Chapter 1511: Chapter 1511: Cheater
Liu Fufeng stepped into the room, turned back to face the main door, reached out, and closed it.
The door slowly shut from the inside, leaving the hot pot shop owner with nothing but an icy, frosty face.
The hot pot shop owner pressed his lips together. "Young master..."
The hot pot shop owner lowered his head. "I overstepped."
Liu Fufeng turned around, as if he hadn’t heard the shop owner’s voice. The door closed, and what came into view was a wide lawn, lush with pasture grass.
Mengmeng was bobbing his head as he munched on the grass.
After Liu Fufeng walked over, Mengmeng lifted his head. The moment he saw Liu Fufeng, his eyes lit up, and he bolted toward him, then affectionately stretched out his head, rubbing against Liu Fufeng’s neck. "Maa~"
Liu Fufeng reached out and gently rubbed Mengmeng’s head, bit by bit, combing through his fur.
Mengmeng was so comfortable from the rubbing that he opened his mouth and bleated.
Liu Fufeng didn’t say a word.
The pasture was huge. He stood there tall and straight, not moving a single step, just keeping his hand on Mengmeng’s head, rubbing.
Mengmeng would lick Liu Fufeng’s fingers for a while, then nuzzle his head for a while, bleating nonstop... After bleating for a bit, Mengmeng suddenly seemed to sense something. He stretched his neck out and looked around, but didn’t see anything. He raised his voice: "Maa!"
Liu Fufeng remained silent.
Mengmeng seemed a little restless, pawing at the grass with his hooves over and over.
Liu Fufeng reached out and gently rubbed the base of Mengmeng’s ears, bit by bit... Mengmeng’s agitation settled down, and only then did he lower his head again to start grazing.
Watching Mengmeng quietly eat, Liu Fufeng’s face stayed cold and expressionless: [Actually, you’re just as pitiful as I am, aren’t you.]
...
Everything that happened on the lawn, the hot pot shop owner watched quietly the whole time.
From beginning to end, Liu Fufeng didn’t utter a single sound. It was clearly such a warm scene, yet for no reason it carried a sense of loneliness. As if, in this vast world, there was only this one person and this one view.
...
Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao, and the others were all burying their heads and eating hard. There was only one empty seat at the table, and whose seat that was went without saying.
Liu Fufeng hadn’t come, but no one had any intention of saving him dishes. In less than ten minutes, all the food on the table was cleaned out.
Ji You rubbed her belly and said, "We really should’ve thrown in some more glass noodles, just swish them in the pot, then mix them with a bit of peanut sauce or something. The taste would be top-notch."
Shen Changqing said, "I think chili sauce tastes better."
That’s right—though Shen Changqing loved sweets and was introverted, he was actually a chili fanatic: the spicier, the happier.
Chu Jiaojiao said, "Don’t you guys think garlic sauce is the best?"
"What garlic sauce?" Yue Qiyuan rolled his eyes. "It’s just a mouthful of garlic, choking. Mustard is still the best dip."
"Mustard is more elegant than garlic?" On this point, Lance was most unconvinced. He shook his head and said, "I like dipping in salad dressing. Sweet salad dressing is the most delicious thing in this world."
...
Just as everyone was arguing over what tasted best, the whole hot pot restaurant suddenly flashed once, and right after that the entire place went abruptly black.
In an instant, everything went pitch dark.
"It’s starting."
"It’s starting."
"It’s starting."
The atmosphere in the whole restaurant shot up to a fever pitch. Everyone stretched their necks, craning forward in anticipation, all ready to grab a grand prize.
Then.
From the ceiling of the shop, fluttering down, pink, red, green, blue... countless stars scattered into every corner of the restaurant.
Then.
The crowd boiled over, everyone rushing to hunt down the one they thought most likely to contain the grand prize.
Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao, Sheng Qingyan... none of them stayed idle. One by one they stretched out their hands, using every trick they had to snatch stars.
Ji You thought the red ones looked promising. Just as she grabbed a red one, a green one floated by her side, and she suddenly felt the green one looked better, so she threw the red one away. Since the rules limited them to only one, Ji You got extremely conflicted, pacing back and forth through the sea of stars.
Then.
After going back and forth a few times, with the time almost up, a shiny golden star drifted over and smacked right into Ji You’s hand.
Ji You took one look and immediately felt like this was her destined star, so she held on and didn’t let go.
When the countdown ended, all the ownerless stars in the store vanished.
Everyone opened their palms, crushed the stars in their hands. If the star burst out in dazzling sparks, it meant they’d drawn this session’s grand prize.
Next.
Pop~
Pop~
Pop~
...
Countless stars bloomed with a flash of light between everyone’s fingertips, then vanished in the next second.
One, two, three...
The grand prize never appeared.
Ji You suddenly felt a little nervous. Her luck was actually notoriously bad—without cheating, she had never once drawn a grand prize—so she didn’t have much confidence in the golden star in her hand and didn’t crush it right away.
Beside her, Chu Jiaojiao, Sheng Qingyan, Shen Changqing... everyone Ji You knew had already opened their stars, and none of them had won.
Then everyone turned their heads and stared at Ji You.
Ji You took a deep breath and crushed the star.
Boom—
The star exploded in a blinding burst of light, instantly lighting up the pitch-black restaurant.
Everyone: "..."
All eyes were locked on the light in Ji You’s hand, a hint of suspicion showing in their gaze.
Ji You kept a straight face. "Don’t look at me like that. I didn’t cheat."
Sheng Qingyan put her hands on her hips and cursed, "Still saying you didn’t cheat, huh? Mengmeng definitely helped you cheat in secret. Hmph."
"Huh?"
"Who is it?"
"Ji You."
"Damn! Ji You’s here, why didn’t anyone say so earlier!!!" As soon as the other students heard that—especially the seniors in second, third, and fourth year—they instantly felt bored out of their minds.
"If I’d known Ji You was coming, I wouldn’t have bothered joining this event."
"Exactly, what a scam."
"I thought I could snag the grand prize this time and shake Little Mengmeng’s hoof. Didn’t expect Ji You to be here. What’s the point then?"
"...Hold up!!! We don’t get it, what’s going on?" The clueless freshmen boys and girls all grabbed the seniors beside them to ask.
"What else could it be? Ji You’s a total hack."
"She’s got cheats on. How are we supposed to beat her?"
"Cheats? You can even cheat in this?"
"You can’t. I can’t. For this event, Ji You is the only one who can cheat."
"Hmph! I’m so mad! Yet again, I can only watch pure Little Mengmeng fall into Ji You’s evil clutches."
"I’m furious, but even so I still can’t help shedding tears of envy, jealousy, and hate."
...
Listening to the voices all around, Ji You smiled and looked toward the alpaca slowly walking out through the revolving door. The alpaca charged straight into Ji You’s arms:
"Maa——"
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