The School Beauty Became My Live-in Maid to Pay Off Her Debts-Chapter 156 Interesting Person

Lingmeng came to Huai City from her tiny mountain village and stayed with a cousin’s sister for a few days.

That cousin’s sister seemed somewhat disdainful of this girl who had come from a small mountain village.

Lingmeng was very sensitive, just like when she first got to the "Green Plum" milk tea shop not long after and noticed Boss Lin occasionally glancing at the feet of her, his employee.

She quickly sensed the cousin’s disdain for her.

While the cousin smiled at her on the surface, her every word was tinged with scorn for Lingmeng’s rusticity.

Lingmeng thought to herself that although she hadn’t had much education, she was clever.

She understood.

People in big cities are complicated, one set on the surface and another behind the back.

They smile to her face, but they don’t like her.

She had never seen such people in her village.

Even the little village dogs would bark directly at someone they didn’t like—why did people have to speak in hints and sarcasm, why couldn’t they just speak plainly?

This was the first lesson Lingmeng learned in the big city.

During those days when she was job-hunting, she often wondered what about her was considered rustic.

Was it because she didn’t have pretty little dresses?

The village’s grandpas and grandmas always praised her as the village beauty, and the few dogs at the village entrance would wag their tails like helicopter rotors whenever they saw her.

No issues at all, definitely not rustic!

Ji Ruhua is the village beauty!

Lingmeng quickly found her first job, moved out of her relative’s home, and into a hostel.

This electronics factory job was accepted in a bit of a hurry.

The salary wasn’t low, much higher than farming and raising pigs at home.

But the repetitive work was boring.

The small dormitory housed eight girls in bunk beds.

On her first day living in the dormitory, the dorm leader added Lingmeng to their eight-person chat group.

Everyone was happily gathering, chatting in the group after work, listening to her stories about raising pigs and farming, then saying her village sounded interesting, not inferior to the big city, and that she was really pretty.

Later on, Lingmeng accidentally found out.

The other seven girls had created a separate group without her, led by the dorm leader, and they gossiped about her in that group every day.

They said her village was too rustic and couldn’t compare to the big city, and that she was too vain and too rustic.

People from the city are quite interesting, Lingmeng thought to herself.

Then one day, the dorm leader’s boyfriend blocked her path home on his Ghost Fire bike, holding a big bunch of fake flowers, and confessed his feelings to her.

The dorm leader saw this scene and immediately started rolling on the ground, crying so hard she struggled for breath.

Lingmeng thought to herself that she truly had the bearing of a village beauty, not rustic at all.

She then quit her job at the electronics factory overnight and left.

Afterward, she switched through various jobs and met all kinds of people.

In her first year in Huai City, Lingmeng always maintained a curious and observant attitude, watching these people.

It was somewhat like when she was little, walking home after school, watching ants move house on the side of the road, witnessing birds return to their nests, seeing the clouds roll and change.

Lingmeng liked observing these interesting things, just like she used to observe nature in her village.

Now, in the big city, she observed these people.

These people are truly interesting.

Over a year passed, and Lingmeng also summed up a set of experiences on how to deal with these interesting people.

She was always sincere with others—if someone was good to her, she would repay them in kind.

But if someone treated her badly, she couldn’t bring herself to repay unkindness with kindness.

In her free time, Lingmeng also slowly began to delve into the second dimension.

Watching shows, occasionally visiting anime conventions, she also made some friends who would compliment each other every day, calling each other cute and pretty.

The second dimension folks—they would be a bit simpler, right?— probably wouldn’t secretly form groups to call her rustic, right?

When Lingmeng first came to Huai City, she was deeply impressed by the cosplayers she saw in the subway.

Combined with that cousin, and some other people she met later, always commenting on her being rustic.

Eventually, Lingmeng slowly became a very amateur cosplayer.

With the money from her salary left over after sending it to her parents, she would buy some inexpensive cosplay outfits to wear for herself.

She would often put on cheap, pretty dresses, twirling in front of the mirror.

No problem at all! Absolutely not tacky! freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

Ru Hua is the village beauty~

Afterward, she tried registering a social media account and started posting selfies of herself in various cosplayer outfits.

They were all pretty dresses that were not revealing; hardly any leg was shown, as Lingmeng just wanted everyone to compliment her on her looks.

She’s not tacky at all!

With Ru Hua’s beauty, sublime as jade, she gradually became a somewhat famous cosplayer.

Then, private messages started coming in, saying being a cosplayer could make a lot of money.

Much more than what you’d earn from part-time jobs or working.

Lingmeng, who came from a small village, knew all too well how hard it was to earn money.

How much sweat had to be poured into farming with her parents before earning a little bit of cash.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

So, when she saw the business invitations and generous offers in her private messages,

she felt there must be a catch.

And sure enough... you’d have to wear very revealing dresses.

Lingmeng blushed looking at the example photos that were sent.

Though they were all pretty dresses, surely such revealing dresses shouldn’t be worn for others to see, right?

Big cities are really strange.

She had bought many slightly revealing dresses too, because they were pretty, for her own eyes only.

Never sent them to anyone else.

At this thought, Lingmeng sat in the back of the bus, took out her phone again for a glance.

She was on her way to a cosplayer fashion store run by a sister, to see if there were any affordable dresses to buy.

Speaking of which, it was right at the storefront of that shop that she first met Lin Shuang...

That darn Lin Shuang still hasn’t replied to her messages!

He still hasn’t complimented the photo she posted yesterday.

In the past, he’d always praise her for being truly beautiful right after she sent it.

—Alright, she would send those slightly revealing dresses’ photos to Lin Shuang, her bargain mentor.

But Lin Shuang shouldn’t count as "someone else".

He’s her mentor!

A mentor with a well-known name.

Yep, this mentor of hers is a pervert who fancies his disciple’s bare feet.

It was all at his request.

She’s so innocent, just a poor, weak, helpless, and well-behaved little disciple.

In any case, it’s all his fault.

Lingmeng pursed her lips, put away her phone, and turned to look out the moving bus’s window at the receding streetscape.

Thinking of Lin Shuang, a smile couldn’t help but form on her lips.

Being in Huai City for so long...

Lin Shuang was the most interesting person she had met.

She wanted to know more about him, to observe him...

Just like when she was a child, going home by climbing the mountain after school.

Observing those pairs of butterflies, birds flying side by side, and the tightly hugging beetles.

Young Lingmeng didn’t understand why these animals wanted to cling to each other.

She even mischievously pried them apart, but they would quickly cling to each other again.

It seemed impossible to separate them.

Lingmeng would go back and ask her mother.

Her mother would say with a smile, "Ru Hua, when you grow up, you’ll understand."

Later on, Lingmeng grew up and became the village beauty, as exquisite as jade.

She left the small mountain village and came to the big city of Huai City.

She met Lin Shuang.

Now, it seems like she understands.