After Transmigrating as the "Green Tea" Fake Heiress, I Got My Happy Ending with the Real Heiress - Chapter 26

Chapter 26

Ruan Yu’s guess made Wen Yun pause. When she registered what was said, she blurted out, “No way! They’re just cats. The whole point of a pet is happiness. To make even this about hierarchy and social status? They must be obsessed!”

“Who knows,” Ruan Yu murmured.

Just like she could never figure out why her birth parents despised her so much. Even after being reborn, she could barely feel any genuine care from them.

Sensing Ruan Yu’s sudden low mood, Wen Yun quickly comforted her, “Don’t take it to heart! Didn’t He Sheng say today that if your family won’t allow it, you can leave the cat with her? I saw that little tortoiseshell really liked her; she’ll definitely treat the cat well!”

Ruan Yu gently acknowledged her with an “Mm.”

“You’re going to college in a year anyway. If you don’t like staying with your parents, study hard and go somewhere far away,” Wen Yun continued. “We can apply to universities in the same city. If you want to keep a cat then, we can rent a pet-friendly apartment off-campus and live together for four years, free and easy. If you don’t want to work, you can study hard for a master’s degree, finish school, and get two or three more years of studying in, and you won’t get scolded.”

“…Is that really possible?” Ruan Yu asked in surprise, her eyes showing disbelief.

“Why not?” Wen Yun countered with a smile. “You’re an adult now. You have hands, feet, education, and you’re very good at taking care of yourself. Why can’t you have your own choices and leave a place you don’t like? Besides, didn’t your dad personally give you the right to choose?”

Ruan Yu stared at her blankly, as if she’d been struck by lightning, not moving.

Wen Yun didn’t rush her; she just smiled and slipped a red pen into her hand, waiting for her to come to her own realization.

When she read novels, she often felt that many characters lacked their own career plans.

For instance, the love-struck heroine would constantly revolve around the scumbag, humbling herself to the dust, enduring emotional and physical abuse, instead of focusing on how to love herself, become better and better, and build her own little safety net.

They could clearly achieve a beautiful future through their own hard work.

However, the novel she transmigrated into, The Wealthy Family: The Real Daughter’s Counterattack, might be an exception.

If the entire environment was filled with malice, and not a single normal person was willing to reach out to the protagonist, where effort only led to despair, then it would truly be better to just lie flat.

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“…Will you leave the Wen family with me?”

After an unknown amount of time, Wen Yun heard Ruan Yu ask in a low voice.

The red pen in Ruan Yu’s palm was tightly clenched. The girl kept her head down, seemingly afraid to look at her.

Wen Yun was stunned.

In that instant, she even wondered if the protagonist had exhausted all her courage to ask such a question.

Yet, she felt the protagonist was no longer a timid person, which was the crux of the matter—since she was no longer timid, why couldn’t she look her in the eye and ask boldly?

She couldn’t figure it out, feeling confused, but quickly nodded and agreed: “Barring any unforeseen circumstances, I want to leave the Wen family with you.”

She certainly didn’t like staying in this house. The Wen parents’ educational philosophy was already twisted, so it was no wonder the original owner had become so blackened that she wanted Ruan Yu to simply disappear.

She saw the girl lift her head, her gaze incredibly complex, but then she nodded earnestly and said, “Then I’ll have to think of more ways.”

Wen Yun: ?

However, she quickly realized what Ruan Yu’s “ways” meant.

Looking at the stack of math review materials placed by her hand, Wen Yun could barely hold her pen steady.

Her thinking wasn’t wrong, though; as long as Wen Yun’s math scores were excellent, she wouldn’t have to worry about getting into a good university.

Because of the agreement with the protagonist, Wen Yun lost even her slacking-off time on the weekends. While Ruan Yu practiced piano or painted, Wen Yun was in her own room staring blankly at the advanced math problems in the “Five-Three” exercise book, relying on the refreshing black tea item to sustain herself.

In the blink of an eye, it was Monday of the following week. There were three days of class before the long National Day holiday.

During the Monday morning assembly, Wen Yun saw Luo Qin and Zheng Jiafei again.

First came the grade director’s public criticism, then they took turns reading their letters of regret, and finally, they bowed and apologized to Ruan Yu in front of the entire school. Only then did the matter conclude.

The grade director was the serious Teacher Mo. At first, Zheng Jiafei’s voice was very quiet, and she was sternly reprimanded with a “speak louder,” forcing her to shout as she reread her letter:

“I am so sorry, Ruan Yu! I should not have insulted you repeatedly just because you are a transfer student from the countryside! And I should not have hidden my ID card in your school bag and accused you of theft just because I was jealous of your grades! All of this was my mistake, I fully recognize my error, and I will never do it again! I am now apologizing to you in front of all the teachers and students of Langying. I don’t ask for forgiveness, only to admit my mistake!”

Wen Yun stood below. When Zheng Jiafei finished reading her letter of regret, and she heard Luo Qin loudly read the words “I should not have instigated Student Zheng Jiafei,” she couldn’t help but sneer, causing a few surrounding girls to instinctively look at her.

