How else could she explain Croissant asking for a photo at a critical time like this?
Regarding her impression of Croissant, Jiang Ran wasn’t entirely sure.
She only knew the girl had supposedly come from the same village as her.
According to the hints provided by the APP, Croissant was her future right-hand man, responsible for helping her spread rumors about the heroine, Su Wanqing.
Jiang Ran was stunned by this revelation.
Were fodder characters always this brave?
She had a feeling that with someone like this as a teammate, she wouldn’t survive past the first episode.
At the very least, she had no desire to provoke the heroine right now.
It was better to act as a mascot—stay smiling and show her harmless, innocent side.
She’d leave the fighting to the heroine.
If possible, she might even try to smooth things over between everyone.
‘Wouldn’t it be better to just be a carefree fool?’
The message she sent remained silent for a while before a response finally came.
“How could I ever hurt you? I just want you to stay away from that damn woman. Dammit, have even you been pulled in by Su Wanqing’s Su’s Gravity? Jiang Ran, you’re actually taking an outsider’s side now. You’ve become such a stranger to me!”
Jiang Ran felt a surge of irritation.
Please, she had been lying in the hospital this entire time, okay?
Who was the one truly lacking humanity here, dragging a sickly person who was halfway into the grave into doing bad deeds?
“I’m physically ill, not stupid. Everything was fine, so why on earth would I go out of my way to provoke her?”
“Say no more. I understand. I understand everything.”
“What exactly do you understand?”
“Hmph. You just haven’t seen Su Wanqing’s true colors yet. Don’t worry, you’ll be free soon, because I’ve already posted the thread accusing her for you!”
Son of a…!
Jiang Ran wanted to resurrect all of Croissant’s ancestors just to give them a piece of her mind one by one.
But halfway through her internal rant, she remembered their families had some history, so she’d likely end up cursing herself.
She gave up on that idea.
Clenching her fists, she shifted her focus and typed back, “Delete that post right now.”
“Why should I? I just posted on the Campus Forum accusing her of stealing my best friend. She can’t possibly control that, can she? Besides, I’m telling the truth. Why should I delete it?”
“So, does that mean I should be thanking you?”
“Oh, stop it. You’re making me blush. How about you lend me some money to spend instead?”
Jiang Ran took a sharp breath.
How could someone be so shameless?
She desperately wanted to give her the full treatment: delete and block.
However, since she didn’t know the trajectory of the original plot, she was terrified that if she blocked her, Croissant would cause an even bigger disaster.
Moreover, she had looked through Croissant’s status history.
It was mostly filled with complaints about the world and her own bad luck, with zero self-reflection.
Blocking someone like that wouldn’t teach them a lesson; it would only result in Jiang Ran getting burned.
A person like this probably did what she did out of pure stupidity.
She just hoped the heroine wouldn’t bother browsing the forums.
Jiang Ran clicked into the Campus Forum and found that the post had already been up for thirty minutes.
Croissant had completely acted without permission.
After thirty minutes of simmering, the post had already garnered quite a few comments.
When she saw the photo at the top—a picture of her and Su Wanqing in the cafeteria—she nearly fainted from rage.
‘If you want to seek death, could you please not drag me into it?!’
‘Croissant, killing you a thousand times wouldn’t be enough!’
Her finger slid across the screen, and her heart skipped a beat when she saw a certain name.
Su Wanqing:
“I did not steal your friend.”
A mountain of comments followed.
“Hahaha, you guys actually managed to summon the person herself.”
“A direct confrontation! Is the original poster blushing yet?”
Jiang Ran continued to scroll down, finding comments with a completely different tone.
“The girl with Su Wanqing is so pretty. I’m a girl, too—does anyone have her contact info? If this gets fifty likes, I’ll go and steal the poster’s friend for myself!”
She glanced at the number of likes.
It had already soared past 100.
The replies below were even more bizarre.
“Count me in.”
“Haha.”
“That would be impressive.”
“Good idea.”
Jiang Ran turned red—literally red.
What on earth was going on in the comments of this post?
‘Am I the Yellow Hair, or are you guys the Yellow Hair?’
How could these girls try to steal someone in broad daylight?
And they were trying to steal a Yellow Hair?
Did she have no dignity left?
Jiang Ran switched back to the chat window and sent the screenshot to Croissant.
