Returning to the Villain Omega's High School Days - Chapter 3

“I’m going to kill you.” Xie Ning gritted her teeth and hung up the phone.

She sat on the floor and drank a bottle of beer. A few minutes later, a courier called to confirm her address.

Xie Ning told him the truth.

She knew Jiang Qingliu had not lied to her this time.

That book definitely existed. That mother and son had stolen the book from Xie Ning, hidden it away, and then, right before Xie Ning’s doomsday arrived, told her such a cruel truth.

This was very much Jiang Qingliu’s style.

That child had known how to help Jiang Qin compete for favor since he was four years old. He did not fight or make a fuss, but he always put on a pitiful appearance, using the old man’s guilt to make him compensate mother and son.

When he was six, a fire broke out on the back hill of the school. Jiang Qingliu created the illusion that he was trapped on the back hill, causing the teacher who went to rescue him to never return.

He was skilled at psychologically manipulating servants and women. There had once been a young maid in the Xie family who was tormented by him into suicide, and among the people he had dated, some were driven mad, while others left him but still lived under his shadow.

Xie Ning hated him very much. Ever since they were young, she had used her fists to educate him, but she had also suffered plenty of losses at his hands. She had not expected that the day before her birthday, she would hear him say such heart-killing words.

If she really was going to die tomorrow, then to her, it seemed like pretty good news.

She would not have to care whether the old man lived or died. She would not have to care about her debts. She would not have to do that disgusting job. Everything would end with the arrival of tomorrow.

Xie Ning felt unprecedentedly relaxed. She only hoped the courier would deliver the book quickly. During the boring wait, she scrolled through her phone, looking through old photos and sinking into her memories.

Her work did not require taking photos, and she usually had no interest in taking pictures either. With one upward swipe, she went from 2038 to 2030. There were only a few scattered photos, as though her day-to-day life during these years had been brushed over in a single stroke. Nothing had been left behind. She truly was an insignificant character in a book.

Scrolling farther up, she saw photos of her and Su Wan traveling together.

In the past, Xie Ning had owned a private plane. She often flew it out for fun. Back then, she had been completely different from who she was now—

Young, rich, and living exactly as she pleased.

Her favorite place to go was Mohe, where she could ski every weekend. Later, after marrying Su Wan, she took Su Wan all over the world with her. The farthest they had gone was Norway. The regret was that they had not made it to Iceland. Su Wan had really wanted to go there to take photos, but unfortunately, her body truly could not hold up.

Su Wan liked taking photos very much. Many of the photos in Xie Ning’s phone had been taken by her with a camera. But she was not demanding about equipment. As long as the parameters were passable, it was fine. She had photographed starry skies, waterfalls, and many wild animals. She left the lenses worth hundreds of thousands that Xie Ning had bought for her unused, and could be perfectly happy playing around with an ordinary DSLR.

When Su Wan’s brother’s girlfriend heard that she knew photography, she asked Su Wan several times to take pictures for her, but Su Wan refused every time, because she did not like taking portraits of other people.

But in Xie Ning’s photo album, there were many photos Su Wan had taken of her.

There were photos of her sitting in the pilot’s seat of the plane, facing the sunset; photos of her leaping up on a snowboard in a vast field of snow; photos of her surfing on the sea; and photos from when the two of them went diving together… Su Wan liked taking photos from different angles. In some, they were laughing and talking together. In others, Xie Ning was photographed from far away, blending into the scenery. Su Wan also liked candid shots. Sometimes she would take the same photo many times to compare them, and in the end, she could not bear to delete a single one.

Xie Ning was beautiful. Her features were three-dimensional, her gaze sharp. Although her skin was not the kind of dazzlingly fair complexion that made people’s eyes light up, it was flawless, and on camera it had a striking texture. Every photo looked like a magazine shoot.

By comparison, the few photos Xie Ning had taken of Su Wan were too awful to look at. She lacked patience, did not understand composition, and refused to spend time learning. Later, she simply gave up on taking pictures altogether.

Now, it could be said that she regretted that very much.

She scrolled to a selfie of Su Wan. It had been taken on the grass with the lens fixed on a tripod. Under the camera, her skin was white enough to glow, and when she smiled, that lively spark in her eyes seemed to leap right out of the image.

Xie Ning enlarged the photo, lowered her head until the tip of her nose touched the screen, and felt her eyes grow hot.

She did not know how things had developed to this point either. Back then, her first love had not been Su Wan, and in the beginning, the two of them had each had their own fiancé.

