Transmigrated into the Villainess Alpha Who Marked the Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 23
Ji Ci secretly observed her. Under her skillful hand, the apple peel quickly transformed into a long, thin ribbon. Bai Yueli’s face didn’t show much emotion, but Ji Ci had a faint sense that she was in a very bad mood.
This was soon confirmed.
Ji Ci called out to her softly, but the only response was the subtle sound of the apple being peeled. She called out again, and Bai Yueli finally looked up blankly.
“What is it, Xiao Ci?”
Her voice was as gentle as ever. As she asked, she finished peeling the apple, expertly splitting it in half and offering one half to Ji Ci.
Ji Ci took it, smiling bitterly and shaking her head.
She quickly ate her half of the apple, then threw the core into the trash. She looked at her senior, who was chewing slowly and still had a lot left, and suddenly smiled mischievously at her.
Bai Yueli: “?”
“Senior, do you want me to sing you a song?” Ji Ci’s eyes curved into crescents. It was a good thing her high ponytail had gotten a bit messed up from sleeping, otherwise, this aggressive style combined with her silly smile would have given the two girls who asked for her WeChat a heart attack.
Bai Yueli didn’t understand why she brought up singing, but she humored her. She perked up and put on a smile, as if to see what kind of antics she would pull next.
Ji Ci cleared her throat and started singing.
“The dark sky hangs low,”
From the moment she sang the first note, Ji Ci knew something was wrong. Reality and imagination were completely at odds. She simply closed her eyes and let her voice soar.
…
The school doctor glanced at them in surprise and hastily put on his Bluetooth earphones.
“The bright stars follow,”
“Little bug, little bug, fly,”
“Who are you missing.”
…
“Singer-Queen” Ji almost finished the song in one breath. No, no, she couldn’t take it anymore.
Oh my god, this isn’t what she thought. In her world, her singing wasn’t great, but it was at least in tune. This, what the hell is this? She was putting emotion into it, but she couldn’t control her vocal cords!
She opened her eyes and saw a smirk on Bai Yueli’s face, who seemed to be trying very hard to hold back her laughter.
Ji Ci: “Uh…”
No matter what, her goal had been achieved.
Could this be considered a roundabout way of saving the situation?
“Ahem,” Ji Ci gave her a glance, feigning anger: “Senior, can you stop laughing? Don’t I have any dignity?”
“What’s wrong?” Bai Yueli chuckled: “Didn’t you sing quite well?”
Ji Ci breathed out gloomily: “I knew you would say that.”
“Huh?” Bai Yueli laughed and once again couldn’t keep up with her jumping thoughts.
“In Senior’s heart, there probably isn’t anyone who sings poorly. In other words, a gentle person like you, even if you thought it sounded bad, would say, ‘Hmm, not bad,’ or ‘Very good,’ and so on.”
Bai Yueli narrowed her eyes, looking at her with interest: “You understand me very well?”
Ji Ci glanced at her sideways, and seeing that she was in a good mood, she boldly said: “I wouldn’t dare.”
“Then,” Bai Yueli said: “Do you want to hear the truth?”
“Mm-hmm?” Ji Ci opened one eye, mimicking her senior’s tone.
“I think Xiao Ci still has a lot of room for improvement, like your pitch and breathing. Your English is so good, maybe you can try to find that feeling when you sing.”
Ji Ci stared blankly ahead, as if she was listening and also not listening at all.
Bai Yueli looked at her expression and softly called out with a smile: “Xiao Ci?”
Ji Ci remained motionless.
“Are you angry?”
Ji Ci glanced at her and gave her a “guess” expression.
“You’re not happy when I praise you, and you’re not happy when I tell you the truth. What do you…” Bai Yueli chuckled helplessly: “What do you want me to do?”
“How about this?” Ji Ci knew when to quit and smiled brightly: “Senior, you sing a song for me.”
Bai Yueli immediately shook her head: “I can’t. My singing is terrible.”
Ji Ci didn’t believe it at all. Her voice was so pleasant to listen to; even if she was off-key to the South Pole, it couldn’t be bad.
