Tang Yiyi. The first was to show a side she didn’t like, provoking her to actively dislike her.
The second was to suddenly rebel, showing a side that was completely different from her obedience and actively leave, but her life afterward might face trouble from her.
For Rong Rong at this stage, the first method was safer. But it took too long. No matter what, things could change if they were delayed, and besides…
She didn’t plan to live in this game forever. She could deal with the trouble that Tang Yiyi created later. She just wanted to get rid of all of this trouble as soon as possible and then return to her own life.
But before Tang Yiyi, she had to find a way to make Rong Si, the little pervert, a bit more normal. According to the strategy guide, Rong Si liked light the most. And the original owner had met her once when she was working part-time. After learning her story, she would always unintentionally help her. So Rong Si regarded her as her salvation, as her light.
But this kind of emotion was tinged with obsession.
For those who had suffered, it definitely wouldn’t be enough for her to save them alone. She absolutely had to assist them with some psychological treatment.
Tang Yiyi’s things could be ignored, and Po Er’s could be fooled, but this little brat, she had to see.
“Sister, I remember that you didn’t really like drinking cola before.”
After meeting her at the school gate, Rong Rong pretended to help her push the wheelchair. But just as she took two steps forward, the other person saw the cup in her hand.
“It’s not cola,” Rong Rong said casually, “It’s warm water.”
Rong Si felt that something was wrong. This cup clearly looked like it was from the movie city. But when they had met at the movie theater earlier, Rong Rong had said that she would go back with her. But why was she still holding a drink cup that was only available there?
And it was filled with warm water?
Who had she watched a movie with… or after sending her away, had she seen someone else?
Thinking of this, Rong Si’s mood became less pleasant. She kept guessing who this person would be in her heart, and still hadn’t figured out the answer even after she had entered the cafeteria with Rong Rong.
Su Mingxiu found that the fog that obscured the map changed depending on the protagonist’s whereabouts.
For example, when she was in the movie city earlier, and Rong Rong was also inside, the fog obscured the entire outside of the mall, and didn’t let her see the small roads either. But once the protagonist left, the place where she was would suddenly become clear.
When she was still in the mall and Rong Rong had left first, Su Mingxiu had almost seen the vehicle that was carrying her all the way from the movie city to the entrance of this university. On the map that was filled with fog, this unusually clear road was too conspicuous.
Now, a new location had appeared on her map: A University’s cafeteria.
Looking at this clear guide, Su Mingxiu’s eyes showed a hint of gentleness. She quickly tapped on one of the white dots in the cafeteria. The next moment, she was surrounded by countless fragrances.
She looked down and saw a whole large iron pan of chopped pepper fish head, next to stir-fried green peppers with meat, braised meatballs, and more. And in her right hand, she was holding a large iron ladle.
Alright, then.
This time, she was a cafeteria auntie, right?
Su Mingxiu wielded the large iron ladle with an extremely cold expression. Various prices for the food naturally appeared in her mind. She pressed the price on the machine on the glass, and after the students swiped their cards, she started scooping food.
At the end of the line.
Rong Rong, who was pondering how to get Rong Si a specialist appointment, glanced at the line and suddenly saw a very obvious pixelated person standing behind the window at the end.
She didn’t know if it was her imagination, but compared to the almost mosaic-like appearance she had had in the mall restroom earlier, this pixelated person had become a bit clearer.
Although she wasn’t that clear… it was about the same clarity as when they had first met.
This made Rong Rong, who was already worried about her, suddenly breathe a sigh of relief, and then she couldn’t wait to get in front of her. She even accidentally pushed Rong Si’s wheelchair into the heels of the student in front of her.
A few minutes later.
Rong Rong looked at the dishes in the window. After telling Su Mingxiu what Rong Si wanted to eat, she asked what she wanted to eat. Su Mingxiu was holding a plate and an iron ladle and was waiting.
It was clearly a scene that was filled with the atmosphere of everyday life, but because this pixelated person’s skin tones were too white, Rong Rong actually saw a hint of misery, like a pampered princess who had been reduced to working in the kitchen.
She inexplicably curled her lips and heard the person in the wheelchair say what she wanted to eat.
“Sister, I want to eat stir-fried green peppers with pork…”
“Clang.”
The iron ladle hit the plate. From Rong Rong’s angle, she could easily see that the ladle that had been dropped was filled with only green peppers.
Her eyes widened.
And Rong Si, who was sitting in the wheelchair and couldn’t see any of this, was still saying, “Braised chicken pieces… chopped pepper fish head… Okay, thank you, sister.”
Her sister was silent.
After a while, Rong Si, who had received her plate, was also silent. Because not only was there only a stingy little mound of rice in her plate, but the stir-fried green peppers with pork only had green peppers, the braised chicken pieces only had dried chili peppers and a few bones, and as for the chopped pepper fish head—
It was skinny and small. Not only was there not a single piece of extra meat other than the head, but when she used her chopsticks to separate the layer of chopped peppers, she was met with the fish’s pale eyes that had fallen out.
Rong Si: “…”
Rong Rong was ordering food at the moment, trying to see the pixelated person’s emotions on her face.
But she failed. After a while, she said carefully, “I… I’ll get scrambled eggs with tomato?”
Su Mingxiu was still expressionless, but the scrambled eggs with tomato that she gave her didn’t have many tomatoes. The rest was filled with golden egg pieces that had been soaked in the sauce, which made people’s pupils tremble involuntarily.
