Returning to the Villain Omega's High School Days - Chapter 8

Xie Ning knew she would never wake up again. When she died, her head had been crushed under the wheels of the truck, blood spreading all over the ground. She died violently on the spot.

She did not dare imagine what that scene looked like!

Fortunately, Su Wan had already left before that. She probably would not see that tragic state.

Xie Ning only hoped that after she died, Su Wan would open Rongcheng and read it. Knowing the ending in advance, Su Wan should be able to make a better choice, right?

Someone as smart as her would definitely be able to find a way to break the game.

That was Xie Ning’s final wish.

Before she died, she had not been tortured, nor had she felt fear. Instead, the taste of the cake Su Wan had brought made her feel perfectly satisfied.

When she opened her eyes again, she did not have much emotion. She was only a little confused.

She had heard people say that heaven was the place a person most wanted to go while they were alive. Could it be that… the place she had wanted to go most while alive was high school?

That was too absurd!

Xie Ning blinked and looked at the person on the podium, then at the students beside her. Every single one of them looked vivid and alive. Even VR could not achieve such a realistic effect, right?

What kind of heaven was this?

Or was she dreaming?

Her elbow was pushed. Xie Ning had her head pillowed on her arm. She turned her face to look at the person who had pushed her, frowned, and revealed a look of dislike—

The person before her was her deskmate, but Xie Ning no longer remembered her name. She remembered this face, thin like a scorpion spirit, with bulging eyes. The girl had only gotten double eyelids cut over summer break. People called her pretty, but she looked too awkward. She also always liked following Xie Ning around. Bags and cosmetics Xie Ning did not want, she accepted all of them without question. Only at graduation did Xie Ning learn how many bad things this deskmate had said about her in front of others, and also… she seemed to have been in the same group as the person who bullied Liu Ya.

Bad luck. Had someone like this followed her to heaven too?!

Xie Ning remained lying on the desk. She heard the teacher on the podium call, “Xie Ning! Xie Ning, stand up!”

She lifted her eyelids and looked toward the podium. The woman on the podium was already extremely irritated. Her voice was sharp and her wording severe. “Sleeping in my class means you don’t take me seriously. Xie Ning, stand up!!”

Xie Ning listlessly lifted her head, leaned back, and sat up a little straighter. Her gaze stared directly at the podium.

For some reason, the woman on the podium’s imposing manner wilted. She looked at Xie Ning with a faint sense of fear.

The students around Xie Ning were all looking at her, while she seemed to carry an aura completely out of place with her surroundings, as if… she had been possessed by some god or something. Even her eyes looked like they belonged to a completely different person, as though she did not take anyone here seriously at all.

“Xie Ning?” Her deskmate tugged at the corner of her clothes and reminded her softly, “Teacher Zhu failed another blind date this week. Don’t run into her temper…”

Xie Ning smiled faintly, put both hands in her pockets, and suddenly stood up.

She was almost an adult and had not yet differentiated. At one meter seventy-eight, she had grown into herself very gracefully.

Around her, everyone stared at her with different expressions. Some were watching the show, some were surprised, and some were dumbfounded or worried. But after Xie Ning stood up, the person on the podium seemed to become several inches shorter. She pushed up her glasses, and even her words started stumbling.

“X-Xie Ning, stand properly,” Zhu Miao said nervously.

Xie Ning was neither hunched over nor acting sloppy. She raised a brow and said with a smile, “What’s improper about the way I’m standing?”

“You… you’re not allowed to sleep in class,” Zhu Miao said. “If you feel unwell, take leave and go to the infirmary. At your age, you’re right in the differentiation period. Feeling unwell is normal.”

Xie Ning did not think much of it. She still did not understand the situation, but Zhu Miao’s next sentence sounded wrong to her. Zhu Miao paused, then said, “All of you, especially the many Omegas among you, if something happens, go to the infirmary in time. Don’t be so delicate that you can’t even attend class properly. If you’re in heat, take suppressants. Letting your imagination run wild is useless!”

Someone below laughed. Anyone clever could hear that Teacher Zhu was mocking Xie Ning, implying that her sleeping in class, drowsiness, and lack of energy were heat-related fantasies.

“Teacher Zhu is a Beta, right? You’re only in your early thirties, and you already can’t get matched with a high-quality partner? How pitiful. No wonder you’re so resentful. Taking your anger out on us people who haven’t differentiated yet—if modern teachers were all like you, what kind of students would they end up teaching?” Xie Ning said, brushing the hair by her ear aside and lifting her eyelids to look at Zhu Miao. Her eyes were distinct in black and white, clean without a single red vein, her pupils clear and bright, so beautiful it could shake the heart.

Her eye sockets had always been deep, and her upper eyelids carried a faint light brown tint even without makeup. A single glance was enough to leave someone’s soul overturned—no wonder that before she differentiated, everyone thought she would differentiate into a top-tier Omega!

