After Transmigrating into a Book, I Was Bent by the Villainess (GL) - Chapter 14

Just as the two sides were at a stalemate, the door was suddenly kicked open with a loud bang from the outside.

Everyone looked towards the sound, only to see Su Yiming standing at the doorway, furious and emanating killing intent.

When she first arrived, Xia Chuci was also worried about Su Qirong’s malicious tricks, so she had secretly sent Su Yiming her location, not forgetting to play the victim: “If I go missing tomorrow, please call the police for me, for friendship’s sake. Thank you.”

She had only done it as a precaution and hadn’t held much hope, but she never expected Su Yiming to come looking for her personally.

The hijacked Su Qirong was overjoyed and shouted, “Sister, save me! Come and save me! This b1tch is trying to kill me!”

Hearing her scream, Xia Chuci internally cried out, This is bad. She suddenly realized that the current situation was extremely unfavorable to her. This looked exactly like she was bullying the cousin.

Old grudges were unsettled, and now new ones were added. She truly felt like dying.

Su Yiming also never expected this scene. As soon as she saw Xia Chuci’s plea for help, she rushed over without stopping.

All the way there, her mind was filled with images of Xia Chuci being humiliated and tortured. She truly couldn’t imagine what kind of crazy actions she would take after seeing those scenes with her own eyes.

That night, Xia Chuci was drenched in the rain, having waited for her in vain. Every time Su Yiming thought of her desolate back as she left, her heart ached intensely.

She regretted it, truly regretted it. Why didn’t she forgive her sooner? Why didn’t she protect her!

Now, seeing her unharmed and even seemingly having the upper hand, the heart that had been suspended finally relaxed. Su Yiming breathed a massive sigh of relief.

Xia Chuci spinelessly let go of her human shield and stepped aside, wanting to explain the utterly ridiculous misunderstanding.

But Su Yiming didn’t give her a chance to speak. She rushed over with lightning speed, slapped Su Qirong’s arrogant face fiercely, and then kicked her twice.

She forcefully pinched the other person’s chin and said viciously, “You took what I said as if it were nothing, didn’t you, huh?”

Su Qirong was utterly stunned and terrified. Her face was even paler than when Xia Chuci had held a knife to her throat just now. She stammered, “I, I, I know I was wrong. I, I, I won’t dare to do it again, Sister, I was wrong.”

“I’m warning you for the last time. If you ever dare to lay a finger on her again, you won’t be my sister anymore.”

Su Qirong nodded blankly, looking like she had been scared silly.

Witnessing this incredible scene, Xia Chuci stood rooted to the spot like a piece of wood, utterly bewildered: “System, did Su Yiming turn evil prematurely?”

System: [The villain ‘Su Yiming’s’ current villain value is 0.]

Xia Chuci secretly marveled: “Then why is her killing intent so intense? Did the system malfunction?”

System: […… Self-check complete. No bugs found. The system is operating normally.]

Xia Chuci: “Okay, tsk tsk, no wonder she became so twisted and vicious after turning evil. It turns out the major villain’s killing intent is innate.”

System: [……]

Su Qirong burst into tears and cried out, feeling wronged, “Sister, I’m your sister! How can you side with an outsider, especially a mistress who stole your fiancé! Why must you protect her!”

Su Yiming was expressionless and said coldly, “I’ve told you before, there’s a limit to how spoiled and willful you can be. She is my person. Only I can bully her. No one else dares to!”

Xia Chuci’s feet slipped, and her mind was filled with a barrage of question marks.

What kind of domineering CEO-like predatory words are those? Is this something a major villain should be saying? Is the villain being OOC really okay?

Did she accidentally cause the butterfly effect by clinging to the thigh and boosting favorability, leading to a deviation in the villain’s character setting?

If she remembered correctly, in the original work, this classic domineering CEO maxim was supposed to be said by the male lead during a scene where he fiercely protected his wife after returning home. Why did it happen so early, and why was the line stolen by the villain?

Tsk tsk, the magic of the butterfly effect is simply too unbelievable.

Su Yiming turned to leave. Just as she reached the doorway, she suddenly turned back, walked towards Xia Chuci, and said with a dark expression, “Still not leaving? Waiting for a late-night snack?”

Xia Chuci froze and casually made an excuse: “Ahem, well, my legs are weak. I’ll rest for a bit. You…”

Before she could finish the word “go,” she was stunned by Su Yiming’s series of fluid movements: grasping her hand, crouching down, lifting her onto her shoulder, and carrying her on her back.

