Transmigrated into the Villainess Alpha Who Marked the Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 2
It was already past seven when they arrived at the hospital; the normal closing time for the hospital had long passed.
But who was Ji Liangying?
Even the doctors and nurses in white coats she passed respectfully addressed her as “Senior.” Ji Ci truly experienced the feeling of power while following Ji Liangying.
The gland examination was like a routine bl00d test: a small vial of bl00d was drawn from the glandular opening, and they just had to wait for the results. After the gland examination, Ji Liangying took her to the MRI room.
When Ji Ci came out, she found Ji Liangying conversing with other doctors.
The doctor with a receding hairline shook his head, “Still no change, just like before. In fact, the TR value is slightly lower than before. If this continues, Xiao Ci might de-differentiate into an Omega.”
WTF???
Though Ji Ci frowned, she was secretly ecstatic.
De-differentiating into an Omega…
This way, she would be a harmless little innocent in front of the female lead. No matter how the plotline arranged things for her, how could an Omega covet another Omega?
The doctor with the receding hairline saw Ji Ci approaching and stopped talking.
The topic was left unresolved.
Ji Liangying also shook her head upon seeing her tightly furrowed brows.
Towards this daughter, she felt both guilt and shame.
Now that the results were out, guilt took precedence.
She thought Ji Ci was stimulated by the “de-differentiation,” so she comforted her, “It’s alright, Mom will help you. There’s no change other than the TR value, which means everything else is stable. At least we’re on the right track.”
Ji Ci’s brows furrowed even tighter.
She had no idea what a TR value was.
She only knew that she absolutely had to make the “no changes” change. For her, nothing was simpler than becoming an Omega or a Beta to stay away from the main characters.
“Mm-hmm, thank you, Mom,” Ji Ci forced a smile and said obediently.
Ji Liangying, who usually maintained a solemn expression, showed a slight flicker of surprise in her eyes.
In her rare interactions with her daughter, the girl always kept her face down, saying nothing, like a sullen child whom elders had failed to raise properly.
Sometimes, returning from work and seeing her like that, Ji Liangying would secretly shake her head, her dislike for Ji Ci deepening. She’d rather stay in her office than come home.
Now, her daughter’s smiling face actually made her think her daughter was quite pretty. This unusual reaction further convinced her of the story about her daughter hitting her head.
Being in a pleasant mood, she spoke more.
“The MRI results will take a few days to come out, but I estimate it’s probably just a mild concussion. You’ll recover in a couple of days, so don’t worry too much.”
Receiving care from a cold demeanor, an unspeakable feeling welled up in Ji Ci’s heart.
“Okay.”
On the way back, Ji Ci subtly inquired about some things from Ji Liangying.
Regarding family:
Their family consisted of three people—three generations, with no male descendants.
Where the original owner’s other mother went was not written in the book, nor did Ji Liangying mention it.
However, the book did mention some of the original owner’s growth experiences: she had been bullied by rumors for a period. In short, the villainess’s Omega mother was a call girl who, taking advantage of Ji Liangying’s drunken state, had a relationship with her, leading to the villainess’s birth.
So, the original owner’s origins were somewhat ignominious.
Regarding academics:
The original owner had just entered high school last year and was currently in the second semester of her first year of high school.
The incident of marking the female lead happened in the university arc.
Fortunately, the situation was just beginning and not yet irreversible.
When the mother and daughter arrived home, the elder had already gone to bed.
The dishes on the table were still warm, indicating the elder had not been asleep for long.
Ji Liangying was a woman of few words and excellent manners, disliking talking during meals.
Ji Ci also had nothing to say; the more she spoke, the more mistakes she’d make. Anyway, what needed to be clear was clear.
After dinner, Ji Ci went to take a bath.
She had more injuries than just the one on her forehead; her arms and legs were also scraped, revealing pink flesh. If the mother and daughter had a very good relationship, perhaps the mother would offer to help her daughter wash, but clearly, they hadn’t reached that level. Ji Liangying had always left her in the care of the elder, raising her loosely.
