Chapter 55: Confession? “confession”!
When Xiang Chuan came back to her senses from the double shock of “the modern era actually still has such an old-fashioned and straightforward method” and “someone actually confessed to me,” she didn’t know when, but the boys crowding at the door of the Club Activity Room had already disappeared. If it weren’t for Little Star No. 2 cleaning the footprints on the floor, Xiang Chuan would have thought she had some daydream.
—No, what I want to eat most right now is Pineapple Bun and Snail Noodles. How could I daydream about being confessed to by a handsome guy?
She shook her head and rubbed her temples, turned around wanting to chat with the two Club Members, but found them looking at her with curiosity, which confused Xiang Chuan.
“What are you two doing? Why are you looking at me like that?”
Xiang Chuan shrank her neck.
“…I’ve never seen anyone reject a classmate’s confession like that before.”
Ouyang Yating sharply commented, while Liang Gong nodded repeatedly beside her like a chicken pecking at rice, making Xiang Chuan a bit hungry.
“Huh? Did I say anything just now?”
Xiang Chuan was stunned. In her memory, she didn’t say anything just now… right?
This time it was the two opposite her who were stunned.
“Don’t you remember what you just said?”
Ouyang Yating said in surprise.
“I… did I speak just now…?”
Xiang Chuan got nervous. This was the first time in her two lifetimes that someone confessed to her. How did she respond? She only remembered her mind going completely blank. What the other side was saying, whether her mouth moved, whether her throat made a sound—she had no impression at all!
Seeing their Leader looking bewildered and somewhat panicked, the two Members exchanged glances and couldn’t help but feel silent sympathy for Ainuo Classmate who had just fled out the door.
“You just said that you’re not interested in boys younger than you, don’t like little boys, and aren’t interested at all in the cute guy type like Ainuo who can only deceive mommy fans and little girls… Where did you learn all these weird words?”
By the end of the retelling, Ouyang Yating couldn’t help but complain a couple of times.
“Huh?”
After hearing it, Xiang Chuan was stunned for a moment, replaying Ouyang Yating’s words in her mind. She… seemed to have thought that in her head just now. Did she say it out loud after her mind went blank? Xiang Chuan felt embarrassed. But…
“Who is Ainuo? A popular celebrity now?”
After Xiang Chuan threw out the question, the two’s expressions changed from surprise to horror, then to deep helplessness.
Ouyang Yating, completely speechless towards Xiang Chuan, sighed, patted her shoulder, sat down on the chair in front of the Kitchen, and began checking the demand list to see what suppliers she could contact—anyway, it was their Leader paying, she just needed to find the sources.
Ouyang Yating’s attitude aroused even greater doubt in Xiang Chuan: What? Could this Ainuo be some super invincible superstar that truly everyone knows like in those Mary Sue novels? Why hadn’t Xiang Qi and Xiang Xue mentioned him?
Fortunately, the kind-hearted Liang Gong was present. Out of sympathy for Ainuo and concern that their Leader shouldn’t be so disconnected from the world around her, he told the truth: “Ainuo Li, our companion classmate, is the name of the male classmate who just confessed to you.”
Huh? Xiang Chuan was stunned. Doesn’t that mean… she mocked that boy right to his face?
Sweat.
Big sweat.
Huangguoshu Waterfall sweat.
Right now, Xiang Chuan’s mind was filled only with this early 21st Century internet slang-style mood swing.
“Then I… should I go apologize to him…?”
Feeling guilty, Xiang Chuan tremblingly opened the Terminal, preparing to find the other in the class communication list and go to their Club to apologize, at least to ease her own conscience.
“No need for that.” Ouyang Yating, sitting not far away, stopped her: “As far as I know, Ainuo Li has no interest in girls of your type, or in the Food Industry at all. Moreover, that guy likes to be alone, and if he wanted to confess, he definitely wouldn’t make such a big show of bringing a group of people. So that farce just now definitely wasn’t his intention; it’s very likely those boys were playing some boring game.”
The implication was that since there was no sincere confession, there was no need to care.
“Huh? Then why did he bring a group of people over? To confess to me and then mess with me?” Xiang Chuan was stunned, then got angry, “Kids these days are so naughty.”
“You’re also sixteen. Don’t talk like an old person.”
Ouyang Yating reminded her.
“Uh… bad habit, hahaha.”
Xiang Chuan was stunned, quickly laughed it off. No way around it; for a female Corporate Slave who had lived over thirty-something or forty years in her previous life, high schoolers now who would fake confess to tease girls could only be called kids.
She suddenly realized that this Club Member of hers seemed to know a lot about the other: “Yating, how do you know so much about that Ainuo Classmate? Could it be…”
As she said it, she imagined a very youthful and angsty bloody campus drama.
“Stop your imagination.” Seeing Xiang Chuan’s expression change, Ouyang Yating guessed she wasn’t thinking anything good and could only explain helplessly: “He’s Nancy’s distant relative. I’ve crossed paths with him due to Family communication events, but we’re just nodding acquaintances. What I know about Ainuo is from my family or Nancy.”
“Family? Communication event?” Xiang Chuan looked at her incredulously. Could he be from some major Family? Yating too?
“Li Family… If you haven’t heard of it, your parents’ generation should know it well. It’s the oldest Noble Family in the Third Fleet, very famous in the political field.” Ouyang Yating paused, then slowly said: “My family is New Noble. Starting from my great-grandfather’s generation, we entered politics. A couple years ago, after Father passed the Assessment and took over Grandfather’s position, our family has now become Noble too.”
Noble? What thing? Why, after Humans have been away from the Atmosphere for over twenty thousand years, does the Nobility System still exist?
Seeing the surprise and confusion on Xiang Chuan’s face, Ouyang Yating, who had gotten to know her character well over the past few days of interaction, directly sent her a link without a word. Opening it, it turned out to be the Fleet Noble Development history.
It turned out the rise of Nobles originated from the hit of Eleventh Fleet’s Romeo and Juliet. Wealthy and powerful families got excited and imitated the Noble Class mentioned in RoJu, setting up their own Nobility System for fun. Somehow, it was adopted by the Conquest upper levels and formally introduced. Modern Nobles aren’t like the privileged class sitting idle in the Common Era’s teens centuries; they’re more a symbol of ability and status. To obtain Noble certification, several conditions must be met: First, the Family must have four generations serving in Conquest positions at management level or above; second, Family descendants must take the position inheritance Assessment. If they fail, the position will be allocated to other Family personnel. If all designated position heirs in the Family lose inheritance eligibility, the position will go to the next Noble Family. The demands on ability and the openness of the Assessment system gradually made ordinary Residents, who initially resisted the Nobility System after reading RoJu, accept it, and even more motivated to establish their own Families, work and study hard to enter Conquest Management Level, thereby becoming a Noble Family.
After reading it, Xiang Chuan had only one thought: Modern People are really idle.
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