God Invasion: It's awesome to save the world with five problematic girls!
Chapter 86 - 27. There’s a kind of pain called ’someone else’s child’ _3

Chapter 86: 27. There’s a kind of pain called ’someone else’s child’ _3

Bai Yi has a bit of a hoarder trait.

But still, the corner of her eye couldn’t help being drawn to a notice board by the school gate, where she saw the student council’s logo and an introduction of its members.

"Yan Huan, Student Council President, won the favor of classmates in the autumn term with stellar grades and unbeatable charisma, garnering a total of..."

Bai Yi paused slightly while eating her candied hawthorn as she looked at the notice board with Yan Huan’s photo, her face uncontrollably showing annoyance.

"Tch."

As the taste of the candied hawthorn faded, she couldn’t bear to throw it away and took it with her as she left Yuanyue Academy during lunch break.

...

...

In the evening, inside a high-end villa in Jinghe District.

Bai Yi used her fingerprint to enter the room; the sound of the kitchen vent hood suggested her mother was cooking.

She glanced in the direction of the kitchen, changed her shoes at the door, and took off the fisherman’s hat, sunglasses, and mask, tossing them into a nearby basket.

"I’m back..."

"How was school today?"

However, the voice responding to her came from the living room, not the kitchen.

Bai Yi was momentarily startled and smoothed her slightly disheveled, soft black hair.

Indifferently walking into the living room, she said,

"What else, just the usual, it was just an elective class..."

There was a middle-aged woman sitting on the living room sofa in a gray lounge outfit, sizing her up.

That was Bai Yi’s mother, Zuo Jiangqin.

Hearing Bai Yi’s words, Zuo Jiangqin furrowed her brows and exposed her lie,

"This afternoon, I sent Ji Lin to pick you up from school; she said she didn’t see you come out."

Ji Lin, full name Ji Lin, Bai Yi’s agent.

Bai Yi’s movement to enter her room paused slightly, she too frowned and looked at her mother in the living room, retorting,

"Didn’t I say I would come back on my own in the afternoon?"

"You didn’t go to school at all, did you?"

"...So?"

Bai Yi took a deep breath, and instead of retreating to her room, she approached the living room and said to Zuo Jiangqin,

"It’s just an elective class, what does it matter if I attend or not?"

"What does it matter, you better take a good look..."

The woman grew even more angry upon hearing Bai Yi’s indifferent words.

She pulled out her phone, opened her email, and showed Bai Yi a report,

"The student council sent me an email this morning reporting your start-of-term exam results... Out of a perfect score of 500, you got 292! Ranked 152 out of 178 students, isn’t that a disgrace? Ah? If your fans knew your academic performance was this bad, who knows what they would say online..."

"What do I care what they say? I have activities every day, I barely attend classes, how am I supposed to test?"

"Hardly attended any classes... then why didn’t you go when I tried sending you this afternoon? It’s your own negligence, you’re lazy!"

"Mom, if you don’t understand, could you please not pretend like you do? Can’t you even distinguish between mandatory and elective courses before giving advice?"

Completely talking at cross-purposes, Bai Yi irritably waved her hand and said,

"I’m tired, I’m going back to rest..."

Bai Yi was annoyed by the nagging, but her departure was halted by the sharp voice of the woman behind her,

"Hold on! You’re always so careless! Ji Lin told me, you participate in activities reluctantly; you’re also lackadaisical at school, what are you actually trying to do?"

...

Activities... activities...

Those damn activities were all your arrangements...

Forbidden from writing songs, talking about slow exposure, aiming to capture the Yan fan market, resulting in her being pushed to eat grass every day...

The mother as well, eager for quick profits, gets excited when the agent mentions a commercial deal, yet it’s her who ends up exhausted, running around...

Even though there were a thousand words in her heart wanting to be voiced, Bai Yi, after taking a deep breath, decided to avoid it.

