Chapter 166: Competing for Affection

Rejected 99 Times, the Aloof Campus Belle Comes On Strong

Boss Cutie

Watching her cry, Jiang Muye's mood was bitter and murky. Naturally, his heart ached for her as well. He raised his hand and gently wiped away the tears that were smeared all over Leng Ruoli's face. "It doesn't hurt at all. What's a little wound like this?"

It had hurt before, but looking at Leng Ruoli, he no longer felt any pain.

Jiang Muye even wanted to get up, but Leng Ruoli stopped him, her tone stern. "No. You need medicine on that!"

"Good, good, good. I'll listen to you." Jiang Muye nodded softly.

Leng Ruoli's nose was bright red. She buried her small face and took the alcohol wipes that Little White Dove had run up to bring her, then began applying medicine to Jiang Muye.

Jiang Muye felt the cool sting of the alcohol wipe against his wound and drew in a sharp breath.

"See, it hurts, doesn't it? That's what you get for showing off." Leng Ruoli bit her crimson lips. Even as she complained, her concern for Jiang Muye showed through.

Sensing Leng Ruoli's care for him, a heavy pain settled in Jiang Muye's heart. He soothed her, saying, "It's really fine. I don't feel any pain."

But Leng Ruoli's eyes rimmed red, and she didn't feel the slightest bit better. Especially when her gaze landed on his wound, shredded into a haze of blood, the tears in her eyes made her utterly miserable.

She carefully disinfected the wound, then sprayed Yunnan Baiyao on it. Jiang Muye bit down hard on his back teeth, afraid that any sound of pain would make Leng Ruoli's heart ache.

Fuck, it really did hurt.

But watching Leng Ruoli give herself to caring for him, Jiang Muye felt a warmth like a spring breeze on his face, like eating the sweetest bite from the very center of a watermelon. Especially sweet.

"Feeling any better?" Leng Ruoli raised her head and gazed at Jiang Muye, her pair of glossy, beautiful eyes brimming with deep concern.

"Much better." Jiang Muye grinned.

Old He started grumbling, "Class Three really has no shame. They did that on purpose, right? How was it such a coincidence that the baton came flying at you?"

Little White Dove nodded vigorously. "When I saw Muzi fall just now, my heart nearly stopped. That was a really nasty fall."

When Jiang Muye noticed Leng Ruoli's features scrunching up, he immediately cut off their conversation. "Alright, that's enough. It's fine."

He was afraid that if Leng Ruoli kept listening, she'd feel even worse.

"Let's go to the Infirmary," Leng Ruoli suggested to Jiang Muye.

"No need. It's just a small wound." Jiang Muye shook his head. "I don't need to go to the Infirmary. A few days of rest and it'll be fine. If anything, it might heal up by tonight."

The System: 【Congratulations, Host, on rejecting Leng Ruoli. You have obtained two hundred Grit Points.】

Yet Leng Ruoli looked utterly wronged. "I'm not very good at treating wounds anyway. What if your wound keeps getting infected?"

Jiang Muye was just about to say something when a hurried voice came running over, and then a cool sensation pressed against his leg.

"Are you okay?" A pair of tender eyes gazed at Jiang Muye.

Jiang Muye's brow furrowed tightly. In irritation, he tried to move his leg away, but the other party's hand pressed down firmly. "Don't move. I'm applying a cold compress."

The one speaking was Xia Xiran.

After seeing Jiang Muye fall, she had heard the Girl with Glasses' suggestion and immediately gone to fetch an ice pack.

Applying a cold compress the first moment after an injury could ease the pain of the wound.

This was her chance to perform well. With Jiang Muye injured, as long as she expressed her concern, she could move him.

As Xia Xiran was full of anticipation, Jiang Muye was utterly indifferent. "No need. I don't want it."

【Congratulations, Host, on rejecting Xia Xiran's cold compress request. You have obtained two hundred Grit Points.】 The System's voice rang out.

Xia Xiran watched in astonishment as Jiang Muye pushed her hand aside, his attitude icy cold.

She was extremely embarrassed. "Let me take care of you."

"I have a girlfriend to take care of me. I don't need you." Jiang Muye stared at Xia Xiran with cold eyes. "Don't come near me. I don't like it, and my girlfriend won't like it either."

He had said it very clearly, and he had drawn the line with Xia Xiran time and time again.

Yet Xia Xiran always kept barging back into his world.

"Thank you for the ice pack. We need it very much, but as for taking care of my boyfriend, I'd better do that myself." Leng Ruoli took the ice pack from Xia Xiran's hand.

Xia Xiran's lips quivered. She wanted to say something, but swallowed it down.

