Blame the Villain – Chapter 239

Villainous Singer (11)

《Grand Aspiration Sutra》 was an ancient scripture from Ruoshui Star about a monk who made a grand vow to save all sentient beings.

Song Xuyi hadn’t read this scripture carefully, considering it merely useless chicken soup, but she had heard that in the end, the monk failed to fulfill his vow to save all beings and instead reflected in the final chapter on his excessive obsession, warning others not to be too attached to gain and loss.

Could Song Yi be trying to comfort her not to dwell on rumors and gossip?

On the other end, Song Yi continued speaking——

“I’ve read this book many times…”

Song Xuyi listened to Song Yi’s words, lowering her eyes, suddenly remembering a word-guessing game between the original host and Song Yi.

The original host had superhuman memory, and before being sent to Bilin Star, Song Yi often played a game with her—he would open a book, call out a page number and character position, and have the original host recite which character it was.

Song Xuyi secretly recorded all the numbers Song Yi mentioned.

After ending the call with Song Yi, Song Xuyi returned to her room, opened 《Grand Aspiration Sutra》, found the appropriate pages, and searched through the character positions until she pieced together a message——

“Quietly hibernate and wait patiently for flowers to bloom.”

Though it was just eight simple characters, Song Xuyi inexplicably felt her eyes grow hot upon seeing them.

This message completely explained Song Yi’s position: he was lying low, willing to bear a bad reputation and endure humiliation, while never wavering from his original intention.

Regardless of era or dimension, there will always be those who sacrifice themselves selflessly for the future of their people, disregarding personal interests.

Recalling the plot from the original story’s synopsis, from another perspective, after Song Yi became friendly with the people of Bilin Star, the light of technology gradually illuminated Ruoshui Star, and it was only then that the people of Ruoshui Star slowly began to master some technological means and started forming organized resistance against the invasion of advanced planets.

If the people of Bilin Star were to discover this truth, Song Yi’s fate would be unimaginable. Perhaps because he had long prepared himself to die at any moment for Ruoshui Star, he remained solitary his whole life, never married, with his adopted Song Xuyi being his only family…

Someone so devoted to Ruoshui Star shouldn’t meet the fate described in the original plot synopsis where he perished without leaving remains.

In these words, Song Xuyi also understood the method she could adopt going forward.

During this time, likely to prevent Song Xuyi from becoming first in class, the Bilin Star teachers had secretly begun tutoring many high-performing Bilin Star students. For Song Xuyi to reach the top three, she would need to put in more effort than others.

But Song Yi’s words made Song Xuyi understand: openly confronting the Bilin Star people now would only result in exhausting herself doubly, and might lead to premature failure due to being too conspicuous. Rather than showing off her brilliance, it would be better to hide her capabilities and quietly lie low. After all, as Bilin Star’s flagship program, the Robotics Department graduation projects from each academy would be globally broadcast to ensure fairness. The Bilin Star people wouldn’t dare manipulate things during a public broadcast, and as long as she had sufficient ability to stand out then, she would certainly be able to advance to higher education.

Thinking this way, in the next exam, Song Xuyi’s grades notably declined.

Song Xuyi acted very anxious, frequently seeking help from the Bilin Star teachers with questions, of which ninety percent were very basic, with only one or two difficult problems mixed in.

The Bilin Star teachers clicked their tongues in wonder, but after Song Xuyi’s grades fell to average in several consecutive tests, after two or three times, they came to believe that her talent couldn’t keep up. They were happy to show their pity for the weak, and with a condescending attitude, began to lower their guard against Song Xuyi and became willing to teach her.

The rumors about Song Xuyi cheating gradually died down, replaced by prejudiced comments that people from Ruoshui Star were not fully evolved, obviously poor at thinking, and only good at singing and dancing.

During this time, Song Xuyi had been secretly investigating Lin Ruyu’s background, but aside from learning that Lin Ruyu’s parents were both deceased, she hadn’t heard any other information.

For unknown reasons, when Song Xuyi visited Lin Ruyu’s room one day, she discovered many new robots that weren’t even available on the market yet.

Compared to these new robots, the styling robot that Song Xuyi was about to teach Lin Ruyu to make—one that could change appearances based on concert types—seemed particularly shabby.

Lin Ruyu didn’t explain why she bought these robots. She looked particularly tired that evening, yawning and waving her hand, refusing to disassemble robots with Song Xuyi: “I’m too tired. I don’t want to learn anything from you these days, just play with whatever you want…”

Song Xuyi pressed her lips together. While she was indeed interested in these new robots, Lin Ruyu claimed to be tired but hadn’t turned off the communication for some reason, lying down with her eyes closed. Although Lin Ruyu appeared to be sound asleep, what Song Xuyi saw was only her 3D projection. Song Xuyi felt inexplicably awkward and was too embarrassed to disassemble the newly bought robots in front of her, fearing she might break something. After some thought, she decided to disassemble an old robot in Lin Ruyu’s room.

