Returning to the Villain Omega's High School Days - Chapter 16

On the weekend, Xie Ning slept until she was completely disoriented.

When she woke up, she played video games, re-visiting all the games she had played in the past.

Xie Qingliu watched her beat a newly released game in half a day.

He looked at her with an expression of worship, practically kneeling in the living room to watch her play.

In the game, a battle broke out, and his loyal maid was caught in it.

If the protagonist chose to rescue her, he would miss out on a side plot, thus losing his beloved master.

The master was a tsundere and sharp-tongued older woman with a devilish figure and a fantastic chest that won the hearts of countless men and women.

The maid, on the other hand, was a gentle and determined younger sister.

Even if the protagonist drew a knife on her, she would smile and say, “Thank you,” making her incredibly heartbreaking and impossible to let go of.

When Xie Ning chose to rescue the maid without a second thought, Xie Qingliu exploded.

He jumped up and said, “Save the master! Go save the master, Xie Ning!”

Xie Ning gave him an eye-roll.

“Get out.”

Xie Qingliu hugged his head and rolled on the floor.

Xie Ning beat the game, sent a message to Aunt Zhang, and then went back to her room to sleep.

To get a firmer hold over Aunt Zhang and make her work for her, Xie Ning hired someone to look into her background.

She actually found something.

Around 2006 or 2007, Aunt Zhang, whose real name was Zhang Cuicui, was found to have stolen jewelry from the family she was a housekeeper for.

She was sentenced to one year in prison.

After she was released, she changed her name, hid her past, and was introduced to the Su family as their new housekeeper by an acquaintance.

The person who introduced her was the Su family’s previous housekeeper, Li Yan.

Li Yan and Zhang Cuicui had some family ties, but more importantly, Li Yan’s sister happened to be a member of the Liu family, Su Wan’s adoptive mother, and Su Jin’s biological mother.

It was hard not to believe that Su Wan hadn’t been intentionally swapped by this Li Yan.

But the Liu family insisted they didn’t know about it.

They claimed that they had also been separated from their biological child for many years and were also victims.

Xie Ning had evidence of Zhang Cuicui’s theft and prison time, but she didn’t want to alert her just yet.

She sent a message to ask about the Su family’s situation and then went to sleep.

The Su family was still in a mess because of Su Jin and couldn’t spare any energy to care about other things.

When Xie Ning saw them again on Monday, it was in the school cafeteria.

Su Xingheng and Su Jin were in line together.

After they got their food, Su Xingheng saw Xie Ning sit down.

He politely greeted her and was about to go sit with her, but Su Jin “hmph”ed, turned her head, and walked in the other direction.

Su Xingheng had no choice but to follow her.

Su Wan was also eating in the cafeteria, but she had no company.

She finished her meal quickly and went back to the classroom.

Xie Ning only looked at her from a distance and didn’t go over to bother her.

Something happened on the way back to the classroom.

The students all gathered to watch the commotion, discussing it with apprehension and blocking the road completely.

Xie Ning tried to squeeze her way forward, but a male student cadre blocked her way.

“Don’t push forward! Something’s happened up there!”

“What happened?” a student who had just arrived asked curiously.

“It’s nothing good,” the student cadre said.

“You guys go around that way. Xie Ning, don’t go look. It’s really not a scene for you Omegas.”

Xie Ning became even more curious.

She craned her neck to see what was happening and muttered, “Don’t we Omegas have the right to know? What happened that’s so important?”

The student cadre clearly didn’t want to say.

Another tall girl turned her head and said, “Someone suddenly collapsed just now, probably because their differentiation period started without warning, and they bit a younger girl.”

A collective gasp went through the crowd behind them.

Xie Ning’s breathing hitched.

She asked, “What grade is the person who got bitten in? First year or second year?”

She remembered that Su Wan had eaten and walked ahead of them.

She was a first-year girl, so it couldn’t be her!

“A first-year student,” the tall girl said.

“The differentiation period is too dangerous. Prospective Alphas must be prepared. It’s basically impossible for someone to control themselves during their first heat. They have to prepare suppressants in advance.”

Xie Ning was relieved to hear it was a first-year student, but the others were in an uproar.

