Volume Two: Those Years When I Was the School Bully
Win Her Over
When Wen Nuan first met Song Ci, the young girl’s aura practically screamed “Strangers, Do Not Approach”.
Even though she looked like a delicate beauty, frail and pitiful1, she didn’t like to smile and always wore a long face, seeming a bit overly serious.
Perhaps because of her family situation, Song Ci’s emotions were overly cold.
Her parents divorced, and the court awarded her to her father.
Song Ci’s mother remarried and had another son, and from then on, the frequency of her contacting Song Ci gradually decreased, while Song Ci’s father spent every day having fun and wasn’t home.
Speaking of which, Wen Nuan also knew Song Ci’s father; he ran a decent building materials company, a small-scale business but quite profitable, and they even had business dealings with her family.
Although Song Ci’s father didn’t fulfill her emotional needs in terms of family affection and was often indifferent to her, in terms of money and material things, Song Ci’s father was decent to her.
The lack of emotional connection in her childhood made Song Ci’s personality even colder and more withdrawn. Because of this, Song Ci was often bullied in junior high. After getting into Third Experimental High School, some people who were her junior high classmates also got in, wanting to continue bullying Song Ci.
As a result, Zhao Wen Nuan followed Song Ci around every day, and they were afraid of Zhao Wen Nuan and didn’t dare to lay a hand on Song Ci. It wasn’t until Zhao Wen Nuan transferred schools and left that the resentment they had held for a long time could finally be unleashed on Song Ci.
Yu Zitong from Senior Year Class 10 was one of Song Ci’s junior high classmates. Because she liked the male lead Lu Yi, and Lu Yi liked Song Ci, she targeted Song Ci everywhere.
Just like today, she brazenly dumped leftovers onto Song Ci, and then pretended to be wronged, saying Song Ci was being unreasonable and deliberately looking for trouble with her.
In the past, Song Ci would just remain silent, not refuting or explaining, but today’s Song Ci greatly surprised many people.
She openly confronted and retorted to Yu Zitong, causing Yu Zitong to lose face in front of their classmates. If Wen Nuan hadn’t intervened in time, Yu Zitong might have hit Song Ci.
Wen Nuan didn’t expect Song Ci to lower her blackening value because of her help, but she never imagined Song Ci would say something like she didn’t want to be friends with her anymore?!
【Oh dear, that backfired2. Does the female lead completely hate you now?】The System smiled.
Wen Nuan: “…”
Isn’t gloating a bit too obvious?!
“Ah Ci, are you still mad at me?” Wen Nuan felt that the female lead still cared about that time she confessed to the male lead.
Song Ci lifted her eyelids slightly: “No.”
“Then what do you mean by saying that?” Wen Nuan furrowed her brows. “Even if you’re throwing a tantrum, there has to be a reason, right?”
Song Ci looked at her. “I’m not throwing a tantrum.”
“Not throwing a tantrum?” Wen Nuan was so angry she laughed. “Then why don’t you want to be friends with me anymore? Even if you’re sentencing me to death, you have to give me a crime, right?”
Song Ci didn’t speak and turned to leave.
Seeing her so silent, a surge of anger suddenly rose in Wen Nuan. She grabbed Song Ci’s hand and pulled her back.
“Where are you going? We haven’t finished talking. Where do you think you’re going?” Wen Nuan suppressed her anger.
Song Ci lowered her head, looked at Wen Nuan’s hand, and tried to break free, but Wen Nuan’s grip was very strong.
“Let go.”
“I’ll let go once you explain.”
“Explain what?” Song Ci’s expression was icy. “I’ve already made myself very clear.”
“Zhao Wen Nuan, I told you, I don’t want to be friends with you anymore.” She sneered. “Is that hard to understand?”
“Reason!”
Song Ci said, “I’m tired, sick of it, annoyed.”
Wen Nuan furrowed her brows tightly and called out to the System in her mind, “Sys, did the blackening value go up?”
