Returning to the Villain Omega's High School Days - Chapter 15

With rumors flying everywhere, Xie Ning discovered that school wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

Just listening to the gossip was enough to amuse her.

As soon as she showed up, people in the classroom ran over to ask her for gossip.

“Xie Ning, is the stuff about Su Jin true?”

“Did she really try to kill herself?”

“Xie Ning, you know everything, don’t you? Tell me, please?”

Xie Ning put down her backpack, sat in her chair, blew a strand of hair out of her face, and looked up with a half-smile.

“I know about the same amount as you. If you have the guts, go ask Su Jin. Don’t come ask me.”

“I don’t dare to ask. I just want to know, if she’s not the Su family’s biological daughter, will she be sent back to her real parents?”

“Will she still live with her adoptive parents?”

Xie Ning “tsk”ed and raised a finger.

“I’ll answer one question for a fee of one thousand yuan!”

“Tch!”

“Xie Ning, you’re so lame!”

“You’re so rich, but you’re still greedy for our money. That’s so wrong!”

“I knew you’d side with the Su family. Su Xingheng has you completely head over heels for him. It’s so annoying!”

Xie Ning squinted and smiled, laying her head on her desk.

She put on her headphones to listen to music and took out her phone to send a message.

She sent a message to someone with a lotus flower as their profile picture and the ID “Heart of Peace”: “Is Su Wan coming to school today?”

Heart of Peace: “Yes.”

Heart of Peace: “The madam isn’t up yet. After she gets ready, she’ll take Su Wan to report to the homeroom teacher.”

Xie Ning stretched her limbs and kicked the person in front of her.

The boy turned around and looked at her, his eyebrows furrowed like two fuzzy caterpillars.

Xie Ning looked down at her phone and sent a message: “Around what time?”

The person in the front seat saw that Xie Ning didn’t notice him, so he had to turn back and continue reciting his textbook.

Friday was the most chaotic day of the week.

No one had their heart in studying.

Only he was different from everyone else.

At eighteen, he had a somber and bitter look on his face as he recited, “Life is but a dream, how much joy is there to be had?”

Xie Ning kicked him again.

This time, she completely interrupted his thoughts.

He couldn’t remember the next line, and he was so annoyed that you could fit a coin between his eyebrows.

He had to look at his textbook.

When he started reciting for the third time, Xie Ning began to shake her leg.

She was listening to music with her headphones on and was completely lost in the moment, her body swaying along.

Her desk was next to his chair, so it started shaking too.

“‘Time is a passing guest of a hundred generations’… generations… and then, and then…” the boy suddenly stood up and yelled, “Xie Ning!”

Everyone in the classroom went quiet and looked at them.

Xie Ning’s face was full of smiles.

She took off her headphones and put them around her neck, blinked, and said with a little “Oh?”

“How’s it going, top student?”

Everyone found it funny.

The boy was furious, but when he looked back at Xie Ning’s smiling face, he couldn’t stay angry.

He was speechless and just moved his chair forward a bit, continuing to recite his text.

He was Chen Shi’er, the one who had gotten into the best university but experienced the biggest failure of his life, only to return to Rongcheng to become a taxi driver.

Xie Ning had ridden in his taxi.

Her phone vibrated.

“Heart of Peace” sent a message:

“I’m not sure. She might not get there until this afternoon. Our madam’s routine is a bit unpredictable.”

Xie Ning: “Can you get her to school before noon?”

There was no reply for a few minutes.

Xie Ning sent a picture.

The photo showed Aunt Zhang raising her hand to hit a skinny girl on the side of a road lit by car headlights.

The expressions on both their faces were very clear.

Aunt Zhang’s ferocious face was a direct contradiction to the ID “Heart of Peace.”

So Heart of Peace quickly replied: “Yes, I can!”

Xie Ning knew very well that today was Su Wan’s first day of school, a day when she should be taken seriously.

If Fang Lingyu couldn’t bring her to school early, and it was pushed to the afternoon, it would be another opportunity for Su Jin to cause a scene.

Su Jin probably hadn’t heard any of the rumors yet, but when she had lunch in the cafeteria, even she, as stupid as she was, would feel that something was off.

When Fang Lingyu brought Su Wan to school, Su Jin would definitely throw a fit!

