I Have the Aura of a Supporting Character in Yuri Novels - Chapter 26

Really, I always thought Zhu Yun’s employer was an older person,” Lin Miaomiao said truthfully. She never imagined it would be a young woman, and one so beautiful. The woman stood there without even smiling, yet she commanded everyone’s attention. It wasn’t just her stunning looks, but also her calm demeanor, which made people want to follow her.

Lin Miaomiao was a sucker for beauty. She followed at least five or seven celebrities, simply because she adored their looks. So when she saw Tang Weixue, her eyes lit up, and her heart began to race.

It wasn’t a crush, just pure appreciation for her appearance.

“H-hello!” she stammered nervously, her shy demeanor causing Zhu Yun to glance at Tang Weixue.

Zhu Yun observed Tang Weixue carefully, her gaze sweeping across her face. This woman indeed possessed a beauty that could captivate anyone at first sight.

Oh, why was she getting so sour? Miaomiao liked looking at pretty people; it wasn’t a secret. She needed to calm down.

She didn’t want to become a “lemon,” but a lingering jealousy still filled her heart. It was as if a treasure she had kept hidden for a long time had been discovered by someone else. Even if that person wouldn’t steal the treasure, they had still seen it. Now there was one more person who appreciated her treasure, so was she still the special one?

Zhu Yun bit her lip, then took Tang Weixue’s hand. Her voice was cheerful as she said, “Sister, this is my friend, Lin Miaomiao.”

Tang Weixue was naturally reserved. Seeing Lin Miaomiao, who was around Zhu Yun’s age, she offered only a faint smile. “Hello,” she said. “Zhu Yun has told me a lot about you.”

Lin Miaomiao smiled shyly but said nothing.

“You should be at the company right now. Why are you near the university?” Zhu Yun suddenly remembered the important question and asked quickly.

Tang Weixue squeezed her hand. “Something came up at the school.”

Zhu Yun understood and didn’t press for more details. She invited Tang Weixue to join them for a meal. Lin Miaomiao was also enthusiastic, believing that eating opposite this stunning beauty would surely boost her appetite.

But Tang Weixue smiled and gently declined Zhu Yun’s invitation. Fearing Zhu Yun would be disappointed, she explained, “I really can’t today. I have a meeting at the company. There, don’t pout. Do you want some cake tonight? I’ll buy you some on my way home.”

They were used to this rhythm of life. Tang Weixue hadn’t always been so considerate. It was only after she noticed Zhu Yun would bring back sweets in the evening that she gradually learned to accommodate Zhu Yun’s preferences.

Actually, Zhu Yun wasn’t a fan of sweets; the real sweet tooth was Tang Weixue.

Zhu Yun often brought back desserts to appease Tang Weixue, especially when she came home late. A little treat was the perfect way to get out of a lecture.

But this led to a wonderful misunderstanding. Tang Weixue thought Zhu Yun was the one who loved sweets.

It was a beautiful mistake that showed how much they cared for each other. To this day, the little misunderstanding remained.

Zhu Yun, hearing Tang Weixue’s (coaxing a child) tone, laughed and said, “Go to work! Stop being so long-winded. You don’t need to bring dessert home. I’ll buy it today! I’ll even get your favorite flavor. How’s that? Isn’t that great?”

Tang Weixue replied good-naturedly, her gaze deep and focused.

In Tang Weixue’s mind, driving around to follow Zhu Yun’s choice of restaurant was strange. Zhu Yun’s social life was different from hers. She had more young friends and was a lively university student. They were from different worlds, yet why did Tang Weixue feel a pang of jealousy?

Was she jealous of her youth?

Or something else?

Tang Weixue frowned slightly, her complicated emotions hidden from view. She quietly adjusted Zhu Yun’s hat and scarf. Before leaving, she couldn’t help but look at Lin Miaomiao, who was also so young. This was something she could never have.

“Have fun.”

“I’ll wait for you at home.”

Tang Weixue gently brushed Zhu Yun’s cheek with her finger. The sensation made Zhu Yun think of a melting snowflake—cold and fleeting.

Without a second thought, she took out her gloves and put them on Tang Weixue’s hands, scolding her with a feigned fierceness, “Take care of yourself! Don’t catch a cold, you hear me?”

Tang Weixue’s gloomy eyes suddenly brightened with warmth. She didn’t know why she was smiling so foolishly, but she knew the feeling was good.

She waved, got into her car, and saw the pink fluffy gloves on her hands. She rested her head on the steering wheel and burst into laughter.

“I’m such a fool,” she thought.

Zhu Yun put her hands in her warm pockets. “857,” she said, “I feel like she has some resentment toward me.”

“The main character? No, you’re just overthinking it.”

“No, there’s definitely something. Didn’t you hear what she said?”

“What did she say?”

