After I Fell into a Yandere Novel - Chapter 2

I’d bet a million yuan that he was the male lead. That had to be the legendary male-lead aura glittering around him.

And yet I couldn’t believe it.

He looked so sweet. He twirled his pen lazily while chatting with the boy in front of him, one mischievous little canine showing at the corner of his smile.

His face was bright and full of life. He reminded me of a round drop of dew trembling on a fresh green shoot at daybreak—new, vivid, brimming with youthful energy.

Was this really the yandere from the novel?

I hesitated a short distance away, unable to make myself approach.

“An Ruo, why are you just standing there? Your seat is beside Pei Zhiqing.”

Excellent. Thank you, random classmate.

Now I was one hundred percent certain.

This was the male lead: Pei Zhiqing. There was no way I could forget that name.

Why, heaven? Why did this adorable boy—handsome from the tips of his hair to the toes of his shoes, exactly my type—have to be the yandere male lead?

Close to tears, I trudged over as if walking to my execution.

Pei Zhiqing noticed me. He stopped talking to the boy ahead of him and stared at me with a curious expression, rather like a child discovering a strange new toy.

His lips curved. A small canine slowly appeared as his smile widened.

“You’re here.”

He pulled out my chair. “Sit.”

He looked like a considerate, perfectly amiable deskmate.

I had no idea how to act around him.

I racked my brain for the way he and the villainess interacted in the original novel, but their relationship had only been mentioned in passing. Most of the story focused on his meeting the heroine at the school sports day and beginning his twisted, obsessive love for her.

Wait.

Sports day.

Had the plot reached that point yet?

Oh. I might have found my opening.

“Pei Zhiqing,” I ventured.

He looked at me.

His eyes were large and clear, dark pupils sharply outlined against the whites. They had the wet, gentle innocence of a big dog’s eyes.

“What is it? What did you want to say?”

I had absolutely no resistance to boys who looked like this.

Sweetheart, I am available.

But I steadied myself and repeated an inner warning: It was an act. All of it.

Then I asked cautiously, “What event are you planning to enter for sports day?”

He blinked, then smiled, both little canines popping into view. “Who knows? I haven’t decided. It’s still two months away.”

Two months!

I fought to contain my delight.

That meant the leads hadn’t met yet. All I had to do was keep Pei Zhiqing from noticing the heroine and survive the next two months. Then my Save the Heroine mission would be as good as done.

“Oh.” I suppressed the corners of my mouth before they could rise.

Pei Zhiqing suddenly leaned closer. His beautiful eyes were almost unfairly alluring, their outer corners tilting gently down as he resumed twirling his pen.

“An Ruo… what is it about sports day? You look awfully pleased.”

“Of course I am.” I smiled. “Sports day means no classes.”

“Mm.” Pei Zhiqing smiled too, flashing one small canine. “I’m very pleased as well.”