After Transmigrating as the Villain’s Cannon Fodder Fake Sister - Chapter 9

Shen Wenlan did not understand Gu Ruanruan’s breakdown and pain.

Just as Chopin did not understand the sorrow of Venus losing her arms.

After releasing waves of cold air at Gu Ruanruan, she began a new round of slow execution.

Shen Wenlan had no desire to waste words with Gu Ruanruan. She directly began playing the piano in front of her. The murmuring melody poured out from beneath her slender, fair fingers, the black and white keys complementing her jade-like ten fingers.

The girl’s expression was indifferent, but her bearing was calm and unhurried. It formed a strong contrast with the gentle, pleasant piano music, yet did not seem out of place at all. Instead, it made people even more curious about her.

The beautiful music and the performer’s delicate, pretty face created a perfect audio-visual experience.

“Good!!!” Once the piece ended, Gu Ruanruan clapped like a seal.

Shen Wenlan: “……”

Her gaze landed on Gu Ruanruan.

Gu Ruanruan: ???

What does she want?

Does she want me to comment a few words?

Gu Ruanruan was very familiar with this business. Back when she and her classmates flattered each other, she had whole sets of little phrases prepared. She opened her mouth and began, “Like hearing immortal music, my ears instantly brightened! It’s all skill! All emotion! Player and piano become one, making the listener go wild. The music is pure and transcendent, like a thousand mountains where birds have flown away, ten thousand paths where no human trace remains—”

Shen Wenlan interrupted her useless babbling and said flatly, “Nocturne. Can you play it?”

???

Gu Ruanruan had a bad feeling.

She couldn’t be thinking of making me play piano with her, right?!

Gu Ruanruan asked uncertainly, “You mean you want… the two of us to perform a piano duet?”

Shen Wenlan looked over with a gaze that carried a faint sense of pressure. “Otherwise, do you have any good suggestions?”

As a Shengshuilan student, knowing how to play piano was the most basic skill.

Considering the skill level of Senior Year Class Thirteen students, was there any better method?

Shen Wenlan herself strongly rejected this cooperation as well, but there was nothing she could do. During the class draw, she had unfortunately been pushed out as the representative.

And now she had encountered a partner who… did not seem very intelligent. The fact that she could sit here and speak calmly to her was already quite good.

Her mood was gloomy, so the expression on her face became even colder.

“N-no… I don’t…” I don’t dare, I don’t dare.

Shen Wenlan brought out her greatest patience. “Play Nocturne once first. I’ll listen.”

Gu Ruanruan was very honest. “I… don’t know how.”

Shen Wenlan raised her hand in a gesture. “Then just play whatever you can. I’ll rearrange the composition.”

“All right.” Gu Ruanruan sighed with the vicissitudes of life.

Shen Wenlan truly had not expected that, as a Shengshuilan student, there would actually be someone who could not play piano.

“Then I’ll, uh, be like Zhu Bajie lifting the curtain—showing you my skills?” Gu Ruanruan hesitated.

Shen Wenlan: “……” What kind of messy description was that?

The sweet, bright-looking girl took a deep breath, then slowly bowed toward the piano and sat on the piano bench with a refined, aloof posture.

She was wearing the academy’s uniform: a small suit jacket and plaid skirt, which made her skin look snow-white. The ribbon flower gently unfolded on her shirt collar without a single wrinkle. The girl pursed her lips, and the orange-red sunset fell on the side of her face, giving her a somewhat elegant and obedient appearance.

This quiet gentleness of hers carried even more temperament than the wealthy young ladies of Ningcheng’s noble families.

Especially when she sat before the piano, her pitch-black pupils carrying a hint of seriousness, Shen Wenlan could not help feeling a little anticipation.

Perhaps this cooperation could still succeed.

Shen Wenlan thought this.

“Mi~” The girl pressed the first note.

Shen Wenlan’s gaze shifted from her confident, composed face to her fingers on the piano—only to see Gu Ruanruan stretch out both index fingers and poke at the keys sneakily, like a chick pecking rice.

No, that was wrong. Put an actual chicken here, and it might sound better than her pecking!

Because every single key she pressed was a damn black key!!!

The piano sounds she played, in Gu Ruanruan’s own words, were—like hearing immortal music, my ears instantly went dark.

Shen Wenlan instantly felt an indescribable sense of being deceived!!!

Once the dog-paddling was over, Gu Ruanruan nodded toward Shen Wenlan with a proud and lofty air.

“……” What are you acting so noble for!!!

