Chapter 55: Nothing

An Yu had no idea why An Qing suddenly went crazy and came looking for her, but she didn’t care much. 

She was even too lazy to ask the system what new drama had unfolded.

In short, she was not going home with An Qing.

Actually, whether An Qing showed up or not, An Yu had no plans to go straight home today. 

She had other arrangements!

And that was: to hang out with Ning Wanciu and the others!

Standing in front of the trio, An Yu expressionlessly held out her hand.

“An Yu? What’s up?” 

Ning Wanciu sounded a little surprised, yet her voice was still as gentle as ever.

An Yu said nothing. 

She simply stepped forward and took Ning Wanciu’s hand.

Feeling the warmth in her palm, An Yu gradually relaxed into a comforting sense of safety.

As expected, it’s completely different from being held by An Qing. 

I like Ning Wanciu much more.

“Today, take me out to play.” 

An Yu said softly.

Ning Wanciu was briefly stunned, but she instinctively squeezed An Yu’s hand back.

As always, she couldn’t refuse An Yu.

She turned to glance at Huai Xiang and Cheng Shimumeng, as if checking their reactions.

But that check was honestly unnecessary. 

Huai Xiang, for one, had been dying for Ning Wanciu to invite An Yu to hang out with them. 

Right now she was staring at Ning Wanciu with sparkling eyes, practically begging her to say yes.

Then there was Cheng Shimumeng…

She hadn’t watched nearly enough yet!

The interactions between Ning Wanciu and An Yu were more captivating than any movie she’d ever seen. 

There was something inexplicably fascinating and heart-fluttering about them.

So she spoke up first. 

“Sure! Let’s all go play together.”

“Yes yes yes, let’s go go go!”

With both her best friends on board, Ning Wanciu naturally had no reason to refuse. 

“Alright then, An Yu, where do you want to go?”

The three of them didn’t join any clubs and had nothing special to do after school, so like real delinquent girls, they were free and wandered wherever they pleased.

They were familiar with every spot An Yu might want to visit, including all the newly opened places they’d already tried.

Like that milk tea shop last time—they had been the very first customers.

“I don’t know.” 

An Yu calmly looked at Ning Wanciu. 

I’m not some otherworldly delinquent who’s lived here forever. 

In my previous life I was busy and never went anywhere.

So An Yu left the decision to Ning Wanciu. Wherever she went, An Yu would follow.

“Is that so…” 

Ning Wanciu smiled helplessly, but she wasn’t surprised. 

This was very An Yu—actively asking to go out, yet having no idea where. 

“Then… An Yu, do you like games?”

She already knew the answer—An Yu loved games, otherwise she wouldn’t be playing with Ning Dongli—but she asked politely anyway.

“Mm.” 

An Yu nodded.

“Then let’s go to the arcade~”

Lately, because of her little sister, Ning Wanciu had only been strolling around briefly with the girls or checking out new shops before heading home.

It had been ages since the three of them went to the arcade. 

This was the perfect chance to play together.

“Good.” 

An Yu looked up and answered expressionlessly.

Never been. Want to go.

“Then let’s head out~” 

Like caring for a child, Ning Wanciu held An Yu’s hand, a gentle smile on her lips, and they left the classroom together.

“Yay!” 

Huai Xiang and Cheng Shimumeng immediately followed.

Hand in hand with Ning Wanciu, the corners of An Yu’s mouth lifted into a tiny, almost imperceptible curve. 

She was in a very good mood.

【Host! Host!】

The system’s voice rang out anxiously in her mind.

‘Mm?’

【Just now—just now An Qing’s hatred value didn’t go up at all!】

‘Oh.’

That’s it? 

I thought something big happened. 

Isn’t it normal that An Qing’s hatred didn’t rise?

She had immediately seen that An Qing didn’t want to touch her, so she shook her off and even kindly told her to see a doctor.

With such a benevolent act from herself, of course An Qing’s hatred wouldn’t increase. 

If anything, it should have dropped.

Though whether it dropped or not didn’t matter to her.

【What do you mean “oh”?! Her hatred value had been steadily rising before, but now it suddenly stopped!】

So what?

An Yu didn’t understand.

【But some emotion completely different from hatred is skyrocketing instead!!】

An Yu: ?

Different from hatred—what could it be? Good feelings?

Wouldn’t that lower the hatred value? 

Why was it counted separately? 

Reborn heroine’s emotions sure are complicated.

An Yu shook her head expressionlessly.

【Ugh, let me put it this way—An Qing’s hatred toward you might have already exceeded the limit and is starting to mutate!】

There was no other explanation. 

Hatred value frozen, yet another emotion exploding upward.

The system wasn’t a favorability system; she was a villainess survival system. 

She could only see things related to the host’s survival conditions.

Like An Qing’s hatred value, or the brand-new emotion now sprouting in An Qing’s heart.

All of it concerned An Yu’s future.

But An Yu didn’t care in the slightest, leaving the system panicking alone.

Right now the system couldn’t help even if she wanted to—she was still being watched by the main system!

If An Qing suddenly snapped and lost control one day, the system would be powerless!

【At this rate, she might actually lose it one day and come straight for you!】

In all her years as a system, she had never seen a host who could drive the mission target to the brink of explosion just by existing.

…Huh?

An Yu didn’t understand, but she was greatly shocked.

She had meant well!

An Qing’s hand had been trembling so much—anyone would think she was about to have a seizure. 

Clearly she was allergic to An Yu!

Yet doing this made things worse? 

What would have happened if she hadn’t run away on the spot?

An Yu didn’t even want to imagine. 

As expected, reborn heroines are unreasonable.

‘System, do you think An Qing might let me go?’

【Uh…】

‘Just let nature take its course. I didn’t do anything, and she’s already like this. Worrying won’t help.’

System: ……

She really wanted to say: Host, does this really count as “not doing anything”?

You ignored everything An Qing did, fine. 

But when she grabbed you, you told her to get her eyes treated…

That felt like straight-up courting death.

‘Being happy is most important. Anxiety is unnecessary.’

【…Fine.】

When she thought about it, the system realized it was true. 

Whether An Qing’s emotions were weird or not, the ending would probably be the same anyway…

Though she kept feeling like An Yu had somehow talked her in circles again.

But whatever. 

The host had spoken—what else could she do?

An Yu shook her head. 

Today she was going somewhere she’d never been. 

She refused to think about An Qing.

Feeling the warmth in her hand, An Yu tossed the reborn heroine to the back of her mind.

“What’s wrong?” 

Ning Wanciu looked at her curiously.

An Yu shook her head expressionlessly. “Nothing.”

“Really?”

“Mm.”

Ning Wanciu blinked, then smiled helplessly. 

“Alright.”

“Mm.”