Having witnessed Li Jing’s entire performance, Lu Mian’s eyes flashed with a fleeting smile.
Her emotions and lines were all perfectly delivered. She truly was… his most outstanding employee.
Feng Ce leaned back against the chair, looking at Li Jing’s face hidden behind her black hair. He reached out to push it aside, “Turn around—”
He had just extended his hand when the teacher on the podium suddenly spoke.
“For the next question, please have one student come up to answer.”
The man’s voice was incredibly pleasant, like the notes of a plucked instrument.
Usually at this time, students would lower their heads and desperately pray not to be chosen, but Lu Mian was different. At this moment, everyone’s eyes in the classroom were shining brightly, practically begging to be called up.
Lu Mian lowered his eyes, scanning the names on the attendance sheet, then spoke, “Li… Jing, are you here?”
Li Jing: I knew it. Heh.carpreads.pages.dev
She pretended to be nervous, clutching her sleeve tightly, then slowly stood up. The entire classroom’s gaze converged on her as she walked from the back row of the tiered classroom to the podium.
“The other students can also do the question from your seats,” Teacher Lu said.
So everyone in the classroom lowered their heads, except for Li Jing who walked onto the podium and stood in front of Lu Mian.
The two of them were now less than a meter apart. Li Jing could smell the scent coming from him. Unlike his almost dazzling silver hair, he had a light, deep, oriental fragrance of light agarwood, making him seem distant and mysterious.
She picked up a pen, glanced at the teacher, her eyes filled with meaning.
Lu Mian lowered his head slightly, a few strands of silver hair falling over his forehead. In a voice only they could hear, he softly answered the question Li Jing had just asked him through the system.
“The teacher’s salary should be higher than yours,” he said.
His breath carried a crisp mint flavor.
Oh, dear.
—But Li Jing, being the top number 1 in terms of work performance, was a little bit mesmerized while thinking: Even if he’s handsome, he can’t just spout nonsense.
They were all working for the Transmigration Bureau, how high could Lu Mian’s salary be.
She began to write and draw on the blackboard to solve the problem, while teacher Lu checked her work.
As she was about to finish the problem, Lu Mian suddenly asked, “How does it feel to have the male leads gradually fall for you?”
“It’s alright—”
Li Jing curled her lips, wrote the final stroke, and turned her head, “Do you want to try it?”
Lu Mian paused slightly.
With his status, he had always looked down upon those worlds and the people who traversed them.
But at this moment, he was suddenly pulled into Li Jing’s game, becoming her prey.
This feeling was quite extraordinary.
Teacher Lu paused for two seconds, then chuckled, his voice no longer lowered, “Li Jing’s solution is excellent. Everyone can compare their answers.”
Feng Ce was looking over, Li Jing showed a touch of just the right amount of shyness, lowered her head and returned to her seat.
She tapped on the system, but there was no response.
When she was talking to Lu Mian, the system had directly gone offline, scared of who knows what.
So Li Jing still used the system to call Lu Mian, “Teacher, this is my last job before retirement, let’s not make things difficult for each other, okay?”
Lu Mian lowered his eyes, and answered softly, “How am I making things difficult for you?”
“It’s just—I’m earning some retirement money, so don’t go reporting me to the Main God or anything.”
Li Jing sat in her seat, resting her chin on her hands, admiring teacher Lu’s face, which was as perfect as a work of art, her heart feeling a little itchy.
“Let’s do this—” Li Jing’s tone was a bit arrogant, “After I finish my mission in this world, I’ll buy a big villa by the clearest sea in the entire world. As long as you don’t hinder me, I’ll leave you a separate villa, how about that?
Lu Mian: “Hmm.”
Lu Mian: “I’d be honored.”
Although it seemed that that entire property… was his.
Feng Ce frowned at Li Jing, “Still looking?”
Li Jing retracted her gaze, “I’m looking at the problem I solved.”
Feng Ce frowned, glanced at the teacher, then pulled Li Jing up, “Let’s go.”
