Achieving A Happy Ending With The Tragic Female Lead [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 47

Su Mi turned her head to look at her, her slender brows furrowing slightly for a moment. “Why?”

“I think my current job is quite good,” Lin Nanyue said. “The colleagues are good, the boss is good, everything is good.”

Hearing the latter half of her sentence, Su Mi’s expression changed slightly. She couldn’t help but ask, “What kind of ‘good’ are you talking about?”

Last time, they let her, an intern, drink with a client until she was unconscious after that, it was constant late-night overtime.

According to the plot, the phone call Lin Nanyue just received was from a colleague playing dumb to shrug off responsibility, attempting to blame their own mistake on Lin Nanyue. Although Fang Qian eventually cleared her name, she still suffered a great deal of groundless grievance and accusation.

All of Fang Qian’s “care” for her was merely belated compensation. Su Mi didn’t understand what was so good about this cheap, lagging “goodness.”

Su Mi’s hands on the steering wheel tightened slowly. She took a deep breath, swallowing the words she had originally intended to say.

“Isn’t working anywhere the same?” Lin Nanyue sensed her subtle emotional shift. “And Professor Su, why do you want me to go to your friend’s place?”

When Lin Nanyue said the word “friend,” she emphasized it slightly.

Su Mi paused for a moment. “I just hope you can do well. It’s fine if you don’t want to go now.”

Lin Nanyue turned away and muttered softly, “I don’t want to go later, either.”

The voice was too faint for Su Mi to hear. At that moment, Su Mi suddenly had a moment of self-reflection: “Do you feel like I’m controlling too much?”

After all, to Lin Nanyue, Su Mi’s current behavior undoubtedly felt like an intrusion into her life decisions.

Lin Nanyue didn’t answer that question. Instead, she asked, “Professor Su, why are you so good to me?”

And was this kindness exclusive to her, or was she like this with everyone?

Remembering what Meiqiu (the system) had said earlier, about not appearing too impatient or overly concerned. Su Mi weighed her words carefully. “Our meeting was a stroke of fate. Besides, we are considered friends now, so I hope to help you where you need it.”

Lin Nanyue’s eyelids flickered slightly when she heard the word “friends.” She glanced at Su Mi, a faint sense of sourness rising in her heart, but she didn’t speak up to deny the claim.

However, she couldn’t help but wonder: if Professor Su said they were friends, then what kind of “friend” was that person from earlier?

Seeing that Lin Nanyue was no longer as gloomy as before, Su Mi’s mood lightened as well. “Is there anything you want to eat?”

Just as Lin Nanyue was about to speak, the phone in her hand rang again. The mood she had finally managed to build up began to dissipate. She stared at the phone but hesitated to answer.

“A work issue?” Su Mi asked.

Lin Nanyue nodded.

“Is it a problem you caused?”

Lin Nanyue shook her head. The data on the measurement drawings she submitted was correct. It was the other party who made an error during data entry, and the mistake wasn’t discovered until after construction began. The client was very dissatisfied, and the designer in charge of the project wanted to use her as a scapegoat to take the blame.

“Then let them solve it themselves,” Su Mi said. “Everyone is getting paid to work. Why should you pay for someone else’s mistake?”

Lin Nanyue showed a hint of hesitation. “But wouldn’t that be… inappropriate?”

“No.” Su Mi’s answer was crisp and absolute. In truth, she didn’t want Lin Nanyue to keep doing this job anyway, she wished she would leave sooner.

When the phone rang once more, Lin Nanyue hesitated for a moment before switching it to silent mode.

However, the meal Su Mi was planning never happened. Lin Nanyue seemed to be avoiding being alone with her, her behavior was so pointed that Su Mi could sense a deliberate attempt to keep a distance.

Su Mi, who was currently “staying in her lane,” watched the girl’s favorability levels fluctuate. She didn’t dare to cross the line too much.

After driving Lin Nanyue back to school, Su Mi handed her her things. “See you later.”

Lin Nanyue waved at her. “Goodbye, Professor Su.”

Su Mi originally thought they would just make another date, but the process was not smooth.

Lin Nanyue’s excuse was that she was busy preparing her graduation project and meeting her advisor, so she had no free time.

Usually, she would follow up with: “Next time for sure.”

Those four words were like a universal script, carrying countless ethereal promises and appointments.

The situation seemed to have hit a stalemate until a turning point arrived a few days later.

On the mountainside, hikers in small groups were steadily climbing the stone steps.

On the stairs, Yan Han rested her hands on her knees, shaking her head repeatedly. Her voice was weak as she said, “I can’t go on. Nanyue, you go ahead. I’ll rest here for a bit and catch up with you later.”

Lin Nanyue was also physically exhausted, but she looked at the mid-mountain platform not far above and didn’t want to give up just yet.

“Alright, then I’ll head up first,” she said, continuing to walk forward slowly.

Yan Han had dragged her here today, saying they needed to exercise. Since she happened to be free, she came along.

By the time she stepped onto the last stair, Lin Nanyue’s face was flushed a light pink, like a stray bit of rosy cloud touching the pure white sky.