Her face fell, tired of arguing with her mother, she turned around again wanting to head back to her room,

"Wait a second, you young lady... eat the salad on the table!"

...

Bai Yi completely ignored her mother behind her, her hand already pressing on the doorknob.

But her mother behind her wasn’t looking at her anymore, it seemed they were both familiar with this routine.

However, today, it seemed that the email reporting the grades had made Zuo Jiangqin extremely sentimental as she said,

"Look, that Yan Huan from your student council, her grades are so good, and she is also the President, always ranking first in every exam. And don’t forget, she was there when I took you to the child star selection..."

Listening to her mother’s words, Bai Yi pushed the door open, her steps just about to enter the room then stopped.

But her mother didn’t notice at all, her fists hidden under her sleeves were already clenched...

"People laugh a little, and immediately the TV station leaders took a fancy to him, insisting on signing him... He only shows his face, and the TV station begs him but he doesn’t go. We went through so much trouble, writing songs and practicing musical instruments, just to get a slot..."

Talking about this, Zuo Jiangqin felt a surge of irritation,

"What right do you have not to work hard? Ah? You’re so inconsistent... People can choose, we can’t, that means we must seize the opportunity even more.

"I helped you enter the entertainment industry, made a name for yourself, you should cherish it, be active in participating in activities; I invested money to get you into Yuan Yue, you have to work hard, improve your academic results, it will also help Ji Lin work on developing your image... Did you hear me, huh?"

Bai Yi’s mother looked up, only to find that at some point, she was looking at her with a cold face.

Looking at her with an unprecedented expression.

In the darkness, some sort of desire seemed to freeze the air.

Even though soup was still cooking in the kitchen, the heat couldn’t dispel the chill...

Bai Yi looked at her mother like that, after a moment of silence, she taunted with a laugh, saying,

"Since you like him so much, you might as well make him your son."

"You..."

"Bang!"

Before Zuo Jiangqin could say anything more, Bai Yi had already pulled open the room door and slammed it shut as she entered.

"This child..."

Zuo Jiangqin frowned, still looking disappointed and resentful.

She sat rigidly on the sofa for a long while, and unlike usual, no guitar sounds came from Bai Yi’s room.

The villa was filled with a dead silence that finally made Zuo Jiangqin reluctantly admit...

She might have been a bit too harsh.

But wasn’t it because Bai Yi’s daily work was not being done properly, and she was too lazy in her studies?

How could this go on?

Zuo Jiangqin felt her intentions were right, just that the method applied was wrong.

She often mentioned that kid named "Yan Huan" in front of Bai Yi.

After all, during the company’s child star selection, that exceptionally handsome boy was indeed impressive.

And now at Yuan Yue, he was popular and his grades were explosively good...

Zuo Jiangqin just thought setting up a competitor for Bai Yi could ignite her fighting spirit, that’s why she emphasized tirelessly.

"Beep beep beep..."

Just then, the kitchen timer suddenly sounded.

Her soup was ready.

Zuo Jiangqin sighed, entered the kitchen, turned off the stove, and ladled a bowl of pork rib soup out.

Walking back to the living room, she picked up the salad on the table and walked towards Bai Yi’s room door,

"Knock knock knock..."

"Dinner’s ready."

This was Zuo Jiangqin’s signal for reconciliation.

But after a long while, there was still no response from inside the room.

Seeing this, Zuo Jiangqin, who had just convinced herself to calm down, felt a flicker of anger again.

She placed the soup and salad on the table, returned, and prepared to directly open Bai Yi’s room door.

"I said it’s time to eat, did you hear..."

However, upon opening the door, the room filled with a guitar, sheet music, computer, and gaming console was empty...

"Yiyi?"

Zuo Jiangqin was slightly startled, calling out Bai Yi’s nickname as if shocked.

However, the room was utterly silent, only the wind outside the villa on the first floor blew in, making the open window’s curtains dance as if responding.