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Chapter 155 It's time to go to school.

When school day arrived, Lu Renkui looked at the original owner's school uniform that she had found. It was a suit jacket and shirt on top, and a skirt on the bottom, which was a short skirt.

Lu Renkui didn't even need to turn on her phone; just by looking at the falling snow outside, she knew the outdoor temperature was definitely below zero.

"System, is this the original owner's winter school uniform?" Lu Renkui looked at the thicker suit and shirt on the upper body and asked with some doubt - she didn't think wearing this would keep her warm, not to mention that even if she wore a pair of flesh-colored thermal underwear on her lower body, she would probably still be shivering from the cold.

"Of course not, are you really not afraid of getting arthritis from wearing this in the dead of winter?" System WQBYRZM said helplessly. "Take another look. The down jacket and cotton pants tucked inside the original owner's wardrobe are the winter school uniforms issued by the school."

"Oh, oh, oh." Lu Renkui listened, rummaged through the wardrobe a few more times, and found the winter school uniform.

After putting it on, Lu Renkui still felt it wasn't warm enough. So he pulled out a fleece vest and put it on underneath.

Okay, it's much warmer now.

After breakfast, Sun's father took "Sun Xi" to school.

After getting off the bus, Lu Renkui, who was inside Sun Xi's body, waved goodbye to Sun's father and then stepped into the school gate.

As soon as Lu Renkui entered the school gate, she felt the power of the Mary Sue world.

Looking around, most of the hair colors in sight are normal, such as black and brown, but there are also some green and white hair colors that look like they have been dyed, but they are still considered normal.

But isn't that blonde hair that reflects light in the sun a bit over the top?

Lu Renkui always walks with her head down—because if she looked up, the sunlight reflected off her blonde hair would pierce her eyes.

However, the girls in the school seem a bit strange. Looking around, very few of the girls in the whole school are wearing school uniforms; they are almost all wearing all sorts of pretty clothes.

"Little cake!" Lu Renkui was wondering when she felt someone pounce on her. Turning around, she recognized the person and the nickname given to the original owner of the body—it was Zhao Wuyin.

After greeting Zhao Wuyin, Lu Renkui also took a look at Zhao Wuyin's attire.

Zhao Wuyin wore a red Lolita dress today. The skirt was knee-length, and the ribbon at the back of the dress was tied into a large bow.

The dress is decorated with white lace trim and strawberries.

In addition, Zhao Wuyin's headdress was also strawberry-shaped, making him look like a red velvet strawberry cake.

Zhao Wuyin is the same type of girl as Sun Xi, and the cherry red lipstick she wore was the icing on the cake, adding a touch of cuteness.

"Wow, why are you dressed so... plainly today?" Shao Zhao Wuyin asked curiously, looking at the "Sun Xi" in front of him who was only wearing a winter school uniform.

"Oh, what day is it today?" Lu Renkui asked, a little confused. "I see that the boys in school are all dressed quite normally."

"Today is the school beauty pageant, didn't you forget?" Zhao Wuyin asked, also looking bewildered.

Lu Renkui fell silent. She had indeed seen something about the school beauty pageant in Sun Xi's memory.

"Isn't this self-registration?" Lu Renkui asked with difficulty.

"Hmm? 'Self-registration' is actually an abbreviation for 'automatic registration' which means registration will happen automatically unless you click 'cancel'," Zhao Wuyin said. "Have you forgotten?"

Lu Renkui fell silent—after all, this part of the original story was initially intended to highlight the heroine's beauty and intelligence, so she hadn't paid much attention to it.

Why is this such an unserious competition, and why is participation mandatory?

What's the point of choosing beauty standards for high school students? Go study!

Doesn't the principal care? Oh right, the principal won't care, because the principal is also subject to the suppression of the school's four powerful figures.

What kind of settings are these?!

Why would such a world really exist?

Yeah, it's okay. Anyway, this is mainly for highlighting the female lead, so it doesn't matter if it's a bit perfunctory.

Just as Lu Renkui was comforting herself, Zhao Wuyin suddenly said, "When you get your number, try to get one from the back. When I'm off the field, I can take off my clothes and give them to you so you can change. If you get one of the last few places, you'll be ridiculed on the school website for a year."

Lu Renkui fell silent again.

People in this world must be incredibly bored.

This is just an excuse to bully me!

“It’s okay, you don’t need to lend it to me,” Lu Renkui said. “I don’t believe that so many people can find me one by one.”

