I Was Supposed to Be the Villainess, Now You're Telling Me I'm the Female Lead? - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: ☝️🤓

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After dinner, Nan Zha received a phone call and drove Bai Ning home before hurrying back. This actually made Bai Ning breathe a sigh of relief.

Although being with Nan Zha really earned her a lot of feedback points, the pressure was also genuinely intense. The feedback value system was only useful for exchanging some singing and dancing skills, and aside from those, there were just some peculiar little gadgets.

Bai Ning didn’t have any grand ambitions for earning feedback points. She was simply attracted to the height-increasing potion inside the system.

Even though it cost tens of thousands of points to exchange for just one potion, and it only increased height by 1 centimeter, none of that mattered to her.

Her life was going quite well now, and she wasn’t short on money. She had no interest in that 1:10 exchange ratio, but height was different. Even if she had a million yuan, she couldn’t buy a normal, side-effect-free way to grow 1 centimeter taller.

Looking at the height-increasing potion that she was still several thousand points short of exchanging for, Bai Ning made up her mind. She couldn’t just passively wait around, she had to aggressively earn feedback points from those vicious female supporting characters, especially from Nan Zha.

Once she earned enough feedback points to buy over twenty bottles of height-increasing potion, she could directly transform into a 175cm tall, imposing cool beauty. When that time came, someone like Nan Zha would be completely overwhelmed in an instant.

But this was still very far away for her now, she couldn’t even afford one bottle yet.

Although she really wanted to farm Nan Zha’s gold coins right now, Nan Zha’s difficulty level was still too high. In comparison, she seemed to have a better option available:

Ning Xue!

Lying on her bed, she had originally worn a troubled expression, but after thinking of this, her little eyes immediately widened.

This was absolutely perfect! She had already confirmed that Ning Xue posed no threat to her whatsoever. At most, Ning Xue was just a bit dependent on her, this was practically her personal feedback point farming tool!

Wrapped in her blanket, Bai Ning started giggling. As long as she farmed more feedback points from Ning Xue, wouldn’t Nan Zha be easily within reach?

It just so happened that she hadn’t let Ning Xue stay over at her place last time. Remembering Ning Xue’s disappointed and reluctant expression from before, Bai Ning felt a bit guilty.

“Tomorrow after picking up the dress, I’ll have Ning Xue come over to hang out at my place.”

Although she planned to use Ning Xue to farm some feedback points, Bai Ning wouldn’t be too deliberate about it. After all, Ning Xue was also her good friend, and such a quiet, gentle girl definitely deserved to be cherished.

Lying in bed with beautiful fantasies about the future, Bai Ning gradually drifted off to sleep.

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Inside the coffee shop

“How did it go? There must have been progress this time, right? How was my plan?”

Looking at Xia Zhichu, who wore a proud expression as if seeking credit, Nan Zha couldn’t help but laugh.

Recalling the sensation from inside the room, Bai Ning’s fragrance seemed to still linger around her nose. The sight of Bai Ning looking shy and not daring to move almost made her nose feel warm.

The progress had indeed increased quite a bit this time. Nan Zha’s face carried a smile.

“It was good. I was very happy today.”

“See? See? I told you my method would work. This is all based on my experience.”

Xia Zhichu looked proud. Today, when she saw both Bai Ning and Nan Zha come out with completely red faces, she almost couldn’t resist going up to ask about it.

This feeling of her plan helping her friend was truly exciting.

“You talk as if you’ve actually experienced it yourself. You just opened a lesbian bar, and after staying there for so long, I haven’t seen you get together with anyone.”

Perhaps because she was happy today, Nan Zha became more talkative. After hearing Xia Zhichu’s words, Nan Zha rolled her eyes disdainfully. Although she was grateful for Xia Zhichu’s wingman assistance, she still had to refute Xia Zhichu’s boastful claims.

Always more theory than practice, she was the epitome of an “idea person.” Unfortunately, she only knew how to think but never acted, otherwise she wouldn’t have stayed single for so long despite being in the lesbian bar scene.

Xia Zhichu was obviously used to this and didn’t mind. Just as she mocked Nan Zha for being emotionally slow, Nan Zha also frequently mocked her about this matter.

But this was just for today. The next two days would be full of work, so she definitely wouldn’t be able to contact Bai Ning. Fortunately, she still had some things in her office. When she missed Bai Ning, she could take them out for a sniff, very refreshing and mind-clearing.

Thinking of her collection, Nan Zha’s face unconsciously showed a smile.

“Ah! You reminded me!”

☝️🤓

Originally looking nonchalant, Xia Zhichu suddenly raised one finger, looking excitedly at Nan Zha.

“I have an idea now.”

“What?” Nan Zha looked at Xia Zhichu with confusion. Although Xia Zhichu had indeed helped her this time, most of the time this idea person just caused chaos.

“Hehe, I’ll tell you later.”

Xia Zhichu obviously didn’t plan to tell Nan Zha, instead staring at her with a meaningful expression.

“Alright, let’s go back and rest now. Let’s go, let’s go.”

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The next morning, a series of noisy phone rings woke Bai Ning from her sleep.

Opening her sleepy eyes, she groped around to find her phone and brought it to her ear to answer.

“Hello~”

A slightly lazy voice responded. Bai Ning felt like she wasn’t fully awake yet.

“Hello, is this Miss Bai?”

“Mm? Who is this?”

“Ah, I’m from the custom dress shop. One of your dresses has been completed. When would be convenient for you to pick it up?”

A respectful voice spoke. Bai Ning recognized it as the shop assistant from yesterday.

“Ah, okay. I’ll come pick it up in a bit.”

“Alright, thank you for the trouble.”

After hanging up, Bai Ning casually placed her phone aside, staring ahead with a somewhat dazed expression.

It was already past 8 o’clock. The shop assistant had obviously considered the time issue and hadn’t called Bai Ning too early. After all, for her, 6 o’clock was normal time, and past 8 o’clock, almost 9 o’clock, forget about 8 AM classes that had already been going for an hour, even the corporate slaves had been at work for half an hour.

But Bai Ning was still incredibly sleepy. Even though she had gone to bed early last night, she was still tired.

Just because I went to bed early doesn’t mean I have to wake up early too!

If it were before, Bai Ning would definitely go back to sleep for a bit longer, but she had things to do today, so she could only lie there scrolling through short videos and watching some cheesy romance mini-dramas to wake herself up.

「On my birthday, my boyfriend was holding his white moonlight and broke up with me in front of everyone…」

“…Did you just grow those hands? Everyone deserves a slap.”

「After failing to win him over for the 100th time, I decided to die in front of him.」

“…What a simp queen. I suggest you include brain damage in medical insurance.”

「My female classmate from high school had a secret crush on me for her entire life, and only told me while holding my corpse on the day I died…」

“…How come you didn’t go to preschool to learn how to speak properly.”

Really don’t know who invented these cheesy romance mini-dramas. The more you watch, the more you want to watch, not because they’re good, but to see just how ridiculous the characters’ actions can get.

After watching for less than 10 minutes, Bai Ning felt completely awake. She could probably go get insulin shots now.

Shaking her head to throw those mentally polluting scenes to the back of her mind, she struggled to get out of bed, tidied herself up, and went downstairs.