A Young Woman's Heart

Now, everyone except Li Wanyan and Shui Zhishi has gathered together, as required by the homeroom teacher.

“Ahem, alright, it’s already evening, and it’s pouring rain outside. This is the perfect time—” Ye Wen said, standing at the front with her hands on her hips, looking down at the students sitting on small chairs or stools.

"Tell me a ghost story!" Wang Jiale immediately raised his hand excitedly.

"It's a story about a male protagonist falling in love with a female ghost!" It was Hua Yinyin who spoke, and the way she said it made it impossible to think of pure love; instead, it conjured up images of something terrible.

Immediately, images from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio flashed through everyone's minds: Ling Caichen and Xiaoqian embracing and rolling around on the bed, their clothes being slowly removed one by one.

"What? Of course, it's an adventure game! I wonder if you guys have ever played the Emperor game?" Ye Wen sat down and took out a stack of cards from Qiu Yi's pocket.

"The Emperor's Game?" Mo Xueyao tilted her head. "Never heard of it."

"So, each round you draw cards to choose an emperor, and the emperor can choose any one or two people to play pranks on in that round?" Lu Chengyuan snatched a grilled pork tenderloin from Hua Yinyin and took a bite without any hesitation.

"Hey, you stole my food! Believe me or not, I'll lick it all up with my tongue later!"

"It's okay, I haven't licked this skewer anyway~"

"I'll lick it right now!" Hua Yinyin shamelessly leaned in, as if she really wanted to 'get back at' the other party.

"Ahem, everyone, please be quiet!" Ye Wen shook her head helplessly. "It's similar to what Lu Chengyuan just said, except the rules have been slightly changed. Everyone still draws cards, and whoever draws the Emperor card can instruct someone to do something or ask someone a question. Of course, you can't specify who, you can only specify the number card."

"So, asking a question means telling the truth, and assigning someone a task means doing something dare?" Mo Xueyao roughly understood the rules. "But what if someone asks someone to do something really nasty?"

Tian Xinnan nodded in agreement: "Exactly, what if someone takes off all their clothes?"

Mo Xueyao imagined what Tian Xinnan, who weighed nearly 200 pounds, would look like naked, and immediately shrank her neck, feeling a chill run down her spine.

The others felt much the same way, except that the teacher and Mr. Xue seemed a little calmer.

"So, you can ask anything in Truth or Dare, which is relatively safer, while you have to draw cards to choose—draw five cards, and then the 'Emperor' chooses one for someone else to do." Qiu Yi explained, resting his chin on his hand. "Ahem, but some of the 'punishments' are quite severe..."

"Anyway, let's get started! You'll all know how to play after playing once!" Wang Qianyu patted the small table in front of her, even more impatient than the students.

"Mo Xueyao, Tian Xinnan, Wang Jiale, Gao Yuan, Lü Bolun, Lu Chengyuan, Qiu Yuanling, Liu Xiaowei, Mr. Xue, Hua Yinyin, Qianyu, myself, Qiu Yi, Taiyin, and Tianyin, that's fifteen people in total, so just take out number cards 1 to 15." Ye Wen said as she took out the number cards, put the dare cards aside, and then shuffled the order of the number cards, letting everyone else choose and draw one.

“Hmm…” Mo Xueyao secretly glanced at her number, which was '4'.

Hua Yinyin, who was standing nearby, tried to peek over, but she immediately covered the table again and looked at the other person warily: "What?"

"Let's see what number Yaoyao has~"

"Don't even think about it." Mo Xueyao rolled her eyes and looked at Li Wanyan, who was helping to grill the meat. "Wanyan, Teacher Shui, we're almost full. Why don't you come and join us?"

"I still need to tidy up a bit," Mizuki Shi politely declined.

"I'll help too." It seems Li Wanyan has no interest in playing this 'self-exposure' game at all.

Whether it's truth or dare, it all feels awful!

Especially if someone as awful as Hua Yinyin were to draw the Emperor card, things would probably escalate to something indescribable.

After everyone had drawn their cards, Ye Wen drew another card from the side cards of a different color: "The Emperor card for this round is number three."

So close!

Mo Xueyao sighed inwardly.

"Who is number three?" Liu Xiaowei tilted his head and looked at the person next to him.

After a few seconds of silence, Taiyin stood up expressionlessly.

"Which number should we choose for Taiyin?" Ye Wen asked from the side.

"Boom!" A thunderclap suddenly streaked across the sky, instantly turning the dark raindrops back into their transparent form. But as the lightning disappeared, the rain continued to pour down like ink onto the eaves and into the lake.

Taiyin slowly uttered in her clear, cool, slightly hoarse, and ethereal voice, "...Number Four."

As she said this, she glanced at Mo Xueyao, seemingly unintentionally.

But she was sitting right across from Mo Xueyao, so there was no way she could have seen what her numbers were.

Mo Xueyao suddenly felt guilty.

"Okay~ Who is number four? The chosen person can choose between truth or dare."

"Ah... number four is me, cough... I choose... I choose... truth or dare!" Because the other party was Taiyin, who didn't like to talk much, Mo Xueyao made this choice.

