After Transmigrating into a Book, I Was Marked by the Beautiful Mad Villain - Chapter 21

Su Mi recalled for a moment; the only time she had mentioned a so-called “family feast” earlier was when she was asking Ren Yue.

How had it turned into her wanting to go to the family feast by the time it reached Shen Han?

She opened her mouth, intending to explain that she didn’t actually want to go, when a fragment of the original host’s memory suddenly flashed through her mind.

It was a memory of the original host standing before Shen Han with a humble attitude, tentatively asking about something.

The memory wasn’t very clear, but she could vaguely recall that it was about the eligibility for the family feast.

Su Mi: “…”

Well then.

How could a vain person like the original host pass up an occasion like a family feast, which could serve as a symbol of her status?

Fortunately, she had been a step too slow to speak.

She couldn’t help but feel a lingering fear, and she took a breath to steady herself.

The original host’s irrepressible, fawning expression from the memory manifested in her mind; Su Mi’s face stiffened, feeling that she couldn’t possibly imitate that look.

Playing the part of the obedient one, she tilted her head up and quickly admitted to it: “Then… then could I endure it?”

Shen Han hadn’t quite expected her to admit it and was slightly startled.

As her gaze swept over Su Mi’s expression, Shen Han seemed to want to say something but gave up.

In the end, she gave a faint “mm” and said, “I’ll consider it.”

?

Consider it.

Was she really going to take a cannon fodder like her to the feast?

Su Mi was also stunned. The two of them, one crouching and one sitting, stared at each other for a while.

She quickly scanned through the known plot in her mind.

There was no mention of a family feast.

Before she could think further, the bell rang in the classroom.

The parent-teacher meeting was about to begin.

Shen Han glanced at the homeroom teacher already standing on the podium and snapped her fingers in front of Su Mi.

“Snap out of it.”

“Oh!”

Su Mi realized the bell had rung and hurriedly stood up.

However, she had been crouching for a bit too long. As she stood up abruptly, her vision blurred, and a sudden wave of numbness hit her legs.

Her body swayed, and it looked like she was about to fall backward.

In that instant, she felt an irresistible force lift her up by the waist.

The force vanished as quickly as it had appeared. Su Mi felt as if she had merely stumbled before stabilizing herself—even she almost believed that was the case.

Once she was steady, several parents in the back seats spoke up with concern:

“Student Su, be careful.”

“Oh dear, that was dangerous.”

“Student Su’s reactions are so fast; she must be great at sports.”

The teacher on the podium also asked, “Su Mi, are you alright?”

Su Mi: …What just happened?

She stood there dazed, looking at Shen Han, whose posture hadn’t changed and whose expression was as calm as ever.

Was it… an illusion?

But she didn’t have time to ponder it now. Su Mi quickly waved to the teacher and turned to thank the concerned parents, saying she was fine.

Turning back, she couldn’t help but steal another glance at Shen Han.

The latter timely put on a look of confusion, as if to say it was time to leave if nothing was wrong.

Scratching her head, Su Mi dismissed what had just happened as an illusion.

Out of the professional ethics of a lackey, Su Mi said softly before leaving, “Sister, I’ll wait for you outside.”

Then she stepped out.

The corridor outside the classroom was empty; almost no students remained.

Su Mi leaned against the railing, her attention shifting back to the family feast.

Actually, it wasn’t just the family feast; the original plot contained very little description of the Shen family. Most of the narrative content focused on the Shen family’s power in the capital.

Su Mi had thought about the reason, and she felt it was because Shen Han belonged to the late-stage “big boss” category of this small world within the book.

In the early stages, the main plot obstacles were triggered by herself and other minor cannon fodder.

Perhaps the original author’s plan was for Shen Han and the Shen family to officially form the antagonist plot only after learning about the romance between the male and female leads.

But since neither this small world nor the protagonists survived past that plot point, the secrets behind Shen Han and the Shen family remained blank.

Thinking about it this way, Su Mi felt that the road to completing her mission was long and arduous.

…No.

Su Mi patted her own face.

Don’t overcomplicate the mission.

Currently, the plan to push the relationship between the female lead and the villain was progressing smoothly. At this rate, completing the mission would be a piece of cake.

Exactly!

No matter how scary the villain seemed, she was just a “love-brain” at heart.

Whatever blackening value she had would only plummet in front of Xu Nanqiao.

As long as she endured this mission period, the world would be hers to fly through in the future!