【Nope, it’s still 7,】the System said in surprise. 【That’s weird, the female lead said she doesn’t want to be friends with you anymore, but the blackening value didn’t go up?】
Wen Nuan couldn’t guess what Song Ci was thinking inside. The female lead in this world was too unpredictable.
You couldn’t detect anything from her calm, waveless eyes.
If she didn’t want to tell you, you would never know what she wanted.
That’s why Wen Nuan came up with such a rotten idea: confessing to the male lead in front of everyone, thereby stimulating the female lead’s sense of crisis regarding their relationship and facilitating the male lead and female lead getting together.
“Are you serious?” Wen Nuan said sternly. “You really don’t want to continue being friends with me?”
Song Ci’s long eyelashes trembled slightly. She said faintly, “Mm.”
Wen Nuan let go of her hand. “Alright, as you wish.”
Just as Song Ci was about to turn and leave, Wen Nuan said, “There’s something I think I should make clear. When I confessed to Lu Yi in my second year of high school, it wasn’t because I liked Lu Yi. It was because I lost a game of Truth or Dare with someone and was required to confess to Lu Yi. That’s why I confessed to Lu Yi during the flag-raising ceremony.”
“I don’t want this matter to become a barrier between us.”
The System said in surprise: 【Hey, the female lead’s blackening value dropped to 5!】
Wen Nuan’s eyes lit up. “It seems it really was this incident that caused the female lead to blacken. Sure enough, the female lead still cares about the male lead.”
【Quick, Host, press the advantage!】the System cheered.
“Mm-hm.”
Wen Nuan looked at Song Ci’s back. “If you and Lu Yi still like each other, I really don’t want to hold you back because of this matter.”
“Ah Ci, I’m really not interested in him. He’s not my type. And he rejected me on the spot, which shows he’s not interested in me either.”
“Lu Yi, he actually likes you. I sincerely hope you two can get together properly.”
Wen Nuan spoke these words movingly and eloquently, afraid that Song Ci might misunderstand.
【Ahhhhhh….】the System screamed in panic. 【Host, the female lead’s blackening value is skyrocketing!!】
Wen Nuan exclaimed in shock, “What?!”
【Right now the blackening value has already shot up to 8.5!!】the System shrieked, scratching its head.
“Why?”
Did she say something wrong?!
Wen Nuan carefully thought back on what she had just said. Could it be that she hadn’t made herself clear enough?
“Ah Ci, I’m really not interested in Lu Yi, really!” Wen Nuan was just short of holding up three fingers to swear. “You and Lu Yi are the perfect match. You like him, he likes you. You two shouldn’t miss out on each other because of me—”
【Ahhhhh it’s still going up!!!】the System cried out, losing its voice. 【It’s already gone up to 9!】
Wen Nuan: “…”
Alright, she’ll shut up!
A dead silence fell between the two of them.
“Are you done talking?”
Song Ci’s voice was unusually cold.
Wen Nuan swallowed. “I’m done.”
Song Ci didn’t say anything else and left directly.
Wen Nuan looked at Song Ci’s thin back, completely bewildered. “What on earth is going on?”
【Yeah, what on earth is going on?】The System was completely puzzled. 【I just calculated it, and every time you mentioned the female lead and male lead getting together, the female lead’s blackening value shot straight up.】
“Could it be that the female lead doesn’t like the male lead anymore?” Wen Nuan wondered.
【Analyzing based on this data, it’s very possible that the female lead doesn’t like the male lead, and might even have developed feelings of dislike towards him.】The System calculated the percentages and reached a conclusion.
Wen Nuan frowned. “Is your data reliable?”
The System said solemnly: 【Of course! Science is the primary productive force3, it is supreme! How can you mortals question it?!】
“…”
Like some kind of pyramid scheme organization.
Wen Nuan was very annoyed by the female lead’s skyrocketing blackening value. She took a cigarette out of her pocket and started smoking.