“Just try a…”
Just as she was about to speak, the tall school doctor walked over. He checked the IV drip, ready to remove the needle from Ji Ci’s arm. Her hand felt a momentary sting like an ant bite, and the school doctor took the supplies and left.
Her hands, suddenly free to move, made Ji Ci feel briefly uncomfortable. She stretched her limbs and met her senior’s eyes.
Bai Yueli watched her round eyes roll, preparing for another one of her wild ideas.
….
“The air outside smells so much better,” Ji Ci took a deep breath, stretching comfortably. She even smelled the scent of Haagen-Dazs in the green grass of the park.
Bai Yueli looked at her helplessly. Taking an ill person for a walk so late at night made her feel truly guilty.
Unconsciously, they had walked to the vicinity of the woods. Bai Yueli looked at Ji Ci in surprise, not knowing her intentions.
“Do you come here often, Xiao Ci?” she asked with a smile, feigning nonchalance.
This area had streetlights, but if they went further, it was a dark, shadowy space. The ground was dotted with stars of light, and the sound of the night wind rustling the leaves could be heard.
Ji Ci’s smile stopped with that question.
Why did she end up walking to this place?
After thinking about it, she felt there was no need to look overly guilty.
Bai Yueli was in her heat cycle that night, and an Omega’s consciousness becomes blurred during their heat. And the streetlights nearby weren’t very bright that night. Who would know who it was in the dark?
“Occasionally,” Ji Ci smiled brightly. “I don’t go out much, and it’s not on my way home, so I rarely come here. But I know such a place exists.”
Bai Yueli nodded thoughtfully: “Is that so?”
She comes here occasionally, but she happened to be here that one time. It must really be fate.
“Mm-hmm,” Ji Ci said, looking innocent. She didn’t know that her senior had already thought of everything.
She took a step forward, and just then, Bai Yueli stopped her.
Ji Ci looked at her in surprise: “?”
They were behind a row of bushes. Bai Yueli gently pushed her head down until it was level with the top of the bushes.
She placed her slender index finger to her lips, gesturing for silence, and at the same time, pointed to a large camphor tree ahead.
Ji Ci followed her gaze.
She saw a man and a woman entangled there, neither too far nor too close. Ji Ci was completely baffled. She didn’t know Bai Yueli’s intention, and she didn’t know these two people at all.
“Who are they, Senior?” Ji Ci asked in a whisper, her eyes wide.
“You don’t know?” Bai Yueli looked at her in surprise, whispering.
Ji Ci shook her head.
“You said you deleted all her contact info? Why did you still like her post? Hmm?” The girl’s hysterical voice clearly reached them.
The boy was grabbed by his wrist. He took a deep breath patiently, lowering his voice: “Xiao Xin, I’ve already explained this to you. If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing I can do.”
“Give me your phone.”
“I think you need to…”
Before long, Fan Kexin had forcefully snatched the phone from the boy’s pocket. The faint light from the screen illuminated her face. Her brows were tightly furrowed as she scrolled through the phone.
Finally, she found something. Her face sank. The boy tried to grab the phone back, but she waved her hand to block him.
“Heh,” Fan Kexin sneered: “You even sent her a goodnight message?”
“Zhang Muran, don’t you look in the mirror? Who the hell do you think you are? Do you really think she’ll respond to you? Without me, she wouldn’t even know who you are.”
“An Omega of her rank is very promiscuous. You think adding your contact info means she’s interested in you? Do you know how many people she’s been with privately? She’s just a damn public bus. Why do all of you like her?!”
“Have you made enough of a scene?” Zhang Muran snatched his phone back. His force was so great that he almost knocked Fan Kexin to the ground.
Fan Kexin staggered a few steps, barely steadying herself. Her face was filled with shock and disbelief as she looked at Zhang Muran.
The boy was ultimately soft-hearted. The anger in his eyes instantly subsided. “I, I didn’t mean to.”
Fan Kexin bit her lip. Her state was already very unstable, as if she could snap at any moment.
Before the storm could break, Bai Yueli patted Ji Ci on the shoulder and mouthed the words: “Let’s go.”
