27: Chapter 27 The Unlucky Loli

Su Qingxue helplessly straightened her messy collar.

"Yaoyao, stop messing around."

Chu Yaoyao.

The little princess of the Chu family, her childhood friend and bestie.

Don't be fooled by this girl's soft and cute appearance; she was actually a violent maniac with an A+ Rank Wind Spirit Talent, and was widely known throughout the school as the 'Guaranteed Bone-Breaker.'

"I didn't take any medicine."

Su Qingxue opened her palm, and the half-remaining delusion-breaking ice crystal lay quietly in her hand. It was this.

"This is..."

Chu Yaoyao leaned in to take a closer look. "A high-purity spiritual crystal? It even has an ice attribute. This thing must have come from at least a D-Rank mutated exotic beast, right? You can't even buy this on the market. Where did you get it? Did you rob Uncle Su's private stash?"

"I bought it."

The figure of the person running the night market stall appeared in Su Qingxue's mind. "Fifty thousand yuan."

"Fifty thousand?"

Chu Yaoyao's voice instantly rose an octave, shaking the ice fragments off the ceiling. "Fifty thousand yuan for a D-Rank exotic treasure? Which spendthrift sold it? Tell me quickly! I'm going to go seize everything he owns!"

"A... very interesting person."

Su Qingxue's lips twitched slightly.

That guy who put a dead wolf into a fresh-keeping bag and seriously made someone perform an unboxing ceremony.

"Night market, Lin Fan," Su Qingxue said succinctly.

"Lin Fan? That F-Rank Tras—cough, that legendary blind box boss?"

Chu Yaoyao's eyes instantly lit up like light bulbs. "I heard! The whole school was buzzing this afternoon, saying he slapped that rich brat Wang Teng's face until it was swollen! So it's actually true?"

"The blind boxes are real, and the face-slapping is real too."

Su Qingxue put away the crystal, her tone returning to its usual coldness. "But these blind boxes definitely have something to them. He seems to have a special ability to turn ordinary corpses into... opportunities."

"Exciting!"

Chu Yaoyao hopped excitedly in place, her skirt fluttering. "I knew this would be fun! Gambling fifty thousand for a return of hundreds of thousands—this game was practically tailor-made for me!"

She put her hands on her hips and laughed towards the sky.

"It's decided. I'm going tomorrow!"

"I'm known as the 'Jianghai Gacha Goddess.' I've never even missed a 'One More Bottle' prize since I was a kid. Tomorrow, I'm going to pull his store's ultimate treasure and show him what real luck looks like!"

Su Qingxue looked at her best friend's overflowing confidence and hesitated to speak.

A Gacha Goddess?

She remembered that when Chu Yaoyao went to pull cards last month, six hundred pulls only resulted in pity-timer blues and whites. She was so angry she almost ate her phone.

The month before that, this girl went to buy lottery tickets, and the numbers missed the grand prize perfectly, all being adjacent numbers.

"Yaoyao..."

Su Qingxue sighed, her eyes filled with a trace of pity. "Bring enough money. That Lin Fan... is quite black-hearted."

"Pfft, do I look like I'm short on cash?"

Chu Yaoyao waved her hand grandly, full of heroic spirit. "As long as I can pull something good, I'll bury him in money. Just you watch tomorrow; I'm going to make that Shrewd Merchant kneel on the ground and sing 'Conquered'!"

Watching her best friend's skipping figure as she left, Su Qingxue shook her head.

She had a feeling.

That the Shrewd Merchant might not be the one singing 'Conquered' tomorrow.

But a certain self-proclaimed Gacha Goddess who was actually an Unlucky Chieftain would most likely come back crying.

...

The next morning.

Jianghai No. 3 Middle School, Grade 12, Class 2.

As soon as Lin Fan walked into the classroom, the originally noisy environment instantly fell silent.

Dozens of eyes turned to look at him in unison.

There was awe, curiosity, but even more so, a fervor as if they were looking at a legendary figure.

