Chapter 5 – When buying stuff, don’t just randomly find a replacement

TL: Cloe
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Word count: 1711

The sky slowly brightened, and Feng Yao slowly opened her eyes.

There are only two beds in the room, and due to her small size, she had to share a bed with Zhang Lu, while Peng Xuan slept on the other bed. She lay on the bed, using the morning lights to secretly study Zhang Lu’s exquisitely beautiful face.

Not awake.

Zhang Lu is still asleep, the extreme fright seems to make her unable to sleep the whole night, it was only by using sleeping pills did she finally fell asleep.

She won’t wake up. Fang Yao thought: she is stupid, arrogant, and domineering because of her looks and never used her brains.

Idiot.

Feng Yao is just an average high school student, with an average face, average family background, and average body shape, making her the side character in her school. She’s the type of girl you will see everywhere, wearing black-rimmed glasses and a blue-white school uniform. Her only hobby is reading novels on the weekends using her phone which only costs one thousand yuan. The phone can only be used to read novels, and video games that need even a little too much storage would crash her phone.

Feng Yao lives in a very big city, from large shopping centers to alleyways. When she’s taking a bus from school to home, the bus would pass by the most bustling street. As she looked at the fireworks in the sky, she had also imagined herself carrying the newest Chanel bag, buying limited edition cosmetics such as the koi color that is popular on the internet, and Kuala Lumpur eyeshadow from Nars under the jealous looks of the cashiers…… unlike now, wearing the battered school uniform, sitting on the old bus, and listening how her parents argue about the food price that increased by only a couple yuan. As for herself, she can only sit in front of her desk and secretly read novels through the gaps between her exams and books. On the desk is the eyebrow pencil that she used her breakfast money for the next couple of days to buy.

Feng Yao likes to read novels, especially the ones that have systems in them. There’s an ordinary girl who obtains a system and transforms into a peerless beauty while crossing into worlds. She wouldn’t need to do anything to make all the male leads fall for her and regard her as the most precious treasure, then stand above everyone else.

Other girls read such novels to fantasize about sweet love, but Feng Yao thinks that they’re vulgar and pathetic.

She’s not like them.

The types of novels she likes to read the most are the ones where the main character is much better than the heroine who belongs to the original world. Everything is destroyed because of the main character’s golden finger. Shattering all the pride in the talented girls under the assistance of the male leads and they could only kneel under the heroine, begging for mercy in embarrassment, and maybe even dying.

She fantasized about herself as the heroine and the people who used to belittle her would all be destroyed by her. Those girls would be kneeling on the floor and could never give her those superior looks ever again. Their faces were blurred, but every single one of them was crying.

The girls‘ faces slowly started to materialize, they had jade-like hands, bright eyes, and plump red lips. The face that materialized was her childhood “friend”, Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu and Feng Yao grew up together and their family background are equal. But Zhang Lu’s family got lucky because their house was demolished to construct highways, they got compensated with three houses and a lot of money, and the gap between the two families was instantly widened.

Other people thought that Zhang Lu and Feng Yao were inseparable friends. Zhang Lu is pretty and outstanding but she’s only close to the ordinary Feng Yao. In talent competitions, she is always a team with Feng Yao, she won with her talented piano skills but gave the only medal to Feng Yao, who had played her harmonica off-tune. Zhang Lu had excellent grades and many people wanted to borrow her notes, but her notes were always with Feng Yao. Even in the lunch hall, she orders the same dish as Feng Yao.

However, Feng Yao has never seen that as kindness.

How could such a proud daughter of the Heavens be friends with someone as ordinary like her? If she¹Feng Yao, was her²Zhang Lu, she³Feng Yao would have never befriended herself⁴Feng Yao. Just by looking at the others who are as ordinary as herself smiling like an idiot, makes her feel disgusted.

There is only one reason —— Zhang Lu is using her as a foil. Without the dimness of green leaves, how can the vibrantness of the flowers be brought out?

But in reality, flowers will always be flowers, and green leaves will always just be green leaves. She couldn’t be compared to Zhang Lu, and could only live in her shadow filled with jealousy and hate, but helpless to do anything.

