Returning to the Villain Omega's High School Days - Chapter 14

The last time Xie Ning returned to Little Fragrant Mountain, it felt as though it had happened yesterday. At that time, she had taken out a gun and aimed the barrel at Su Xingheng inside the private room.

In that roomful of people, aside from Su Xingheng’s three wives and children, there had also been Su Wan’s mother Fang Lingyu, as well as several people from his uncle’s family.

Aside from the children, none of them were young anymore. Fang Lingyu had even been sitting in a wheelchair, pushed by Su Xingheng’s eldest daughter-in-law. Su Xingheng had also become stern and unsmiling. Even in front of children, he liked giving orders.

That joyful, harmonious scene of the Su family seemed to be right before her eyes. They had stepped on the Xie family to climb upward, stolen the Xie family’s assets, occupied the Xie family’s house, and laughed and talked on the very land where Uncle Ling had bled and died to protect the Xie family… Xie Ning could not tolerate something like that happening again!

Now that she had returned, the first thing she had to do was retrieve the book Rongcheng. She could not let that book fall into Jiang Qingliu’s hands. She could not let the plot written in the book become reality!

“Host, the server understands your thoughts, but this time, the server has already fixed the bug from last time. That book has already been corrected. It no longer exists!” System 2038 said.

“Didn’t you say there’s no difference between now and my previous life? How can you change things from the past now?” Xie Ning said in dissatisfaction. “Since you can modify the past, why don’t you go sixteen years back and stop Su Wan from being switched?”

“That is impossible to modify. The only things that can be modified are this world’s bugs, such as that book that should never have appeared,” the system explained seriously. “Host, my existence is to maintain the continued operation of this world. If this world collapses, then everything will end for you. You must treat this seriously.”

“As long as Su Xingheng doesn’t die, this world won’t collapse, right?”

“The protagonist not dying is the lowest requirement. As a server, we also have a basic requirement to correct the plot, which is—to let the protagonist grow.”

“To let the protagonist experience sorrow, joy, partings, and reunions. Ideally, he should gain true enlightenment, just like what the villain once did: let the protagonist possess everything, then strip everything away from him, letting him experience great joy and great sorrow, undergo transformation, and then awaken.” The system paused. “This is the server’s specific requirement. As for how to achieve it, that depends on the corrector.”

“Corrector?”

“That is you, Host,” the system admitted. “You are the corrector chosen by the server, the person capable of changing the course of history.”

Xie Ning narrowed her eyes and pondered for a moment. “I quite like that way of putting it. I believe that as the protagonist, if Su Xingheng keeps growing up in a honey jar, then there’s no way he can truly grow. As the corrector, I definitely need to beat him down more, make him experience suffering ordinary people can’t experience, and help him reach enlightenment earlier. Don’t you think so?”

The system was silent for several seconds. “…That’s not impossible. The server does not consider this to violate the rules, but you must ensure that the correction action does not create bugs. You cannot let the protagonist question the nature of the world, like that book. Its appearance would make people question whether the world is real.”

“So your actions from now on need to be more stable. You can’t keep acting recklessly like before.”

Xie Ning: “.”

“Also, although the book no longer exists, the server has replaced it with something else: one of your medical examination reports!”

Xie Ning thought of something, and the smile on her face immediately disappeared.

It was already ten-thirty at night.

Xie Ning walked through the living room and heard her stepmother Jiang Qin say faintly, “You’re back.”

Her face cold, Xie Ning ignored her completely and went straight upstairs. She walked to the second bedroom door and pushed it open.

The person inside the room was startled and abruptly sat up from the bed. Looking at the figure at the door, he said in disbelief, “Sister?”

Xie Ning switched on the light with a pa. The light shone on the half-naked adolescent boy. He raised one hand to block his eyes, while the other pulled the blanket over his body. Panicked and at a loss, he said, “Sister, what are you doing? I’m not wearing clothes! Don’t come over!”

“Oh?” Xie Ning looked at him coldly. “Jiang Qingliu, what are you so afraid of me for?”

The boy trembled. His eyes widened slightly as he looked at Xie Ning and said softly, “Sister, you… what did you just call me?”

The system was already frantically sounding alarms in Xie Ning’s mind. “Host, spoiler warning! Watch your words and actions!”

