CH 23

The Vicious Female Supporting Character and the White Lotus Female Lead: Ch 23, Pure Campus Love



6 out of 6 chapters owed. All caught up and then two more coming for this week's



Enjoy this chapter, 'cuz I CeRtAiNtLy did!



---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Liang Yan didn't expect Nie Mei Feng to be worse than he thought, therefore he couldn't help but pity Nie Zhen'er even more. He assures himself that when he’s with Zhen'er in the future, he definitely won’t let her be wronged.



The dean took two pieces of paper and pens to Liang Yan and Luan Qing Xiao, "Write down the entire 《Thoughts on a Quiet Night》 ."



He had just checked the paper ball just now. Although the handwriting on the note was slightly similar to Nie Zhen'er's handwriting, it most likely wasn’t hers.



The two quickly finished 《Thoughts on a Quiet Night》 silently and handed it to the dean.



The dean compared those against the note, but didn’t see any similarities in the handwriting.



His silence made Liang Yan nervous as he was anxious to return Nie Zhen'er to her innocence. All his courage was used today, "Dean, I’m telling the truth. No one knows where the note came from in the first place. Even though it stopped at the feet of Nie Zhen'er, there is no evidence to prove that the note must belong to Nie Zhen'er."



The dean looked at Luan Qing Xiao, "What do you say?"



Luan Qing Xiao's eyes were serene, "Dean, there is the benefit of doubt. With Zhen'er's academic performance, she has no need to cheat."



"Maybe to regain the first rank position from you?"



Luan Qing Xiao shook her head, "Absolutely impossible."



She turned to Nie Zhen'er and smiled soothingly, and asked, "Zhen'er, do you care about your grades?"



Nie Zhen'er looked at Luan Qing Xiao blankly, "I don't care." I only care about you.



"Dean, see, Nie Zhen'er has good grades but doesn't care much about her grades. She has no need to cheat."



The dean smiled, "The logic supports you, what else can I say."



"Alright, the benefit of doubt. All of you can leave."



Liang Yan showed a surprised expression and Nie Zhener looked at Luan Qing Xiao in disbelief while Luan Qing Xiao beamed confidently.



The dean thought the evidence was useless, and was about to throw the note into the trash can by his feet, but Luan Qing Xiao intercepted it halfway.



Luan Qing Xiao reminded, "Dean, you should keep it  in case the real mastermind is caught later."



The moment the three of them walked out of the dean’s office, Liang Yan slumped to the ground with his back on the wall. The bell for the second test then rang. Liang Yan used his hands and feet to get up, and the three hurried back to the exam room.



"Checking in."



"Checking in."



"Checking in."



The exam supervisor changes  with each subject, so the current supervisor doesn’t know what happened to them before, nodded and let them in.



After the three of them came in, the supervisor reprimand lightly, "It's not a good habit to be late. During the college entrance examination, you won’t be able to enter the room if you arrive fifteen minutes late. No matter how good your grades are, if you can’t get inside the room, you won’t be able to do the test, meaning a zero."



He was speaking to Luan Qing Xiao’s party of three, but none of them listened.



Luan Qing Xiao glanced at Pei Yi Ruo, who was calm when they came in. She was filling out her name with her head down, unlike others who looked up. Since she wasn’t at all surprised by the fact that they came back, naturally she wouldn’t give her attention to them.



Her collected posture made people doubt the person who raised their hands to complain in the last exam was her.



Collected as if she didn't frame Nie Zhen'er.



Luan Qing Xiao returned to her seat and began to do the test papers.



Luan Qing Xiao, 520, are there any more mandatory tasks involving Pei Yi Ruo?



【Ding! There are still two requiring Pei Yi Ruo to activate. Host dada must not scare her off~]



Luan Qing Xiao: I’ll let her jump around for two more days.



Pei Yi Ruo probably was a vicious female supporting character who has a smaller role than her. Out of the ten mandatory plots, she actually took up three. It seems like she must be more careful about her in the future. Who knows, maybe Pei Yi Ruo will also harm Nie Zhen'er outside of the tasks.



Luan Qing Xiao likes to have everything under her control.



The results came out the day after the monthly exam.



