Transmigrated as the Villain's Fiancée Who Seeks Death (GL) - Chapter 5

The invigilators for Exam Room 1 were the school’s most strict, nitpicky, and high-maintenance—and thus bald—Dean of Students, and a female teacher with “coke-bottle” glasses who looked very “kind.”

The Dean of Students’ eyes swept over every corner of the exam room like an X-ray. His sharp little gaze kept landing on Xia Rushui. When he saw Xia Rushui rapidly finish the math paper, his brow furrowed, and his expression was unreadable.

It wasn’t until Xia Rushui started sleeping that the Dean finally withdrew his gaze, revealing a look of “I thought so.”

The teacher with the coke-bottle glasses, however, had her lips curved, watching Xia Rushui with an amused expression, as if she’d discovered something interesting.

She suddenly got up from her chair at the front desk, walked over to Xia Rushui, picked up her math paper, glanced at it, and a fleeting look of shock flashed in her eyes.

She then turned around, looked at Shen Yishu’s paper, and after a moment, slightly raised her eyebrows.

Xia Rushui, deep in her slumber and meeting the Duke of Zhou, was completely oblivious to this little interlude.

The exam tradition at St. Lan High School was very humane: usually, two subjects were tested in the morning, followed by the afternoon off to rest and review other subjects, with the remaining subjects scheduled for the next day.

To get students used to the process quickly, St. Lan had been following the college entrance exam system since the second semester of the eleventh grade: Chinese, Mathematics, English, and the combined Liberal Arts/Science exam. All in all, there were only four major subjects over two days.

After Chinese and Math were finished, the students had half a day off. Their deathly-dog-like state during the exam instantly vanished. Like they’d been shot up with adrenaline, they transformed into wild dogs unleashed, their faces beaming with happy smiles.

At this moment, all the students had spontaneously mastered one skill—instant amnesia.

They had completely forgotten about the two major subjects they had to take tomorrow, focusing only on the immediate freedom to indulge.

Xia Rushui was awakened by the surrounding chattering and discussions.

A slightly sweet, baby-like voice said with a hint of panic, “Yuge, do you think the Boss is asleep?”

Xia Rushui felt a light poke on her shoulder. Just as she felt the feathery touch, the hand quickly retreated. “

“I’ve called her, and she won’t wake up. Is the Boss sick! Can’t she get up! Should we call an ambulance!”

Xia Rushui: “…”

Another cold female voice interjected, “Shen Anru, you should think positively. She might just be dead.”

Xia Rushui: “…”

She absolutely does not want to see these two right now.

!!!

Shen Anru was shocked. She fearfully stretched out a finger, about to poke Xia Rushui’s nose.

“What are you two doing?” A clear male voice sounded.

The finger that was about to poke Xia Rushui’s nostril was temporarily withdrawn as its owner’s attention was diverted, and Xia Rushui felt a strange sense of relief.

She almost held her breath to cooperate just now… The dialogue was too absurd. Xia Rushui lay there for a long time, but instead of wearing down the original owner’s two ridiculous teammates, another ridiculous person arrived.

However, this boy’s voice… sounds very familiar…

The footsteps gradually approached, and the male voice became clearer, “What’s wrong with her?”

Shen Anru seemed to remember just now, and panicked, “Su He, Yuge said the Boss might be dead, what should we do!”

Su He: “…”

He cleared his throat and whispered, “She has a point… but I have a way to bring your Boss back to life.”

Yuge raised an eyebrow. The two girls stared at Su He with all four eyes.

Su He raised his voice and shouted loudly, “Shen Yishu is here!”

A period of silence…

Su He put away his dead fish eyes and pushed up his glasses with his middle finger, his expression becoming serious.

In Shen Anru’s mind, Su He and Yuge were academic overachievers, and whatever they said had to be right. Seeing Su He’s expression change, Shen Anru also couldn’t help but straighten up.

“Forget it, the mental therapy seems to have failed for now. I think we should use a rigorous and scientific method.”

Shen Anru couldn’t resist hearing words like “rigorous” and “scientific,” which sounded very professional to her. She immediately looked at Su He with adoration.

He mused, “Perhaps we can use electroconvulsive therapy as a means to stimulate her heart and wake her up.”

