After Transmigrating as the "Green Tea" Fake Heiress, I Got My Happy Ending with the Real Heiress - Chapter 55

Chapter 55

The day after the college application deadline was Ruan Yu’s birthday, and also Wen Yun’s birthday in this world.

Because of He Sheng’s prior warning, Wen Yun felt nervous the moment she woke up. She was a little distracted while helping to decorate the small courtyard and accidentally nicked her hand on a leaf, drawing a sharp intake of breath.

Ruan Yu was trimming flowers not far from her. Hearing the sound, she quickly dropped her scissors and rushed over. “What’s wrong? Where are you hurt? Uncle Li! Yunyun is hurt!”

“It’s nothing, just a tiny scratch!” Wen Yun quickly waved her hands to stop her from calling the butler, turning on a nearby faucet to rinse the wound.

However, Uncle Li, the butler, had sharp ears. He rushed over and sincerely but tactfully persuaded them: “Young Misses, please go back to your rooms to rest. You are the birthday girls today; you shouldn’t be working!”

Since he put it that way, Wen Yun couldn’t refuse. She was gently ushered back to the room by Ruan Yu, and the faint scratch on her finger was quickly covered with a bandage.

“It wasn’t necessary, really not necessary,” Wen Yun said helplessly, looking at her bandaged finger, then meeting Ruan Yu’s concerned gaze.

After a few seconds of eye contact, Ruan Yu suddenly asked, softly, as if speaking to herself, “Guess what day today is for me?”

Wen Yun almost blurted out “your birthday,” but the words caught in her throat. Remembering the original novel’s BE point, she vaguely realized what Ruan Yu wanted to say. Frowning slightly, she shook her head: “I don’t plan to guess…”

“Because you’ve already guessed, haven’t you?” Ruan Yu interrupted, gripping her wrist tightly and looking seriously into her eyes. “I’ve always been afraid to say it, afraid that once you knew the truth, you’d be angry with me, that you’d think I was fake, evil, and a liar.”

“I won’t,” Wen Yun firmly shook her head.

She could understand Ruan Yu’s fear and pretense. If she were in Ruan Yu’s place, she would choose to do the same until she gained enough security from someone else.

“I know now that you won’t,” Ruan Yu smiled and continued calmly. “This day in my last life was both my birthday and my… death day.”

She said that since coming to the Wen family, she felt she had fallen from heaven to hell. The only remaining good memories were fake, a deception and a trap set by Wen Yun.

Her grandparents’ words before she left made her grit her teeth and endure, trying to keep a smile on her face despite everyone’s expressions of disdain and dislike.

“I asked myself more than once why I came back, why I was alive. But if I just died like that, I would be resentful, failing both myself and my grandparents.”

“But I was truly exhausted. Those last few months were pure torment every day… Only doing homework could make me forget the accusations thrown at me.”

“But mental numbness was only temporary. In my free time, or even in my dreams, I was constantly reliving what had happened, or imagining a worse future.”

“Actually, the moment I opened my eyes and realized I was on the way to the Wen family, I considered giving up.”

“I had already given up once. I felt indifferent to everything in this world.”

“Perhaps even fate couldn’t stand it anymore. I met you precisely before everything could even begin.”

As the girl spoke these words, Wen Yun involuntarily held her tightly in her arms, silently stroking her back in comfort.

In the beginning, she had been puzzled by the protagonist’s sudden willingness to be close to her.

Now, she realized that to the protagonist, any subtle change in the new timeline felt like a lifeline. Excessive vigilance, conversely, might have signaled a greater fear of loss.

Throughout the entire telling, the one who was truly nervous was Wen Yun. With every word Ruan Yu spoke about her past life, Wen Yun feared the System would suddenly pop out and warn them about violating the spatial-temporal rules, thereby triggering an unknown, terrifying punishment.

Yet, as Ruan Yu spoke, the System occasionally gave soft prompts that the Affection value was increasing.

By the time Ruan Yu finished her narrative, the Affection value had risen to 15614. Wen Yun quickly calculated in her head from memory and found that it had increased by exactly 999 points from the original base.

