After Transmigrating, I Lived with the Charismatic/Beloved Female Lead - Chapter 29
Chapter 29
Lu Yuanqiu did not consider herself to be an inflexible person. When facing an unfavorable situation, pretending to comply with the other party’s wishes was the sensible choice.
But this approach certainly depended on the specific event and the target.
Just like when facing Lu Hong, she naturally had to pretend to be a gentle, even weak, daughter to disarm him and satisfy his need for control.
But when it came to Lan Shangui, she didn’t feel the need to compromise her principles.
Moreover, was being gay some kind of unforgivable crime? What gave Lan Shangui the right to harass her about this?
So, Lu Yuanqiu was merely annoyed and puzzled, but she had no intention of backing down.
However, when she saw Wei Yue approaching, her thoughts shifted slightly.
Lan Shangui’s state currently seemed truly bizarre. Wei Yue had just clashed with him two days ago and still had a head injury. If she were to get hurt in another accident…
Lu Yuanqiu disliked being indebted to others. To settle the matter quickly, telling a white lie wasn’t an issue.
Hearing Lu Yuanqiu finally change her tone, Lan Shangui’s tense expression immediately relaxed. The tense atmosphere that had been present suddenly dissipated.
“That’s right, that’s the correct way…” he muttered.
“In that case, may I leave?” Lu Yuanqiu maintained a calm smile on her face and asked, “Since we have follow-up military training this afternoon, please let me rest if I can.”
“Ah! Yes, right… Yuanqiu, you’re a freshman right now…” Lan Shangui seemed to wake up from a dream, saying apologetically, “I’m sorry for wasting so much of your time. Well, goodbye then!”
He then stepped aside, clearing the path for Lu Yuanqiu. In doing so, he finally saw Wei Yue, who had already approached.
“Why are you here?”
Lan Shangui frowned. He felt uneasy, remembering he had just spoken ill of Wei Yue and her mother. But he firmly believed his views were correct; even if Wei Yue heard, she should be the one feeling guilty.
“…What have you two been talking about for so long! Look at the time! I need to go back to the dorm to rest!”
Wei Yue heard Lu Yuanqiu’s later change of heart. She immediately caught on, seamlessly responding to Lan Shangui in an impatient tone.
“Alright, let’s go,” Lu Yuanqiu replied, not giving Lan Shangui a chance to speak again.
She didn’t want to spend another minute with Lan Shangui. After nodding to him, she walked toward Wei Yue.
“Why are you standing here? Didn’t you say you were going back to the dorm to rest?”
Wei Yue’s gaze was initially fixed on Lu Yuanqiu. She scrutinized her, as if confirming the person in front of her was indeed safe and sound. In the end, Lu Yuanqiu was the first to speak.
“Mhm…” Wei Yue nodded, her tone significantly relaxed, a stark contrast to how she spoke to Lan Shangui moments ago.
As she and Lu Yuanqiu walked out of the garden, she looked back and saw the tall figure still standing in place, his head slightly lowered, staring at them.
His usually handsome face was expressionless, and the angle made his face appear somewhat shadowed, but Wei Yue could still clearly see his expression.
Even though it was midday, meeting that gaze sent a chill down her spine.
It wasn’t that she was afraid of Lan Shangui, but his eyes… they were dark, cold, and held a dangerously scrutinizing intensity.
It was an expression completely unlike what the “Lan Shangui” she knew would show.
“What’s wrong?”
The next second, a warm touch landed on Wei Yue’s arm, accompanied by a familiar voice.
Lu Yuanqiu held her hand, asking softly.
“N-Nothing…” Wei Yue’s expression was strained, but she replied anyway.
She shifted her gaze to Lu Yuanqiu, and unusually, she actively met Lu Yuanqiu’s eyes, clearly seeing her own reflection in that warm gaze.
The warmth radiating from the arm told her that the person in front of her—Lu Yuanqiu—was real and alive.
Noticing Wei Yue’s unnatural expression, Lu Yuanqiu didn’t press further. Instead, she changed the subject: “There isn’t much time left for the lunch break, and we have evening training. Let’s hurry back.”