"...What color do you like?" Sure enough, Taiyin asked a very simple question, so much so that everyone was a little incredulous.

Most people would definitely play a prank on someone given such a rare opportunity!

Fortunately, the other party was Taiyin, a psychology teacher who had transcended vulgar interests.

Mo Xueyao breathed a sigh of relief and replied with a smile, "Red and black... and white."

Taiyin nodded and sat down.

"Oh, what is it? Is that all you're asking?" Hua Yinyin looked disappointed.

Mo Xueyao subconsciously moved away from her a little and got closer to Wang Jiale sitting next to her. If Wang Jiale drew the Emperor card, that would be really bad!

"Well, that was just a demonstration. Now we're officially starting." Ye Wen coughed and nudged Qiu Yi's arm. "Hurry up and deal the cards."

"Damn, am I just a tool?" Qiu Yi rolled his eyes and looked at Lu Bolun. "Come on, Brother Bolun, shuffle the cards."

"...Am I the most useless tool among tools?" Lu Bolun felt that simply rolling his eyes wasn't enough to express his feelings at that moment.

"Stop fighting amongst yourselves, you two are just tools." Wang Qianyu glanced at them sideways. "Get to work!"

Luberon had no choice but to reshuffle the cards and deal them again.

Qiu Yi shuffled the deck again and randomly drew a card to represent the 'Emperor'.

“Hmm… this time it’s… number eight,” Qiu Yi said after glancing at it.

"Who is number eight?" Wang Qianyu craned her neck, clearly indicating that she was not number eight.

"Hehehe, it's me!" Hua Yinyin stood up excitedly. The other students, who were familiar with her style, immediately tensed up, just like when they were afraid of being called on by the teacher if they hadn't been paying attention in class.

Mo Xueyao didn't even dare to look at the number plate in her hand, worried that Hua Yinyin would notice the number.

"Yes, yes, this time I choose... I choose... number twelve!"

The group looked at each other, because none of them seemed to have that number.

In the end, only Mo Xueyao hadn't seen her own number plate.

She nervously unfolded the number plate and glanced at it.

Unfortunately, she was the 'twelfth'.

"Oh ho ho, little Yao Yao! This is proof of telepathy!"

"Are you a witch? Can you tell fortunes or see through things?" Mo Xueyao stood up helplessly. "I choose dare."

We absolutely must not let Hua Yinyin ask any strange questions; the ones on the cards are much safer.

"Tch, alright, then I'll pick a card..." Hua Yinyin drew five Dare cards, looked at them repeatedly, and finally held up one of them, "This one will do!"

"What is it?" Wang Jiale asked curiously.

"Hmm... The chosen one is required to lie in the 'Emperor's' arms and meow like a cat." A sly look flashed in Hua Yinyin's eyes, as if to say, 'See, you still can't escape.'

"Hehehe, this is good!" Liu Xiaowei immediately grinned lewdly, and the others were also quite looking forward to it.

She snuggled in someone's arms and even tried to meow like a cat.

This was extremely shameful for Mo Xueyao.

She's never been one to act cute or pampered since she was a child!

Moreover, this was done under the watchful eyes of so many people.

All eyes were on her, which made her face turn bright red. She wished all the firelight would go out so that no one could see her face.

But fate was unkind; several bolts of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating her flushed face with exceptional clarity.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Wang Qianyu urged, "Don't waste time!"

"I know..." Mo Xueyao mumbled in a very soft voice, slowly nestled into Hua Yinyin's arms. The latter immediately cupped her small face in her hands, stroking it gently as if she were really petting a cat.

"Hurry up and call out!" Wang Jiale's face was also flushed, but it was because she was too excited, which was completely different from Mo Xueyao's shyness.

"Say one!"

"Give me a shout~"

The others immediately joined in the commotion.

Mo Xueyao took a deep breath, looked at Su Tang who was lying under the table and staring at her curiously, and whispered shyly, "Meow..."

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Chapter 138 Truth or Dare? (Part 2)

After calling out, Mo Xueyao immediately sat up straight, as if nothing had happened.

But everyone else was laughing so hard they were practically falling over.

"Oh my, so cute!" Lu Chengyuan cupped Mo Xueyao's slightly chubby cheeks and looked at her. "No wonder Hua Yinyin keeps bothering you every day."

"She's the one who's bothering me, okay..." Mo Xueyao protested softly, but because of what had just happened, she didn't dare to speak too loudly. Her flushed face made her movements look as cute as a kitten throwing a tantrum.

Fortunately, Ye Wen came to the rescue, allowing the truth or dare game to continue.

In this round, Mo Xueyao drew the Emperor card.

"Number fourteen, I guess?" She coughed lightly and looked at the others.

“It’s me.” Mr. Xue stood up. “I’ll choose Truth or Dare.”

"Tch, you don't trust me?" Mo Xueyao glared at him with dissatisfaction.

"Haha, no, I just think the Truth or Dare cards are more fun," Mr. Xue laughed heartily. He was a man who couldn't lie, and most of the time he meant what he said.

It seems he really thinks so.

Is this considered a spirit of challenge?

Mo Xueyao was somewhat impressed with him, and then drew five Great Adventure cards from the deck.