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

Rumors were flying everywhere, and Xie Ning discovered that going to school was not actually that annoying. Just listening to other people gossip was enough to make her happy.

The moment she appeared, everyone in the classroom rushed over to ask her for gossip—

“Xie Ning, is the thing about Su Jin real?”

“Did she really try to kill herself?”

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

Xie Ning put down her schoolbag, sat in her chair, blew at her bangs, and lifted her eyelids with a half-smile. “I know about as much as you do. If you’ve got the nerve, go ask Su Jin. Don’t ask me.”

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

“Will she still live with her adoptive parents in the future?”

Xie Ning clicked her tongue and raised one finger. “One answer costs a thousand yuan!”

“Tch!”

“Xie Ning, you’re no fun!”

“You’re so rich, but you still want our money. That’s too much!”

“I knew you were on the Su family’s side. Su Xingheng has you completely enchanted. So annoying!”

Xie Ning narrowed her eyes and smiled, lying on her desk with headphones on to listen to music while taking out her phone to send messages.

She sent a message to someone whose profile picture was a lotus flower and whose ID was “Calm and Peaceful”: “Is Su Wan coming to school today?”

Calm and Peaceful: “She is.”

Calm and Peaceful: “Madam hasn’t gotten up yet. Once she’s ready, she’ll take Su Wan to the homeroom teacher to report in.”

Xie Ning stretched, her foot kicking someone in front of her. The boy turned back to look at her, frowning with two caterpillar-like brows.

Xie Ning lowered her head and sent another message: “Around what time?”

Seeing that Xie Ning had not noticed him, the front-seat boy could only turn back around and continue memorizing the textbook.

Friday was the noisiest day of the week. Everyone had no heart to study. Only he was different from the others, an eighteen-year-old wearing a bitter and hateful expression as he recited, “Life is like a dream; how much joy can there be?”

Xie Ning kicked him again. This kick interrupted his train of thought once more, and he could no longer remember what came next. Irritated and restless, his brow furrowed so deeply a coin could have been wedged between it.

He had no choice but to look at the textbook. When he was memorizing it for the third time, Xie Ning started shaking her leg.

She wore headphones and listened to music, completely lost in herself, her body swaying along. Her desk was next to his seat, and it started shaking too.

“Time is a traveler of a hundred generations… and, and, and after that is, is…” The boy suddenly stood up and shouted angrily, “Xie Ning!”

The whole classroom went quiet, and everyone looked over in unison.

Xie Ning’s face was full of smiles. She took off the over-ear headphones and let them rest around her neck, blinked, and gave an “eh” before saying, “Hello, top student.”

Everyone thought it was funny. The boy had originally been furious, but when he turned around and saw Xie Ning’s smiling face, how could he still be angry?

He stammered, said nothing, moved his chair forward a little, and continued memorizing the text.

He was Chen Shi Er, the one who had gotten into a top university only to suffer a Waterloo in life and eventually return to Rongcheng to drive a taxi. Xie Ning had ridden in his taxi before.

Her phone vibrated. “Calm and Peaceful” sent a message:

“It’s hard to say. She might not come until afternoon. Our madam’s schedule isn’t very stable.”

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

For several minutes, there was no reply. Xie Ning sent a photo. The picture showed a roadside at night lit by car headlights, with Nanny Zhang raising her hand toward a thin, weak girl.

Both of their expressions were captured very clearly. Nanny Zhang’s ferocious face truly went against her ID, “Calm and Peaceful.”

And so, Calm and Peaceful quickly replied: “Yes!”

Xie Ning knew very well that today was Su Wan’s first day at school, a day when she should receive attention. If Fang Lingyu could not bring her to school early, and it was delayed until afternoon, then that would become another chance for Su Jin to make a scene.

She might not have heard any rumors yet, but by the time she ate lunch in the cafeteria at noon, even someone as foolish as her would be able to sense something was off. Once Fang Lingyu brought Su Wan to school, Su Jin would definitely flare up!

