The world that only ghosts know

  Chen Xiaolong really looks very delicate, except for the time she sent me to the infirmary, I rarely talked to her, but according to my previous observation... ah, peeking at her, she is a relatively quiet girl, and her personality is quite cold, currently there are very few boys who dare to take the initiative to contact her.

  "Xiao Chen, what brings you here?" I thought, usually it's the other boys who take the initiative to look for her, this time she actually took the initiative to find me?

  Is it because there's something excellent about his personality that attracted her? Ahh, how annoying!

  "Hmm... nothing much," Chen said, seeming a bit shy, "I just wanted to ask you about a few math problems, okay?"

  "Okay, fine." I agreed without hesitation, and then she asked me to swap seats with my deskmate Fan Jianqiang. Fan Jianqiang had a "you're-a-lucky-brother" look on his face and readily agreed.

  Chen Xiao sat beside me, and I felt the faint scent emanating from her body. My mind suddenly went blank, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't imagine that happiness would come so suddenly.

  She handed over the exercise book to me, telling me which questions I couldn't do. Fortunately, she asked about the ones I had just studied a few days ago, and they were only of medium difficulty. So I performed well in front of her, while she simply nodded and fell into thought: "Let me digest it properly."

  "Oh, okay, just remember that method." I reminded her, pretending to shift my gaze back to the textbook, but in fact, my peripheral vision was still paying attention to her. She seemed to be staring blankly at her exercise book, her mind not on studying at all.

  I wanted to interrupt her and ask what was going on, but I thought better of it. What if she's really studying hard? Would disturbing her make her angry?

  Then she asked me a few more questions, and I carefully answered them for her. She kept thanking me profusely, so I had to scratch my head in embarrassment and tell her it was no big deal. I thought to myself, what's there to thank me for? It's not like you're giving me a gift or something, like kissing me on the cheek?

  I noticed that her gaze became dull again, I'm sure she must have something on her mind. Could it be that she's thinking of confessing to me? This isn't good, how could brother be such a casual person?

  "Sorry," Chen Xiao suddenly said, I was perplexed. "What are you comparing to? Hehe, what's wrong with you, why say that?"

  "My brother, he's just like that, I couldn't stop him, compared to..." Chen Xiao said, then buried her face in the table, her body slightly trembling as if she was crying. I was already stunned, and boldly patted her shoulder, "It's okay, it's okay, I thought it was something big, don't mind."

  She lay down and shook her head, never willing to lift her head to look at me. I don't know why, but at that moment my heart ached, or maybe it's just that I couldn't bear to see a girl cry?

  My consolation seemed to have no effect, and after a while, she covered her face with her exercise book and returned to her seat. Fan Jianqiang sat back down, speechless, saying: "What the hell are you doing? Chen Xiao initiated a conversation with you, and you still made her cry. You deserve not having a girlfriend."

  "It wasn't me who made her cry, she just cried for some reason." I felt uncomfortable in my heart and thought that there must be something else she didn't tell me.

  After waiting quietly for a while, I finally realized some things: Chen Xiao's purpose in finding me earlier was not to ask me questions at all. Everyone knows that her academic performance is outstanding, and those few questions would be easy even for someone like me who is mediocre, so how could she not do them?

  Hehe, I was delighted for a while, thinking she really had taken a liking to me. It turned out it was just to get me to forgive her brother Chen Fei.

  I'm just a toad who wants to eat swan meat, Chen Xiao is so dazzling in front of me, and I may be just an ordinary stone that can't be more ordinary in her eyes, she's a gem, she's jade, I'm not worthy of her at all.

  But I am not reconciled to it.

  I really like her.

  But somehow, I have a kind of inferiority complex deep down inside me, that negative emotion makes it impossible for me to force myself to take the initiative to get close to her.

  The more I think about it, the worse my mood gets. Before I knew it, the bell rang, signaling the end of class. I thought to myself, "Hurry up and go home, have a happy chat with Xiao Qian, and relax my mood."

  5:30, I returned home.

  "How's that, have you considered it?" Xiang said to me in a very seductive tone. At the time, I wasn't feeling too good, so I sighed and said: "Let's not consider this for now, let's talk about something else. Oh right, don't you think it's inconvenient to use a phone just to communicate with you?"

  "Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle, but it won't be too much trouble, right?" Xiaoyan seemed to think it was no big deal.

  "What a hassle, not cool at all!" I was already unhappy about it. You see those fantasy novels, many male leads have a soul-state teacher following them around, and the teacher's words can only be heard by the male lead, so why can't mine work like that?

  Xiao Qian thought for a moment and said mysteriously: "Actually, there is a way."