The moment she spoke, the whole class burst into an uproar. The bolder boys laughed loudly, while Zhu Miao on the podium lost all face. She was so angry she swung the pointer against the podium and cursed, “Xie Ning, mind your wording! I’ve never seen an Omega like you!”

“Oh.” Xie Ning lowered her eyelids and said lightly, “Never seen one? An Omega as pretty as me?”

“…”

“Hahaha, Xie Ning, you’re so badass!”

“Xie Ning, you’re too cool! You’re really winning glory for us Omegas!”

“As expected of Su Xingheng’s fiancée, she’s badass as hell. If my dad fell into a cesspit, I wouldn’t help him up, but I sure as hell respect you!”

Xie Ning rolled her eyes. “Disgusting.”

A group of teenagers laughed like lunatics. Zhu Miao on the podium completely lost control. She cursed and threatened to call Xie Ning’s parents. Xie Ning found it somewhat inexplicable, ignored her words, and walked straight out of the classroom.

There was a mirror by the stairs in the corridor. When Xie Ning passed by, she stopped and studied the person inside, completely unable to understand the situation.

Back in high school, she really had been good-looking. She had long black hair, wore a school uniform skirt beneath her hoodie, and was tall and slim. The outline of her facial features looked almost mixed-race. Her eyes were not puffy, and her skin was not loose. She looked completely like a different person from her previous life, making it impossible for her to adjust for a long time.

What exactly had happened to her?

During the car accident, had she not already died on the scene?

“Ding. Hello, host. Server 2038 is at your service,” a voice rang in her mind. “I believe you should have guessed your current situation by now, right? That’s right, you have been reborn. This is not a dream. You have indeed been reborn. Congratulations!”

Xie Ning: “…”

“Huh?” Xie Ning stared into the mirror in surprise. “So… this person really is me?”

“Unbelievable, right?” the system said. “Only people chosen by the server have the chance to experience rebirth…”

“Mm, it is pretty unbelievable.” Xie Ning leaned closer to the mirror, pulled open her eyelid, and said in astonishment, “There really isn’t a single wrinkle. So tender.”

Uh, was that the main point? The system was a little speechless. Ignoring her strange focus, it continued, “Rebirth does not come without a price. Everything in the world has a price, doesn’t it?”

Xie Ning’s eyeball was almost pressed against the mirror. She still could not understand this so-called “rebirth,” and only said, “Get to the point.”

“Can you be a little more serious, host? Can you stop rubbing your face?” the system snapped irritably. “You’re already good-looking enough. Stop looking!”

Xie Ning said, “You wouldn’t understand. Say what you want to say. I’m listening.”

The system was speechless for a moment, then said listlessly, “You’ve been reborn. Don’t you feel happy?”

“It’s all right,” Xie Ning said flatly. “A life controlled by a script—what meaning is there in doing it over again?”

“Uh…”

“I couldn’t even control my death, and I also couldn’t control myself from hurting others… Why should I be happy about this?” Xie Ning said. “Am I cheap?”

The system said gloomily, “That’s not it. No one can control you. What you need to do is complete the tasks assigned by the server…”

Xie Ning clicked her tongue, as if expressing some dissatisfaction.

Exactly. In her previous life, she had lived according to the script’s requirements. In this life, she had to act according to the tasks assigned by the system. Was there any difference between the two? She still could not live freely according to her own will.

The system’s tone weakened. “The task is very simple… What you need to do is prevent this world from collapsing. I will assist you in completing it…”

Xie Ning thought of something. Her expression grew solemn, and she hesitated before saying, “The things that happened before… or rather, before I was reborn, did that world collapse?”

“Mm. The villain killed the protagonist,” the system said, shaking its head. “That was an ending that could not be reversed no matter what was done. The main server could not acknowledge that ending, so it had this server follow a character to make corrections. I chose you, because you are the key figure who influences the ending!”

Xie Ning carefully digested the amount of information in those words. Her gaze became meaningful. After thinking for a moment, she said, “Su Wan… really killed Su Xingheng? She did it?”

The system did not understand. “Host, why do you sound as if you’re very happy?”

Xie Ning smiled faintly. “Wanwan is amazing. She rewrote the ending. Was she reborn too? Where can I see her?”

The system went, “Mm,” and said, “The server can only provide the host with task guidance. It cannot provide help with detailed information. But what is currently known is that aside from you, everything has returned to 2018. At this point in time, the villain, like everyone else, will not retain memories of the previous life.”

Before the system finished speaking, Xie Ning suddenly started running. She remembered—

In 2018, the year she was in her third year of high school, Su Wan had just transferred over. Her classroom was right downstairs from Xie Ning’s. At that time, she was in her second year of high school.

If everything had returned to the past, and nothing had changed, then Su Wan should be… having class in that classroom downstairs!

Xie Ning took the stairs three steps at a time, leaping down. When she approached Su Wan’s classroom, even her breathing slowed.

