What to Do, I've Been Targeted by the Villain Again [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 33

Everything around them resumed its flow, and the chopsticks suspended in mid-air clattered onto the table.

Xu Sangning quickly turned off the alarm and, while eating, wrote a complaint letter.

Ji Tangmian watched the smile reappear on Xu Sangning’s face and deliberately reached out to hold her hand.

“Don’t just focus on eating. Let’s light a candle first,” Ji Tangmian said.

“I’ll go find a lighter,” Xu Sangning tried to pull her hand away, but Ji Tangmian yanked her back.

“I have one here,” Ji Tangmian awkwardly used her right hand to pull a lighter from her left pocket. She glanced at Xu Sangning before reluctantly letting go.

Xu Sangning: “…”

Ji Tangmian was becoming more and more brazen. Just how many points had she earned in the past hundred years to spend them so recklessly?

At the beginning of this world, weren’t they still following the script?

Ji Tangmian hadn’t initially been so bold in testing Xu Sangning’s reactions, but because she kept breaking character (OOC), her character points were completely deducted.

Once they were all gone, wasn’t it just free rein to OOC however she pleased? After all, there was nothing left to lose.

This was what they called “smashing a cracked pot”—giving up entirely.

Ji Tangmian lit the numbered candle and looked at Xu Sangning. “Make a wish together?”

“Okay.”

“Don’t wish for us to never meet in future worlds,” Ji Tangmian warned.

Xu Sangning didn’t respond.

Of course, she hadn’t planned on making such a wish to begin with.

She was also very curious about the truth.

Who had erased those lost memories?

Xu Sangning had full confidence in certain aspects of her abilities.

She closed her eyes and silently recited in her heart: “Bless me with a promotion, a raise, and to become the director of the Quick Transmigration Bureau.”

Ji Tangmian glanced at Xu Sangning before closing her eyes as well.

“Bless Xu Sangning to remember everything soon, then fall madly in love with me. Oh, and for us to stay together forever.”

“Also, let a hundred million points rain down on me. Please.”

Xu Sangning opened her eyes and waited for Ji Tangmian to finish her wish before they blew out the candle together.

Ji Tangmian had cooked far too much for this meal, and there were plenty of leftovers. She stored all the dishes from the table into her personal space.

Xu Sangning watched with envy. She rarely bought props, especially ones that weren’t particularly useful for work.

Just where did Ji Tangmian get so many points?

Xu Sangning used her ability again.

She usually avoided using her abilities for fear of being discovered.

But she was too poor—poverty drove people to desperate measures.

Ji Tangmian looked at Xu Sangning in confusion. “What’s wrong?”

Then, as if realizing something, a hopeful smile reappeared on her face. “Do you want to whisper something to me? You always look like this when you’re about to tell me a secret.”

“What’s your base salary? How many extra points do you get for completing a world?” Xu Sangning asked bluntly.

Ji Tangmian blinked. “Fifty thousand points a month… and ten thousand per world.”

“Why do you get so much?” Xu Sangning’s jaw dropped. Her own base salary was just eight thousand a month, with a thousand points per world—and she had thought that was pretty high.

Turns out she just hadn’t seen enough.

Did the Quick Transmigration Bureau next door pay their villainess roles this well?

She had asked colleagues from her own bureau’s villainess department, and their salaries weren’t this high either.

“I don’t know either. When I entered, it was already like this. And before that, there was a bit in the system… seems like there were several hundred thousand.” Ji Tangmian looked at Xu Sangning blankly, “Do you have very little?”

What is called a critical hit to the heart.

This is called a critical hit to the heart.

A bit… several hundred thousand.

Xu Sangning closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and suddenly felt like she couldn’t understand Chinese anymore.

Thinking about what Ji Tangmian had said earlier, she suspected that “she” had given Ji Tangmian her identity and system when sending her away.

But she still didn’t want to believe she was that much of a love-struck fool. She wondered if it might have been an operational error or a bug, but Ji Tangmian was so certain that the two of them had deeply loved each other.

Xu Sangning’s mind had never been so chaotic before, and after learning about Ji Tangmian’s salary, it became even more chaotic.

“So, in a hundred years, you’ve never gotten a raise?” Xu Sangning opened her eyes again, spotting the issue.