Ji Liangying watched Ji Ci take her clothes to the bathroom. The girl’s limping figure appeared inexplicably desolate, and to her surprise, the smiling face of her daughter at the hospital inexplicably flashed in her mind.
Half a dimple was revealed, very cute.
Before any thought of compassion could fully form in her mind, Ji Ci disappeared into the bathroom.
Inside the bathroom.
Ji Ci lowered her gaze, letting the warm water soak her hair, droplets sprinkling on her white porcelain body.
The water made her wounds sting.
This pain made her more rational, clearer about her grasp on the future.
Back then, she had suddenly lost her grandmother, who she depended on, and her entire world collapsed. The money for her grandmother’s medical treatment was taken by her gambling father as a cost for revenge, resulting in huge debts from usurers that crushed the path she had planned for herself.
Before deciding to commit suicide, she thought death was the only release.
However, only at the moment her life ended did she truly begin to revere life.
Since she was given a chance to be reborn,
This time, she would definitely live her life well.
The next day, Wednesday, Ji Ci woke up early.
She got up and memorized some vocabulary, then tidied her bed.
Ji Liangying had already left early.
Yesterday, because Ji Liangying was present, Ji Ci hadn’t carefully observed the layout of the house.
About one hundred and fifty square meters, in the city center.
In her previous life, Ji Ci and her grandmother squeezed into a rental room less than twenty square meters. Now, she could only say that poverty had limited her imagination.
Her bedroom was surprisingly large and well-lit.
But the room’s decor was dark, even the wardrobe was dark brown, looking nothing like a teenage girl’s room.
Ji Ci stretched, looking straight ahead. She opened one of the wardrobe doors to find a expanse of grey and black.
Opened the middle, grey and black.
The last side, also grey and black.
Ji Ci: “…”
Alright, this perfectly matched the villainess’s gloomy style.
Amidst the black and grey, a hint of white showed. Taking it out, it was a school uniform.
Beiyi High School didn’t require students to wear uniforms except on special occasions.
To make herself look more vibrant, Ji Ci chose it.
It was still very early when she arrived at school; the main gate had just opened.
The original owner was in Class 5 of the first year of high school.
No wonder some comments said this city of Beichen was a utopia constructed by the author; their high school didn’t have fixed seating. Instead, like university, it was free seating, first come, first served.
Ji Ci at this moment greatly approved of the author’s creativity.
Great, it saved her the trouble of finding her seat.
The author had done so much, it was as if she knew someone would transmigrate into her book someday.
Ji Ci pulled out her English book and furiously memorized vocabulary.
People gradually entered the classroom. Some treated her as air, while others, in small groups of two or three, held hands and pointed at her like she was a monkey in a zoo.
“Is this, is this from our class? So hardworking?!”
“Ji Ci, don’t you know?”
“I really don’t know.”
“Oh, it’s that time, during the class meeting, the old homeroom teacher picked someone to talk about their aspirations, and she said, ‘I want to drink my senior’s nectar.'”
The girl’s surprised and embarrassed voice was choked back.
Ji Ci couldn’t hold it in anymore; a stampede of horses galloped through her mind.
No matter how unpopular this dead original owner was, she could ignore it, but what kind of lewd nonsense was this???
Ji Ci wasn’t silently memorizing vocabulary, but she also wasn’t making particularly loud noises. She maintained her posture of reading, her expression frozen. The two girls exchanged glances and wisely shut up.
Ji Ci took a deep breath, calming herself.
She chose a seat in the fifth row, neither too far front nor back. People constantly passed by her. The original owner’s popularity was clearly very poor. Not only did no one sit near her, but even her entire row was affected; no one wanted to be in a straight line with her.
So, when a thud sounded beside her, and a women’s backpack landed on the desk next to her, she turned her head in surprise.
“Why are you sitting at the front today?” A low, husky female voice. The girl responded to her gaze with confusion.
Bob cut, fish eyes, sausage lips.
