The banquet had to go on after all.
No one came to bother Li Jing, so she quietly enjoyed a Michelin-level dinner.
During the meal, Song Yuan tried to slip away several times to eat with Li Jing, but with Fu Lingchu sitting there, no one dared to move.
Li Jing could feel that Fu Lingchu was looking at her with a very complex expression.
He had wanted to let Li Jing, and himself, see how out of place a fake would be in such an occasion, how far apart she was from the person he held dear, but Li Jing showed him something unexpected, a hint of talent that she displayed.
Fu Lingchu couldn’t help but recall the longing on Li Jing’s face in the music room that day. If she had been able to play the piano while at the orphanage, would her life have taken a different path?
Fu Lingchu suddenly came to his senses, realizing he had paid too much attention to Li Jing.
He immediately withdrew his gaze.
After the banquet, Li Jing, facing the enthusiastic Song Yuan, exchanged contact information with him using her small flip phone.
Then, as she was about to leave, she was stopped by Fu Lingchu, whose expression was cold and sinister.
“What?” His gaze held undisguised sarcasm, “Starting to look for a new target?”
Li Jing lowered her head and said nothing.
She had already gained 4% of Fu Lingchu’s favor tonight, but since he insisted on tormenting her, Li Jing was willing to play along.
“Li Jing, remember your place,” Fu Lingchu sneered, as if finding psychological balance in this domineering act of suppression.
Li Jing finally looked up.carpreads.pages.dev
Her soft black hair cascaded over her shoulders. She had chosen to wear a white dress today, similar to Ye Yan’s preference, causing Fu Lingchu to momentarily lose his focus.
“I don’t want to experience your rich people’s lives at all,” Li Jing clutched her skirt, “If you think this will bring me down, then go ahead!”
A perfectly strong and innocent little white flower line, translated it meant: I want to get rich, give me more opportunities to make money, thank you.
Li Jing lowered her head, stubbornly turned around, letting the corner of her white dress brush against the night.
Her shoulders trembled slightly, as if she was trying hard not to cry.
Behind her, the man’s voice was cold: “What are you, are you worthy of my attention?”
However, his favorability towards her increased by 1%.
Li Jing: This is hilarious, you’re so tough-talking, but don’t let your heart be moved, old bro.
Now Fu Lingchu was at 15%, next she’d pursue the Feng Ce route, getting closer to a comfortable retirement every day!
The system watched the entire night in awe -
Indeed, heartless women have the best lives!
-—–
Feng Ce sat in his silver-gray sports car, witnessing Fu Lingchu talking to Li Jing.
Sure enough, he hadn’t been wrong. The luxury car Li Jing was in belonged to Fu Lingchu. Was this old geezer using Li Jing as a substitute for his sister?!
Would he do something excessive to take advantage of his sister?!
He took out his phone and called Ye Yan.
The first time, she didn’t answer.
When Feng Ce called a second time, she answered quickly: “A’ce?”
“Sister, has Fu Lingchu contacted you recently?”
“He has, what’s wrong?”
Feng Ce immediately became agitated: “Why does he keep contacting you?”
Ye Yan gently soothed him: “Why are you angry again? Haven’t I told you, you need to take care of your emotions when I’m not around.”
But this time, Feng Ce didn’t calm down immediately, instead he said: “Sister, you know, Fu Lingchu…”
Feng Ce originally wanted to tell Ye Yan about Fu Lingchu finding Li Jing as a substitute, but then he thought, he had no concrete evidence, and it would make him look like a snitch.
Feng Ce mumbled: “Anyway, Fu Lingchu isn’t who he pretends to be, don’t be fooled by him.”
Across the ocean, Ye Yan smiled softly: “I know.”
That girl’s influence was bigger than she thought…
After hanging up the phone, Feng Ce held his phone and drifted off.
Until he was brought back by a message notification on his phone -
【Yinggui University School Belle and School Hunk, and School Pet Election is in full swing! Come support your favorite!】
Feng Ce threw his phone away again. Boring.
Last year, he was elected School Hunk. As for the School Belle, Feng Ce didn’t care who it was. In his heart, the only one who looked good was his sister.
Thinking about it, another name suddenly flashed through his mind.
The one who looked just like his sister.
Although it was a fake, she should be the best-looking girl in the whole school.
Li Jing had already felt the heat of the campus election during break times and in the dormitory.
Her phone couldn’t surf the internet, but everyone in the school was discussing it enthusiastically. Yinggui University, as a semi-aristocratic institution, had many wealthy students, and these activities were more extravagant than those in ordinary schools.
“This year’s School Hunk is definitely Feng Ce without a doubt. Do you think he’ll see me if I send him gifts and get to the top of the list?”
“Stop dreaming, Feng Ce doesn’t care about this at all!”
“But if you can be elected School Belle, you can be posted next to Feng Ce, hahaha—”
“Qi Yue has made all the preparations for this year’s School Belle election…”
Li Jing overheard this information and remembered that Qi Yue was the girl who had brought people to the cake shop to cause trouble for her, Feng Ce’s number one fan girl, her little leek.