"Ah, but the class monitors will organize it. If you don't go, the class monitors will find out." Zhao Wuyin's message blocked Lu Renkui's escape route once again.

Lu Renkui fell completely silent. She suddenly missed her high school life.

At that time, Lu Renkui was also in her first year of high school. Her classmates, having nothing better to do, also organized a beauty pageant.

Then, amidst a variety of memes, animals, and anime characters, their grade's headmaster—a 50-year-old, balding, and overweight man—successfully won first place.

Wait, now is not the time to reminisce about the past. Lu Renkui shook his head, temporarily banishing his memories of high school from his mind.

After thinking for a while, Lu Renkui continued to ask Zhao Wuyin, "Would it be useful for me to ask for leave?"

"If you ask for leave, you'll automatically be ranked near the bottom. You'll still be posted on the school wall and laughed at," Zhao Wuyin said worriedly. "Little Cake, are you really okay? It feels like you've forgotten a lot about this."

Lu Renkui really wanted to curse now—these little brats were clearly just looking for an excuse to bully others.

Lu Renkui frowned, crossed his arms, and thought for a while.

Seeing that "Sun Xi" across from him hadn't spoken for a long time, Zhao Wuyin took her hand and walked towards the classroom, saying, "How about we do it the way I just said? I'll be at the front of the line, and after I come down, we'll immediately exchange clothes. We need to be quick, so I'll have time to do your makeup."

“Ah, actually, it’s not necessary.” Zhao Wuyin was halfway through his sentence when “Sun Xi” suddenly spoke up.

While Lu Renkui was pondering, he was actually internally processing the rules of this beauty pageant compiled by the system WQBYRZM. He learned that one of the rules was that contestants' time on stage must be limited to three minutes or less, with no minimum time limit.

The stage for the beauty pageant was a stage play, not a proper catwalk.

The beauty pageant format involves contestants walking on a stage while being photographed. These photos are used to rank the contestants based on their beauty. Each contestant can only walk the stage once.

The original text didn't mention what would happen if the photo was blurry, so does that mean that if a photo is blurry enough, then that photo will be unusable?

In addition, given the rule that each person can only walk the path once, and the original owner was merely a background figure, the current student council president who organized this competition—that is, the male protagonist—would not allow the original owner to walk the path again.

After all, this privilege can only be granted to the female lead.

If the photo is invalidated, it might not make it onto that beauty ranking. That might save it from being ridiculed online.

So Lu Renkui came up with a method, which, although it sounded unreliable, was the only feasible method he could think of at the moment.

"Sister Yinyue, does anyone in our class know how to skateboard? Roller skates would be fine too," Lu Renkui said. "If I walk the runway fast enough and the photos I take are blurry enough, will I be able to get into that leaderboard?"

Zhao Wuyin stopped walking and looked at "Sun Xi" with a frown, thinking for a while.

Just as Lu Renkui was worried that this method wouldn't work, Zhao Wuyin relaxed his brow and said with delight, "Great idea, Little Cake. Now that you mention it, I remember hearing that a senior student used this method to avoid making it onto the beauty ranking list and being ridiculed on the school wall."

"Don't worry, I know people who skateboard. I'll take you there right now."

Lu Renkui breathed a sigh of relief, and then let Zhao Wuyin pull her to a teaching building.

This teaching building looks extremely lonely in this large school, as if no one has set foot here for a long time.

The teaching building was covered with ivy, but it was winter and snowing. The ivy wasn't lush and green; it was dry and withered, clinging to the building, making it look cracked from a distance.

"Is anyone actually here?" Lu Renkui asked, looking at the unusually quiet teaching building as she followed Zhao Wuyin up the steps covered with a thin layer of ash.

“My friend doesn’t really like crowded places… but don’t worry, he’s a very nice person.” Zhao Wuyin said as she lifted her skirt and walked upstairs, being careful not to step on any small, hard-to-clean bugs on her shoes.

"Oh oh oh."

Lu Renkui followed Zhao Wuyin as they wandered around the teaching building. She followed Zhao Wuyin all the way to the top floor, and then took the elevator from the top floor all the way down to the basement.

After reaching the basement level, Lu Renkui continued to follow Zhao Wuyin, feeling as if she were following him through a maze.

Finally, they arrived at a rusty iron gate, by which time both girls were covered in sweat from exhaustion.

Lu Renkui wiped the sweat from his forehead and watched as Zhao Wuyin reached out and knocked twice on the iron door, which was half covered in rust.

With a creak, the iron gate opened.