“That line about ‘I’ll wait for you at home!’ The resentment was so strong! For a moment, I actually felt like I was a scumbag for abandoning her to hang out with someone else!”

“Isn’t that… the truth?”

Zhu Yun tilted her head, then glanced at Lin Miaomiao behind her, who was still absorbed in Tang Weixue’s beauty. She suddenly felt that 857’s words were a little bit right.

Right my butt! Was it wrong for her to have a social life with her friends?

Hmph, she wouldn’t let 857 lead her astray.

“You’re trying to drive a wedge between us!”

“…”

“You’re swearing. I understand. It must have been so bad that it got censored.”

Zhu Yun quickly convinced herself and blamed 857. This way, she no longer felt guilty.

“Zhu Yun, Zhu Yun, where did you find such an employer?” Lin Miaomiao’s admiration for Zhu Yun grew. She had just easily won a battle against someone, and now she had a beautiful employer who treated her so well. Lin Miaomiao was truly impressed.

Zhu Yun scratched her cheek. “I found her on the street.”

Lin Miaomiao gave her a look of disdain. “Do you think I’ll believe that?”

“No, I’m not lying! It’s true!”

Lin Miaomiao covered her ears and walked into the grilled fish restaurant. “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you.”

Zhu Yun chuckled. She looked in the direction Tang Weixue’s car had left. The car was long gone, but Zhu Yun couldn’t help but keep looking.

Just then, a few snowflakes landed on the tip of her nose.

Zhu Yun took out her phone and sent her a message, her cheeks flushed.

“What are you standing outside for? Hurry up and come in!”

Hearing Lin Miaomiao, she quickly put her phone away. “Oh!”

Meanwhile, Tang Weixue, who was driving, saw Zhu Yun’s message, and the smile on her lips deepened.

Her phone lay next to the pink gloves, both connected to Zhu Yun.

“I gave you my gloves, and now I’m a little cold and pathetic. Sigh, life is hard. Little Zhu sighs. Wait for me at home, I’ll be back early!”

Tang Weixue looked away, laughing. “Such a smooth talker.”

But she couldn’t deny that her mood had been completely lifted by Zhu Yun.

The sudden sadness had come out of nowhere, and it was now gone just as quietly.

She was a few years older than Zhu Yun, but so what? She was being cheered up by the younger Zhu Yun right now, wasn’t she?

Tang Weixue rubbed her forehead. “It seems I’m not busy enough if I have time to overthink things.”

Speaking of work, she needed to finish things quickly today. She had to get off work early to wait for Zhu Yun at home.

Tang Weixue, who wasn’t much of a homebody, had experienced a change of heart. The reason was simple: Zhu Yun was there. She was happy to make a change.

The wind and snow were heavy that day. By the time Zhu Yun and Lin Miaomiao finished their meal, it was already dark. The streets were covered in white, and the snow glittered under the streetlights like tiny scattered diamonds, a truly breathtaking sight.

“You don’t have to walk me back to school. It’s not far from here, only about ten minutes. You should hurry home,” Lin Miaomiao said.

Lin Miaomiao was a thoughtful girl. She knew Zhu Yun lived far away and couldn’t bear the thought of her being cold in the winter.

Zhu Yun thought for a moment and said, “Stay right here and don’t move!”

“What are you going to do, buy me some oranges?” Lin Miaomiao teased, earning a glare from Zhu Yun.

Lin Miaomiao watched as Zhu Yun crossed the street to buy a string of candied hawthorns. Zhu Yun handed it to her and said, “It’ll be fun to have this on your walk back to school.”

Lin Miaomiao took it without a fuss, bit into a hawthorn, and said goodbye.

The snow crunched under her shoes.

Winter had arrived, bringing with it pristine white snowflakes.

Zhu Yun blew a puff of warm air onto her hands and walked over to her scooter, which was covered in snow.

Suddenly, she heard a car horn. Zhu Yun didn’t pay it much mind, but then a woman’s figure appeared in front of her, along with a familiar pair of pink gloves.

“Sister!”

“Are you a summoned beast? How is it that you show up the moment I think of you?”

Zhu Yun was surprised again. She walked over, looking up at Tang Weixue.

But something was off. There was a faint smell of tobacco on her.

Zhu Yun leaned closer and sniffed, then asked suspiciously, “Did you smoke?”

Tang Weixue was surprised by her keen sense of smell. “I don’t smoke,” she explained.

“Who did you see?”

Tang Weixue helped push the electric scooter. Fortunately, the scooter was small and foldable, so it was easily placed in the trunk. “I went to see my dad,” she said.

She hadn’t stayed home to wait for Zhu Yun. Tang Weixue had a big fight with her father in the evening. Of course, it was a one-sided argument from her father’s side. Tang Weixue remained calm, smiling faintly no matter how much her father raged. This infuriated him, causing him to smash several glasses.

