Chapter 119 – Sleeping with Fans Is a Major Taboo

Lin Xi jolted awake from her dreams.

Why couldn’t she move?!

Sleep paralysis?!

Anyone who’s experienced sleep paralysis should know how absolutely awful that feeling is…

Lin Xi woke up in a cold sweat.

Good news: it wasn’t sleep paralysis.

Bad news… uh, actually, it wasn’t exactly bad news either. Lin Xi looked left, then right.

On her left was Zhao Xinning. On her right was Yang Shanshan.

Each of them was hugging one of Lin Xi’s arms, sleeping sweetly…

Wait. Lin Xi carefully thought back.

When she went to sleep last night, she was definitely the only person in the room!

So what was with this two-girls-in-her-arms situation???!!!

Could it be… after they got up in the middle of the night, they were so groggy that they went to the wrong room and both ended up here???

Dawn had already broken. Lin Xi shifted slightly, and the girls on both sides woke up.

“Good morning, Xi… huh???!!!” Zhao Xinning let out a shriek.

“Miss Shanshan?! Why are you here?!”

Yang Shanshan felt a little guilty.

Yesterday, outside the door, she had used her ability to hypnotize Zhao Xinning, then quietly slipped in and slept on Lin Xi’s right side.

Sleeping beside Miss Lin Xi had been so warm and comfortable that Yang Shanshan had sweet dreams all night.

Faced with Zhao Xinning’s question, Yang Shanshan brought out her superb acting skills.

“Huh?! You’re right. Why am I in Miss Lin Xi’s room?”

“Maybe after I came out of the bathroom last night, I was half-asleep and wandered into the wrong room…”

“Miss Xinning, why are you here too???” Yang Shanshan turned defense into offense and shot the question back at Zhao Xinning.

The excuse Zhao Xinning had originally prepared was also that she had come back from the bathroom half-asleep and wandered into the wrong room.

But Yang Shanshan had said it first, and for a moment, Zhao Xinning couldn’t think of any other suitable excuse, so she had no choice but to say the same.

Lin Xi: “…”

“You two are pretty in sync, huh? Both of you wandered into my room half-asleep.”

Zhao Xinning: “…”

She hadn’t been half-asleep at all. She just didn’t know whether Yang Shanshan really had been.

After she had come in yesterday, she seemed to have fallen asleep as soon as she lay down, so she had no idea when Yang Shanshan had arrived.

If Yang Shanshan really had wandered into the wrong room in a daze, Zhao Xinning could forgive her for now.

But if she was like Zhao Xinning and had deliberately come over holding a pillow, then…

Maybe Pluto had been right. She also needed to keep an eye on the unassuming Yang Shanshan…

Click.

The door opened.

Su Xiangxue had come to wake Lin Xi up. After all, they still had to hurry back to school in District 3 this morning.

When she saw Lin Xi with a girl in each arm, she froze in place.

“Miss Lin Xi!”

“Sleeping with fans is a major taboo!”

“And worse, you slept with two at once!”

Lin Xi: “…”

“No, no, no-it’s not like that! Miss Su Xiangxue, after they got up in the middle of the night, they were half-asleep and wandered into the wrong room!”

“Is that so?”

“It is.” Lin Xi had Zhao Xinning and Yang Shanshan explain it to Su Xiangxue together.

Su Xiangxue adjusted her glasses.

“I see. You scared me to death. Miss Lin Xi, you haven’t become Z City’s top star yet. You’re at a crucial stage where your career is on the rise. Even if you’re going to sleep with fans, at least wait until you’ve truly become the Moe Queen.”

Lin Xi: “…”

“I would never become the kind of scumbag who sleeps with fans!”

After the misunderstanding was cleared up, the three of them got out of bed.

Su Xiangxue suddenly said, “Wait, that’s not right. All three of your rooms have bathrooms.”

“If you two got up in the middle of the night, why would you go to the bathroom outside?”

Zhao Xinning: “…”

Yang Shanshan: “…”

The two of them unanimously played dumb, saying they had no idea the little room inside their rooms was actually the bathroom.

