After Transmigrating into a Book, I Was Marked by the Beautiful Mad Villain - Chapter 30

Seeing Shen Han arrive, both of them were stunned.

Ren Yue, who had been softly leaning in Su Mi’s arms just moments ago, felt her body stiffen. She subconsciously placed her hand between the two of them, creating some distance.

The situation was indeed a bit awkward.

Su Mi thought despairingly to herself—especially after Shen Han dropped that line: “Playing the hero saving the beauty again?”

By her count, this was already the second time in just a few short months that she’d let Shen Han catch her saving an Omega.

In this world, Omegas were not rare, and thus Beta-Omega pairings were quite common.

Putting it all together, it made her look like a Beta with ulterior motives toward Omegas.

Moreover, their current posture was indeed a bit strange—or to be more accurate, not very dignified.

Su Mi gave an awkward “mm” in response, attempting to arch her body and stand up without letting herself get soaked by any more stream water.

She had been kneeling on the riverbed, her hands propped against the pebbles of the stream. Using the strength of her waist and abdomen—

Wait, this body had almost no core strength to speak of.

And after climbing the mountain earlier, her waist and legs were already soft and weak…

Su Mi’s strength failed her, and she nearly toppled back onto Ren Yue.

Suddenly, a hand wrapped around her waist.

Before Su Mi could cry out in surprise, she was hoisted up from behind by someone gripping her waist.

She turned her head in a daze. Beside her, Shen Han’s expression remained cold, yet she was undoing the fastenings of her shirt and taking it off.

Without a moment’s pause, Shen Han leaned over and wrapped the shirt around Su Mi’s waist, covering her drenched skirt.

Su Mi stammered, “Sister.”

Shen Han stopped her movements and looked up at her. “Legs weak? You can’t even stand up from such a small spot?”

Su Mi interpreted this as Shen Han condemning her for trying to take advantage of someone else’s Omega again.

She said sheepishly, “A little bit…”

Before she could finish her sentence, she saw Shen Han let out a sigh.

Shen Han tied the shirt sleeves in a knot around Su Mi’s waist. Then, staying in her bent-over position, she slid her hand behind Su Mi’s knees and, with a gentle exert of strength, lifted her up in a horizontal carry.

Su Mi: ???!!!!!!!

Her body suddenly became airborne. Su Mi’s eyes widened in an instant, unable to believe what was happening.

The… the villainess… why was she picking her up?

Her mind went almost entirely blank. She forgot about the person lying sprawled nearby, forgot about Ren Yue back in the stream, and forgot about Li Zhao, who was watching the show.

However, Shen Han had already started walking forward. As she passed Li Zhao, she tilted her head. “Check on Ren Yue.”

Li Zhao: “Oh!!!!”

Her tone was filled with the vibe of someone enjoying the gossip.

Li Zhao’s exclamation finally brought Su Mi back to her senses. She looked toward Li Zhao blankly.

The latter had already headed toward the stream. Ren Yue had stood up on her own at some point and was standing in the water, drenched and pale.

Li Zhao was a doctor, so she should be able to check if Ren Yue had any injuries from the fall…

As for herself…

It was only then that Su Mi belatedly blushed.

Wait? This… this…

In her two lives, this was the first time she had ever been carried horizontally like this… or rather, given a princess carry…

Once she realized this, she didn’t even know how to position her body.

One of Shen Han’s hands crossed behind her knees, while the other wrapped around her back from the shoulder, firmly gripping her waist.

Su Mi cautiously looked up. From her angle, she could only see the calm line of Shen Han’s jaw.

Can she walk up the mountain path so steadily while carrying a person? As expected of an Alpha, she thought.

Then… then she was a… Beta who failed at playing the hero and ended up being princess-carried by an Alpha…

Su Mi shook her head. No, no, what am I thinking?

Help.

She could no longer think straight.

Her body was stiff, her hands tucked against her chest. She closed her eyes, trying to escape for a moment.

But after closing her eyes, the physical sensations became even more pronounced.

Clearly, Shen Han’s body temperature was always on the lower side, like cold ice.

Yet at this moment, she felt that the two places where Shen Han was holding her were scorching hot.

Along with them, the tips of her ears and the sides of her face gradually became burning hot.

This atmosphere was too strange.

Su Mi nervously clenched her hands. As Shen Han steadily climbed the steps one by one, she finally managed to murmur, “Sis… Sister… I can walk by myself…”

Shen Han looked down.

Before answering Su Mi, she furrowed her brow and said, “Unclench your hands.”

Su Mi: “Huh? Oh, okay.”

Not understanding why, she let go, spreading her ten fingers and holding them up obediently in front of her chest for Shen Han to see.

Shen Han’s brow didn’t relax; she let out another faint sigh.

“Your hands are bleeding, don’t you know?” she said.

Su Mi blanked out and looked down. Only then did she notice that several cuts had been sliced into both her hands.

Quite a bit of blood had already snaked down.

Earlier… perhaps because her attention was entirely on other things, she hadn’t felt the pain.

Now that she saw the wounds with her own eyes, the pain finally surged forth. She hissed and bit her lip.

When she fell while holding Ren Yue, her left hand had propped her up on the riverbed, and her right hand, which had been wrapped around Ren Yue, had also scraped against the rocks. Consequently, the palm of her left hand and the back of her right hand were covered in several small, thin cuts.