What is there for you to be proud about!!!

Seeing her act like some peerless master, Shen Wenlan laughed coldly. “Heh. Not bad.”

Receiving praise, Gu Ruanruan immediately became embarrassed and modest. “Aiya, no, no. This is also my first time playing piano. To receive Teacher Shen’s evaluation, I can die without regrets!”

Oh, the protagonist top’s approval. Looks like she was quite talented and accomplished at playing piano?

“Heh. Your posture wasn’t bad.” Clearly she knew nothing, yet she acted like an expert.

Now Gu Ruanruan was truly embarrassed. She waved her hand modestly. “Not at all, not at all. It’s all because Teacher Shen teaches well. I learned from you.”

Shen Wenlan’s heart turned to ashes. She no longer had any desire to speak.

Her voice carried a hint of gritted teeth. “This classmate, I was not praising you.”

Ah, this.

Gu Ruanruan was rather speechless. Heh, with the protagonist top’s personality of never saying things directly, no wonder she deserved to spend eighteen hundred chapters chasing her wife!

The two silently stared at each other for a long while.

There were many instruments in the creation room, arranged by type in their respective places. Gu Ruanruan looked around and weakly suggested, “How… how about I do something I actually know? We can make it a big fusion.”

Shen Wenlan’s patience ran out. She said coldly, “Then what exactly can you do?”

She could not even play the most basic piano. What else could Shen Wenlan expect her to know?

A trident?

Gu Ruanruan looked at her with a slightly shy and bashful expression. Then she puffed up her chest—Jinjiang doesn’t allow this part to be described—stood with confidence, smiled confidently, and her aura suddenly rose.

Her expression changed extremely quickly. Her gaze unconsciously carried a hint of looking down on all living beings. Somehow, she suddenly had a big-shot aura, like an unparalleled king of some hidden professional field.

Having learned from the previous experience, Shen Wenlan would not be fooled again. She quietly watched Gu Ruanruan act cool.

Immediately after, she heard Gu Ruanruan’s confident and proud voice.

The girl’s words were heavy as a thousand catties, sonorous and powerful as they echoed through the empty classroom. Just two short words made the souls of all the instruments in the creation room tremble.

Gu Ruanruan heavily spat out those two words, as weighty as resentful ghosts demanding lives:

“Suo! Na!”

Shen Wenlan: ???

Piano with suona?

???

Was this a combination a human could come up with???

During dinner that night, Gu Ruanruan was a little anxious.

The deadline the math teacher had given for a parent’s signature was one week, and the date was almost here.

Senior year. They were already in senior year! How could there still be such a deranged little activity like parent signatures that destroyed family relationships!

Gu Ruanruan’s grades in her previous life had not been bad, so she had never had this kind of trouble. She also had no parents to sign for her.

After transmigrating into this cannon-fodder tool character, Gu Ruanruan was mentally exhausted every day from cleaning up the messes the original owner had left behind.

Who should she ask to sign it?

It seemed like a very difficult question, but if she used the process of elimination, there was only one person in this family who could sign for her and not sweep her out of the house.

Gu Ruanruan’s “affectionate” gaze fixed on the carefree Jiang Xia’an.

Jiang Xia’an received Gu Ruanruan’s slightly nauseating gaze, and her hand holding food trembled slightly.

Gu Ruanruan gave Jiang Xia’an a kind smile. “Second Sister~ Does tonight’s dinner suit your taste~”

Jiang Cen looked at Gu Ruanruan strangely.

“It’s… it’s okay…” Jiang Xia’an was terrified.

“Is there anything Second Sister wants to eat? I can make it for you tomorrow~”

At the mention of this, Jiang Xia’an immediately threw those little worries beyond the ninth heaven.

“Mm, yes, yes, yes!” The female celebrity happily waved both hands.

Jiang Xia’an gleefully looked at the plain, stomach-nourishing meal in front of Jiang Cen and viciously listed dishes. “Boiled sliced pork in chili oil! Garlic pork slices! Sichuan pepper chicken! Pig ears in chili oil! Strawberry cake! I also want pretty plating!”

She had been craving the special plated dishes Jiang Cen received for more than just a day or two!

Jiang Cen took a sip of corn and pork rib soup and calmly extinguished her fantasy. “Ambitious. Keep it up. I’ll tell Liang Xiaomi.”

Liang Xiaomi was Jiang Xia’an’s manager. She controlled Jiang Xia’an’s figure extremely strictly. Even if Jiang Xia’an ate one extra bite of pickled vegetables, Liang Xiaomi would order her to exercise on the treadmill for half an hour.

