Why are all the heroines falling for me, the villain?

This means that Hinata Kotone's declaration has reached its fifth day.

I spent the entire morning studying.

At lunchtime, Shimazuga greeted Riki as usual, then took his lunchbox and went out. As for where he usually ate lunch, no one knew, including Riki.

Kyoko led a group of classmates out in a flurry of activity, presumably to meet at the so-called "Anti-Student Union Alliance" base.

Xun once invited Li Zhu to visit the Reading Literature Club's activity room to meet the club members and have lunch together.

Li Zhu readily agreed.

That's all... The reading club was great, but I'm never going again.

The main problem is that a "rough" person like Li Zhu is really not suited to that kind of atmosphere.

The entire reading and literature club has a total of eight people: six girls and two boys, all of whom are seniors. The only freshmen are Xun and another bespectacled boy from the next class.

Surprisingly, Xun was the only one in the club who wasn't wearing glasses; everyone else was nearsighted.

Li Zhu still can't forget the day she was surrounded by a group of aloof senior girls wearing glasses. It was like going to the zoo to see monkeys, with everyone's eyes shining.

"It's a friend brought by the smoked meat!"

"Really? We finally have guests visiting our reading and literature club?"

Although not all of them had smiles on their faces, their reactions showed that they cherished the guests who came to visit the club. The few male members also diligently brewed a cup of black tea and handed it to Li Zhu.

"Thank you, thank you."

"Excuse me, friend with smoked meat, what is your name?"

"My name is Li Zhu." Li Zhu smiled shyly as she was greeted by the seniors around her.

"How about I call you Li-san?"

"OK."

Although boys as handsome and charismatic as Li Zhu are rare, the students, who love reading, don't often keep up with the outside world, so they aren't very familiar with Li Zhu, a popular figure among the first-year high school students.

"Li-san, do you like reading?" One of the senior students with a ponytail adjusted her large glasses, took out a small notebook, and asked gently.

"Um, I'd say I kind of like it." Li Zhu glanced subconsciously at Xun not far away, indicating that Li Zhu was fine and there was no need to worry.

"So what kind of books do you like to read?" another senior colleague asked.

"I've been watching 'Shaving and Finding...' lately, oops, I misspoke, it should be 'No Game No Life'."

Li Zhu thought to herself, "Damn, that was close. How could I have said I like watching shaving videos?"

"Playing with life?"

Several young girls dressed in school uniforms and black pleated skirts looked at each other, their eyes filled with confusion, because they had never heard of this famous book before.

"Excuse me, Li-san, which author's famous work are you referring to?" a girl with long, straight black hair and small round-framed glasses asked curiously.

"...It's not a masterpiece, it's just a light novel."

Li Zhu felt a little ashamed. She noticed that some of them were holding Tagore's "Stray Birds" and others were holding Maupassant's "Boule de Suif." As soon as they opened their mouths, she realized the gap between herself and these literary girls.

"Light novels?" This was yet another new term for them.

"I know about light novels!"

"Yukina-chan actually knew?" The other girls all turned their surprised gazes to her.

"Although I haven't read it, I know that light novels are a new genre of novels." The girl with medium-length hair named Yukina, who was holding "Boule de Suif" in her arms, explained to the people around her. She looked at Riki, as if to make sure she hadn't said anything wrong in front of him.

"A popular writing style that effectively conveys the story to the reader, often using comic-style illustrations; a genre of entertaining popular literature and folk literature."

"That sounds pretty impressive." The department head, the one who had been holding the notebook earlier, had written down what Yukina had said.

"That seems to be the case."

"I've never been exposed to the concept of light novels before. I didn't expect Riko to be so knowledgeable. She even knows those things. No wonder she's Kaoru's friend."

"Li-san is amazing!"

The girls' gazes returned to me; clearly, they were stunned by Xue Nai's sophisticated words.

"No, no, no, the classics you read are the real gems. Light novels are generally written in everyday language that readers are used to. They cover a wide range of topics, are easy to understand, and are often sold in inexpensive paperback format. Essentially, they are just long stories," Li Zhu hurriedly explained. After all, even online novels are not yet mature in this world, so people usually only read light novels in bookstores to pass the time.

If Li Zhu didn't actually know that they were all naive young ladies, she would have really thought that this literary girl holding "Stray Birds" was mocking him, a commoner who reads light novels.

