After Marrying the Cold and Elegant Beauty, I Fell in Love (GL) - Chapter 3

Han Shuangshuang had grown up being especially good at reading people’s expressions.

She had originally thought Shen Yuru was still an undeveloped, juvenile-stage female villain. She had not expected that the blackening value in her heart had already climbed all the way to the peak.

Now, no matter what she did, was there still any room to fix things?

“Why does Student Han look at me with such a strange gaze? Did I do something to upset Student Han?”

When Han Shuangshuang heard Shen Yuru’s light,淡 voice, carrying both a rhetorical edge and a questioning tone, she nearly failed to hold back a full-body shiver.

Han Shuangshuang opened her mouth and stammered in response, “No, not at all. Why would Sister Shen ask that?”

“Because I dragged you into this mess and made you endure other people’s gossip. I thought Student Han might be unhappy.”

Shen Yuru’s pale face contrasted sharply with her lips, which had turned bright red because of the blood at the corner of her mouth. It was like a sudden touch of somewhat jarring beauty had been added to the face of a pale beauty.

She looked so pitiful, the kind of pitiful that made people feel she was terribly, terribly innocent at first glance.

If Han Shuangshuang had not transmigrated into the book and known the general plot, she definitely would not have believed that this delicate, fragile beauty before her was the future gloomy great villain.

Han Shuangshuang stopped walking and turned her head slightly. In Shen Yuru’s amber phoenix eyes, she saw her own face.

In the novel, there had been very little description of the cannon-fodder female supporting character’s appearance. Most of it had described how vicious she was and how she kept courting death.

Yet in Shen Yuru’s amber phoenix eyes, Han Shuangshuang discovered that the malicious female supporting character actually looked exactly the same as she had before transmigrating.

[System: Because the book world is flat and belongs to a two-dimensional world, the malicious female supporting character with the same name as Host naturally did not have an actual appearance. After Host transmigrated over, of course you are using your original appearance. As for the appearances of the other people, they are naturally generated from the descriptions of those characters in Host’s mind, as well as the images and drawings formed in your heart, so they will produce different faces.]

Han Shuangshuang’s eyes were somewhat round. When she smiled, the aegyo-sal beneath her eyes would appear, like two curved little crescent moons, pleasing and adorable. When her expression was confused, they resembled almond eyes. When her expression was serious, they looked like a pair of stubborn, determined puppy eyes.

Han Shuangshuang had an oval face and two shallow pear dimples. When she smiled, two sharp little canine teeth would show. At this moment, her expression was especially serious as she stared at Shen Yuru with those puppy eyes and explained, “Sister Shen, don’t say that. I know they’re all talking nonsense, so how could I believe them so easily? Besides, mouths grow on other people’s faces. Don’t punish yourself for other people’s mistakes. They say those things and feel perfectly satisfied afterward because they want to see us suffer because of their words. If we really feel upset, wouldn’t that mean they got what they wanted? We can’t give bad people any opportunity to take advantage.”

Shen Yuru turned her face away slightly and did not meet Han Shuangshuang’s gaze. Her slender fingers lifted to tuck a stray lock of hair by her ear behind it.

“Mm.”

Han Shuangshuang did not know whether Shen Yuru had taken her words to heart, but everything she had said just now had been sincere.

She knew Shen Yuru had endured endless gossip since childhood. In the book, she should have been the eldest daughter and the focus of everyone’s attention. But because of certain reasons, she had been born with a weak heart and a frail body, so everyone despised her. From childhood to adulthood, what she endured most was the gossip of the people around her constantly ringing beside her ears.

Rumors and slander were invisible knives that killed without drawing blood, yet the damage they caused was often fatal.

Most importantly, the people who said such irresponsible things would never care about the harm their words caused others.

They felt that it was merely a couple of light, casual remarks. If you were hurt by them, then your ability to endure was simply too low.

