Blame the Villain – Chapter 255

Extra 2

Childhood Sweethearts

Little Song Xuyi was five years old this year.

She was the kindergarten’s darling, fair-skinned and well-behaved since young, and many people adored her.

That day happened to be little Song Xuyi’s fifth birthday.

As Song Xuyi was making a wish, a beautiful shooting star suddenly appeared in the sky. Little Song Xuyi thought of the pretty class flower [校花 | xiào huā | the most beautiful girl in school] from the neighboring class, and solemnly made her five-year-old wish to the shooting star—

“Shooting star, shooting star, I want to be friends with the most beautiful person in the world!”

The next day, little Song Xuyi took the lollipop she had received the day before to find the class flower. The class flower happily accepted Song Xuyi’s lollipop, linked pinkies with Song Xuyi, shared the lollipop, and they promised to become good friends.

Song Xuyi felt her dream had come true, and she smiled so widely all day that her eyes disappeared into crescents.

That night, as Song Xuyi was preparing for bed, a strange letter appeared on her desk. The signature was extremely peculiar, signed as—A Letter from a Friend Seven Solar Systems Away.

At that time, Song Xuyi had only learned a few characters and could only recognize some of them. As if knowing Song Xuyi hadn’t yet started learning characters, this letter contained simple drawings, one after another:

The first drawing showed a little girl rubbing her eyes while making a wish upon a shooting star in the sky;

Little Song Xuyi recognized this scene immediately—the wishing child was herself!

Little Song Xuyi was so happy that she instantly took a liking to the person who drew this: because they had drawn her so adorably!

Song Xuyi opened the second drawing. In it, the image from the first drawing suddenly appeared before a little girl standing by a window, whose face was unclear.

The third drawing depicted countless stars with a vector arrow, rigorously indicating the distance from Song Xuyi’s planet to seven solar systems away.

The fourth drawing was again of a faceless little girl, extending one hand, seemingly wanting to become friends with Song Xuyi.

The remaining sheets of paper were all blank.

Little Song Xuyi pondered and thought these blank papers must be for her to draw on freely. After some thought, she took out a pencil and wrote the few characters she knew in wobbly handwriting “come seven girlfriends”. She had originally wanted to write “hello”, but she didn’t know how to write either character. Finally, Song Xuyi bit the pencil tip and drew a little figure waving with an incredibly bright smile.

Amazingly, as soon as she finished drawing, the paper immediately vanished.

Song Xuyi had been somewhat conflicted because her wish had already come true—she had become friends with the class flower, and she didn’t know if this alien girl who wrote to her was pretty or not: after all, Song Xuyi had seen a movie where aliens had withered skin and protruding eyes, looking quite frightening.

But after seeing these magical papers, Song Xuyi immediately dismissed her concerns: though her new friend might not be pretty, she must be a good person to share such magical paper with her!

Song Xuyi’s eyes widened with excitement, and she enthusiastically drew another picture, albeit messily: in it was a little girl also extending her hand, indicating she wanted to become friends with that little girl.

Then Song Xuyi drew another picture, showing a little girl holding a pencil: Song Xuyi remembered scenes from the movie and wanted to be a little teacher to teach this alien friend her planet’s language.

On the last paper, Song Xuyi drew a lollipop—Song Xuyi wanted to express her hospitality and show she was a fair person. She had given the class flower a lollipop during the day, and when this new friend came to her planet, she would be willing to share a lollipop with her too.

After the last paper disappeared, Song Xuyi went to bed.

For the next few days, she received no more mysterious letters on her desk, while at school, she and the class flower grew closer playing together.

Children generally have short memories, and Song Xuyi had almost forgotten about that alien friend whom her parents didn’t believe existed…

Until about a week later, when a strange, shimmering metallic box suddenly appeared on Song Xuyi’s desk. As soon as Song Xuyi’s hand touched the box, it emitted a pleasant child’s voice—

“Xuyi, you wrote that letter wrong! It should be ‘good friend’, not ‘girlfriend’. I can write characters, and I only have you as my one good friend, not seven.”

