After Transmigrated As The Scummy Ex Of The White Lotus Female Supporting Character - Chapter 2

Shang Yuqing had still overestimated Pei Wu’s mental state.

The instant Shang Yuqing hugged her, Pei Wu showed an extremely strong resistance. She struggled almost frantically, broke free from Shang Yuqing’s embrace, and shrank into the corner as though she had been triggered.

Pei Wu looked thin and frail, but her strength was actually quite considerable. Before Shang Yuqing could even react, she was shoved several steps back, her mind going a little blank.

Shang Yuqing hesitated before speaking. “You…”

“Ah Wu.” Hearing the commotion, Grandma Pei rushed into the room and turned on the light. She held Pei Wu and soothed her. “Don’t be afraid, all right? She isn’t a bad person. She won’t hurt you. Grandma is still here, isn’t she? Don’t be afraid.”

Under Grandma Pei’s soft, gentle words, Pei Wu’s trembling body gradually calmed. As though comforting herself, she murmured, “Right. No one can bully me. Grandma will protect me.”

Shang Yuqing pressed her lips together and watched Pei Wu’s series of not-quite-normal actions with her own eyes. Suddenly, she felt that Pei Wu was a little more miserable than she had imagined.

Only after Pei Wu calmed down did Grandma Pei leave. Shang Yuqing glanced at Pei Wu. She was still hugging her knees, her head buried deeply between them.

She looked completely guarded, shutting herself away from the light and willingly sinking into the darkness.

Shang Yuqing withdrew her gaze and followed Grandma Pei out.

In the kitchen, Shang Yuqing helped Grandma Pei sort vegetables while listening to her talk.

“Ah Wu’s mental state hasn’t been very stable these past month or two. Sometimes she’s better, sometimes she’s worse. She doesn’t like going outside. I told her to go see some sunlight, but she refused no matter what.”

Grandma Pei sighed. “When she has an episode, she’s like someone gone mad, crying and screaming. It’s the same when she sees strangers. She often stays shut inside her room and refuses to come out.”

“But why not take her to a doctor?” Shang Yuqing asked.

Grandma Pei finished slicing the potatoes. “It’s no use. Ah Wu resists hospitals too much. I could tell she was suffering terribly there. I couldn’t bear it. Since it wasn’t helping much either way, I brought her back to our old home.”

Shang Yuqing looked at the cabbage she had finished sorting and fell silent. Seeing that she was done, Grandma Pei said, “Xiao Qing, help me pick some tomatoes from the front yard.”

“Oh, all right.”

Grandma Pei’s family had planted many vegetables and fruits. The front yard could not really be called a yard either. It was merely a relatively open space in front of the main gate, and far beyond it lay endless green mountains and clouds.

After Shang Yuqing finished picking tomatoes, she noticed a cluster of hibiscus flowers planted beside them.

She liked flowers very much and instinctively wanted to touch them.

“Don’t pick them.”

A slightly hoarse and cold voice rang out. Shang Yuqing turned her head and found Pei Wu standing on the walkway in front of the door, staring at her expressionlessly.

The walkway before the main door was a little high, while the front yard was below the door. Because of the height difference between the yard and the walkway, a stone staircase had been built there for easier passage.

Pei Wu stood at the front edge of the walkway, giving off a faint sense of looking down from above. From Shang Yuqing’s angle, she only felt that Pei Wu’s face was almost translucent beneath the sunlight. She wore a plain white dress, her ink-black hair falling down to the dip of her waist. Her eyes were entirely at odds with the blazing sun, carrying a coldness filled with indifference and deathly stillness.

“Those are hibiscus flowers. Mine. Don’t pick them.” Perhaps because she did not often speak, her words came a little slowly.

Shang Yuqing did not mind. She raised one eyebrow slightly, looked at her, and smiled gently. “You’re up? I thought you were going to sleep until evening.”

Pei Wu still looked at her coldly without saying a word.

Shang Yuqing noticed that Pei Wu was not wearing shoes and walked up the stone steps. “Why aren’t you wearing shoes?”

Seeing her approach, Pei Wu took a step back and tilted her head slightly. Her tone seemed edged with shards of ice. “What does that have to do with you? Shang Yuqing, what right do you have to meddle in my business now?”