Li Jing believed that Lu Mian had accepted her invitation, so she left the classroom in a good mood.
It’s good to have money—
So she will continue to diligently cut leeks, hehe.
Although young master Feng Ce was hot-tempered, he was indeed a man of his word. He went back that day and helped Li Jing find the person.
The private investigator who was following Li Jing, she could have caught him herself at any time. However, this was a good window for her to convey information to Ye Yan, so she let him find out only the information she wanted to reveal.
When this person was caught by Feng Ce, I wonder how much information about Ye Yan he would reveal? Probably not much, but it would be enough to arouse a little suspicion in Feng Ce.
Only by creating a little sense of crisis for the White Moonlight who was high above, could she then be a good self-reliant leek.
That night.
In the alley behind the Feng family villa, a man was tied up and thrown on the ground.
The young master, with his arms crossed, looked at him with two eyes: “Are you following Li Jing?”
The man: “Spare me, young master! I don’t know anything! I was just responsible for following her and reporting her whereabouts!”
Feng Ce didn’t bother with useless talk. He had his men search the man’s phone. After opening it, the message records were all deleted very cleanly, except for one call record from half an hour ago that hadn’t been cleaned up yet.
The contact had no name, only a string of numbers.
But strangely… he was calling an overseas number.
And this country code was very familiar to Feng Ce - Ye Yan was in that country.
More importantly, the private investigator didn’t know much. His employer was clearly very cautious.
After much deliberation, Feng Ce dialed Ye Yan’s number.
Because he was thinking about Li Jing, he didn’t even notice that Ye Yan might still be resting at this time.
The phone connected, and her voice was still gentle.
Feng Ce asked: “Sister, have you been paying attention to anyone lately…”
“Huh? Who?” Ye Yan’s voice was full of confusion.
Feng Ce suddenly came to his senses - how could he suspect his sister?
Was Li Jing worth him questioning Ye Yan about?
Feng Ce felt like he was going crazy.
Besides, his sister was so kind and gentle, how could she possibly be doing things behind his back?!
“Nothing,” Feng Ce changed the subject directly, “I just wanted to hear your voice.”
At this time, across the ocean.
Ye Yan lowered her eyes and glanced at the clock, a strange sense of displeasure rising in her heart.
In the past, Feng Ce was careless about everyone, except for her, he would use the rarest kind of consideration. This time, Feng Ce actually called her when she might still be resting.
A vague sense of unease arose in Ye Yan’s heart.
But that Li Jing… was just an ordinary person with a tragic past and a poor life. She just happened to have the same face as her.
People were still different, she wasn’t worthy of posing a threat to her.
—“I miss you too, A’ce.”
Ye Yan tentatively said: “I’ll go back to see you when I’m better, you’ll wait for me, right?”
Feng Ce said with absolute certainty: “Of course.”
Then.
Li Jing’s small flip phone received a message from someone other than Fu Lingchu -
Feng Ce: [I’ve dealt with your people]
Apart from that, he didn’t mention anything about the information he might have discovered about Ye Yan.
Men, tsk tsk.
Li Jing leisurely put away her phone, thinking, “When I reach 60% favorability, I’ll see how you struggle.”
Then she checked her account statement -
Ye Yan had spent 800,000 yuan on Li Jing, and all of it had been transferred over!
Li Jing: Wow.
Li Jing: Such a good little leek!
This 800,000 yuan was not only used to hire a more expensive private investigator for Li Jing, but also included money for bribing and managing people. It was predictable that in the following plot, the White Moonlight’s persecution of the substitute female lead would increase exponentially.
—The oceanfront villa had added a few more square meters! Li Jing was very satisfied!
She couldn’t help but glance at Fu Lingchu and Feng Ce’s names on her small flip phone.
Look at how generous your White Moonlight is! What are you male leads doing!!!
Cheapskates!
The system said weakly, “But they seem to have bought ten bags each the other day.”
Li Jing: “Cheapskates!”
System: “Okay.”
The status of the leeks fluctuates according to the current income.