“Look at what you’ve done. Even I’m being targeted by rumors now. Croissant, I’m not lending you any more money.”
The person on the other side of the chat clearly panicked, sending several apology emojis in a row.
“I… I just didn’t want that woman, Su Wanqing, to stay proud for too long. And you saw it, a lot of people are praising your charm! Why won’t you join forces with me and overthrow Su Wanqing’s rule?”
“…”
Jiang Ran was speechless.
As expected, you couldn’t wake someone who was pretending to be asleep.
She searched her message list and sent a text to the contact labeled “Su Wanqing.”
“I’m sorry. I… I really didn’t know about the forum thing.”
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Jiang Ran gripped her phone, terrified that Su Wanqing would expand her domain.
After all, Su’s Gravity was quite terrifying.
About 2 minutes later, a red dot popped up on her phone.
Jiang Ran opened it immediately.
Su Wanqing simply replied with a short sentence.
“There’s no need to apologize for something you didn’t do. We meet at the old place tomorrow. Please make sure not to be late.”
“The old place?”
“What, did you forget? You promised to listen to my speech. As the only member of our Service Club, I hope you won’t be absent. The meeting place is Building Two Room 404.”
So that was the “old place.”
Jiang Ran vaguely recalled something.
In the past, she had indeed applied for a club with almost no members because she didn’t want to see people, and she just happened to get accepted.
Her primary role at every meeting was to take photos of the President.
At first, Jiang Ran had refused, but when she was told it gave credits, she became a mobile camera.
‘Sigh… I really hope I can just continue being a camera.’
That way, she wouldn’t have to struggle to survive in a yandere world.
After all, being the protagonist in a Yandere Game wasn’t a story; it was an accident waiting to happen.
Besides, this might be an opportunity to maintain a good relationship with the heroine.
She’d be a good Yellow Hair camera, and if she encountered any trouble, she’d just go right to sleep.
‘Plan complete. Perfect.’
She had never had such a wonderful start.
At least the heroine seemed like a normal person who could be reasoned with.
That was much better than the female leads in other works who were tight-lipped, never spoke, and would expand their domains immediately.
However, she was puzzled by how someone as popular as Su Wanqing only had two people in her club.
“President, aren’t you considering recruiting new members? With just the two of us, I can’t carry heavy things. It’s even a struggle for me to hold the camera for you.”
“No,” Su Wanqing refused flatly.
“Eh? President, you don’t want new people?”
“Yes. It’s difficult to manage when there are too many people. And you saw the news today—once everyone is let in, the school has no way to handle it if a crisis occurs.”
‘That’s true.’
Jiang Ran nodded.
Since the heroine didn’t want to exert herself, then she should definitely slack off even more.
“I see. You’re amazing, President.”
“Is that so? Then, what do you think about that post today? How do you think it should be handled? After all, she spread such rumors about you.”
Jiang Ran blinked.
The first thing Su Wanqing thought about was her.
There was actually such an upright heroine in this game.
But remembering the word “yandere” in the game’s title, Jiang Ran felt that being on Su Wanqing’s mind wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
“I don’t really feel anything about it. You don’t need to worry about me. I’m just here for the credits. As long as the President doesn’t make me do physical labor, anything is fine.”
“I see. Then let’s meet at the old place. Bring water and dry rations. We might be there for a while this time.”
“No problem.”
“Good. I have some things to do. Get some rest.”
Su Wanqing’s icon went gray.
On the other side, inside a high-end villa, Su Wanqing let out a sigh of relief.
She stood up from her vanity.
Just as she reached the living room, a click sounded from the door.
When she saw that the person returning was her mother, Su Nian, Su Wanqing’s delicate face instantly darkened.
“What are you doing here? Did you come to laugh at your own daughter? Then you’re going to be disappointed. I’m doing just fine without listening to you.”
“Oh, really?”
Su Nian brushed her hair back with interest.
“You’ve been waiting here just to prove a point I don’t care about? Daughter, you really disappoint me.”
Su Wanqing crossed her arms, the sharpness in her eyes not fading at all despite the woman’s mockery.
“You… a person like you will never understand. In your eyes, everything I do is boring and low-level. What else can you do besides belittle me?”
Su Nian licked her lips playfully and chuckled.
“I can do a lot of things. For example, how about I find you a sister?”