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

Over the weekend, Xie Ning slept at home until day and night blurred together. When she woke, she played games, revisiting all the games she had played before.

When Xie Qingliu saw her clear a newly released game in half a day, admiration flowed out of his eyes. He was practically kneeling in the living room watching her play.

In the game, a battle broke out somewhere. His loyal maid became caught up in it. If the protagonist chose to rescue her, he would miss the plot of another side route, thereby losing the female master he revered.

The master was an older, arrogant, sharp-tongued type, with a devilish figure and proud breasts that had captured countless men’s and women’s hearts. The maid, meanwhile, was a gentle and steadfast younger-sister type. Even if the protagonist swung a blade at her, she would smile and say, “Thank you,” making one feel unbearably heartbroken and unable to give her up.

Seeing Xie Ning choose to save the maid without the slightest hesitation, Xie Qingliu instantly exploded. He jumped up and said, “Save the master! Go save the master! Xie Ning!”

Xie Ning rolled her eyes at him. “Get lost.”

Xie Qingliu held his head and rolled around on the floor. Xie Ning cleared the game, sent Nanny Zhang a message, then went back to her room to sleep.

To gain firmer control over Nanny Zhang and make her useful, Xie Ning had someone investigate her background. Unexpectedly, they really did uncover something—

Around 2006 or 2007, when she still went by her original name, Zhang Cuicui, she had been caught stealing jewelry while working as a nanny for a family. She was sentenced and spent one year in prison. After being released, she changed her name, concealed her past, and only came to the Su family through an acquaintance’s introduction, becoming the Su family’s nanny.

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

Li Yan and Zhang Cuicui were somewhat related, but the more crucial point was that Li Yan’s younger sister happened to be part of the Liu family. She was Su Wan’s adoptive mother, and Su Jin’s biological mother.

It was very hard to believe that Su Wan had not been deliberately switched by this Li Yan.

But the Liu family stubbornly refused to admit this point. They claimed that they, too, had been forced to separate from their flesh and blood for many years, and were also victims.

Xie Ning obtained evidence of Zhang Cuicui’s imprisonment for theft, but she did not alert the snake by beating the grass. She only sent a message asking about the Su family’s situation, then went to sleep.

The Su family was still being tormented by Su Jin’s matter and had no energy to care about anything else. When Xie Ning saw them again on Monday, it was in the school cafeteria.

Su Xingheng and Su Jin were lining up together. After getting their food, Su Xingheng saw that Xie Ning had just sat down. He politely greeted her and carried his tray, intending to sit with her. Su Jin gave a “hmph” and turned her head to walk in another direction, so Su Xingheng could only follow her.

Su Wan was also eating in the cafeteria, but she had no companion. She hurriedly finished eating and went back to the classroom.

Xie Ning only looked at her from afar and did not disturb her.

Something happened on the way back to class. The students all gathered around to watch the commotion, discussing it with fearful hearts, blocking the road until not even water could pass through.

Xie Ning wanted to squeeze forward, but a male class cadre blocked her way. “Don’t push forward. Something happened up ahead!”

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

“In any case, it’s nothing good,” the class cadre said. “Go around from that side. Xie Ning, don’t watch the commotion. It really isn’t a scene you Omegas should see.”

Xie Ning became even more curious. She craned her neck to look forward and muttered, “Do we Omegas not even have the right to know? What major thing happened?”

The class cadre clearly did not want to reveal it. Another tall girl turned back and said, “Someone suddenly collapsed just now. It seems their differentiation period arrived, and they weren’t prepared. They bit a lower-year girl.”

A chorus of shocked gasps rose behind them. Xie Ning’s breathing paused slightly, and she asked, “What year is the girl who got bitten in? First year or second year?”

She remembered that Su Wan had finished eating and walked ahead, and she also happened to be a lower-year girl. It must not be her!

“First year,” the tall girl said. “The differentiation period is too dangerous. Prospective Alphas really have to prepare properly. Basically no one can control themselves when they experience heat for the first time. They still need to prepare suppressants in advance.”