Xie Ning had misspoken. Jiang Qingliu only changed his surname to follow his mother’s more than ten years later. The moment that name came out of her mouth, it frightened Xie Qingliu.

The two looked at each other, each trying to guess the other’s intentions. At a time like this, whoever panicked first, whoever showed weakness first, would expose a flaw.

Xie Ning had, after all, spent many years among loan sharks. A slip of the tongue was nothing. As long as she made her attitude clear and revealed no flaws, the other side would retreat, frantically speculate, and treat the flaw as a clue, guessing nonstop until they produced a new understanding.

She calmly looked at the naked boy on the bed, gave a cold little snort, and walked toward him without the slightest guilt, looking very much as if she was going to drag him up.

Sure enough, Xie Qingliu shrank backward in panic and asked fearfully, “Xie Ning, did you go through my things?”

Only in his diary did he refer to himself as Jiang Qingliu. Why could Xie Ning say this name? Did that not mean she had read his diary?!

Xie Qingliu was terrified. Heaven knew how many dark, unspeakable things he had done!

Xie Ning ignored him. She entered the room and began searching his drawers, including the drawer beneath the bookshelf, the drawer under the desk, and the bedside cabinet.

While pulling clothes onto his body, Xie Qingliu said nervously, “Sister, can you stop messing with me? I still have to sleep. If you keep going through my things, I’m going to call my mom!”

“Better call Dad over too,” Xie Ning said. “Let him know what bad things you two have done!”

Xie Qingliu’s face turned deathly pale. He got off the bed lightly, stepping barefoot on the floor, and followed behind Xie Ning. In a small voice, he said, “Stop bothering with it. There’s nothing in those drawers. See? Just some discs and stuff. That’s nothing either… just some specimens.”

Xie Ning searched through everything and did not have to spend much effort.

Xie Qingliu seemed to have obsessive-compulsive tendencies. Everything had to be uniformly categorized and neatly arranged. Even the drawer with specimens had several sealed bags laid out in order. Inside lay the corpses of some insects and bones from unknown species.

Sure enough, her younger brother had been a qualified pervert since childhood.

But this little pervert’s attitude toward Xie Ning could be described as both love and hate, both respect and fear. He had been like this since he was very young.

In the past, Xie Ning could not understand it. But after Rongcheng appeared, she figured it out. Xie Qingliu had long known he would differentiate into an Alpha! That fear came from an Omega’s instinctive admiration and awe toward an Alpha!

Since Rongcheng no longer existed, then the Medical Examination Report that replaced it must have served the same function. Thinking of this, Xie Ning had come to look for Xie Qingliu without another word.

She had to find that medical examination report before he became alert and made any move!

“Stop searching,” Xie Qingliu was still pretending to be wronged. He sighed and said, “Sister, if you act like this, I’ll never trust you again.”

Xie Ning finished searching the bedside cabinet, then finally pulled open the drawer beneath the bed and found an iron box with a lock inside.

At this, Xie Qingliu stopped hiding it entirely and rushed straight over to snatch the iron box. Xie Ning pushed him aside with one palm, then pressed him to the floor with her backhand. The strength of one hand alone was enough to restrain Xie Qingliu, leaving him unable to resist.

Xie Qingliu was only thirteen, five years younger than Xie Ning. Being young was one reason he could not beat Xie Ning. As for the other reason, Xie Qingliu himself understood clearly—

Even if he grew to eighteen, the same age as Xie Ning, if they compared strength and speed, he still could not possibly match Xie Ning!

He was someone who would differentiate into an Omega, while Xie Ning… Good heavens, she had not even differentiated yet, but her strength was already this great?

It was truly enviable, and terrifying.

Right in front of Xie Qingliu, Xie Ning used her bare hands and pulled hard twice, ripping the lock off the iron box. From inside, she took out a medical examination report that had been hidden for several years.

The system was right. It had fixed the bug. Originally, what had been hidden in this iron box was the book Rongcheng, but now it had become a medical examination report. Not only had the object changed, even people’s consciousness had changed.

When Xie Qingliu saw that report, he was not surprised, because in his perception, he was the one who had personally hidden that report inside.

