Chapter 8
A pure white envelope fluttered down with an agonized scream.
Shi Liaoliao tossed the stick aside with a touch of distaste, stood, and picked up the envelope.
Sure enough, it was her admission letter.
Liu Ren crouched miserably on the ground, clutching his backside, his expression twisted with pain.
He’d have to suffer this indignity in silence.
Even if someone asked what had happened, Liu Ren wouldn’t be able to say.
What could he tell them?
That Shi Liaoliao, that sissy little male fox spirit, had poked him in the ass?!
Shi Liaoliao, the ass-poker, put away her admission letter. Her gaze was indifferent, her voice so calm that it was almost as though she hadn’t just done something outrageous.
“Shall I have someone take you to proctology?”
Liu Ren nearly ground his back teeth to pieces. “Fuck off!!!”
Shi Liaoliao immediately turned and left.
Wanwan hopped out, covering its own little bottom with both paws, and observed meaningfully, [You’ve thoroughly ravaged both grandfather and grandson…]
Meanwhile, Lu Yanzhou, who’d been on his way out only to stumble across a crime scene, stood where he was. Watching Liu Ren howl curses in pain, he showed no inclination to help.
Hearing his sudden silence, the male voice in his ear called out several times. “Hello? Lu Yanzhou, are you listening?”
“I think I just heard a really awful scream. Are you watching a movie?”
“Damn it. My younger cousin’s watching a movie, too. His friend ordered him fried chicken, and the brat’s been making me drool over it all day.”
Lu Yanzhou came back to himself, reining in his smile a little. He answered the person on the other end in a casual tone. “Really? I can’t have a friend of mine going without fried chicken. I’ll send you some money.”
The other person was first stunned, then thrilled.
Oh my God! Had Lu Yanzhou been possessed?
Just as he was thinking this, the transfer arrived.
[You have received a transfer of $1.00.]
Lu Yanzhou: “Buy a disposable glove and eat your cousin’s.”
Someone: “………”
“Lu. Yan. Zhou!!!”
Ignoring the outrage on the other end, Lu Yanzhou said, “Hanging up.”
The other person hurried to stop him. “Wait, wait, wait! I haven’t finished.”
“What are you actually thinking? You’re the only A-rank student without a follower. Do you know how many of this year’s new students are coming for you?”
It had begun with lower-ranked students willingly becoming higher-ranked students’ ‘servants’ to protect themselves from bullying.
Shengdon Academy didn’t allow students to bring in butlers, nannies, valets, or other nonstudents to live with them. The pampered young masters couldn’t bear life without help, so they’d gone along with it and taken people on.
Originally, both sides had benefited. But as the practice continued, it spiraled out of control, and the atmosphere grew increasingly ugly.
Followers had once simply handled everyday chores. Now the nature of the arrangement had changed completely.
A few students, not wanting the trouble, took on a token couple. Only Lu Yanzhou went his own way. The door of his private dormitory never opened to anyone.
At this, Lu Yanzhou looked toward the place where Shi Liaoliao had disappeared.
“I already have one.”
The person on the other end: ???
Before he could ask what was going on, Lu Yanzhou hung up.
If the valet hadn’t been sent by his father, perhaps he and Shi Liaoliao could have been friends.
Some of the aversion brought on by yesterday’s call faded. A faint regret stirred in Lu Yanzhou’s heart, then vanished almost at once.
…
Completely unaware that Lu Yanzhou had witnessed all her out-of-character behavior, Shi Liaoliao was packing.
Though she was entering Shengdon Academy as an honors student on a scholarship, she hadn’t forgotten that she was still Lu Yanzhou’s personal valet.
Shengdon Academy was a boys’ school. With such a high risk of exposing her sex, Shi Liaoliao had no choice but to pack extra supplies.
Looking at the box of sanitary pads hidden beneath her bed, she sighed.
Wanwan sighed with her. [Host, you really don’t have it easy.]
Shi Liaoliao waved a hand. “It’s fine.”
“That’s life. If you’re happy, keep living. If you’re not, well, I’ve got working arms and legs. I can die by myself.”
Wanwan: [………]
…
Lu Yanzhou kept an early schedule. He rose at five, went for a morning run, then showered and ate.
With everything ready, he was about to get into the car when he saw Shi Liaoliao counting her luggage.
She was wearing Shengdon Academy’s uniform. The dark green suit fitted her neatly, nipped in at a very narrow waist.
The first time he’d met her, Lu Yanzhou had noticed that tiny waist. Too slender to look like a man’s.
Only after loading Lu Yanzhou’s last suitcase did Shi Liaoliao notice his gaze.
She looked back calmly. “Good morning, young master.”
Her tone was neither fawning nor excessively distant, the balance judged perfectly. Paired with that beautiful, expressionless face, it made it clear to anyone watching that the Lu family’s sole heir now had a competent little valet.
[What are you looking at?]
[I’ve got a handspan waist. Have you got an arm-length dick?]
Lu Yanzhou: “………”
Sometimes a man faced a situation like this and felt utterly helpless.
“Let’s go.”
He looked away and bent gracefully to enter the car, as though he’d fully expected Shi Liaoliao to turn up here in his academy’s uniform.
Shi Liaoliao climbed in right behind him.
The driver closed the trunk and watched Shi Liaoliao get into the car as though she’d done it a hundred times: “………”
Who told you to get in there, too? Can’t you see that great big front passenger seat?
Lu Yanzhou also seemed not to have expected Shi Liaoliao to sit with him.
The little valet sat quietly to one side, eyes lowered properly instead of wandering. She was almost easy to overlook.
[Wow, a starlight ceiling. When do I get my turn at this staggering wealth?]
[Forget it. I’ll never be rich in this life.]
[When I’ve got money, I blow it. When I don’t, I pray to Buddha. A few coins’ worth of incense and wishes worth tens of millions. If I can’t make life difficult for myself, I’ll make it difficult for Buddha.]
Lu Yanzhou: “………”
Enough. I feel sorry for the poor Buddha.
“Once you’re at school and the new-student orientation is over, come find me at Number Thirteen in A Zone.”
Hearing Lu Yanzhou’s instructions, Shi Liaoliao nodded. “Yes, young master.”
[What did he just say?? Number Fourteen in which zone???]
Wanwan: […How did you ever become a valet?]
It repeated what the male lead had said. At last, Shi Liaoliao remembered.
The Lu family’s car dropped Shi Liaoliao at the gate, then continued farther inside with Lu Yanzhou.
Pushing her two suitcases, Shi Liaoliao headed for the conspicuously marked new-student reception.
Several boys were already waiting there.
As Shi Liaoliao approached, everyone’s gaze was involuntarily drawn to her. Wearing her usual blank face, she calmly walked up to the older student handling reception.
“My name is Shi Liaoliao. I’m a new student.”
Looking at the boy before him, prettier than a girl, the older student froze for a moment before lowering his head to check the list.
“You’re this year’s special-admission student.”
The moment he said “special-admission student,” the curious gazes on Shi Liaoliao changed.
Even the older student’s look took on a certain significance.
A special-admission student with a face like that, entering the rigid hierarchy of Shengdon Academy… If those few high-ranking students with particular tastes saw him, this boy was probably destined to be divided up among them…