  "Is there a way?" I came with interest, and Xiaoxian continued: "Do you still remember the Lingyi Mall? In the Lingyi Mall, they sell Ling Shiguang mirrors and Lingyin micro earphones. The Ling Shiguang mirror is similar to ordinary glasses, but when you wear it, you can see souls. The Lingyin micro earphone is even more convenient, it's a small thing that you put in your ear canal, and you can hear the voices of souls."

  "It's really convenient... No, damn it, I saw that Spirit View Mirror last time and it was 9,999 yuan. And what about the Spirit Sound Earphones?"

  "The Lingyin earbuds are relatively cheap, only 3,999 yuan. " Xia Qian continued to explain with a smile, saying that this thing is selling well, with monthly sales of hundreds of thousands of units, and it's an essential product for home travel and relieving loneliness."

  Grandma's potato shreds, where the hell can I make that much money? Looking at the black hook-soul bottle on the table, thinking, why not sell that cat instead?

  "Don't even think about selling that little dog, or I'll suck out all your yang energy." Xiang said discontentedly.

  "Alas." I sighed, capitalism is too evil! Now me, let alone buy a spirit sound earphone, can't even afford the lowest-grade soul bottle, don't even have the qualification to catch beast souls for money, must I really go out and sell?

  "Alright, alright, don't be discouraged, actually there is a way." Xia Qian sighed and in the next few minutes, she told a good way to make money, which was helping Lingyi Shopping City brush sales volume and comments.

  I've been cheated. This thing is really scientific. You can earn 50 cents by brushing a good review, is this the legendary 50-cent party?

  So, I used my mobile phone to brush a night of good reviews. As expected, hard work paid off and under my efforts, I brushed thousands of comments in one night. Even Xiao Qian was amazed: Hao Shuang, you are the most capable person at brushing comments that I have ever seen!

  Finally, I exchanged about 500 yuan with the store owner. The money is not a small amount for me, but it can't even buy a talisman to drive away evil spirits, so this money cannot be wasted. As start-up capital, I used these 500 yuan to buy eight black soul-catching bottles.

  My plan is simple, go catch a few more beast souls, exchange them for money with the class teacher, and after a long time, I can buy whatever I want, becoming a local tyrant is no longer just a dream.

  Because the soul bottle was purchased online, it would take a few days to arrive, so I could only study hard and make progress every day.

  The next morning, I came to the classroom, Chen Fei still didn't come to class, Chen Xiao was still sitting in Chen Fei's seat, there was no self-study class in the morning, she didn't switch seats with me, and she didn't talk to me much, but my heart was racing like I had eaten a stimulant: it just wouldn't stop!

  During the second class in the morning, it was time for physical exercise. Fan Jianqiang happened to be in front of me, and before the physical exercise started, he hooked my shoulder and whispered to me: "Do you know that Chen Xiao is going to sit in Chen Fei's position?"

  "I don't know, maybe she didn't sleep well last night and wanted to sit in the back so it's more convenient for her to sleep." I said calmly, not expecting anything anymore.

  "Come on, you haven't figured it out yet? What's wrong with your brain?" Fan Jianqiang said discontentedly: "I dare to bet that the girl is one hundred percent interested in you."

  My face suddenly turned red, and I was so embarrassed that I almost couldn't speak: "H-how is that possible, stop talking nonsense! The broadcast exercise is about to start, the teacher will come to inspect soon!"

  On the way back to the classroom after doing exercises, Fan Jianqiang kept analyzing me: Think about it, is Chen Xiao the kind of student who loves to sleep in class? Of course not! Then why did she want to sit in Chen Fei's position? Chen Fei's position is so far back that you can't even see the blackboard clearly, why? Think about it, isn't it just for you?

  Fan Jianqiang said that, although I denied it with my mouth and said he was talking nonsense, but actually it's not unreasonable, could it be that Chen Xiao really likes me?

  I also observed two classes, and I don't know if it's because of the previous Fan Jianqiang's psychological hint, but I seem to have found that Chen Xiao often secretly looks at me, with a slightly red face.

  The more I think about it, the more excited I become. I no longer care why Chen Xiao likes me, I just feel that I must cherish this opportunity.

  This is one of my favorite girls.

  It was almost time to get out of school, and I made a major decision: I would pursue Chen Xiao. Who says that a toad can't eat swan meat? If the swan is standing right in front of the toad, flapping its wings and making hints like "come and eat me", why not eat it?

  Suddenly I received a text message from my sister: Brother, I'm going out to eat with friends at noon today and won't be back home for dinner, you can have lunch in the school cafeteria.

  Wow, it's really heaven helping me, Old Man Yue, are you pulling the red string? I passed a note to Chen Xiao behind my seat, which read: Chen Xiao, are you going home for lunch today?