After Being Forced Into a Facial Paralysis, the Villain Said I’m Such a Drama Queen - Chapter 7

The next day, Su Tong sought out Da Hu and Er Wen to ask how things had gone the previous night.

Da Hu clutched his nose, feeling a sense of despair in his heart. However, for the sake of his future reputation, he stubbornly remained silent.

Er Wen thought for a moment and said, “The desired effect was achieved.” It was just that the two of them had been the ones scared out of their wits.

Da Hu glanced sideways at Er Wen, instantly catching his drift. “The person also cried.” Although, he was the one who had done the crying.

“The scene was quite tragic; she’s probably been left with a shadow.” Who would have thought that a girl who looked so thin and weak could lift him up with one hand?

At the thought of this, tears nearly welled up in Da Hu’s eyes again. His muscles felt like a pile of loose sand—no need for a breeze, they felt like they would scatter just by walking.

Because neither of them was lying, their expressions were genuinely sincere. After listening, a smile spread across Su Tong’s face. He pulled a hundred-yuan bill from his pocket. “Thanks, brothers. Take this hundred.”

Su Tong originally thought Da Hu and Er Wen would look at him differently and think him generous, unaware that this hundred yuan directly triggered their painful memories.

Handless chicken, my foot! She snatched two hundred and eighty-seven yuan straight from us!

Da Hu snatched the money away and snorted coldly, “This measly amount…” It wasn’t even half of what he had lost.

The more he spoke, the angrier he got, and the two of them walked away immediately.

Although Su Tong was somewhat unhappy, he felt much better thinking that Sheng Xia must be suffering from a great shock and in need of comfort. As long as he went over, she would surely beg him to stay.

However, her previous resistance still annoyed Su Tong. Realizing Sheng Xia didn’t have a phone, he simply wrote a small note and left it for her, thinking himself quite romantic.

He placed the note at the entrance of the convenience store, waiting for Sheng Xia to pick it up and be moved to tears. As it happened, she was lost in thought and stepped directly on it.

Su Tong gritted his teeth and wrote another one. This time, a gust of wind blew it directly onto a pile of dog feces.

After two such failures, Sheng Xia finally picked up the third note. She frowned deeply. “What kind of chicken scratch is this?” Even a dog’s paw could draw better than this.

The ghosts in the livestream turned into Sherlock Holmes to crack the code of the “ghost drawings.”

Is that “Xia”? Maybe it means Little Xia?

Following that logic, the part after it should be Dongfang Plaza.

After a round of pictographic and associative analysis, they finally deciphered the note.

Little Xia, I know things haven’t been easy for you lately. Meet me tomorrow at 5:00 PM at Dongfang Plaza. I’ll help you.

Sheng Xia was eating ice cream and working through a workbook, wondering exactly which part of her life wasn’t going well.

With an extra two hundred yuan in her pocket, her days were practically blissful.

“Su Tong wrote this.” Seeing this “guilty conscience” behavior, she figured those two idiots yesterday were sent by him.

Setting aside the original host’s rose-tinted glasses, Su Tong had intended to control the original host for a long time. Setting up this little drama was his way of playing the savior so she would rely on him even more.

Thinking of this, Sheng Xia felt it wasn’t worth it for the original host. If it were before, she would have slapped Su Tong silly.

However, since he asked to meet, she happened to have an account to settle. Sheng Xia took a diary out of her backpack and recorded every cent Su Tong had borrowed, one by one, into a small notebook.

With that money, she could buy a cheap phone. Self-studying was too difficult to manage without one.

Sheng Xia arrived at Dongfang Plaza at 4:55 PM, showing basic etiquette by arriving five minutes early. After waiting for five minutes past the appointed time without seeing anyone, she prepared to leave.

Su Tong, who was hiding in the shadows wanting to make Sheng Xia wait a while longer, gritted his teeth seeing this. He cursed under his breath and ran out, carrying a skateboard to pose as a “youthful boy.”

“Sheng Xia, how can a girl be so impatient? If I hadn’t come, were you really going to leave?” Su Tong frowned, his tone displeased.

Sheng Xia lifted an eyelid. “Otherwise? Just stand here like an idiot?”

She didn’t want to waste words with him and said directly, “Senior, did you come here today to pay me back?”

This directness caught Su Tong off guard. “What money?” He hadn’t even asked Sheng Xia for money yet; how did she dare ask him to pay her back?

Moreover, Sheng Xia’s money had always been given to him. She never said it had to be returned. Even if he had said he was “borrowing” it at the time, shouldn’t she be sensible enough to treat it as a gift?

Sheng Xia could tell by his expression that he knew exactly what she was talking about but didn’t want to pay. She smiled. “Senior, you aren’t trying to deny it, are you? I remember when I got my paycheck a while ago, you said you wanted to buy me a gift to celebrate, and then you borrowed a sum of money from me, right?”

He wanted to buy her a gift but used her own money he truly treated her like a total sucker.

Sheng Xia flipped through her small notebook. “Two years ago during my high school entrance exams, Senior borrowed two hundred yuan from me, saying it was urgent. You never paid it back.”

Sheng Xia turned a page and pulled out a calculator in front of Su Tong, making loud clack-clack sounds. “In seventh grade, just as I finished collecting bottles to go home, Senior borrowed a hundred yuan from me to buy a workbook.”

