A little girl at a magic school, she's a goofy troublemaker who can do anything.

"It's also possible that he has a girlish heart."

"Do you want to listen to what you're saying?"

Li Wenyin thoughtfully took off the cherry earring and stared at the small, dazzling red cherry lying in her palm.

The six of them had exchanged many gifts, but after hearing what Aunt Song said, it became clear that this cherry earring had a rather peculiar meaning, as if it were an attempt to conceal something.

But would Yuchi Quan consider so many things...? Li Wenyin pondered, thinking that... it seemed he really would.

Song He was observing Li Wenying's changing expressions with great interest. She smiled deeply and said, "Judging from your expression, it really was a gift from a man, wasn't it? How old is he?"

"Eighteen," Li Wenyin replied while thinking.

"Oh, not bad, an eighteen-year-old boy, that's good," Song He smiled with satisfaction. "An eighteen-year-old man is like a flower in full bloom. What does he look like? What's his family like? What about his character?"

Li Wenyin glanced at it: "Nonsense."

"Alright, I'm not kidding you anymore," Song He said with a smile, waving her hand. "Just don't forget to study hard."

"Of course," Li Wenyin pointed to her suitcase. "Aunt Song, do you see this suitcase? It was a gift from my teacher as encouragement because I excelled in both character and academics!"

"Really?" Song He looked at him suspiciously. "You're not kidding?"

Li Wenyin: "Of course, don't schools usually give something as a reward for outstanding students? Otherwise, where did I get this suitcase?"

Even though Song He knew Li Wenyin's personality quite well, she was still completely fooled by her words and thought they made a lot of sense.

-

"Judging by the time, you came back from winter break?" Song He handed Li Wenyin a freshly made meat pie.

Li Wenyin picked it up and ate it: "Yes."

"What are you planning to do? You're not going to go back to that run-down card room for a while, are you?"

"Of course not," Li Wenyin took a big bite, breathing out hot air as she did so. "I'll go back and steal my ID, then find a nice hotel in town to stay in."

"Is the money really enough?"

"Enough."

"I heard that your creditor, Lin Xu, has been looking for you. Be careful."

Li Wenyin looked up while eating: "Hmm? Has he already made it so obvious that everyone knows about me?"

"He's spreading rumors everywhere," Song He said, looking at Li Wenyin. "You should keep an eye on him this holiday."

In just a few words, Li Wenyin had finished the pancake in a few bites. She wiped the food crumbs from her mouth and smiled at Song He, saying, "Don't worry."

-

After walking around for a while and chatting with Song He about school life, Li Wenyin headed towards the chess and card room.

She fiddled with the cherry earring in her hand, thinking about what Song He had just said.

Everything else was fine, but Li Wenyin was pondering the matter of customization.

Customization...

But he never touched his own ears.

In other words, when Li Wenyin is talking to him, or when she is engrossed in doing something else.

Yu Chi Quan quietly watched her from the side, tracing and measuring her ears inch by inch with his gaze.

Li Wenyin could picture his appearance in her mind.

The handsome young man was a patient listener, with gentle eyes and impeccable manners. He was courteous, upright, and humble, and occasionally his relaxed and languid demeanor made people feel less constrained. His fingertips would tap the table lightly and rhythmically without being annoying, indicating that he was thinking along with the conversation.

His beautiful eyes were focused and gentle, occasionally suppressing a hint of helplessness and doubt in his gaze. He would smile and agree with opinions appropriately, yet it was impossible to guess what he was looking at or what he was thinking.

So... in those many moments like that, as his gaze wandered, tracing and measuring her ears, was this what he was thinking?!

"..."

It's unclear what exactly touched her, but Li Wenyin's heart stirred slightly, her breathing became erratic for a moment, and a strange idea popped into her mind.

Before she could even delve deeper into this wonderful idea, a less harmonious person appeared before her, abruptly pulling her out of her beautiful youthful fantasy.

-

"Li Wenyin, I've finally waited for you." The newcomer spoke in a slightly raspy voice, his tone arrogant and provocative.

Li Wenyin pursed her lips and looked up, seeing a boy with his hands in his pockets, a scar on his face, and no sense of posture. He had a tuft of dyed hair hanging on his forehead and thought he looked very cool as he shook his head, but all he exuded was a reckless and roguish bandit aura.

In terms of looks, he's not even a tenth as handsome as Yu Chi Quan, and in terms of arrogance, he's not as bad as Yu Lan Xie, whose personality is truly admirable.

Lin Xu is also eighteen years old. How come there's such a big age gap between people who are eighteen?

