They all want to control me!

Chapter 84 Have you ever been in a relationship? Let's write a romance novel!

Lin Ran started to have a headache.

Jiang Qiaoqiao planted a landmine for me today, but I didn't expect Su Lingle to plant one as well, and even earlier.

Su Lingle told her family that if they forced her to go home, she would immediately bring a child back with her.

Su's parents were not ready to be grandparents when they were threatened.

"...You have no idea how terrifying my parents are. I don't like cilantro, and they nag me for ten minutes straight. My mom is always coming into my room to tidy up my things, and when I say I'll tidy them up myself, she complains that I don't do it well. And on Saturdays and Sundays, I have to get up at six in the morning to match their biological clock; if I'm even a minute late, they yell at me... Seriously! My parents work in the government, and they're practically leaders. They developed that lecturing attitude at work, and they just apply it to me when they get home. I'm at my wit's end, so..."

"So you dragged me into this?"

Lin Ran never expected that she would have the important task of having a baby.

Su Lingle realized she had done something wrong and immediately said, "I'll find time to explain myself soon. I... I also feel that I've had enough time to get out here, and it's time to go back."

As she spoke, her mood clearly sombered.

"Go back?" Lin Ran was taken aback, her anger subsiding considerably. "Weren't you quite defiant when you ran away from home a few days ago? Why do you suddenly want to go back?"

"Well, how should I put it..."

Su Lingle stood with her hands behind her back, tilting her head slightly back. The light from the energy-saving lamp made her eyes appear slightly dazed.

"Jiang Qiaoqiao's situation made me think carefully. No matter how bad my parents are, they are still blood relatives. I can be willful for a week or two, but I can't be willful forever. So I want to go home and confess and explain the reason for running away from home—regardless of whether they agree or not, whether they scold me or not, I want to tell them what's on my mind."

"When are you leaving?"

"The day after tomorrow. I couldn't get tickets for tomorrow. As for the phone I lost in Jiangning... the police contacted me a couple of days ago, saying they caught the thief, but the thief threw the phone into the sea and can't find it..."

"You can borrow my old phone for now, and return it to me when you get a new one."

The conversation has come to an end.

Su Lingle explained the "making a baby" concept clearly and made up her mind to go home.

Perhaps because Su Lingle was about to leave, the atmosphere between the two became much more harmonious. Su Lingle was not as bouncing around as before, and Lin Ran's attitude towards her was also better. For example, he would pay attention to whether she drank water before going to bed.

Lin Ran was a little tired and went to bed early tonight.

Before going to bed, he talked to Jiang Qiaoqiao on the phone. Jiang Qiaoqiao asked him if Su Lingle had explained the matter clearly, and Lin Ran said he already knew.

How do you know why she's blackmailing her parents?

"I asked her. I have her parents' phone numbers. Her parents asked me what Lin Ran is like now. I said she's doing great, attending one of the top universities in the country, studying the prestigious major of clinical medicine. They then asked me if I would have any ill intentions and secretly take advantage of my beloved daughter on the spot. I said absolutely not, and I vouched for Lin Ran with my identity. Only then were they somewhat relieved."

"What gives you the right to act as a guarantor?"

"Ahem, you don't need to worry about your identity, and don't ask about it... Ahem, I won't disturb your rest any longer, bye-bye."

Jiang Qiaoqiao's tone was somewhat flustered.

Looking at the black screen, Lin Ran felt that Jiang Qiaoqiao wouldn't harm him. The two of them were now in a relationship where they were bound together by fate, so he stopped worrying about it, took a shower, and went to bed.

The next day, Su Lingle slept in and didn't go to school with Lin Ran.

But sometimes, you can't simply choose not to come just because you want to.

Lin Ran set the control time for Su Lingle today, starting at 8:30 am and ending at 11:30 am, while Jiang Qiaoqiao's control time started at noon.

So, Lin Ran had just sat down in the lecture hall when Su Lingle, who was still sleeping in her rented room, was forcibly dragged over.

"Hmm...where is this? A classroom? Oh well, I'll just go back to sleep."

Su Lingle controlled Lin Ran's body and made him sleep on the table.

Lin Ran twitched the corner of her mouth.

That's true. Given Su Lingle's personality, sleeping in is definitely more important than going to class. I overestimated her before.

