The Villainess Is Pretending to Be Sweet Again Today (Transmigration) - Chapter 23

Long Huaichang had now become quite famous at Third High School.

At first, everyone thought she was just a transfer student—maybe a pretty face at most. Students from different grades, both boys and girls, would crowd around her classroom door just to catch a glimpse of her.

But as time passed, they realized this beautiful girl could also fight with terrifying ferocity.

The delinquents in the senior class thought they ruled the school just because they were in the highest grade. They never expected a transfer student to show up out of nowhere.

As the saying goes, you should never mess with a transfer student—because you never know why they transferred in the first place…

During lunch break.

In the small grove beside the school playground, Shi Tian was supervising a group of delinquent-looking students as they did their homework.

“Stop dawdling, hurry up and finish!” Shi Tian scolded. “Didn’t we agree on a full month of completed homework? How come you skipped again? You’re seniors now—how are you going to improve the school’s college admission rate if you keep slacking off?”

A few tall boys with messy hair reluctantly looked up and glared at Long Huaichang. “We’re not convinced! We want a rematch!”

Long Huaichang, who had been peeling an orange while sitting on a nearby stone bench, raised her head and smirked. “Sure. But if you lose, you’ll have to do an extra month’s worth of homework.”

At that, they immediately backed down, shooting her resentful glares.

Shi Tian didn’t really understand why Long Huaichang didn’t beat or scold these delinquents—just made them do homework. It seemed like such a mild punishment, and it puzzled him.

When he voiced his confusion to her, Long Huaichang tossed him an orange and said, “They’re all terrible students. Making them do homework is the worst torture for them. Isn’t it great to make them suffer every day?”

Shi Tian’s eyes lit up in realization. “Damn, Boss Long, you’re ruthless!”

Long Huaichang rolled her eyes and ignored him.

Over the past half-month, Long Huaichang had effectively become the neighborhood’s little tyrant. Wherever she went outside school, she had followers, and no delinquent within a ten-kilometer radius dared to challenge her.

Honestly, though it sounded a bit childish, Long Huaichang found this feeling incredibly satisfying.

Sometimes she even thought—maybe being a bad girl wasn’t so bad~

Before she could dwell on it further, she spotted a girl in a blue-and-white school uniform walking toward her across the playground.

It was Jiang Li, someone Long Huaichang had gotten to know recently. At first, Jiang Li would always observe her from the shadows. Later, after hearing about her circumstances, Long Huaichang realized that while this girl bore a slight resemblance to Nuo Yang, their mindsets were completely different.

Shi Tian noticed her too and said, “Boss Long, Jiang Li’s here for you again.”

“Yeah.” Long Huaichang tossed away the orange peel and told Shi Tian, “She’s bringing me lunch. Clean up this trash and sort it into the bins, got it?”

“Uh… sure thing, Boss Long!”

Jiang Li stopped in the middle of the playground as she watched Long Huaichang approach.

When Long Huaichang got closer, she noticed the lunch bag in Jiang Li’s hands was wet. Confused, she asked, “What happened to your lunch?”

Jiang Li glanced down and smiled. “It spilled. But it’s fine—I’ll just grab some bread from the store for you later.”

Long Huaichang didn’t speak. Instead, she reached out to brush aside Jiang Li’s hair, revealing a sizable purple bruise at her temple. Frowning, she asked, “Did the girls in your class bully you again?”

“Yeah,” Jiang Li replied with a smile. “They saw me bringing lunch today and tried to throw it away. When I stopped them, they slapped me a few times.”

She said it so casually, as if it had nothing to do with her, which made Long Huaichang frown even more.

This girl, though bearing some resemblance to Nuo Yang, was entirely different inside.

Perhaps in Jiang Li’s world, there was only darkness.

“Tell me who bullied you,” Long Huaichang said. “I’ll help you get back at them.”

Jiang Li shook her head. “No need. The pain makes me feel alive. I don’t mind it.”

Long Huaichang didn’t know how to respond.

She actually understood Jiang Li’s feelings quite well—after all, she had felt the same way just six months ago.

Back then, she believed the whole world wanted her dead, that everything was against her.

Fortunately, she had Nuo Yang now…

“Suit yourself,” Long Huaichang said, not intending to meddle further. “But if you ever need my help, just ask.”

“Okay,” Jiang Li smiled. “Then, can you be my friend?”

Long Huaichang replied, “Sure.”

The two chatting on the playground were too far away for the others to hear what was being said. They only saw Long Huaichang and Jiang Li talk for a while before heading toward the school store.

“Boss, boss,” one of the scrawny boys said to the tall one in the middle. “Isn’t that Jiang Li? The one who tried to kill herself last year.”

“Yeah, how did Long Huaichang get involved with her?”

“No idea. Forget about that—let me copy your English homework!”

“Hey, don’t grab! I just guessed most of it. I haven’t properly done English exercises in years—I can barely remember ABC.”

The tall boy slammed his pen on the ground and cursed, “I can’t do this! What kind of nonsense is this? It’s making my head hurt!”

The others quickly tried to calm him down.

“Boss, don’t be mad. Next time we beat that girl until she cries, we won’t have to do homework!”

“Easy for you to say. When Long Huaichang punched you so hard you cried, you didn’t say anything like that.”

“Th-that was because I wasn’t prepared!”

“Enough!” the tall boy snapped. “I’m sick of this! I don’t want to do homework anymore! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻”

Seeing his outburst, the others fell silent.

The tall boy watched Long Huaichang and Jiang Li walk away, then suddenly said, “I can’t take this anymore. We need to do something!”

“But what?” another boy asked. “We can’t beat her in a fight.”

“Who said anything about fighting?” the tall boy sneered. “We’ll report her.”

“Snitch on her?”

“Ew…”

“Boss, that’s so lame…”

The tall boy felt a bit embarrassed by his own terrible idea, but to save face, he insisted, “Lame or not, snitching is still a tactic. I’m sick of doing homework every day—it’s driving me crazy.”

“What kind of report should we make then? If it’s about fighting, wouldn’t we be implicating ourselves too?”

“Yeah.”

“We’re not reporting her for fighting,” the tall boy said with a smug smirk. “We’ll tell the teacher that Long Huaichang is dating someone!”

The group looked at each other in confusion, then turned their gazes toward Shi Tian, who was still eating an orange.

“Seriously, bro? With Shi Tian?”

“Who said anything about Shi Tian?”

With that, the tall boy pointed at Jiang Li and whispered, “Report the two of them.”

Everyone: “????”

Now that’s… quite the brilliant idea!