Chapter 173 – Life Advice from a Friend’s Little Sister

“As expected of Miss Lin Xi!”

“Exactly! Miss Lin Xi has beauty and brains. She’s the perfect Sun Goddess!”

“The greatness of Saint Love Xi needs no explanation!”

“The Xi Sect shall endure forever!”

…And so, amid her classmates’ endless cries of praise for the “gorgeous girl,” Lin Xi lost herself completely… As if!

She could not understand why everyone was making such a fuss. All she had done was place first in both her class and the entire grade on the monthly exam.

On the previous monthly exam, Lin Xi had ranked second in the grade, while Xia Xun had taken first.

This time, Lin Xi was first and Xia Xun was second.

Lin Xi strongly suspected Xia Xun had gone easy on her.

She definitely had.

The entire class had turned into a Lin Xi praise squad.

It was not only because Lin Xi herself was outstanding. The class average had risen substantially thanks to her as well.

Even the classmates who usually devoted themselves to absurd nonsense had started studying seriously under her guidance.

And just like that, their average score had shot up.

Whenever anyone came to her with a question, Lin Xi would help them.

Unless it was about love.

Lin Xi had no romantic experience herself, so she thought it best not to lead anyone astray on that subject.

It was precisely because of her kindhearted, ever-helpful nature that the title Saint Love Xi had gradually spread.

Her days as a half-invisible presence in the classroom were gone forever…

During the break, Lin Xi had just left the teachers’ office when she ran into someone she had never expected to see.

“Little Sister Tongtong?”

Lin Xi could not have mistaken her. When she and Zhao Xinning had visited the amusement park in District 1, they had happened to run into Yang Shanshan and her little sister.

This girl was Yang Shanshan’s younger sister, Yang Tongtong.

In truth, this was no chance encounter. Yang Tongtong had come looking for Lin Xi.

“Big Sister Lin Xi, thank goodness! I finally found you!” Yang Tongtong said happily.

“Me? Aren’t you here to see your sister?” Lin Xi had assumed Yang Tongtong did not know where Class 1 was and was about to show her the way.

But apparently, Yang Tongtong was here for her…

“What do you need me for?”

“Life advice,” Yang Tongtong said.

Lin Xi: “…”

Wait, what? Had the legend of Saint Love Xi already spread all the way to Yang Tongtong’s school?

Impossible! Absolutely impossible!

Lin Xi was about to lose her mind.

She could understand why her classmates might ask her for life advice, but why had Yang Tongtong suddenly come to her too?

She barely even knew her friend’s little sister…

“Life advice… Little Sister Tongtong, are you serious? Why come to me? Shouldn’t you ask your sister?”

“I’m completely serious, and you’re the one I came to find, Big Sister Lin Xi.”

Yang Tongtong put on a pitiful expression. “Is that not okay?”

Lin Xi: “…”

It was only a request for life advice. Lin Xi did not mind helping her friend’s younger sister with a problem.

“Fine. Ask whatever you want.”

“This isn’t a good place to talk,” Yang Tongtong said. “Let’s go outside.”

“Outside? You mean off campus?” Lin Xi exclaimed. “School isn’t over yet. If we leave now, we’ll be skipping class.”

“You’re already first in the grade, Big Sister Lin Xi. Surely missing two classes won’t matter?”

“How did you know I placed first?”

Yang Tongtong knew because she had been secretly watching Lin Xi, but she claimed she had overheard other students talking about it on her way upstairs.

“Big Sister Lin Xi, I really, truly need your help right away. Otherwise, I would never have come to you so abruptly.”

“If you don’t help me, I think my whole life might be ruined…”

Hearing how serious the matter was, Lin Xi asked, “Does your sister know?”

Yang Tongtong shook her head. “There are some things you can’t let the people closest to you know. Big Sister Lin Xi, do you understand what that feels like?”

Lin Xi gave a tiny, instinctive nod.

She understood that feeling all too well.

For instance, she had kept her identity as a witch hidden from Zhao Xinning and Xia Xun.

That was simply how life was. Some secrets could be shared with strangers but never with the people closest to you…

“I understand.” Lin Xi decided to help Yang Tongtong.

She was Yang Shanshan’s little sister. Of course Lin Xi would help her friend’s family.

“But… Little Sister Tongtong, can’t it wait until after school?”

“I promise I won’t mention any of this to your sister when we return to the classroom.”

Yang Tongtong shook her head again. “It’s urgent. If this is truly too difficult for you, Big Sister Lin Xi, then forget it…”

Once again, she put on that pitiful expression.

Lin Xi wondered if she was being bullied at school.

Perhaps Yang Shanshan was too meek and gentle, so Yang Tongtong could not bring herself to tell her sister about it.

If someone was bullying her friend’s little sister, Lin Xi had no objection to stepping in on Yang Tongtong’s behalf.

“All right!” Lin Xi turned around and went back into the office to ask her teacher for leave. Her request was approved immediately.

When she came back out, she told Yang Tongtong,

“Let’s go. Wherever you want to take me, lead the way.”

“Your big sister here will settle this for you!” Lin Xi declared heroically.

She wanted to see which blind fool had dared to bully a girl as cute as Yang Tongtong.

“Thank you, Big Sister Lin Xi. You’re so nice!” Yang Tongtong took her hand.

Walking hand in hand with Yang Tongtong really did feel like leading a little sister around.

Lin Xi had a younger sister of her own-a sister who had shot her dead… Even now, Lin Xi found it impossible to understand how their relationship had deteriorated to that point.

She wondered what city her sister was in now.

Lin Xi had recovered only that one fragment of memory, and it was so blurred that she could not even make out her sister’s face.

Recently, the benefits she gained from skinship with the girls on the Last Wish List had fallen noticeably.

Had she developed a resistance to skinship?

She probably needed a stronger “dose” before she could earn more rewards-or perhaps a new skinship partner would have to appear.

Only six girls had appeared so far: Zhao Xinning, Shi Yu, Lu Yi, Xia Xun, Qin Ling, and Thor. Four names on the Last Wish List were still missing.

And so, Yang Tongtong led Lin Xi out of the school.

“Little Sister Tongtong,” Lin Xi said once they were off campus and no one else was nearby. She asked directly, “Are you being bullied at school?”

“No,” Yang Tongtong replied.

There was no way she could be bullied at school, because she did not attend school in the first place.

She had no need to be classmates with foolish humans or recognize foolish humans as her teachers.

She had already mastered every subject on her own, especially mathematics.

“Then what urgent problem did you come to me about?” Lin Xi grew even more curious.

Yang Tongtong did not answer. Instead, she said,

“You’ll know once we arrive, Big Sister Lin Xi.”

Lin Xi tried another question. “Are you sure I can help?”

“I’m sure,” Yang Tongtong said firmly. “It has to be you.”

“All right…” Lin Xi got into a car with Yang Tongtong. Her destination was obviously set, so Lin Xi stopped asking questions. She would know when they arrived.

Half an hour later, they reached their destination-and Lin Xi certainly had her answer.

After all, she could read the words on the sign: Windflower Love Hotel.