Xia Rushui couldn’t take it anymore. What kind of ridiculous friends did the original owner have! Why was the situation getting more and more absurd! Help!

“But we don’t have the tools for electric shock here, so I’ve decided to use physical therapy—simple, efficient, and fast.”

Shen Anru was always the consummate hype-man, with stars in her eyes, “Wow, how are we going to do that?”

“Simple,” Su He smiled, “See that basin over there? Go and fill it with water.”

“Oh…” Shen Anru immediately agreed and pattered away to fetch the water.

Xia Rushui was already despairing over this group of ridiculous kids. She had a premonition that if she didn’t wake up, that dead-fish-eyed boy would literally wreak havoc and kill her!

To prevent a real-life tragedy, Xia Rushui had no choice but to pretend to have just woken up, rubbing her eyes and yawning as she looked around in confusion.

Right in front of her was the dead-fish-eyed boy, Su He. Xia Rushui swore she caught a fleeting look of regret in Su He’s eyes that he didn’t manage to hide!

The girl standing next to Su He must be Shen Anru. She was holding a basin full of freshly fetched water with both hands. She wore her hair in a neat bun, revealing a smooth, fair little face. Her large, clear apricot eyes were expressive, and she wore a pink princess dress, making her look all pink, tender, sweet, and lovely.

The girl on the far side, who had only contributed one inflammatory sentence at the beginning and had then silently reduced her presence, was stunning upon closer inspection.

Shen Anru had called her Yuge just now, and Xia Rushui remembered the name. Yuge stood a little farther away, arms crossed, her face expressionless. She looked as cold and aloof as her voice, with a pair of arrogant, cold phoenix eyes. Her features were quite defined. In trendy terms, she had a very high-fashion model face.

Her phoenix eyes felt different from Jiang Xingzhi’s. Jiang Xingzhi’s phoenix eyes, softened by the glasses, looked gentle and beautiful.

The girl named Yuge’s phoenix eyes were full of coldness, giving off a feeling of being kept at a thousand-mile distance. You could feel her chill within a ten-meter radius.

She wore a dark green long dress, which made her look fair and tall, but the color added to her cold and indifferent demeanor.

Shen Anru, with her sweet and cute baby face and big, blinking apricot eyes, was thrilled to see Xia Rushui rub her eyes and wake up. She immediately threw the basin down, “Boss, you’re awake!”

With Shen Anru’s sudden, reckless toss of the basin, the water she was holding splashed and thoroughly drenched the three people opposite her.

Shen Anru’s movement to run over and hug her froze in mid-air…

Su He let out a loud, deeply lamentable sigh of resignation.

Hahahahahaha! Instant karma!

Xia Rushui immediately burst into cheerful, bell-like laughter, gloating at Su He.

This guy lifted a rock only to drop it on his own foot. He tried to prank someone but got pranked by his own teammate! Hahahahaha!

Su He had a look of instant death on his face.

Indeed, teammates are very important.

The tables turned quickly. Xia Rushui, who had been gloating a second ago, was drenched in water by Shen Anru the next moment.

Shen Anru, with a baby face that no one could bring themselves to blame, happily said, “Boss, I haven’t seen you smile in a long time. You haven’t been this happy in ages~”

Saying this, she tossed the remaining water in the basin onto Xia Rushui.

“…”

Su He, quick-witted and absolutely unwilling to miss an opportunity to kick someone while they were down, seized the moment. He immediately scooped up a handful of water from the water dispenser and splashed it on Xia Rushui’s face.

Every classroom at St. Lan was equipped with a water dispenser. Soon, the full water dispenser was completely emptied by the group of spendthrift kids.

After the water fight, three of the four people were soaked to the bone. Xia Rushui and Su He realized how juvenile and childish their behavior had been, and they suddenly felt very embarrassed.

Yuge had already wisely retreated to a different position, far away from the heavily polluted disaster area of the three clowns, remaining aloof and beautiful.

Exam Room 1, which had been solemn that morning, was already a complete mess.

Shen Anru pouted in disappointment when she saw there was no more water; she hadn’t had enough fun yet.

Yuge, seeing the fight was over, walked in with elegant steps. She pulled out a cotton handkerchief from somewhere and gently dabbed Shen Anru’s face.

The two moved fluidly and naturally, as if they had done this thousands of times.