Li Wenyin greeted him, "Lin Buji."

Lin Xu, after being given a bowl of a soup that supposedly caused him to lose his fertility, was unable to rise again, hence the name Lin Buju (meaning "Lin who cannot rise").

"If you keep calling me that, I'll tear your mouth off! I've already cured it!" Lin Xu glared at her fiercely. "I haven't settled that score with you yet. Today, no matter what trouble you cause, you have to come back with me and pay for it with your body."

Li Wenyin ignored his rambling at all. The moment he uttered his first word, she had already dragged her suitcase and walked firmly toward the chess and card room.

By the time Lin Xu finished rambling on, Li Wenyin was practically just his back to him.

"Feeding the Li and Asking for Sound!"

Lin Xu called out from behind.

Li Wenyin ignored her completely.

"It's no use going back!" Lin Xu shouted. "Your parents have already sold you to me!"

The clattering of the suitcases stopped.

Li Wenyin turned around with a cold face: "Sell?"

"Yeah," Lin Xu whistled, "It cost quite a bit of money, paying off half a year's debt to them. But your two lousy parents tricked you, they didn't know you'd already run away. It was all for nothing. But I knew it. Someone from your background could never really escape your family. You'll come back eventually."

His confident expression, as if he had calculated that Li Wenyin would definitely come back, was quite disgusting to her.

nausea.

But Li Wenyin had just eaten Aunt Song's meat pie and had just touched the cherry ear clip. She couldn't bear to spit it out, so she swallowed it down and put the ear clip on herself with a cold expression.

"Not just you, I think your two older sisters will definitely come back too."

Seeing that she had stopped, Lin Xu smiled and continued walking forward.

"You'll bring back a sum of money or two sons someday. Your two older sisters are doing quite well; they'll definitely be able to build a successful career, right?"

"Whether they're showing off, fantasizing about saving your family, or just worried about you, they'll all come back, right? Then your parents will cry and make a scene, and the money will be theirs. After all, they're still your parents. They're counting on this to pay off our family's debts."

Lin Xu smiled, as if enjoying Li Wenyin's indifferent expression and deriving some kind of amusement from it: "Until then, your body will have to make do for now. Your parents have already sold you to me, you know."

I feel nauseous.

As he approached, he saw that Li Wenyin remained motionless and reached out to touch her hair.

At this moment, Li Wenyin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly swung her hand back and used the branch in her hand to brush a bloody mark on Lin Xu's face, which was quite symmetrical to his original scar.

Symmetry is expected, because the original scar was left by Li Wenyin.

If this small mountain town is home to a diverse array of people—some hateful, some pitiful, some befriendable, and all complex and ever-changing—then Lin Xu is the one Li Wenyin has always disliked and who has never changed.

Perhaps surprised that Li Wenyin was still so ruthless after half a year apart, Lin Xu covered his cheek in astonishment: "You filthy bitch..."

"I told you long ago," Li Wenyin interrupted him before he could finish his curse, "It's not like I owe your family money. If you want to pay it back, go find my stepfather and pay it back with your body. I believe that whether you want a hook or a ditch, he might give it to you."

"You've been sold to me! You have to come with me!" Lin Xu roared, trying to rush up and hit Li Wenyin.

At this moment, as Li Wenyin finished reciting the last note of the remote control magic, the branch that had struck Lin Xu in the white, shimmering thread suddenly grew larger, transforming into a pillar as tall as two people, blocking the two of them and preventing Lin Xu from advancing any further.

If it weren't for the rule against using magic to directly or indirectly harm ordinary people, this enormous tree branch wouldn't have been just a simple line lying between them.

"you......!"

Lin Xu was stunned. He didn't even bother to cover the blood still seeping from his face. He stumbled back a few steps, staring incredulously at the tree branch that had grown right in front of him.

"What kind of sorcery is this?!"

"This is magic, magic. Really, you're making a fuss over nothing." Li Wenyin cursed rudely and turned to leave.

After she had turned several corners and confirmed that Lin Xu was not following, she deactivated the remote control spell.

Once the remote control spell is dispelled, the deformation applied to the selected object will be restored, but the effects already caused will remain.

This means that branches will shrink back into smaller branches, but the marks left by the large branches pressing down on the road will remain.

That should scare Lin Xu for a while.

Li Wenyin still thought that way at this time.

-

She underestimated how disgusting Lin Xu was.

Li Wenyin originally planned to go to the card room to get her ID, but looking at the sky, she realized that the card room would be crowded. She couldn't stand the smoky space any longer, so she changed direction and went to find a hotel to stay in first.

