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Shen Wan looked a little surprised, then smiled warmly. "You should eat more too. You've lost weight from working so hard lately."

Shen Baili nodded eagerly. "Eat more, Big Brother."

"All right." Xie Zhiyu looked at his bowl piled high with food and felt as though something had filled his heart.

It was a strange feeling, like walking in the spring sunshine.

Bright lights illuminated all four smiles. The usually quiet Xie Residence was lively for once.

... That night, Shen Baili leaned against the window and looked up at the moon.

"A-Deng, has your energy bar changed?"

The system answered instantly. "Ahhh! It went up by one percent!"

"Suìsuì, am I broken? The energy bar moved on its own!"

After spending so long together, the girl and the system had agreed to call each other by name.

Shen Baili reached out, wanting to touch the moon.

"You're not broken."

"I think I know what my second lingering wish is," she said softly.

The system: "!"

"What is it!?"

A-Deng felt as though its programming was a little slow. "Basking in moonlight?"

Shen Baili: "Of course... not."

"It's changing the plot!" she declared. "It must have something to do with changing the plot."

She analyzed it carefully. "Your energy bar hadn't changed at all for over a month."

"Then Big Brother and Sang Ya broke off their engagement, changing the plot."

"And your energy bar went up right away."

The system: "That makes so much sense! Suìsuì, you're so smart!"

"But why would your lingering wish have anything to do with changing the plot?"

A-Deng seemed to have become a walking book of questions.

Shen Baili yawned. "I don't know either."

"We'll find out if we test it later."

She hopped into bed, wrapped herself in the blanket, and fell asleep in seconds.

She still had to get up early for school tomorrow.

Studying hard mattered too. She couldn't neglect one thing for another.

Watching Suìsuì sleep, A-Deng muttered, "...I unlocked a new chapter."

"I guess we can read it tomorrow...?"

"Good night, Suìsuì~"

... After a good night's sleep, Shen Baili received the new chapter from A-Deng on her way to school: "An Accident at the Banquet | Leverage and Compromise." She frowned at the title.

[...No one had expected such a scandal at the Meng Family's Old Master Meng's eightieth birthday banquet. And the man at its center was Xie Zhiyu, heir to a top-tier wealthy family, who had always kept his reputation spotless...

After getting drunk, he had forced himself on a server at the banquet. She called the police as soon as she woke up.]

[Xie Zhiyu's fiancée called off their engagement, making his situation even worse. Xie Group's stock fell and kept falling...]

[When Xie Zhiyu emerged from the police station, the proud, gifted young man everyone remembered had a scruffy beard and a haggard face. Someone threw eggs and rotten vegetable leaves at him. He said nothing, but kept his back ramrod straight...]

[...The server went abroad to study and disappeared without a trace. Sang Ya did not dare see him and had someone return her engagement jade bracelet... Every coincidence looked like part of a plot against him.]

[Xie Zhiyu looked up and met Sang Ya's guilt-ridden gaze... In a flash, he understood everything.]

Shen Baili frowned through both newly unlocked chapters. So... Gu Yeliang had devised a plot against Xie Zhiyu. He had not only profited from it but also used it to get Sang Ya to break off her engagement.

How did someone like Gu Yeliang become the male lead? His tactics were vile, and he had no morals!

Sang Ya was an ingrate too. She cried with guilt while helping ruin the man's life. That stupid female lead had turned saying one thing and doing another, then kicking someone when he was down, into an art form.

A pair of scumbags, made for each other.

Calling Gu Yeliang a dog would be an insult to dogs.

Shen Baili had not seen characters and a plot this malicious in a long time. Her right eyelid kept twitching as she read.

It was still twitching when she reached the classroom.

Zhu Zhitao greeted her cheerfully, then jumped at the sight of her tired face. "Bai Li, you look a little pale. Didn't you sleep well?"

Shen Baili nodded. "I'm going to sleep for a bit. Wake me when class starts."

Zhu Zhitao said, "Sleep easy. I've got you."

"Why didn't either of you sleep well?" Qiao Yi glanced at Sang Fang, who wore glasses, and lowered her voice.

Sang Fang rubbed her eyes. "My grandpa was hospitalized. My mom and I stayed with him all night."

"Is your grandpa doing better?" Qiao Yi asked with concern.

Zhu Zhitao turned toward her too. "Is he okay? It's always worrying when an elderly person gets sick."

She remembered that Sang Fang's grandfather was nearly eighty. At that age, a trip to the hospital was a serious matter.

"He's out of danger," Sang Fang said with a smile. "Thank you."

"Why was he hospitalized so suddenly?" Zhu Zhitao asked. "I thought he'd always been in good health."

Sang Fang hesitated. "It's a family matter. I'd rather not say."

She could hardly tell them her grandfather had been so furious over her cousin's blind devotion to love that he had fainted. Her family was in chaos because her cousin's engagement had been called off.

Zhu Zhitao and Qiao Yi exchanged a glance and tactfully asked no more.

It was a pity Shen Baili was asleep and could not hear Sang Fang's thoughts. She would certainly have found the story familiar.

Fifteen minutes later, the class bell woke Shen Baili. She dabbed a little cooling ointment beneath her nose and gave the lesson her full attention.

After two consecutive math classes, the students had slumped over their desks.

Deng Qin called Shen Baili to the office. As she passed the corridor outside Class Two, two boys brushed past her.

She kept her eyes straight ahead until she heard someone call, "Meng Jiu'an."

Meng Jiu'an?

The name sounded familiar.

Shen Baili stopped. She remembered.

Old Master Meng's only grandson was named Meng Jiu'an.

She turned back, but caught only a glimpse of a school uniform.

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