Ji Ci searched her mind.
This should be the original cannon fodder’s only friend, named Pei Ling, a Beta, attracted to the same s3x. The two were “kindred spirits,” specializing in shady activities.
“Just felt like it,” Ji Ci said.
Her indifferent attitude represented her current stance and her intention to distance herself from the original owner’s past lifestyle and unsavory friends.
Pei Ling didn’t mind, staring at her forehead. “What happened to your forehead? Don’t tell me your senior sister, Bai, found out and hit you yesterday?”
“Yeah,” Ji Ci smiled, “She found out.”
So, from now on, this “Ji Ci” won’t do such things again.
“I told you your method wouldn’t work. Look, I found this at the flea market yesterday,” Pei Ling pulled something out of her bag and fiddled with it in her hand.
“Take out the camera. Let’s test the effect.”
Ji Ci: “?”
“What are you standing there for? Didn’t you say your lens was broken?”
Ji Ci then realized,
It was camera parts. In her previous life, she didn’t use such advanced things.
She shook her head. “I didn’t bring it.”
Pei Ling: “?”
“Did you hit your head too hard?”
Ji Ci stared at her English book. As if having made a decision, she closed the book and solemnly told Pei Ling, “From now on, let’s put our minds to studying.”
Pei Ling: “?”
“It’s only the first year of high school. If we work hard, we can definitely go to a good university.”
Pei Ling: “?”
“I calculated it. Only one of the six assessments is conducted in the first year of high school. There are still about four months. We’ll focus on Moral Character and Ideology during this period. There’s plenty of time.”
The six assessments were another one of the author’s bizarre and novel settings.
Moral Character and Ideology, Music and Arts, Physical Education, Science Experiment and Essay, and Comprehensive Culture. These five subjects were graded as S, A, B, C, etc. There was also a Grade A, B, and C competition for prestigious universities.
If any single item failed to reach a C, one would have to repeat the year and retake the exams.
Pei Ling was utterly bewildered. The person in front of her perked up their ears, listening with great interest to the class’s second-to-last student lecturing the last student, only realizing how ridiculous it was after hearing it all.
Pei Ling looked at Ji Ci like she was a monster, stretched, and said dismissively, “Just pretend your brain got messed up yesterday and you’re talking nonsense. Go take a nap, you’ll be clear-headed after you wake up.”
Ji Ci watched the person sleep with their head down and shook her head helplessly.
In her original world, Ji Ci studied until her second year of high school. Aside from certain specific subjects, the knowledge system was not very different from the book’s. The original owner’s first-year high school curriculum was not difficult for her, who had always been in the top three of her grade.
The next two classes were English. During the break, the classroom was filled with reading sounds.
Ji Ci couldn’t help but sigh,
This learning atmosphere was truly great. If she didn’t study hard, she might not even be able to compare to the first-year students.
The English teacher was a middle-aged Beta woman with glasses, named Zhang Qing, wearing square-rimmed glasses, appearing quite rigid.
As the class entered its latter half,
Zhang Qing put down her lesson plan, and students also put down their books, countless pairs of eyes fixed on her.
“It’s the usual routine. Just come up and recite what you’ve prepared. Going up to the podium is to train your abilities.”
With her words, the atmosphere immediately became serious.
Ji Ci: “…”
What the hell???
The commotion hadn’t woken Pei Ling, but this eerie silence made her slowly open her eyes in a daze.
“What’s wrong?” she asked Ji Ci.
Ji Ci looked like she had found a savior: “She said something about asking people to recite on stage… Aren’t you getting up?”
Pei Ling relaxed and waved her hand dismissively: “Oh, that. Old Lady Zhang won’t call on failing students like us.”
Ji Ci: “…”
Alright, that somewhat eased her mind.
Not that she was afraid,
She hadn’t prepared anything, and there was no need to be thrown into it unprepared.
Zhang Qing stared at the roster, the thick spectacle lenses reflecting a serious light, and slowly mouthed: “Ji Ci.”