Su Mi was getting very hyped up by her own imagination and secretly let out a disdainful “humph” toward Shen Han through the glass window.

Immediately after, as if she had some kind of special sensory power, Shen Han turned her head and looked straight at her.

Su Mi: …!

Even at this distance, she felt a strange sense of guilt as if she had been caught red-handed.

Forcing herself to stay calm, she gave Shen Han a smile and then slipped away to the area outside the back door where Shen Han couldn’t see her.

Alright, the villain was still very scary.

The parent-teacher meeting didn’t last long. Su Mi wandered around the floor for a while, found a chair to sit on while watching an online course on her light-brain, and then heard the sound of the classroom door opening.

Parents walked out in twos and threes, heading toward the lecture hall for a social networking-style exchange meeting.

Su Mi also went to greet Shen Han.

Walking into the classroom, Shen Han was still sitting in her seat, which felt somewhat mismatched with her.

She was looking down at something.

Su Mi thought she was looking at the exercise books she had worked on and suddenly felt proud.

She was about to go up and emphasize to the villain how hard she had been working to fulfill the mission of getting into Capital University.

However, as she got closer, she discovered…

What Shen Han held in her hand was a piece of scratch paper filled with messy notes.

As she got even closer…

Wait…

Su Mi froze, wishing she could turn around and run.

That seemed to be the scratch paper she had subconsciously filled with Xu Nanqiao’s name while she was zoning out!!!

Across a classroom aisle, Su Mi looked at Shen Han’s calm profile, and for a moment, she felt like dying.

The villain… the villain wouldn’t misunderstand, would she?

After all, last time the villain seemed a bit bothered and jealous that she had called the female lead “Nanqiao.”

This paper… it seemed she had been doing problems this morning, thought about the parent-teacher meeting plot, and spaced out for a bit.

She didn’t know why, but possessed by some mysterious force—just like the plot where the female lead gets caught—she had written a whole page of Xu Nanqiao’s name.

It—It really wasn’t on purpose! QAQ!

Su Mi was on the verge of tears.

She desperately suppressed her urge to run away and shuffled over slowly.

“Sister…”

Knowing she was in the wrong, Su Mi’s voice was suppressed and pitiful.

“I—I can explain.”

Shen Han put the paper back on the desk, her expression indifferent as she asked, “Explain what?”

There were no more parents in the classroom. Su Mi looked around and sat down in Xu Nanqiao’s seat in front of Shen Han.

Gripping the back of the chair with both hands, she turned around to face Shen Han, trying to make her expression look sincere.

“Regarding this paper, I know you might have a misunderstanding after seeing it… But! You—You know I’m a bit slow, my mind is quite linear, and sometimes my hand just subconsciously writes whatever I’m looking at. This paper is like that too; I just wrote it unconsciously while Student Xu was explaining problems to me.”

“I definitely don’t have any other thoughts about Student Xu!”

To prevent the villain from further misunderstanding, she even changed the address to “Student Xu.”

After saying this, Su Mi felt she had made a huge sacrifice.

She had even used the slanderous claim of being “a bit slow” against herself; surely the villain would believe her now?

Shen Han’s expression remained unchanged as she asked, “Does it make a difference whether you have thoughts or not?”

In Su Mi’s eyes, this was a kind of confidence.

Indeed, in Shen Han’s eyes, she was just a Beta without spiritual power.

Given the choice, any Omega would choose the infinitely more excellent Shen Han.

Su Mi said sincerely, “Of course it makes no difference to you, but to me, it’s still quite important.”

After all, if the villain misunderstood her relationship with Xu Nanqiao, it might be detrimental to the mission.

Just thinking about it felt like an ethical drama—something like an older sister and an adopted younger sister falling for the same person…

At this thought, Su Mi couldn’t help but shiver.

She only wanted to maintain the status quo and play her role as a perfect buffer and wingman; there was no need to add any romantic subplots.

Unbeknownst to her, these words fell into Shen Han’s ears with a completely opposite meaning.

Shen Han’s eyes paused for a brief moment as she blinked.

She gave Su Mi an indescribable look.

Recalling her mental activity when she first discovered the paper, Shen Han asked, “Why?”

Su Mi blinked.

Why?

Su Mi thought for a moment and said, “Because… I’m a Beta?”

Pausing, she added, “Just a very ordinary Beta.”

Shen Han gave an “mm” and supplemented for her, “And you support Beta-Beta relationships.”

Ah, right!

Su Mi had almost forgotten the sexual orientation she had made up back at the hot spring.