According to the System’s hint yesterday, it seemed the maximum Affection increase without using Mall items was also this number.

When the Affection value reached the full 19999 points, it would be her turn to reveal the truth to Ruan Yu.

Grandfather Wen was lavish with the birthday banquet. It started at noon, but this time, the only guests were He Sheng, Lin Qiqi, and their aunt, Ruan Ruilin.

It was Wen Yun’s first time meeting Ruan Ruilin—the aunt who didn’t even have a name in the original novel. Her demeanor immediately marked her as an accomplished elite, confident and elegant. Even when conversing with Grandfather Wen, she was open, composed, and neither humble nor arrogant:

“The apartment for the two girls has already been rented. There’s no need for the Wen family to pay for this small amount.”

…She even had a slight hint of assertiveness.

Grandfather Wen didn’t mind. He nodded with a smile and slowly said to Ruan Yu, “You should thank your aunt. If she hadn’t insisted on a paternity test, the Wen family wouldn’t have known we had you, our biological daughter!”

His words were subtly loaded with warning and caution, implying to Ruan Yu that “all crows are black”—that the woman before her was also an opportunist, and she should not completely trust her.

Wen Yun’s heart tightened upon hearing this, but Ruan Yu sincerely bowed and thanked Ruan Ruilin, making it unclear if she was deliberately pretending not to catch Grandfather Wen’s subtext.

Ruan Ruilin didn’t take the insinuation to heart. She said calmly, “You can both claim reimbursement from me for the plane tickets to C City. When you arrive at the C City airport, my people will pick you up and take you to the apartment.”

She had a meeting to attend in the evening, so she left before the birthday banquet was over to catch a 2 PM flight.

“Doing business is so busy!” Lin Qiqi sighed in the “cat room” after the meal. “Always flying around right on schedule. I couldn’t handle that!”

“Then why did you apply for Finance?” He Sheng complained while feeding the cat. “If you had chosen a liberal arts major like Yunyun, there’s a chance you’d only deal with books and scholars.”

Lin Qiqi mumbled, “But I’m not good at liberal arts…”

“You could also do scientific research. Biomedical engineering needs you! After graduation, there are projects that require traveling, but also fixed positions,” He Sheng added. “Or go into Animal Science. Didn’t you want to be a vet?”

Upon hearing this, Lin Qiqi actually considered it seriously and nodded: “Then I’ll study Finance for one semester and then think about whether to transfer.”

Ruan Yu quickly joined their conversation, leaving only Wen Yun constantly observing He Sheng’s every move.

However, He Sheng didn’t bring up the secret the entire afternoon. Wen Yun wasn’t sure if it was because there were outsiders present or because the original novel’s BE point hadn’t been reached yet.

Wen Yun waited patiently, taking the opportunity to exchange items from the System Mall, adding a “Wish Fulfillment Filter” and a “Couple’s Frame” to the drawings she had completed earlier.

She had to try her best to secure the 999 Affection points that a sincere gift could potentially provide!

Finally, night fell. A three-tiered, custom-made couple’s birthday cake was wheeled into the dining room. Several skilled housekeepers carefully inserted thirty-six candles into the cake.

The dining room had been festively decorated for the birthday celebration. Silver ribbons dangled from pink, white, and gold balloons. Fresh flowers filled the area near the seats, and smiling Lenai Bears could be seen everywhere on the windowsills and cabinets.

The candles were lit. Lin Qiqi, who had volunteered to be the “mood booster,” played the “Happy Birthday Song” and sang while clapping with He Sheng: “Happy Birthday to you~ Happy Birthday to you~”

Wen Yun put on a birthday hat and closed her eyes to make a wish as the song played.

She wished to be able to stay in this world forever, and that everything she sought from now on would be fulfilled.

Her final wish…

She thought seriously and quickly made her wish before the song ended.

—She wished that Ruan Yu would live a life of peace, joy, and freedom from worry from this day forward.

Ruan Yu wasn’t a fan of the cake-smashing game, so the large cake safely ended up in their stomachs.