Usually, Li Jing wore glasses and covered her bangs at school, making her look like an ordinary, unremarkable face in the eyes of others. Most of the time, she was a transparent person at school, but once the plot started, she was treated like the tragic female lead in a melodramatic old-fashioned novel.
In the original plot, the original owner was busy dealing with Fu Lingchu and had to work part-time, so she naturally had no time to participate in any elections. But there were people who disliked the female lead and signed her up for the election—not for School Belle, but for School Pet.
Putting her together with the cats and dogs on campus for an election was a blatant form of contempt.
This was a must-have plot point, very trashy and old-fashioned, but Li Jing didn’t find it annoying.
Even trashy plots could be exploited, hehe.
She was planning in her mind, unconsciously walking along the school path.
A few people, both male and female, walked towards her, looking unfriendly.
“Oh, isn’t this the poor student who gets picked up by a luxury car?"—
Li Jing gave them a look.
“What’s so great about being picked up by a luxury car? She even attends high-society banquets!”
“You’re the kind of person who desperately wants to squeeze into a wealthy family, you’re a disgrace to the school.”
Li Jing understood. Seeing the lineup in front of her, she was instantly disappointed in Qiao Yuxin.
These people couldn’t even be considered professional thugs, they definitely weren’t expensive either. How could she be so stingy and still become Fu Lingchu’s fiancée? Qiao Yuxin was still far from putting her on the million-dollar bounty list, so Li Jing decided to continue working hard on the Fu Lingchu line.
Qiao Yuxin didn’t think it would be difficult to deal with Li Jing, just needed a few thugs to give her a lesson, don’t let her think she could really climb up to Fu Lingchu.
These people, who were paid to do the job, warned Li Jing: “Don’t dream of things that don’t belong to you, or you’ll suffer the consequences!”
The girl in front of them was alone, wearing boring glasses, looking like a malnourished bookworm.
However, what she asked was: “How much did you get paid?”
The people in front of her froze: “What money? What are you babbling about?”
Li Jing checked her bank account on her phone: “Oh, you each got a thousand?”
Everyone was shocked: “How did you know?!”
Li Jing: Alright, it seems their intelligence is also average.
She looked at these people calmly and seriously suggested: “Go back and tell her, next time, please hire someone more capable to deal with me.”
Everyone: “???”
Everyone: “You think you’re better than us?!”
They immediately came up and pushed and shoved her. Li Jing was about to pick up a small branch to teach them a lesson when she suddenly heard the system’s prompt sound.
Male Lead Number Two is approaching, 10m, 8m…
Li Jing immediately became soft and weak, standing still, watching as one of their hands flew towards her face—
“What are you doing!”
Feng Ce grabbed the man’s hand.
Then he lowered his head, looking at Li Jing with a furious and speechless expression: “You idiot, can’t you dodge?”
Li Jing: If I dodge, how can the plot progress, babe.
Those people naturally recognized young master Feng, they didn’t dare to confront him, and immediately scattered.
However, Feng Ce was the focus of the entire school, and this scene was witnessed by more than one person. Then, Li Jing’s name suddenly became popular at Yinggui University.
He, young master Feng, naturally did whatever he wanted without worrying about the consequences. However, the news that “Feng Ce saved a girl!” exploded in the school.
Who is Li Jing? Why did Feng Ce save her? What’s their relationship?
Why did Feng Ce, who usually doesn’t even look at girls, pay special attention to her?
All the female fans in the school were furious.
Among them, Qi Yue had the strongest reaction. Back then, Li Jing told them that Feng Ce liked coffee-flavored cakes, but that was a lie! Feng Ce didn’t even look at it!
Now that she was thinking about it, that girl was just scheming and deliberately spreading false information!
The Yinggui Forum exploded, and the heat even surpassed the recent hotly debated campus selection.
【Live broadcast! Feng Ce actually saved a girl!】
【Does anyone know this Li Jing? Why have I never heard of her?】
【Click here to see a certain underprivileged student from our school being picked up by a luxury car, [picture][picture] the proof is in the pictures!】
The post below directly posted a photo of Li Jing getting out of Fu Lingchu’s car. The million-dollar luxury car and her simple clothes formed a strong contrast, with a strong suggestive meaning.
2L: OMG, this girl’s looks are average, how did she do it?
3L: Young master Feng wouldn’t have been fooled, would he? But she’s really not pretty!
5L: To be able to do this, she must be scheming and cunning, able to hook up with both a wealthy, ugly, bald, old man and a wealthy young master.
For a while, the entire forum was only discussing Li Jing and the selection.
Qi Yue kept refreshing the forum, the picture of Feng Ce saving the girl that was captured kept circling in her mind, the more she thought about it, the angrier she got, and then she suddenly had an idea.
She was currently in first place in the School Belle selection and had already garnered a lot of votes, making her very likely to be ranked alongside School Hunk Feng Ce. So, what way could she publicly punish this scheming b*tch Li Jing and make her ashamed?