She nodded repeatedly and added details to show her loyalty: “Exactly, my dream is to find a Beta similar to myself and build an ordinary, warm family. Student Xu and I are just ordinary friends; I hope you won’t misunderstand.”

The corners of Shen Han’s lips curled ever so slightly.

“What could I possibly misunderstand?”

She tilted her head, her icy blue eyes—like a cold pool of water—staring straight into Su Mi’s for a moment.

Shen Han said, “May your dream come true.”

Being stared at made Su Mi feel even more guilty.

Swallowing her saliva, Su Mi said sheepishly, “…Thank you, sister.”

She couldn’t help but feel that the villain wasn’t actually thinking that way.

Did she not believe it?

Su Mi pondered; according to typical novel tropes, a villain with high blackening values must have a strong sense of possessiveness.

Perhaps Shen Han still found her suspicious.

It was true; her sudden closeness with Xu Nanqiao probably seemed like she had ulterior motives to Shen Han.

It seemed she shouldn’t display her friendship with Xu Nanqiao too much in front of the villain in the future.

Su Mi sighed.

At least this ordeal was over.

The parent-teacher meeting in the classroom had lasted over an hour, followed by a social networking banquet.

After Su Mi reminded her, Shen Han waved her hand. “Let’s go back.”

Su Mi: “Oh!”

She was happy to have it easy.

She had thought Shen Han dressed so beautifully today to attend the banquet.

But thinking about it, that was unlikely.

The villain almost never participated in such activities; in the original host’s memory, there were even quite a few complaints about this.

After all, if they didn’t go to these high-level social events, the original host had no way to show off her status.

For the sake of her persona, she gave a shallow attempt to stay.

Just one sentence.

After being rejected with “If you want to go, you can go yourself,” Su Mi showed no regret as she stated, “Of course, taking sister home is more important.”

After all, she was a qualified bootlicker!

Then, she happily led Shen Han toward the underground garage.

How could the big boss accompany her to the underground garage to pick up the car? Su Mi told Shen Han to wait outside the garage while she jogged to the car.

Sitting in the driver’s seat, she first checked her light-brain.

When she was with the villain, she felt like an office worker whose desk was right next to the boss, not daring to slack off for even a second. She hadn’t dared to look at her light-brain once.

Earlier, Su Mi had sent several messages to Xu Nanqiao asking how things were. Aside from an initial reply saying she had reached the hospital, Xu Nanqiao hadn’t replied since.

She was probably still busy.

Scrolling down, there were also messages from the teacher at Su Yi’s toddler daycare.

The teacher said she could come to pick up Su Yi at any time as today’s classes were finished. [Attached Image]: Little Yi is eating fruit.

Su Mi clicked on the picture and looked at it several times. It was a profile shot of Su Yi; the little glutinous rice ball’s mouth was stuffed full, and he was holding a small spoon, guiding small pieces of apple into his mouth.

She replied with a “thank you, teacher,” and immediately received a short video.

Little Su Yi was facing the camera with a beaming smile, his mouth wide open as he called out in a milky voice, “Sister!”

Su Mi clicked and replayed the video several times, unable to help herself from being immersed in her brother’s cuteness.

Perhaps because of this, she was slightly delayed.

That brief moment of delay was enough for the passenger door to be pulled open right as Su Mi replayed the video again.

With a slight bend of her waist, Shen Han sat in the passenger seat.

Su Mi: …? Eh.

She looked at Shen Han, then turned to look at the back seat where she had specifically adjusted the legroom to be wider.

Wasn’t she supposed to be the driver? Why was she sitting in the passenger seat?

At the same time, the video on the light-brain was still playing on repeat.

Su Yi’s milky voice calling “Sister” rang out again.

Shen Han tilted her head, her gaze touching upon Su Mi’s light-brain for a fleeting second.

“Are you going to pick up your brother?”

Su Mi let out an “un-huh.”

Shen Han nodded. “Let’s go.”

Su Mi, somewhat slowly: “…Ah?”

Weren’t there some Manager A or Manager B waiting at the Shen Corporation headquarters…?

She watched as Shen Han’s eyebrow quirked upward.

Having already mastered the basic “Shen Han facial expression judgment method,” Su Mi immediately shut up.

If she knew nothing else, she knew that when Shen Han raised her left eyebrow and frowned slightly, it definitely meant she was getting impatient.

The car lunged forward.

The force of the acceleration was intense; Shen Han thought silently to herself: …In the future, I definitely shouldn’t give her a sports car.