“Mhm…” Wei Yue agreed, quickening her pace, letting Lu Yuanqiu lead her away from the garden.
After they left, Lan Shangui shook his head, and his strange expression faded away.
He looked around and muttered, “…Why are they walking so fast!”
On the school bus ride back to Wanghu Apartments, Wei Yue was uncharacteristically frowning, deep in thought.
Lu Yuanqiu, sitting next to her, also refrained from speaking for the time being, only observing the person beside her from the corner of her eye.
In the garden just now, both the words Lan Shangui spoke to Lu Yuanqiu and his subsequent actions had a pervasive air of strangeness.
But Wei Yue had always known that this world was a modern technology world, and the main storyline was about the development of romance. Lan Shangui’s behavior had always aligned with the descriptions in the original novel she had read—direct and domineering.
His reaction just now was as if… he had gone OOC.
A light bulb went off in Wei Yue’s mind. She immediately called out the System: “System, Lan Shangui’s reactions just now… they don’t match the original novel at all, do they? Is he… has someone transmigrated into him too?”
This was entirely possible. Judging from the System’s subtle hints, she, Wei Yue, wouldn’t be the first or the last person bound to a system, so it was highly probable that others had transmigrated as well.
This… I can definitively say that the male lead is the original, the System hesitated for a moment but still replied to Wei Yue.
“The original? You must have noticed his behavior just now, right? Both his words… and his subsequent mannerisms don’t seem like something his character would do!” Wei Yue was not satisfied with the System’s reply and pressed further.
The System opened its manual and explained to Wei Yue: The minor world has its own operating rules. As you’ve always known, this world is a modern technological society, so there won’t be any content involving cultivation or ghosts. Since the main plot is a love story, it will necessarily revolve around the male and female leads’ lives, and won’t involve you going on adventures in the mountains or anything similar.
The original work is a romance novel, so the emotional orientation of this minor world is strictly heterosexual. The character Wei Ling is rarely described in the original work and is a marginal character with little relation to the main plot. However, due to the change in your relationship with the female lead, she has been drawn into the main plot.
Her sexual orientation is lesbian, which contradicts the operating rules of the minor world. Although I don’t know how the male lead learned this information, he is one of the important representatives of the world’s operating rules, so he would naturally be extremely repulsed. As for his actions…
Here, the System paused for a moment. After confirming that this content was in its manual and did not require permission from the Main God, it continued: It should be an initial attempt at course correction, triggered by the realization that other important characters in the minor world are not upholding the operating rules.
“Other important characters… are you referring to Lu Yuanqiu?” After the System’s explanation, Wei Yue quickly understood.
Lan Shangui’s abnormality began when Lu Yuanqiu expressed indifference and zero problems with Wei Ling liking women.
And when Lu Yuanqiu conceded and answered in a way that aligned with his prejudiced words, Lan Shangui’s attitude suddenly returned to normal.
So, his final demeanor… was that the scrutiny of the rules, too?
Then these operating rules are far too overbearing!
Lu Yuanqiu simply felt that being gay was irrelevant; she wasn’t one either. Does being straight require one to be homophobic?
After the System’s comprehensive explanation, Wei Yue’s mind finally relaxed, and she even managed to complain a bit.
During her conversation with the System, she had unknowingly arrived back at the dorm, where she saw Lu Yuanqiu frowning, seemingly hesitant to speak.
Seeing Wei Yue’s gaze focus and land on her, Lu Yuanqiu’s thin lips moved. She seemed to be debating whether to speak, but after a short pause, she said: “Are you… still bothered by what was said just now?”
“Hmm, what are you referring to?” Wei Yue blinked, wondering what Lu Yuanqiu meant.
“…What I said later, I only said to keep Lan Shangui from pestering me. I genuinely don’t have any issue with Auntie Wei.”
After Lu Yuanqiu explained in a low voice, she, in a rare move, actively averted Wei Yue’s gaze.
Whether it was for the sake of a smoother future partnership or because she didn’t want the roommate she would see every day to hold a grudge, she felt that Wei Yue, with her current relaxed expression, was the one she was more familiar with.