Chapter 250 - 217: Irritable Rose Corridor [Wu Yue]

Chapter 250: Chapter 217: Irritable Rose Corridor [Wu Yue]

Huai Yu’s voice drifted through the window amidst the wind and rain. Kuang Biao instantly quieted down. It didn’t even put much effort into fighting back against the incoming strikes from the Rose Corridor.

After a long while, it muttered aggrievedly, "Fine... If I can’t take root, I won’t. But you can’t break up our ship. Little Kui and I are truly a match made in heaven. Look, both of our leaves are green!

"Our bamboo flowers are so tiny, while her flowers are so huge. It’s a natural complement..."

Kuang Biao’s playbook on romance was honestly getting a bit too thick, and Huai Yu lost her patience to listen further. However, watching the Rose Corridor’s vines RUSTLE as she retracted them, Huai Yu could definitely sense that her temper was much more irritable than usual.

Just like her. She had finally managed to get that massive vegetable patch into decent shape, but with this rain, she’d have to purify everything one by one all over again. If she tried to tackle that workload in one go without resting, she’d pass out a hundred times over.

Life was just too hard!

They couldn’t get anything done today. Because they wanted to avoid contact with the rainwater, the two of them just had a simple meal and called it a day. Only now did Huai Yu begin to regret her choices. "If I had known this rain would be like this, I would have just bitten the bullet and bought that game console!"

Meanwhile, Zhou Qian had picked up the three books she had left on the table. With a frown, he examined each title before decisively choosing "Unattainable Lover". The reason he didn’t choose "Towards the Sun" was simply that he was getting tired of Kuang Biao constantly pestering him by reciting poetry lately.

A moment later, Zhou Qian calmly put the book down. Even his voice was kept tightly controlled. "Do you usually enjoy novels with this kind of... flavor?"

"It’s a pirated copy! I bought the wrong one!" Huai Yu waved her hands frantically. After a second thought, she added, "Well, not entirely wrong. It has some tips on planting and farming, and I wanted to learn a bit more."

"Really?" Zhou Qian wasn’t quite convinced. "No matter how much you read, the main character is a literal toad. What exactly can you learn?"

Huai Yu had finished the entire book. In all fairness, apart from the two main characters being a bit hard to picture, the writing wasn’t bad. She tried her best to defend it. "Learn how to marry a white swan?"

Zhou Qian was speechless. He sighed. "Maybe next time you should just buy the game console." It was better than sitting here reading about a toad raising a swan, only for it to end up as a tragic, abusive romance.

Huai Yu gave a gloomy "oh" and sat back down, looking listless. She really disliked this rain, and she knew the Rose Corridor definitely disliked it too—that was why she had thrown a tantrum. Once the rain stopped, she would have to go and coax her. Resting her head on her arms on the table, Huai Yu stared blankly into space.

Unable to stomach that kind of love story any longer, Zhou Qian walked down the hallway to the storage shed. He rummaged through the pile of junk, gathered an armful of items, and brought them back. He planned to take advantage of the downtime today to repair and sort through them to see what was still usable.

But as soon as he opened the door and entered the living room, he saw Huai Yu still lying with her head on her arms. She had fallen asleep with a peaceful expression. He quietly lightened his footsteps, soon found a place to sit, and began to tinker with the shelf in his hands.

However, contrary to her peaceful expression, Huai Yu’s dream was far from pleasant. She was dreaming of Wu Yue again.

He had brought a group of classmates to follow her around. Everyone was laughing and playing in the mountain woods, casually foraging for wild vegetables as if they were on a camping trip. And the pastoral lifestyle blogger, Huai Yu, was their perfect tour guide.

She wondered, "Wait, that’s not right. How did I become a pastoral blogger? And I look a bit older than I did in my last dream..."

The next moment, someone answered her unspoken questions. A young girl from the group sidled up to her. Peering at her basket brimming with wild vegetables, the girl’s eyes widened in awe. "Huai Yu, you’re amazing! You’re a natural at this. No wonder Wu Yue likes you; he really goes for down-to-earth girls."

As she spoke, she glanced over at Wu Yue, her expression softening into something sweet. "You absolutely have to remember this! If Wu Yue hadn’t given you the idea to do this, you’d probably still be toiling away doing odd jobs for money. You wouldn’t have millions of views like you do now..."

What?!

Huai Yu frowned in her dream. She was actually indebted to this toxic buzzkill of a man? Just the thought of it made everything feel even more cursed!

Just then, another girl holding a half-full basket of wild vegetables walked over. "Yu, can you check if these are edible? I’m worried I picked the wrong ones."

She then glared at the first girl. "Why do you always have to drag up ancient history? Sure, Wu Yue briefly mentioned that Yu should become a pastoral blogger, but that was just an offhand comment he made when we were all having dinner! The whole sentence was barely twenty words long."

To prove her point, she cleared her throat, attempting to mimic Wu Yue’s exact tone and voice. "’Huai Yu, you’re so familiar with the mountains and woods, you could easily start streaming to make money.’

"He was really just saying it in passing," she continued in her normal voice. "Yu earned her current success through her own hard work. Why do you have to bring it up every single time we meet?"

"What’s that supposed to mean?" The first girl immediately got defensive. "Why are you talking to me like that? You’re making it sound like I’m the one holding a favor over her head. What does this have to do with me?

"I just see that Wu Yue and Yu’s relationship is getting better and better, and I think they need to remember each other’s good points. Even though Yu worked hard, sometimes opportunities and choices are far more important than effort..."

The two of them continued to bicker, but they were classmates after all. In the dream, Huai Yu smoothed things over. She quickly sorted through the wild vegetables and, using the excuse that they wouldn’t have enough for lunch, sent the two girls off to pick more.

As soon as they left, Wu Yue sauntered over. "Yu, Meng Tian is just a bit blunt when she speaks, so don’t mind her. What I did back then was just lifting a finger. Your current success is entirely due to your own hard work; it has nothing to do with me."

He sounded decent enough on the surface. Feeling stifled after listening to the drama for so long, Huai Yu shot him a glance. Just as she was trying to figure out how to respond to this supposed "help," he sighed.

He lowered his head as if he were embarrassed. "Yu, could you dress up a bit more beautifully and youthfully for me?

"It’s not that I’m superficial or overly focused on looks. It’s just that I’m still a student. If you dress too maturely, my classmates will all treat you like an older sister... It makes me lose face a bit. You know how it is. Some people will just use things like this to mock me."

Experiencing the dream from a third-person perspective, Huai Yu was initially just furious upon hearing this. But in the next second, a wave of profound sorrow and exhaustion crashed over her body like a tidal wave. It made Wu Yue’s subsequent words sound muffled in her ears—

"How about this: when you go back, ask the beauty bloggers in your circle for some advice. Learn a bit about makeup and styling... Oh, by the way, Meng Tian mentioned before that your phoenix eyes make you look a bit fierce when you stare at people... Can’t you get that fixed now?"