Reincarnated as a Poor Little Green Tea, Am I Destined to Be Bullied? - Volume 1 Chapter 21

Chapter 21: How Was This Arranged?!

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Such plain and simple words.

Yet they left little Yueye completely silent.

If she thought about it carefully… in her previous life, she indeed had no memories from before being picked up by the orphanage.

According to the teachers at the orphanage, when 【Ling Qingyue】 was brought to the orphanage, he was about the age to start kindergarten, so he should have been able to remember some things.

But they said he was too young then, and seemed to have suffered some great psychological trauma. He would cower and tremble in his room all day, startling easily. The grandpas and grandmas at the orphanage put in a lot of effort to slowly help him come out and integrate into the orphanage family. Only then did he gradually become more normal.

But the things before that, about his own background, he never remembered again, and didn’t know what had happened.

If according to Xia Mujin’s words… if her true identity was that of her long-lost biological brother…

Looking back on the path she had walked… wasn’t it too cruel?

The light gradually faded from Lin Yueye’s eyes, as chaotic thoughts swirled in her already confused mind.

“Classmate Yueye…?” Xia Mujin leaned forward and raised her gaze slightly, observing Lin Yueye’s strange reaction from bottom to top.

Oh…?

What’s wrong with Classmate Yueye?

It’s my family that lost someone.

But why does Classmate Yueye look so sad?

The reason behind this.

Probably only Lin Yueye herself would know.

How could she not be sad…

Think about it, in 【Ling Qingyue】 world, he was purely an unfortunate soul.

In his previous life, he was lonely and helpless, working part-time while studying, with grand ambitions but struggling to move forward.

Back then, he always thought that if he ever made it big, he wouldn’t have to be cooped up in a rented room eating instant noodles, wouldn’t have to celebrate his birthday alone, and wouldn’t have to endure people’s attitudes for a daily wage of just a few dozen yuan.

He would have time to relax, to do what he wanted to do, to see the world he hadn’t experienced.

He didn’t really envy those lucky ones whose living expenses were tens of thousands of yuan.

What he truly envied was that they had the confidence to casually say “let’s go” when they were in a bad mood, and could actually pick up their backpacks and go wherever they wanted, over mountains and across waters. When they returned, they were still themselves.

Unlike 【Ling Qingyue】.

If he ever decided to “go on a distant journey” one day, it would probably be a desperate farewell to himself, a one-way trip with no chance of returning home. He didn’t have that luxury.

That’s why he wanted to save money.

To see what the “distant places” the orphanage teachers talked about really looked like.

Indeed, he failed in the end.

At the end of his life, he comically ended his journey, which hadn’t gone very far, by food poisoning.

And now you’re telling him that he was originally the young master of the Xia family?

He didn’t have to struggle and suffer so much, but because of those kidnappers, 【Ling Qingyue】 life trajectory was completely reversed?

With no connection to money, and even separated from his biological sister, who was a young lady, by just one school building.

She lived in glory, while he lived like a rat in the sewers.

Repeatedly brushing past her as she gave speeches on high platforms, maybe not even qualifying for a brush-past, just rushing to work part-time to earn money for dinner that night, drifting aimlessly for nearly 20 years.

One building, two worlds.

One window, the cloud-top separated from the abyss.

Only after death did the drifting cloud finally glance towards the abyss — but it was just a glance.

Fate can play jokes on me.

But you can’t pull pranks…! This isn’t funny at all…

“Classmate Yueye…? Classmate Yueye! Are you alright? Are you feeling unwell?”

“Ah… sorry.”

Lin Yueye came back to her senses at Xia Mujin’s call.

She pressed her fingers against her aching temples and shook her head lightly.

“I’m fine… Thank you for telling me these things, Classmate Xia. I just… think life is really fragile, isn’t it? Someone who was alive just a few days ago, and then food poisoning… they’re gone just like that.”

“Classmate Yueye is as sensitive as ever… Come to think of it, that’s true… life is so unpredictable. Mother, upon hearing this news, has been crying for a long time at home, keeping vigil over my brother’s spirit tablet. After all, the Xia family has been searching for him all these years, never stopping.”

“Is that so… I see… Then… can your brother be said to have died without regrets…?”

“Maybe.” Xia Mujin turned back with a bitter smile, clasping her hands behind her back, and chuckled as if mocking herself, “But with such a cold-blooded sister like me, I think if he has a spirit in heaven, he would definitely curse me.”

“Cold-blooded?”

“Yes.”

Lin Yueye had vaguely felt since yesterday that Xia Mujin’s mental state could hardly be described as “normal.”

She was a well-bred lady, a daughter of a wealthy family in the spotlight.

She didn’t know what had made her become this kind of personality.

But Lin Yueye could just feel that every time she smiled at her.

— There was a deep sense of contradiction in her expression, as if all this wasn’t the real her.

Sure enough, when Xia Mujin half turned her head back, Lin Yueye couldn’t read the murky emotions in her eyes at all.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me either… Is it just because I’ve never met him before? But in my heart, I’m not sad about it at all. Instead, I feel… a bit jealous that Classmate Yueye cares so much about his affairs…”

“?!”

What… what are you saying?!

My sister from my previous life is jealous of me in my previous life because of me in this life?

No, although I’m indeed devastatingly beautiful in this life, you’re not bad either. Besides that, what else do you see in me?!

“Just kidding~”

She added this sentence.

As she turned back, the bell on her phone hanging from her pocket jingled again.

At this moment, the class bell also rang.

“It’s time for class, Classmate Yueye. Shall I escort you back?”

“Eh?”

“If you go back by yourself, the teachers will give you trouble, right~ Hmm… Although the recent incident of Classmate Yueye jumping off the building has made all the teachers and students very wary, it doesn’t mean it will become an all-purpose shield, you know? As time passes… once they come to their senses, they might become even worse than before. Everyone’s like that, afraid of causing trouble, but it doesn’t mean they’ll continue to be so when the trouble is gone.”

Without giving room for argument, Xia Mujin stepped forward and grabbed Lin Yueye’s small hand.

The sudden action startled the silver-haired girl, making her whole body shudder as if electrocuted.

Tilting her head to look, she saw Xia Mujin’s eyes under her thin black bangs, glimmering with an unsteady light.

Before she could say anything, Xia Mujin exerted a slight force, with a hint of laughter, pulling Lin Yueye back towards the direction of the classroom.

“So you see, Classmate Yueye, how much ‘use value’ I have for you~”

“Use value…? Classmate Xia… I don’t think that’s a term you should use when making friends.”

“Pfft… Is Classmate Yueye lecturing me? That’s a first~ Come on, let’s get you back to the classroom first, and then I’ll have to go home to deal with what I just mentioned for a few days, okay? Before I come back… Classmate Yueye mustn’t let anyone bully you, alright?”

“That won’t happen… No, I won’t be bullied by Classmate Xia either, right?”

“Hehe.”

Lin Yueye looked down at the delicate hand holding her palm, which didn’t have much warmth to speak of, not knowing what to say.

She never imagined that her reunion with her 【sister】 would happen under such circumstances.

Perhaps that “lecture” just now was some lingering sense of responsibility towards this never-before-met sister, now that she knew her original identity, concerned about her current state — even though Lin Yueye knew she didn’t have that position now.

A new life, yet unable to sever ties with the past, as if the gears of fate were re-engaging and turning.

Lin Yueye originally didn’t know how to face her.

Now with this development, she understood even less.

Yuebing… maybe we should talk later.

I remember you initially said something about arranging a romantic destiny for me in this new life…

But…

How did you end up arranging for my sister to come?!