After Transmigrating as the "Green Tea" Fake Heiress, I Got My Happy Ending with the Real Heiress - Chapter 20

Chapter 20

It was English class. After the head teacher finished talking about the in-person confirmation of elective subjects, she asked the media committee member to start the computer and load the courseware.

The shouting match was temporarily over. Everyone returned to their seats, and Wen Yun breathed a sigh of relief. She lifted her desk lid and looked for the English test paper she had done last time.

“You’re quite good at swearing,” He Sheng’s lazy voice drifted over, light and airy. “Though your reaction time is incredibly slow.”

Wen Yun recalled the contents of her outburst and awkwardly chose silence.

She had overthought too much, missing the best opportunity to retaliate. After her emotions erupted, she swore without restraint, blurting out everything she had wanted to say.

However, whether it was because her insults were too bizarre or her reaction today was too different from the original owner’s, startling people, Luo Qin and Zheng Jiafei didn’t bother Ruan Yu again for the entire morning.

When it was the usual time to go to the cafeteria, Wen Yun, as usual, went to fetch Ruan Yu to walk together, reminding her to carry her ID card with her.

“Are you afraid they might steal my ID card?” Ruan Yu suddenly asked as they left the classroom.

“More or less,” Wen Yun nodded. “Although the classroom has surveillance, and there are ways to recover or replace the card, it’s better to avoid trouble. It’s best to be cautious before the major exams.”

“You are so thoughtful for me,” Ruan Yu emphasized with a smile. “But, you don’t seem to be worried at all that others will notice the difference in you.”

“I should worry about that, too,” Wen Yun knew what she was referring to and accepted the comment helplessly. “I can only say that humans are not machines. Even if you want to become another person, the personality and habits shaped by past experiences cannot be completely changed in a short time.”

She paused. “Especially when it’s a person I fundamentally disagree with.”

As the time they spent together increased, and after roughly familiarizing herself with Ruan Yu’s personality, Wen Yun couldn’t help but try to mention some things about herself to her.

If she really had to live in this world for the rest of her life, at least she would have one person around who she could share her thoughts and feelings with.

Whenever they talked about such topics, they were like two people speaking in riddles.

This was technically pushing the boundaries of the System’s rules, but since the System never issued a warning, she grew bolder in what she said.

After hearing her words, Ruan Yu was silent for a few seconds. “Since you disagree with her, why did you become her and not someone else?”

Wen Yun was choked by the question. If she could choose, she wouldn’t want to become Wen Yun, the malicious green tea, either!

“I’m constrained, so I can only accept it and make the best of it,” she answered with a sigh. “Didn’t you just say it yourself? If I don’t become her, people familiar with her will find something unusual.”

Ruan Yu parted her lips, intending to ask why she dared to open up to her so completely, but the words halted on her tongue.

This was probably… not the question to ask at this stage.

Wen Yun didn’t know that the girl had actively pulled back. She changed the subject and asked, “Let’s not talk about that. Tell me how you plan to deal with Luo and Zheng.”

Luo Qin and Zheng Jiafei were completely different from Lin Qiqi; they belonged to an entirely hostile antagonist camp. After listening to their verbal jabs at Ruan Yu this morning, Wen Yun’s mind was full of ways to shut them down, preferably by having the protagonist trample them underfoot.

Of course, she would never voice such malicious thoughts to the protagonist, and even her question was phrased delicately.

“I won’t provoke them actively, but I will use my strengths to make them unhappy,” Ruan Yu said in a low voice. “I will achieve good results in the exam at the end of the month.”

“That’s my girl!” Wen Yun applauded.

Ruan Yu was amused by her exaggerated praise but couldn’t help but ask, “If I couldn’t play the piano, would you think I was a bookworm?”

“Is there any necessary connection between the two?” Wen Yun was puzzled. “In your previous school, were you called a ‘bookworm’ because you couldn’t play the piano?”

“…No.”

“Then that’s all there is to it,” Wen Yun said, patting her back reassuringly. “It’s enough that you are clear about the path you are committed to. That is the career you truly want to pursue for life. Everything else is just a hobby. Having them is nice, but not having them is fine, too. When your peers make a fuss about it, just see it as them being unable to score higher than you, so they try to find a sense of superiority in other areas to fill their inferiority complex.”

As an outsider who had left school life many years ago, Wen Yun was thoroughly jaded about these petty student rivalries.

Honestly, they had too much time on their hands, with not many pressures outside of academics. Instead of focusing on gossiping about others and spreading rumors, they should use the time to solve a few more math problems to clear their heads.

Wen Yun had planned to have some hot beef noodles for lunch today, but as soon as she arrived at the cafeteria, she was informed that the power was out and being fixed, so the stoves couldn’t be used. She had no choice but to go to the buffet with Ruan Yu.

After lunch, Ruan Yu returned to the classroom. The moment she sat down, she checked her desk and school bag thoroughly.

There were indeed signs of them being rummaged through. Although nothing was missing, a very important item had been added to her school bag.

Ruan Yu was used to such things. She pretended nothing had happened, calmly closed her desk, lightly touched the surveillance camera already installed on the wall, took out her phone, and started drafting a message.

Yuyuchi: “My desk and school bag were both rummaged through.”

Cloud: “??? They actually dared to steal?!”