Nie Zhen'er didn't finish writing the essay, and was deducted a lot of points. Her grade ranking dropped to below the Top 10th while Luan Qing Xiao ranked first, Liang Yan third, and Pei Yi Ruo was actually second.



Seeing Luan Qing Xiao frowning at the report card, Nie Zhen’er whispered, "This really is nothing. It’s only a change in ranking. I can just catch up next time." She plucked up the courage to bop between Luan Qing Xiao's eyebrows. "Look at you, thinking so much when you’re underage. Be careful or else you’ll grow old quickly."



Luan Qing Xiao loosened her eyebrows and said with a smile, "As long as you don't despise me, who cares if I age faster."



Nie Zhener's cheeks redden, "How could I despise you..."



Her sentence also made Luan Qing Xiao embarrassed.



While eating in the cafeteria at noon, Luan Qing Xiao thought of Nie Mei Feng and asked her, "You didn't finish replying to me this morning. Did your mother continue scolding you later on?"



"What? Goddess, why would your mother scold you? Why right does she have to do this!" Luo Xun was the most agitated of out everyone else. He sprang up with chopsticks, if it wasn’t for him not knowing the address of Nie Zhen'er's home, he probably already be on his way looking for Nie Mei Feng.



"No, no, no. She didn't scold me, Luo Xun, please sit down." Nie Zhen'er couldn't decide whether to cry or laugh as well as being moved, "Calm down. You can be worked up after listening to me, okay?"



Luo Xun embarrassingly scratched the back of his head and smiled at Luan Qing Xiao and Nie Zhen'er, "Gotcha, save it for later."



After speaking so, he sat upright with the appearance of an obedient baby, "Goddess, you continue ba."



Facing the two pairs of caring eyes, she felt warm and wasn’t depressed or sad even when she mentioned Nie Mei Feng.



"I have figured out a way to deal with her. Yesterday she came home drunk. The first thing she did was to search for me in my room, but I locked the door, and she couldn't get in. She cursed outside the door for a while before getting thirsty, and saw the water on the table that I added two sleeping pills to. She picked it up to drink and soon fell asleep on the sofa.”



"So don't worry about me, I have ways of protecting myself."



"Wu wu wu, Goddess, you're so tragic..." Luo Xun's crying till his entire face was full of tears, "I thought my parents were a real masterpiece, but I didn't know there’s always a mountain higher. Your mother is actually so cold-blooded to that point... …"



Luan Qing Xiao held Nie Zhen'er's hand and found that the palms of her hands were cold with sweat. She wasn’t as unscathed as she appears.



Luan Qing Xiao retorted, "You’re lying."



Nie Zhen'er blinked in confusion, "I’m not."



"Yes, you have." Luan Qing Xiao used both her hands to wrap around her hands. "You need someone to worry about you,  someone to protect you, you are very afraid... You don't need to hide it in front of me, as long as you tell me, I will help you carry the burden. "



"Protecting you, sharing half your fear, and spending your most difficult time with you, Zhen'er, I want to be your salvation, can you trust me?" Luan Qing Xiao's expression was so earnest, Nie Zhen'er was bewitched  into nodding.



"Wow! I actually am a witness of the moment Boss and Goddess established their relationship. In the future, I must tell this story at your wedding!" Luo Xun quickly wiped away the tears on his face with his hands. He lowered his volume so only the three could hear the excitement in his voice.



Marry……



"I'm done eating. I’ll head to the sports field first!" Nie Zhen'er suddenly stood up and almost sprinted out, disappearing in the blink of the eye.



Luo Xun confusedly looked at Luan Qing Xiao, "Boss, what's the matter with Goddess?" Normally I don't see her go for a walk after eating when we eat together every day.



Plus Goddess is so thin, there is no need for extra exercise at all.



Luan Qing Xiao supported her chin in her hand. She smiled smugly, causing the corners of her eyes to slightly curve, "Your goddess got bashful."



Marriage ah, something truly to look forward to.



________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Notes《Thoughts on a Quiet Night》(《静夜思》): A classical poem by the famous Tang Dynasty poet, Li Bai, basically of him thinking of his hometown from his bed. The link in the text is to a video of the original poem, while this link here is the English translation.



(人间极品): in this context, it means his parents' horrible moral character



(一山还有一山高): Basically to say there’s always someone better or worse off than you