Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I’m a creep.

I don’t call myself a yandere, partly to avoid sounding like I’m bragging.

The other reason is that I’m poor.

Yes.

In terms of looks, my features are decent enough.

In terms of intelligence, I’m near the top of my school.

Only my finances are a weak point.

The yanderes in novels are always glamorous when it comes to money. They casually install dozens of surveillance cameras around the person they love.

Then admire their own masterpiece in front of a wall of monitors with three-hundred-and-sixty-degree coverage and not a single blind spot.

As for me, I have to work part-time for three months just to afford one cheap camera.

Heh.

Damn rich people.

Except Xie Yu.

The person I love.

Xie Yu’s family is very rich.

So rich it breaks through the limits of my impoverished imagination.

It was hard to imagine food from the other side of the earth could travel such a long distance and still arrive on the table fresh and delicious.

Meanwhile, when I snuck a few leftover skewers from the kitchen after my part-time shift…

They went sour before I even got home.

Heh heh.

Just as I reached for that plate of giant crab yet again…

Yu Xue finally let out a cold laugh.

“I really don’t know why Xie Yu invited the whole class to his birthday party.”

“What a bargain for certain rats from the sewer.”

“Then again…”

“They probably won’t get to eat anything this good again in their entire lives, so of course they have to stuff themselves tonight.”

She might as well have pointed at my face.

After all, aside from me, the one scholarship student, everyone else in class came from a rich family.

Luckily, I really was shameless.

So I nodded and said honestly, “True.”

“I’m really very grateful to Xie Yu.”

“You!”

Yu Xue choked on her anger.

Yu Xue doesn’t like me.

First, because according to her, I reek of poverty.

Second, because she hates that I get to sit next to Xie Yu.

Thank you.

I don’t just want to sit next to Xie Yu.

I also want to do him.

I’m getting off topic.

I ate my way through dozens of plates by myself.

Then I used the excuse of going to the bathroom and headed up to the second floor.

The young man leading the way wore a waiter’s uniform and respectfully told me to follow him.

But I was already clutching my stomach and charging upstairs.

The lavish corridor seemed endless, both sides hung with oil paintings that looked extremely expensive.

The carpet beneath my feet swallowed most of the sound.

I ran and ran, only to realize I was lost.

I couldn’t find Xie Yu’s room at all.

The surveillance camera was still in my pocket.

I touched it and steadied myself.

Then I sniffed hard, attempting to complete a biological mutation and super-evolution within three seconds-

Trying to grow a dog’s nose.

I really did catch a faint scent of orange blossoms.

I immediately followed the smell and ran toward it.

Around the corner.

Bang.

I knocked someone over.

It was Xie Yu.

My hands were braced on either side of his neck.

That was close. I almost fell straight into a sea of orange blossoms.

The boy’s pale pupils contracted slightly, like a cat’s.

His chin, which I’d hit, looked as if someone had brushed it with a thin layer of rouge, flushing a faint pink.

After a long moment…

He smiled. “It’s you.”

The boy’s eyes curved gently.

His light-colored lips parted and closed.

His breath was right there, within reach.

I wanted to kiss him so badly.

I stared at him blankly.

He said,

“Zhou Xiaocui.”