Even though it was a custom-made, expensive cake, too much cream still felt heavy. Halfway through eating, Wen Yun excused herself to stroll in the small courtyard to digest and counteract the richness, all while waiting for He Sheng to come and tell her the truth.

As she walked, she checked the time. There were only three minutes left until the original novel’s BE point—the final moment of Ruan Yu’s life in the original story.

Those three minutes felt like three years. Only after the crucial moment had passed did Wen Yun see He Sheng appear at the entrance of the small courtyard.

In the next instant, He Sheng was standing in front of her.

“Let me congratulate you first, Role Stand-in,” He Sheng smiled at her, her voice especially steady. “You have won the reward of continuing to live in this small world. Once your Affection value meets the requirement, you can reveal your origins to the ‘World Core’ and apply to use your original name, without having to go through the name change procedure in this world.”

“I roughly expected this, but… who exactly are you?” Wen Yun couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“I am the administrator ‘Sheng’ of the Space-Time Administration Bureau, incarnated in a lower world, responsible for monitoring for any destabilizing factors that threaten the ‘World Core’,” He Sheng answered truthfully. “I sincerely apologize for one thing: because administrators cannot interfere with the plot, in the last timeline, all I could do was collect evidence of Wen Yun’s crimes, report it to the Administration Bureau after the ‘World Core’ died, and apply for Wen Yun to be punished and the world to be reset.”

“…Is that what Wen Yun referred to as ‘Judgment’ in her diary?” Wen Yun asked.

“Something like that,” He Sheng nodded. “When the Administration Bureau confirmed that the ‘World Core’ died innocently, I had the authority to take Wen Yun’s soul away. She will receive the judgment and punishment she deserves.”

“But you must know that the main culprit who led Wen Yun to become that way was the Wen family!” Wen Yun frowned.

“It is true, as you said, that Wen Yun’s personality drastically changed due to a combination of failing the mid-high school entrance exam, parental pressure and brainwashing, and a poor environment. It improved after her brother Wen Lu went abroad but completely darkened after she learned the truth about her identity as the fake daughter. She was willing to destroy Ruan Yu, the outsider, at any cost to secure her position,” He Sheng’s voice unconsciously turned cold as she spoke. “However, the choice to destroy Ruan Yu was ultimately made by her, step by step. She must pay the price for that.”

Seeing Wen Yun fall silent, she changed the subject: “You, the ‘Role Stand-in,’ who successfully guided the plot away from the BE point, also have the right to know about the ‘Role Stand-in’ and ‘Bound System’ information. However, you will be forbidden from discussing these topics from now on and cannot reveal them to anyone, including Ruan Yu.”

“Alright, tell me,” Wen Yun nodded. “I can accept that.”

“To repair this collapsing world, the Space-Time Administration Bureau sent the ‘True and Fake Daughter’ story into various small worlds to find a suitable Role Stand-in,” He Sheng explained. “When residents of the small worlds read The Noble Family: The True Daughter’s Counterattack, their data is captured by the Space-Time Administration Bureau.”

“And you were ultimately chosen by the Administration Bureau because you had the highest match rate.”

“So, was my death arranged by you?!” Wen Yun’s frown deepened.

“That’s not the case. Transmigration can only happen after the Host’s death,” He Sheng said. “Your situation… was purely due to bad luck; you were just in a car accident.”

“And the moment you entered the book world, the Space-Time Administration Bureau reset the world and compiled the most representative negative attributes of Wen Yun into your auxiliary System. However, your System is only an assistant, so it didn’t have the authority to acquire the data of the reset world, which is why it didn’t know Ruan Yu was a reborn person.”

She paused. “In other words, the System exists more as a monitor and evaluator than a cheat sheet. If you can pass the Administration Bureau’s test and not use ‘green tea talk’ to harm or profit from others, you will receive substantial rewards once the world is repaired.”

Wen Yun was silent for a few seconds. “So, hating ‘green tea’ and ‘green tea talk’ actually saved me?”

“These are only superficial signs,” He Sheng shook her head, her gaze returning to its usual kind demeanor. “I will leave that question for you to ponder. You’ve been out here too long. Xiaoyu will be looking for you soon.”

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