After hearing it was a first-year girl, Xie Ning let out a breath of relief. But the others exploded into discussion. Many people were very dissatisfied with the school’s preventive measures and began grumbling:

“It’s so unreasonable. People in the differentiation period still have to stay together with everyone else. Once they go into heat, everyone else suffers. When will the school policy change?”

“Can they isolate all the Alphas in their differentiation period and let them bite each other? Stop letting them harm us, okay?”

“This kind of thing is completely unpredictable. Who knows when someone will go into heat? Some people still haven’t differentiated even in their twenties. Are they supposed to be isolated forever?”

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

“The ambulance has already been called. All right, stop crowding here. In a while, even the ambulance won’t be able to get through.” The class cadre held a flag and directed them. “Go back to your classrooms. Stop looking. Pay attention to your personal safety!”

This incident became the focus of discussion at school, so the previous topic related to Su Jin quickly faded. No one cared about her identity as the fake daughter anymore.

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

Ordinary people could go to the hospital around the age of twelve to test their “differentiation factors.” By measuring the content of different differentiation factors in the blood, one could basically predict a person’s future differentiation tendency, with an accuracy rate as high as 99.99%.

Generally speaking, those who could differentiate into Alphas were very rare, making up less than ten percent. Thirty percent of the population could differentiate into Omegas, and the remaining undifferentiated people were called Betas, retaining only their first sex.

The current mainstream view was that Alphas belonged to the elite class, while the only value Omegas brought to society was childbirth. Those who held this view advocated reducing Omegas’ opportunities for education and work, allowing them to better fulfill their reproductive value.

And so, over the next ten or twenty years, the entire society kept sliding downhill—

They promoted elite education, allowing ten percent of the population to manage society. This group occupied sixty percent of social resources, while undifferentiated Betas performed bottom-level labor generation after generation. The gap between rich and poor became unprecedentedly enormous;

The monogamy system was abolished, and male Alphas married Omegas and Betas one after another, while ordinary people had to pay a tremendous price just to marry one wife;

The most pitiful were the Omegas. They lost employment opportunities and gradually became subsidiary resources and birthing tools for elite society.

In her previous life, Su Wan had been an Omega who lost the ability to bear children. One could imagine what her social status had been like!

Although many people were dissatisfied, the school did not believe they should isolate Alphas. After simply pacifying the students, classes continued.

A week quickly passed. Aside from the Alpha biting incident, things were mostly calm.

Xie Ning moved from the most central seat in the middle rows to the last row by the window. She did not listen in class and did not turn in homework, angering two teachers, including Zhu Miao, to the point of tears.

Old Wang tried to talk to her several times, but either he could not find her at all, or he completely failed to persuade her. In the end, nothing came of it.

On Friday morning, Su Xingheng came to look for Xie Ning. The moment he appeared at the classroom door, the students began making a racket—

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

Everyone burst into teasing. Su Xingheng was baffled. “What little pretty boy?”

Everyone smiled without answering. One girl stood up for Su Xingheng. “That’s the nickname Xie Ning gave you! Too much!”

Su Xingheng was not angry. He smiled and walked in. “A little pretty boy like me, one meter eighty-five and captain of the basketball team, should be pretty rare, right?”

Xie Ning’s former deskmate Zhou Dangui immediately smiled sweetly and said, “Xie Ning just has a cheap mouth and spouts nonsense all day. You really believe her?”

Su Xingheng raised his brows and looked at Zhou Dangui, his favorable impression of her increasing quite a bit. He even made a “666” hand gesture at her.

Zhou Dangui stood on tiptoe and called toward the back row in a delicate, affected voice, “Deskmate, your little pretty boy came looking for you!”

Xie Ning had just been sleeping on the desk for a while. Hearing all the noise, she unwillingly sat up. Her hair was messy but still beautiful. She lifted her eyelids and glanced at Su Xingheng, then said coldly, “Looking for me?”

“Come to my house for dinner tonight.” Su Xingheng sat on someone’s desk in the front row, one hand in his pocket and the other pointing toward Xie Ning, smiling as he said, “Don’t forget!”

He probably thought he was very handsome, but in Xie Ning’s eyes, he was completely an idiot.

Xie Ning asked in confusion, “Wasn’t this settled yesterday?”

Last night, Fang Lingyu had called the Xie family and invited them to dinner at her house, planning to officially introduce Su Wan to everyone.