Many were dissatisfied with the school’s prevention measures and complained.

“This is so unreasonable! We have to be with others during our differentiation period, so once we go into heat, others suffer. When will the school’s policy change?”

“Can’t they just isolate all the Alphas in their differentiation period and let them bite each other? Don’t make us suffer too!”

“You can’t predict this kind of thing at all. Who knows when they’ll go into heat? Some people don’t even differentiate until they’re over twenty. Are we going to keep them isolated forever?”

“I want to know how the girl who got bitten is. Is it serious?”

“They’ve already called an ambulance. Alright, stop crowding around here. The ambulance won’t be able to get through,” the student cadre said, directing them with a flag.

“Go back to your classrooms. Stop looking. Be careful and protect yourselves!”

This incident became the focus of discussion at the school.

The previous topic about Su Jin quickly faded, and no one cared about her fake daughter identity anymore.

During class in the afternoon, the homeroom teacher, Old Wang, took up half the class time to talk to them about safety during the differentiation period.

A normal person can be tested for “differentiation factors” at a hospital around the age of 12.

By measuring the content of different differentiation factors in the blood, they can basically predict a person’s future differentiation tendency, with an accuracy rate of 99.99%.

Generally speaking, very few people differentiate into Alphas, less than 10%.

30% of the population differentiates into Omegas, and the rest are called Betas, who only retain their primary gender.

The general view right now is that Alphas are the elite, while Omegas’ only value to society is procreation.

People who hold this view advocate reducing Omegas’ access to education and work opportunities so they can better fulfill their reproductive value.

So over the next ten or twenty years, society went downhill.

The elite education system, which allowed 10% of the population to manage society, occupied 60% of the social resources.

The undifferentiated Betas worked low-level jobs for generations, and the gap between the rich and the poor was unprecedentedly large.

Monogamy was abolished, and male Alphas married Omegas and Betas one after another, while ordinary people had to pay a huge price just to marry one wife.

The most pitiful were the Omegas.

They lost job opportunities and gradually became an accessory and a tool for procreation in the elite society.

In her previous life, Su Wan was an Omega who had lost her reproductive ability.

It was easy to imagine what her social status was!

Although many people were dissatisfied, the school didn’t think they should isolate Alphas.

They simply placated the students and continued with the class.

The week passed quickly, and besides the Alpha biting incident, everything was calm.

Xie Ning moved from the central seat to the back row by the window.

She didn’t listen to class or turn in homework, which once made two teachers, including Zhu Miao, cry.

Old Wang tried to talk to her a few times.

He either couldn’t find her or couldn’t get through to her at all, and the talks went nowhere.

On Friday morning, Su Xingheng came to find Xie Ning.

When he first appeared at the classroom door, the students started to make a fuss.

A boy shouted, “Xie Ning, your toy boy is here!”

Everyone started booing.

Su Xingheng was confused.

“What toy boy?”

The crowd laughed without saying anything.

A girl stood up for Su Xingheng.

“That’s a nickname Xie Ning gave you! That’s so rude!”

Su Xingheng wasn’t angry.

He smiled and walked in.

“A toy boy who’s a 185 cm tall basketball team captain should be pretty rare, right?”

Xie Ning’s former deskmate, Zhou Dangui, immediately said with a smile, “Xie Ning just has a nasty mouth. She talks nonsense all the time. You really believe her?”

Su Xingheng raised his eyebrows, looked at Zhou Dangui, and his opinion of her improved a lot.

He gave her a “666” gesture.

Zhou Dangui tiptoed, and with a delicate, sweet voice, she called to the back row, “Deskmate, your toy boy is here to see you!”

Xie Ning had just been sleeping at her desk for a while.

Hearing the noise, she reluctantly sat up.

Her hair was messy but still looked good.

She lifted her eyelids, glanced at Su Xingheng, and said coldly, “You need me?”

“Come over to my house for dinner tonight,” Su Xingheng said, sitting on someone’s desk in the front row.

One hand was in his pocket, and the other pointed to Xie Ning.

He said with a smile, “Don’t forget!”

He probably thought he looked cool, but in Xie Ning’s eyes, he was an idiot.