In contrast, she felt that Zheng Jiafei sounded more genuinely remorseful. She even wiped away tears as she read, truly appearing to be making a sincere apology.

After apologizing, Zheng Jiafei’s eyes were red. She glared fiercely at Luo Qin before clutching her letter of regret and walking off the stage.

Wen Yun watched her back retreat and suddenly recalled a scene from the school sports day in late October in the original novel, which featured this character.

Zheng Jiafei had even earned two silver medals for the class as an athlete in the 800-meter run and shot put. At that time, people submitted broadcast requests to cheer her on, people helped and crowded around her after she crossed the finish line, and boys who admired her brought her water and a towel.

With one misguided decision, she had lost a bright future.

Wen Yun couldn’t help but close her eyes, her heart pounding. A complex mix of pity, guilt, relief, gratification, and even sadness surged up.

The feeling of contributing to the destruction of someone else’s future was not pleasant.

She hoped that such an event would never happen to Ruan Yu and herself again.

Zheng Jiafei had been expelled, and Luo Qin had also left the school as she was still in her reflection period.

The heat of the incident did not spread further. After the assembly dispersed, school life resumed as normal.

The scores for all subjects in the monthly exam were released. Since Langying did not prohibit rank disclosure, the math teacher projected the report card directly onto the screen as soon as class started today.

“Compared to the end of last semester, some students’ scores have noticeably dropped,” the math teacher said, looking at Wen Yun.

Wen Yun had started to feel nervous as soon as the report card appeared. She immediately felt awkward at the comment.

There was no helping it. The gap between her math score and the original owner’s was too large. Despite cramming in time to study hard for a month, she couldn’t return to the original owner’s level.

Fortunately, the math teacher saved face for her and the other students whose scores dropped, mentioning it only briefly before turning off the report card and starting to go over the test paper.

Wen Yun remembered Ruan Yu saying that besides the three mock exams, the monthly and mid/final-term exams were the most important. She quickly used the “I Can Understand Everything in This Math Class!” item she had drawn earlier.

Since the item was expensive, she had to wait until class to use it. She felt like her mind was suddenly opened up. She could follow the teacher’s thought process completely, without the usual feeling of struggle and helplessness that would occasionally creep in!

Of course, the enhancement effect only lasted until the end of this math class. It wore off as the bell rang, and the teacher was still explaining the final major problem. Wen Yun was instantly returned to her usual state of confusion.

Finally, when the math teacher left the classroom, Wen Yun looked down at her completely filled notebook and felt a little relieved. She then opened her attribute panel to check her survival time and started agonizing over whether to save up 88 Green Tea Points to exchange for the math class item again.

The item was too effective, and the problem-solving concepts learned while the effect was active were retained. For her, it was an epiphany.

But she was highly resistant to frequent Green Tea Talk. Even if she could just read the template, it was the original owner’s distinctive way of handling things. If it weren’t for exchanging for the life extension item, she wouldn’t want to utter a single green tea sentence!

“You understood everything?”

Just then, she heard He Sheng ask.

“No,” Wen Yun lied without batting an eye. “Some problems are just too hard; I couldn’t understand them at all.”

He Sheng rested her chin on her hand, scrutinizing Wen Yun back and forth, then nodded, saying seriously, “Don’t force yourself. Don’t crave problems beyond your ability.”

Wen Yun: “…”

She felt that the remark was either mocking her or subtly reminding her of something.

However, her deskmate’s way of speaking was always a bit eccentric and occasionally displayed Chuunibyou tendencies. Maybe she was simply trying to comfort her.

When Wen Yun went to the restroom, she passed the back of the classroom and saw Su Manying discussing the solution to the last major problem with Ruan Yu.

She couldn’t help but listen for a while, noticing Ruan Yu’s voice and tone were distinctly cold and indifferent, a world away from how she taught Wen Yun math at home.

But she could understand the reborn protagonist’s resentment toward the former best friend who abandoned her in the previous life. If it were Wen Yun, she might not be able to remain enthusiastic and act as if nothing had happened to such a person either…

Thinking this, Wen Yun suddenly paused her steps.

Since Ruan Yu was like this with others, why was she so enthusiastic and dependent on Wen Yun, who had undergone a personality change?

She had been pondering this question for a long time but still hadn’t reached a conclusion. Every time, she could only attribute it to her genuine kindness toward Ruan Yu. Even though this kindness was conditional on the premise of “this helps me survive,” her care for Ruan Yu was never mixed with bad intentions.

Moreover, the girl’s temperament, personality, and driven nature appealed to her. Even though she particularly hated math, she was willing to be held down in the room by Ruan Yu, working on timed problems and having her thinking corrected bit by bit.

However, this time, based on her agreement with Ruan Yu last week, she had another guess.

Could the protagonist, like herself, be kind to her for a specific purpose?

Just as Ruan Yu said that day, after high school graduation, she wanted to leave the Wen family with her. After all, two people were always better than one.

Thinking about it that way, it seemed quite logical.

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