A Strange Transmigration Novel - Chapter 10
Chapter 10
Shi Xu moved in next door.
After the product launch, he seemed to suddenly have way too much free time.
Every morning when I went out to shoot video footage, I’d see him in Zen-style robes on the other side of the fence, holding a watering can and slowly watering the flowers.
I suspected he was putting on a show.
Because when the morning light slanted down, from that angle, with that pose-he looked absurdly good.
Like some banished immortal hiding away in the mountains.
After he’d watered that patch of flowers until they were half-dead, I walked over.
Then I leaned against the fence and, cool as you please, quickly wrote out a check for twenty thousand.
Only twenty thousand, because I’m stingy.
I gave him a wicked smile. “So… wanna be my canary?”
Shi Xu stared at the check, completely blank. “…”
The boomerang from years ago finally came back and nailed him.
He nodded.
Now I had a “canary” too.
Talk about turning the world upside down.
The System was a forever-single type and didn’t know what to do with the relationship arc afterward.
Every day it just replayed that trashy script, then suddenly announced, “He should be misunderstanding you now.
“You two should fight again.”
I didn’t listen.
Shi Xu was handsome, and he even peeled sugar tangerines for me.
Now and then he’d say something melodramatic like he’d been struck with a sudden illness: “The night you left, I was falling to pieces.”
I kept chewing. “That night? Weren’t you off picking up your White Moonlight?”
Though, judging by how completely busted the plot was right now, the White Moonlight didn’t exist at all.
This sugar tangerine was a little sour.
Even my teeth felt sour.
Shi Xu rubbed his forehead. “That night I was picking up my cousin.”
The moment I heard the word “cousin,” my brain basically shrank.
I hadn’t had the mouth to ask.
And the System hadn’t had the mouth to tell me.
So I punished myself with a cup of milk tea.
After Shi Xu got caught red-handed, I finally dared to show my face in my videos.
Before, I hardly ever even showed a strand of hair, terrified Shi Xu would notice that even my split ends looked like the kind of split ends a runaway stand-in would have.
Even though he didn’t really surf the internet.
The first time I showed my face, my followers were stunned.
[Am I still half-asleep? The famous Headless Streamer actually showed her face.]
[I believe it. She really does look like the kind of girl a domineering CEO would chase.]
The comment section was wall-to-wall dirty jokes: [Why do tall people cross a river by wading, but short people cross by swimming? Because in Chinese, the word for “short” sounds like “I”-so… “I love you.”]
Someone also spotted the key detail: [Wait, sis, why does your background look exactly like Shi Xu’s?]
Shi Xu had posted a mountain photo yesterday too.
Caption: [Giving myself a little vacation ^_^]
His perfectly proper caption felt like he had a ten-year internet generation gap.
My newest video got absolutely swarmed.
[So the stand-in thing wasn’t scripted? You didn’t prank me, but somehow this still feels like a prank.]
[So I really am that NPC netizen in a novel-one of the ones watching the drama and losing it.]
Shi Xu was a marketing demon.
He used the opportunity to give his new product another surge of hype.