Who would have thought this place really was like a room in a luxury hotel, complete with its own private bathroom…

…

After breakfast, they went up to the rooftop helipad.

The black helicopter Su Tang had summoned had been waiting for them for quite some time.

Su Tang and her mother, Gu Yayun, saw Su Xiangxue and the others onto the aircraft together.

Both of them were very relieved that Su Xiangxue had such an outstanding friend as Lin Xi.

At the very least, Su Xiangxue wasn’t all alone in District 3.

“Big Sister, Mom, goodbye.” Su Xiangxue waved.

“Sister Su Tang, Aunt Yayun, goodbye.” Lin Xi waved too.

She felt like she hadn’t really done anything or said anything, yet somehow she had become the Su Family’s most welcome guest.

So the social butterfly was me all along???

On the helicopter, Yang Shanshan, Yang Tongtong, and Zhao Xinning all waved goodbye to Su Tang and Gu Yayun.

As the rotors began to spin and the engine roared, the helicopter slowly lifted off and headed toward District 3.

Halfway through the flight, the sky gradually darkened, and the clouds grew thicker and thicker.

“Looks like it might rain hard,” Lin Xi said, glancing out the window at the sky.

“That’s spring weather for you. It changes at the drop of a hat. We might even get lightning, thunder, and a torrential downpour.” The pilot was a rather talkative older girl named Jiang Liusi. “But don’t worry. With an ace pilot like me here, there’s no way we’re crashing. Absolutely impossible.”

Lin Xi: “…”

She really wanted to tell Sister Jiang not to casually raise death flags like that.

About five minutes later, spring thunder rumbled faintly in the distance.

Splash!!!-

It was as if a great hole had torn open in the sky, and rain came pouring down in sheets.

Under the sudden storm and fierce wind, the helicopter began to sway.

Lin Xi grew nervous. “Sister Jiang, how about we find the nearest helipad and land for a bit until the rain passes???”

“No need. Trust your big sister’s skills,” Jiang Liusi said confidently. “I’m an ace pilot. I’ve flown through worse weather than this.”

But Lin Xi wasn’t worried about only the weather. She said,

“Sister Jiang, the news often reports that in this kind of thunderstorm, some people accidentally stray into the Super Disaster Kun’s Dark Domain and vanish forever.”

“I’m just worried that if we’re unlucky-“

“No need to worry,” Yang Tongtong, who was sitting nearby, said. “The Kun isn’t in this area.”

Ever since the last time the Kun had been burned by one Fireball from Lin Xi, Yang Tongtong had already made her little pet drift to the other side of the city.

If her sister hadn’t stopped her, she would absolutely have killed Lin Xi.

“Little Sister Tongtong, we should still be careful,” Lin Xi said. “If that bastard shows up in the rain, we’re done for.”

“Who are you calling a bastard?!”

“Huh? I’m talking about the Kun.”

“Say it again. I dare you!”

Lin Xi: “???”

Yang Shanshan quickly told her little sister to stop talking. “Um, Miss Lin Xi, I’m sorry. Little sisters going through their rebellious phase can easily turn into contrarians. I’ll give her a good talking-to when we get back.”

Yang Tongtong: “…”

For now, she would put this one on Lin Xi’s tab!

Lin Xi said with a cheerful smile, “It’s fine. In that case, I’ll take Little Sister Tongtong’s word as a good omen and hope the Kun really isn’t in this area.”

About twenty minutes later, the rain cleared, white clouds drifted across the sky, and a rainbow bridge arched beneath the blue.

“Xi! It’s a rainbow! It feels like we’re so close to it,” Zhao Xinning said excitedly. “Do you remember? Last spring, after a storm just like this, we ‘caught’ a rainbow on a riverbank!”

Of course Lin Xi didn’t remember.

Those beautiful memories from last year belonged to Zhao Xinning and the Cuddle Witch.

“Let’s ‘catch’ a rainbow together again!” Zhao Xinning said.

Lin Xi: “…”

Catch a rainbow???

How???