Su Xingheng had come over to emphasize it again, very much with the air of showing off.

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

Xie Ning stabbed back, “Even your mother knows to call him Uncle Ling. Can you stop calling him ‘driver’ all the time and learn some manners?”

Su Xingheng froze. The smile on his face disappeared completely. He had not expected Xie Ning to criticize him in public. Annoyed, he said, “Xie Ning, how did I offend you? Can’t you speak properly?”

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

She stood near Su Jin, probably having come with Su Xingheng. Her brows were furrowed as she looked coldly at Xie Ning, showing no emotion.

The corner of Xie Ning’s lips lifted slightly. She winked at Su Wan, then slowly shifted her gaze to Su Xingheng and said with a smile, “I’ll speak properly. Next time, just don’t call Uncle Ling ‘driver’ again. Be more polite to him!” The last sentence was especially heavy.

Su Xingheng: “…”

“Fine,” Su Xingheng snorted. “Your differentiation period is here, and now you’re acting so capable. Even your way of speaking has turned into this. I really can’t be bothered with you!”

“Brother!” Su Jin stood at the classroom door and said unhappily, “Don’t lower yourself to her level!”

It would have been better if Su Jin had not spoken. The moment she did, Xie Ning’s classmates all became lively. One after another, they pinched their voices and imitated her. “Bwother!”

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

“Unlike me, I only feel bad for Bwother!”

“…”

The classroom burst into laughter. Even Su Xingheng’s fangirls looked down on Su Jin and gave her no good expressions. Xie Ning, seeing that Su Wan had watched the fun for less than a moment before leaving, also lost interest.

She was very much looking forward to the dinner that night.

In her previous life, Xie Ning had also been invited to the Su family for dinner. It was on this occasion that Su Wan had officially been introduced to everyone as the Su family’s young lady.

She no longer remembered the specific situation at that time, but when she read Rongcheng, she reviewed the plot again and felt terribly stifled!

When Su Wan went to the bathroom, someone locked her inside. At the table, Su Xingheng squeezed a big lump of wasabi and tricked her into eating it. The nanny bumped into her and spilled drinks all over her… In short, she lost all face and still had to swallow her anger.

At that time, Xie Ning had not known that this unremarkable little sister would one day become her wife, become the love of her life, the white moonlight in her heart.

Like everyone else, she had held her wine glass and watched her like she was watching entertainment. After the show was over, her attention shifted back to other people.

When she was young, she truly understood nothing. She thought that what everyone else praised and pursued must be the best, blindly following the crowd and sending Su Xingheng onto the altar.

Only after gradually growing older did she slowly understand what she truly wanted most.

Just like when she was young, she had also been obsessed with the “older, arrogant, sharp-tongued master with big breasts and a slim waist.” With so many gimmicks, she was simply a one-of-a-kind, captivating existence.

Now, she would only choose the maid who followed her without hesitation, because no matter when, the maid would always gaze at her and protect her. Her love had always existed, steadfast and gentle.

Xie Ning absentmindedly waited for class to end. Su Xingheng and Su Jin came to find her as promised, while Su Wan’s classroom was farther away. Xie Ning asked them, “Where’s Su Wan?”

“She should be waiting at the school gate.” Su Xingheng did not like mentioning Su Wan and quickly found another topic. “By the way, Xie Ning, why did you change seats?”

Xie Ning said, “It’s convenient for skipping class.”

Su Jin looked at her strangely. Su Xingheng smiled and said, “You really don’t want to study at all. Anyway, you won’t need to think about working in the future. Omegas basically stay home full-time, right?”

Xie Ning found it a little funny, so she simply pretended she was going to differentiate into an Omega and said to Su Xingheng, “That’s right. After graduation, I’ll probably stay home full-time. I’ll need to hire people to clean the house for me, then hire two chefs and arrange a driver. Every day, someone will accompany me to shop at the mall and carry my bags. If I get pregnant, that’ll be even more exaggerated. At least ten people will have to take care of me, right? Although the Su family’s conditions are average, you shouldn’t be unable to afford these people, right?”

This speech frightened Su Xingheng. He said, “Is… is it that exaggerated? You’re already thinking about this now?”