Xie Ning had no interest in listening to the class.

She had majored in economics and management in college, but she couldn’t stop her family from going bankrupt, nor could it help her find a high-paying job after they went bankrupt.

Therefore, Xie Ning always felt that studying was useless.

Just like the top student in front of her, who worked so hard to get into the best school, but still had bad luck and ended up with debt and unemployment during an economic downturn.

He was forced to become a taxi driver, picking up customers at four in the morning.

Most people can’t put what they’ve learned to use, and knowledge eventually gets forgotten.

She didn’t listen to the class, but she didn’t disrupt it either.

She slept, listened to music, or played on her phone, and two periods passed.

The third period started at ten, but before the bell even rang, Xie Ning had already disappeared from her seat.

A transfer application has to be approved by the dean first.

Then, the student’s parents must meet with the homeroom teacher to get to know them before the process is considered complete.

Su Wan’s name wasn’t Su Wan yet; her ID card had her adoptive parents’ last name, Liu.

In the Su family, they sometimes called her “Su Wan” and sometimes “Liu Wan,” depending on their mood.

This morning, Aunt Zhang gave her a school uniform to put on.

She purposely used scissors to cut the sleeves to get her own school uniform sooner.

This one was Su Jin’s, and Su Wan didn’t like wearing her hand-me-downs.

She had a short bob haircut.

Because of malnutrition, her hair was dry and yellow, like fluffy straw.

Aunt Zhang sprayed some hairspray on it, and it looked a little better.

Su Wan didn’t care about any of this.

In fact, she didn’t want to go to that high school at all.

She would rather her mother send her to a vocational high school or a boarding school than go to school with Su Jin and the others!

She was an outsider and was destined to be unwelcome.

She was put in Su Jin’s class.

This was something Su Jin had agreed to and suggested herself, saying it was so she could better take care of her new sister.

Su Wan knew this was an obvious attempt to make her look inferior.

If she tried to compete with Su Jin, she probably wouldn’t get anything good out of it!

At least now she had a school to go to.

She had already dropped out of school this semester back in her hometown.

The Shihai High School gate was very imposing.

Su Wan looked up at it for a full thirty seconds before she quickened her pace to follow Fang Lingyu into the school.

Inside, there were some stairs to climb.

Fang Lingyu walked a few steps and felt a little winded.

She looked up, and the sun hit her eyes.

She swayed a little, and Su Wan immediately went over and held her arm to support her.

The girl’s hands were holding her arm, and her fingers were cold.

They felt cold against Fang Lingyu’s skin, which surprised her.

She turned to look at Su Wan.

She often held Jin’er’s hand, but she never knew Su Wan’s hands were so cold.

Was it because she was nervous?

Seeing that Su Wan looked a little uncomfortable, Fang Lingyu pursed her lips and lifted her arm, so Su Wan immediately let go, as if she had done something wrong.

They looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

“Auntie?” Xie Ning’s clear and pleasant voice rang out, pulling their thoughts away.

Su Wan’s breathing hitched slightly.

She slowly raised her head, inch by inch, and looked at the girl’s shadow cast down the stairs.

Her gaze stopped there.

If she looked up any further, her plain face would be exposed to the public.

Xie. Ning.

That was her name.

The girl who was engaged to Su Xingheng.

That was her identity.

So far, that was all Su Wan knew.

Are beautiful people’s shadows also this beautiful? Su Wan thought to herself, a little dumbfounded.

“Xie Ning?” Fang Lingyu smiled.

“What are you doing here? Is it class time or break time?”

“Our class has P.E. right now,” Xie Ning said, lying with a straight face.

“The P.E. teacher is sick, so he told us to do whatever we want. I just happened to wander over here. Auntie, are you taking your sister to register?”

“Yes,” Fang Lingyu pulled Su Wan’s hand.

“Wanwan, say ‘Sister.’”

Her palm was held tightly.

Su Wan suddenly looked up and saw Xie Ning’s face so close to her.

She took a breath, and her lips parted.

The two words were on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn’t say them.

Was Xie Ning… wearing blush?

Fang Lingyu gently squeezed her hand.

Su Wan smiled and said softly, “Sister.”

Xie Ning “hmm”ed and started staring at her again, from her head to her feet.

When she saw the green socks she was wearing, she frowned.

