Saving the Pitiful Villain (GL) - Chapter 8

Zhao Changming looked at the disheveled Yun Wu in surprise, realizing she actually had some backbone.

Zhao Changming, figuring it was time, prepared to show his magnanimity, but Ye Mei, the notorious “steel porcupine,” appeared first, beating him to it.

Ye Mei had poor grades and rarely attended class, but she loved a good spectacle.

With her family troubles resolved, she was in a great mood when she arrived at school. Seeing so many people gathered, she swaggered over with her group of multi-colored buzz-cuts.

She was shocked to find that the person being bullied was Yun Wu.

And the people bullying her were the ones she hated and found most disgusting—the idiots led by Zhao Changming and Xu Chacha.

“You’re all a bunch of morons! Who gave you the guts to bully my sister?”

Ye Mei yelled loudly, her movements quick and decisive. She walked over and kicked away two people who were holding Yun Wu down.

Ye Mei’s family was very rich; her father was a nouveau riche, a local tyrant.

She herself was a fearless “steel porcupine” who had practiced fighting, and even the school teachers dreaded her.

It wasn’t because she was particularly cruel, but if you crossed her, you wouldn’t have peace for at least half a year. She would find every way to harass and embarrass you in public, making you feel as though you had eaten something foul, unsure whether to hold it in or spit it out.

No one could truly manage her, after all, the school’s land belonged to her family.

Peng Huahua saw that someone more powerful had arrived and immediately looked toward Zhao Changming and Xu Chacha for help, all the while continuing her tough talk.

“Ye Mei, when did you become such a busybody? Are you having a Madonna complex episode?”

Ye Mei shot her a cold sidelong glance, not even giving her a proper look. “Your mother is the Madonna! I believe in the Tathagata Buddha, the god of the Hua Kingdom people, Y-Y-D-S (Yong Yuan De Shen, ‘Forever God’).”

The scene became incredibly awkward.

Everyone else quickly released their grip, fearful of being targeted. Yun Wu took the chance to cough a few times.

Zhao Changming and Xu Chacha walked over at this point. Xu Chacha stood meekly beside Zhao Changming, wearing an innocent expression as she tried to mediate. “Ye Mei, we’re all schoolmates. There’s no need to make such a scene. It was a misunderstanding between us and Yun Wu.”

Ye Mei rolled her eyes, cutting straight to the point with Xu Chacha. “Green Tea Bitch.”

Then she spat toward Zhao Changming. “Insecure, overly-confident man.”

“You…” Xu Chacha’s face paled. Zhao Changming stopped her just as she was about to speak. He looked at the others and said flatly, “Let’s go.”

Before leaving, he said to Ye Mei with an ambiguous tone, “I trust your esteemed father’s business will continue to grow, otherwise, it won’t be enough for you to squander.”

Ye Mei glared at him with cold eyes. Zhao Rongrong was Zhao Changming’s older cousin. Seeing Zhao Changming’s cheap look, he definitely knew about the Zhao family setting a trap for Sanlin Group.

Toward Zhao Changming’s retreating back, Ye Mei, still not satisfied, cursed again. “Idiot! Don’t you know your dad has already been reported by me?”

After impatiently shooing away the onlookers, Ye Mei finally walked over to Yun Wu, extending her hand to help her up.

Yun Wu was also looking at her, her eyes moving slightly, but her face was expressionless. She didn’t reach for Ye Mei’s hand.

Instead, she stood up by bracing herself and rising stiffly to her feet, gritting her teeth.

The nail that was already cracked completely tore away from the nail bed due to her movement.

Red blood splattered onto the ground, drop by drop.

Ye Mei looked at the expressionless Yun Wu, who seemed completely unfazed by the pain, and clicked her tongue. “Don’t you feel pain?”

Yun Wu lowered her head, bypassed Ye Mei, and walked slowly forward.

The more Yun Wu ignored her, the more interesting Ye Mei found her. She rushed to catch up. “Your name is Yun Wu, right? You helped me last time, so don’t worry, I don’t owe you anything. But I’ll look out for you from now on, so no one dares to bully you.”

Ye Mei loudly patted her chest.

Yun Wu stopped, turned her head, and looked at her with an emotionally flat gaze.

“You paid the money. You don’t owe me anything.”

Yun Wu’s dark eyes were like a pool of stagnant water, accumulating a chilling blackness.

Ye Mei spoke her mind bluntly. “Yun Wu, you’ll have no friends if you act like this.”

Yun Wu lifted her face and spoke in a tone that Ye Mei could barely hear.

“Friends? You’re right. I have no friends, no family, no lover. Someone like me doesn’t deserve to have anything.”

Even her desperate, utmost effort to survive was just a joke in the eyes of those people.

Her voice was hoarse, like utterly corroded and dull metal.

Realizing she had said the wrong thing, Ye Mei spat several times in succession.

“Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! No, you’re wrong. I actually like you. You have personality!”

Without a word, Yun Wu lowered her eyes to calmly stare at her broken thumbnail, then walked alone upstairs into the single-person study room.

“What a weirdo,” the deflated Ye Mei stood in the empty hall, looking sullen.

However, after a short while, Yun Wu reappeared carrying a dark green backpack, her face cold as she walked through the crowd.

Ye Mei chased after her. “The ten thousand yuan from last time wasn’t enough. No matter what, I still benefited. Just tell me if there’s anything you need.”

Ye Mei, determined to get what she wanted, and her crew of buzz-cuts gathered noisily around Yun Wu.

Even though Yun Wu never responded, they continued to babble non-stop.

The huge commotion, like gongs and drums banging, drew frequent glances from passersby.

Yun Wu’s indifferent expression suddenly froze. She stopped and looked at Ye Mei.

Instinctively, Ye Mei shrank her neck like an ostrich.

Yun Wu stood beneath the academic building, the faint light tracing her profile, casting a severity that transcended her usual introverted image.

“I mean no harm,” Ye Mei explained, swallowing nervously.

Yun Wu slowly shifted her gaze, sweeping over the colorful buzz-cuts following Ye Mei.

The buzz-cuts all took a step back in unison: Boss, fly high; the little brothers won’t follow.

Just as Ye Mei thought she would be coldly rejected again, Yun Wu turned and walked away, her voice clearly carrying back.

“If you can help me find a cheap place to rent near the school before tomorrow night, then we won’t have to talk about who owes whom any favors.”

Zhao Changming and Xu Chacha now knew she was temporarily sleeping in the library study room. If Yun Wu continued to sleep there, trouble was inevitable.

It had only been a few days since her rebirth. Yun Wu hadn’t had time to sort out many things, nor did she have the time or energy to quickly rent a suitable apartment.

Fortunately, she had money on her, unlike the previous life where she could only nervously sleep in the library study room.

After walking out of the school gate, Yun Wu followed a slightly hazy memory and walked into a shopping mall.

When she came out again, there was a laptop in her backpack. It cost nineteen thousand. After deducting the ten thousand reserved for another purpose, she had six thousand left.

Yun Wu rented a room on a relatively secluded small street, closed the door, and set up the computer.

Fluctuating curves of various colors appeared on the computer screen. Yun Wu rapidly analyzed the various data.

She possessed a brilliant mind, with a talent for finance and mathematics that was rarely seen even among genuises. In her previous life, she obtained her fully qualified actuary certification within two years of graduating from university. At the time, only two people in the entire Hua Kingdom held that genuinely recognized qualification.

Zhao Changming coveted this very trait in Yun Wu, using her to safeguard the Zhao family in the rapidly changing stock market.

She had the talent to be adored by all, yet she chose to stay in the shadows and gather dust.

Thinking of the repulsive events of her previous life, Yun Wu gave a self-mocking smile.

How pathetic. How much self-abasement and weakness does it take to mistake outright exploitation for benevolent salvation?

Countless data points flashed before her eyes. Whether it was the Yun Group, Zhao family’s Hengyuan, or Xu family’s Shengyan, their listed financial reports and long-term stock fluctuations indicated they were all companies in a strong upward growth period.

Yun Wu lowered her curled eyelashes, remaining silent for a long time.

As she was now, she was like dust compared to a high mountain relative to them.

Insignificant and not worth mentioning.

Yun Wu stared at the computer screen, her eyes filled with malice.

Suddenly, her finger moved, and the mouse shifted to another stock—Huinong Technology.

In her previous life, the stock price of Huinong Technology plunged at this time, and shareholders rushed to sell. But in just half a month, the stock price rapidly surged.

This was the most suitable stock for quick short-term profit right now.

It would also quickly resolve her tight financial situation. With a light click of the mouse, she bought ten thousand yuan worth of Huinong Technology stock.

Blood was still seeping from her fingertip, dripping onto the keyboard. Yun Wu frowned, pulled out a tissue, and wiped the blood clean.

An indifferent expression came over her as she thought of something. Yun Wu reached for her backpack and pulled out the medicine Jiang Shangxue had given her that evening.

The moment the hydrogen peroxide touched the wound, countless fine white bubbles appeared, mixing with the red blood.

It must have been very painful, as her fingertip trembled slightly, but Yun Wu didn’t even blink.

After disinfecting the wound, she put the hydrogen peroxide back in her bag, and her peripheral vision caught sight of a few orange candies.

The ones Jiang Shangxue had given her.

Yun Wu hesitated, reached out, took one, unwrapped the paper, and popped it into her mouth.

It was a little sweet, and also a little bitter.

Author’s Note:

Why is the orange candy, which should be sweet and sour, also bitter? Of course, it’s because Wu Wu’s heart is bitter~