I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 3

Villain

The System currently had few functions.

The shop was locked. There was a character panel, which Su Wenwen opened. It displayed her own attribute values: Strength, Stamina, Endurance, Agility, Mental Power.

Apart from Mental Power and Endurance, which were five points each, the rest were only one point. Su Wenwen looked at the empty system and instantly lost interest in studying it.

“System, is there no novice gift pack?”

【None oh!】

Hearing the system’s reply, Su Wenwen didn’t feel disappointed. In her previous life, she had struggled and fought¹ all by herself, even managing to survive for a year with Helian Yun, that burden², behind her. Her mentality had long been tempered.

Not long after, her best friend knocked on the main door.

The moment the door opened, before her best friend could even glance at the home’s decor, Su Wenwen dragged her to the supermarket. Her first target was dried goods.

Since she couldn’t return home in the short term, Su Wenwen planned to hoard food in the rented apartment and hide out for a while, because she knew that for seven days after the apocalypse broke out, rescue wouldn’t be able to arrive.

The types of dried goods were mainly meat-based.

Next were small snacks to satisfy cravings, then canned fruits to ensure the body’s required nutrients, as well as knives, lighters, gas stoves, and mineral water. Just these few items already filled the shopping cart.

Her best friend beside her stared wide-eyed: “Did you strike it rich?”

Su Wenwen smiled: “I guess so!”

“No wonder, but you’re buying way too much, aren’t you?” Her best friend usually stocked up on goods, but not as exaggeratedly as Su Wenwen.

Su Wenwen didn’t explain; after all, time was limited, and explaining would be too troublesome. She only told her best friend: “If you trust me, don’t go to work tomorrow either. Tell your parents to stay home too, and don’t go anywhere.”

“My god, taking two days off in a row, won’t Zhou Bapi³ eat me alive…” Seeing Su Wenwen’s indifferent expression, as if something about her had changed, though she couldn’t quite pinpoint what, her best friend didn’t overthink it and nodded, “Alright, who would I trust if not you? At worst, I’ll just get an earful from Zhou Bapi.”

Su Wenwen smiled. Being with her best friend, she felt truly relaxed. However, in her previous life, she had wanted to find her best friend, but she never got any news about her.

Searching her mind for the novel’s plot, her best friend’s name didn’t appear either. As she was lost in thought, her best friend urged her to hurry up and check out, so she snapped back to her senses.

After paying, they sent the items home.

Su Wenwen originally wanted to drag her best friend for a second wave of purchases, but her best friend felt they had bought enough. She could only instruct her best friend to go to the pharmacy and stock up on some medicine. Her best friend readily agreed and then drove away.

Su Wenwen went to the supermarket again by herself, buying some liquefied gas, seasonings, flashlights, binoculars, sanitary napkins, and so on.

Then she went to the pharmacy and bought all the medicine she could, mainly anti-inflammatory drugs, antibiotics, and the like. After that, she went to a lock shop, bought the best locks and an iron door, and paid a high price to have a craftsman replace her home’s door lock that same day.

After doing all this, Su Wenwen looked at the food piled up in her home and knew it was far from enough. However, she only planned to stay here for a while. Once the peak period of the apocalypse outbreak passed, she would leave this place.

After all, staying in one place all the time would only lead to a quicker death.

Su Wenwen cooked herself a fresh dinner. After eating, she took a bath, then organized some changes of clothes, stuffing them all into a hiking backpack. She put some food that didn’t take up much space in the bag; this bag was for emergencies, ready to be carried at any time.

Beside it was a small bag, containing a kitchen knife and some food.

The next day.

Su Wenwen put on a baseball cap, wore a T-shirt and sweatpants, slung the small bag over her shoulder, and went out.

Arriving at the bus stop, Su Wenwen glanced at her phone. It was now 7:30, still early, and the flow of people hadn’t reached its peak. About a dozen young men and women were waiting for the bus.

The sun hung bright and high in the sky, a clear sky for thousands of li⁴. Many families had hung out quilts and clothes on their windowsills to air and dry. The bus arrived on time as usual.

Su Wenwen followed the crowd onto the bus. There weren’t many people on board either. She sat down by a window. After everyone had boarded, the bus didn’t start immediately but waited a little longer, only starting the engine after confirming no one else was getting on.

Su Wenwen didn’t quite remember the other person’s appearance, only that she had a mole near the corner of her eye. Her gaze swept around the bus, but she didn’t find anyone with a mole near the corner of their eye. It wasn’t until the system said there would be a reminder when the villain appeared that she finally withdrew her gaze and stared blankly at the scenery continuously receding outside the window.

This was the outskirts of the city. The bus stopped and started, people got off and on. Gradually, there were more and more people. Inadvertently, she saw a man with some blisters on the corner of his mouth get on the bus with the crowd.

Su Wenwen instantly tensed up and quickly sent a message to that unfamiliar friend, saying she had boarded the bus, but she didn’t receive an immediate reply.

She waited patiently for a while, still no response. Just as Su Wenwen thought she had been stood up, someone sat down beside her.

