After Transmigrating into a Book, I Was Marked by the Beautiful Mad Villain - Chapter 16

The next day, early in the morning, Shen Han had someone return Su Mi’s car.

Su Ciyu was planning to take Su Yi out for a parent-child activity. Before leaving, she asked Su Mi if she wanted to come along.

The activity was held in a massive private baby paradise, filled with countless fun children’s toys—there were even over ten different types of bubble-ball slides.

Little Su Yi looked at Su Mi with longing eyes: “Sis—Sister! Slide! Big—Big slide!”

Su Mi: …Tempted.

However, the first round of basic knowledge tutoring was not yet complete. The midterm exam was the week after next, and after three more mock exams, it would be the unified entrance examination.

Su Mi could only painfully reject Little Su Yi.

Although she had Shen Han as her backing—and even if she abandoned the exam, she would certainly be able to enter Capital City University—Su Mi’s thought was that once her mission was successfully completed, she intended to live on in this world.

She couldn’t rely on Shen Han for a lifetime. Therefore, learning as much as possible, getting good grades, and making her resume look a bit more polished was better no matter how one looked at it.

The Su parents clearly didn’t quite understand.

When Wen Zisu gave birth to Su Yi, the original owner was about sixteen or seventeen years old, right in the middle of her rebellious phase. She likely felt that her parents had diverted most of their attention and love after the birth of her younger brother. Consequently, the original owner was not close to her brother, and her communication with her parents became less and less frequent.

It was only after Su Mi transmigrated that the relationship with Su Yi was pulled closer, and she would occasionally have peaceful and well-behaved exchanges with her parents.

In this ABO world, the differentiation period was not just an adult boundary like in Su Mi’s original world; in a practical sense, it was a symbol of the maturation of the glands.

From then on, a second gender differentiated, allowing one to secrete unique pheromones. Because of the influence of hormones, many people’s thoughts would change significantly after the differentiation period.

The Su parents were very pleased to see such a warm change in Su Mi.

Furthermore, they wanted to take advantage of this change in attitude to make the relationship between the siblings even closer and cultivate their feelings. After all, in another half year, Su Mi would be moving out to attend university.

Su Mi could see that Su Ciyu and the others didn’t take the unified exam very seriously either.

The Su family was considered a family with significant wealth and heritage. Although they had fallen into decline for a period due to certain events and most collateral branches had scattered, now only Su Ciyu’s family remained within the Capital City.

But like most students at Loran Academy, the unified exam didn’t mean much to the original owner.

Even without Shen Han’s help, she could attend Holy Cross Academy or go abroad for further studies.

Capital City University was a great place for Xu Nanqiao to grow, but for the original owner to go there, it even required Shen Han to give her a “gift.”

Su Mi had only realized this point in the last few days.

Fortunately, Su Ciyu and the others’ educational policy toward Su Mi was primarily one of indulgence.

When Wen Zisu heard Su Mi’s thoughts, he was somewhat surprised and said, “Could it be that you’ve been seriously reading books these past few days?”

Su Mi: “…Yes.”

Wen Zisu smiled. “I’m sorry, Yaya. Both your mother and I thought you were watching television.”

“However, whether it’s watching TV or studying, your mother and I were very surprised and happy that you waited for us to come home yesterday.” Wen Zisu stroked Su Mi’s head. “Study if you want to, and don’t if you don’t. Just be careful not to work too hard and don’t exhaust yourself, okay?”

Su Mi: Whoa.

She looked up at Wen Zisu. Perhaps due to the influence of Omega hormones, the man’s facial features were soft, and his expression was gentle. Only the light lines at the corners of his eyes showed some traces of age.

In the past, Su Mi had often fantasized about what a father would be like.

During parent-teacher meetings, she often spoke as an outstanding student. She was able to speak well without a script, and while speaking, she would slowly observe the images of various fathers in the audience. Some were chubby and gentle, some looked fierce and evil, and some had stiff faces with no expression…

Someone like Wen Zisu, who existed as a father in a maternal-like role, was something Su Mi had never imagined.

But it was also especially, especially good.

