Chapter 11 Aches

　　Mingmei had been in some pain recently.

　　Her mental strength was obviously improving, and this “growing pain” made her listless during the day.

　　"What's wrong?"

　　Mu Chen brought Mingmei a delicious sweet porridge in the morning, only to see Mingmei sitting there with a serious expression as she looked at the breakfast she just got.

　　Mu Chen glanced at it. Mingmei's breakfast this morning wasn't much: a piece of fish the size of her palm and a glass of very sour and refreshing juice.

　　This was completely different from the warm, sweet, and soft breakfast she usually had.

　　"Headache."

　　Mingmei didn't hide it from Mu Chen. After she said that, Mu Chen had already reached out a hand and touched Mingmei's forehead, but he didn't feel any abnormal temperature.

　　"It may be that the recent training has suddenly increased my mental strength, making me feel a little uncomfortable." Mingmei took Mu Chen's hand, pulled him to sit next to her, and explained in a low voice.

　　"Is that mecha difficult to control?"

　　"Not really, it's just that the weapon my uncle asked others to design will naturally achieve the best effect with higher mental strength."

　　Luckily, it was simulated in a virtual space. The energy contained in that insect core almost allowed the mental energy inside to influence her the first time she wasn't careful. That situation almost scared her to death.

　　Fortunately, it was virtual, otherwise, she would cry if she accidentally did something after being influenced by the insect core.

　　"I'll be there with you, don't worry."

　　Mu Chen saw Mingmei's efforts in training. She should have had some time to enter the game these past few days, but Mingmei gave up her game time and trained with Jinyi in various ways.

　　"You don't know, without you in the game recently, Lu Xiaoyao can be said to be having a 'difficult life'."

　　Mu Chen deliberately brought up other topics to make Mingmei feel better. Speaking of Lu Xiaoyao's recent game’s ability to make people lose appetite, Mingmei really had to laugh.

　　She would still set aside some time every night to watch Lu Xiaoyao's recordings.

　　Among them, the scene where she and Julian met in the game and the pink bubbles that arose when they played together had already been guessed by many keen netizens.

　　Their little darling had finally come to her senses!

　　However, Lu Xiaoyao was just being stubborn and refused to admit it no matter what.

　　However, in one game, Lu Gui was also in the same game. Because each person received different identity cards, the locations they entered the game were also different.

　　Therefore, when Lu Gui appeared, Lu Xiaoyao and Julian were holding hands and cuddling in the game under the pretext that the roles they had received were couples.

　　Wow, what a scene!

　　The scene at the time was so chaotic that it was terrifying. It became a hot search on StarNet that night.

　　The topic of #What to do when your girlfriend hasn't told her parents about her relationship, but her parents find out?# was really lively that night.

　　Mingmei had a full day of classes during the day, practiced mecha at night, and had to squeeze out time to gossip, almost dying from overwork.

　　After Mu Chen said this, Mingmei naturally had countless desires to confide in him, and she smiled while eating breakfast and told Mu Chen about Lu Xiaoyao's recent events.

　　"So, you know about Lu Xiaoyao and Julian?"

　　"Of course, didn't I tell you last time? Julian confessed to Lu Xiaoyao. Lu Xiaoyao should still be struggling at the time, but judging from her performance in the game, they should be together."

　　"I thought you were so busy that you didn't know any of this."

　　"How could that be? No matter how busy I am, I can always squeeze out time to gossip online."

　　When she was in a good mood, Mingmei didn't seem to have too many scruples when speaking. After she finished speaking, she heard Mu Chen say faintly, "Yes, I was worried that you were too busy, and I was afraid of disturbing you when I wanted to video chat with you every night~"

　　Mingmei: "..."

　　She had been so focused on eating melons every night that she almost forgot about this.

　　"So, you all know?"

　　Just when Mingmei was feeling guilty and thinking about how to face Mu Chen, another resentful male voice came from behind.

　　Mingmei and Mu Chen turned around and saw Lu Gui, who had also come to eat breakfast, standing in front of Mingmei with a blank expression, holding a plate. He said again, "Is my sister and Julian real?"

　　Mingmei: "..."

　　Why was she so unlucky today?

　　One thing after another?

　　……

　　Soon, Mingmei noticed that Lu Gui and Lu Xiaoyao were angry.

　　It was the kind where Lu Gui unilaterally gave her the cold shoulder.

　　The thick-skinned Lu Xiaoyao didn't realize it until the afternoon.

　　"Is my brother under too much study pressure recently? Why does he snort when he sees me?" Lu Xiaoyao walked up to her brother for the nth time, only to be hurt when he avoided her gaze and snorted before leaving.

　　"Don't you know what you did in the game last night?"

　　When Mingmei said this, Lu Xiaoyao knew that Mingmei had also heard about what happened in the game last night.

　　"It's all a misunderstanding..."

　　"Is that so?"

　　"...Well, not really." Stared at by Mingmei's gaze, Lu Xiaoyao finally told the truth, but thinking that this was the reason, Lu Xiaoyao was also a little unhappy, "Look, my brother doesn't even know yet, and he's already so angry just because of a 'misunderstanding', what will he be like when he knows the truth?"

　　"Is there a possibility that your brother already knows?"

　　Lu Xiaoyao: ???

　　Not playing games, studying every day, Mingmei realized for the first time that a month had passed so quickly. The plan with her brother and the others was just around the corner. The day before the plan started, Cheshier began to distribute starship tickets to everyone.

　　Saying that because they were in a hurry, the starships the school used to carry students this time were all small, faster-than-light starships, so it was possible that everyone would not be on the same starship.

　　Hearing this explanation, Mingmei narrowed her eyes and knew that this was to separate the students who participated in the plan from those who did not participate.

　　Everyone didn't express too much doubt about this. According to the starship tickets distributed by Cheshier, they just chatted with each other a little more.

　　In their class, besides herself, Mu Chen and Lu Gui were on the same starship. The rest were on other starships.

　　Mingmei and Mu Chen exchanged glances, and then looked at Lu Xiaoyao, who had shamelessly approached her brother to see if she and her brother were on the same starship.

　　Obviously, Lu Xiaoyao didn't belong to the people in this plan.

　　"Hey? Brother, you and I are not on the same starship~"

　　"Isn't it good that we're not? It'll save you from thinking I'm annoying when I nag you."

　　Lu Gui had really been angry with Lu Xiaoyao for more than four days this time. Lu Xiaoyao coaxed him for a long time, but when she saw that her brother was still like this, she was also angry, but she didn't say anything.

　　After all, she was at fault in this matter.

　　She didn't tell Lu Gui, and Lu Gui misunderstood that Julian was taking advantage of her. She even stopped her brother from fighting with Julian, and the words she said in anger were also unpleasant.

　　Now, it was her turn to listen to her brother's sarcasm, and she couldn't say anything.

　　Mingmei saw it clearly from the side. Although Lu Gui's words were unpleasant, the anger and resentment between his eyebrows were long gone. He was probably saying these words now to stabilize Lu Xiaoyao and prevent her from making mistakes at a critical moment...