Xie Ning took out the report. The yellowed A4 paper had the year printed on it, the company that conducted the physical examination, Xie Ning’s name, as well as various examination items. In the conclusion section, it was written clearly and plainly:

“Xie Ning, female, age 12, differentiation tendency: Alpha.”

Xie Ning: “…”

Sure enough, there had been no mistake in the physical examination. Someone had colluded with the hospital to deceive them, making the Xie family believe Xie Ning would differentiate into an Omega. This way, the Xie family would not raise Xie Ning as the Xie family’s heir!

The only person with the motive and ability to do this was Xie Ning’s stepmother, Jiang Qin!

She had deceived Xie Ning for so many years!

Knowing the truth yet allowing, even pushing, Xie Ning and Su Xingheng to get engaged—was that not precisely to make Xie Ning be rejected after differentiating into an Alpha and lose all face?!

Truly, truly a wolf’s ambition, poisonous to the extreme!

All color drained from Xie Ning’s face. Her face and neck were as white as paper, while her eyes reddened. Like a vampire, she stared at that report, speechless for a long time.

Seeing things develop to this point, Xie Qingliu could no longer hide anything. He could only plead, “Sister, I wasn’t trying to hurt you. When I found out about this, I was only seven. I didn’t understand anything back then.”

“Stop pretending to be innocent here,” Xie Ning sneered. “You and Jiang Qin—what kind of schemes you were plotting, what kind of heart you had, do you really think I don’t know?”

Xie Qingliu laughed bitterly.

Holding the report, Xie Ning stood up and said calmly, “Dad has to know about this.”

With a thud, Xie Qingliu crawled up and hugged Xie Ning’s leg tightly. Looking up, he begged for mercy. “Sister, Sister, don’t go tell him. You can make me do anything you want. Please. You’ve already entered the differentiation period and are about to differentiate soon. This report won’t have much impact on you anymore. You can use this to threaten my mom, but you absolutely must not say it in front of Dad. I’m begging you!”

Xie Ning lowered her head to look at him, thinking about whether this little pervert was useful to her or not, whether to keep him.

The things he had done in her previous life still disgusted Xie Ning even now.

But even if she took this report to show their father, with his personality, would he really pursue Jiang Qin’s responsibility to the end?

Deep down, Xie Ning did not want the old man to uphold any kind of justice for her. In her previous life, she had taken care of him while he was seriously ill, doing all kinds of filthy and exhausting work. She had long since grown thoroughly sick of him.

If this report was not enough to eliminate Jiang Qin, it would only make Jiang Qin gain even more advantage. At that point, it would be even harder for Xie Ning to threaten her.

She persuaded herself to stay calm. This was only the first day since she had returned.

The real show had only just begun.

Xie Qingliu knelt on the floor, hugging her leg. He said everything, from acting cute and spoiled to analyzing the pros and cons. Xie Ning gave him a look, then took the report and went back to her room to sleep.

The next day, on the way to school, Xie Ning heard all kinds of rumors about the Su family and was delighted.

It turned out that the matter of more than a thousand employees searching for someone by the Sanliu Bridge riverbank the previous night had spread all over the city. People were discussing it in WeChat groups, and videos and photos were forwarded through different chats. Before long, someone claimed to be the girl in the video’s classmate and knew the inside story.

And so overnight, almost everyone at Shihai High knew about Su Jin’s matter, and the rumors grew more and more outrageous as they spread:

“Su Jin’s identity as the fake daughter was discovered, and she was so ashamed she went to the river to kill herself!”

“Impossible! It had to be attempted suicide over love! She has someone she likes, but now their difference in status is huge and their families don’t match, so she couldn’t think straight!”

“I heard it was because she was pregnant, and her family was forcing her to get rid of it. That’s why she had no choice but to threaten them with suicide…”

“Ew.”

“Actually, the real situation is that Su Jin knew her own identity. There’s an organization behind her, and it was all premeditated! Her real mission was to seduce the young master of the Su family. Unfortunately, she truly couldn’t beat the beautiful school belle. After her mission failed, the organization chased her all the way to the riverbank. But just then, a huge crowd of people searching for her arrived. In order not to expose the organization, she could only create the illusion of suicide!”

“…”

The most subtle thing was that although everyone was talking about it, the main character of the story might know nothing about it at all.