Shang Yuqing: “…”

She actually could not answer that.

Seeing her fall silent, Pei Wu tugged at the corner of her mouth and said expressionlessly, “Lost your tongue? I don’t know why you came to my house. Whether you’re here to laugh at me or mock me, if you know what’s good for you, hurry up and get lost.”

Shang Yuqing knew about the entanglement between Pei Wu and the original owner, so she simply treated it as Pei Wu cursing the original owner, absolutely not herself. Thinking of it that way, she felt a little more relieved.

She walked closer until she and Pei Wu were extremely near, close enough to see the scattered sunlight reflected in Pei Wu’s eyes. Then she laughed softly. “What a coincidence. My greatest virtue is that I don’t know what’s good for me, so I can’t get lost.”

Now that they were close, Shang Yuqing genuinely felt that Pei Wu was truly beautiful.

Her willow-leaf brows were long and fine, like distant mountains. The corners of her eyes were slightly narrow, and when she looked at someone straight on, there was an inexplicable indifference in her gaze. Yet when her eyes lowered slightly, she gave off a gentle, peaceful air. Her temperament was clear and refined. She truly had the makings of a classical beauty. No wonder the original owner had fallen for her back then.

Shang Yuqing’s current appearance was also hardly different from her own original looks, and she was extremely beautiful as well.

But she and Pei Wu had different styles.

True beauty lay in the bones, not the skin. Just looking at Pei Wu, her features, flesh, and bone structure all seemed suffused with a soft, graceful charm.

Pei Wu’s eyes lifted slightly at the ends. Her face was pale, making her brows and eyes seem heavily tinged with weakness, but the contempt in them did not lessen in the slightest.

“I think you’re sick,” Pei Wu said. “Sicker than I am.”

Shang Yuqing laughed aloud, her tone warm and unhurried. “Who knows?”

“Why exactly did you come here?” Pei Wu questioned coldly. “Didn’t you already get lost overseas? What, you couldn’t stay abroad anymore either?”

“Aren’t you going to wear shoes?” Shang Yuqing did not answer her question. Instead, she said something completely unrelated.

The walkway was made of cement and had been scorched burning hot by the summer heat. Shang Yuqing was afraid Pei Wu’s feet would not be able to take it.

Unfortunately, Pei Wu did not appreciate her concern. Seeing that Shang Yuqing refused to answer, she also lost interest in pursuing the question. Slowly and lazily, she lifted her eyelids. Her expression looked somewhat weary, and she swept a gaze over Shang Yuqing without any emotion. She did not answer her either. Lowering her brows, she turned and went back into the room.

Shang Yuqing could clearly feel that Pei Wu did not welcome her. That was normal too. What kind of good expression could anyone possibly have upon seeing a scummy ex?

Although none of this had been done by her, she still had to carry the original owner’s blame.

It seemed this mission still had a long and difficult road ahead.

During lunch, Grandma Pei went out to feed the chickens first. There were only two people at the table.

Pei Wu sat across from Shang Yuqing, lowering her head as she ate absentmindedly. Her appetite did not seem very good. She had barely touched the bowl of rice, but she kept drinking soup.

The soup had just been ladled out and was still scalding hot. Pei Wu seemed unable to feel it. Spoonful by spoonful, she fed it into her mouth with a calm expression. Anyone who did not know better would think she was drinking cold water.

Shang Yuqing looked at her several times and could not help saying, “…Don’t drink it so quickly.”

Pei Wu’s movements paused. She lifted her eyelids and swept a glance at Shang Yuqing, then lowered her eyes and continued drinking, ignoring her words.

The mother-hen instinct in Shang Yuqing’s heart flared up again, and she began earnestly nagging, “Blow on the soup until it cools before drinking it. If you drink something that hot directly, it’ll damage your oral mucosa, and your stomach will feel uncomfortable too…”

Pei Wu seemed a little impatient listening to her and directly interrupted. “Do you know what this soup looks like?”

Shang Yuqing froze for a moment. “What?”

Pei Wu put down her spoon, propped her cheeks in both hands, and gave a smile that was not quite a smile. “Brain matter.”