She then heard Wen Zisu ask, “Do you want me to hire a tutor for you? Will there be problems you can’t solve just by watching online classes?”

Su Mi explained, “I have an online tutor, and I’m on very good terms with the top student in our grade right now. She helps me with lessons every day.”

Wen Zisu: “Hmm? Which classmate? If she has time, please invite her to the house to be a guest. Your mother and I would like to thank her together.”

“You might know her? Her name is Xu Nanqiao.”

After Su Mi finished speaking, she looked at Wen Zisu.

Wen Zisu didn’t have much of a reaction and said, “Nanqiao? That’s a very nice name. Ask her when she’s free and invite her to play at the house or have a meal together.”

Su Mi felt a slight sense of loss and said, “Okay, it might have to wait until after the unified exam.”

Wen Zisu smiled. “Alright, then study hard. I’ll bring some fruit up for you in a while.”

The next day at school, after the morning self-study session ended, Su Mi asked Xu Nanqiao.

“So, did you contact the Yang family yesterday?”

Today, Yang Er’s seat was already empty.

Xu Nanqiao had clearly noticed Yang Er’s absence as well. She nodded and hesitated for a moment, saying nothing.

She likely felt that since the original owner had been on good terms with Yang Er, she didn’t know what Su Mi was thinking.

Su Mi said, “Speaking of which, I’ve always felt I owed you an apology. If it weren’t for your closeness with me, Yang Er wouldn’t have known about your relationship with your sister, and she wouldn’t have done such a thing.”

She looked at Xu Nanqiao seriously, and the latter felt a bit embarrassed.

“It’s not that… Yesterday… I went out to see them, only to find out that CEO Shen had even sent bodyguards downstairs to protect me. Those people were indeed quite, quite scary. Yang Er cried very miserably, saying something about how CEO Shen had already pulled all their family’s stores in the Capital City, and they would be leaving the Capital City in a couple of days. I figured with CEO Shen there, they had received their punishment for doing bad things, so I said forget it…”

Xu Nanqiao asked, “Su Mi, do you think I’m being too weak by forgiving her just like that?”

Su Mi scratched the side of her face. “It’s okay. I can only say it’s not very satisfying, but as long as you’re happy, it’s fine.”

Xu Nanqiao smiled.

“Actually, the day you came to save me, I was already very happy.”

…?

Su Mi instantly raised her head and looked at the female lead.

As the female lead of this small world, Xu Nanqiao was naturally very beautiful.

A clean face like a little white flower; the most impressive feature was a pair of watery, deer-like eyes. It was the classic look of a first-love school belle from student days.

She wouldn’t have snatched the male lead’s role herself while simultaneously snatching away the female lead’s “love at first sight” for him, would she?

Otherwise, what did she mean by saying that?

Su Mi was a bit hesitant and said, “Nanqiao, although you are also very good, I think you’re better suited for an Alpha.”

Xu Nanqiao froze for a moment, then immediately became amused.

She pinched Su Mi’s cheek and said, “You… I think I look more like an Alpha in front of you, and yet you say these things.”

Su Mi: ?

An… ABO version of “Reverse Roles”?

The system, witnessing Su Mi’s entire internal monologue, said: “…” and emitted two zzt-zzt sounds of static.

It seemed that some “dirty things” had appeared in the task data package provided to the host.

Su Mi confirmed that the relationship between herself and Xu Nanqiao was still a pure Beta-Omega friendship.

As they were talking, two timid female voices suddenly came from behind them.

“Su Mi…”

Looking back, it was two other girls from the group of friends the original owner was close with.

Ai Yiyi and Wei Wan.

They looked to be in poor spirits, likely having received news about the Yang family. Looking at the dark circles under their eyes, they probably hadn’t fallen asleep until the early hours of the morning.

Su Mi asked, “What’s wrong?”

Wei Wan and the other girl glanced at Xu Nanqiao and said they wanted to go out and chat with Su Mi.

Su Mi followed them to a deserted spot in the corridor.

Just as they stood face-to-face, she watched as tears welled up in Wei Wan’s eyes, seemingly about to fall at any moment.