In short, the conversation that followed was also strange and tiring to talk about.

Li Zhu felt like a husky that had infiltrated a pack of wolves, talking to a group of highly cultured girls about nothing. She didn't know much about literature, and if she gave herself away, she would make a fool of herself.

Since then, no matter how much Xun invited him, Li Zhu would never go to that godforsaken place again; he would look stupid there.

Kira also invited Riki to the sports club's activity room. Because the sports club includes many departments, such as various ball sports, track and field, kendo, judo, swimming, etc., the first and second floors of the club activity building were allocated to the sports club.

Kira is the ace of the track and field team. He has participated in several training programs, and his specialty is long-distance running.

He took Li Zhu to the activity room on the first floor, where the bold and strong senior girls gathered around. After all, such a handsome junior, who looked so young, was right up their alley!

I don't know if those dark-skinned senior girls developed their thick skin through daily training, but they didn't seem discouraged at all after being rejected by Li Zhu.

Touching and pinching here and there, they said that Li Zhu's physical development was okay, but he still needed some exercise. They were implying that he could ask them for extra lessons after class to help him exercise and let them see if his development was normal.

Although Li Zhu didn't know what kind of classes they were taking, she had a very bad feeling about it.

Okay, the sports department can't come either.

All her friends were unreliable, so Li Zhu had to eat lunch alone on the rooftop.

Later, he couldn't even go to the rooftop anymore, so he could only eat his lunch at the school cafeteria, enduring everyone's surprised looks.

We can't eat in the classrooms, nor can we eat on campus outside the buildings. We don't dare go to the rooftop or other deserted places, so this is the only option.

The reason behind it is heartwarming.

Let's rewind to the present.

After school at noon, there were very few people left in the classroom. Li Zhu didn't seem to want to leave yet and decided to wait a while.

After all, I've run into Hinata Kotone at the restaurant four times in a row, it's a bit weird.

Moreover, the restaurant always only has one table left. Even a fool would know there's something wrong with that. The worst part is that the same "mute" person is sitting opposite you, eating with you.

I have a feeling that Hyuga Kotone has a grand plan in mind!

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Chapter 109 Refusal

But Qin Yin kept pretending to be mute and didn't speak, and Li Zhu couldn't understand her thoughts.

In the past few days, according to Li Zhu's observation, she found that Kotone was not acting strangely, and Miki did not show any signs of coercing her. On the contrary, she always treated Kotone with great respect.

Now, Li Zhu had to deny her outrageous conjecture from the day before yesterday; her wishful thinking about using someone else to do her dirty work was just wishful thinking.

"Yes, no matter what the original plot was like, that yuri yandere girl would never harm Hinata Kotone in the slightest."

Since Kotone and Miki don't have the relationship they imagined, we can only go back to the plot itself.

Teru Hoshino is the key to breaking the deadlock.

If Miki hadn't started the trouble, he wouldn't have been forced to retaliate.

"Seriously, is Hinata Kotone trying to win me over?"

While Riki wanted to get rid of Fujiwara Miki, she was also on guard against Hinata Kotone suddenly pulling a fast one: "Either die in silence or explode in silence."

"Ah Zhu, someone's looking for you!" Kira He, who was packing his things by the door, turned around and shouted.

"Someone's looking for me?" Li Zhu looked up and saw a familiar figure standing at the door.

It's Kamikawa Kyoko! What's she doing here?!

Li Zhu met the emotionless eyes at the door. To be honest, Jingzi's eyes were very beautiful, like the stars in the sky, but they gave the impression of a deep, bottomless dead well.

Of course, only Li Zhu has this feeling.

The others were unaware of the mirror's true appearance, and were at most surprised by the vice president's youthful appearance.

After all, she looked like an adorable junior high school student, with striking, smooth silver hair, delicate and petite features like a mixed-race person, and a signature black and white dress.

"Did you need something from me?" Li Zhu asked, forcing a smile as she stood three steps away from her.

"Marie wants to see you." She said this calmly, then took two steps forward, hugged Riyu's waist, rested her chin on his chest, and looked up at him.

"Chairman Kujo is looking for me?"

When Li Zhu heard this woman's name, he felt a little scared. To be honest, he didn't want to get close to this young lady of the Kujo family.