Ji Ci’s hands had unconsciously clenched. She was fully into the show, but meeting Bai Yueli’s eyes, she understood. Her hands slowly relaxed, and she followed her senior, remaining silent.
At first, she really didn’t know who these two were.
But then the boy called the crazy woman “Xiao Xin,” and the name Fan Kexin automatically popped into her mind.
And the “her” that Fan Kexin was talking about was definitely Bai Yueli.
When she read the novel, she might have had some prejudice against the female lead, and her favorite characters didn’t appear in the first half of the book, so she wasn’t very invested.
Her first impression of the character Fan Kexin was probably that she was Ji Feng’s right-hand guard. Ji Ci remembered that she could completely understand Fan Kexin’s hatred for the female lead at the time, because in her mind, the female lead was… well, she was the female lead of a romance novel after all. It wasn’t as bad as Fan Kexin made it sound, but it was close enough.
Now that she had transmigrated, every character’s actions were playing out right in front of her. Especially after spending time with Bai Yueli, she found the female lead much more likable than her character in the novel.
When she heard those slanders just now, she felt genuinely angry for Bai Yueli, as if she was the one being insulted.
She thought that when Bai Yueli took her away, she would at least complain to her or discuss a way to fight back. Who, after being slandered like that, wouldn’t want to find someone to vent to or talk about revenge?
She was wrong after all.
They walked for a long time, in complete silence.
Ji Ci secretly watched Bai Yueli’s profile. The gentle breeze ruffled her hair. Her face was calm, and her soft breaths blended into the night air.
“Senior…?” Ji Ci finally couldn’t hold back and called out softly.
“Hmm?” Bai Yueli looked at her, as calm and gentle as usual.
“Aren’t you angry?” Ji Ci spoke with increasing passion, adding: “She said all those things about you, aren’t you angry?”
Bai Yueli smiled: “You said you didn’t know her, so how do you know she was talking about me?”
Ji Ci: “…”
“She’s already angry enough. If I argue with her, wouldn’t I be just like her?” Bai Yueli smiled and murmured: “People who are controlled by their emotions only hurt themselves and the people who care about them.”
“But…” Ji Ci mumbled: “Doesn’t she have to pay a price? Even just scolding her or hitting her would make you feel better.”
“Ji Ci,” Bai Yueli suddenly thought of that phone call earlier. That night, she might have redefined herself: “I’m not a very tolerant or generous person. The reason I’m so calm is that I don’t think it’s worth getting worked up over.”
Ji Ci: “…”
Okay.
Then get worked up over me and turn on me, okay?
As the two of them walked and talked, they had already passed the dark woods, but now they were turning back, not knowing who was leading the way. They gradually walked back in…
Ji Ci reacted first. When she realized something was wrong, a tree branch on the ground tripped her. She instinctively grabbed Bai Yueli’s sleeve.
“Ahhh!”
No matter how calm Bai Yueli was, she was still just an Omega. Her strength wasn’t enough to stabilize an Alpha. She staggered a few steps before she could barely steady herself.
Ji Ci sighed in relief, pulled out her phone, and turned on the flashlight. Ji, who never swore, cursed for the first time. She had been thwarted by this thing so many times that she was determined to get rid of it today.
Bai Yueli looked at her childish actions and chuckled softly, stopping her: “Why are you arguing with a tree branch?”
Oh, right.
“…” Ji Ci was instantly embarrassed.
Ugh, she had just tried to pull it out, but it wasn’t a simple tree branch. She was willing but powerless. When she becomes as rich as a nation in the future, she will definitely get rid of this thing.
Ji Ci had just stood up when her wrist was suddenly clasped by something soft and warm. She subconsciously turned her head, only to find Bai Yueli right beside her.
Her clear eyes weren’t hidden even in the darkness. Their noses were just a hair’s breadth away from touching. The air from her senior’s mouth puffed out onto her face, causing a tingling sensation.
“Do you smell something?”
The back of Ji Ci’s neck tingled for no reason. She was stunned. This distance made her feel uncomfortable: “Wha, what?”
“Xiao Ci,” Bai Yueli stared at her: “I think you’re leaking pheromones.”
Author’s Note:
The bite is happening now…