Leng Ruoli was Jiang Muye's girlfriend, so what was she?

A passerby? A narrator?

Xia Xiran didn't understand. Her heart was full of grievance, with nowhere to vent it.

She watched as Jiang Muye gazed dotingly at Leng Ruoli.

That look used to belong to her too. How had it become something he showed to Leng Ruoli?

Leng Ruoli had become his proper girlfriend, applying a cold compress for him as was her right, while she was like a clown nobody paid any attention to.

The public display of affection before her eyes continued, completely provoking Xia Xiran.

"Come on, I'll carry you to the Infirmary~" Leng Ruoli said to Jiang Muye, even bending down slightly.

Jiang Muye burst out laughing. "You're so skinny, and you're so weak. How could you possibly carry me?"

"You only know if you try. I ate an extra bowl of rice today. If anything, I might be able to do it!" Leng Ruoli insisted.

Jiang Muye smiled and put his arm around Leng Ruoli's neck. Of course, his feet stayed on the ground—how could he put all his weight on her?

Leng Ruoli definitely couldn't feel Jiang Muye's full weight.

"Hmph, get on. I said I'd carry you." Leng Ruoli patted Jiang Muye's back.

Jiang Muye broke into a grin. "Fine, let you carry me!"

He wrapped his whole body around her and kissed her fair little face. He said he'd let her carry him, but in reality he was just teasing her, and still didn't let her do it.

The two of them were utterly inseparable, glued to each other.

In the end, it was Kai who carried Jiang Muye to the school Infirmary, with Leng Ruoli, Kai, and Little White Dove following without a moment's pause.

Watching the group gradually fade into the distance, Xia Xiran lowered her head in dejection, not a trace of spirit on her little face.

After they got to the Infirmary, Jiang Muye's System began to chime: 【Congratulations, Host, on a successful Check-in at the Infirmary. You have obtained five hundred thousand rmb.】

After the Infirmary teacher took one look at Jiang Muye's wound, she began to praise him. "The disinfection was very timely. Once the medicine's applied, it'll be fine."

"Heh heh, I have my girlfriend to thank for applying the medicine." Jiang Muye instinctively looked toward Leng Ruoli and started showing off to the teacher.

"Young man, not bad, having such a pretty girlfriend." The Infirmary teacher nodded repeatedly, full of praise.

Leng Ruoli's little face was bright red. Jiang Muye proudly winked at her. "See, she's praising me."

"I think she's praising me." Leng Ruoli mumbled shyly.

"Heh heh, both of us." Jiang Muye was in great spirits.

But applying medicine to the wound really did hurt. When Jiang Muye got back to the dorm, the pain felt doubled. He guessed it would hurt even more at night.

Jiang Muye hugged his leg and howled. Little White Dove, Kai, and Old He looked at him and said, "Who was it that just said it was fine? That he could do ten somersaults no problem?"

"That was with Ruoli there." Painful as it was, the mention of Leng Ruoli made Jiang Muye grin and laugh out loud.

Kai helped Jiang Muye sit down in the dorm's beanbag chair and said, "Lie down and rest for a bit. We'll go buy you some food."

"Hey, no need. My Ruoli's gone to buy me food." Jiang Muye grinned, showing off his white teeth.

"Tsk tsk tsk, I just got a mouthful of dog food. Back when you didn't have a girlfriend, you'd yell at me, 'Kai, hurry up and get me food.' Now that you've got one, it's 'My Ruoli's gone to get me food.'" Kai shook his shoulders, completely stuffed full of sweetness.

Jiang Muye smacked Kai's back in annoyance and laughed. "Not happy about it?"

"How would I dare be unhappy? You're the hero of our class today. We got first place in the relay all thanks to you. You really brought honor to us." Kai smiled.

Little White Dove was eating a Shuanghui Ham Sausage and nodded vigorously. "The class funds went up by two hundred per person! That's enough for me to buy two more boxes of ham sausages!"

Jiang Muye laughed. "Look at you, so easily satisfied. Did you already spend the hundred thousand I gave you last time?"

"Could I possibly squander it like that! I'm saving it. If anything, I'd like to buy an apartment in West City. Of course, I'll buy the apartment, but heh heh, I'll eat my ham sausages too."

"Then aren't you going to give me one? Aren't you ashamed?" Jiang Muye teased Little White Dove.

"Here, here, here. Ham sausages are one thing I've definitely got!" Little White Dove generously handed Jiang Muye a fistful of ham sausages.

After happily accepting the ham sausages, Jiang Muye felt his leg still aching something awful, so he went straight to the System.

System, how can I make my leg heal faster? So it doesn't hurt so much.