Xie Ning had absolutely no mind for class. She had studied economics and management in university, but it had not stopped the Xie family from going bankrupt, nor had it helped her find a high-paying job after bankruptcy. Because of that, Xie Ning had always felt studying was useless.

Just like that top student in front of her. He had fought hard to get into the best school, but in the end, he had bad luck and ran into an economic downturn, becoming indebted and unemployed, forced to drive a taxi and still taking passengers at four in the morning.

Most people could not put what they had learned to use. In the end, knowledge could not escape the fate of being forgotten.

She did not listen to class, but she also did not disturb it. She slept, listened to music, or scrolled through her phone, and two classes passed just like that.

The third class began at ten o’clock. Before the bell even rang, Xie Ning had already disappeared from her seat.

The transfer application first had to pass through the dean of students. Then the parent had to bring the student to meet the homeroom teacher for a conversation, and only after they understood the situation would the procedures be considered complete.

Su Wan was not called Su Wan right now. On her ID card, she followed her adoptive parents’ surname and was surnamed Liu.

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

In the morning, Nanny Zhang had brought her a school uniform to change into. Su Wan deliberately used scissors to cut the uniform sleeve, with the goal of getting her own school uniform earlier.

This one belonged to Su Jin. Su Wan did not like wearing clothes Su Jin no longer wanted.

She had a short bob. Because of malnutrition, her hair was dry, withered, and yellow, like fluffy straw. Nanny Zhang took some hairspray and sprayed it for her, making it look a little better.

Su Wan did not care about these things. In truth, she did not 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. Either would be better than studying in the same school as Su Jin and the others!

She was an outsider, destined not to be welcomed.

She had been arranged into Su Jin’s class. This was something Su Jin had taken the initiative to suggest after compromising, saying this way, she could better take care of the newly transferred Su Wan.

Su Wan knew this meant she would be openly compared and pushed down. If she fought with Su Jin, then she probably would not gain a single benefit!

At least now she could go to school. Back in her hometown, she had already dropped out this semester.

The gate of Shihai High was very grand. Su Wan lifted her head and looked at it for a full half minute before quickening her steps and following Fang Lingyu into the campus.

There was a stretch of steps to climb after entering. Fang Lingyu walked a few steps and began to lose strength. When she lifted her head, the sun happened to stab into her eyes. She swayed slightly, and Su Wan immediately stepped forward to support her.

The girl held her arm with both hands. Her fingers were icy cold, and when they pressed against Fang Lingyu’s skin, Fang Lingyu was instantly surprised. She turned back and looked at Su Wan.

She often held Jin’er’s hand, yet she had never known Su Wan’s hands were this cold.

Was it because she was nervous?

Seeing that Su Wan’s expression looked somewhat uncomfortable, Fang Lingyu pressed her lips together and lifted her arm slightly. Su Wan immediately let go, as if she had done something wrong.

Their eyes met, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.

“Auntie?” Xie Ning’s crisp, pleasant voice rang out, pulling both of them out of their thoughts.

Su Wan’s breathing stilled faintly. She lifted her head extremely slowly, moving her gaze inch by inch to look at the girl’s shadow cast down from the steps.

Her gaze stopped there. If she looked any higher, her not-very-pretty face would be exposed in front of others.

Xie. Ning.

That was her name.

The girl engaged to Su Xingheng.

That was her identity.

So far, this was all Su Wan knew.

Did good-looking people even have shadows this beautiful? Su Wan thought blankly.

“Xie Ning?” Fang Lingyu smiled. “Why are you here? Is this class time or break time?”

“Our class is having PE,” Xie Ning lied with her eyes open. “The PE teacher is sick, so he let us move around freely. I wandered over here. Auntie, are you bringing Younger Sister to report in?”

“Yes.” Fang Lingyu tugged Su Wan’s hand. “Wanwan, call her Sister.”

Her palm was held tightly. Su Wan abruptly lifted her head and saw Xie Ning’s face close at hand. She drew in a breath, her lips parting. Those two words reached the edge of her mouth but did not come out.

Was Xie Ning wearing… blush?

Fang Lingyu gently squeezed her hand. Su Wan revealed a smile and said softly, “Sister.”

