Chapter 298: Our Story

The story begins with the inner monologue of a wealthy young lady, describing her longing and desire for friendship despite having nearly zero social skills.

The teenage years are an extremely extroverted stage of life, and precious friendships are like shining jewels. No girl dislikes jewels, just as no one wants to live in a solitary world forever.

However, very few people can successfully take the first step towards things they are completely unfamiliar with or even somewhat fearful of.

The timid girl secretly hoped like this, wishing for a great friend to fall from the sky who would like her and treat her well.

That midsummer, the cicada cries were incessant. Due to the end of the college entrance exam, the celestial but timid girl completely left campus and began an even more monotonous and lonely life, only able to immerse herself in the library every day to read about others’ adventures.

She envied the magic-eyed girl Peggy Sue, who had a loyal blue dog as a companion, a friend who could turn into sand by her side, and the courage to roam the galaxies of the universe.

She didn’t want that much. She just wanted a good friend to take her on an adventure to the small commodity city where classmates had been, and she would be satisfied.

This wish continued until one scorching noon. That day, she was reading the third volume of the magic-eyed girl series when she suddenly felt someone staring at her. She turned her head in confusion and unexpectedly made eye contact with an “ordinary-looking” boy.

[It’s that guy from the next class. A bit flustered. Let’s pretend I didn’t see him.]

The girl silently raised the book to cover her face, thinking this was the end of the story. But she never imagined that the boy would actually sit down across from her.

After finishing the first chapter, Jiang Qin quietly turned his head to look at the little rich girl eating ice cream in his living room.

The next second, Feng Nanshu seemed to sense something and turned to look at him. After thinking for a moment, she put on a serious face: “I’ll just eat one last one, okay?”

“How many have you had?”

“This is the second one, but this one counts for tomorrow. I won’t eat any tomorrow.”

Jiang Qin reluctantly agreed to her overdraft and turned back to slide the mouse to the second chapter.

This chapter was different from the first because sweet-toothed Huihui revealed the names of the male and female protagonists from the beginning. The heroine’s name was hastily chosen as Feng Tianxian, while the hero’s name was even more ridiculous – Jiang Qin.

Damn, there must have been a personal grudge when choosing that name, right, money-grubbing Huihui?

Taking my story and earning my support award money, I didn’t expect you to have some skills!

It was already impressive of me to reap the benefits, but you’re forcefully pulling my hand to do it!

That’s not even the worst part. The worst is that since you’re using my story to make my money, you should at least write according to the real situation. How can you talk nonsense?

Feng Nanshu is indeed a celestial girl, while I’m just an ordinary-looking guy. This is not realistic at all!

Adapting is not fabricating; storytelling is not spouting nonsense!

Jiang Qin was so angry that his mouth went crooked, but he still couldn’t help but continue scrolling the mouse wheel to read on.

Because the entire novel was written from the girl’s perspective, the content of the first chapter felt a bit unfamiliar to him. But from this chapter onward, starting from when the male lead sat down, he knew the story all too well.

The celestial girl accidentally got kicked by the boy across from her and received a bottle of beverage. From that day on, the gears of fate began to turn.

Amazingly, she found that she always ended up eating the last piece, thinking it was a coincidence. But later she discovered that the boy across from her would always stop eating when it was almost gone.

[He spoils me a bit.]

The celestial girl thought coldly, feeling a whooshing sensation in her heart.

However, as the timeline progressed, the male lead’s life became increasingly busy. He even worriedly asked the female lead if she would be lonely. The female lead gently shook her head, indicating that she was used to loneliness and had no fear.

But it wasn’t until the male lead truly disappeared that she realized she could no longer return to her previous life.

That’s right. She missed him a little.

“It’s good. I’m hooked. Please update more!”

“I think there’s a problem with this story. How about this – send me the subsequent drafts and I’ll check them for you.”

“The female lead is too cute. May I ask where I can find one?”

“Adapted from a true story? Damn, this beast must have saved the earth in his previous life!”

“Bookmarked. Please give me diabetes!”

“The author’s conscience is damn bad. Can’t you save up a dozen or twenty chapters before posting? You only have five chapters, and it cuts off halfway through. How am I supposed to live?”

“I beg you, give me one more chapter. I swear I’ll never touch this stuff again…”

Jiang Qin read through all the comments below, then grabbed his phone and solemnly called Huihui, who was willing to have her salary deducted for the sake of shipping them.

Ordinary college students tend to be bored out of their minds during summer vacation. Gao Wenhui was the same. Moreover, not being able to see Feng Nanshu and Jiang Qin or ship her favorite cp, she could only channel all her energy into writing.

Today, the first five chapters of her book officially went online, and as expected, it caused an unprecedented intense response.