What in the world is going on today!!!

This surprise—no, this shock—is coming one after another. Will some kind soul please explain this to her?

After the two left the bar, Xia Chuci leaned close to her ear and whispered, “My legs are fine now. Put me down. I can walk on my own.”

Su Yiming replied with an “Mm,” but she didn’t put her down. Instead, she adjusted her slightly higher on her back and continued walking steadily through the narrow alleyways.

Xia Chuci was momentarily stunned, then buried her head in the crook of the other’s neck, expressing her gratitude: “Thank you for coming to save me. I would have been dead if you hadn’t.”

Su Yiming was blunt: “Oh really? I thought you were quite capable. You had a knife at someone’s throat. Where did you need me to save you?”

Xia Chuci chuckled dryly twice, feeling awkward, and said, “That was self-defense. I couldn’t just surrender, could I? Hey, what do you think of my strategy of catching the leader first?”

She insincerely agreed, “Mm, very impressive.”

Xia Chuci felt snubbed, pouted, and stopped talking.

After a few minutes of silence, she started making conversation again: “Hey, are you planning to carry me back to school like this?”

Su Yiming didn’t speak, but she also didn’t stop walking, indicating her affirmation.

No way! It would take an hour to walk back to school. Although she was quite light, Su Yiming was still a girl. Walking back like this would surely exhaust her. It was impossible not to be moved.

“Su Yiming, why are you so adorable? You came to save me, ignoring our previous issues, and now you’re carrying me back. If you were a guy, I’d want to marry you, haha.”

Su Yiming didn’t respond to her poor joke. After a long silence, she said solemnly, “You carried me before, too.”

Oh right, she had carried her back on Foundation Stone Island.

However, she felt a bit guilty admitting it. At that time, she had put Su Yiming through hell. She only worked so hard to do a good deed afterward to compensate and incidentally boost favorability.

She never expected Su Yiming to value kindness so much. A small favor had caused her to completely forget the fact that she had been utterly fooled.

It must be said that the un-blackened major villain was actually very lovely—repaying evil with good, and kind-hearted.

If the system could complain, it would definitely retort: Who was it just now who called the other person a pervert in the bar?

Xia Chuci’s eyes darted around. She said with a serious air, “So, you’re repaying a kindness, huh? But… your way of repaying the kindness is wrong.”

Su Yiming was puzzled: “How so?”

Xia Chuci chuckled, “Since ancient times, when women repay a kindness, they repay it with their body, refusing to marry anyone but their benefactor.”

Su Yiming: “……”

Xia Chuci suddenly remembered that she had only recently stolen the other’s fiancé, so for her, the ‘mistress,’ to crack such a joke…

It was so awkward she could use her toes to dig out a mansion!

The silence was deafening…

“Ahem, well, put me down first. I have something to give you.”

Having landed, Xia Chuci took off the necklace she wore close to her body and put it on Su Yiming, saying seriously, “Although you’ve already forgiven me, I still have to give you this apology gift. It looks truly beautiful on you.”

Su Yiming picked up the still-warm necklace and examined it carefully. It wasn’t really a necklace, but a longevity lock the size of a thumb hanging on a red string. The red string was the common kind that could be bought for a few cents on the street, but the longevity lock itself clearly wasn’t ordinary.

Although she wasn’t a professional jewelry appraiser, having been born into a wealthy family, she had seen countless high-end pieces since childhood, so she had some appreciation for quality.

The longevity lock was nearly oval-shaped, resembling a auspicious cloud, and a closer look revealed a pair of lifelike wings on the left and right sides.

The front featured exquisite, hollowed-out floral patterns. Through the tiny gaps, one could vaguely see a small round object, like a pearl or gemstone, hidden inside. The back was simpler, with only the four characters “平安順遂” (Ping An Shun Sui – safe and successful), but they weren’t printed font; they were a very distinctive handwritten style.

Su Yiming was secretly surprised. These characters looked familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere before, but she couldn’t recall where at the moment.

Since she couldn’t remember, she didn’t dwell on it. There was a more obvious problem right now: how did Xia Chuci, a poor student, possess such a valuable piece of jewelry?

“This is?”

“This is the most valuable thing I own. You can’t dislike it, okay?”

Xia Chuci grinned, showing two adorable small canine teeth, and continued, “I was wearing it when Grandma found me. It must be something my biological parents left me. This longevity lock was originally an ornament on an anklet. My adoptive mother sold the anklet, but I secretly hid the longevity lock.”