After all, when playing games, he couldn't get past the level no matter what he tried, and he kept failing. He was almost developing PTSD. This was his reaction to the nine storylines.

She sent the mirror over so that Li Zhu wouldn't be able to refuse the request. After all, the mirror would hug him as soon as they met, and if Li Zhu refused to come over, the silver-haired loli could hug him forever.

Left with no other choice, Riyu was led by the mirror to meet the young lady, Kujo.

Throughout the journey, he kept wondering what went wrong that made the female protagonist, the strongest character in the story, hug him the moment they met.

"What merit or honor does Tali Zhu have (crying voice)!"

As time goes by, something will soon come to light.

First, there was Yuko's medicine. Riyu felt that there were some connections between it and her girlfriend from her previous life.

Then came Qin Yin's declaration, which reminded Li Zhu of an old friend. On his first day at the new school, Qin Yin had handed him a love letter, saying that she would make Li Zhu fall in love with her for the rest of the time. This was very similar to Qin Yin's declaration.

The mirror's unusual behavior, and why Jiu Tiao keeps paying attention to a stranger he's only met a few times...

"We're here." The mirror let go of her hand as soon as they arrived.

The truth is shrouded in mystery.

Just like the woman hiding behind this door with the student council sign, she's troublesome and difficult to deal with.

Upon entering, you'll see Marie Kujo leaning back in her chair, petting a cat. A pure white, short-legged cat is lazily nestled in her lap, its head resting on her soft breasts, a feature commonly known as a "brain pad wave."

This heartwarming scene softened even the usually sharp-looking Kujo.

"I heard that Chairman Kujo is looking for me?" Riyu asked calmly, looking at her.

"Hmm." Putting down the cat, she turned her chair to face him and looked Li Zhu up and down, all her languidness vanishing.

"I heard you've been in trouble lately?" Jiu Tiao's words were loaded with meaning, and it was unclear what she actually knew, though her tone was as casual as if she were just asking a question.

"It is indeed a bit troublesome." Li Zhu nodded. After all, since that's what they said, with the power of the Kujo family, they must have investigated very thoroughly.

"Need my help? Just like I can get you into the judging panel, I guarantee the outcome will be smooth." She straightened up from the back of her chair, her gaze piercing, her smile full of malice.

"Thank you for your help, President, but I can handle this myself and don't need anyone else's help for the time being," Li Zhu declined.

The last person to ask Kujo for help was already her slave. Unless you think you can endure that long period of torture, live a life of subservience, and eventually destroy the Kujo family.

"Oh?"

Kujo was somewhat surprised that Riki refused her suggestion. She had calculated that from Riki's perspective, the probability of her request being rejected was less than 10%.

She couldn't understand how an ordinary male high school student from a single-parent family, whose mother worked for the Hyuga family's company, could be followed by the Hyuga family's bodyguards for an unknown reason, all on the orders of that idiot Hyuga Kotone.

Although she didn't know the reason, she guessed it was most likely related to the rejection of Hyuga Kotone's confession at the sports festival. The Hyuga family was probably so angry that they agreed to use their family's resources to deal with a mere brat.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Kujo felt that his chance had come. Since Hinata Kotone liked Riki so much that she was willing to use her family's power, why not snatch her away as a bargaining chip?

She attempted to win over Riki to deal with Hinata Kotone, because she wanted to use Riki to pull off a stunt that would bring shame upon the Hinata clan!

"Is there anything else, President? If not, I'll go have lunch now."

"Since you won't accept the Kujo family's help, why don't you join the student council? Once you become a member of the student council, you and your family will be protected, and you won't have any trouble anymore."

“That sounds good, but I refuse.” Li Zhu thought for a moment and then refused again.

"Oh? Could you tell me why you don't want to join the student council?"

"Maybe I'm just used to being free," Li Zhu said casually, not daring to tell the truth.

Upon hearing this, Kujo narrowed his long, narrow eyes slightly, his expression showing surprise, but also a hint of displeasure.

As the eldest daughter of the Kujo family, being rejected three times in a row was still quite annoying.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the student council became somewhat tense, and no one spoke anymore.

Despite being rejected three times, Li Zhu remained calm, though he was actually starting to panic inside. He was terrified that Kujo would suddenly close the door and put up a mirror!