Xie Ning said, “Of course. Otherwise, we Omegas aren’t making sacrifices for nothing. Even the queen bee has hundreds and thousands of drones supporting her.”

Su Xingheng licked his lips, not knowing what opinion to express, so he simply shut his mouth.

Su Jin, however, wore a gloating expression.

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

Su Wan already had a new school uniform. It fit better than the previous one and was paired with the short skirt. Her legs were very thin and very white, so white they seemed to shine, utterly mismatched with the complexion of her face.

Clearly, her skin’s foundation was good. Her face had only been tanned dark. With some care, she should be able to whiten back up very quickly.

She stood beside Uncle Ling’s car. Through the window, they seemed to be talking.

This was the first time Xie Ning saw Su Wan take the initiative to talk to someone, indicating that she was gradually adapting to her new environment.

Xie Ning’s car should have just enough room for five people. One in the front, three squeezed in the back. In any case, they would reach home soon.

That was what Su Xingheng thought. He went to open the front passenger door, only to find that the seat had been stuffed with an enormous plush toy, one that had been vacuum-compressed, the kind that would expand as soon as the packaging bag was torn.

“What is this?” Su Xingheng asked.

Xie Ning glanced at it and said, “A gift for Wanwan. I can’t visit your house empty-handed.”

Su Wan lifted her eyelids and looked over in surprise.

She had never received a gift before, let alone such a huge plush toy.

Su Jin’s room also had a large teddy bear plush. When Su Wan saw it, she had really wanted to touch it… but had not dared.

She stared blankly at that plush toy, pressed her lips together, and swallowed.

A plush toy even bigger than her. Could she really accept it?

Su Xingheng shrugged and complained, “You really thought everything through. Now what do we do? How are we supposed to fit?”

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

Su Xingheng turned his head and said, “How about Su Wan, you take the bus? Anyway, you already know the way.”

Su Wan tilted her head, turned around, and was about to leave. Xie Ning called out to stop her. “Hey, Wanwan!”

Su Wan stopped. Hearing Xie Ning call her “Wanwan” gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

“If four people squeeze, we’ll be home soon. No need to take the bus.” As Xie Ning spoke, she opened the rear door.

At this moment, Su Jin said coldly, “Either the three of you squeeze together, or I’ll walk back.”

Su Xingheng frowned and looked at Su Jin, but he did not open his mouth to comfort her.

During this period, he had been coaxing her and persuading her every day, and he had to listen to her angry words at every turn. This was making Su Xingheng somewhat irritated.

“You’re really going to walk back?” Xie Ning asked her with a smile.

“I can’t ride in gasoline cars. I get carsick. It’s not like you don’t know that.” Su Jin gave a light hmph and turned her head, her back facing Xie Ning. “The Tesla was working perfectly fine before. Why did you switch back to a gasoline car now? Gasoline cars pollute the environment so much.”

Xie Ning said, “Then how about you call an electric car yourself?”

Su Jin did not say anything. Su Xingheng said, “Why not move the plush toy to the back seat and let you sit in the front? The front seat won’t make her as carsick.”

Xie Ning raised her brows, so angry she laughed. “You mean the three of us squeeze in the back with the plush toy?” The plush toy alone took up half the back seat. Only Su Xingheng could come up with such a rotten idea.

Su Xingheng paused. Su Jin pointed at the trunk. “Isn’t there still space there? Let her go in there.”

Xie Ning was stunned by Su Jin’s words.

What kind of ill-bred person could say something like that?

It went without saying who “her” referred to. Su Wan rolled her eyes and did not say anything, intending to take the bus. But she did not have a single cent in her pocket, so she appeared somewhat hesitant.

Xie Ning also could not bear it anymore. Expressionless, she looked at Su Jin and gave her the final ultimatum. “Either get in the car, or get lost.”

Su Jin was still pulled into the back seat by Su Xingheng. There was one final seat left in the car.

Xie Ning looked at the restrained Su Wan in a gentle and refined manner, then opened her mouth and said, “You’re thinner. How about sitting on my lap?”

If Su Wan had even one coin in her pocket, she definitely would have refused this request.

But after searching through all four pockets, she could not find anything at all.