Han Shuangshuang felt that the most painful example she had ever seen was a family that had a second child, a younger brother.

The family’s first child was an older sister. But after the younger brother was born, the relatives around them all said to the older sister, “Your parents have a new treasure now. They won’t love you anymore. Your younger brother is the most important one in the family.”

The older sister was also nothing more than a child and had no ability to distinguish the truth. Because of those brainwashing words from her relatives, her heart became twisted. She felt that her younger brother had come to steal her parents’ love. So from the moment he was born, she began rejecting him. She would even secretly hit him when their parents were not paying attention. In the end, she threw her younger brother down from the twelfth floor, causing a tragedy.

Yet once that tragedy happened, those relatives who had said those things all shut their mouths and hid far away.

They would never admit that the words they had spoken harmed the heart of a child who was only four or five years old. Nor would they admit that their malicious thoughts had destroyed an entire family.

[System: Congratulations, Host. Shen Yuru’s heart healing progress has increased by 2%.]

Han Shuangshuang had always liked feeding herself bowls of inspirational chicken soup before, so when she launched into this kind of verbal persuasion, she could produce one full set after another.

But when she saw Shen Yuru’s rock-steady blackening value of 100, utterly unmoved, she felt that the road before her was still long and heavy.

Then again, her reputation as the malicious female supporting character was already terrible to the extreme. It would be very difficult to make Shen Yuru believe her all at once.

Finally, she brought Shen Yuru to the entrance of the dorm and knocked on the door.

The girl who opened it froze when she saw Han Shuangshuang. After seeing Shen Yuru, her brows furrowed, and hostility immediately surfaced in her eyes.

“What are you coming back for? Didn’t you say you weren’t living in the dorm?”

The dorm room door opened. Han Shuangshuang saw a four-person dorm with beds above and desks below. Although there were only three people living there, all four beds were packed full. Clearly, Shen Yuru’s bed had been occupied by someone else.

Since that was the case, Shen Yuru probably did not live in the dorm.

Then why had Shen Yuru not objected when Han Shuangshuang suggested sending her back to the dorm?

[System: Warm reminder to Host. Shen Yuru’s blackening value has already reached 100. Please be careful of incidents that could become the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.]

Interrupted by the system notification, Han Shuangshuang forgot what she had just been thinking about and shifted her attention back to Shen Yuru.

Shen Yuru’s body trembled twice, as though she was somewhat physically exhausted.

Han Shuangshuang immediately wrapped an arm around Shen Yuru’s shoulders, letting Shen Yuru lean lightly against her.

“You occupy someone else’s bed, and you still think you’re in the right? Shen Yuru paid the dorm fees, so why can’t she come back and live here? You’ve taken advantage for so long that you really think this stuff belongs to you now?”

After saying this, Han Shuangshuang suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

She remembered now. Weren’t these the male lead’s lines?

“She’s so rich, and she doesn’t even live in the dorm. So what if we use it? Besides, if she wanted to come back, she should have told us in advance. Otherwise, she’s disturbing our lives. And after she left, she didn’t even clean up those things. We were the ones who cleaned them up for her.”

The girl’s ugly face was already fully exposed. It was as though she had been angered elsewhere and had finally caught a soft persimmon she could squeeze as hard as she wanted.

Han Shuangshuang remembered now. In the beginning, when Shen Yuru suffered grievances, Long Aodi had coincidentally encountered her several times and helped her out of trouble. But for some reason, in the end, Long Aodi still ended up together with the female supporting character’s younger sister.

Shen Yuru took several forceful breaths. “I came to take my things away. Also, I never said I wasn’t going to live in the dorm.”

Only after hearing Shen Yuru say this did the girl unwillingly turn sideways, making a path through the doorway.

“You haven’t come back in so long. Who knew whether you still wanted them or not? We put all your things by the bathroom door.”

Han Shuangshuang discovered that no matter which supporting character’s perspective one took in this book, it could still raise one’s blood pressure.