This time, Su Mi really didn’t dare put her hands near her body. She foolishly held them suspended in front of her chest, not daring to move.

She nestled in Shen Han’s arms in an especially strange posture, holding her hands up.

Most of the Academy graduates were likely gathered at the plaza for the bonfire party. When Su Mi had come down earlier, she could still see one or two classmates heading up.

Now, as Shen Han carried her up the stairs, they didn’t encounter anyone else on the stream path.

As they walked, she felt the environment becoming increasingly quiet.

On one side of the small path was the gurgling stream, and on the other was a dense forest.

Occasionally, when the path neared the water, the sound of the rushing stream grew louder; when the path moved away, the chirping of birds and the drone of cicadas in the forest became more prominent.

But what remained constant was the steady, undeniable sound of a heartbeat coming from Shen Han’s chest, against which Su Mi leaned.

Thump-thump—thump-thump—thump-thump—

Slowly, it seemed to blend together with Su Mi’s own heartbeat.

It roared in her ears.

Even the system heard it.

System: “…Host, your heart is beating too fast.”

Su Mi: “…Is it?”

She used her few remaining functional brain cells to think and said, “…After all, after all, it’s the first time in my two lives being princess-carried…”

Even if it were Ren Yue carrying her like this, her heart would probably race.

Hearing this internal thought, the system hesitated. “Oh?”

Su Mi said pitifully, “It’s forgivable, right?”

System: “…It is.”

The place where the incident occurred wasn’t far from the mountain peak. After about ten minutes, the two of them arrived in front of the clubhouse.

With a face as cold as frost, Shen Han found a staff member to lead them to the infirmary.

In front of a desk, the infirmary doctor cleaned Su Mi’s wounds and began treating them with a healing device.

A warm blue light moved across her hands, bringing a tingling, itchy sensation.

As the doctor treated her, she chatted to distract her. “Did you fall, student?”

Su Mi: “Mhm… I fell into the stream and got cut by the rocks.”

The doctor laughed. “One palm, one back of the hand—this posture is quite unique. You’ll just have to wait for the wounds to heal before wearing your light-brain again.”

The area where Su Mi wore her light-brain had also been slightly scratched. After treatment with the healing device, the wounds were no longer bleeding, but for them to heal completely, the doctor instructed her not to touch external objects for a few days.

With a few small medical patches wrapped around her hands, Su Mi was dismissed by the doctor. she found Shen Han waiting outside the door.

Shen Han was only wearing a vest now. Because she had been carrying Su Mi earlier, her waist and abdomen were slightly damp, the black fabric clinging to the skin and faintly revealing the lines of her muscles.

Su Mi only took one look before pretending nothing was wrong and looking away.

Holding up the light-brain in her hand, she repeated the doctor’s instructions.

Shen Han gave a hum of acknowledgment and naturally took the light-brain from her, then handed her a pair of black trousers.

“Change into these.”

Su Mi subconsciously bartered the items with her. Holding the trousers, she blinked. “These are?”

Shen Han lowered her eyes to fiddle with the small light-brain in her hand. “The staff had them ready.”

At this moment, Su Mi naturally listened to whatever Shen Han said. She obeyed, took the pants into the restroom, changed, and walked out.

The two of them returned to the campsite and dropped off the wet clothes.

As they passed the bonfire plaza, many people had already gathered there.

Su Mi stood on her tiptoes to look inside but couldn’t find Xu Nanqiao.

Thinking her sense of direction was off and she’d forgotten where Xu Nanqiao was sitting, she tugged on Shen Han. “Sister, do you see Classmate Xu in there?”

Shen Han glanced over. “Not there.”

She answered so quickly that Su Mi hesitated for a second. “Really?”

Shen Han said calmly, “She was probably called by Li Zhao to help Ren Yue change clothes. It’s inconvenient for Li Zhao, an Alpha.”

It sounded very logical; Su Mi was convinced.

With her own experience as a Beta knocking over Ren Yue as a precedent, it was also very reasonable not to let her go and help.

Perhaps because she had always lived in this world as a Beta, Su Mi would often subconsciously forget that for the people of this world, the second gender was more important than the first.

In her eyes, she still distinguished people based on the male and female of her original world.

But in the eyes of people here, Alpha, Beta, and Omega were the primary distinctions for a person’s social positioning and partner selection.

It was only during the treatment that Su Mi had thought of it.

She thought her act of helping Ren Yue was merely friendship between girls.

But in the eyes of others, it might look like a Beta pursuing an Omega.

…Wait.

Then Ren Yue throwing herself into her arms?

Su Mi blinked, her face heating up.

She didn’t have that intention, but could Ren Yue have had that intention? After all, Ren Yue was a native inhabitant.

The moment the thought flashed through her mind, Su Mi quickly denied it. She didn’t think she possessed the kind of charm that would make an Omega throw themselves at her after only meeting twice.

With her thoughts flying wildly, Su Mi unknowingly followed Shen Han to the back of the clubhouse.

There was another small path leading down the mountain here.

Only after taking a step down did Su Mi belatedly feel confused. “Where are we going?”

Shen Han: “Watching the sunset? The staff said the view from down here is better.”

Su Mi: “But my legs are weak…”

She sounded a bit guilty saying that. After the commotion earlier and the healing device, her legs actually felt fine.

It was just… just that after being princess-carried like that.

Su Mi suddenly felt a bit afraid of being alone with Shen Han.