Qi Yue opened the registration portal for the School Pet selection, but then she was surprised to find—
【Report, someone has signed up for the selection on behalf of the underprivileged student! Everyone, go vote!】
1L: Hahahahahaha, signed up for School Pet? Who is this genius?
——“It’s me.”
At this moment, Li Jing, sitting in an internet cafe outside the school, said this.
She had smoothly completed the mobile phone verification code binding using her small flip phone, registered an sock puppet account for herself, and signed herself up. She randomly found a photo of her taken from the forum, with thick bangs and thick glasses, making her face unrecognizable.
Then she observed the Yinggui University campus forum. Because it was anonymous, the posts were very free. The posts were updated quickly, with various exclamation marks in the titles, and the replies were also very fast.
[Voted √]
[Laughing to death, School Pet is quite fitting, after all, she has the protection of the School Hunk! ]
[That photo is so ugly]
Li Jing switched to the selection page on the school website. The School Hunk channel was indeed dominated by Feng Ce in first place. The top donor had already donated 100,000 yuan, and the school had specially marked that this money would be used to improve school facilities and teaching work.
“Today’s students, tsk tsk tsk.”
Li Jing pointed at the “Li Jing” on the School Pet selection channel and said to the system: “Look, my name.”
The system didn’t follow her train of thought: “Y-yes.”
Li Jing sent ten flowers to her name, costing 1 yuan, ranking her fourth in the channel.
Some well-meaning people on the forum were posting:
[Family, rush up! Send the School Pet to debut in a high position! ]
[Today we must witness history hahahaha]
Li Jing also replied: [I sent gifts to Li Jing, family, what about you! ]
System: “???”
At this moment, the students who were already hyped up responded immediately, starting to send gifts to Li Jing, striving to be a snowflake that contributed.
Qi Yue was particularly hyped up. She felt that every gift she sent to Li Jing was an insult to Li Jing!
The more she sent, the higher Li Jing stood, the more embarrassing it would be!
Qi Yue: [I just can’t stand this kind of two-timing behavior! ]
Li Jing actively replied: [Me too! Family, I’m sending ten rocket launchers to express my attitude! ]
Qi Yue: I didn’t expect there to be someone who hates Li Jing more than me!
Qi Yue: [Family, I’m sending one hundred! ]
Li Jing: Okay, okay.
By the time the voting ended, the School Pet selection was unprecedentedly popular, with the top three even approaching the School Hunk selection.
Li Jing was delighted: “Old-fashioned plots have their own old-fashioned advantages.”
System: “But you can’t just make money, host! If you don’t follow the plot, the Transmigration Bureau will have the bigwigs checking on you!”
“Don’t worry,” Li Jing said, “I still have one last step.”
That can get Feng Ce involved—
Before the voting ended, Li Jing replaced her registration photo with the one on her meal card, then calmly logged off.
-—–
The next day, when the school posted the results of the election, many students came to watch.
The School Hunk was indeed Feng Ce, and the School Belle went to Qi Yue.
“Young master Feng is here, young master Feng, look—”
Everyone moved away when they saw Feng Ce.
With the newly crowned School Hunk and School Belle all present, Qi Yue got her wish, blushing shyly: “Feng, young master Feng, we…”
Feng Ce was initially indifferent, but then he saw a third poster for “School Pet” posted by the organizers, and the face on it was very familiar to him.
The whole school was suddenly shocked—
“Wait, who is this? Is this Li Jing??”
“Damn, is that her???”
“How come she’s so pretty, and why does she look kind of familiar???”
At that moment, Feng Ce suddenly stepped forward and tore down all the posters.
The young man was extremely furious, his face terrifying—
“Whose face do you think you’re insulting?!”
Qi Yue’s face turned pale, and the organizers and everyone who voted were stunned.
He… he was actually defending Li Jing?
Li Jing, the person involved, happened to be passing by at that moment.
This plot development was exactly as she had planned.
Li Jing: As expected of me √
Amidst the silence, the slender girl walked through the crowd and pressed down on Feng Ce’s trembling hand, her eyelashes fluttering as if suppressing pain.
The whole school saw it, she was carrying an eco-friendly bag from a certain nursing home, suggesting some hidden circumstances.
Her thin figure reminded everyone that she had only been saved by Feng Ce and was now caught in a frenzy.
But she stubbornly refused to show any pain from being hurt, instead giving a faint smile.
Li Jing calculated the gifts the whole school had sent her. With so many people, there were all kinds of flowers, rocket launchers, airplanes, totaling 318,902 yuan.
All deposited into her account.
Let’s be steady, and be very happy.
“It’s okay, I really… I’m okay.” Li Jing said.
Beauty made this strength even more fragile.
Feng Ce’s favorability +10%
25%, the beginning of someone’s affection.
Li Jing: It’s okay, I’m actually quite happy ^_^
Author Note:
Big Sister Li: one step closer to the big villa.
end of chapter
carp: ⎧ᴿᴵᴾ⎫ ❀◟(ᴗ_ ᴗ ) for those MLs