Passing students saw Wen Nuan smoking brazenly on school grounds and cast surprised and slightly envious looks at her.
Even the student council members didn’t dare to step forward and stop her when they passed by, because they knew how terrifying the consequences of angering Zhao Wen Nuan were.
Wen Nuan spotted Lu Yi in the crowd and called out, “Lu Yi, come here for a moment.”
Lu Yi in the crowd froze as if his pressure points had been struck4.
The surrounding people immediately scattered like birds and beasts5, making way for Lu Yi to walk towards Zhao Wen Nuan.
Lu Yi turned around with difficulty and looked at Wen Nuan. “What do you want?”
He stood rooted to the spot, not moving.
Wen Nuan exhaled a puff of smoke and said irritably, “Hurry up and come over, I have something to ask you.”
“Just say it,” Lu Yi shook his head. “I’m not coming over.”
To be honest, he was still quite intimidated by that guy Zhao Wen Nuan.
Although she was pretty, her personality was extremely arrogant. She’d act wild at the drop of a hat, like a runaway wild horse6.
Wen Nuan stubbed out her cigarette and said irritably, “I’ll count to three. One, two…”
Lu Yi immediately walked over. “…Coming.”
He definitely wasn’t afraid of her; it was because he respected girls and had gentlemanly manners.
Wen Nuan looked at the others. Not leaving? Want to watch the show?
“Are you planning to stay and chat with me?” Wen Nuan scanned the others.
The crowd immediately scattered.
Thinking it was a more private matter, Wen Nuan took Lu Yi to the back corridor of the school library building.
This was mostly where students who smoked liked to hang out.
Recently, the student council had been cracking down hard, so there were fewer people smoking in the back corridor.
“What are you asking me?” Lu Yi kept three steps away from Wen Nuan, wary.
Wen Nuan lit a cigarette and held it in her mouth, offering one to Lu Yi. “Want one?”
Lu Yi shook his head. “No thanks.”
“Alright,” Wen Nuan put it away and looked at him. “What’s going on between you and Song Ci?”
“What do you mean?” Lu Yi was stumped by her question.
“Didn’t you tell me before that you liked Song Ci?” Wen Nuan looked at the male lead’s bewildered expression. “Didn’t you get together with her?”
“Why would I get together with her?” Lu Yi said speechlessly. “Song Ci doesn’t like me. Could I force her to be with me?”
“What about you? Do you still like Song Ci now?”
Based on the changes in the blackening value, it was indeed clear that Song Ci didn’t like Lu Yi.
Lu Yi sighed. “I liked her quite a bit at first, but then you…” He glanced at Wen Nuan. “You suddenly confessed to me, and after that, Song Ci started gradually distancing herself from me and stopped interacting with me.”
Bringing this up, Lu Yi was full of resentment towards Wen Nuan.
“Why?” Wen Nuan asked, puzzled. “Did she say why?”
Lu Yi shook his head. “I don’t know why she distanced herself from me, and she didn’t tell me the reason, but I think… it’s because of you.”
“…” Wen Nuan furrowed her brow. “Then did you ever confess to her? Did you tell her how you felt about her?”
“I did, and she rejected me,” Lu Yi said with a sigh.
“What was the reason for the rejection?”
“Does rejecting someone need a reason?” Lu Yi said helplessly. “Isn’t it always reasons like ‘I’m not interested in you,’ ‘I don’t like you’? I know it clearly myself, why would I force Song Ci to say it?”
Wen Nuan muttered, “Could it really be because I confessed to you that you and Song Ci couldn’t get together?”
“…” When Lu Yi heard Wen Nuan say that, his eyes immediately rolled up to the sky. “It’s strange to say, but back then many people were saying you liked me. When I heard it, I thought it was a joke, but then you suddenly confessed to me, and even said you liked me in front of the whole school. Were you…?”
Crazy!
He didn’t dare to say it, afraid Zhao Wen Nuan would beat him up.
