Chapter 22: So Cold…

“Burp… Finally, I’m done! That felt great!”

Lin Jiaxin set down her chopsticks with a loud clatter.

She couldn’t help but let out a small burp.

Good thing she had some cultivation now; her appetite had increased a bit.

Otherwise, finishing such a huge pile of food would have been a real struggle for Lin Jiaxin.

“Holy crap! She ate all that by herself?”

“Is she really a freshman? Could she be some upperclassman pretending?”

The surrounding students couldn’t help but whisper among themselves.

Most of them were freshmen, and seeing someone eat so much for the first time was bound to surprise them.

“Mm-hmm…”

Lin Jiaxin took it all in.

She curled her lips, held her slightly bloated belly, and slowly stood up.

Then, carrying her empty tray, she gave a polite smile to the gossiping students.

Ha!

How could you kids possibly understand the level of your Sister Xin?

You still have a lot to learn!

Lin Jiaxin half-supported her slightly swollen stomach.

In her left hand she held the empty tray, like a noble lady holding a bouquet of flowers on her way to a banquet.

Under everyone’s gaze, she gracefully walked through the crowd.

“What the hell? Showing off like that?”

“She eats like a pig… why is she so proud?”

“Yeah… isn’t she afraid of getting fat?”

But some stubborn and cunning pig demons couldn’t stand it.

They muttered sourly:

“Look at me—I don’t even eat, and I gain weight just from drinking water… sigh!”

“Come on, are you kidding me? If you really got fat from water, then food scientists should stop studying food and just study you!”

“You mean bubble tea doesn’t count as water? Snacks aren’t food?”

…

Lin Jiaxin didn’t care about others’ opinions at all.

She was simply doing what everyone else wanted to do but didn’t dare.

No matter where you are, people always pursue beauty.

But for ordinary people, beauty comes at a price.

Dieting, working out, losing weight…

Very few girls dare to eat so freely.

Especially really pretty girls…

The phrase “You have good foundations, sis” is really just self-deception.

No one truly likes a cunning pig demon with a thick waist and big arms.

…

She had accumulated too much Manifestation True Qi today.

Lin Jiaxin didn’t linger outside and quickly returned to the dormitory.

She planned to secretly start cultivating and grind!

But as soon as she got back, she was shocked.

The dorm was completely empty.

And someone had touched her desk.

The old desk, covered in scratches of varying ages, had been replaced with a brand-new one.

On top of it sat a sports watch, a hand-grabbed pancake stuffed with a generous portion of lettuce, and a cartoon balloon of Xixiong the Bear…

Lin Jiaxin frowned, didn’t touch them, and directly opened the desk drawer.

Inside were her personal belongings.

The arrangement was exactly the same as before.

“Wait, who swapped my desk?”

Lin Jiaxin looked at the desk under her bed, then at the desk under another roommate’s bed nearby.

Was someone deliberately swapping their desks?

How stupid could that be? They didn’t even change what was on top.

“Looks like there’s a bad person in the dorm.”

“Trying to start a war among roommates?”

Lin Jiaxin narrowed her eyes, her gaze dark and unclear.

So those stereotype videos about female dorms she watched in her past life were real.

Four people, eight group chats, petty little tricks to annoy people…

Completely different from male dorms, where likes and dislikes were written all over their faces.

But Lin Jiaxin didn’t want to get into an internal palace drama with her roommates.

What a waste of time and energy!

Anything that affected her cultivation had to be avoided at all costs!

So, while her roommates were out, she quickly swapped the desks back!

She moved the watch, pancake, and balloon to the common area—the balcony.

Hmph…

Frame her? She’d seen these tricks plenty of times at her company in her past life!

…

At the school library.

Lin Jiaxin’s three roommates, hungry, were each holding two bread rolls, quietly munching in a corner.

Finally, Roommate A couldn’t take it anymore.

She put down her dry bread, looked at Roommate B, and whispered:

“Lingling, I still don’t get it… We wanted to apologize. After swapping the desks, why didn’t we just give her the stuff directly? Why did we buy those things and put them on the desk?”

Roommate C chimed in:

“Yeah, and such random things… What’s the meaning of a hand-grabbed pancake and a balloon?”

Roommate B frowned at their confused expressions, a bit surprised:

“Wait, so you really didn’t get it? Then why did you chip in so quickly?”

“Isn’t it obvious? A watch, a pancake with extra lettuce, and a balloon.”

“Put them together and it’s ‘watch-lettuce-balloon’—‘don’t be angry’!”

“…”

“…”

After hearing Roommate B’s explanation, the other two suddenly shivered, feeling a chill run down their spines.

“So cold 🥶.”

“Yeah, it’s pretty cold 🥶.”

“I was talking about the cold joke.”

“I was talking about the cold joke too…”

“Wait, what do you mean…”

Roommate B was about to say something when she also shivered.

She instinctively turned to look at the air conditioner behind them.

Someone had changed the temperature from 22°C to 16°C.

The fan was set to max, blowing directly at them…

Roommate B didn’t say a word. She quietly pulled out her advanced Huami phone.

Using the infrared remote, she secretly changed the temperature back.

Don’t ask—just blame it on uterine cold, can’t take the chill…

“…”

Roommate C finished her last bite of bread and whispered:

“Do you think… she knows we were targeting her before?”

Roommate A hesitated, then said uncertainly: “I don’t know… probably not…”

No one hates someone for no reason.

And no one does good for no reason.

Lin Jiaxin, with her earlier arrogant and ungrateful attitude and her actions, had accidentally AoE’d too many people.

Her three roommates started hating her from that point.

So they subconsciously bullied her in the dorm.

Even though Lin Jiaxin never noticed or felt it…

But they had done it.

Their perception of Lin Jiaxin only changed today.

The three roommates had thought Lin Jiaxin was just pretending to be superior and look down on ordinary classmates.

They thought that when faced with authority or a handsome guy, she’d cave and act like a sycophant.

But they never expected that Lin Jiaxin wasn’t targeting anyone in particular.

She simply looked down on everyone equally!

She even turned away Ye Bufan, the school’s rising star of the past two years, in that familiar way of hers.

And she stood up for a random male student, drawing her sword to help.

Even though her method was still her usual pretentious style.

She didn’t even leave her name—just finished the deed and vanished, hiding her merit.

These actions proved that Lin Jiaxin wasn’t someone who bullied the weak and feared the strong.

She was just naturally like that…

It’s just that the way her personality manifested was a bit off-putting, that’s all.

Yes, Lin Jiaxin’s two Manifestation scenes in the cafeteria—they had all been there.

And they had witnessed the whole process.

Otherwise, why would they have just gotten their food only to be caught by Lin Jiaxin and pestered?

Although their view of Lin Jiaxin had improved because of what happened earlier,

They still couldn’t quite accept her personality.

At the same time, they felt awkward about their past bullying.

That’s why they ran away in such a hurry.

So much so that they hadn’t eaten enough, and all three of them were squatting here munching on dry bread…