Su Yiming asked, “If you give it to me, how will you find your biological parents in the future?”

Xia Chuci shrugged, indifferent, “I wasn’t planning on finding them anyway. They didn’t want me then, and they probably don’t want to acknowledge me in the future. Instead of seeking rejection, it’s better not to meet at all. It’s less trouble for everyone.”

Su Yiming felt a pang in her heart. She said, “Have you ever thought that perhaps they regretted it, or perhaps they had difficulties at the time, or perhaps they just accidentally lost you? There are many possibilities. Don’t you want to find out the reason?”

“When I was little, I often wondered why my mom and dad didn’t want me, thinking that when I grew up, I would go find them and ask. But now that I’ve grown up, I suddenly feel it’s pointless. Whatever the reason, the result is already a fact. Getting stuck on the past and disrupting my perfectly good present life is too sad, isn’t it?”

The real reason was that she was avoiding the “true and false heiresses” plotline.

She was deceiving herself into believing that without this symbolic item of identity, perhaps that part of the plot would come later, or even be skipped entirely.

“What if they’ve been looking for you all this time? Wouldn’t it be a great pity to miss each other like this?”

“Then it’s up to fate. After all these years, I’ve gotten used to living alone. Even if I’m alone in the future, I’m not afraid.”

Su Yiming gently touched the back of her head, the corner of her mouth curving up. She smiled, “Good. If you don’t want to look, then don’t. You won’t be alone anymore. You have me.”

Saying this, she took her hand and started walking in the direction of the school.

However, the heartwarming time of good friends holding hands didn’t last long. Just as the two walked from the alley to the street corner, a motorcycle sped towards them.

In that split second, Xia Chuci didn’t even react consciously. She instinctively pushed Su Yiming aside. It wasn’t until her entire body was flung five meters away and she landed heavily on the ground that she realized what a stupid thing she had done.

Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy crap! She was going to be disabled for life even if she didn’t die!

Xia Chuci lay on the ground, unable to move. Every pain nerve in her body screamed. She felt dizzy, her vision blurred, her ears rang, her lips were numb, and her consciousness began to fade.

If she hadn’t been fighting for her life with every ounce of strength, she would have passed out long ago.

Su Yiming was thrown to the ground. When she looked up, she saw Xia Chuci’s entire body, like a piece of rag, flung away by the collision and slammed onto the ground.

The scene deeply stung her eyes. Her breathing hitched, and she stumbled towards Xia Chuci.

Su Yiming reached out with trembling hands, wanting to help the bl00d-soaked figure on the ground up, but she didn’t know where to start. Her remaining sanity told her not to move her rashly, or it could cause secondary injury.

Xia Chuci used all her effort to weakly spit out the mouthful of old bl00d blocking her chest, sincerely boosting favorability: “You’re okay… that’s good!”

“Why… why… did you save me…”

Su Yiming knelt rigidly, panicked and at a loss.

“I told you, if anything happened to you, I wouldn’t be able to live either. I…”

Another mouthful of bl00d gushed from the corner of Xia Chuci’s mouth. She was barely alive.

Su Yiming’s pupils suddenly dilated. A thunderclap seemed to explode in her heart, leaving her unsettled for a long time.

This was the second time she had heard her say such a thing.

The last time was on Foundation Stone Island, when Xia Chuci risked her life to jump down the cliff to find her.

And this time, Xia Chuci pushed her away without regard for her own safety to save her.

It turned out that in Xia Chuci’s heart, her life was genuinely important, important enough to guard even at the cost of her own life.

A seed of wanting to protect this girl had unknowingly taken root and sprouted in Su Yiming’s heart.

Xia Chuci swore that there was not a single false word in her statement. The major villain had no protagonist halo. A car accident could easily lead to her death. If Su Yiming died, how could she live?

System: [ ‘Xia Chuci’ character kindness +200, image stickiness +100. Total Reader Enjoyment Level +50.]

Xia Chuci was startled: What the heck is ‘image stickiness’?

Also, didn’t she tell the system not to randomly activate weird metrics!

Xia Chuci’s headache worsened. Her eyelids grew heavy, and her vision became increasingly blurry.

Su Yiming’s eyes glistened with tears. She cried out in panic, “Don’t sleep! Don’t fall asleep! I still have so much to tell you…”

Please, call 120! What’s the point of just crying! Where is all your composure and wisdom!

This was her final thought before completely losing consciousness.