Flowers regard green leaves as friends. She takes the green leaves with her away from the dark soil to the vase to enjoy the most beautiful sunshine. However, the green leaves will only resent the flowers for blocking their brilliance.

Until…..

She received a black invitation letter inviting her to watch a play in the Midnight Theater.

Yesterday, she mentioned with high expectations to the most handsome boy in their class, Ye Xian, that she likes to watch plays. She said it on purpose because Zhang Lu had once said “Ye Xian is so good-looking.”

Then she happily went to the appointment.

But she didn’t expect this dead end.

Maybe because Feng Yao has read too many unlimited-flow novels, she managed to survive her first game without much trouble. After escaping from the theater, she returned to school in shock. Feng Yao sat alone, shaking in her seat, and then her shoulders suddenly started to tremble as she started laughing.

She was indeed extraordinary! So what if Zhang Lu is the center of attention? Has she ever participated in games like this? Has she ever experienced something like this? Has she……

She, Feng Yao, is the real unique one!

That’s why after receiving the third game invitation Feng Yao still came to the villa despite her fear. However, after seeing Zhang Lu, who was wearing heavy makeup, had once again shattered her self-confidence which she had built with difficulty.

“Yaoyao? Why are you here as well?” Zhang Lu looked at her in shock, there was also a flash of contempt in her eyes, “It’s really dangerous here and it’s also really hard to survive, I thought you wouldn’t……”

Wouldn’t what? Are people like me not qualified to participate in the game like you? There were no expressions on Feng Yao’s face: “Oh…… You’re also here ah.”

“I almost died last time, thankfully there was a big boss to carry me.” Zhang Lu said, “It’s a pity that the big boss didn’t leave his contact info. What about you? You have finished two games, there’s a big boss who’s carrying you right? Do you have their contact info?”

Thinking of what Zhang Lu said, Feng Yao who was still hesitating smiled coldly and slowly climbed down from the bed.

Why? Why do you keep stealing my show? She thought bitterly, it’s not my fault you keep showing up in my life!

In the real world, she can’t do anything to Zhang Lu and can only let her be. However, it’s not the same in the game!

Has Zhang Lu read as many novels as she did? Is Zhang Lu’s will as strong as hers? Zhang Lu knows that……

If a person dies here, they will completely disappear. If someone wants her to die……

She doesn’t even need to dirty her hands.

Feng Yao tiptoed to the other side of the bed and gently stretched her hand underneath Zhang Lu’s pillow.

Her fingers came into contact with something cold, it was Zhang Lu’s phone.

Players aren’t allowed to kill each other in the game. However, indirect means are fine. Feng Yao thought as she slowly pulled the phone from under the pillow, but I don’t want to kill anyone.

I just want to test it.

There aren’t enough grade-two safety items for everyone to survive for seven days. While the grade three items are not only confusing, it is also dangerous and risky. Sometimes, there’s a chance for the experienced players to obtain an item that can be brought out of the game and those items would be extremely beneficial in future instances⁵Or games, I decided to switch to ‘instance’ because other translators use this more often than ‘game’. For example, there could be items in the Fu bags⁶Lucky pouch , that’s why Feng Yao wanted to buy them since the beginning.

But there would be a high risk if she buys it herself. Yesterday, before Lin Huai had bought the pajama, Feng Yao had already secretly tried it. She placed the Fu bag into the shopping cart, found Zhang Lu’s number from her contacts and tried to change the recipient to Zhang Lu in her first round of testing.

The best case scenario is that there is a good item in the Fu bag, even if it’s Zhang Lu’s, she still can gain some protection. The second case is that there is a useless item in the bag, then she would have to spend 500 yuan and only have to worry about the ownership of the last 498. In the worst case is that even if there is a ghost in the bag she, Feng Yao, after all…… is not the recipient.

However, when she tried to place the order, the system gave her a warning: Please do not use anyone else as the recipient other than yourself.

Seems like this isn’t working, I have change the method. Feng Yao thought, she also could not rely on her luck, if there were other solutions, she could also give up buying the fu bag.

At last, she came up with an idea.

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  Feng Yao
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  Zhang Lu
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  Feng Yao
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  Feng Yao
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  Or games, I decided to switch to ‘instance’ because other translators use this more often than ‘game’
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  Lucky pouch