I Get Things Done, You Can Rest Easy

The real world, Station 13.

Seeing Chen Kong get talked into it by Tiandao in just a few words.

The audience's attention shifted elsewhere.

For example, the moment Chen Kong had stared unblinkingly at Isabelle as she walked away.

It's over, Kong. You've fallen in love, you brat!

"The Story of How I Met a Cold young miss at a Noble School."

The poor boy falling for the rich young lady script? It's a little tacky, but that's okay. I'm a tacky mutt—I love watching this, woof woof woof!

No way, Ah Kong. She only tossed her hair, and your soul has already been hooked away?

While the Dimensional Audience harshly criticized Chen Kong for being so quick to fall in love.

Tiandao hummed a tune as he headed toward the teaching building, clearly in an excellent mood.

It couldn't be helped. That little extra scene he had added not only earned him a considerable boost in popularity.

It also ensured that Season 1's main storyline remained within a relatively stable framework, so he would not lose the advantage of knowing the future.

Because according to the original plot, the one who was supposed to step in and help Chen Kong out was none other than that tsundere, twin-tailed young miss Isabelle.

Not only that, even Tiandao's move of splashing Dekola with soda had originally been a method Isabelle used on Dekola.

Although Tiandao's appearance had caused some slight changes to the first meeting between the male and female leads of Season 1.

Tiandao believed that he had not damaged the original plot much, nor would he affect Season 1's later main storyline.

Everything... was under control!

In the afternoon, in the classroom of Class 1, Grade 7.

Chen Kong carried two cases of Blue Mountain City by himself and entered through the classroom's back door.

The nearby Class 1 students were curious why he had suddenly brought in so many drinks.

But since they were unfamiliar with each other, they ultimately did not ask. They merely gave him a few extra curious glances.

With so many people suddenly looking at him, the already introverted Chen Kong immediately felt uncomfortable all over.

But when he saw the golden-haired figure seated at the very front of the classroom, Chen Kong suddenly shed his usual inconspicuousness. After taking a deep breath, he proactively called out, "C-classmates, these are drinks that Tiandao Siming, the other exchange student at our school, bought for everyone."

"He said that although we'll only be classmates for the next month, even brief classmates are still classmates, and we should all get along well."

"So he asked me to bring these drinks over, hoping to use them to get along with everyone as soon as possible."

Out of kindness, as well as some inexplicable sense of pride.

Chen Kong not only failed to follow Tiandao's instructions and claim that he had bought the drinks himself.

He even took it upon himself to say a few polite pleasantries for Tiandao that Tiandao had never said at all.

What made Chen Kong incredibly awkward, however, was this.

The moment he finished speaking, the students who had been chatting among themselves all fell silent and looked at him with extremely strange expressions.

The air seemed to freeze completely at that moment.

Let alone Chen Kong, the person involved.

Even the Dimensional Audience outside the screen, who had nothing to do with it, could clearly feel the toe-curling awkwardness inside the screen.

It was not strange for things to turn out this way.

After all, Trillan was a famous noble junior high in the Nearshore District.

Aside from a small number of specially recruited students with outstanding talents, the students who attended this school.

All came from either wealthy or noble families.

A mere bottle of soda naturally meant nothing to them, nor did they need a stranger to give them one.

Moreover, Chen Kong had only been in the class for half a day. He was new here and unfamiliar with everyone.

At the same time, he possessed no particularly outstanding strengths or personal charm.

As a result, while most of the class would not go so far as to bully him, they would not interact with him much either.

Calling him half an outsider would not be an exaggeration at all.

Therefore, it would have been stranger if they had not found an outsider suddenly currying favor suspicious.

Clearly, Chen Kong, who had grown up in Ember, had not anticipated this.

Because if this had happened in Ember, even if Chen Kong—the universally acknowledged background character among the Starborn—had delivered the message.

As long as he said Tiandao had brought the drinks, no matter how unwilling the others were.

They would ultimately take the drinks themselves, while making sure not to offend Tiandao.

And that habitual way of thinking had undoubtedly doomed Chen Kong now.

After all, this was unfamiliar Trillan Junior High, not the Ember Base he knew!

Just as Chen Kong lowered his head, so embarrassed that he wanted to rush straight out the door.

A strand of dazzling golden hair suddenly entered his field of vision.

"Hand it over."

Chen Kong looked up in astonishment. Isabelle, who had been sitting in her seat, had somehow come to stand before him and extended her hand, signaling for him to give her a bottle of soda.

Without a doubt, Isabelle was taking the initiative to help him out.

Combined with what had happened in the cafeteria earlier.

Chen Kong, who had already taken a liking to Isabelle, fell completely.

This... perhaps was what an angel was.

But after Isabelle had already spoken, he still stood there stupidly without handing her a drink from the case. She immediately frowned in displeasure.

To be this slow and this oblivious, no wonder this guy got bullied by Dekola. He really could not blame anyone else.

Still, for certain reasons, Isabelle ultimately chose to overlook Chen Kong's minor breach of manners and casually pointed at a boy seated in the back row.

"Leo, take the others and hand out these drinks."

"Oh, okay, class monitor."

With Isabelle stepping in, the awkward atmosphere in the classroom was instantly eased.