Her stepmother, Zhao Mingzhu, played the good person, comforting Tang’s father, which only made him feel more tender toward the “understanding” Zhao Mingzhu.

“What’s your dad up to now?”

“He’s pressuring me to get married. He’s always trying to marry me off because he can’t stand me. He forgets who’s really in charge of this family. He and Zhao Mingzhu are a match made in heaven.” Tang Weixue told her to get in the car, and then she got in herself.

As Tang Weixue reached over to fasten Zhu Yun’s seatbelt, her eyes were like gentle spring water, and Zhu Yun was a floating petal, enveloped by the water, sinking into its depths.

“I’m glad I came to get you,” she said. “If I had been any later, you would have had to ride home in the snow.”

Zhu Yun blinked nervously. “Why the sudden change in what you call me?”

“You’re the one who said it. Life is hard, Little Zhu sighs.”

“But you can’t call me Little Zhu.” She was deliberately being contrary, and the warmth of the car’s heater made her cheeks flush.

Tang Weixue hummed lazily. “If you don’t want me to call you that, I’ll call you that even more.”

“You! Don’t push it!”

Zhu Yun pretended to unbuckle her seatbelt to get out of the car. No car, she thought. She’d rather freeze to death.

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to freeze myself to death!”

Tang Weixue grabbed her wrist. In the soft light of the car, Zhu Yun looked even more charming. Tang Weixue sighed, her voice low. “How will I feel if you do that?”

Zhu Yun’s eyes showed a moment of tension, but she quickly calmed down, a mischievous smile playing on her lips. “That’s exactly what I want! If you don’t feel bad, I won’t be happy!”

She closed the car door, grabbed Tang Weixue’s hand, and leaned forward, her face close to Tang Weixue’s. “You didn’t have to come get me. I have a car, you know. But you still came. Is it because you were afraid I’d get cold without the gloves?”

It was a small detail, but Zhu Yun felt like she had caught Tang Weixue.

Her gaze was intense, her smile brilliant. “It looks like you really do care about me.”

Tang Weixue was trapped against the seat. Their eyes met, the howling wind and snow outside unable to disturb them.

Tang Weixue didn’t back down. She was composed and calm, not letting Zhu Yun’s words fluster her.

“Yes, I do. It’s not a crime to care about you.”

She appeared calm on the surface, but only Tang Weixue knew what her heart was doing.

The wrist Zhu Yun held was tight, mirroring her own unsettled heart.

Zhu Yun got the answer she wanted, but then she became shy.

“Is the heat in your car turned up too high?”

Why else would her face be so red and her heart racing?

Tang Weixue covered her eyes, laughing uncontrollably. “It’s a little high. I feel hot, too.”

“Hmph, I knew it!”

Seeing Tang Weixue laughing, Zhu Yun playfully hit her arm. “Drive already, you’re annoying.”

What was so funny? If it wasn’t for her coming to pick her up in the middle of winter, she wouldn’t let her off so easily.

Zhu Yun turned her head to look at the snowy scenery outside. The snowflakes were still falling, a beautiful blanket of white covering the city.

There was snow outside, and there was snow beside her.

Zhu Yun’s lips curled into a smile. She liked the flawless snow, but she seemed to like the snow beside her even more.

Winter wasn’t so bad after all.

“Nie Xuan! Give me back all the bags I gave you!”

A young woman with long curly hair and a pretty face pushed open the dorm room door. She was furious. She had heard about her cousin’s “great words” and decided that if Nie Xuan looked down on second-hand bags so much, she might as well return them. She’d rather throw them away than give them to this ungrateful wretch.

This was Nie Xuan’s cousin, Sheng Yiyao. She had always been very good to her only cousin, always giving her things because Nie Xuan had a sweet tongue that always made Sheng Yiyao happy to give her things. Branded bags were a small matter, but the cumulative spending over the years was huge. Still, Sheng Yiyao couldn’t be bothered to argue with her; she had seen Nie Xuan’s true colors through this incident and would no longer pour her heart out to her.

“Sister, what are you doing? Can’t you see I’m doing my makeup?”

Sheng Yiyao narrowed her eyes and saw the jade bracelet on Nie Xuan’s wrist. Without a word, she took it off, startling Nie Xuan, who tried to snatch it back. But Sheng Yiyao said, “If I gave you these things, don’t I have the right to take them back?”

“What? A senior gave this to Nie Xuan?” A classmate who was watching the scene unfolded pulled Lin Miaomiao into the dorm. She was secretly enjoying Nie Xuan’s embarrassment. Lin Miaomiao, remembering how Nie Xuan had been so aggressive toward Zhu Yun that day, couldn’t help but blurt out, “This is what you told us Zhu Yun stole, right?”

