After Transmigrating as the "Green Tea" Fake Heiress, I Got My Happy Ending with the Real Heiress - Chapter 16

Chapter 16

The moment Wen Yun realized the smear messages had all been posted by Lin Qiqi, she wanted to drag her out for a public, real-name apology.

No one is willing to easily forgive slander and defamation behind their back. Given the means, anyone would want the culprit to pay the price.

Even if Lin Qiqi’s attitude was perfectly repentant now, the damage was done. If this world hadn’t had her, the outsider, intervening, all the subsequent consequences would likely have hurt Ruan Yu repeatedly.

“Since Qiqi said so herself, then it should be in the main group,” Wen Yun said.

“Yes, yes! You don’t want my compensation, so a real-name apology in the official group should be fine, right?” Lin Qiqi quickly jumped in. She took out her phone while speaking and drafted the message. “I’ll show you when I’m done. If you think it’s acceptable, I’ll post it.”

Ruan Yu gently hummed in agreement and said no more.

The message was quickly drafted. Wen Yun read it and felt the apology was quite sincere, containing no hidden sarcasm or snark. She felt relieved.

With Ruan Yu’s permission, Lin Qiqi immediately posted the apology in the class group.

“This message is posted by Lin Qiqi herself. I apologize by my real name for taking the lead in anonymously insulting @Ruan Yu in other group chats and using side accounts to spread rumors and slander, which has caused a considerably negative impact on her. I promise this will not happen again, and I welcome supervision from all classmates and teachers!”

After posting, she slightly edited a few words and posted it again in the “Sneaky Observation Squad,” including a screenshot of the anonymous message history.

One second, the “Sneaky Observation Squad” was discussing which “other group chats” Lin Qiqi was talking about. The next second, they were completely stunned by the self-exposure. The chat, which usually hit 99+ messages per minute, fell instantly silent. No one knew if they were afraid to speak or just didn’t know how to respond.

Not long after the apology was posted, Lin Qiqi’s phone started dinging repeatedly, not stopping for a long time.

Lin Qiqi didn’t seem to care much and quietly muted her phone: “Sigh, it’s probably friends and family who saw the message and are rushing to ask. But I made a mistake and I should apologize. If someone else had talked about me like that behind my back, I wouldn’t let them off easily either!”

Ruan Yu ultimately did not accept Lin Qiqi’s watch. Even when Lin Qiqi changed her mind and said it wasn’t compensation for emotional distress but just a gift for meeting her, Ruan Yu insisted on not taking it.

Wen Yun could understand her reasoning.

First, Lin Qiqi’s past actions had indeed caused immense emotional trauma to Ruan Yu, who had lived a previous life, and a ten-thousand-yuan watch was far from enough to compensate for that.

Second, the so-called compensation for emotional distress instantly turning into a “gift” clearly showed that Lin Qiqi hadn’t truly grasped the severity of the problem. She was likely only willing to make a visible apology that damaged her reputation out of deference to the Wen family.

Ruan Yu’s repeated refusal embarrassed Lin Qiqi somewhat, and she finally had to put the watch back in her bag. She stood up to leave: “If there’s nothing else, I’ll head back now. My mom is waiting for me to eat! See you at school!”

Wen Yun also stood up. After seeing her off and watching her car leave, she returned to find Ruan Yu gone. She found her in the guest room, carefully locking the file Lin Qiqi had given her into a drawer.

“Are you satisfied with today’s outcome?” Wen Yun asked, standing at the doorway without entering.

Ruan Yu’s movement paused. She straightened up and asked softly, “If I said I wasn’t satisfied, would you still try to get a different result for me?”

The honorific “you” (nín) startled Wen Yun. She instinctively took a half-step back, her heart pounding, but her expression remained steady: “Yes, I guaranteed you yesterday that I would try my best to fight for whatever resolution you want.”

After she spoke, she saw Ruan Yu turn and look at her fixedly. After a few seconds, Ruan Yu finally said, “I’m satisfied.”

Startled like that, Wen Yun didn’t know how she managed to walk back to her room.

Although she had long known that, given her clumsy acting, she would definitely be recognized by the reborn protagonist one day, she hadn’t expected it to happen so soon!

However, Wen Yun never planned on becoming the second Wen Yun anyway. If it weren’t for the fact that Green Tea Talk was linked to survival time and she needed to seize opportunities to increase her Green Tea Value to survive, she wouldn’t bother speaking a single sentence that wasn’t true to her personality.

Wen Yun assumed this was the beginning of the reborn protagonist’s testing, but the following days passed peacefully. Ruan Yu didn’t question her in a probing tone again. Whether it was morning exercise, solving problems, showering, or having three meals a day, everything proceeded as normal.

Even the “Sneaky Observation Squad” was excessively quiet.

Wen Yun never added Ruan Yu to that group, but she vaguely suspected that the “old timers” in the squad who liked to cause trouble had created another group. After all, with Lin Qiqi exposing herself in the group, it was now “unsafe.”

The matter of Lin Qiqi’s public apology either didn’t reach the Wen parents’ ears, or they simply didn’t care about such things, even though Ruan Yu was the victim. In any case, up until the eve of the school opening, Wen Yun never heard them mention the matter at the dinner table.

“Mom and Dad’s concern is all a facade, huh!”

On the morning of the school opening, Wen Yun mumbled as she fixed Ruan Yu’s hair.

Ruan Yu, wearing her freshly ironed new school uniform, didn’t reply. She sat obediently in front of the dressing table, letting Wen Yun arrange her hair and clip on new barrettes.

After a few days of interaction, she realized that this person disliked both the Wen parents and the butler Aunt Ge, and would always try to find ways to extract benefits from them for her.

If she refused the benefits, the person would be troubled but still respected her choice. The person wouldn’t force anything on her that she didn’t want.

Ruan Yu had never met anyone like this. Her curiosity was unconsciously piqued, and she even started to deduce this person’s true age and experiences through her actions.

She tentatively and optimistically believed that Wen Yun wouldn’t return, so she wanted to learn as much as possible about the person who was currently there.

She wanted to know why she was so kind to her, and even more, why she chose to replace Wen Yun and not someone else.

She was used to living with a mask on in her previous life, so her disguise was excellent. Wen Yun was completely unaware of this, only feeling that the protagonist seemed a little closer to her since Lin Qiqi’s apology, and her expression wasn’t always a standard, polite smile anymore.

August 27th, the opening day for Senior 3 at Langying Foreign Language Academy. After finishing Ruan Yu’s hairstyle, the two left, got into the sedan, and drove toward the school.

“Your seat has been moved. It’s in the back row of the classroom, by the window.”

On the way, Wen Yun looked down at her phone and said, “If you’re ever inconvenienced sitting there or someone bullies you, be sure to tell me immediately, and I’ll go talk to the head teacher.”

“I can talk to the head teacher myself,” Ruan Yu quietly reminded her, slightly displeased.

Over the past few days, she often felt that some of this person’s occasional “concern” seemed to treat her like a child.

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