Her eyes suddenly brightened as a vast vista unfolded before her. Faint mist swirled between the peaks, looking like a fairyland.

The depression that had accumulated in her heart over the past few days seemed to vanish for a moment, the messy thoughts troubling her faded away.

Just as she was about to find a better spot to view the scenery, her peripheral vision caught a familiar figure. She stopped to carefully identify the person’s back.

Until their eyes met, Lin Nanyue remained in a state of shock.

“Pro… Professor Su?”

To make movement easier today, Su Mi was wearing casual athletic wear. The soft fabric outlined her long, slender legs.

She walked up to Lin Nanyue to say hello. “What a coincidence.”

“…What a coincidence.” Lin Nanyue thought to herself that it was indeed too much of a coincidence. She never expected to run into the person she was trying so hard to avoid right here, especially after she had just told her a few days ago that she had no time. She almost wanted to find a hole in the ground to hide in.

“Professor Su, why are you here?” Lin Nanyue asked, bracing herself.

Su Mi: “I was free today and thought I’d get some exercise.”

Not likely.

The truth was that after being rejected several times, Su Mi had started seeking various solutions. She even stopped trusting Meiqiu’s judgments and turned to Song Lingyin instead. While Song Lingyin often seemed unreliable, she could be dependable in key moments.

Song Lingyin was incredibly sharp; she immediately guessed it was the young girl who had been in Su Mi’s car that day. Her intuition told her the girl was not “simple” to Su Mi.

“She isn’t your student, is she? Professor Su, are you making a move on a student? That’s a total breach of professional ethics.”

“No,” Su Mi denied.

Song Lingyin: “No what? Are you denying the first half of my sentence or the second half?”

Su Mi paused. “She’s not my student.”

Hearing this, Song Lingyin’s eyes practically curved into slits with laughter. She joked about Su Mi finally having “this day,” but didn’t forget to comfort her, saying that if Lin Nanyue really hated her, she would have blocked her a long time ago.

After listening to Su Mi’s story, Song Lingyin said, “You can’t just sit and wait. It’s like the knowledge you teach, does it just jump into your brain because it’s printed in a book? You have to at least walk over, pick up the book, and flip it open.”

Su Mi understood, though somewhat vaguely.

Song Lingyin couldn’t help but tell her. “With people, you have to cater to their interests. Nowadays, the easiest way to understand someone is through their social media ‘Moments.’ Well, except for yours, your Moments are cleaner than my kitchen counter.”

Su Mi took these words to heart. So today, she opened her WeChat Moments, which she hadn’t refreshed in ages and happened to see a new post from Lin Nanyue with a location tag attached.

There were quite a few people resting on the mid-mountain platform, but everyone mostly stood apart, minding their own business.

Su Mi leaned against a rock and brought it up as if casually: “You seem to have been avoiding me lately?”

Because of the awkwardness, Lin Nanyue, who had been looking into the distance, immediately turned her face. After a brief eye contact, she quickly looked away. “I haven’t.”

In fact, rejecting Su Mi hadn’t been as easy as it looked. Each rejection was accompanied by her own regret and reluctance, but she felt she had to do it.

She had already received enough things, and she was afraid she would start wanting even more special treatment from Professor Su.

Furthermore, it wasn’t right.

“But every time I asked to meet these past few days, you said you had no time.” Su Mi’s words were loaded with implication.

Lin Nanyue’s ears turned red. “I just feel… that I should maintain some distance from you, Professor Su, to avoid any misunderstandings.”

This made Su Mi overthink. “What do you mean?”

Lin Nanyue wasn’t willing to say it out loud. She turned her head away, looking unhappy. “I mean what I mean.”

Seeing Lin Nanyue like this, Su Mi showed a rare flash of panic. “You… you know about that matter?”

Fang Qian hadn’t been hovering around her lately, so she hadn’t paid it much mind.

Lin Nanyue lowered her head and, after a while, nodded. She pursed her lips and said, “Actually, I just heard about it. But the matter is so popular now; I doubt many people don’t know about it.”

Hearing this, Su Mi’s voice turned cold. “Who is spreading rumors?”

Lin Nanyue felt a chill from her tone, but also felt it was strange, weren’t those words spoken by Su Mi herself?

Not only did she say it personally to a drunk Lin Nanyue once, but she also said it in front of so many people later, and there was even a video captured as proof.

Lin Nanyue: “Anyway, it wasn’t me.”

“So you’re distancing yourself from me because of that?”

Lin Nanyue nodded.

Su Mi weighed her words. “But I can actually explain that matter. It’s not what you think.”

Lin Nanyue was stunned. “Explain what?”

“There’s nothing between us. Don’t believe those baseless words. If you feel uncomfortable, we can just continue interacting as we did before,” Su Mi said.

These words left Lin Nanyue completely confused. She didn’t know where to start asking.

“Besides, this is a matter between the two of us. There’s no need to care about the eyes of the world.”

“But… isn’t she your girlfriend?”

Su Mi hesitated. “…What?”

Lin Nanyue seemed to have thought of something, she took a small step back. “Are you… are you trying to have an affair?”

Su Mi: “…?”

No matter which version of her it was, her imagination was always the same.