She casually chose what appeared to be an extremely old discarded robot. Though unremarkable in appearance, after disassembling it, Song Xuyi discovered this robot appears simple but contains complexity: inside was actually a small mechanical arm! Upon closer examination, Song Xuyi belatedly realized this was a cleaning robot. Although its appearance wasn’t impressive, its design applied principles of mechanics for better dust adhesion, and it contained various advanced sensors. It could even climb walls to clean corners and had an automatic cleaning function when no one was present…

This advanced cleaning robot was countless times more sophisticated than Song Xuyi’s simple robot that would just announce “Hello, I will now clean for you” and could only work on the ground like a silly machine!

So Lin Ruyu already had her own cleaning robot!

Remembering how she had taken it upon herself to give Lin Ruyu a cleaning robot before, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but blush.

Perhaps Lin Ruyu had been too polite to refuse her then, since she had been so enthusiastic about giving her the gift…

Song Xuyi secretly added a ‘considerate’ label to Lin Ruyu in her heart. She unconsciously turned to look at Lin Ruyu, who still appeared to be sleeping soundly with closed eyes. Not wanting to disturb her rest, Song Xuyi could only continue dismantling the robot with complicated feelings.

However, Song Xuyi later got stuck: the density of components inside this robot exceeded her expectations!

While Song Xuyi knew how to take apart this robot, at her current skill level, she had no way to reassemble it.

This was truly losing face!

Song Xuyi glanced at Lin Ruyu, who still appeared to be sleeping. To maintain her dignity as a little teacher, Song Xuyi secretly opened her light brain and took a photo of the robot’s exterior.

This was a method she had learned from classmates. Because Bilin Star’s robotics industry was highly developed, with the idea that everyone should be able to build robots, many robotics alliances had jointly created a website: as long as you had a photo of a robot’s exterior appearance from the market, you could search this specific website and find the same model robot along with its assembly diagram.

With an assembly diagram, Song Xuyi would be ninety percent confident in reassembling this robot.

However, to Song Xuyi’s surprise, when she searched for the same model, the light brain repeatedly displayed “This robot model does not exist, would you like to register it?”

Song Xuyi tried several times with the same result, and couldn’t help but look toward Lin Ruyu with shocked suspicion: could this be a robot that wasn’t available on the market?

Thinking about Lin Ruyu’s extraordinary learning ability and the various robots in her room, an idea slowly formed in Song Xuyi’s mind, but just as this thought was about to take shape, the seemingly sleeping Lin Ruyu suddenly opened her eyes——

Lin Ruyu rubbed her eyes, her gaze still appearing somewhat drowsy. Her eyes swept over the robot Song Xuyi had dismantled, darkening briefly, but her face slowly broke into a yawn: “This was sent to me by a fan, who said it was a robot not available on the market, but I don’t know how to use it, and I don’t like using it——”

Lin Ruyu curved her lips into a smile: “I prefer the robots Xuyi makes for me,” she tilted her head, looking at Song Xuyi: “The robots Xuyi makes have warmth.”

Distracted by Lin Ruyu, meeting her smiling gaze that seemed to contain starlight, Song Xuyi felt her face burning with embarrassment. Her confusion momentarily vanished, replaced by a small surge of joy, though she felt incredibly shy about her inadequacy. Finally deciding to be honest, she bit her lip, lowered her eyes, and spoke softly: “But after dismantling this robot, I don’t know how to reassemble it. Your fan is really impressive…”

“We can reassemble it later!” Lin Ruyu seemed completely unconcerned, her smile deepening. She stretched lazily, reaching out as if to pinch Song Xuyi’s cheeks, but since she was currently a projection, her fingers passed right through——

Lin Ruyu’s eyes darkened, but her voice maintained its cheerful tone: “Xuyi, you’ve persevered until now and accomplished many things that people from Ruoshui Star couldn’t do. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself, and don’t mind the school rumors. Just happily make your robots…”

Song Xuyi initially didn’t think much of Lin Ruyu’s words, but the system in her mind suddenly translated: “Xuyi, can’t you see? The villain deliberately bought all these robots and pretended to sleep! She probably heard about your recent grade decline and, thinking you were under pressure, wanted to give you more time to practice…”

Could that be it?

Song Xuyi’s eyes widened, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt the system was right. She couldn’t help but look up at Lin Ruyu, who didn’t have time to change her expression. When Song Xuyi looked over, although Lin Ruyu still maintained that casual appearance, her eyes held unmistakable concern.

Meeting Song Xuyi’s gaze, Lin Ruyu blinked, then smiled a moment later: “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.” Song Xuyi lowered her head. For a moment, she felt an impulse to tell Lin Ruyu that she was pretending, to let Lin Ruyu know she didn’t need to worry about her, but the words caught in her throat—it was still too early! The human heart was the most changeable thing; Lin Ruyu’s heart was currently devoted to Bilin Star, but who could say what the future might hold? Moreover, if she revealed the truth, it would inevitably implicate Song Yi, who had endured humiliation for so many years. She couldn’t let him be exposed because of her…

While countless emotions swept through Song Xuyi’s mind, she remained unaware of Lin Ruyu’s contemplative gaze as she watched her——

Lin Ruyu had been pretending to sleep the whole time. She had watched the videos of Song Xuyi during exams, where her clumsy hands and feet was completely different from the skillful way she had just dismantled the cleaning robot.

Xuyi was pretending, she was deliberately performing poorly on tests.

Moreover, she was hiding something from her, unable to meet her gaze…

What secret could she be keeping?

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LP: Re-translated on January 23, 2025

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