-—–
The next day.
Fu Group.
The entire building was magnificent, showcasing the vastness of Fu Lingchu’s business empire.
Li Jing diligently came to earn money—no, to earn plot points—as per Fu Lingchu’s text message from yesterday.
In the original plot, the original owner was naturally very nervous when she was first called to Fu Lingchu’s company. From entering the building to entering the elevator, she was scrutinized by various gazes, making her extremely anxious. She was then unknowingly led into a trap.
Fu Lingchu was recently competing with the Feng family for a major project. He was under immense work pressure and needed the company of his sweetheart, so he brought in the substitute female lead. However, the original owner was tricked by someone in the company and mistakenly entered an office. Inside, there were confidential documents for Fu Group’s current project. At that moment, Fu Lingchu pushed the door open! The original owner, who had recently gotten close to Feng Ce, was falsely accused of taking bribes from Feng Ce to steal the documents.
Li Jing: “Good, very brain-dead plot, I love it.”
After all, Ye Yan spent 800,000 yuan to arrange it for her, it was hard not to love it.
System: “So, you face two outcomes for this plot point! Outcome 1: You are misunderstood by Fu Lingchu, then he takes you to the entire company and mocks you, severely torturing your heart and pushing the emotional progress. Outcome 2: You successfully convince Fu Lingchu to accept your explanation, making Male Lead No. 1 believe that he is more important than No. 2, gaining a wave of favorability.”
Li Jing decided to play out the plot first, but no matter what, she was going to raise that old profiteer Fu Lingchu’s favorability to 25% today.
She was wearing simple clothes and carrying an eco-friendly bag, completely out of place in the modern office building. The assistant who came to pick her up today was not someone she recognized. Li Jing entered the elevator, and the assistant swiped her card for the floor before leaving.
Li Jing exited the elevator according to the plot, then got lost in the vast Fu Group building. Following the plot, she was helped by a kind and friendly person to find her way, finally entering the wrong room—
Oh, right, the surveillance in this room just happened to be broken.
“Take a break.”
So Li Jing sat down, waiting for the system to tell her Fu Lingchu’s location.
Male Lead No. 1 is 10m… 3m away from you…
Li Jing calmly stood up and turned her head in surprise as Fu Lingchu pushed the door open.
Her jet-black, silky hair swirled in the air, and the girl’s beautiful eyes widened slightly, meeting Fu Lingchu’s dark, deep gaze.
Fu Lingchu folded his arms, and the intense work he had been doing for days had added a touch of ruthlessness to his handsome features.
Thinking about the bodyguard’s report of Li Jing’s schedule, including her attending classes with Feng Ce, and considering the current scene—
“You’ve been bought by Feng Ce, huh?” Fu Lingchu’s leather shoes clicked on the floor, his harsh words crushing her heart. “What did Feng Ce promise you? Do you have other relatives who need to be put in a nursing home?”
Li Jing’s face instantly drained of color, her little white flower persona perfectly in place: “You, what are you talking about…”
That face, identical to Ye Yan’s, now displayed an expression of hurt that belonged solely to Li Jing.
“Do you know I’m competing with the Feng family lately?” Fu Lingchu forcefully pinched Li Jing’s chin, feeling a surge of anger and inexplicable emotions. “Do you think Feng Ce is more worthy of your devotion, huh?”
Li Jing got an inspiration.
“—Yes, I did it!”
Her eyes welled up with tears.
Fu Lingchu was taken aback, not expecting her to admit it.
Li Jing looked up, her whole body filled with defiance: “Anyway, I only care about money! As long as I get paid, I’ll do anything!”
Fu Lingchu’s brow suddenly relaxed.
The high pressure he had been under for days seemed to dissipate like clouds.
Even if the whole world could be bought and betray him, Li Jing would not be swayed by money.
He knew better than anyone that Li Jing was not that kind of person.
—Fu Lingchu’s favorability +3%
Li Jing: “I am.”
System: “She really is.”
Author Note:
Li Jing: I’ll harvest your money now.