The Buggiest System

195 - Slight Anger

Fan Xinyue faced the glass doors of the familiar café. Since she was a regular here, she never felt that it was nervewracking to pull open the two doors.

However, an uneasy feeling rose in her heart, an emotion not usually present in her mind. She was calm and collected at all times, but only now did she feel that opening the moveable and transparent glass walls that blocked her infiltration of the establishment required a massive amount of courage that she did not have.

'Ah, I'm overthinking this. I've handled more intense cases before, pretty sure my crush having a date is mild.'

Her arm reached for the metal handle embedded onto the glass doors. As one of her fingertips made contact with the cold metal, her arm retracted on impulse.

'Damn, this is harder than I thought.' Fan Xinyue scratched her head.

Her plan was to directly interfere by joining the two with their taste-testing of the various coffees available in the shop. Of course, by joining, she meant stopping Lin Hanying, that transfer student, from further progressing her relationship with Zhou Lei.

However, with nothing covering her face from being seen, her shamelessness would be exposed. She would need to have a thick skin to endure acting oblivious that they made plans to come here.

'Fuck it, here goes nothing...!'

Fan Xinyue shook her head and pulled the glass door open!

Instantly, the aromas inside the café assaulted her olfactory system, making her unconsciously moan with pleasure. Her face became flushed, smelling the pleasant scent that coffees gave off.

'...That feels relaxing.'

All of her worries were cast aside temporarily, courtesy of the fragrance of the drinks in the café. She headed for her usual seat, or the sweet spot, as she referred it to.

Right beside the glass wall separating the café from the rest of the mall, this seat offered a silence that wasn't too silent, and a noise that wasn't too loud. Also, the seats were recently minted, making Fan Xinyue love this seat even more.

When she headed there, she received the shock of a lifetime!... Well, not really.

She saw the two she was supposed to wait for sitting on the pair of chairs right beside the "sweet spot"! What's more, she saw Ma Xiaoli, that quiet girl, sitting with Zhou Lei and Lin Hanying!

'...Damn that honor student! Thinking of the same plan as me, huh?' Fan Xinyue thought of all the preparation she did just to do this plan, and she almost flared up in anger as the sight of the three in the vicinity of each other bothered her to a slight degree!

Zhou Lei saw the dark-skinned girl examining the group and interrupted Lin Hanying. "Classmate Fan, you're here as well!"

Unlike the three of them, Fan Xinyue wore casual clothes. It seemed that she changed her clothes at home then came to this place.

"Ah, mm." Fan Xinyue walked towards the group with a wry smile on her face.

Even from that distance, she could feel the tension around the group rising because Ma Xiaoli shamelessly challenged Lin Hanying.

At first, she thought that the three were in good terms with one another. However, she thought otherwise once the two girls' gazes sparked right in front of her eyes.

As she grew closer to the three's table, she saw an expression that screamed 'I don't care' on Lin Hanying and a triumphant one on Ma Xiaoli.

She identified the only empty seat and decisively placed herself beside Lin Hanying.