Ai Yiyi on the side quickly said, “We—we found out about what Yang Er did, but we were absolutely unaware of it.”

Wei Wan also said anxiously, “Yes, you know us. We do legitimate business, unlike Yang Er, who knows so many people from other schools. Usually, when she said those things, we would at most chime in with a few words; we didn’t expect her to be serious.”

Su Mi naturally knew that they didn’t have much involvement in this matter.

Setting aside the fact that in the original plot, it was indeed Yang Er who suggested teaching the female lead a lesson and Yang Er who found the people, simply speaking of the present, this matter had been investigated by Shen Han, so the results certainly wouldn’t be wrong.

Su Mi listened to them defend themselves for a while, then gave an “mm” and interrupted their words.

“I know. If you had participated, Sister certainly would have dragged you out too. So you don’t need to explain to me, and you don’t need to be afraid,” Su Mi said seriously. “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you don’t need to fear a knock at the door in the middle of the night.”

Wei Wan and the other girl: “…”

Ai Yiyi tried asking, “Then—then do you want to go see a movie with us after school? A new one was released yesterday, the kind of romance film you like.”

Su Mi blinked. “No, I still have to study. You guys go ahead.”

Wei Wan asked, “What about the weekend then? Since you came back, you haven’t hung out with us for a long time…”

Su Mi said, “Because I feel inferior.”

The roles of these two in the original plot were almost finished. Plus, the villain had said in the car the day before to be more careful when making friends.

Su Mi felt she could take this opportunity to break ties with them.

Wei Wan and Ai Yiyi: “Huh??”

Su Mi spoke with great conviction, “You’ve both differentiated into Omegas, and I’m the only Beta. Playing with you again makes me feel inferior. Besides, the unified exam is coming up. With a Beta status like mine, it’s better to take the exams seriously.”

Facing the stunned duo, Su Mi simply waved her hand. “I won’t talk to you anymore. I’m going in to preview the next lesson. Bye-bye.”

Watching the girl with pale gold braids run into the classroom without mercy, the faces of the remaining two turned red and white in turns.

Actually, there wasn’t a trace of crying left.

Wei Wan sniffed and gave a “tch.”

“What a poser.”

Ai Yiyi took out a mirror and touched up her makeup, covering the tear marks on her face.

She also rolled her eyes slightly.

“She’s not wrong. Differentiating into a Beta and then being required by CEO Shen to accompany the ‘Prince’ in study at that Capital City University—doesn’t she just have to cling to Xu Nanqiao?”

Wei Wan pulled her arm. “Forget it, ignore her. I heard Holy Cross Academy will recruit quite a few students from Xicheng this year. The people from Xicheng are different from us here—the upper-class families there hold the real deal in their hands~”

Ai Yiyi’s eyes lit up. “Really? Got any intel? Share it.”

Su Mi naturally didn’t hear the conversation between those two again, but even if she had, she wouldn’t have cared at all.

What she cared about was the second meeting between the male and female leads, which would happen in a couple of days.

It was a dessert competition hosted by Loran Academy.

Not only were there generous cash prizes, but there were also extra academic credits.

Loran used a credit system. Aside from the credits brought by fixed compulsory courses, a small half came from elective courses in the afternoon.

Since they were electives, there were naturally many students who didn’t care about them, only to discover in their final school year that they hadn’t completed enough credits.

This was essentially a small backdoor opened by the school for these students.

A good student like the female lead had long since completed her credits; she was participating in this competition solely for the prize money.

Su Mi knew she couldn’t stop the female lead from signing up, so she asked the class monitor to add her name. On the afternoon of the competition, she dragged Xu Nanqiao along to the activity room where the competition was being held.

There were very few people in the activity room. It was already the last semester, and most of those who needed to make up credits had already done so.

They had just registered their sign-up information with the students from the activity department and received their respective name tags, aprons, and other tools when they heard a mean, mocking male voice from the doorway.

“Yo, isn’t this the Great Young Master Gu? Why have you come to participate in a dessert competition?”

Su Mi: Finally, it’s starting!