NOVEL WEB 24: Unsolicited Kindness
“I’ll come find you again tomorrow.”
Bai Ling set down the meal box, left this instruction, and then departed.
The Broadcasting Department’s female dormitory was quite far from the Sports Department’s dormitory. If she returned too late, there would be no campus shuttle.
Bang, the door closed, and three simultaneous sighs of relief could be heard in the dorm room.
“I… I’m not afraid of her,” Yuan Xiaoning said with a straight face, “I’m just letting her have her way.”
“Alright, alright, that’s enough,” Gu Hui waved her hand, “Eat your dinner first, you can brag next time.”
The dinner Bai Ling brought was braised chicken leg rice, which could only be bought after queuing in the cafeteria. It tasted very good. After finishing this meal, Yuan Xiaoning felt capable again.
At this moment, Gu Hui suddenly thought of a question: “Didn’t you tell her that we’re going out for an internship tomorrow?”
“I did,” Yuan Xiaoning said casually, “She wants to come along.”
“She’s coming with us? That’s great,” Qiao Lili put down her phone, “At least we don’t have to worry about safety issues.”
The video on the forum, showing Bai Ling’s graceful flick of the wrist when throwing the basketball, had deeply impressed them.
“Actually, I can protect us too…” Yuan Xiaoning muttered softly.
Unfortunately, her roommates didn’t believe her, assuming she was just bragging again.
Gu Hui climbed onto her own bed, mumbling: “After today, only one person is the most miserable.”
“That’s right, Zhang Shanshan.”
Indeed, Zhang Shanshan was in a miserable state. Her reputation at school was completely ruined, and even her previous forum posts slandering others were dug up and scrutinized.
She herself was even more dispirited. It wasn’t until she returned to her dorm in the evening that she started to recover slightly.
After recovering, she immediately called home to complain.
Learning that his daughter had nearly been killed by a basketball at school, Zhang Shengkang broke out in a cold sweat:
“How many times have I told you not to provoke her recently!”
Was it because she was good at basketball? It was clearly some unknown ability she used.
“I know she’s had a spiritual awakening and has extraordinary abilities, but does that mean she can harm ordinary people at will?” Zhang Shanshan accused over the phone, “Is there no one to control this?”
Zhang Shengkang was momentarily at a loss for words. After hesitating for a while, he lowered his voice and said to her: “Just endure it a bit longer. You won’t see her again after next week.”
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Yuan Xiaoning recalled that when she died in her previous life, she had already graduated and started job hunting. Of course, even if she hadn’t graduated, by the third or fourth year of university, there were hardly any people left in the dorm.
Now she was finally experiencing dorm life again.
In the evening, after the roommates had dinner and were bored, Gu Hui suggested they do something together.
Qiao Lili proposed they could play games together. Yuan Xiaoning was the first to agree, and seeing them both like this, Gu Hui also amiably agreed to join.
Then Qiao Lili asked Yuan Xiaoning what she played.
“Honor of Kings?”
“Uh, no, mobile MOBAs are hard to control.”
“Naruto?”
“Never played it.”
“PUBG Mobile? This one is simple, you start by fighting bots.”
“Playing FPS games on mobile is too painful.”
At this point, Qiao Lili was out of ideas, and even Gu Hui looked at her:
“So what do you play?”
Yuan Xiaoning rubbed her hands together, looking a bit uncomfortable: “I only have one two-character open-world game and one six-character turn-based game on my phone.”
Gu Hui and Qiao Lili both fell silent.
In the end, the dorm activity of playing online games together didn’t succeed. They simply turned off the lights and lay on their beds to chat.
Of course, Qiao Lili was still holding her phone as usual, chatting while surfing the internet.
“Speaking of which, the place we’re going for our internship tomorrow is also a company that makes second-dimensional games. Is it similar to what you play, Yuan Xiaoning?” Gu Hui asked.
She wasn’t very familiar with these things.
“That’s far from it,” Qiao Lili quickly said, “Although the type is similar, the difference is huge.”
Gu Hui: “Huge?”
Qiao Lili: “Let me put it this way, if we were going to voice act for the kind of game Yuan Xiaoning plays, we wouldn’t need to come back after finishing. Why continue studying? We could just go home, get a VTuber avatar, start streaming, do some voice acting gimmicks, create some ‘salary recovery plan’ content effects, and then just sit back and rake in the money.”
Gu Hui listened in amazement: “That does sound good.”
Too bad the teacher doesn’t have that kind of ability.
She thought for a moment and said: “I heard that the company we’re going to intern at, although new to the industry, has strong financial backing. It used to be a big enterprise.”
“Seems so, let me search.”
Qiao Lili looked on her phone: “That’s right, Cloud Sea Game Company. They started by running factories and had many of them. Now they still have a few left, but the profits are average, so they’re trying to enter the game market. Oh, and they’re also a member of ‘Sea and Sky as One’.”
Yuan Xiaoning blinked: “Sea and Sky as One?”
It sounded like the name of some game guild.
“It’s an alliance of some big enterprises in Tianhai City. Previously, the name was very straightforward, just called the Tianhai Chamber of Commerce. Later, because conducting business activities under this name was suspected of monopolizing the local market, they changed to the current name. Nominally, it’s a civilian charity organization, pretending that everyone gathers just to do philanthropy.”
As expected of Qiao Lili, who was always surfing the internet on her phone, she knew a lot.
Gu Hui couldn’t help but laugh: “What a pretense. We know they’re bluffing, they know we know they’re bluffing, but as long as they keep up the act, it’s fine.”
However, what do these matters have to do with a few ordinary college girls? They just chatted about it casually before putting it out of their minds.
Actually, the Bai family used to be one of the big enterprises in Tianhai City, but discussing other people’s family tragedies behind their backs wasn’t very nice.
Yuan Xiaoning didn’t feel much about it, after all, she wasn’t a local, she had parachuted in a week ago.
Well, in the week since parachuting in, every day was either enduring penetration or facing punishment. It’s sigh-worthy, better to go to sleep early.
Zzzz
For some reason, maybe because there was no pressure to find a job, Yuan Xiaoning felt that since her rebirth, she always slept particularly well, even erotic dreams wouldn’t easily wake her up.
The next morning, both roommates were already eating breakfast when she finally woke up.
“Good morning… Eh, only two meals?”
Before Yuan Xiaoning had time to feel sad, she heard Gu Hui say: “Of course there are only two, doesn’t Bai Ling always bring your breakfast?”
“How is that possible, she doesn’t do it every time…”
Before she could finish speaking, the door clicked open, and Bai Ling stood there holding a breakfast bag.
Yuan Xiaoning didn’t want to see the smug expressions on her two roommates’ faces, so she got out of bed and trotted over.
“Bai Ling, you’re here so early.”
“Early? It’s 9 o’clock now.” Bai Ling said expressionlessly.
“Oh, I slept too long.”
Yuan Xiaoning’s face reddened slightly as she took the breakfast and sat back down. Her two roommates also gathered around, curiously looking at what she had brought back.
Xiaolongbao, pan-fried dumplings, potato pancakes, wonton, and a cup of strawberry juice.
“Wow, Bai Ling must have made a round of every breakfast stall in the school cafeteria,” Gu Hui said enviously, “And the cafeteria doesn’t have this drink, did she buy it from the fruit shop at the school gate?”
Yuan Xiaoning humphed, thinking to herself that unsolicited kindness usually means either wanting to penetrate or overclock. Translated, it means being so nice to me for no reason, either wanting to do me or overclock… Eh?