Su Wan was the true daughter of the Su family, who had been taken away as a baby. There was also a younger sister at home who had occupied the magpie’s nest, and that girl had a deep bond with the Su family. Precisely because of this, Su Wan’s days after returning to the Su family were not easy.

When Su Wan was still in high school, the Su family had arranged an engagement for her. The other party was the son of Rongcheng’s mayor, more than ten years older than her.

Fortunately, that mayor later fell from power, and the marriage arrangement came to nothing. A few years later, when the Su family encountered a debt crisis, Su Wan was arranged to marry Xie Ning.

Xie Ning originally had a fiancé. By pure coincidence, he happened to be Su Wan’s older brother, Su Xingheng. At that time, Xie Ning had not yet differentiated. The doctor had firmly asserted that she would differentiate into an Omega, so the Xie family had decided on this marriage very early on.

After Xie Ning differentiated, the first thing she did was beat up that doctor. He had simply misled the young. On what basis had he thought she would differentiate into an Omega?

This led to Xie Ning and Su Xingheng’s relationship being very awkward for a long time afterward. When she got engaged to Su Wan, Su Xingheng even teased her, “Now you’ve really suffered a huge loss. A good match went from me to Su Wan.”

At first, Xie Ning’s impression of Su Wan was very ordinary. She was silent and gloomy, and truly did not seem to have anything special about her. On top of that, she was the Su family’s unfavored second young lady. Xie Ning did not even know why she had agreed to get engaged to her. Although she had differentiated into an Alpha, it was not as though she could not find a partner.

She believed it was fate that made it happen.

She began to understand Su Wan little by little. She could not stand the Su family neglecting Su Wan. When Su Wan was bullied, she would step forward for her. She would scold her for not taking proper care of her body, then turn around and find nourishing ingredients for her, like deer antler, lamb soup, pork stomach chicken, and so on, to help nurse her health back up… Perhaps it came from an instinctive protective desire the strong had toward the weak. Gradually, Xie Ning began to keep Su Wan in her thoughts, took the initiative to care about her, and even called her out to have fun.

She began to participate in Su Wan’s life.

The life of this girl who was destined for misfortune.

Xie Ning firmly believed that it was precisely her participation that made Su Wan even more unfortunate.

Twenty minutes after that first phone call, the courier arrived at Xie Ning’s door.

Xie Ning took a hundred yuan from the table and tipped him. Running errands in such scorching weather was not easy, and most importantly, he had not made Xie Ning wait long.

The book looked very old, but it had been preserved fairly well. The pages inside had been turned until they were yellow and wrinkled, and there were childish strokes of handwriting on them, scribbling something.

On the title page was a line:

“To twelve-year-old Xie Ning: never lose this book!”

There was no preface, no publication date, and no serial number. Even the font was a rare kind of script. Holding it in her hands, Xie Ning felt a strange sensation arise—

This was not something that should exist in this world.

“On the night of December 31, 1999, at the turn of the century, Su Xingheng was born.”

This was the first sentence of the entire text. Like countless biographical novels, it began rambling about the trivial matters of the Su family, all the way until Su Xingheng met Xie Ning at the age of twelve. “She was the eldest young lady of the Xie family, the richest family in Rongcheng, a girl whom doctors had declared would differentiate into an Omega.”

“Like all girls her age, Xie Ning fell in love with Su Xingheng at first sight. But unlike those girls before her, Xie Ning’s family was very rich. The Xie family’s wealth exceeded Su Xingheng’s imagination.”

“Su Xingheng disdained befriending a rich girl like this, but he soon discovered that Xie Ning was cheerful, unaffected, and extremely loyal to her friends. Su Xingheng liked this very much.”

“But his younger sister would get jealous. That adorable younger sister of his only had eyes for Su Xingheng. Every time he interacted with Xie Ning, his younger sister would always appear very disappointed. Not only that, Su Xingheng also discovered something—his younger sister seemed not to be the biological child of the Su family.”

“She still did not know. When blood was drawn, Su Xingheng discovered that she was actually type AB. The Su family clearly only had type A and type O blood. How could they possibly give birth to a descendant with type AB blood?”

“Su Xingheng decided to protect his younger sister’s secret. He used correction tape to erase the ‘B’ on the report, without arousing anyone’s suspicion. After that, the way he viewed his younger sister changed.”

“‘His adorable younger sister’ became ‘the younger sister protected only by him.’ But all of this underwent a drastic change after that person arrived.”

“Her name was Su Wan. According to the paternity test, she was the true second young lady of the Su family.”