Shen Yuru carried several small boxes out. Because they had been placed by the bathroom door, whenever the others showered, water would flow out and soak those boxes again and again. Some parts had already grown moldy, but Shen Yuru still held them in her arms as though they were treasures.

“These are letters my mother left me before she passed away. I only recently found a place to live, so I never had time to move these letters back to my current residence. Where are the rest of my things?”

Hearing Shen Yuru ask this, the other three people in the dorm all looked somewhat guilty. They exchanged glances, and none of them answered.

That girl hemmed and hawed, but still lifted her chin as though someone had given her courage. “You hadn’t come back in so long, and those things of yours were taking up space too. Your cosmetics, clothes, and stuff like that—we divided them among ourselves.”

Han Shuangshuang truly could not listen anymore. “You took them without asking. That’s stealing. That’s robbery! Who gave you the confidence to say that so righteously?”

“She’s so rich. What’s wrong with us using a little of her stuff? We were the ones cleaning the dorm when she wasn’t here for so long. Besides, a wealthy young lady fussing over a few cheap things like this isn’t afraid of embarrassing herself?” After that girl finished speaking, the other two also chimed in. The three of them were like strands of hemp rope twisted together, like grasshoppers on the same boat—as if one person doing this was wrong, but three people doing it together somehow made it right.

Han Shuangshuang was practically about to explode from anger. “Shen Yuru wasn’t living in the dorm, so she wasn’t even making any trash. What cleaning was she supposed to do? You think being poor means you’re right? You’re poor, so you can steal and rob? This is pure resentment toward the rich, okay?”

As they argued, the commotion grew quite loud. Then someone said that the student council had arrived.

Han Shuangshuang saw Long Aodi walking over.

The moment those three girls saw Long Aodi, their eyes went straight, as though they had seen a male god descending from heaven.

Han Shuangshuang felt like the male lead halo was about to blind her eyes.

So it turned out that the reason these three girls targeted Shen Yuru was because Long Aodi had been getting very close to Shen Yuru lately.

Long Aodi asked, “What happened?”

Those three girls immediately began acting pitiful, completely losing their earlier arrogance. “Han Shuangshuang suddenly came to our dorm looking for trouble. She’s a rich young lady, and we’re just ordinary people. We don’t dare say anything.”

Hearing those words truly made Han Shuangshuang’s fists clench.

Han Shuangshuang gritted her teeth.

Long Aodi frowned and looked at Han Shuangshuang with a displeased expression. “Whatever happened, I’ll handle it. Don’t make trouble here. If Student Shen needs any help, she can tell me directly.”

It was clearly those three girls who were in the wrong. But with Long Aodi saying this without distinguishing right from wrong, he directly convicted Han Shuangshuang and Shen Yuru, turning them into the unreasonable, troublemaking side.

Han Shuangshuang glared at Long Aodi. “So the president of the student council can just casually enter and leave the girls’ dorm building, is that it? Are you a pervert? Besides, do you even know what the truth of this matter is? And yet you’re standing here judging the case like some magistrate.”

Han Shuangshuang ignored Long Aodi’s expression, which had turned dark and green from being refuted, and continued looking at the three girls.

“Shen Yuru’s things aren’t cheap. You used and took her belongings at will without her consent. If we call the police, the value of those items is more than enough to file a case. If you don’t compensate her and apologize publicly, then we’ll go through the legal process.”

Shen Yuru’s emotionless phoenix eyes stirred slightly as she looked at Han Shuangshuang beside her.

The reason Shen Yuru had delayed coming until today was because Han Shuangshuang was by her side. That way, the flames of conflict would shift elsewhere. Shen Yuru was too lazy to get entangled with those ant-like people.

But she had not expected Han Shuangshuang to stand in front of her like an angered puppy and speak up on her behalf.

It truly surprised her a little.

[System: Warm reminder to Host. Shen Yuru’s blackening value has decreased by 1.]