After Transmigrating as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, I Ran Away While Pregnant - Chapter 9

Mo Yueshuang put on her sunglasses and mask, walking in front while holding Ranran’s hand. Li Sheng followed behind them at an unhurried pace.

Li Sheng found herself unconsciously watching Mo Yueshuang again—gentle and delicate, yet able to suppress her grievances and maintain a smile even when insulted.

Li Sheng thought that inside Mo Yueshuang’s heart, there must live a strong, armored little person. Whenever Mo Yueshuang felt wronged or sad, this armored figure would raise its shield and brandish its sword, cutting down and dispersing every bad emotion one by one, allowing Mo Yueshuang to always present a gentle face to the world.

Mo Yueshuang was an actress—to put it more favorably, she was a talented, powerhouse actress. Her perception of others’ gazes was far more sensitive than that of an average person.

At this moment, she could feel Li Sheng’s burning gaze fixed on her back, making her feel restless.

It wasn’t that she disliked being watched; on the contrary, there was a small spark of joy in her heart. But these emotions came quickly and left even faster. Before Mo Yueshuang could fully process them, they had vanished.

“Let me lead the way.”

Li Sheng waited until they had all entered the kindergarten gate before stepping forward quickly. “We’ll find the principal first, then look at the environment,” she guided. “If Ranran likes it here, we’ll discuss enrollment.”

It was the start of the school season. Although the official registration for this kindergarten wasn’t for another three days, many parents had already brought their children to check out the teaching environment and faculty.

Ranran’s bright eyes, like dark grapes, scanned the other parents in the kindergarten with curiosity.

She saw a child walking between his father and mother, holding both their hands. He would run and hop, occasionally pulling on their hands as if swinging on a swing.

Ranran suddenly looked at Li Sheng and reached out her hand. “Ranran wants Mommy to hold her hand too.”

Holding hands was a daily interaction between this mother and daughter. Li Sheng stepped forward without hesitation to take Ranran’s other hand, but she soon felt something was off.

Many families were walking along in such a sweet and warm manner, but they were usually a family of three—a father, a mother, and a child. Substituting a father with Mo Yueshuang made the situation feel strange no matter how she thought about it.

Mo Yueshuang considered letting go, but Li Ran was gripping her too tightly. After walking for a bit, she seemed to adapt to the feeling and relaxed.

Li Sheng led them to the principal’s office. Before entering, she asked Mo Yueshuang, “Do you want to come in together?”

“Yes.”

While Li Sheng was asking, little Ranran’s eyes were fixed intently on Mo Yueshuang, cautious yet filled with hopeful longing. Mo Yueshuang couldn’t find it in her heart to refuse the tiny wish of this little angel.

“Hello, Ms. Li.”

The principal was a woman in her forties with an extremely warm personality. When she met Li Sheng, even that “giant block of ice” felt her heart thawed slightly by the principal’s passion.

“Hello, Principal Zheng. This is my daughter, Li Ran.”

Li Sheng introduced Li Ran to Zheng Fei. Despite her young age, Li Ran had traveled extensively with Li Sheng and wasn’t afraid of strangers at all, especially with her mommy by her side.

A bright smile bloomed on Li Ran’s porcelain-like face as she greeted Principal Zheng politely.

Principal Zheng laughed happily. She adored this smart and spirited child. Having run the kindergarten for over a decade, she was a good judge of children; this brief interaction told her that Li Ran was a sensible, well-behaved child who wouldn’t throw tantrums.

“Hello, little Li Ran! You can call me Auntie Principal.”

“Hello, Auntie Principal~”

“Oh, hello Ranran. Would you like to come to our Blue Sky Baby Kindergarten to learn, play, and meet new friends?”

“Yes~”

Children might not be good at judging character, but they have a natural, animal-like intuition. She knew whether someone approaching her carried malice.

Since she didn’t sense any unpleasant emotions from the principal, Ranran didn’t reject this Auntie Principal.

“Little Li Ran, shall we go look at other parts of the kindergarten? Auntie Principal will give you a tour.”

Li Ran looked back at Li Sheng, who nodded naturally. Only then did Li Ran answer Principal Zheng happily, “Thank you, Auntie Principal. Let’s go tour now!”

Led by the principal, the three of them soon covered most of the kindergarten.

Guan Tai was also a son of a prominent family; although he wasn’t particularly favored, the places he recommended were high-quality. This kindergarten was said to have the best educational quality in the city, frequently winning awards and holding the best reputation.

Almost all the children here were second or third-generation elites.

Ordinary people also wanted to send their children here, hoping they could win at the starting line. However, aside from a few wealthy families willing to pay a fortune, most people sighed at the high entrance fees and even higher miscellaneous costs, settling for elsewhere instead.

Li Sheng had three reasons for choosing this place.

First, it was close to the film set, making it convenient for her to pick up and drop off Ranran once production started.