She didn’t pay attention to the person beside her, only smelling a light fragrance, until the system frantically reminded her. Only then did she turn her head to look.

The woman’s appearance was just like the hand in the profile picture, making one’s eyes light up⁵; one couldn’t help but look a few more times. Her facial contours were distinct, her skin comparable to jade. Her slightly cold demeanor made her seem difficult to get along with, but on the lower part of her left eye’s outer corner, there was a captivating beauty mark, causing faint ripples in one’s heart.

Is she the villain?

Is she the white moonlight that Helian Yun would protect even if it meant abandoning Su Wenwen?

For a moment, Su Wenwen couldn’t control her expression, which twisted slightly. She quickly pulled down her baseball cap to cover her face and said in as calm a tone as possible, “What exactly do you want from me?”

The villain didn’t speak but handed Su Wenwen a mobile phone. This phone was black, not new, an old model popular a few years ago. The phone case had marks of being pried open, looking like the battery had been replaced.

“Why are you giving me a second-hand phone?”

The villain’s voice was as cool and indifferent as her person: “Just open it and see for yourself, wouldn’t you know then.”

Su Wenwen pressed a button. The phone was locked, but the background image was surprisingly a photo Su Wenwen had taken with Helian Yun in college. That is to say, this phone belonged to Helian Yun.

Helian Yun had two mobile phones: one for personal use and another for work. This phone was Helian Yun’s work phone. At the time, Su Wenwen hadn’t suspected anything, and moreover, the picture on this phone was of Su Wenwen and Helian Yun, so she was even less likely to be suspicious.

“The password is 1127.”

Su Wenwen looked at her: “How do you know?”

“Because it’s my birthday.”

Su Wenwen pursed her lips, unsure what state of mind she was in as she entered the password. Opening the phone, she saw it was full of the villain’s photos. Upon closer inspection, these photos ranged from when the villain entered university until her current job.

She scrolled through the photos for a long time and still hadn’t reached the end. Exiting the photos and checking the storage, my goodness, the photos alone took up a full 500GB (gigabyte).

Thinking carefully, the villain enrolled in university in the third month after Su Wenwen and Helian Yun started dating, which was the day their junior year of university began. Helian Yun’s attitude towards her had taken a sharp turn for the worse then.

Buying flowers Su Wenwen didn’t like, ordering dishes Su Wenwen didn’t like to eat, watching movies Su Wenwen didn’t like, even the clothing sizes were never bought correctly.

At that time, Su Wenwen naively thought that after being in different places for two months during the summer vacation, it was normal to become estranged, and that after some time, they would be able to talk about everything like before.

She never expected to end up with today’s result.

Su Wenwen’s hands trembled with anger. She couldn’t understand, since Helian Yun had fallen in love with someone else so early on, why didn’t she just tell her clearly, instead of stringing her along?

She felt so wretched and foolish. So many years of self-deception were just a joke in Helian Yun’s eyes. No wonder the other party was unwilling to break up; she was completely treating her as a backup.

However, Helian Yun’s fate wasn’t much better. She was cannon fodder female supporting character. Although her level was higher than Su Wenwen’s, she died just as miserably as Su Wenwen, and it was in front of the villain, bitten by an infected person until she was changed beyond recognition.

No matter how Helian Yun cried for help, the villain didn’t extend a helping hand to her, instead saying: “You abandon even your own girlfriend. A person like you will sooner or later harm others even if you live.”

Su Wenwen smiled, but it was a very faint smile. She had originally wanted an amicable breakup, but now she wanted Helian Yun to also suffer the pain she had tasted before.

【As the saying goes, the best way to retaliate against someone is to take away what they value most. The system suggests the Host bend the villain, make the villain fall in love with the Host. This method of retaliation is the most direct.】

Su Wenwen ignored the system. If she were to use the villain’s feelings to retaliate against Helian Yun, then what difference would there be between herself and a scumbag.

“Thank you for telling me this.”

“You’re welcome.”

【Ding, mission complete. Reward: Small Cake*2 (virtual item, can be used directly, Endurance recovery +2 points)】

【1 square meter space backpack*1 (physical backpack, once taken out from the system inventory, the backpack cannot be returned. Can be combined with other backpacks to expand its capacity. Limited to Host use. Normally, it’s just an ordinary backpack.)】

She hadn’t expected there to be a space backpack. Su Wenwen was just worrying about how to bring more supplies. With the space backpack, all problems would be easily solved⁶. Although it was only one square meter now, if she did more tasks in the future, there was still a possibility of expanding the space backpack.

“The item has been handed over to you, but I’ve also kept a copy of the evidence. Please inform Helian Yun to submit her resignation report to me herself, otherwise my legal team will sue her.”

What a pity.

The apocalypse was about to arrive, otherwise Su Wenwen would definitely have kept this matter secret and let this villain send Helian Yun to prison to eat free meals.

Su Wenwen verbally agreed with the villain, planning in her heart to get off at the next stop and then take a taxi back to take shelter. But she discovered that the originally clear sky had become incomparably dark, and the bus also stopped at a red light at this moment.

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