Even the best hotels in small mountain towns are just so-so; they don't strictly control identification or anything like that. Li Wenyin paid a little more money, and that's how she checked in without proper identification.

As a result, Li Wenyin was kicked out of the hotel the next morning.

She asked why, and the staff member stammered and said that she had offended someone she shouldn't have.

I guessed it was Lin Xu, the son of the town's tyrant.

What a piece of crap this hotel is! Li Wenyin felt she couldn't just slink away like that, so before leaving, she used remote control magic to steal back the money she had spent on the hotel.

She thought, "I can't let this shabby hotel get away with this. I might as well give more to Aunt Song."

After asking several places, none of them would let Li Wenyin stay. At this time, it was even more inconvenient for her to stay at Aunt Song's place. Aunt Song didn't have any relatives in town; she was the only one running the shop, and they couldn't let her suffer.

After much deliberation, Li Wenyin went to the chess and card room.

She needs to get the documents first, and then she needs to figure out a way to make Lin Xu unable to recover in every way.

-

The moment Li Wenyin stepped into the card room, she smelled the familiar, nauseating smell of cigarettes. She frowned and kicked away two beer bottles blocking her way.

It was afternoon, and there were no customers in the card room yet. The sound of beer bottles clattering and rolling was very crisp.

A hand pulled the door open from the inside, and a woman with a beaming smile greeted her warmly, "Wenyin! Oh, you're finally back! I heard you arrived yesterday, why are you only coming back today?"

This is her stepmother.

Li Wenyin found her smile very unfamiliar; in her memory, her stepmother only smiled like that when she was looking at money.

That means she's now pretty much obsessed with money.

Li Wenyin: "I'll leave right away."

"Why are you in such a hurry to leave? Come, come, come in." Her stepmother warmly tried to pull her in and take her suitcase, but Li Wenyin dodged her.

Li Wenyin took a step to the side, craning her neck to peek inside, and saw a familiar figure.

Lin Xu and his stepbrother sat on the sofa in the chess and card room, watching her.

Oh, she's saying, what is the stepmother laughing at?

Her stepfather also came up from behind: "Welcome home, Wenyin. Come in and meet your new friends."

"What new friend?" Li Wenyin asked coldly. "You don't know this person?"

"Hey, how can you talk like that, child?" the stepmother scolded, feigning reproach, but then closed the door behind her. "Wenyin, while you were away, I found you a good marriage. Come and talk to me."

The stepfather chimed in, "Yes, and I deserve credit too! He really likes you. Don't keep such a long face, sit down and talk."

Li Wenyin remained motionless, staring at Lin Xu: "What's he doing here?"

"What are you saying? This was originally someone else's house," the stepfather said with a smile, his tone ambiguous. "But if you cooperate well, this will be your house from now on..."

In other words, she was sold to Lin Xu with an illegal building and six months' worth of debt.

Li Wenyin never held any hope for these two stepparents, but she always clicked her tongue in admiration, saying they were truly despicable and had no bottom line.

I feel nauseous.

I really want to use magic to scatter them all.

But no, that would be a disaster.

Li Wenyin closed her eyes and remained silent, deciding to get the documents first...

"Are you after your ID card or something?" Lin Xu suddenly spoke up, looking at Li Wenyin and laughing, "Your parents gave it to me a long time ago, and I hid it."

Li Wenyin's gaze grew increasingly cold.

"After all, I can't let you get away," Lin Xu said with a nauseating sense of complete control. "Besides, look, what's this?"

He took out a...familiar fur coat from the corner of the sofa next to him.

The dress that Yu Zhiyuan gave me!

Li Wenyin snapped, "Where did you get this?! Give it back to me!"

Then she watched as Lin Xu took out one item after another from the side: fur clothes, beef jerky, scarves, school uniforms, and a huge pile of money.

Lin Xu: "Haven't you noticed yet? I had the hotel staff switch your suitcase. Oh my, this suitcase is really hard to find. It took a lot of effort to find a similar one."

"Wenyin, you have so much money, why didn't you tell your mother?" Her stepmother smiled and put her arm around her shoulder.

Her stepfather smiled and patted her head, saying, "My dear daughter, I'll forgive you this time, but don't do it again next time."

Lin Xu smiled and waved the clothes in his hand: "These, if you serve me well, I'll give them back to you. Don't use your sorcery, or I'll tear them up."

That's enough.

Li Wenyin's eyes flickered uncertainly.

As expected...

She raised her hand to everyone in the room.

to die.

All.

Go to hell.