Su He also looked completely unsurprised.

Only Xia Rushui, like a bumpkin who’d never seen the world, showed a look of ignorant surprise.

These two… Absolutely! Have! Something! Going! On!

She looked at Su He, trying to find an ally, and received a hostile glare in return.

Suddenly, Yuge began to count.

“One, two, three, four, five…”

The group was confused until, after five, they heard a “tap-tap-tap” sound.

It sounded like… leather shoes clicking on a marble floor?

Closer and closer, the sound grew louder…

“Six, seven, eight, nine, they’re here,” Yuge said indifferently.

Sure enough, the bald Dean of Students walked past the window the next second.

“Xia! Ru! Shui!” The middle-aged man’s roar, powered by a deep breath, was deafening, making the world lose its color.

When Xia Rushui heard the Dean’s thunderous shout, her mind went blank. With lightning speed, a reflex action caused her to swoop and duck under the desk.

Everyone: “…”

Su He couldn’t help it and burst out laughing.

The Dean glared at him and gritted his teeth, “Get out here!”

After cleaning up Exam Room 1, it was already two in the afternoon.

The four bid farewell at the school gate. The Shen family driver had been waiting for a long time. Shen Anru and Yuge got into the same car.

Shen Anru waved goodbye to Xia Rushui, “Boss, you were so cowardly today, hahahaha, that was so funny…” Before she could finish her sentence, Yuge covered her mouth and pulled her into the car.

The tall Yuge nodded slightly to Xia Rushui as a farewell.

Su He pushed up his trademark glasses and asked, “Oh, Boss, where are we going to stir up trouble next?”

Hey! Did you accidentally say what you were thinking?!

“??? What stir up trouble?”

Su He frowned, his eyes starting to sharpen, “You’re acting strange today. Usually by now, wouldn’t you be dragging us to go teach your sister a lesson?”

Xia Rushui’s body shuddered.

Wait… what did he say? What sister???

Xia Rushui hadn’t fully processed the question when she heard Su He continue, “Boss, I have other things to do later. Let’s hurry up and commit some mischief together. Pay me the money, and I’ll be on my way.”

“…” My dear friend, I know you’re an academic overachiever. You don’t need to show off by using so many idioms.

Xia Rushui, completely bewildered, asked, “Me? Pay you money???”

Su He exploded, “I get paid every time I do a job, right? What, are you going to deny the debt!”

Su He was still wearing his school uniform, and his voice was quite loud. Passersby cast looks of disdain toward Xia Rushui.

Dude, you’re going to get beaten up talking like that! At that moment, Xia Rushui desperately wanted to shake this academic overachiever’s brain and see what it was made of.

Xia Rushui gritted her teeth, “Shut up. If you disrespect this Gang Leader again, I’ll anoint you as the Fairy Godmother!”

Su He: “…”

Finally having dispatched the utterly confused Su He, Xia Rushui breathed a sigh of relief.

Su He was truly worthy of being an academic genius. Though full of mischief, he wasn’t easy to deal with—cunning and sharp. By the end, he was already starting to be suspicious of Xia Rushui.

She had no idea how the original owner had managed to connect with him.

Nor did she know how the original owner had managed to acquire a treasure friend like Shen Anru.

Given the original owner’s personality, these three shouldn’t have been in her range of friends, should they?

Xia Rushui thought back. The book didn’t focus much on the original owner, nor did it introduce her friends. In the original novel, the original owner was essentially just a background prop.

It was only after transmigrating into the original owner’s body that Xia Rushui realized the original owner had many questionable aspects that didn’t align with the book’s portrayal.

Even though those few people were… highly ridiculous, they were all kind-hearted and seemed to come from strict households. Especially Yuge and Shen Anru, how could they be friends with a delinquent girl?

And Su He—in school, academic geniuses and delinquent girls were always parallel lines that never intersected. How could their relationship be so close?

As she was pondering, a car horn suddenly sounded behind her. Xia Rushui turned around and saw the Jiang family driver waving to her.

… She almost forgot she was a rich woman with a driver now.

Sitting in the car, Xia Rushui was surprised to find Jiang Xingzhi was also there.

She displayed a rare smile, reserved and distant, and said faintly, “Xia Rushui, we are going to attend a dinner party tonight.”