Chapter 2: Can I Take Leave to Escape When My Aunt Comes?

Gu Qianqian had no choice but to reread the previous life’s plot information provided by the system over and over again, more than ten times.

Only then did she manage to memorize quite a few details and plot points.

It wasn’t that she wanted to read it so many times.

The truth was that her own grades in her previous life hadn’t been great.

The original owner of this body was even more academically hopeless.

Not only was her memory poor, but her comprehension skills only extended to writing things like “It serves as a bridge between the preceding and following text, expressing the author’s homesickness.”

Although she had said she would find loopholes from the previous life’s plot provided by the system to stay alive.

Gu Qianqian still overestimated herself.

Who said transmigration came with high intelligence?

That was pure bullshit.

She didn’t feel any smarter at all.

On the contrary, because the fusion with this body had been too short and lacked adjustment, she still felt a bit dizzy.

“Haah—— No, don’t panic… Calm down, calm down…”

Gu Qianqian kept taking deep breaths, exhaling, deep breaths, exhaling…

Then she discovered that she really… was getting dizzy in front of her eyes.

It was said that protagonists could force themselves to calm down.

Gu Qianqian discovered that she probably didn’t have the fate of a protagonist.

Forcing calmness really didn’t work.

The moment she thought about just transmigrating, not even familiar with her body yet, not having experienced this…

Bah, not having felt the otherworldly life before she was about to die, how could she not be anxious?

“Damn System, Damn System! Hurry up and think of something! This afternoon, this afternoon I’m going to die!”

“I know you’re anxious, but damn host, don’t be anxious first.”

“I Chovy! The one dying isn’t you, of course you’re not anxious. Hurry up and give me a few powerful props or simple but generously rewarding tasks. I need to beat up the heroine to feel safe!”

“Sorry, host. You need Favor Points.”

“(メ▼へ▼)/?{︻┻┳═一”

“Don’t panic, host. It’s still early until afternoon. It’s only ten in the morning now. There’s still four hours until the assembly time at Wind City Academy this afternoon!”

“Are you messing with me? Four hours. What can I do in four hours!?”

Gu Qianqian was so anxious she was spinning in circles.

The Damn System was unreliable.

As the old saying went, relying on heaven and earth was not as good as relying on oneself.

She still had four hours.

What could she do in that time?

According to the plot she had just read, Wind City Academy’s off-campus practical internship this time had to be attended.

She couldn’t be absent without reason.

And this practical learning would last three days.

Unless something unexpected happened, she couldn’t return midway.

Being attacked by monsters—that counted as an unexpected situation, right?

But the academy didn’t know that.

They had even given them half a day to pack their things and assemble in the afternoon.

What if she told the supervising teacher that there was danger on this outing and asked them to cancel it?

No no no…

Gu Qianqian quickly rejected this idea.

Setting aside whether the other party would believe her, even if they did, they would only strengthen the guards and continue with the off-campus practice.

Because this was another world, already different from the peaceful era of her previous life’s Blue Star.

This world had long since entered the apocalypse.

Human civilization was barely surviving, establishing large cities that couldn’t be connected to each other, like individual cages trapping and protecting themselves.

In this world, everyone had to start training from the time they could remember.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to survive in this cruel world.

Even if someone truly had no talent for combat, if they were to do clerical work in the future, they still had to train.

At least it gave people some ability to protect themselves.

This kind of off-campus practice organized by the school was actually a tradition in Wind City.

It was conducted along relatively safe routes under the leadership of teachers and academy guards.

The purpose was to let students understand the cruelty outside and see the real side of this world, so they could grow.

Therefore, danger was actually part of the training.

It was just that according to the plot, the crisis they would face this time exceeded the handling limit of the supervising teachers and guards.

Unfortunately, even if she said it regardless of everything, Gu Qianqian had no way to explain why she knew the future.

She couldn’t gain anyone’s trust.

Then…

What about running away directly?

Anyway, she wasn’t really Gu Qianqian.

She had no worries or attachments.

What academy, what damn Lin Feiyu—she didn’t care about any of it.

She was going to die anyway.

Why go to school? Why do practical training…

Run, damn it!

But after thinking carefully, doing so had many problems.

First, if she went missing, the academy would notify her family and send people to find her.

How big could Wind City be?

Sooner or later she would be found.

She wasn’t good at playing hide-and-seek.

Second, this behavior didn’t match what Lin Feiyu remembered from her previous life.

It would definitely attract the other party’s attention.

If she got targeted by the heroine, how was that different from being sentenced to death?

And she would die even more miserably.

Maybe the other party would force her to confess why she ran away.

Gu Qianqian didn’t think she was a hard loli who could withstand torture without revealing that she was a transmigrator with a system.

The already blackened heroine who had returned from rebirth wouldn’t chat and laugh with you.

She would just finish you off directly.

