Chapter Twenty-Six: The Standard Setup for Transmigration—The Orphan Status!
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Mo Yinqiu’s entire body broke out in gooseflesh at Qian Qi’s unsettling smile. She tapped the desk. “Qian Qi, could you try to get into fewer fights from now on?”
“Of course!” Qian Qi came to her senses and hurriedly promised, “Apart from Chen Tong, I absolutely won’t fight anyone else!”
Mo Yinqiu: “...?”
Then what the hell was the point of that promise?
“Chen Tong comes from a wealthy family and is extremely petty. Provoking him is practically inviting trouble.” Mo Yinqiu sat down in her office chair, crossing one shapely, sensual leg over the other as she said coolly, “Be careful when you leave campus from now on.”
“Got it.” Qian Qi gave a sheepish grin. “So...”
Mo Yinqiu nodded. “You may leave.”
“...I have a few contracts here. The students named on them are all willing to transfer their remaining magic-plant application allotments to me.” Qian Qi pulled out her copy of Magic Botany from behind her waist and placed the stack of contracts tucked inside it neatly in front of Mo Yinqiu.
Mo Yinqiu: “...?”
Did she carry that thing around even when she went looking for fights?
Mo Yinqiu picked up the contracts. As she read their contents, the corner of her cheek twitched. The last time Qian Qi had applied for seeds, she had deliberately kept an eye on her movements. Once she learned that Qian Qi had indeed planted the seeds in the experimental field, she had stopped paying attention.
But where had these contracts come from?
“You...” Mo Yinqiu recalled the principal’s words and immediately understood what was going on. She had originally intended to ask for the details, but she did not want to watch Qian Qi gloat. In the end, she rose with a twitch at the corner of her mouth.
“I’ll go get your seeds.”
“Thank you, Mentor! You’re the best!” Qian Qi hurriedly showered her with praise.
Mo Yinqiu secretly rolled her eyes. She was going to find out exactly what Qian Qi had been up to lately!
———
Now that Qian Qi had some spare cash, she slowed down her production of the hemostatic potion and focused on fulfilling her contracts by teaching her classmates how to cultivate magic plants.
Meanwhile, rumors about the hemostatic potion had already gone viral across the campus forum.
[—Hey, have you heard? There’s a big shot in the Magic Botany Department named Qian Qi. The hemostatic potion she makes is incredible!]
[—What? What potion? Which big shot can explain it to the rest of us?]
[—Haha, let me explain it to the person above. During a practice duel, a student from the Combat Skills Department was struck in the neck by an arrow and started bleeding profusely. He was practically dying, but a packet of hemostatic potion brought him back from the brink.]
[—Seriously? The potion is that miraculous?]
[—Replying to the person above: it really is that miraculous! I was there at the time. It was damn near like watching a dream!]
[—That can’t be right, can it? I’m from the Magic Botany Department, and Qian Qi is a notorious underachiever. How could she possibly develop such an incredible potion?]
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[—Hey, why would we lie to you? Qian Qi personally slashed the principal with a knife, and even the principal said it worked wonders!]
[—Holy crap!]
[—Holy crap! That’s amazing!]
[—What a warrior! May I ask where this big shot lives? I’m going to buy some right now!]
[—Building C, Room 302, the women’s dormitory of the Magic Botany Department. I’m heading over first, ladies!]
On the campus forum, the topic “#QianQi—HemostaticPotion” had already grown to more than a hundred pages. Sitting on her bed and scrolling through her light-brain, Chen Miaomiao’s eyes were filled with jealousy and disgust. Irritated, she left a comment in the thread:
[—Are you all out of your minds? Qian Qi is a famous waste and scumbag from our department!]
Unfortunately, her comment was instantly buried beneath a flood of newer replies. More and more people poured into the discussion, and no one paid attention to Chen Miaomiao’s insignificant remark.
“A bunch of idiots!” Chen Miaomiao angrily shut off her light-brain. When her gaze fell on Qian Qi’s bed, her eyes suddenly narrowed.
