Chapter 22: The Class Beauty, Yang Yini

When it came to science, she listened as if it were a foreign language.
But in subjects where she could keep up, she did her best to catch up.
So she was always fairly attentive during Chinese classes and the like...

The Chinese teacher was passionately leading a reading session at the front, while, below, the girls led by the class beauty were secretly playing on their phones.

Chatting on QQ.

The girls of Class Seventeen formed a group.

Tong Pingping: “How do you think Shi Qingqing managed to hook up with Senior Sheng? I’ve seen Senior Sheng talking to Shi Qingqing several times recently—it’s so strange.”

Jin Yuer: “Who knows? Senior Sheng is one of the school’s gold badge holders. He might even invite Yini to eat with him, but how could he possibly invite someone like Shi Qingqing…”

Leng Wanqi: “Gold badge holders, there aren’t many in our Qingming school! My dream is just to become a silver badge holder before graduation. Shi Qingqing doesn’t even have a bronze badge—she’s barely a half-day guest student at Qingming. What courage does she have to mess with Senior Sheng!”

Yang Yini: “What’s so hard to figure out? Maybe someone’s dreaming of being Cinderella! Isn’t that how it goes in TV dramas nowadays?”

Song Jinfeng: “Tsk tsk, so naive. Yini, your Yang family does business with the Sheng family. Do you think your families might arrange a marriage?”

Yang Yini: “Not sure yet. Depends on how Sheng Chao performs…”

Kang Xiaomei: “Forget it, let’s not talk about someone like Shi Qingqing who brings down the tone. Everyone send Yini a red envelope to ward off bad luck.”

Tong Pingping: “Good idea! The weasel reciting poetry up front is spitting so much that it’s almost getting on my hair. So annoying.”

...

The Chinese teacher had finished reciting the ancient poems. “Now, everyone, read along with me…”

Just then, a phone inside a desk suddenly chimed.

Shi Qingqing thought anxiously—oh no, she hadn’t set it to silent.

Her old phone was different from the others; she didn’t even know where the setting was.

That chime, within the dramatic reading of Teacher Huang, went largely unnoticed by most of the class.

Only Yang Yini, the class beauty sitting just above and to the right, glanced back at her.

Shi Qingqing couldn’t resist her curiosity and quietly took out her phone from the desk to peek.

“...Detected a group nearby sending red envelopes. Would you like to join the Class Seventeen Girls Group?”

During class!

Shi Qingqing hesitated, glanced around, and saw Yang Yini and her entourage, one hand lifting a book, the other fiddling under the desk with a phone.

This group was almost certainly theirs.

These girls had just been gossiping about her before class, saying nasty things behind her back.

Now, if she didn’t join in to grab their red envelopes, it would be unjust!

Shi Qingqing couldn’t resist—she tapped to join.

She entered right as a password red envelope appeared.

[Shi Qingqing is nothing, a lower-class person—not worth bothering with.] Tong Pingping.

Damn it! These girls were so petty.

What had Shi Qingqing ever done to them? To be cursed like this behind her back?

She grabbed the envelope without hesitation!

System: “Moneyless in the Five Elements” snatched a red envelope sent by Tong Pingping.

[Yini, hugs and kisses.] Kang Xiaomei.

System: “Moneyless in the Five Elements” snatched a red envelope sent by Kang Xiaomei.

[Yini, cheer up.] Song Jinfeng.

System: “Moneyless in the Five Elements” snatched a red envelope sent by Song Jinfeng.

...

Each girl had sent a single envelope to curry favor with Yang Yini, never expecting that, one after another, their envelopes would all be snatched by someone called “Moneyless in the Five Elements”!