Chapter 14: Wu Yue, We Are the Best in the World

Chapter 14 Wu Yue, We're the Ultimate Besties in the Whole Damn World

Wu Chong turned his head abruptly, all that fancy headgear jingling. "Yueyue, tell me, was Su Mo the one who bullied you worst before?"

Wu Yue shook her head. "No."

She was mere cannon fodder, while Su Mo was the female lead. She wasn’t even worthy of Su Mo’s attention, let alone being specifically bullied by her.

At best, she was just a minor stepping stone on Su Mo’s path to glory.

Wu Chong eyed her skeptically. "Really?"

Wu Yue nodded earnestly. "Mhm."

But Wu Yue's calm sincerity only made Wu Chong imagine...

He pictured Wu Yue shivering alone in some dark, frozen back alley, while that Su Mo woman laid into her with a whip, cackling like a witch.

"Wu Chong, if you want Wu Yue to dress beautifully, you should train even harder."

Jian Suiyu’s words blazed through Wu Chong's mind in bold, oversized letters.

With a *click*, Wu Yue turned her head in surprise.

She saw Wu Chong narrowing his eyes dangerously, racking his Gatling, baring his teeth in a feral grin.

"This time next year will be Su Mo's death anniversary."

!!!

Wu Yue’s eyes widened in shock. What the hell?!

How did we jump straight to murder?! What exactly had Wu Chong imagined in his head?!

No, no!

She didn’t want Wu Chong to fall for Su Mo, but that didn’t mean she wanted him to kill the female lead either!

Su Mo had main character plot armor—who knew if Wu Chong would suffer backlash and die even more miserably if he actually tried to harm her?!

Slapping her hand over the Gatling's muzzle, Wu Yue raised three fingers and swore to the heavens. "Wu Chong, I’m serious. Su Mo really, truly never bullied me.

I just didn’t want my best friend getting chummy with some other girl, so I pulled this jealous act.

Really, really, I swear!

Su Mo is innocent. Don't you dare actually kill her!"

God, would it kill him to act normal?!

Hearing that Wu Yue said it because she liked him, Wu Chong scratched his neck, grinning like an embarrassed idiot. "Heh, you should’ve said so earlier!

Don’t worry, Wu Yue. We'll be the ultimate besties in the whole damn world!"

Seeing that Wu Chong, now properly buttered up, finally unclenched his jaw, Wu Yue finally unclenched hers.

She turned her head and saw the rest of the squad gaping at them, completely gobsmacked.

Wu Yue, "? —! What’s wrong?"

The members all shook their heads.

"Nothing, it's just the first time we've seen Wu Chong being so easy to win over."

"Aside from the captain and vice-captain, Wu Chong has never backed down for anyone else."

"But the captain pounds him into submission if he doesn't listen, and the vice-captain outsmarts him.

So how did Wu Yue... manage to persuade Wu Chong?"

Wu Yue thought for a moment, "Maybe it's just sincerity."

Everyone was stunned, "Huh?"

Wu Yue smiled and glanced sideways at Wu Chong, who was currently doing her hair.

The purer one's heart is, the more they can sense genuine kindness. Goodwill recognizes goodwill, and they can feel it.

However, Wu Yue was puzzled.

In her past life, why did Wu Chong become Su Mo's attack dog after losing his memory? Was it truly the main character plot armor at work, impossible to defy?

At this thought, Wu Yue's moment of relief vanished.

Soon, the shuttle arrived at the resource instance's location.

Not spotting Shadow Squad's shuttle outside the dungeon, Wu Yue let out a quiet sigh of relief.

But another shuttle landed simultaneously with theirs.

To everyone's surprise, this shuttle's luxury was just as decked out as Blaze's.

Although the shuttle Wu Yue and the others were riding was the most basic Blaze model, it was already among the top-of-the-line shuttles in the entire alliance.

Who could possibly be inside a shuttle that rivaled Blaze's?

As soon as they disembarked, Wu Yue heard exclamations from the crowd:

"No way! The Chen family, one of the Big Four families, would come to such a small resource instance!"

"But I heard the Chen family's heir is currently grinding through a storyline instance down south and is stuck there for the foreseeable future!"

"Well, just because it's the Chen family doesn't necessarily mean it's the heir. Doesn't the Chen family have a black sheep too?"

"That black sheep of the Chen family, Chen Yuanlang? But why would Chen Yuanlang need to grind for mats himself?"

"Look, who else is inside that shuttle?"

"That... isn't that post-apocalyptic beauty queen, Su Mo?!"

Wu Yue's right eye started twitching like crazy—speak of the devil.

Unexpectedly, Su Mo hadn't come to the instance with Shadow Squad this time but instead with the Chen family's black sheep.

In her past life, Su Mo had more hangers-on than she could count. Wu Yue was kinda bad with faces, and some of the more ordinary-looking ones she couldn't even remember.

But this Chen family black sheep, Chen Yuanlang, was burned into her memory.

Not because he was handsome, capable, or came from money, but because he had shit for morals and a warped worldview.

As a scion of a noble family and the youngest son who had been doted on since childhood, in Chen Yuanlang's eyes, ordinary people like Wu Yue were nothing but bottom-tier trash.

To Chen Yuanlang, Wu Yue wasn’t even fit to cross Su Mo’s line of sight—let alone be teammates in the same squad.

Ordinary people were nothing but slaves to noble bloodlines like theirs!

So it was no surprise that every time Wu Yue crossed paths with Chen Yuanlang, she was left completely grossed out.

And each time, while Su Mo played at being torn, she never once spoke up for ordinary people.

At the end of the day, Su Mo’s mindset was identical to Chen Yuanlang’s.

Ordinary people were nothing but ants!

"Mo Mo, don’t worry. This time, I’ve brought the strongest combat force from the Chen family. We’ll clear the entire dungeon for you and lay all the treasures at your feet."

Chen Yuanlang sucked up shamelessly, while Su Mo put on her best tough-girl act. "Yuanlang, you should know I’m not that kind of easy catch.

Even if you give me all the treasures, it doesn’t mean I’ll be with you."

Chen Yuanlang bobbed his head like a puppy. "Of course I know! These treasures are just trinkets, really. Please accept them without any hesitation!"

Seeing how compliant Chen Yuanlang was, Su Mo let a smirk tug at her lips, though she still played hard to get.

"Yuanlang, the more you say that, the more embarrassed I feel about accepting your gifts."

Chen Yuanlang panicked. "No, no! Mo Mo, we’re already here! Didn’t you just get an S-grade item that needs crystals?"

Thinking of her newly acquired item, which indeed required crystals, Su Mo reluctantly agreed. "Well... if you insist."

From the way they spoke, it was as if the entire dungeon’s resources were as good as theirs already.

"Hah! Where did these clowns pop up from?

Have you even finished your glow-up before daring to claim you’ll clear the whole dungeon?

Take a good look around—wherever I am, trash like you don’t get squat!"

Wu Yue turned in confusion, only to see Wu Chong sporting that textbook villain grin as he dropped the cockiest one-liner at the protagonists.

SNAP—wait, what was that?

Oh...

It was her last damn nerve just straight-up snapping.