Fu Hua: I Want to Go Home With You

Evening, after school.

Students poured out of the classrooms in a flood, plunging the entire Senba Academy into a sea of bustle.

Hearing the chatter all around him about Honkai Impact 3rd, Ye Li felt this place was no longer safe to linger and instinctively quickened his pace.

"Damn it, was that Ai-chan raised on golden fertilizer? She's dropping exposé videos one after another—does she ever give a guy a break?"

Just as Ye Li was fantasizing in his head about chopping off the two little buns on top of Ai-chan's head and stir-frying them with sour cabbage, he suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder.

Turning around, he saw it was the class monitor, Fu Hua.

Seeing Fu Hua a little out of breath, Ye Li knew she had come specifically to find him.

But to avoid drawing the attention of the surrounding students, Ye Li deliberately put on a puzzled look and said, "Class monitor, is there something you need from me?"

Fu Hua nodded in confirmation.

Watching the crowd around him grow thicker, Ye Li's unease only deepened.

Though compared to Kiana and the others, Fu Hua wasn't exactly a campus celebrity who shook the academy.

Still, with her transcendent aura and meticulous personality, she attracted no small number of fans.

To avoid getting beaten to death in a sack by some of Fu Hua's more extreme fans on his way to school tomorrow, Ye Li decided he had to do something.

"Class monitor, thanks for covering my class fees for me. I'll definitely pay you back this month!" Ye Li said loudly on purpose.

The moment Ye Li's words left his mouth, he felt a noticeable drop in the number of hostile gazes directed at him.

"As expected of our Lady Fu Hua—she's still so kind-hearted."

"Phew~ I thought Lady Fu Hua had something going on with that guy~ Turns out I was just scaring myself."

"Exactly, exactly. I even had my scissors out..."

Hey, hey, hey!

What's with the scissors?!

Listening to the whispers around him, Ye Li silently praised his own quick thinking.

But Fu Hua's next sentence directly fried Ye Li's CPU.

"It's not that." Fu Hua shook her head. "It's something else."

Ye Li: ?

"I want to go home with you."

Ye Li: !!!

Surrounding classmates: !!!!!!

Noticing that some of the girls nearby had already started rummaging through their bags, Ye Li's soul nearly left his body.

Seriously, man?!

I just wanted to be a quiet nobody and live out my life in peace.

But no—first I get exposed by that damn heartless capitalist, and now even my best friend wants to stab me in the back!

Seeing the situation about to spiral out of control, Ye Li had no choice but to grab Fu Hua's hand and bolt out of the academy gate like a shot.

After a frantic sprint, Ye Li dragged Fu Hua several blocks away.

Only when he could no longer see any students in Senba Academy uniforms did Ye Li finally stop.

He was about to turn around and demand why Fu Hua had said something like that, but seeing her drenched in sweat and flushed in the face, the words of reproach simply wouldn't come out.

A thousand words eventually condensed into a single sigh.

"Hua, what exactly did you want to see me about?" Ye Li asked helplessly.

After taking a brief moment to catch her breath, Fu Hua's answer was still the same.

"What the hell! Why are you coming home with me?!" Ye Li said in exasperation.

"I want to see the place you're living in now," Fu Hua said. "I simply can't accept that the savior of the world is living in such dire straits!"

Thinking about how the former savior couldn't even afford to pay his class fees, Fu Hua felt a pang of sorrow.

"Even though my family isn't well-off, I'll do everything in my power to improve your living conditions..."

At this point, Ye Li could detect a hint of pleading in Fu Hua's tone.

"Sigh~ Hua, you really don't have to go this far for me." Ye Li covered his face with his hand. "This is all my own choice."

"Then helping you is also my choice." Fu Hua's tone suddenly turned resolute. "To borrow a phrase you often said to us in your past life, 'Saving you has nothing to do with you'—that's my answer."

Looking at the determined young woman before him, Ye Li helplessly spread his hands. "Alright, alright, I'll take you to see my place. But let me be clear first—I'm really not living as miserably as you think..."

Ding-dong~

Just then, his phone rang.

Ye Li pulled the phone out of his pocket, glanced at the glaring rent reminder on the screen, then immediately shoved it back in, pretending nothing was wrong.

"Man, there are way too many spam texts these days." Ye Li looked off to the side and muttered to himself deliberately.

But what he didn't know was that Fu Hua had already seen everything clearly.

Along with the awakening of her memories, Fu Hua had also awakened part of her past life's abilities.

Though she couldn't destroy heaven and earth like before, it was more than enough to see through Ye Li's little tricks.

Seeing Fu Hua's complicated expression, Ye Li guessed she had seen right through him.

However, before Ye Li could explain, that damn phone rang again.

Ding-dong~

Can't this ever end!

With a heart deadened beyond despair, Ye Li pulled out his phone again, only to see a notification on the screen:

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