There were still a few minutes before the bell rang. There was not a single person in the corridor. The sound of the teacher lecturing on the podium was clear and bright. All of this made Xie Ning clearly realize… she was not dreaming, nor had she gone to some so-called heaven. She had returned to the year she was eighteen, to the time when she first met Su Wan.

Xie Ning walked past the front door, her long hair and the hem of her skirt drifting by, drawing some people’s attention. She paid no mind and stopped by the window, carefully studying the students inside, searching among them for the prettiest one.

Su Wan… back then, where had Su Wan been sitting?

People in the classroom whispered among themselves. Some could not help stealing repeated glances at Xie Ning. Xie Ning openly stared back at them, making those boys and girls blush bright red. The person on the podium also noticed Xie Ning’s presence. He stopped lecturing and asked loudly, “Student, do you need something?”

With that, aside from one or two especially focused students in the front-row corner, almost everyone turned their heads in unison and openly looked at Xie Ning.

Taking this chance, Xie Ning could distinguish their faces more easily.

But she did not find Su Wan. Instead, she saw that fake daughter of the Su family who had occupied the magpie’s nest, Su Jin. She was staring at Xie Ning with wide eyes, blankly and with strong hostility.

In this high school, almost everyone knew that Xie Ning and Su Xingheng were engaged. After the two of them graduated, they were going to get married. Su Jin liked Su Xingheng so much, so naturally, she hated Xie Ning.

Xie Ning did not waste her thoughts on Su Jin. Unable to find Wanwan, she said, “Nothing. Goodbye,” then walked away freely and handsomely.

She did not attend class. She wandered all around the campus until her homeroom teacher found her on the field, coaxing and tricking her, begging her to go back to class.

“I don’t want to attend class.” Xie Ning sat on the stone steps beside the field, glanced at the homeroom teacher, and asked like a delinquent, “Old Wang, got a cigarette?”

Homeroom teacher Old Wang was forty-nine this year and a senior staff member at this private high school. Back then, he had relied on connections to curry favor with Old Man Xie before entering the school’s upper management. Now was the time for him to repay the Xie family.

In front of Xie Ning, Old Wang had none of the stern airs of a homeroom teacher. He was more like a humble worker. Hearing Xie Ning ask for cigarettes, his vision went dark. He covered his forehead and said, “Young Lady, how could people like us deserve to smoke? Smoking at school gets punished!”

Xie Ning went, “Oh,” and said, “Then can you help me buy a pack?”

Old Wang was speechless for a moment, then sat down beside Xie Ning. He said earnestly, “There are no cigarettes sold near the school. Smoking is bad for your health.”

Xie Ning stood up. “Maybe I should change homeroom teachers after all…”

“Don’t, Young Lady!” Old Wang stood up after her. “I’ll drive out and buy them, but after you smoke, can you go back to the classroom for class?”

Xie Ning asked, “What time does school end?”

“Five-thirty. It’s three-fifteen now. There are still two very important physics classes.” Old Wang advised her earnestly, “Go to class. Listen properly. Learn as much as you can. That way, I can also answer to your father. You usually behave very well. Why has your thinking suddenly changed today?”

“I was reborn… hiss.” The moment Xie Ning said those words, her whole body was shocked as if by electricity. The pain made her body tremble. She heard the system’s voice say, “Host, leaking information violates the server management rules and will be punished!”

Old Wang looked at Xie Ning in confusion. “Reborn?”

Xie Ning immediately changed her words. “I lied.”

Old Wang: “…”

“Don’t worry. I’ll be a good student. I won’t violate discipline, won’t cause trouble, won’t skip class… However, I plan to go to class after five-twenty,” Xie Ning promised seriously.

Old Wang swallowed. “…Maybe I should communicate with President Xie after all?”

Xie Ning looked at him abruptly, exhaled, and said, “The old man will only think you can’t even manage one student properly.”

Old Wang was truly helpless. Other students, he could hit or scold, but Xie Ning was the precious eldest young lady of the Xie family, a treasure President Xie held in his palm. What could he do? He advised her earnestly, “I won’t tell President Xie for now. It’s good for you to clear your head too. Once you’ve thought it through, go back to class. As for that Teacher Zhu, I’ve already spoken to her. Next time, she’ll know to control her temper. You also shouldn’t always talk back to her.”

Xie Ning did not say anything. Old Wang could not persuade her anymore either. “Then I’ll… go take a look and see what cigarettes there are…”

Once Old Wang left, Xie Ning lay on the grass, looking at the white clouds in the sky, her whole body comfortable.

Being young felt amazing.

Having power felt amazing.

Not being in debt felt amazing.

Some people were playing soccer on the field, some were blowing whistles to gather students, and some were urged by the class bell to quickly run back to the classroom. All of it had nothing to do with Xie Ning.

If she did not want to attend class, then she could simply not attend. Not all knowledge was meaningful. If she did not want to deal with certain people, she could completely ignore them. In any case, those people would soon disappear from her life. She had plenty of time to squander, and right now… all she wanted was to hurry up and see her future wife.