Lastly, and most importantly, it was also said just now that this world wasn’t safe!

Even inside Wind City, there were frequent news reports of monsters sneaking in to eat and kill people.

If she ran off alone, did she have the ability to survive in this cruel world?

Gu Qianqian: ╥﹏╥

No matter how she looked at it, it was a dead end!?

“Host, have you given up?”

“Bullshit!” Gu Qianqian pulled herself together again. 

“Do I look like someone who would give up? That would be losing face for transmigrators. Just wait and see me kick the heroine and punch the hero, showing my mighty power!”

System: •᷄ࡇ•᷅

But even though she said that, right now she really couldn’t think of any good ideas.

Her intelligence was limited.

She could only take one step at a time and see what happened.

She took out her phone and, following the original owner’s memories, dialed the homeroom teacher Wang Feng’s number.

“Hello? Teacher Wang, it’s me, Gu Qianqian.”

“Gu Qianqian, it’s you again? What is it?”

On the other end of the phone, homeroom teacher Wang Feng’s tone wasn’t great.

It could even be said to carry a hint of disgust.

There was no helping it.

Who told the original body to be an evil roadside villain who bullied the heroine?

No matter how cute and pretty she looked, her bad personality, poor studies, and bullying the class’s academic genius little white flower meant she could never win the favor of Wang Feng, who was also a woman.

“Um, Teacher Wang, for this off-campus practice, can I request leave? I… um… my aunt came…”

Sugar beet!

Gu Qianqian couldn’t help but cheer internally for the excuse that had flashed brilliantly in her mind.

Transmigrating into a girl was really great.

This excuse was flawless, right?

Who knew that upon hearing this, Teacher Wang Feng on the other end directly let out a cold laugh. 

“Heh, Gu Qianqian. Usually you skip class and bully classmates, and now you want to request leave?”

“The off-campus practice is a required course that every student must complete. You can dodge the first day but not the fifteenth.”

“However, you do have some self-awareness. Your strength is lacking, so you want to request leave.”

“But this is a lesson everyone has to face. Don’t say your aunt came—even if your aunt’s husband, your aunt’s wife, and the whole family came, you still can’t take leave!”

“Those monsters outside won’t let you off just because your body has issues or you’re injured. That’s it. Arrive on time this afternoon. I’ll take attendance. If you dare not come, wait to have your parents called.”

Damn it.

How come teachers across the entire universe used the “call parents” tactic!

Gu Qianqian, whose call had been hung up, had a dark face.

She flipped through her contacts again and dialed the supervising teacher for this trip.

After stating her identity and hinting that there might be danger this time, the other party answered like this.

“Student, you don’t need to worry about this. The route, security, and plan for the off-campus practice have all been practiced many times by the academy over the years. They’re safe and reliable.”

“Your name is Gu Qianqian, right? Heh, I know you.”

That tone was pretty much the same as Wang Feng’s.

“Danger during off-campus practice is normal, but it’s all within controllable range.”

“If you’re really afraid of dying and don’t want to go, that’s fine too. Over the years, even students with broken legs or hands have participated. But if your injury or illness is more serious than theirs, you can request leave this time.”

Weren’t these teachers all on drugs?

Why were their attitudes toward her so bad?

Gu Qianqian, who had hung up the phone, no longer counted on communicating with the academy side.

She only focused on starting to pack her things.

She couldn’t afford to provoke them, so she could only hide, right?

Run!

Wind City Academy originally had six-person collective dorms.

But when it came to Gu Qianqian’s turn, the class happened to have one extra student, so for this batch she lived alone in a six-person dormitory.

This was one of the few pieces of good news.

Because she didn’t have to deal with troublesome roommates, nor did she have to live in fear of exposing flaws and being seen as not the real ‘Gu Qianqian’.

Following the original owner’s memories, she packed some valuables and a few changes of clothes.

Gu Qianqian avoided people and went downstairs from the dormitory building.

She didn’t even eat lunch.

Escaping was more important.

Even if running away didn’t guarantee she could survive, at least it was better than only living until today!

Just as she walked out the side door, she bumped head-on into someone.

The moment she saw the other person, Gu Qianqian couldn’t help but widen her eyes.

She even forgot to breathe for a moment.

A poem she had learned in her previous life involuntarily popped into her mind.

Ice hair cascaded over her forehead like a clear autumn stream.

Jade bones condensed with frost, reflecting moonlit eyes.

Cicada temples half-drooped like a crane beyond the clouds.

Dark brows lightly drawn like a gull gliding over water.

If one asked where to find a celestial fairy, this person stood right before her eyes!

Beautiful!

Beautiful to the point of bubbling!

Beautiful to the degree that even if she committed heinous crimes, one could forgive her!

Beautiful enough to make Gu Qianqian want to cry.

Why did she want to cry.

Because wasn’t this the heroine she was most afraid of seeing right now—Lin Feiyu?