Ruan Yu didn’t reply. She opened the automatically saved surveillance video on her phone and began taking screenshots. She gently tapped the desk with the fingernail of her other hand, patiently waiting.

Cloud: “I think we should apply to install a camera on the wall next to your seat. A close-up shot, clear as day. If they dare to steal again, we’ll leak the clear photos and videos of the crime! I’ll talk to my parents when I get back. Let’s align our story: just say the Luo and Zheng families colluded to cause trouble, and you are just trying to protect yourself!”

Seeing that the other person’s thoughts coincided with hers, Ruan Yu’s lips curved slightly. She sent a cute rabbit-nodding emoji that said “Mm,” put away her phone, and looked up at the back of the other person’s head.

After watching for a while, she lowered her head and took out her Chemistry proficiency practice test, working through the problems one by one.

At 2:30 PM, the Biology class was halfway through, with the teacher still calculating the probability of black-bodied, white-eyed offspring appearing after fruit fly cross-breeding, when the teacher responsible for confirming the elective subjects knocked on the door.

The whole class was prepared. They immediately took out the documents and certificates they needed to bring and stood up one after another. Students whose seats were easy to access and who moved fast were already walking toward the classroom door.

However, before they could leave the room, someone suddenly exclaimed, “Where’s my ID card?!”

“Zheng Jiafei, what’s wrong?” the Biology teacher quickly asked.

“My ID card is missing!!” Zheng Jiafei raised her voice. She sounded like she was about to cry. “I still saw it in my drawer this morning!”

Zheng Jiafei’s shout made Wen Yun jump, feeling the lines were eerily familiar.

A few seconds later, she vaguely recalled a similar plot point happening on this day in the original novel. The missing ID card was ultimately found in the most inconspicuous layer of Ruan Yu’s school bag.

Only, the person shouting in the original novel was Lin Qiqi, and the person who deliberately put the ID card into Ruan Yu’s school bag during the sudden power outage at noon when the surveillance was down was also Lin Qiqi. Now, because Lin Qiqi was firmly on the protagonist’s side, the participants in the plot had changed.

This “ID card theft” incident was also the source of Su Manying’s suspicion and disappointment towards the protagonist later on.

Most of the students had already left the classroom. Besides Wen Yun and Ruan Yu, only the Biology teacher, the class president, and a few students friendly with Zheng Jiafei were still in the classroom, as the in-person confirmation was more important.

But Zheng Jiafei didn’t stop her performance just because the audience was small. Instead, she acted even harder, frantically pulling open her school bag layer by layer, her face flushed with anxiety.

“Calm down!!” The class president placed a hand on her shoulder. “Think carefully about where you took it today!”

“I didn’t take it anywhere!” Zheng Jiafei’s eyes drooped, and genuine tears flowed out. “Where could it be!”

Wen Yun felt somewhat numb watching the self-directed play. Just as she was thinking about how to expose the act, she heard Ruan Yu’s unhurried voice ask, “You personally put the ID card away. How could you not know where it went?”

“What do you mean?!” Zheng Jiafei immediately shot her a look, scrutinizing Ruan Yu. She suddenly seemed to realize something and shouted furiously, “You did it, didn’t you?!”

As she spoke, she angrily left her seat and headed toward Ruan Yu. During this time, Luo Qin made a symbolic gesture to stop her, “failed to hold her back,” and had to chase after Zheng Jiafei.

“…What on earth happened between you all?” The Biology teacher was completely confused, sensing the wrong atmosphere. He quickly walked off the podium, sending a message to the head teacher while nervously watching the few people, ready to separate the two sides at any moment.

Zheng Jiafei aggressively walked up to Ruan Yu, grinding her teeth: “I just spoke a few truths this morning. Did you have to steal my ID card?!”

“That’s what I should be asking you,” Ruan Yu said calmly, sitting in her seat and looking up slightly. “I just spoke a few truths this morning. Did you have to frame me by saying I stole your ID card?”

“I framed you?! Then do you dare to let me check your—” Before Zheng Jiafei could finish her sentence, she saw the girl raise her right hand. Clamped between her index and ring fingers was Zheng Jiafei’s ID card!

“You don’t need to check yourself.” Ruan Yu curled her fingers. Her voice was gentle and relaxed, with no hint of aggression. “I’ve already helped you retrieve your ‘missing’ ID card.”

“How can you be so arrogant?!” Zheng Jiafei exclaimed. “Stealing someone’s ID card and being so self-righteous about it?!”

She immediately reached out to snatch it, but an arm suddenly blocked her, nearly hitting her and making her stagger back two steps.

“The professional eavesdropper is losing her cool so fast and switching to being a professional slanderer?” Wen Yun stood directly in front of Ruan Yu, coldly sneering in sarcasm. “Calling it ‘stealing’ over and over. Since you’re so certain that my Xiao Yu stole your item, I assume you can provide decisive proof, right?”

“She took the ID card out herself! Isn’t that ironclad evidence?” Luo Qin walked up to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Zheng Jiafei and loudly retorted.

Wen Yun lightly clicked her tongue internally. She glanced at the Biology teacher beside her. Just as she was about to read from the Green Tea Talk template, she suddenly heard a soft chuckle from behind her:

“Teacher, I have evidence to prove my innocence.”

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