Wow! Was this the alien child’s voice?

Song Xuyi thought the voice was beautiful and wanted to hear more, so she couldn’t help but shake the little box. When her hand touched the box again, it emitted a mechanical electronic sound: “Space-time travel consumes great energy, can only reply with fifty characters!”

Fifty characters? Her new friend was amazing, being able to count to fifty!

Song Xuyi was incredibly impressed: she could only count to twenty at this time, fifty characters seemed like so many to her!

Song Xuyi couldn’t help but praise into the little box: “Your voice is so pretty! Your drawings are cute too, when you drew me earlier it looked just like me, and just as cute! You’re so good at studying, being able to count to fifty characters, I can only count to twenty! Do you like eating lollipops…”

Song Xuyi felt she had so many things she wanted to ask her new friend, but before she could finish speaking, the little box suddenly vanished. Only then did she belatedly realize she had exceeded the character limit. For the first time, Song Xuyi felt regret, and for the first time, she made a firm resolution to study hard: she needed to learn quickly, count to fifty, so she could properly reply to her new friend in the future…

But before Song Xuyi could learn to fifty, her new friend’s box came again.

This time, the new friend’s box was much larger than before, and still carried her new friend’s voice: “Xuyi’s voice is also pretty, and she’s especially cute, I’ve never eaten a lollipop…”

This time, when Song Xuyi shook the box again, the mechanical voice changed its message: “Storage space expanded, can support five minutes of voice!”

Song Xuyi’s eyes widened!

She knew how long five minutes was, her mother had told her, it was when the hand on the clock moved one big mark!

Song Xuyi was overjoyed, watching the clock while rapidly spilling out words like beans [倒豆子一般 | dào dòu zi yì bān | speaking rapidly]: “You’ve never eaten a lollipop! That’s so pitiful! When will you come visit me? I’ll definitely treat you to lollipops then! Besides lollipops, we have many other delicious things here! I’ll treat you to all of them! Mom gave me lots of New Year’s money! Oh right, we also have many super beautiful people here! You’ll definitely like them when you see them! These days I’ve been watching a singing competition with mom, there’s a sister there who’s really super beautiful, many people like her, she’s even prettier than the class flower at school…”

Song Xuyi chattered away, sharing her life and interests with her new friend, and even after five minutes, she still had more to say.

When Song Xuyi received the box again, her new friend told her: “Xuyi, I’m called Rong Yu. Thank you for telling me everything, I’ll find a way to come to your planet to see you in the future!”

Song Xuyi loved her new friend’s voice, it sounded especially pleasant. She always tried every possible way to coax her new friend into speaking more, but her new friend didn’t seem very talkative, mostly just quietly listening to Song Xuyi talk.

But Song Xuyi could feel this friend called Rong Yu’s fondness for her, because Rong Yu was indeed working hard to come see Song Xuyi. Their communication tools evolved from paper to voice boxes, and later, by the time Song Xuyi was nine years old, a ten-minute interstellar phone appeared on her desk.

On her ninth birthday, Song Xuyi wanted to coax Rong Yu into singing her a birthday song at night, pestered her parents to get her cake early, and that night a heavy rain fell, with the news reporting multiple accidents.

Song Xuyi didn’t know why, but listening to the accident reports on TV, looking at her parents and grandparents beside her, she inexplicably wanted to cry.

“Because Xuyi is a kind-hearted girl.” When Song Xuyi expressed her inexplicable sudden emotions to Rong Yu, Rong Yu was gentler than usual on the interstellar phone that day. She sang Song Xuyi a birthday song and softly comforted her: “Xuyi is so cute, misfortune wouldn’t dare befall you, we’ll all live very happily.”