Xie Ning asked in confusion, “Didn’t we decide on this yesterday?”

Last night, Fang Lingyu had called the Xie family to invite them over for dinner, intending to officially introduce Su Wan to everyone.

Su Xingheng came to remind her again, seemingly to show off.

“I came to remind you, in case you forgot.” Su Xingheng said with a smile, “Wait for me after school. Just have your driver drive you straight to my house!”

Xie Ning shot back, “Your mom knows to call him Uncle Ling. Can’t you stop saying ‘driver’ and show some respect?”

Su Xingheng was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face completely vanished.

He hadn’t expected Xie Ning to criticize him in front of everyone.

He said angrily, “Xie Ning, how have I offended you? Can you just talk to me properly?”

Xie Ning’s forehead throbbed, but she saw people gathered outside the classroom door to watch, and Su Wan was among them.

She was standing close to Su Jin.

She had probably come with Su Xingheng.

She frowned and looked at Xie Ning with no expression on her face.

The corner of Xie Ning’s lips curled up slightly.

She winked at Su Wan, then slowly moved her gaze back to Su Xingheng and said with a smile, “If you want me to talk properly, then don’t call Uncle Ling ‘the driver’ next time. Be more polite to him!”

She emphasized the last sentence.

Su Xingheng: “…”

“Whatever,” Su Xingheng huffed.

“Your differentiation period is making you so arrogant. You’re talking to me like this. I can’t even be bothered with you anymore!”

“Brother!” Su Jin stood at the classroom door, displeased.

“Don’t lower yourself to her level!”

It would have been better if Su Jin hadn’t spoken.

As soon as she did, all of Xie Ning’s classmates got rowdy, mimicking her voice and saying, “Bwother!”

“Bwother, bwother, Xie Ning is so spoiled!”

“Not me. I only have sympathy for my bwother!”

“…”

The classroom burst into laughter.

Even Su Xingheng’s fangirls looked down on Su Jin and didn’t give her a good look.

Xie Ning lost interest when she saw that Su Wan had only watched for a little while before leaving.

She was looking forward to the dinner tonight.

In her previous life, Xie Ning was also invited to the Su family for dinner.

It was on that occasion that Su Wan was officially introduced to everyone as the Su family’s daughter.

She didn’t remember the specific details from that time, but when she read “Rongcheng,” she revisited the plot and felt so frustrated!

Su Wan was locked in the bathroom, Su Xingheng tricked her into eating a large piece of wasabi at the dinner table, and the housekeeper spilled drinks on her… In short, she lost all her dignity and had to swallow her pride.

At that time, Xie Ning didn’t know that this unremarkable little sister would one day become her wife, the love of her life, her platonic ideal.

She was just like everyone else, holding a glass of wine and watching the show.

After the show was over, her attention moved to other people.

When she was young, she was so clueless.

She thought what others praised was the best and blindly followed the crowd, putting Su Xingheng on a pedestal.

As she got older, she gradually understood what she really wanted.

Just as her younger self would be obsessed with a “tsundere, sharp-tongued, big-chested, and thin-waisted” master, who was a unique and fascinating being with so many gimmicks.

Now, she would choose the maid who followed her without hesitation.

Because no matter what, the maid was always looking at her, always protecting her.

Her love was always there, firm and gentle.

Xie Ning was inattentive as she waited for class to end.

Su Xingheng and Su Jin came to find her as promised.

Su Wan’s classroom was a little further away, and Xie Ning asked them, “Where’s Su Wan?”

“She’s probably waiting at the school gate,” Su Xingheng said, not wanting to talk about Su Wan.

He quickly found a new topic.

“By the way, Xie Ning, why did you change seats?”

Xie Ning said, “To make it easier to skip class.”

Su Jin looked at him with a strange expression.

Su Xingheng said with a smile, “You really don’t want to study, do you? Anyway, you don’t have to worry about work in the future. Omegas are basically all full-time homemakers, right?”

Xie Ning found this a little funny.