She looked at the tofu and egg soup before her. “The tofu pudding is brain matter, and the tomatoes are fresh blood. Don’t you think it looks like a brain that’s been smashed open, with the brain matter spilling out?”

Shang Yuqing: “…”

Hearing such bloody words come from the harmless-looking Pei Wu felt not only jarring, but also inexplicably chilling.

When the system said the female supporting character’s mind was abnormal, it really had not been lying. What kind of person said things like this while eating?

Seeing Shang Yuqing’s slightly stiff face, Pei Wu curved her lips into a nasty little smile and, satisfied, picked up a chopstickful of braised shredded tofu.

After hearing what she said, Shang Yuqing could no longer drink the soup. But the stubborn part of her that refused to lose stirred in her bones, and she attempted to retort tactfully.

“It doesn’t really look like that to me. If anything, those shredded tofu strips look a little like horsehair worms.”

Pei Wu did not understand. She tilted her head in confusion.

Shang Yuqing organized her words. “I watched a movie before. Horsehair worms burrow into people’s stomachs, and in the end, they all crawl out from every corner of the body like threads being spat out. They look especially like these shredded tofu strips.”

Pei Wu’s hand, which was holding the shredded tofu, froze. She stared at Shang Yuqing with an unfriendly gaze, her expressionless face expressing her displeasure.

Shang Yuqing had only been unable to resist teasing her with a cheap remark for a moment. Afraid this little ancestor would go mad again, she tried to mend things after the fact.

“Of course, there are still differences. For example, this can be eaten, while horsehair worms can’t. Right?”

A completely useless sentence.

Pei Wu’s face became even colder. Lowering her eyes, she seemed to think of something, then picked up a full chopstickful of shredded tofu and placed it into Shang Yuqing’s bowl. The corner of her lips hooked into the faintest ill-intentioned smile.

“Then you should eat more. Brain matter with horsehair worms is a perfect match.”

Perfect match, my ass.

Shang Yuqing could not bring herself to eat it and was thinking of refusing when Grandma Pei happened to walk in. Seeing Pei Wu take the initiative to put food into Shang Yuqing’s bowl, she was delighted.

“Xiao Qing, Ah Wu rarely serves food to others. You two really have a good relationship.”

The words Shang Yuqing had prepared to refuse were knocked right back by Grandma Pei’s remark. Looking at Grandma Pei’s expectant and gratified gaze, it felt as though what Shang Yuqing was about to eat was not food, but her granddaughter’s sincere feelings.

Now she had no choice but to eat it.

Pei Wu blinked, her tone carrying innocence. “You’re not eating? Is my grandmother’s cooking not good? Or are you unwilling to eat something I picked up for you?”

Her expression looked rather pitiful.

“…”

Shang Yuqing gave a few dry laughs. “I’ll eat it. Why wouldn’t I?”

She looked at the shredded tofu in her bowl, and despite herself, she thought of that movie and the words she had just said. She really did feel a little unable to eat it.

Those who came out to mess around always had to pay it back eventually.

Like cutting through a tangled knot with a sharp blade, Shang Yuqing stuffed it into her mouth and swallowed it down in a few random gulps. Only then did she smile and say, “…It’s pretty good.”

This person seemed to have changed? Pei Wu thought secretly. In the past, she would never have been this easy to talk to. Who was she putting on this act for now? What was the point?

Hypocritical woman. Boring to death.

Grandma Pei smiled kindly. “That’s good.”

Then she turned her gaze toward Pei Wu. The innocence from just now had already disappeared, replaced once more by an indifferent expression. Pei Wu met her eyes lightly for one second, then lowered her gaze and quietly drank her soup.

Shang Yuqing sighed in her heart.

This person’s moods were unpredictable. She really was hard to get along with. It was clear that there was indeed something wrong with her mind and emotions. What the system said about her blackening further was not baseless after all.

The other party hated her this much. Could she really stop her?

No matter how she looked at it, things seemed a little uncertain.

Author’s Note:

Shang Yuqing: My girlfriend’s mouth is too poisonous. What should I do?

Pei Wu: Kiss me and it’ll be fine.
No, just kidding.

When a black belly meets a black-bellied white lotus, she still ends up scared as hell.