After Song Xuyi entered junior high school, she and the class flower went to different schools, and their relationship gradually faded. Everyone suddenly had new friends, but as time passed, Song Xuyi became increasingly certain: no matter how much time passed or how many people she met, Rong Yu would always be her best friend!

But also in Song Xuyi’s thirteenth year, for a long time, Song Xuyi couldn’t contact Rong Yu anymore.

Song Xuyi was extremely panicked, only then realizing that it had always been Rong Yu contacting her, she had no way to contact Rong Yu on her own.

Her mood suddenly became incredibly chaotic, seeming to lose interest in many things. Song Xuyi began studying relentlessly: perhaps if she learned enough knowledge, she would have a chance to travel seven solar systems away in the future, to see what had happened to Rong Yu.

It was at this time that a transfer student came to the school.

The moment the transfer student stood on the podium in Song Xuyi’s class, Song Xuyi froze in place: as someone attracted to beauty, Song Xuyi liked looking at all kinds of beautiful people, but among all the beautiful people she had seen, except for the idol Wen Min whom her whole family liked, Song Xuyi had never seen someone so beautiful in real life!

The girl on the podium was more radiant than the sun. She smiled at Song Xuyi, making Song Xuyi feel like her heart was about to melt!

And with the girl’s self-introduction “Hello everyone, I’m Rong Yu, Xuyi’s good friend,” Song Xuyi’s eyes widened, feeling as if she were dreaming—Rong Yu had actually come to her planet!

And Rong Yu was so incredibly beautiful!

Until the homeroom teacher arranged for Rong Yu to be Song Xuyi’s desk mate, Song Xuyi pinched herself hard, felt the pain, and only after confirming it wasn’t a dream did she stare at the smiling Rong Yu beside her: “You really came! I’m so happy!”

“How long will you stay this time? When will you return to your planet?”

…

Song Xuyi asked many questions non-stop, and Rong Yu answered her gently:

“I no longer have my own planet. Our home solar system has been annihilated in the universe,” Rong Yu lowered her head, her eyes showing some sadness, but when she looked at Song Xuyi, her eyes carried a smile: “But I need to thank you. Because I’ve always wanted to come see you these years, I paid special attention to the solar system’s conditions, and kept developing tools for space travel. Half a year ago, I discovered in time that the universe was about to experience chaos, we devoted our planet’s resources to developing numerous spaceships, organized everyone to evacuate, and scattered across many solar systems.”

“Although our home planet is gone, the people of our solar system all survived!”

“From now on, I’ll live with you on this planet, this will be my second homeland!”

…

“Don’t worry, I’ll definitely treat you well from now on!” Song Xuyi hadn’t expected Rong Yu to have gone through such hardship during this time. She felt incredibly heartbroken and immediately emptied her pocket money during break to buy Rong Yu all kinds of snacks she had promised before. After school, she brought Rong Yu to her home, insisting her parents prepare an especially sumptuous meal for Rong Yu.

It was also at this time that Song Xuyi learned Rong Yu had moved in next door. Looking at Rong Yu’s beautiful parents, Song Xuyi felt unprecedentedly happy, and for a moment even the gloomy sky seemed to become bright: for someone attracted to beauty, what could be more blissful than seeing beautiful people whenever opening or closing one’s eyes?

Afterward, Song Xuyi and Rong Yu rode bicycles to school together, played together, becoming virtually inseparable. Rong Yu was even more outstanding than Song Xuyi had imagined: she never seemed to get angry at Song Xuyi, always smiling when looking at her, and her grades were exceptionally good, almost always ranking first in their grade…

Such an outstanding girl naturally attracted attention. Since Rong Yu arrived, Song Xuyi had helped deliver countless love letters to her, written by both boys and girls, but Rong Yu would always just tear them open for a glance before setting them aside.

Until one day, a boy with a red face stuffed a letter to Song Xuyi. Thinking it was another letter for Rong Yu, she casually handed it to her, but unexpectedly, Rong Yu looked at it, narrowed her eyes, and actually put the letter in her schoolbag!