She slept through the entire lecture until her time came to leave her body.

At noon, in the library.

After regaining control of her body, Jiang Qiaoqiao heard Lin Ran mention that Su Lingle had slept all morning, and she scoffed.

"It's such a waste to use your limited life to sleep in. If it were me, even if I was very sleepy, I would stay awake and listen to lectures from top universities."

She tried her best to highlight that she was different from Su Lingle and to emphasize her "goodness".

boom!

The sound of a heavy object being placed on a table.

Jiang Qiaoqiao looked up.

A girl wearing black-rimmed glasses sat in front of me, carrying a laptop and a copy of "Story". Her loose clothes couldn't hide her voluptuous figure.

"After I left yesterday, I thought about it, and the look in your eyes didn't seem like you were just reserving a seat. It seemed like you had something to ask me, so I came today. Ask me anything you want to ask."

Ruan Xue pushed up the frame of her glasses, and a flash of white light appeared on the lenses as she stared at the somewhat bewildered Jiang Qiaoqiao.

Lin Ran recounted Su Lingle's "troublemaking" incident from yesterday, and Jiang Qiaoqiao finally understood what had happened.

"I have a feeling that you two are hiding a lot of things from me."

"Ahem, that's just your imagination, you're overthinking it."

Jiang Qiaoqiao didn't think her intuition was wrong, but now was not the time to care about those things. Her consciousness returned to reality, and her gaze swept from top to bottom. She was surprised to find that the figure of the woman was even better than hers.

"Why has my senior been secretly looking at me these past few days? Did I offend her?"

"no."

"Are you trying to turn me into a guaranteed graduate school admission pill?"

"I have no plans to take the postgraduate entrance exam."

"Why...is that?"

Do you read novels?

Ruan Xue suddenly threw out an unrelated question.

Jiang Qiaoqiao pondered for a moment: "Snow Country, The Vegetarian, The Great Gatsby, Oliver Twist?"

Ruan Xue shook her head: "It's not serious literature, it's fast-paced online novels."

She showed Jiang Qiaoqiao the laptop screen, which had a Word document open, with a word count of 40,000 words in the lower left corner.

Jiang Qiaoqiao quickly glanced upwards; it was a romance novel told from the male protagonist's perspective.

"I started writing online novels in my freshman year of college. At first, it was just because I liked it. Later, I gradually made money and wrote a few books, but they all flopped. I guess it was because I didn't have much social experience, and what I wrote was superficial and couldn't move readers. So I thought that since reality is the best material, could I observe other people, collect materials, and use them to improve my romance novels?"

"I?"

Jiang Qiaoqiao pointed to herself; her current identity was Lin Ran.

The real Lin Ran was also stunned. He thought of many reasons, and even came up with a postgraduate recommendation pill. He never expected that Ruan Xue's purpose was to write online novels.

Ruan Xue pinched her chin, thought for a few seconds, and said seriously:

"Based on my observations, you are the most suitable candidate, junior. You are academically excellent, tall and handsome, and surrounded by beautiful girls with distinct personalities, such as junior Tao Zhiyao, the disabled Jiang Qiaoqiao, and the lively and active Su Lingle. Through observing you, I wrote an introduction, which the editor immediately approved, saying that I wrote very well, proving that my method of observing you was correct."

"Heh, I'm praising you," Jiang Qiaoqiao sneered inwardly.

"You don't sound happy for me."

Lin Ran was helpless.

Apart from Tao Zhiyao, none of the other girls were approached by him; they were all brought to him by the damn system. How come it's like I'm a scumbag?

However, Lin Ran certainly couldn't reveal the system's contents to outsiders, so he had to bear the burden of public opinion alone.

"Do you mind if I'm observing you, junior? If you do, I can disappear from your sight. I'm a reasonable person and I won't force others to do things they don't want to do."

"There's no need to be so ruthless. I don't really mind you observing me in the library at noon," Lin Ran interjected, expressing her thoughts.

Ruan Xue paused for a few seconds, then murmured, "Sure enough, only the male lead has this kind of magnanimity... Is he flirting with me...?"

Stop imagining things about the senior.

No wonder you write online novels; your imagination is too rich.

"hehe."

Lin Ran heard Jiang Qiaoqiao's disdainful sneer again.