Reincarnated as a Poor Little Green Tea, Am I Destined to Be Bullied? - Volume 1 Chapter 61

Chapter 61: How Long Have You Been Waiting?

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Lin Yueye had never seen Xia Mujin in such a panicked state.

After standing up, she frantically waved her hands, both trying to cover herself and afraid that such impolite behavior would anger Lin Yueye. Her uneasy legs clearly wanted to run away, but her own will firmly kept them in place.

“Yu-Yu-Yu… Yueye?! Why did you suddenly come over? No… I… I don’t mean you can’t come, it’s just that I didn’t expect… I…”

“Calm down, Classmate Mujin, calm down.”

“Huff… sorry.”

Lin Yueye had actually tried to keep her footsteps and voice as gentle as possible to avoid startling her, but unexpectedly this had the opposite effect.

Hearing Lin Yueye’s fragile voice acted like a sedative, calming Xia Mujin’s flustered state.

—— But this only made her collapse onto the curved sofa behind her.

Lin Yueye glanced around with her peripheral vision. Fortunately, the coffee shop wasn’t quiet earlier, it was even a bit noisy, so Mujin’s unusual state hadn’t drawn any strange looks. But to prevent things from escalating again, little Yueye didn’t dare waste time and quickly pulled over a chair from the side, placing it across from Xia Mujin and sitting down.

Yes, pulled the chair.

The kind with a steel frame, she couldn’t lift it.

Damn it.

And so, two extraordinary young ladies met at the same coffee shop, yet sat in silence.

After what happened yesterday, neither knew what first words to say after opening their mouths. If they knew, Xia Mujin wouldn’t have needed to ask Luo Yahan to convey her invitation, nor would she have sat here for so long unable to figure out how to apologize when Yueye arrived.

But…

“Yue…!” “Let me say, Classmate Mu…”

The simultaneous silence was followed by simultaneous speech.

Their eyes finally met in the air through this chance, and Xia Mujin had thought Lin Yueye’s eyes would be full of anger and hatred, but unexpectedly… they were not much different from usual, gentle as water.

This made Xia Mujin feel even worse inside.

Yueye might not even be capable of anger and hatred… but what did I do that day…

A bitter smile crept onto her brow as Young Lady Xia picked up an unopened coffee from the sofa beside her and placed it in front of Lin Yueye.

“Yueye, would you like some coffee, I… I ordered one for you too.” Her voice was much softer than usual.

But on Lin Yueye’s side, she gently shook her head and said: “Sorry, I… don’t have much appetite now, I can’t drink it.”

“I… I thought so too… sorry…”

Lin Yueye didn’t immediately reply with “it’s okay” either.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to respond, but before coming, Teacher Luo had instructed her.

【Listen, I know you’re good-natured, and your personality is too kind. Maybe in your heart, after hearing that story, out of sympathy you’ve already forgiven her. But you can’t give in too quickly. If you easily say it’s okay, then Xia Mujin will only increasingly continue to pour her negative emotions onto you. By then, your situation might be beyond even my ability to protect. Read the situation, be someone with a little temper, even if it’s just acting, it will definitely benefit you.】

As expected of the teacher, lesson learned.

The more fragile Lin Yueye’s personality was, the more devastating it became when she displayed an expression of “dissatisfaction.”

Xia Mujin hurriedly continued taking things from the sofa beside her, rustling as she placed everything on the table. Lin Yueye deliberately turned her gaze toward the window, not wanting to look, but out of curiosity still glanced with her peripheral vision.

And then…

She saw what would have made Yuebing go wild with joy if she were here!

Xia Mujin’s trembling fingers fiddled with the items on the table, not daring to address the real issue, only saying these words she herself felt were pathetic.

“This is… strawberry daifuku, and pork floss bread, chocolate and such… Ah, Yueye doesn’t like coffee? I also bought orange juice… would you like to try this? There’s also cola… cola isn’t good for health, and… and what else… Right! They should have peach juice here, I… I’ll go buy some!”

“Eh, don’t go buy any more.”

——Thump.

Hearing this, Xia Mujin’s heart sank, and her little face turned pale.

Does Yueye mean… she doesn’t want to give me any chance at all…?

Lin Yueye would never use such abstract and mysterious ways to express her thoughts! That’s something only you rich people like to play with.

She had just seen the price tags attached to all the drinks and snacks on the table, and her poor heart was crying.

A cup of coffee was over 30 yuan, a piece of pork floss bread over 40, the chocolate also several tens, these things would only cost a few yuan at an outside supermarket, right?! This unremarkable table of snacks added up to probably enough for Lin Yueye’s monthly food expenses!

Seeing rich people waste money makes poor people happy, after all, it has nothing to do with themselves.

But since Lin Yueye knew in her heart that Xia Mujin was her sister in her past life, watching her spend money like this always felt like her own family was taking a big loss.

She took the orange juice from the table, brushed aside the silver hair falling in front of her, inserted the straw and brought it gently to her lips for a sip.

“This is enough… don’t buy more, we can’t eat too much anyway, tsk… so cold.”

Lin Yueye discovered that her current body’s tolerance for cold had decreased quite a bit! In the past, wouldn’t she have finished this level of iced drink in just a few gulps? But now she really couldn’t drink quickly, no wonder some girls drink beverages so slowly.

She just took a simple sip.

But this action seen in Xia Mujin’s eyes… was extremely delightful!

She hadn’t smiled since last weekend, being nervous and afraid. Seeing Yueye drink the beverage she bought, she finally pressed her palms to her chest, and with a slightly relaxed smile, let out a long sigh.

“Phew… thank goodness… Yueye is still willing to listen to me… I was really worried, if you had just run away like that… what would I do…”

Hey hey, you’re speaking your inner thoughts out loud? Am I your pet cat, just running away like that.

Besides, if I wasn’t willing to listen to you, I definitely wouldn’t have come at all.

The usually clever Young Lady Xia becomes this silly when her thoughts are in chaos.

Lin Yueye held the iced orange juice in her hands, not meeting Xia Mujin’s eyes, but instead staring at the ice cubes floating in the cup, casually asking this question.

“Classmate Mujin… did you just arrive too?”

“Mm mm! Yes! If possible I wanted to come earlier to wait for Yueye… but this store only opens at 7:30! So… I’ve only been waiting a little while.”

Oh oh, opens at 7:30, meaning you came then, right.

Hm? Wait.

7:30…?

Lin Yueye thought back to when she arrived at the coffee shop door, it was already 10:10.

Now it must be about 10:30.

You’ve been sitting here waiting like an idiot for 3 hours already?!