Xie Ning gave an “mm” and began staring at her again, looking her over from head to toe. When she saw the pair of green socks Su Wan was wearing, she frowned.

Su Wan: “…”

But Xie Ning did not look for long. She turned and started chatting with Mother Su, asking about Su Wan’s situation, her tone and attitude like Su Wan’s own older sister.

“She dropped out this semester,” Fang Lingyu said worriedly. “She finished the first-year high school curriculum, and her grades are about average, I suppose. So now we’re having her transfer into the humanities class and study together with Jin’er, so they can look after each other.”

Xie Ning went, “Ah. Why did she drop out?”

“Her situation is complicated. I didn’t have time to talk to you about all this last night. It’s good that you know. In the future, you can also help take care of her a little.” Fang Lingyu lowered her head and smiled. “It may not be very proper for me to say this, but just treat her as a younger sister. Treat her the same way you treat Jin’er.”

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

Even so, Su Wan’s mood was already very good.

Much better than when she had entered the school gate. She did not speak and only listened to them talk.

Before they knew it, they arrived at the office door. Fang Lingyu happened to be talking about studies, praising Xie Ning for being good at math, and the two chatted nonstop.

When Su Wan heard that Xie Ning was “good at math,” she looked at her in surprise.

Xie Ning happened to notice and made a funny face at her.

Fang Lingyu said, “There are few girls who study science, and even fewer who are good at math. If only Jin’er were as smart as you. I hired tutors for her, but it was no use. She only listens when Xingheng tutors her, but Xingheng has to take the college entrance exam next year. How would he have the time to manage her?”

Xie Ning said directly, “Su Jin isn’t good at studying. What benefit can Su Wan get from being in the same class as her? They might even affect each other. And studying humanities is limiting. When she goes to university later, it’ll be hard to choose a major. It’s better to let Su Wan study science.”

Fang Lingyu frowned in difficulty. “What majors don’t accept humanities students?”

“…Uh, a lot of majors, I guess. Like medicine and pharmacy.”

Su Wan: “???”

Xie Ning coughed, her gaze dodging.

She saw that after Su Wan heard “if you study humanities, you won’t be able to choose medical or pharmaceutical majors later,” all her attention focused over.

Su Wan was indeed interested in medicine.

When she was in elementary school, Liu Ya once fell sick with a fever and passed out. The adults were not home, and when Su Wan ran to the clinic, she could not find anyone there either. She had no choice but to sneak in and find medicine according to the instructions, then took it back and gave Liu Ya two pills. A few hours later, Liu Ya’s high fever really went down!

In her limited understanding, studying medicine was extremely useful!

If choosing humanities meant she could not study medicine in the future, that would simply be too awful!

But in truth, that was not the case at all!

In her previous life, Su Wan had chosen humanities and later still chosen medicine. It was only that getting started had been too difficult. Even the most basic biology and chemistry knowledge had to be learned from scratch, which could practically drive a person insane.

Xie Ning thought that since this was the case, it would be better for Su Wan to choose the right subjects in high school and take fewer detours, and she would not have to be in the same class as Su Jin!

Moreover, Xie Ning could even find chances to tutor Wanwan. It was simply too beautiful.

She guiltily touched her nose because of her wicked little thoughts.

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

Fang Lingyu was doubtful, so Xie Ning simply asked Su Wan, “Wanwan, do you really want to enter the humanities class? Science actually isn’t hard. If you don’t understand it, you can come to me!”

Su Wan hesitated and did not speak. Fang Lingyu held her hand and said gently, “It’s all right. Say what you really think.”

Su Wan drew in a breath. Her bright eyes looked at Fang Lingyu as she said seriously, “I want to study science!”

Xie Ning achieved her goal and waved her hand as she walked away.

When she reached the corner of the corridor, she noticed from the corner of her eye that Su Wan seemed to still be observing her. Xie Ning immediately hid her smile and even politely greeted homeroom teacher Old Wang, who just happened to be coming downstairs. “Hello, teacher.”

Old Wang: “?”

Leader, what are you doing???