Waste of Time

"Great, I can't wait to waste my entire day today waiting for some heroines." Right after Ronald had woken up, and got off his bed, there was a knocking at his door.

*Tap tap*

"Huh? Who is it?"

"Young Master Kuangge, it's me, Iris. There's breakfast for you downstairs."

"Okay thank yo- wait a second, how did you know when I woke up?" Ronald was speechless, even if Iris was a killer and her hearing senses was more enhanced than normal people, how did she know exactly when he woke up?

"As the Young Master's personal maid, I have to be attentive to you at all times just like the Young Master said last night, so I waited outside your room in the morning until I heard movements inside your bedroom." Iris actually stood guard outside of Ronald's room almost the entire night, only leaving her position once to get a two hour nap before standing guard again.

All of the maids and butlers that had passed her during the time she was keeping guard couldn't help but be astonished by the dedication of Ronald's personal maid despite it being her first day on the job, and silently gave her a thumbs up.

"Okay, don't wait outside my room like this again." Ronald felt creeped out knowing that one of the heroines was waiting outside of his room like this.

"Sorry Young Master, it won't happen again." Iris's head drooped down, she wanted to be by his side the moment he wakes up, but Ronald's words was like the law to her, so she reluctantly left.

"..." After making sure that Iris had left, Ronald sighed and changed his clothes and picked up his sunglasses and a basic white baseball cap before heading downstairs.

Although Ronald wanted to go on a temper tantrum inside his head, he had to be cautious since he doesn't know if the heroines could actually hear his thought process.

When Ronald arrived to the dining room, he saw a variety of different cuisines from different parts of the world and Iris standing beside the dining seat he would always sit in.

"I won't be eating breakfast today, so just tell the chefs to pack it up and deliver it to my dad at his company or something." Even though Ronald was starving, he had planned to eat at the food stall instead since he wanted to be the first person to arrive at the food stall before any heroine does.

"Okay Young Master, are you going somewhere perhaps?" Iris noticed that Ronald had sunglasses and a cap on and seemed to be moving in a hurry.

"Whether I go somewhere or not is none of your business." Ronald gave Iris a quick glance before quickly rushing out of the door.

After seeing Ronald disappear from Iris's sights, she glanced around her surroundings for a few seconds to make sure that nobody was watching her and secretly snuck out of the Kuangge's household in order to follow Ronald.

Even though she knew that Ronald most likely had a few bodyguards with him, she was worried that something might happen to him and wanted to ensure his safety.

***

After arriving at the food stall, Ronald ordered something quick to eat, and then went over to the seating bench that was conveniently placed right across the food stall and sat down.

"I can't really believe I'm actually spending one of the days that I get to have for myself waiting for the heroines." Ronald sighed, he really didn't want to be here right now but he knew that he'll be paranoid about it for the rest of his duration inside this world if he doesn't confirm it now.

A few minutes later after Ronald had sat down from the bench, he felt a presence of someone staring at him on his left, so he slightly turned his head to the vicinity of that presence while still slightly leaving his peripheral vision at the food stall, and noticed that Iris was staring at him from a long distance away.

After noticing that Iris was staring at him, Ronald started to have chills down his spine.

Could it be that the heroines could really hear his thought process?

If the heroines could hear his thought process all this time, wouldn't that mean that everything he's worked up to now has gone down in vain?

How is he going to actually complete future plots now if every heroine is aware that they're inside a novel world?

"System, I really need your help now!" Ronald took his phone out and pretended to be on a phone call so people doesn't think that he looks crazy talking to himself.

[What is it, host?]

"I'm almost certain that the heroines can hear my thought process! Do you see Iris just staring at me over there?" Ronald secretly glanced at Iris in order to make sure that she was still there and whispered quietly so nobody would be able to hear him.

[Host, you're just being way too paranoid.]

"How so? I literally fabricated a lie inside my head yesterday in order to lure some of the heroines over here, and now look at it."

[Host, you know that Iris's original objective was to lurk by your side and to notify Ye Fan about everything you were doing.]

"..."

"Oh... right... my bad. I completely forgot about that." Ronald was too worried and paranoid since last night that he had completely forgotten that Iris's original objective was to monitor him.

[No worries host, I can understand your reason for being paranoid but I can assure you with absolute certainty that the heroines can't hear your thought process.]

"Alright, but I just want to make sure so I plan on sitting here all day anyways, I'll let you know if I need anything else." Ronald felt like that the system wasn't accurate and wanted to check for himself.

[Okay, take care host.]

And just like that, Ronald had spent the rest of his day sitting at a bench doing absolutely nothing.

***

As the sun was slowly setting down...

'God damn it, what an actual waste of time.' Ronald was extremely infuriated, even though he confirmed it at this point that the heroines couldn't actually hear his thought process and should've been satisfied with that, he was mad about the fact that he could've spent his day doing anything else, but yet he threw it away like this.

After calming himself for a bit, Ronald started to reconsider everything that the system had told him.

The system had previously told him that the plot was still continuing smoothly and that the heroines 'started to think outside the box' even though all the heroines seemed like they had changed their personality.

So this could possibly only meant one thing.

The possibility being that the heroines haven't actually changed their original personalities and the plot can actually still progress smoothly, and their sudden change in attitude towards him was because they had started thinking for themselves and felt like offending someone they've never heard of before was better than offending the Kuangge family.

Of course there are some obvious loopholes in this possibility like their sudden change in attitude towards him when they had been extremely harsh on him before, but it was the most plausible answer Ronald could think of, and he had multiple evidences to back it up as well.

The first evidence was that Iris was constantly staring at him throughout the entire day today, which clearly meant that even though she had acted weird during the auction house plot, she hadn't forgotten her original task which was to monitor him and report back to Ye Fan everything he's done.

The second evidence he had in mind was that the heroines despite the fact that there was so many thoughout the story, never tried to interfere in a different plot that didn't involve them.

The perfect example of this is when Luna had offered him a ride to the auction house, but didn't actually enter the auction house with him.

Ronald had also thought about it last night after seeing Li Wanruo's doting attitude towards him, if the heroines actually loved him for whatever reason, wouldn't they at least try and interfere with the different plot that Ronald was in, in order to make sure that he was safe and sound?

After thinking about it for awhile, Ronald couldn't help but breath of relief and felt hopeful in his heart.

'Haha, I guess I was just overthinking it after all, I just need to relax my vigilance and just focus on completing my role properly as a brainless rich second generation villain and go back to earth.'

And so with that thought in mind, Ronald headed back home with a big smile on his face and went to bed getting ready to complete his next plot tomorrow.

'Even if tomorrow's plot ends up slightly looking different than the original plot, I'm sure everything will go well.'