“In eighth grade, it was your birthday, but your parents weren’t home. You wanted to borrow two hundred yuan to buy yourself a cake. I wasn’t going to count this, but since Senior insisted on paying it back, I had to record it.”

“Later, when I was working a summer job, you said you fell and needed medical fees. You borrowed eight hundred yuan in total. And after I started high school…”

Each sentence felt like a “taunt buff” to Su Tong, hitting him where it hurt. He burst out in anger, “Enough! Are you recording this so clearly because you think I’m the type to dodge debts?”

“If the shoe fits,” she said nonchalantly.

Looking at Su Tong, Sheng Xia felt the original host’s devotion was wasted. These accounts were all found in the original host’s diary. She had recorded them as “beautiful memories” of her life, unwilling to miss a single detail.

Because in the eyes of the original host, Su Tong who was willing to talk to her and share stories—was like a ray of light. Even when she realized he wouldn’t return the money, she never exposed him.

In her eyes, she was “borrowing love” from Su Tong. It was a transaction. Unfortunately, this transaction was never equal from the start.

“Sheng Xia, can’t you speak properly?” Su Tong frowned, feeling she was being SARCASTIC.

Sheng Xia laughed. Looking at the skateboard in his hand, she said with a grin, “Of course I can. But Senior, is the ‘gift’ you said you’d give me the skateboard in your hand?”

A prop used for showing off wouldn’t be cheap. The longboard Su Tong was holding was worth at least a thousand yuan.

Sheng Xia knew she wouldn’t get all the money back at once, but if she didn’t draw some blood from Su Tong today, this trip would be a waste.

She had him pegged. She calculated that the prideful Su Tong wouldn’t admit he hadn’t bought her a gift, and he also assumed she wouldn’t actually take it.

Sure enough, Su Tong thought Sheng Xia was giving him a way out. His expression softened, and he nodded, pretending to hand it over. “Yes, this is the gift I got for you. But you don’t really know how to skate, so it’s better if it stays with me.”

As he tried to pull it back, Sheng Xia reached out and snatched the longboard. “Who says I can’t skate?” Mine now.

Once the item was in hand, Sheng Xia threw out a “PUA” skill of her own: “Senior, you’re so inattentive and don’t care about my life, yet I’m still willing to talk to you. It’s truly your blessing.”

Su Tong’s smile instantly became strained. “You’re a girl, how could you possibly…”

Before he could finish, Sheng Xia waved her hand. “I love anything Senior gives me. Even if I can’t do it, I’ll treasure it.”

“I’ve got the item, so I won’t say more. Remember to give me the money later, Senior. It’s four thousand seven hundred and fifty yuan in total.”

Sheng Xia stepped onto the longboard and glided away, her movements crisp as she showed off a few tricks. She clearly knew how to skate very well.

Su Tong had come here today to make Sheng Xia apologize and then borrow more money. He didn’t expect to lose his “investment” and his skateboard.

“Sheng Xia! Come back here!!!”

Sheng Xia treated his shouts as background noise.

Strictly speaking, Su Tong wasn’t even a mini-boss in her eyes. The only person in this book she actually feared was Lu Wanxing.

The male leads like Murong Hanwen and the others were powerful and wealthy. They craved the female lead’s body, coveted her inheritance, gaslit her spirit, and destroyed her physically. They cared for nothing else. But when the female supporting character intervened, they usually chose to compromise.

The male lead’s white moonlight, the second male lead’s rival, the third male lead’s cousin… it could be said that everyone’s social network included a Lu Wanxing. Even as she transitioned from a supporting character to a villain, she was someone who could hold her own for years against the combined siege of multiple male leads.

To say such a terrifying person was a “love brain” was something Sheng Xia didn’t believe for a second. There were too many logical inconsistencies in the original plot; Sheng Xia only used it as a reference.

But thinking about how the original Lu Wanxing coveted the female lead’s parts from corneas to kidneys to her heart—Sheng Xia’s whole body began to ache. She hoped she would never encounter her in this life.

Behind her, Su Tong began to rage and even tried to chase her. Sheng Xia looked back stylishly and waved. “No need to see me off! Just remember to pay me back!”

She had her hair in a ponytail today, wearing her school uniform and riding the longboard. The wind blew through her hair, radiating youthful energy.

However, some inconsiderate person had dropped a banana peel in the middle of the road. Her skateboard wheel hit the peel, and she slid out uncontrollably.

Sheng Xia stumbled, trying to maintain her balance, and then thud she fell straight onto her knees. The AD Calcium Milk in her hand flew into the air, splashing everywhere, and the bottle landed right in front of her.

To be precise, it landed on the wheelchair of the woman in front of her. When she fell, she had grabbed the wheelchair to steady herself.

Sheng Xia looked up at this woman, who possessed a fragile, “broken” beauty. She was about to apologize when she realized her face had frozen again, and she remained kneeling on the ground.

A wheelchair. A major character.

Help! Isn’t this the female lead who wants to harvest my kidneys?!

Sheng Xia looked at the blanket on the woman’s lap and the puddle of milk staining it, and her vision went dark.

She had imagined their first meeting: when the female supporting character came to cause trouble, she would righteously declare that she had zero interest in the CEO, and even if there were a hundred bodyguards, she wouldn’t bow her head.

Now, looking at her literally kneeling on the ground, Sheng Xia slowly closed her eyes.

Thanks for the invite. Just kill me now.

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