Chapter 29 Rare Guest!

"Yo, a rare guest!"

On the fourth evening after opening her shop in this game world, Mingmei saw Zhen Hu and Julian standing wearily at her doorstep.

Bai Xiao, who had been about to pick up Yuan Fang, was also taken aback when she saw them. Mingmei even greeted them with that "rare guest" line.

"Overtime every day. It's a miracle I got off on time today."

Zhen Hu sighed and said, "I'm really worried I'll die from overwork before I even find anything out and be eliminated from the game."

Julian, standing next to him, was the same. He entered the store and immediately slumped into a booth, saying, "You guys don't understand where I've been working overtime these past few days… The random NPCs have no human rights! It's all gray and bleak, nothing there. Just a countdown timer above your head with a line that says 'Overtime.' That three-day countdown almost drove me crazy!"

"Of course. You don't have any connection with the boss. Naturally, your overtime work wouldn't have any content," Mingmei said.

Mingmei turned around and poured two glasses of water. Mu Chen took them and gave them to the two newcomers. The already small shop felt even more cramped with six people inside.

"Let's all sit down. It's rare to have so many people here. Let's share information."

Mingmei saw that Bai Xiao and Yuan Fang seemed about to get up to leave, so she stopped them. "These past few days, we've all been busy in different places. We should have made different discoveries, right?"

After she finished speaking, everyone began to talk about what they had seen and heard these past few days.

Yuan Fang didn't know much. Aside from occasionally serving some staff or teachers from the school at the shop and hearing some school-related news, nothing major had happened recently.

Bai Xiao, who was at the school, had more to say. Although some of it Mingmei and the others had already heard, this time she was mainly telling it to the two overtime slaves.

The content ranged from teachers gossiping in the men's restroom and being fined by the principal to female students fighting over a love triangle in the women's restroom and being caught red-handed by teachers who had laid a trap in advance.

While successfully mediating the fight between the two female students, the teachers also ferreted out the hidden third party, the male student who had caused the conflict.

And that someone was none other than Qi Hai Kui.

As soon as the seemingly unrelated gossip to the game's main storyline was brought up, everyone's attention immediately focused. They all looked at Bai Xiao with curiosity, listening with great interest.

Qi Hai Kui was also wronged. What could he say about the paper people fighting over him in the game?

He was also a victim himself. Supposedly, before he transmigrated into this world, this NPC had said to the two love-struck girls, "I'll date whoever is stronger."

He had gotten the script of a gender-bent version of a campus novel’s heroine.

Qi Hai Kui was completely dumbfounded when they came looking for him.

"And then what happened?"

It wasn't just Qi Hai Kui who was dumbfounded, but also those listening, all eager to know what happened next.

"Later… that guy played by Qi Hai Kui, named 'Danny,' and Li Yuan are uncle and nephew. As you know, the character played by Li Yuan is the school director.

Naturally, the matter was suppressed, and one of the girls seemed to have been expelled."

As Bai Xiao spoke, she sighed, lamenting how money could solve anything. Mu Chen frowned slightly, remembering what Li Yuan had said earlier.

"Huh? Expelled for just that?" Mingmei found it a little unbelievable and looked at Bai Xiao suspiciously. "Are you sure what you heard is accurate?"

"Of course. This matter wasn't allowed to be spread on the school's online forum. Some students talked about it when they went to the bathroom, and I heard it clearly in the stall."

"It was just a love triangle, and the teachers stopped them before the fight even started. Logically, to suppress the matter and keep the peace, a simple scolding should have been enough. How could it lead to expulsion?"

Zhen Hu and Julian also didn't understand this series of actions.

"I think what you heard wasn't the whole story. There might be a lot of news that hasn't been spread…" Everyone agreed that there was something more to this.

"I'll ask Li Yuan when I deliver milk tomorrow."

Mu Chen said this, and Julian sighed, "It seems like Li Yuan has the most powerful role among us!"

Originally, everyone wanted to move on from the topic with what Mu Chen had said, but now they suddenly remembered Li Yuan and Hu Yue's passionate kiss on the street the other day.

Instantly, everyone's gaze focused on Julian's head.

It was as if there were brilliant rays of light there!

Well, it wasn't that Julian had been cuckolded, but that his character was very… green.

At this, Julian only felt that everyone's gaze seemed to fall on him, and he thought everyone wanted to ask him if he knew anything!

This made him feel guilty.

He had been in a state of being confined to a small dark room, and he hadn't been exposed to any information.

Zhen Po was similar to him. He returned home one day out of the four, ate, slept, and then went to work. His routine was so simple that it could be seen at a glance.

The only difference was…

"My character's wife—told me to go to school next week for parent-teacher conferences."

"Really?" Julian was surprised to hear Zhen Po's words. He obviously didn't know about this. The last time he was called to see a teacher, Hu Yue handled it.

"Yes, the child's mother said Mona specifically asked me to attend."

Regarding the fact that Zhen Hu had become the boss's father, the players present basically knew about it now, and they looked at him with great sympathy.

Listen to that!

Zhen Hu was probably being targeted by the boss!

"Don't let it slip, when the time comes," Mu Chen said earnestly, patting Zhen Hu on the shoulder and staring at him. "If they find out you're not the original…"

Mu Chen didn't dare imagine how Zhen Hu would die then.

During this time, Mingmei had already judged from Lu Xiaoyao's perspective that Mona was interested in the character of Lu Xiaoyao, and from the other party's sometimes meaningful words, Mu Chen felt that Mona might also have another person of interest.

Although she rarely mentioned it, there had always been hints that Mona might have some special feelings for her stepfather. Otherwise, she wouldn't have kept asking Lu Xiaoyao about her father's opinions.

Her hidden hostility toward her mother was also like this.

He didn't know if this distorted emotion was Mona's own delusion, or if the original character played by Zhen Po had done something…

Thinking of this, Mu Chen felt a headache coming on. He seemed to vaguely guess what Mona was going to do.

However, he felt that Zhen Hu was going to suffer this time.

Just like Mu Chen said, Zhen Hu suddenly felt his teeth ache.

He was really unlucky!

"Brother, how about we go together?"

Zhen Hu thought for a long time and really didn't want to face Mona alone, so he suddenly encouraged Julian to attend as well.

"Sure."

Julian also agreed. He hadn't seen Lu Xiaoyao in a long time, and Julian felt that he should find a chance to see Lu Xiaoyao.