After Biting the Female Lead, the Vicious Female Supporting Character Turned Alpha [Transmigration] - Chapter 25: 025
As they walked out of the library, Meng Baichun, being very perceptive, found an excuse to run back to the bus. Jiang Xuenian and Shi Qingfan walked out at a relaxed pace.
Once inside the elevator, Jiang Xuenian was about to press the close-door button when a “Wait!” suddenly echoed from outside. The elevator door, just about to close, was forced open.
“Qingfan, I, I have something to tell you!” Rong Ling was probably exhausted from running; his hair was disheveled, his cheeks were flushed, and his lips were dry and peeling.
A flicker of surprise crossed Shi Qingfan’s eyes, and she nodded. “Okay.”
Rong Ling entered the elevator, completely ignoring Jiang Xuenian and focusing solely on Shi Qingfan.
Jiang Xuenian pressed the close-door button. The elevator doors shut, and the elevator slowly descended.
“What do you want to tell me?” Shi Qingfan asked.
Rong Ling said, “I’d like to tell you alone, if that’s alright?”
Shi Qingfan glanced at Jiang Xuenian and said, “It’s alright.”
Jiang Xuenian: “…” She actually agreed?
The elevator reached the first floor and opened. The three exited and went outside the library. Shi Qingfan told Jiang Xuenian, “You go back to the bus first. I’ll be back in a few minutes after talking with Rong Ling.”
Jiang Xuenian nodded. As she left, she glaced at Rong Ling, who, upon meeting her gaze, nervously looked away.
She’d never seen someone so timid.
Jiang Xuenian was increasingly unimpressed with Rong Ling.
His grades weren’t good enough, and he was timid. Other flaws were too numerous to mention one by one. Did Rong Ling even have any good qualities?
Jiang Xuenian boarded the bus. Meng Baichun heard the sound and looked up. Seeing only Jiang Xuenian, she asked curiously, “Where’s Shi Qingfan?”
Jiang Xuenian pointed out the window. Meng Baichun looked out through the bus window and saw Shi Qingfan and Rong Ling talking under a tree not far away.
Rong Ling’s body language looked very shy, and the blush on his face was visible from afar…
Meng Baichun finally understood why Jiang Xuenian had an unhappy, uninterested expression about everything after getting on the bus.
Meng Baichun retracted her gaze and asked Jiang Xuenian, “Why did you agree to let them talk alone? If it were me, I wouldn’t have agreed.” If she had a girlfriend, she would definitely not be willing to let her talk to a suitor alone.
Jiang Xuenian was a little surprised. Did being friends now require such strong possessiveness? Even friends talking to others needed to be controlled? They weren’t a couple.
“The class monitor’s attitude towards him is very different. She agreed, so I had no reason to stop her,” Jiang Xuenian said flatly.
This was the first time Meng Baichun had heard Jiang Xuenian speak in that tone, and it gave her goosebumps.
Oh wow, Jiang Xuenian was jealous!
Last time she was jealous, Rong Ling ended up with a zero and was left out in the Pacific Ocean.
This time she was jealous; who knew what kind of suffering Rong Ling would endure?
Meng Baichun remembered the bitterness of being ignored by Rong Ling in previous competitions and now felt a hint of schadenfreude.
Not long after, Rong Ling finally left. Shi Qingfan watched his retreating back for a moment longer before returning to the bus.
Her demeanor was cold, her eyelashes lowered, obscuring her light brown pupils, making her expression unreadable.
Shi Qingfan sat in the empty seat next to Jiang Xuenian. Meng Baichun sat in the row in front of them.
She leaned back in her seat, trying to find out what Rong Ling and Shi Qingfan had talked about, but she couldn’t ask. This question would be more appropriate coming from Jiang Xuenian, the “official girlfriend.”
Jiang Xuenian looked up, saw Meng Baichun’s interested gaze, and swallowed the words she was about to say.
Meng Baichun then saw Jiang Xuenian slowly close her eyes again to rest.
Meng Baichun: “…”
Fine, it seemed she wasn’t going to get to see.
The event organizer had prepared two large buses. When going to the library, students from Mingxin Military Affiliated School and St. Lyceum Academy were together, and students from the other three schools were together.
Not long after, the three students from Bin City Second Academy came on board. They enthusiastically walked to the back, and upon seeing Jiang Xuenian resting with her eyes closed, they all immediately covered their mouths, afraid of making any sound that might disturb her.
After the Bin City Second Academy students were seated, the bus started.
Jiang Xuenian only opened her eyes when they reached the hotel.
Her ink-black pupils were veiled with a misty sheen. Jiang Xuenian yawned into her hand, and like rain washing away fog, her dark irises became clear and luminous.
Jiang Xuenian stood up, greeted the three from Bin City Second Academy, and got off the bus to wait for Shi Qingfan outside.
