The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

461: Trade Your Alpaca with Me

Ai Lin, who had been frustrated with all the setbacks she experienced, had been feeling better when she saw even Zi Cheng could fail.
She wasn’t as worked up about things anymore and she didn’t try to cozy up to Jier either.
She and Jier could be considered passing acquaintances in the magic division.

Ai Lin had lived in the world long enough that she lost some of her initial foolishness.
She used to think about how to change her fate every day so she wouldn’t be used and destroyed by the heroine.
As a result, most of her interactions with people involved how best she could use them for her purpose.
When she sat down and really thought about it, she realized what she was doing wasn’t right.

It was the old “putting yourself in someone else’s shoes” sentiment.
Other people may not appreciate your heartfelt sincerity if they couldn't tell where you stood because you were too secretive.
Whether you had a hidden motive or not for befriending someone didn't matter.

It was easy for Zi Cheng to make friends using a favorability rating system that allowed her to hide her true feelings from those she interacted with.
The system helped people believe in her sincerity.
Ai Lin didn’t have the advantage of such a cheat system, so if she wanted to make real friends, she couldn’t be a fraud and a cheat.

After some self-introspection, Ai Lin changed a lot and became less utilitarian in her way of thinking.
It was a good change.

She knew Jier wasn’t an easy person to get close to, so that Feng Wu was on such good terms with him meant she couldn’t be an ordinary or simple person, after all, what kind of ordinary, simple person would be able to handle Jier?

As she watched Feng Wu approach, she wondered if she should say hello.
Well whatever, Feng Wu was someone she knew.
She should speak up.

“Xiao Wu, what a surprise to see you.” Ai Lin took the initiative to say hello after thinking about it.

“Oh, hello.” Someone she knew.
This person was strong too.

“Your ___ is really good.
Did you get it from a chest?” Ai Lin was very taken by the ___.

“This is an alpaca beast.” Feng Wu looked at Ai Lin seriously as she corrected the mistake.

The corners of Ai Lin’s mouth twitched.
Wasn’t a ___ an alpaca? What was the difference?

“Well an alpaca is an alpaca.
They’re all the same anyway.” Ai Lin wasn’t going to bother quibbling over the minor detail.
“Was this what you got from a chest? I’m jealous.”

Ai Lin wasn’t being polite, she really was jealous.
How much less troublesome would it be to have a mount to ride? And it was a ___ to boot.
It barely left any imprints in the snow even.
It truly was a divine beast!

“No, I met Flower on the rode.” Feng Wu didn’t hide the matter, but she didn’t give any details either.

“You met on the rode?!” Ai Lin exclaimed in surprise.
Meeting one on the rode.
What kind of ridiculous luck was this? Wasn’t this what a female protagonist would get?

Feng Wu nodded.

“You are so lucky.” Ai Lin could only say it enviously.
How was she not as lucky as Feng Wu?

A voice interrupted them.
Not too far away, a man and a woman were walking toward them.
The man was tall and had an extraordinary appearance.
The woman was delicate and an exquisite beauty with a face that others could only envy.
She looked weak but had a sweet temperament that made you want to take care of her.

Ai Lin only needed a glance to see the girl was a green tea white lotus.[notes]

Feng Wu didn’t feel anything particular.
Jier had told her it didn’t matter what anyone else did, she just needed to mind her own business.

Once the two newcomers reached them, the woman looked enviously at the alpaca Feng Wu was sitting on.
Love nearly flowed out of her eyes.

She would use a very familiar tactic: force a low sale which she would then turn around and sell at huge profit.

“Hey you two, hand the alpaca over right now, otherwise don’t blame this senior for being rude.”

The guy was obviously one of the woman’s suitors.
It looked like they were both fifth years.

Feng Wu didn’t know them.
Ai Lin knew about them, but had never dealt with them personally.

The guy was a well-known powerhouse in the upper grades and though he didn’t make the cut into the top ten, he was eleventh in his class.
The woman was even more famous.
Considered the flower of the fifth year, she was sought after by many suitors.
Her weak appearance and mysterious eyes captivated many of the tough guys.

This guy in particular had to be the flower’s top person, and as the eleventh seat in the fifth year, he was going to grab what the flower wanted.

Feng Wu’s things shouldn’t be easy to steal though.
Ai Lin had been with Feng Wu on a few different occasions, and she knew Feng Wu was a puzzle.
If all the bites she sent Feng Wu’s way about transmigration and reborning into a world hadn’t been ignored, she really would have thought Feng Wu was a transmigrated person like she was.

“Flower is my friend and I won’t give her to you.” Feng Wu refused with a serious face.

Those who wanted to steal her friend were all bad people.
In the past, the hunters under the mountain had nearly killed her good friend, Méi.
Méi was lucky and managed to run away.
She had said the people under the mountain were terrible and had wanted to eat them.

Feng Wu felt the two people in front of her were the kind of bad people that would eat Méi and her friends, so she looked at them with a weary eye.
If they dared grab Flower, she would hit them.
As her master said, always hit back hard.

“Junior classmate, I like this alpaca very much.
Can I trade a bag of water for it? Please trade with me.
I will definitely treat it well,” pleaded the flower of the fifth year pitifully.

That pitiful look, it was designed to make Feng Wu look like a villain if Feng Wu didn’t agree with her.

A bag of water?! Ai Lin complained so much in her heart.
This girl wanted to trade a bag of water for an alpaca? Where did she think they were, in a desert?! The least scarce thing on the snow mountain was water.
The fifth-year flower had to know this.
To use water as a trade. . .  What a black hearted white lotus.
And her skill of pretending to be weak and kind was almost on par with the heroine.

“No, I won’t trade.
Flower is a friend.
I won’t trade a friend.” Feng Wu’s small brow wrinkled.
She already said she wouldn’t trade; these two people were annoying.

The guy shouted.
“How dare you not cherish the blessing given you! Instead of doing things the easy way, you want to do things the hard way.
Even if you are a member of our Sword division, I can’t allow it to pass!” How dare a mole insult his goddess!

“Wû Xiu, don’t be like that.
This junior just can’t bear to part with her pet is all.
Don’t scare her.” The fifth-year flower said with an expression like she was pretending to be strong even though she was being wronged.