Song Xuyi’s eyes widened: Rong Yu had always ignored all love letters, this was the first time she’d kept one. Could it be that Rong Yu liked this type of boy?

Song Xuyi recalled the boy’s delicate and shy appearance, and couldn’t help asking: “Ah Yu, are you planning to date this boy? Though he’s quite cute, our parents don’t allow us to date early…”

“You think he’s cute?” Rong Yu’s eyes suddenly narrowed, and Song Xuyi didn’t know what came over her, but suddenly felt the Rong Yu before her looked somewhat dangerous. However, Rong Yu immediately smiled as usual and patted Song Xuyi’s head: “Don’t worry, I know my limits. Right now I’m focused only on studying, and I hope you’ll accompany me too, so we can get into a key high school together.”

“Although people on our planet aren’t considered adults until their twenties, now that I’m here, I should follow this planet’s rules. I’ll wait until after the college entrance exam at eighteen to be with the person I like…”

Rong Yu gave Song Xuyi a deep look. Song Xuyi felt something strange about Rong Yu, but couldn’t quite put her finger on what was odd. At the same time, hearing Rong Yu’s words, Song Xuyi suddenly felt an inexplicable sourness in her heart: Rong Yu’s words indicated she already had someone she liked, yet Song Xuyi spent every day with her and didn’t know who it was?!

However, when Song Xuyi asked Rong Yu who she liked, Rong Yu, who had never kept secrets from Song Xuyi before, averted her gaze and patted Song Xuyi’s head: “I can’t tell you now.”

Song Xuyi’s eyes widened, never imagining that Rong Yu would have a secret from her!

Afterward, Song Xuyi clung to Rong Yu even more tightly, wanting to figure out exactly who Rong Yu liked. Meanwhile, Rong Yu took this opportunity to strictly supervise Song Xuyi’s studies. Song Xuyi’s academic performance improved dramatically, and they both got into a key high school together.

At first, Song Xuyi thought Rong Yu liked that boy who gave her the letter, but shortly after receiving it, Song Xuyi saw Rong Yu talking to the boy, who then ran away crying. From then on, whenever the boy saw them, he would avoid them from far away, looking resentful…

After eliminating the boy, Song Xuyi really couldn’t think of who Rong Yu might like.

As their high school days gradually passed and the college entrance exam approached, Song Xuyi grew increasingly anxious: although Rong Yu hadn’t dated anyone during high school, Song Xuyi always remembered Rong Yu saying she had someone she liked. Just thinking about Rong Yu smiling at someone else, being with someone else while she became the third wheel, the more Song Xuyi thought about it, the more unsettled she felt.

Song Xuyi despised herself for having such possessive feelings toward Rong Yu. As a good friend, Song Xuyi felt she should be happy for Rong Yu, but she couldn’t control herself. Whenever she imagined scenes of Rong Yu being with someone else, Song Xuyi felt incredibly sad.

These emotions reached their peak after the college entrance exam.

Someone as wonderful as Rong Yu would surely end up with the person she liked.

It was also during this season that Wen Min, the idol Song Xuyi had followed since childhood, announced she had successfully pursued a girlfriend and planned to marry her.

Although as a rational fan, Song Xuyi had privately shipped Wen Min with her girlfriend Bai Qingshao, when she heard the news of their upcoming marriage, Song Xuyi still felt somewhat lost: it seemed everyone in the world was finding love, leaving only her as a lonely single dog.

Wen Min’s last concert before marriage was on the second day after the college entrance exam.

Song Xuyi desperately begged Rong Yu to go to the concert with her.