Su Wan: “…”

But she didn’t look for long.

She turned and started talking to Su’s mother, asking about Su Wan’s situation.

Her tone and attitude were just like Su Wan’s older sister.

“She dropped out of school this semester,” Fang Lingyu said, worried.

“She finished her first year of high school, and her grades were just so-so. So now, I’m having her transfer to the liberal arts class to be with Jin’er, so they can look out for each other.”

Xie Ning said, “Ah, why did she drop out of school?”

“Her situation is complicated. I didn’t have time to talk about this with you last night. It’s good that you know now. In the future, you can help take care of her,” Fang Lingyu smiled and looked down.

“It might not sound great, but just treat her like a younger sister, just like you treat Jin’er.”

As she spoke, Fang Lingyu let go of Su Wan’s hand.

Even so, Su Wan was already in a much better mood.

She felt much better than when she first entered the school gates.

She didn’t speak, just listened to them talk.

Unconsciously, they arrived at the office door.

Fang Lingyu was talking about academics and praising Xie Ning for her good math grades.

The two of them were engaged in a lively conversation.

When she heard “good math grades,” Su Wan looked at her in surprise.

Xie Ning noticed and made a funny face at her.

Fang Lingyu said, “Not many girls study science, and even fewer are good at math. I wish Jin’er were as smart as you. I hired a tutor for her, but it didn’t help. She only listens to Xingheng’s tutoring, but Xingheng is going to college next year, so he won’t have time to help her.”

Xie Ning said directly, “Su Jin isn’t good at studying. What good would it do for Su Wan to be in the same class as her? They might even be a bad influence on each other. And a liberal arts degree is very limiting; it’s hard to choose a major in college later. It’s better to let Su Wan study science.”

Fang Lingyu frowned with a troubled expression.

“What majors don’t need liberal arts?”

“…Uh, a lot of majors, like medicine and stuff.”

Su Wan: “???”

Xie Ning coughed and avoided her gaze.

She saw that Su Wan’s attention was completely on her after she said, “you can’t choose a medical major if you study liberal arts.”

Su Wan was indeed interested in medicine.

Once, when she was in elementary school, Liu Ya got sick with a fever and passed out.

The adults weren’t home.

She ran to the clinic but couldn’t find anyone there.

She had to sneak in, find some medicine according to the instructions, and take it back to Liu Ya.

A few hours later, her high fever had indeed gone down!

In her limited knowledge, studying medicine was very useful!

If she couldn’t study medicine because she chose liberal arts, that would be terrible!

But in reality, that wasn’t true at all!

In her previous life, Su Wan did choose liberal arts and later went into medicine.

But getting started was so difficult.

She had to learn even the most basic biology and chemistry from scratch, which was enough to drive anyone crazy.

Xie Ning thought to herself, since that’s the case, why not choose the right subjects in high school and help her avoid that long detour?

And then she wouldn’t have to be in the same class as Su Jin!

Plus, she could find an opportunity to tutor Wanwan.

It was almost too perfect.

She guiltily rubbed her nose for her devious thoughts.

Only in front of Su Wan would she feel guilty about lying.

Fang Lingyu was half-believing.

Xie Ning simply asked Su Wan, “Wanwan, do you really want to be in the liberal arts class? Science isn’t that hard, and if you have trouble, you can always ask me for help!”

Su Wan hesitated and didn’t speak.

Fang Lingyu held her hand and said gently, “It’s okay, say what you’re thinking.”

Su Wan took a breath.

Her bright eyes looked at Fang Lingyu, and she said seriously, “I want to study science!”

Xie Ning had achieved her goal and waved her hand, walking away.

As she reached the corner of the hallway, she noticed from the corner of her eye that Su Wan seemed to still be watching her.

Xie Ning immediately hid her smile and politely greeted the homeroom teacher, Old Wang, who was just walking downstairs: “Hello, Teacher.”

Old Wang: “?”

Do you need something, leader?

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The author has something to say:

A cunning Alpha!

The views expressed in the text do not represent my views.

I don’t think studying is useless.

It’s just that everyone has different experiences.

If the protagonist had the male lead’s story in her previous life, she definitely wouldn’t say studying was useless.

She would say, “I’m so glad I worked hard back then.”

Also, the protagonist’s views will change over time!