Shi Qingfan was the last to descend. By the time she got off, the three from Bin City Second Academy and the discreet Meng Baichun had already left.
Jiang Xuenian was very good at processing her own emotions. After the two returned to their hotel room, the slight discomfort she felt from Rong Ling and Shi Qingfan talking alone had completely vanished.
Jiang Xuenian sat on her bed and asked with a smile, “Class monitor, are you ready to praise me?”
Shi Qingfan paused. “Wait a moment, I’m going to the bathroom.”
Entering the bathroom, Shi Qingfan carefully locked the door and took out her phone to message Gong Linglang.
Gong Linglang thought she was hiding it well, but Shi Qingfan knew all about her secretly keeping a new phone and having many spare batteries.
Shi Qingfan: Linglang, what’s a good way to praise someone?
Gong Linglang’s reply was incredibly fast. Almost as soon as Shi Qingfan’s message was sent, less than a second later, her reply came.
Gong Linglang: Praise whom?
Gong Linglang had a misunderstanding about Jiang Xuenian. Shi Qingfan thought for a moment and used a different phrase.
Shi Qingfan: An important friend.
Gong Linglang almost immediately realized who “an important friend” referred to.
Who else in the world could Shi Qingfan praise?
Gong Linglang felt annoyed. She thought to herself that without her accompanying them, these two going to the city-wide league alone had indeed led to their feelings developing rapidly. Jiang Xuenian had become an important friend to Qingfan.
And now she even had to praise her!
Gong Linglang: That’s easy. Think about how *that person* usually praises you, just modify it a little.
It could be done that way?
Shi Qingfan looked at Gong Linglang’s message, thoughtfully.
Jiang Xuenian’s frail body was already tired from a day of competition.
She waited for a while, couldn’t help but yawn, and opened her eyes. Her dark eyes shimmered with moisture, and her tear-dampened eyelashes appeared even darker.
When Shi Qingfan came out, she looked up and met Jiang Xuenian’s eyes. Those beautiful black eyes held fatigue and weariness.
Jiang Xuenian was sleepy; she wasn’t fully awake right now.
Upon realizing this, Shi Qingfan relaxed significantly, letting out a soft sigh.
She walked over and sat beside Jiang Xuenian, turning her head to meet those shimmering black eyes again. The close-range impact made her momentarily dazed.
Shifting her gaze to the small mole on Jiang Xuenian’s nose, Shi Qingfan whispered, “Jiang Xuenian, you are too outstanding. During the competition, my eyes were only on you.”
After uttering this sentence, which clearly wasn’t something she would normally say, the tips of Shi Qingfan’s ears quietly turned red.
If she hadn’t already promised Jiang Xuenian, she would absolutely not do such a thing.
Jiang Xuenian leaned against the headboard, tilted her head, her eyes hazy. “What? You need to speak louder.”
Shi Qingfan’s voice was too soft; she hadn’t heard clearly.
Shi Qingfan always had the illusion that if she spoke louder, others would hear her. So, after Jiang Xuenian spoke, her first reaction was to lean closer to Jiang Xuenian, magnifying her voice through proximity.
Shi Qingfan supported herself with her left hand on the soft bed, leaning her body towards Jiang Xuenian until her lips were less than ten centimeters from Jiang Xuenian’s ear.
Jiang Xuenian’s warm breath, mixed with the faint scent of shower gel, brushed against her. Her eyelids drooped lazily, her eyelashes trembling with each breath.
Shi Qingfan felt as if something had gently tickled her chest, causing a faint itch.
“When you were answering, you seemed like a different person. The light around you overshadowed everything else. Standing not far away, I could only see the dazzling you.”
With each word Shi Qingfan spoke, her cheeks grew redder. “Jiang Xuenian, you are amazing.”
Jiang Xuenian’s body was too tired. She had already entered a state of semi-sleep, semi-wakefulness. Shi Qingfan’s words clearly entered her ears, but she couldn’t lift her heavy eyelids to respond.
After Shi Qingfan finished speaking, she waited for Jiang Xuenian’s reaction. When none came for a long time, she looked up at Jiang Xuenian. At this point, Jiang Xuenian had completely closed her eyes, her breathing soft and steady.
Shi Qingfan was slightly stunned, then a faint smile appeared in her eyes. She whispered, “Whether you heard it or not, I’ve said it.”
In her sleep, Jiang Xuenian raised her hand to rub her eyes. Her body, leaning against the headboard, became unstable and tilted to the right. Shi Qingfan subconsciously reached out to support her shoulder, forgetting that she was leaning herself and couldn’t exert much force. She ended up falling down with Jiang Xuenian.
“Mm…” Jiang Xuenian felt like someone was on top of her. Her eyelashes fluttered, and she slowly opened her eyes.
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