She decided to pretend she was going to differentiate into an Omega and said to Su Xingheng, “That’s right. After I graduate, I’ll probably be a full-time homemaker. I’ll have to hire people to clean the house, two chefs, and a driver. They’ll follow me around to the mall and carry my bags. If I get pregnant, it’ll be even more exaggerated. I’ll have to hire at least ten people to take care of me, right? Even if the Su family isn’t super rich, you can afford to hire those people, can’t you?”

Her words scared Su Xingheng.

He said, “That… that’s a bit exaggerated, isn’t it? You’re already thinking about that?”

Xie Ning said, “Of course I am. It’s not like we Omegas are making a sacrifice for nothing. Even a queen bee is supported by hundreds of male bees.”

Su Xingheng licked his lips, not knowing what to say, so he just stayed silent.

Su Jin, on the other hand, had a look of schadenfreude on her face.

Xie Ning saw Su Wan waiting for them at the school gate and waved to her from afar.

Su Wan was now wearing a new school uniform.

It fit her better than the last one.

It was a short skirt, and her legs were very thin and white, so white they glowed.

It was a stark contrast to the color of her face.

It was obvious that her skin was naturally good; her face was just tan from the sun, and with some care, it should whiten up quickly.

She was standing next to Uncle Ling’s car, and they seemed to be talking through the window.

This was the first time Xie Ning had seen Su Wan voluntarily talk to someone, which meant she was gradually adapting to her new environment.

Xie Ning’s car should have been able to fit five people.

One in the front, and three squeezed in the back.

It was a short ride home anyway.

That’s what Su Xingheng thought.

He went to open the front passenger door and found that the seat was stuffed with a huge stuffed toy that had been vacuum-sealed and would inflate once the bag was opened.

“What is this?” Su Xingheng asked.

Xie Ning glanced at it and said, “It’s a gift for Wanwan. I can’t go to your house as a guest empty-handed.”

Su Wan lifted her eyelids and looked at it in surprise.

She had never received a gift before, let alone one this big.

There was a big teddy bear in Su Jin’s room, and she had always wanted to touch it, but she didn’t dare.

She stared at the stuffed toy, pursing her lips and swallowing.

Could she really accept a stuffed toy that was bigger than she was?

Su Xingheng shrugged and complained, “How thoughtful of you. What are we going to do now? We can’t all fit.”

There were only three seats in the back, but there were four of them.

Su Xingheng turned around and said, “How about you take the bus, Su Wan? You already know the way anyway.”

Su Wan tilted her head and turned to leave.

Xie Ning called out to her, “Hey, Wanwan!”

Su Wan stopped.

Being called “Wanwan” gave her a strange sense of familiarity.

“We can all squeeze in. It’s not far from home. You don’t have to take the bus,” Xie Ning said, pulling open the back door.

Su Jin said coldly, “Either you three squeeze in together, or I’ll just walk home.”

Su Xingheng frowned and looked at Su Jin, but he didn’t try to comfort her.

He had been coaxing and comforting her every day lately, and he was getting a little annoyed with her constant tantrums.

“Are you really going to walk home?” Xie Ning asked her with a smile.

“I can’t ride in a gas car. You know I get carsick, don’t you?” Su Jin gave a light “hmph,” turned her head away from Xie Ning, and said, “The Tesla was fine before. Why did you change back to a gas car? They’re bad for the environment.”

Xie Ning said, “Then why don’t you just call for an electric car yourself?”

Su Jin didn’t say anything.

Su Xingheng pointed at the trunk.

“Isn’t there space in there? You can have her ride back there.”

Xie Ning was stunned by what Su Jin said.

What kind of uncultured person would say something like that?

It was clear who “her” was.

Su Wan rolled her eyes and didn’t say anything.

She planned to take the bus, but she had no money in her pocket, so she hesitated.

Xie Ning had reached her limit, too.

She looked at Su Jin with a blank expression and gave her an ultimatum.

“Either get in the car or get lost.”

Su Jin was pulled by Su Xingheng to get in the back seat.

There was only one seat left in the car.

Xie Ning looked at the restrained Su Wan and said softly, “You’re pretty skinny. How about you sit on my lap?”

If Su Wan had a single coin in her pocket, she would have refused that request.

But she checked all four of her pockets and found nothing.