Jiang Xia’an became like a deflated ball, weak, helpless, and pitiful as she bit into a cucumber, lamenting her unfair fate.

That one sentence also extinguished Gu Ruanruan’s hope.

The bribery failed. She could only grit her teeth and push the tower head-on!

After dinner, Jiang Xia’an, who was applying a face mask in her room, heard a voice that sounded like a ghost calling for her soul.

“Second~ Sister~” Gu Ruanruan’s sugary-sweet voice hovered outside the door.

Jiang Xia’an subconsciously shut the door with a “pa.”

Gu Ruanruan pushed the door open, revealing one fluffy head.

“What… what are you doing?” Jiang Xia’an felt that Gu Ruanruan was holding back some ultimate move and waiting for her to jump in.

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Gu Ruanruan shook the math test paper in her hand like a rag and began singing with a drawn-out tune: “Yi ya~ Second Sister ya~ Are you so hungry ya~ If you are so hungry~ little sis will make you fried pork intestines, little sis will make you fried pork intestines~”

Jiang Xia’an’s mouth opened into an admiring “O” shape.

“Little Sister, it’s such a pity you’re not entering the entertainment industry.”

Gu Ruanruan was surprised. “My singing is pretty good?”

Jiang Xia’an’s expression was hard to describe. “Uh… it’s all right, I guess.” After all, this was her own cute little sister. She could not bear to strike her down.

What she had wanted to say was that Gu Ruanruan had no baggage, could let herself go, and was very… confident.

Never in her dreams would Jiang Xia’an have imagined what severe consequences this momentary softheartedness would create.

Receiving “true” encouragement, Gu Ruanruan became interested. She struck a pose and was about to open her mouth again.

Jiang Xia’an immediately interrupted the spellcasting.

Unable to take it, she waved her hand. “Tell me, what exactly do you want?”

Gu Ruanruan shook the wrinkled math test paper and pretended to wipe tears with it. “Second Sister, as a female celebrity, do you know how popular you are!!!”

Seeing her serious expression, Jiang Xia’an blinked. “……I used to know. Now I don’t seem to know anymore.”

This third sister was about to make her unable to function.

Gu Ruanruan choked up and began “crying” with wuwuwu sounds. “Second Sister, I have a bedridden friend. She said that before she dies, her only wish is to get your autograph, and also a few words of encouragement, wuwuwuwu…”

At this point, she lowered the math test paper, and her sobs grew louder. “I just don’t know whether my kind, beautiful, elegant, generous, cute, and charming Second Sister can satisfy this tiny, insignificant wish of hers!!!”

People who could act all had extremely strong empathy. The moment Jiang Xia’an heard this nonsense, her heart immediately became stirred along with it. “Oh my god, that’s so moving, wuwuwuwu. So there are actually fans who like me this much. I thought they only knew how to scold me. Am I worthy of having such a fan!!!”

Jiang Xia’an’s recently airing drama had not received very good reviews, and the female celebrity had suffered quite a blow.

“What autograph? I’m going to see her! After I finish recording this program, I’ll turn down my other work. Which hospital is she in? I’ll go with you!”

Gu Ruanruan: “……” That really isn’t necessary.

“Second Sister, I’m afraid she can’t wait, wuwuwu. Sign for her first, wuwuwuwu,” Gu Ruanruan fooled her.

Jiang Xia’an sat down in front of the coffee table and said with lofty heroism, “Say no more. Second Sister will sign it for her! Where do I sign!!!”

Gu Ruanruan hurriedly sat beside her, smoothed out her math test paper, and revealed a blank corner.

Because Gu Ruanruan had not closed the door properly when she came in, the hallway draft blew, and Jiang Xia’an’s bedroom door was flung wide open, exposing the scene inside.

One large and one small figure were leaning very close together, both lowering their heads. Their posture looked intimate, as if they were plotting something.

Suddenly, a deep shadow enveloped the two of them.

Gu Ruanruan and Jiang Xia’an subconsciously raised their heads.

Jiang Cen’s figure was so solemn that she looked like the Queen Mother of the West about to separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Under the dim light, she appeared so tall.

She looked down at Gu Ruanruan and Jiang Xia’an from above, as if overlooking two stupid ants.

“What are you two doing?”

This scene seemed like yesterday repeating itself.

Gu Ruanruan: “……”

Jiang Xia’an: “……”