Watching the classmates who had begun actively helping him hand out the drinks, Chen Kong finally came back to his senses.

Somewhat embarrassed, he avoided Isabelle's gaze and softly said, "Th-thank you."

Isabelle calmly said, "It's nothing. Maintaining a harmonious atmosphere in the class is my duty as class monitor."

At that point, Isabelle suddenly changed the subject and said in a deliberately casual tone, "By the way, you said those drinks were bought by that fellow exchange student of yours. Can you tell me what that Tiandao guy was like at your previous school?"

"Don't misunderstand. I just don't want what happened in the cafeteria earlier to happen again, so I need to understand you exchange students beforehand."

Hearing Isabelle's words, Chen Kong, whose intelligence had already been thoroughly reduced by love, did not notice anything unusual in them at all.

He immediately poured out all his views of Tiandao in Ember.

Fortunately, Chen Kong was not the sort of fool who would spill everything, lock, stock, and barrel, just because someone asked.

Quite cleverly, he replaced "Ember Base" with "our previous school," and "Starborn" from the Star Project with "classmates."

Thus, after Chen Kong's artistically embellished description.

Tiandao, the tyrant who ran rampant through Ember Base and often preyed on the locals.

Was forcibly described by Chen Kong as a sunny, kind-hearted model student.

Though from Chen Kong's perspective, that really was his honest opinion of Tiandao.

Although Isabelle did not know Tiandao's past, when she considered what had just happened in the cafeteria.

She ultimately chose to believe Chen Kong.

After all, if Tiandao were not a good person, why would he risk being isolated by others in an unfamiliar school to stand up for a former classmate?

At that thought, Isabelle immediately interrupted Chen Kong, who still wanted to tell her other things, and said politely yet distantly, "All right, you don't need to say anything else. Thank you very much—"

Isabelle had originally wanted to call Chen Kong by name, but suddenly realized she had not remembered his name at all.

Fortunately, Isabelle was not Chen Kong. She did not have that cautious fear of saying the wrong thing.

She asked directly, "By the way, what was your name again?"

"Chen Kong. Chen as in dust, Kong as in air."

"Chen Kong? Thank you very much, Classmate Chen Kong. I'll help you and Classmate Tiandao integrate into the class as soon as possible, and I'll do my best to prevent what just happened from happening again."

"Don't worry. As long as I'm here, that narcissistic Dekola won't be able to stir up any waves."

"All right, class is about to start. Hurry back to your seat. I need to rest for a while too."

With that, Isabelle returned to her seat without looking back.

Chen Kong was left standing there alone, foolishly grinning as he scratched his head, secretly delighted that she had taken the initiative to call him by name.

Seeing everything from God's Perspective, the Dimensional Audience could not help but mock him.

Bro, stop smiling. Your house is getting robbed, and you're still smiling!

Good heavens, Kong, don't you think there's something wrong here? You've been here all morning and she still didn't remember your name. Yet Tiandao hasn't even come to class, and she has already remembered his name in advance. How can you still smile at a time like this?!

It's over, it's over. I can smell the scent of tragic romance literature.

While Chen Kong secretly rejoiced and the audience was rendered speechless.

Tiandao, who had just finished the enrollment procedures, was pulled onto the school rooftop by Caroline the moment he stepped outside. He had no time to look at the Dimensional Screen, naturally having no idea what had happened in the classroom.

"What is it, Caroline? Why did you suddenly come looking for me?"

"Here. This is the mission intelligence Instructor Yun Meng asked me to pass on to you."

Tiandao took Caroline's tablet, pretended to study it seriously for a while, then handed it back.

"So you're saying someone intends to find an opportunity during the group retreat a week from now to kidnap Isabelle?"

"Mm."

"What did Sister Yun say?"

"Instructor Yun's view is that rather than alerting the snake in the grass, we should play along with their scheme. We shouldn't make any rash moves for now. We just need to be mentally prepared."

"All right, then we'll do as Sister Yun says. They're only a few Dark Star Envoys prowling the gray areas. I can deal with all of them alone. It's not a big deal."

Just as Tiandao thought Caroline had finished saying what mattered, he noticed that she looked as if she wanted to speak but hesitated. He immediately asked curiously, "What is it, Caroline? Is there something else you want to say?"

After thinking for a moment, Caroline said uncertainly, "Tiandao, you didn't cause any trouble today, did you?"

"Huh?"

Tiandao stared at Caroline in shock, as though he had never expected her to say such a thing.

"No, Caroline, you don't trust me to get things done?"

To his surprise, Caroline replied as if it were only natural, "Tiandao, it's precisely because it's you that I don't trust you. Getting you to behave is harder than getting you to quit desserts."

Hearing Caroline describe him that way, Tiandao immediately clutched his chest, putting on an exaggerated act of being heartbroken.

Unfortunately, Caroline did not fall for it at all.

Seeing that playing the victim would not work, Tiandao immediately switched tactics.

"Caroline, I know you have some misunderstandings about me, but I can guarantee you this time: I really didn't cause any trouble today."

"Really?"

"Really!"

"All right. I'll believe you for now."

"What do you mean, 'for now'? Caroline, don't leave. Explain that clearly first."

"Hehe."

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