The criteria for raises in the Fast-Travel Bureau were strictly regulated. A hundred years without any salary increase—how on earth had she managed that? It was almost a talent.

Ji Tangmian blinked and gave an awkward laugh.

“It’s a miracle you’ve kept this job,” Xu Sangning leaned back on the sofa, covering her face.

“I still work very hard,” Ji Tangmian pursed her lips. “And to be honest, I feel like my colleagues have been quite accommodating, so…”

Xu Sangning fell silent.

“Do you think the points in the system are a gift from heaven?” Xu Sangning looked at Ji Tangmian. “Have you never been curious about the system and identity issues?”

“Of course it’s your gift. Why would I think it’s from heaven? But I assumed you hacked it for me, since you always take unconventional paths…” Ji Tangmian blinked and sat down on the chair. “I didn’t use the points in the system. I used the ones I earned later. The several hundred thousand are still there.”

“So the system might be yours? No wonder it’s as sharp-tongued as you, but it doesn’t recognize you.” Ji Tangmian caught the implication in Xu Sangning’s words, her eyes welling up. “Sangning, you really do love me so much.”

Xu Sangning: “…”

Xu Sangning watched as Ji Tangmian prepared to pounce and dodged. Ji Tangmian smoothly took Xu Sangning’s previous spot, her expression unchanged, not the least bit embarrassed, just gazing at Xu Sangning with eager eyes.

Xu Sangning was silent for a long time before slowly speaking, “Try to look into it, but prioritize your safety…”

She glanced at Ji Tangmian’s moved expression and pressed her lips together.

Is there some kind of love-struck virus in this world?

“The system doesn’t know, probably because the system and the Fast-Travel Bureau are connected? Maybe I tampered with its programming.” Xu Sangning lowered her head, analyzing. “Be careful yourself. It’s not easy to evade the system’s mind-reading.”

“Though it’s also possible I was worried you were too dumb, so I wiped the system.” Xu Sangning rubbed her temples. She really needed to find a way to extract the system and examine it.

Ji Tangmian was still somewhat unreliable. In the last world, constrained by her character setting, she hadn’t seemed as unreliable, just a bit love-struck.

But in this world…

Ji Tangmian: “?”

“Speak your mind without attacking me. I’m not dumb. I just lose the ability to think when I see you.”

Xu Sangning tore open a small bread roll and stuffed it into Ji Tangmian’s mouth: “No more cheesy pickup lines, thank you.”

Ji Tangmian took the bread out, lowered his gaze, and sighed. “Actually, I used to be very serious. It’s just that we hold regular cheesy pickup line competitions…”

“That sounds exactly like something you’d suggest,” Xu Sangning said earnestly.

“Is that the point here?” Ji Tangmian looked up.

Xu Sangning looked puzzled.

“Forget it.” Ji Tangmian averted his eyes. “When I fell for you, I already knew what kind of blockhead you were… But still, you instinctively believed what I said. See? Deep down, you still feel close to me.”

Xu Sangning reflexively wanted to argue, but Ji Tangmian wasn’t wrong.

All her subsequent actions had been based on the assumption that Ji Tangmian wasn’t lying.

For a moment, she had doubted, but in the end, she had instinctively chosen to trust him.

Not wanting to dwell on it any longer with Ji Tangmian, Xu Sangning deactivated her ability and returned to her room.

Humming a cheerful tune, Ji Tangmian was in high spirits.

System: Something feels off to me.

Ji Tangmian: No, it doesn’t.

System: How did you teleport? Weren’t you just behind the table earlier?

Ji Tangmian: You must’ve lagged. I called for you for ages with no response. Thought you were slacking off. So you were here the whole time?

System: ???

System: Nonsense! I don’t lag.

Despite saying that, the system immediately requested a diagnostic check.

As Ji Tangmian passed by Xu Sangning’s door, he deliberately lingered for a few seconds before twirling back to his own room.

“Feeling so good today!”

System: Did you harass Xu Sangning again?

Ji Tangmian: Watch your words. Xu Sangning and I are mutually in love.

System: Hmph.

Ji Tangmian asked casually, as if it were an afterthought.

Ji Tangmian: Who taught you to be so sharp-tongued? Or were you born this way?