Then, a huge braised chicken leg was placed next to it, and then a meatball that could fill a part of the dish was placed next to it, the sauce on top still slowly dripping down. She heard the pixelated person say in her nice voice, “Oops, I gave you the wrong one.”
“But it’s too much trouble to take it back, so it’s yours.”
Rong Rong: !
Although this was a game, and the original owner’s wallet wasn’t her wallet, Rong Rong couldn’t help but feel happy that she had just gotten such an abundant meal for only 1.50 yuan.
She didn’t even know why she was smiling so widely like she was about to reach the sun.
“Student, you forgot your meal card.”
Su Mingxiu’s hand reached out of the window and pointed at a student card that was placed on top. Rong Rong was about to leave while pushing Rong Si, but she heard her voice and looked at the meal card. Then she picked it up and looked at it especially, flipping through both sides slowly. After confirming that the person inside could see her name on her student card, she turned to leave, “Thank you.”
So her name was Rong Rong.
Su Mingxiu lowered her eyes and remembered this name carefully.
Rong Si felt that something was wrong. She had originally thought that the cafeteria auntie was just in a bad mood today, so she had just unfortunately encountered this situation.
But she didn’t expect that the person who was serving food gave Rong Rong so much.
She felt strange, so she kept looking back at that window while sitting at the table. But she couldn’t see anything. After all, she was just an ordinary… old woman.
Her sister couldn’t have fallen for someone like that, right?
Rong Si thought for a while and lowered her head to eat the green peppers painfully. And her sister, who was usually very good at taking care of her, seemed to not notice how terrible her plate of food was this time and was happily eating the chicken leg and eggs, and then she dug a large spoonful of meatballs.
She exuded an air of happiness from head to toe.
After barely getting through dinner, Rong Si was about to take the other person to a place as a date for the two of them, when she was pushed all the way to the psychological department’s infirmary by Rong Rong. She immediately sat down, “Doctor, I think I might be sick.”
Doctor: ?
Rong Si: ?
They were both shocked as they looked at Rong Rong who had said that. After Rong Rong had described her anxiety symptoms, the doctor gave her a form. Rong Si, who had been worried about her, hadn’t even managed to ask a question when she realized that the form was being pushed in front of her as well.
“Since we’re already here—”
Rong Rong said to her enthusiastically, “It’s free anyway. Come, come, cousin, you should do one too.”
Rong Si: ?
Without a doubt, in the end, the only one who was found to have psychological problems was Rong Si. Compared to her, Rong Rong’s anxiety about not being able to break up was trivial.
Rong Rong cried loudly, saying, “We can’t make children suffer, and we can’t be stingy when it comes to seeing a doctor.” With the support of the school doctor in the psychological department, she didn’t hesitate to get Rong Si a specialist appointment.
Then, with an exceptionally caring attitude, she created the noise of fifteen hundred ducks all by herself, and successfully persuaded Rong Si to leave. Before the little cousin left, her voice could still be heard, “Don’t be nervous! Don’t be afraid, and don’t worry about the medical expenses. Your sister will take care of everything!”
Rong Si was pushing her wheelchair at a speed that seemed like she was about to take off.
When Su Mingxiu appeared again, she saw that Rong Rong was holding her phone and standing in front of a small forest on campus with a strange smile on her face—
She was sending a message to Tang Yiyi.
The content was especially cautious, “President Tang, something happened at home. My younger sister is seriously ill and has to be hospitalized. I know this is very troublesome for you. But I really have no other choice. You are the only person I know who could possibly help me. Could you please lend me a hundred million? I will definitely find a way to pay you back in the future. Please rest assured, I will only marry you in this lifetime!”
Good.
Only a fool would lend her a hundred million. Please let Tang Yiyi think she was brain-dead, unreasonable, and incomprehensible. And then casually give her a few tens of thousands of yuan to save her from her misery and get rid of her, both the person and the feelings!
Just as she put away her phone, Rong Rong saw the person standing beside her. The other person was riding a tricycle with bunches of ten-yuan flowers on the back. They were all common types.
“Su… Mingxiu.”
Rong Rong called her name not too smoothly, always able to recognize her unique identity in the crowd at a glance.
The tricycle stopped in front of her. Su Mingxiu quietly looked at her, thinking that she needed her help with something. Then she saw Rong Rong pick up a large sunflower. After scanning the code to pay for it, she handed it to her.
“Here.”
Su Mingxiu: “?”
Rong Rong gave her a bright smile, “I’m giving it to you. I hope you have a good day today.”
The little girl, who had always only asked for more love from her, finally had the extra energy to give her a ray of sunshine. Su Mingxiu looked at the sunflower for a long time and asked her, “Why a sunflower?”
“You’ve given me a lot of food and drinks. I’m giving you a sunflower. It’s beautiful and pretty—”
“And you can eat the sunflower seeds.”
Thinking about the women who were surrounding her for some unknown reason, each one more dangerous than the last, Su Mingxiu had been very worried that she wouldn’t be able to solve the danger for her in time because of the restrictions she was under.
But now Rong Rong could find the time to give her flowers. She inexplicably… felt very gratified.
So Su Mingxiu took the sunflower. And in her heart, which was already filled with a dazzling garden of roses, water lilies, lotuses, carnations, and more, a corner of it also grew a sunflower.
“Thank you,” she said, “I really like this gift.”
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