“Actually, I don’t like you,” Wen Nuan said sincerely.
Lu Yi: “…What?”
“Actually, it was because I was playing Truth or Dare with someone, lost, and was punished.”
Lu Yi raised his voice: “…What?!”
Wen Nuan’s ears hurt from him shouting. “I really didn’t handle this well. I messed things up between you and Song Ci. Trust me, I’ll try my best to make it up, okay?”
“Hey! I’m telling you, Zhao Wen Nuan, are you out of your mind?!” Lu Yi was so angry his face and neck turned red. “You clearly didn’t like me, but you made a joke out of something like that, made everyone awkward, and then you just dusted off your hands7 and transferred schools, leaving Song Ci and me mutually awkward, and in the end, we couldn’t even be friends! Do you think that’s really interesting? Is messing with people fun?”
Wen Nuan: “…”
It was the first time she had ever been yelled at like that, with someone pointing at her nose.
【Just take it. What you did was really unethical. You only ever pull shady tricks8.】the System scoffed.
Wen Nuan: “…”
As if you weren’t involved back then!
Only after Lu Yi finished speaking did he realize what he had just said. Looking at Zhao Wen Nuan, who was lowering her head and smoking in front of him, he suddenly felt a little scared.
This guy isn’t thinking about how to beat him up, is she?
“I didn’t mean to blame you, I was just saying…” Lu Yi tried to smooth things over. “It’s just that the way you handled these things was indeed a bit… unsatisfactory…”
“Alright, I did handle this badly. I hurt both of you,” Wen Nuan exhaled a puff of smoke. “My bad.”
Lu Yi looked at Wen Nuan in shock.
Did she just apologize on her own?!
What kind of day is it today?
Can going abroad really improve one’s moral education?!
Wen Nuan went over everything in her mind.
Now she could confirm that the female lead and male lead missed out on each other because of the “confession” she orchestrated. The female lead might have mistakenly thought she liked the male lead and rejected him, and later the female lead heard her say that it was all a joke she deliberately caused.
She immediately flew into a rage, and the blackening value skyrocketed.
As for why the blackening value goes up every time the female lead and male lead getting together is mentioned?
It’s very likely that regret is at play. The female lead and male lead not being able to be together is a poignant regret.
So when the female lead heard her say that the male lead should be with her, it was like pouring salt all over the regret in the female lead’s heart to provoke her, thus causing the blackening value to increase.
If she could smooth over this regret, then the blackening value could be easily resolved9?
The System heard Wen Nuan’s analysis and nodded: 【I think that’s reliable!】
Wen Nuan: “…”
What use are you!
Wen Nuan looked at Lu Yi, patted his shoulder, and said in a deep voice, “Buddy, give me a straight answer. Do you still like Song Ci?”
Lu Yi’s expression was a bit sheepish and indignant, but in the end, he nodded. “I can’t let her go.”
Every time he saw Song Ci, his heart would stir, and when he saw Song Ci being bullied, he felt very sorry for her.
“Alright, with that said, things will be easy.” Wen Nuan said seriously, “Trust me, I’ll definitely win Song Ci over for you!”10
Lu Yi was a little skeptical. “…”
Wen Nuan looked at Lu Yi’s eyes, full of suspicion. “What? Don’t believe in my ability?”
“…”
I really can’t believe in your inexplicable ability.
He did believe in Zhao Wen Nuan’s ability to beat people half to death!
Wen Nuan also knew that her unreliability had left a deep impression on the male lead’s heart.
She punched him lightly in the chest. “Bro, trust me. If I say I’ll win Song Ci over for you, I’ll definitely win her over for you!”
Lu Yi: “…”
He just felt that this “winning over” thing was a bit unreliable.
The author has something to say:
Wen Nuan hugged the female lead and said: If I say I’ll win you over, I’ll win you over.
Lu Yi: Oh, so you were winning yourself over, huh? What about me then?
Shu Changning picked his nose: Buddy, ever heard of a tool11?
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