For some reason, although Song Xuyi had recommended Wen Min to Rong Yu many times, Rong Yu had never shown much interest. Now, knowing Wen Min was getting married, when Song Xuyi wanted to go to the concert, Rong Yu finally nodded and even surprisingly praised Wen Min: “As a mermaid, her voice is indeed top-tier, and she’s one of the rare mermaids who could break free from the evil curse’s fate…”

Since Wen Min’s debut image was that of a mermaid, and people had been calling her that for years, Song Xuyi didn’t think much of the comment. During the concert, Song Xuyi used the atmosphere to cry her heart out, trying to release her sadness: Wen Min was getting married, Rong Yu would soon be with the person she liked, leaving only herself as a single dog in the world…

But when she saw Wen Min appear before everyone with her wife and child, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but feel happy again, loudly wishing them well.

…

After crying and laughing, Song Xuyi was exhausted, and finally Rong Yu carried her home on her back.

Under the starry sky, Song Xuyi, who had cried too much earlier, couldn’t help but hiccup from crying. Rong Yu’s voice sounded unprecedentedly cold: “You like her that much? I’ve never seen you so crazy before!”

“You wouldn’t understand, you who’s about to start dating,” Song Xuyi thought of Wen Min about to be with her partner, and sadness welled up in her heart, making her feel depressed: “It’s not just because I like her, I’m also happy for her, that my idol can find happiness. But seeing others paired up while I’m a single dog, I can’t help but feel melancholic…”

Song Xuyi had meant for Rong Yu to comfort her, to tell her that even after she started dating, she wouldn’t forget about her good friend, but unexpectedly, she heard Rong Yu’s cold laugh—

“Hah, who says I don’t understand!”

Rong Yu put Song Xuyi down, turned around and gazed deeply into her eyes, making Song Xuyi unconsciously grip her clothes tightly—

“Other people’s loved ones always understand each other’s hearts, but I’ve spent all these years liking a dense blockhead [榆木疙瘩 | yú mù gē da | idiom for someone slow to understand]. She hasn’t realized I like her all these years! She even accepts boys’ love letters in front of me, cries and laughs for other women, and even though she called me girlfriend when she was little, she changed her mind when she grew up, only wanting to be good friends…”

“You’re the one who told me I wrote it wrong, that it should be ‘good friend’ instead of ‘girlfriend’!” Song Xuyi reflexively argued, belatedly realizing the meaning behind Rong Yu’s words, her eyes widening as her heartbeat skipped a beat, then started racing again…

So…

The person Rong Yu said she liked… was herself?

“I was the one who said it wrong when we were little!” Rong Yu smoothly continued, gazing deeply at Song Xuyi, her eyes showing some nervousness: “All these years, I’ve always wanted to be your girlfriend. Xuyi, would you be willing to give it a try with me?”

Song Xuyi looked into Rong Yu’s beautiful eyes, those eyes that were, as always, filled with nothing but herself…

Song Xuyi’s heart beat faster and faster, as an unfamiliar yet joyful emotion overflowed from the bottom of her heart. Song Xuyi bit her lower lip, her face turning bright red, but clearly heard her own mosquito-like voice—

“Yes!”

To Song Xuyi’s surprise, it seemed everyone except her knew about Rong Yu’s feelings for her. Her family wasn’t surprised, her classmates weren’t surprised, even the teachers weren’t surprised…

They got into the same university together, and when they graduated, they got married with all their family and friends as witnesses.

Without any wandering or pain, all their loved ones remained by their side, and their life after marriage was happy and peaceful, walking hand in hand until their hair turned white.

This was the story between them that Song Xuyi wrote for Rong Yu and herself in their new little world.

And among the countless universes, please believe that there will always be a world that belongs to all of us: where we love what we love without regret, where year after year our wishes come true, filled with joy and peace!

《Extra Chapter End》

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LP: Last chapter! Thank you, everyone, for reading! This has been a loooong journey. Tis is my first translation (though its mtl so I’m really not the one translating ) so there’s a lot mistakes.

But still, thank you again for reading!

And… If you recommend any novels for me to translate, that would be helpful :)

Re-translated on February 15, 2025

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