Ji Ci: “…”
Zhang Qing saw her bewildered expression and even smiled: “Don’t be nervous. Reciting a text or a beautiful essay is fine. Just speak boldly.”
Ji Ci reluctantly accepted the reality. As she walked down the aisle, she vaguely heard whispers.
“Old Lady Zhang is getting personal revenge.”
“How so?”
“Do you know who Ji Ci’s mom is? An specially appointed professor at the hospital, Old Lady Zhang’s husband’s direct superior. Her husband probably got scolded by Ji Ci’s mom.”
“Thump, thump, thump!” Zhang Qing slammed the podium, “Silence!”
She looked at Ji Ci with an even worse expression: “Are you ready? If you can’t recite, your assessment score for this semester will be 0.”
In the world view of the book, getting into a good university was not that simple.
The six assessments, with Comprehensive Culture accounting for 70% of the grade, required reference to the assessment scores given by each subject teacher. However, to improve the school’s college admission rate, subject teachers usually wouldn’t make things too difficult for students.
When Zhang Qing said that, the classroom immediately erupted in an uproar.
However, the protagonist was “Ji Ci,” always the last-place student who could always boost others’ rankings, so there was nothing to regret.
Ji Ci usually buried herself in studying. She had the ability but disliked showing it, due to fear of others’ gazes.
After dying once,
She didn’t seem to care about these things anymore.
“Can I recite anything?” she calmly asked Zhang Qing.
Zhang Qing said yes.
Ji Ci then relaxed.
She had a habit of reading beautiful essays, partly to cultivate language sense and partly to expand her vocabulary. Now, using them for an emergency was not a difficult task.
“Nine times the space that…”
As her voice rang out, the noisy classroom gradually fell silent.
More than listening, they were probably more surprised that this last-place student could articulate so fluently…
At the end of March, the third-year high school students were approaching their fifth assessment, before which four mock exams would be held.
Bai Yueli and Jiang Yi, having finished their lab work, left the lab early. The chemistry teacher had temporarily given them some items to take to the department head.
The department head taught the current first-year high school students, and his office was next to the hallway. Bai Yueli didn’t take the nearby hallway after leaving; instead, she walked straight along the corridor.
Jiang Yi followed behind her: “Big White Rabbit, where are you going?”
“First Year Class Five.”
Jiang Yi: “…”
“Because of that student ID?” She pouted: “Couldn’t you just give it to Ji Feng and have him take it back?”
Bai Yueli: “Since we’re here, it’s better to deliver it personally.”
Jiang Yi: “…”
“Actually, I asked around yesterday,” Jiang Yi said after a moment of silence. “This Ji Ci has a pretty bad reputation among the new students of their year. She’s antisocial and always talks to herself. Her family doesn’t even live on Kefeng Road; it’s the complete opposite direction…”
She rambled on and on.
Some teachers taught with their doors open, and despite Jiang Yi deliberately lowering her voice, she still managed to disturb them.
After receiving a glare from a certain teacher, Jiang Yi quickly shut up.
Bai Yueli chuckled, “Oh, you.”
Jiang Yi, unpersuaded, lowered her voice even further: “So, when you said someone was following you earlier, it might have been her.”
“Also, this person, she hasn’t even finished her first year of high school, and she’s failing everything. Not even Yang Tai is as bad as her…”
Suddenly, Bai Yueli stopped.
Jiang Yi stopped in confusion, following her gaze.
In the classroom, standing on the podium, was the girl they had encountered yesterday. She wore a pristine white school uniform, her expression calm, and the incandescent light above her head made her figure appear beautiful and soft.
“To our grand Foe, who now triumphs.”
“And in th’ excess of joy…”
A clear, resonant voice carried through the doors and windows. Every word the girl spoke was powerful and resonant.
Bai Yueli curved her lips,
At this moment, the girl’s voice overlapped with what emerged in her mind:
“Sole reigning holds the Tyranny of Heav’n”
Author’s Note:
This English passage is from “Paradise Lost.”