She was very excited. That’s right. How could there be anyone in this world who doesn’t like shipping cp? They’d have to be pretty damn abnormal.

But she was still a bit apprehensive because she knew that Jiang Qin was most resistant to the idea of dating. Even though everyone could see that his friendship with Feng Nanshu had definitely changed, he still stubbornly claimed it was a new type of friendship!

Little Gao felt that even if Nanshu accidentally had a little Jiang Qin or little Nanshu, with Jiang Qin’s obstinacy, he would say it was the crystallization of friendship developed to the extreme.

So just the title of this book of hers could probably anger Jiang Qin to death.

“Loving You in the Name of Friendship” – this was equivalent to piercing through all of Boss Jiang’s disguises, exposing all the ambiguity under the sun. Damn, it’s really thrilling.

But when Huihui saw the caller ID, her heart couldn’t help but pound for a moment, thinking she was done for. He was coming to denounce her.

No need to ask. Jiang Qin would definitely ban her novel and even deduct her part-time salary for the next year. Maybe she’d really have to go to his house to be a nanny to pay off the debt after graduation.

The feelings he himself didn’t dare to acknowledge ended up being written naked for the entire internet audience to see. I’m really asking for death.

Sure enough, after Huihui answered the phone, a roar that sounded like it would devour someone immediately came from the other end of the receiver.

“That serialized novel on the forum was written by you, right? Are you polite? Are you polite?!”

Gao Wenhui in front of the computer couldn’t help but shrink her head: “No, not polite, but very thrilling.”

Jiang Qin’s face darkened: “I’m informing you now that your salary for the next year has been completely deducted!”

“I refuse!”

Gao Wenhui was also furious, thinking her luck was too bad. She had just uploaded it, how did he see it so quickly: “Aren’t you a busy boss with a packed schedule? Why do you have time to read posts on forums instead of going out to do business!”

Jiang Qin scoffed: “I did market research for half a month, then ran back to Lin’an for a three-day seminar. Just when I was about to go home and rest, I saw the surprise you prepared for me!”

“Since you’re resting at home, sleep more. Why are you looking at the computer? Your eyes need rest too, you black-hearted capitalist.”

“Don’t change the subject. Hurry up and change the adjectives back for me. If you don’t, I’ll delete your post and ban your account.”

“Change it back? Change what?”

Gao Wenhui always thought Jiang Qin wanted to delete her post, so she was a bit dazed when she heard the word “change”.

“The male lead is ordinary-looking. You wrote that, right? Do you respect objective facts? Do you respect scientific laws? What’s your vision, 0.something?”

Gao Wenhui was stunned for a moment: “You’re angry because this?”

“What else? I’m fucking Jizhou’s Takeshi Kaneshiro, but you described me as so average. Don’t you feel guilty?” Jiang Qin’s voice was fiercely vicious.

“Then if I change it, will you still delete my post?”

“If you change it, I won’t delete it. Zhihu is about to enter the promotion phase and needs good content to attract audiences. So far, the effect of your serialization is pretty good.”

Gao Wenhui was very surprised because Jiang Qin had always avoided love like the plague and didn’t allow anyone to mention it. Yet this time he actually agreed?

Was it really because the story was good and attractive that he made an exception? Or was it that he wasn’t afraid of others knowing how much he liked Feng Nanshu?

At this moment, Jiang Qin’s door was pushed open, revealing an absolutely beautiful but very serious little face outside.

“Jiang Qin, I seem to hear another girl talking.”

“It’s Gao Wenhui.”

“Oh, oh.”

Feng Nanshu showed a relieved expression and returned to the living room to continue watching her TV.

“Aren’t you resting at home? Why do I hear Feng Nanshu’s voice? Are you two living together?” Gao Wenhui on the other end of the phone exclaimed in surprise.

“What nonsense. She just came over to my place to hang out.”

“Hang out doing what? Oh oh, I get it. Then I won’t disturb you for now. I don’t have a boyfriend yet, so I can’t listen to that kind of voice at all!”

“?”

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Qin immediately grumbled for a while, thinking shipping experts were getting freaking scarier. They only hear what they want to hear, right?

But…

Jiang Qin really didn’t expect that Feng Nanshu had a little drama queen in her heart, with so many mental activities. Looking at the story from her perspective was quite interesting.

He casually grabbed the mouse and habitually refreshed the webpage a couple of times, discovering that the comments in the post were still constantly increasing.

“Is it really adapted from a true story? How are the two protagonists doing now? A wealthy young lady and an ordinary boy – this kind of combination usually ends badly. If that’s the case, I won’t read it. My heart is fragile and can’t handle it.”

Author’s reply: “Don’t worry. The two of them are currently living together, and their relationship is very stable.”