Second, out of the dozen or so kindergarten brochures Guan Tai sent, Ranran had picked this one at a glance.

Third, the faculty was indeed excellent, and the environment was superb.

“We cultivate the children’s interests here, including music, fine arts, dance, literature, and more—over seventy varieties in total. Our goal is to discover and nurture each child’s spark. We guide and focus on anything the child finds interesting.”

“This is the graffiti wall where children can doodle and paint freely. Our child psychologists and art instructors watch and analyze from the side to find your child’s artistic cells.”

“These musical instruments are also open to the children for free. We have dedicated teachers supervising to ensure they don’t hurt themselves or others while letting them play freely. Of course, teachers also observe and analyze here, so we don’t miss any baby’s artistic spark.”

Both Li Sheng and Mo Yueshuang listened intently. Li Sheng thought back to her previous life; when the apocalypse arrived, the base leaders had also created these types of academies to ensure survival.

However, their learning involved bloody slaughter, purely for the sake of survival and redemption.

To help more people survive, the leaders began looking for everyone’s strengths. Those who were flexible and agile stayed to guard the base or coordinated with the “big guys” to go out for supplies.

The powers of various “evolved” individuals were developed and utilized to the extreme; no one’s ability was allowed to go to waste.

That leader was an extreme sage.

Mo Yueshuang was also lost in her own memories. Since her earliest memories, she had lived in a farmhouse in a mountain gully. She had three older sisters and one older brother; later, the family added two younger sisters and a younger brother. There were eight siblings in total. Girls were born with “cheap” lives; as soon as she could talk and walk, she was taken by her mother to join her three older sisters in the fields to help with farm work.

Even when her youngest brother started elementary school, she only knew the three characters of her own name: Mo Yue Shuang.

Her older brother, in a great mood after scoring 100 on an exam, had taught her. He wrote the three characters, pointed and read them once, and she memorized them.

Using a twig to draw them out, she learned them.

Seeing how fast she memorized them, her brother grew annoyed and never taught her again.

It wasn’t until she was twelve that a young village official and several university volunteer teachers arrived. Seeing how pitiful the sisters were, they pestered her father every day. It was both her luck and her misfortune; her eldest sister died of illness, and she herself became gravely ill.

Fearing she might also die, the family finally let her go to school. After all, a female teacher had promised six months prior that if she went to study, she could stay in the school dormitory and only come home once a week.

The family hoped she would die outside, saving them medical money and the effort of digging a hole to bury her.

On the day she left, they only stuffed a few stale, cold steamed buns into her bag and warned her to come back to work as soon as she got better. They said a girl sitting in a classroom would be mocked by the neighbors, and in a few years, once she was older, she could get married.

She was smart and cherished this hard-won opportunity to learn, studying desperately day and night.

She held onto what the teacher told her: knowledge can change fate.

Perhaps the world was abnormal, perhaps the female lead’s halo was too strong, or perhaps Mo Yueshuang herself was truly incredible.

Four years later, at sixteen, she took the high school entrance exam with her peers and actually got into the best high school in the area. Back then, her brother hadn’t passed; the family had sold a year’s worth of rice to pay for him to continue his studies.

For the first time in four years, she went home, wanting to bring the good news and see if her family was like the ones she read about in books.

Parents and children share a bond thicker than water, and children usually don’t even see half of the sacrifices parents make for them—or so she thought.

Time had passed, and her memories of her parents forcing her into farm work and denying her education didn’t seem like much then; everyone in the village lived like that, and her sisters did the same.

She wrote to the female teacher who had taken her away. That teacher had gone abroad the previous year and had repeatedly warned her never to return to her hometown—that mountain gully was a place she should never go back to for the rest of her life.

She didn’t understand why the teacher advised her so, but that place was still her home. Without waiting for a reply, she packed her things and went back.

Upon arriving home, she was first met with a barrage of verbal abuse. Then, they closed the door and used an iron chain to bolt her inside.

Only then did she learn she was adopted—found on a mountain path when she was only a few months old. Local legend said that raising an adopted girl could lead to the birth of a fat baby boy.

Later, marrying the girl to the fat baby boy would ensure the family line flourished.

That was the only reason she had been brought back and raised.

As it turned out, shortly after she left years ago, her younger brother’s brain had been damaged by a high fever. Now, he was a simpleton who leaked snot and drool every day, relieving himself anywhere and everywhere.

Her parents, sisters, and brother had gone to the school to find her years ago, but they were blocked by the female teacher and the principal. The teacher had paid them a sum of money out of her own pocket, telling them to take their son to the city for treatment and never to look for Mo Yueshuang again.

Having taken the money, the family stayed quiet for a while.

Later they came back to cause trouble, wanting more money. Just then, she entered middle school, and the teacher took her to the city to study.

The family didn’t know which city she went to, nor which middle school she attended.

But now, it was perfect—Mo Yueshuang had delivered herself right to their door.