The internet was very advanced nowadays. After fermenting for a night, the events at the night market had already spread throughout the school's online forums.

The former F-Rank Trash, selling blind boxes at a stall, forcing Wang Teng back, earning a hundred thousand a day... as these events were unearthed, Lin Fan completely became a man of the hour.

What's the point of having good grades at school? Don't you still have to work after graduating university? As for revitalizing the martial path and resisting the myriad races? Is that something a commoner like me should be thinking about?

The former bottom-tier talent was now earning a hundred thousand yuan a day; he was already far ahead of everyone else!

"Morning, Brother Fan!"

"Brother Fan, do you have any blind boxes in stock today? Can you save one for me?"

Several boys who usually hung out with Wang Teng now approached with flattering expressions, holding breakfasts they had prepared in advance.

Lin Fan ignored these fair-weather friends.

He walked straight to his seat and stuffed his backpack into the desk drawer.

Just as he sat down, a faint, delicate fragrance wafted over.

"Morning."

Su Qingxue, in the front row, didn't look back and simply uttered a single word.

"Morning, Boss Su."

Lin Fan responded with a smile, "How was the experience last night? Was that fifty thousand yuan worth it?"

The pen in Su Qingxue's hand paused for a moment.

"More than worth it."

She turned around, her cold eyes focusing seriously on Lin Fan for the first time. "However, I must warn you. Wang Teng is narrow-minded. You humiliated him so badly yesterday; the Wang family won't let it go. Be careful lately."

"Thanks for the warning."

Lin Fan shrugged, looking indifferent. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. As long as they can afford the appearance fee, I don't mind playing along with them some more."

Just then.

A sudden commotion came from the classroom entrance.

"Move, move! A good dog doesn't block the way!"

An extremely arrogant voice rang out.

Immediately after, a young girl wearing a Lolita dress rushed in like a gust of wind, heading straight for Lin Fan's seat.

*Slap!*

A golden bank card was slammed heavily onto Lin Fan's desk.

"Are you Lin Fan?"

Chu Yaoyao leaned on the desk with both hands, staring down at Lin Fan, her large eyes burning with intense fighting spirit.

"I'm Chu Yaoyao, Su Qingxue's best friend!"

"I heard your blind boxes are miraculous?"

"Save a spot for me tonight, the best kind! I'm going to show you what it means for a real Gacha Goddess to descend!"

The whole class fell into a dead silence.

Everyone stared at the scene, dumbfounded.

The school beauty, Chu Yaoyao?

That legendary 'Goddess of Misfortune' who could trip over a banana peel just by walking was actually going to challenge Lin Fan's blind boxes?

Lin Fan looked at the gold card on the table, then at the energetic girl before him whose head was faintly shrouded in dark energy.

The S-Rank Talent Eye of True Sight activated automatically.

[Target: Chu Yaoyao]

[Luck: The Ultimate Unlucky Chieftain, -40]

[Super Big Sheep. Suggest increasing the intensity.]

Lin Fan laughed. The ultimate Unlucky Chieftain? Was this some kind of special constitution?

"How can such a beautiful girl have such a 'dark face'?" Lin Fan muttered to himself.

He extended a finger, lightly pressed down on the gold card, and slowly pushed it back.

"Student Chu, right?"

"Since you're Boss Su's best friend, you must have preferential treatment."

"Tonight, I'll prepare a Supreme VIP Package for you. I guarantee it will be unforgettable for a lifetime."

Looking at Lin Fan's harmless smile, for some reason, a chill suddenly shot up Chu Yaoyao's spine.

But this chill was quickly suppressed by excitement.

"It's a deal!"

She lifted her chin, her twin tails drawing a haughty arc in the air. "Just you wait to go bankrupt!"

Lin Fan watched her departing figure, the smile on his lips growing wider.

Bankrupt?

"Doesn't this girl know about her own unlucky constitution? Where does she get her confidence from?"

"She's definitely the type with poor skill but high addiction! I hope she doesn't ruin my stall's reputation."

Tonight, someone is most likely going to have a mental breakdown.