She had been avoiding Qian Qi for the past few days, afraid that Qian Qi would force her to pay for another meal, so she had no idea what Qian Qi had been doing lately.
But judging from the posts on the campus forum, Qian Qi seemed to have made some astonishing hemostatic potion?
How ridiculous. Everyone in the Magic Botany Department knew that Qian Qi was a bottom-ranked underachiever. How could she possibly—
Wait!
Chen Miaomiao bit her fingernail, her expression darkening. She suddenly remembered that the wound on Qian Qi’s neck had been extremely severe that night, yet afterward she had acted as though nothing had happened. Could it have been because she had used hemostatic potion?
But how could a useless person like her possibly...
When Chen Miaomiao thought of how a tiny packet of potion could sell for two thousand credits, her heart ached with jealousy, as though it were bleeding.
That was so much money. Why had it ended up in Qian Qi’s pocket of all places?
How had that so-called potion been made?
If she could obtain the recipe... wouldn’t she be able to make a fortune too?
The thought suddenly sent Chen Miaomiao into a frenzy.
Getting the potion’s formula would not be difficult. All she had to do was sneak into the mentor’s office and check which magic-plant seeds Qian Qi had applied for.
She refused to believe that Qian Qi could make the potion while she, Chen Miaomiao, could not!
With that thought, Chen Miaomiao immediately climbed out of bed, threw on her coat, and hurried toward the administration building.
...
The thread’s explosive popularity attracted plenty of people who wanted to buy potion from Qian Qi.
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Unfortunately, all of Qian Qi’s hemostatic potion had already been bought by that generous student. The next batch of magic plants would not mature for several days, so Qian Qi took advantage of the momentum to collect a substantial number of deposits, promising to notify everyone as soon as the hemostatic potion was ready.
“Ah, now I don’t have to worry about the cost of changing departments, and I’ve got living expenses for the next three years too!” Qian Qi opened her account. When she saw the balance of five hundred thousand credits, she could not help letting out a lecherous giggle.
“Hehehe, System~ I count as a little rich person now, right?” Qian Qi declared generously. “If you ever want a few credits for pocket money, just tell Big Sis. I’ll feed them to you without a second thought!”
【Heh. Save your breath. In five seconds, you won’t feel that way anymore. ^_^】
“Hm?” Just as Qian Qi was beginning to feel puzzled, her light-brain suddenly lit up.
It was an incoming voice call.
Qian Qi looked at the light-brain number and immediately recognized it as belonging to the person who appeared in the original owner’s call history—the one who contacted her regularly every month.
After a moment’s hesitation, Qian Qi answered the call and greeted the other party in her usual carefree voice. “Hello?”
A gentle, hoarse voice belonging to a middle-aged woman came from the other end. “Qiqi, you’ve used up your living expenses, haven’t you?”
Qian Qi froze.
Could this be the original owner’s mother?
“Not yet.” Qian Qi tapped her fingers against the desk. Hearing how quiet the surroundings on the other end seemed, she tentatively asked, “Are you at home?”
“Home?” The middle-aged woman paused slightly. Then her voice seemed to catch in her throat. Qian Qi could clearly sense the tender smile spilling through the receiver. “Yes. Home. I’m at home.”
Qian Qi gave a soft “oh” and said naturally, “Send me your location. I need it for something.”
“Ah? All right.”
The middle-aged woman did not ask any questions and immediately sent Qian Qi her location. Qian Qi opened it, and her expression instantly froze.
Brightlight Orphanage.
A numb sensation spread from her limbs. Qian Qi’s fingers stroked the five words on the screen as an overwhelming emotion erupted from the depths of her heart. For a moment, she could not tell whether it belonged to the original owner or to herself.
In her previous life, she had been an orphan too, just like the original owner.
Even the orphanage had been called Brightlight Orphanage.
Was it merely a coincidence? Then again, according to the laws of transmigration, it was perfectly normal for the transmigrator and the person she replaced to share the same name and identity, wasn’t it?
Oh, right—there was also her appearance.
She had been here for nearly a week, yet Qian Qi had never once looked in a mirror. She had no idea what she looked like.
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