Sheng Yiyao’s eyes glinted with a deeper meaning. She smirked. “Nie Xuan, you didn’t tell people you bought this bracelet, did you? I remember this is my jewelry. You liked it, so I gave it to you. It’s just a common jade bracelet worth a few thousand. You can wear it if you want, but the bags I gave you were much more expensive.”

A roommate couldn’t help but ask, “Senior Sheng, is this bracelet really only worth a few thousand?”

Sheng Yiyao shrugged. “I’m probably being generous. I was ripped off by a dealer. I bought the stone when I was a teenager. Now, looking at it, it’s not worth much.”

“No way, Nie Xuan! You dared to ask Zhu Yun for 200,000 for something worth a few thousand?” As Nie Xuan’s roommate, she knew both Nie Xuan and Zhu Yun well. She had watched the incident unfold, assuming Zhu Yun had just offended the wrong person, and had stayed out of it. But now, Sheng Yiyao’s words shocked her into speaking out.

Sheng Yiyao was incredulous, as if she were seeing Nie Xuan for the first time. “When I gave you this bracelet, I told you it was only worth a few thousand. How could you ask someone for 200,000? You really have some nerve…”

She thought about the rumors of Nie Xuan’s “quirks,” and shuddered with disgust. “Could it be that you took the small things I’ve lost over the years? No, no, I have to call my parents. You have a sickness, you need help!”

Nie Xuan’s face went pale. She was now completely helpless. She hadn’t done those things, yet she was being labeled with strange quirks. She wanted to explain, but no one was listening. They were all so captivated by Sheng Yiyao’s words that they didn’t care about the truth.

Everyone only wanted to hear what they wanted to hear. The truth didn’t matter.

Soon, Sheng Yiyao left the dorm. Nie Xuan screamed and ran out.

She couldn’t stay here anymore. She regretted ever talking to Zhu Yun. Everything had been fine before, but now everything had changed.

Nie Xuan wanted to find her uncle, to have all these people who mocked her expelled, just like Zhu Yun had been.

But the office was empty. She thought of the principal. She knew it was the principal who had asked her to frame Zhu Yun. She had used her uncle, who was a teacher, to get to the principal. She had helped the principal with a big favor, so the principal should help her, right?

She ran like the wind to the principal’s office, but the principal wasn’t there. Instead, she saw a handsome, tall man.

“Hello, student. Do you know…”

The man’s words reached Nie Xuan’s ears. When she heard Zhu Yun’s name, she shivered. She looked at the distinguished man and said, “Zhu Yun has dropped out. She’s not in that class anymore.”

“What? Dropped out?”

Nie Xuan noticed the man’s disappointment. She was jealous that such a handsome man was concerned about Zhu Yun. She gritted her teeth and said spitefully, “Didn’t you know? Zhu Yun stole my things and I caught her. A person with such a poor character doesn’t deserve to be in this school!”

The man, Bai Xiangming, frowned, his expression strange. He looked Nie Xuan up and down and sneered, “Are you jealous of Zhu Yun?”

Nie Xuan panicked. “How could I be? Jealous of a thief? What a joke.”

“She may be an orphan, but she’s been found by her family. Do you know who her cousin is? Many of the parts in your phone come from the Tang Group. Do you really think someone with Zhu Yun’s background would steal from you?”

“No! That’s not true…” Nie Xuan was devastated. She couldn’t believe that the Zhu Yun she looked down on had become rich overnight. This man must be lying.

Just then, Lin Miaomiao and the other students caught up, worried about Nie Xuan’s strange demeanor.

Lin Miaomiao heard what Bai Xiangming said. “You’re looking for Zhu Yun?”

Bai Xiangming answered patiently. “Yes, but she’s not at school anymore, is she?”

Lin Miaomiao hesitated. “Is it urgent?”

Bai Xiangming nodded with a smile. Lin Miaomiao, not wanting to cause a delay and believing it was urgent, called Zhu Yun.

Zhu Yun, who had just finished editing a video, was stretching. She still planned to go back to school, but she was also working on her side hustle. She had been trying her hand at food vlogging, and her videos were getting a good response. Her followers had quickly grown to tens of thousands.

“Hello, Miaomiao? Did you get out of class?”

Zhu Yun put her phone on speaker and got up to pour herself a glass of water.

“Zhu Yun, a friend of yours came to school to find you. It seems urgent.” Lin Miaomiao secretly glanced at Bai Xiangming, covering her mouth with her hand to whisper, “And he’s a handsome guy! How do you know so many good-looking men and women? First, a beautiful employer, and now this handsome man! You’re something else, Zhu Yun.”

“Cough, cough, cough.”

Zhu Yun choked, coughing violently.

A woman’s light laughter, tinged with a hint of sarcasm, came from the phone.

“Little Zhu really is something else.”

“…”

She hadn’t done anything, yet why did she feel like her life was so bitter?

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