Transmigrating Into a Book, the Villain Becomes the White Moonlight!

9: Chapter 9 The Two Women’s First MeetingMu Xue stared at the clear SMS notification on her phone screen—”¥2,00.00”—her mind going completely blank.

Forty thousand yuan for one night... This was the largest sum of money she had ever personally received in her life.

Feelings are a burden.

These words were one of the life mottos Su Bai had summarized from his extra decade or so of life, and they ranked quite high on his list.

He had transmigrated here to enjoy the easy life of a rich second-generation heir, not to undergo some spiritual tempering in the mortal world.

He was soberly aware that he would eventually face a plot-mandated death. Since the ending was already set, emotional entanglements would only bring unnecessary trouble and might even foster the very thing he despised most: ambition.

And for him, ambition was completely unnecessary.

Therefore, this core motto directly gave rise to another ironclad rule: sleeping together is fine, but heart-to-heart talks are not.

Financial transactions, goods delivered upon payment; simple and straightforward, with no strings attached. This eliminated any possibility of entanglement at its source.

Noon, the classroom.

Su Bai lazily lifted his head from his desk just as the final echoes of the dismissal bell faded, a faint red mark from sleeping on his arm still visible on his face.

He ruffled his messy hair, turned his head, and spoke to Lin Wan, who was organizing her notes beside him. It was the first thing he had said to her all morning: ”Let’s go, time to eat.”

Lin Wan didn’t even look up, her voice sounding as if it were coated in frost. ”I’ll go by myself.”

”Fine,” Su Bai agreed exceptionally readily, then added, ”Just don’t say anything when we get back. Tell them we ate together, or my dad will start nagging me again.”

Having said that, he didn’t care at all about Lin Wan’s reaction. He turned around and rested his arm on Zhou Feng’s desk behind him. ”What about you? Going home to eat or finding something outside?”

”Me? I’ll just grab a bite at the cafeteria,” Zhou Feng replied, his eyes darting curiously between Su Bai and Lin Wan. He asked tentatively, ”Want to go together?”

”Sure, I’m too lazy to head out.” Su Bai stood up and walked out of the classroom with Zhou Feng following behind.

Lin Wan stared at Su Bai’s receding back as he disappeared through the doorway. Her clenched fist finally couldn’t hold back, slamming down onto the desk with a heavy thud.

(Desk HP -1!)

The noise startled The girl in the front seat. She turned around and asked with concern, ”Lin Wan, are you okay?”

Lin Wan took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down, and shook her head. ”I’m fine.”

The girl in front enthusiastically extended an invitation. ”I heard a new Rice Noodle Shop opened next to the school and it’s really good. Want to go try it together?”

”...Okay.” Lin Wan didn’t refuse. At this moment, she needed a distraction, or she might just die of anger because of that guy.

The cafeteria.

After getting their food and sitting down, Zhou Feng couldn’t wait to lean in toward Su Bai. Lowering his voice with a gossipy smile, he asked, ”Su Bai, do you and Lin Wan... do your families know each other?”

”Something like that. Why?” Su Bai picked up a piece of green vegetable, his tone indifferent.

”Holy crap! You’ve got the inside track, brother!” Zhou Feng winked and immediately pulled out his phone, opening the Campus Forum and handing it to Su Bai. ”Look! Lin Wan is a hot candidate for the new school beauty title. She’s a recognized ’growth stock’—she’ll definitely secure the top spot in the future!”

Su Bai glanced at the phone screen.

The post listed dozens of candid photos, all of exceptionally good-looking freshmen.

He scanned through them casually, but his gaze stopped on a photo of himself.

He didn’t know who had snapped it, but it was a clear profile shot from not too far away.

”Why am I on here too?” Su Bai raised an eyebrow.

”A candidate for School Hunk, of course!” Zhou Feng chuckled. ”You’re currently ranked around seventh. But if you ask me, if your wealth was counted as a bonus to your looks, you’d be the undisputed number one!”

For someone who could casually hand out five thousand yuan just to have someone else do five minutes of cleaning duty, wasn’t that wealth proof enough?

”Damn, how boring,” Su Bai commented, lowering his head to taste the cafeteria food.

The taste was surprisingly good, and several of the dishes were exactly to his liking.

”The cafeteria actually has meat dishes today? And there’s fruit, unlimited too.”

”Did the school finally find its conscience?”

A few girls walked past, chatting; they were clearly tenth-graders.

Su Bai immediately realized that this was likely another meticulous arrangement from his family.

”But anyway, this list is just for fun,” Zhou Feng added after a mouthful of rice. ”The freshmen just started, and many people haven’t been discovered yet. This ranking is still very much in flux.”

Su Bai nodded in agreement.

Indeed, if nothing else, Mu Xue certainly had the looks to be on that list.

In the cafeteria, Su Bai handed his meal card to Zhou Feng. ”Go get some fruit.”

He paused, then added, ”Get whatever you want, don’t be polite.”

”Hehe, thanks, Brother Su!” Zhou Feng beamed, took the card, and trotted off to line up at the fruit counter.

Outside the school, at the newly opened Rice Noodle Shop.

The small shop was bustling with noise and almost every seat was taken.

Lin Wan was dragged inside by her classmate. They ordered two bowls of mildly spicy rice noodles. Just as she found an empty seat in the corner and sat down, her gaze locked onto a familiar figure weaving through the tables and chairs, and her pupils suddenly contracted.

”Mu Xue! Table seven is ready, and this one is for table eight!” a shout came from the kitchen.

Mu Xue responded and stepped forward quickly, skillfully picking up two large, steaming bowls while calling back to the kitchen, ”Auntie! Both of these are mildly spicy!”

”Got it!”

It’s her! It’s really her!

Lin Wan’s heart skipped a beat.

She would never mistake her. This girl named Mu Xue was the same one who had walked out of the school gates side-by-side with Su Bai after school yesterday!

Why is she working here?

”Mu Xue, what’s wrong with your leg? You seem to be walking a bit stiffly,” an older woman, who appeared to be the owner, poked her head out of the kitchen and asked with concern.

Mu Xue’s body stiffened imperceptibly, and she immediately lowered her head, responding vaguely, ”Oh, it’s... it’s nothing. I accidentally bumped into a table this morning.”

After saying that, she hurried toward the customers with the rice noodles.

Lin Wan’s face darkened completely.

Bumped into a table this morning?

That excuse... combined with what she had seen yesterday, an even more unpleasant association uncontrollably surfaced in her mind.

Neither of them were children; they both understood such things all too well.

Just then, Mu Xue walked over with the two bowls of rice noodles they had ordered, a standard service-industry smile on her face. ”Here are your two bowls of mildly spicy rice noodles. There are drinks in that cabinet over there; help yourselves if you need any.”

”Lin Wan, here, chopsticks.” The girl she was with pulled two pairs of disposable chopsticks from the container on the table and handed one to Lin Wan.

Lin Wan seemed not to hear her and didn’t take the chopsticks. Her gaze was like an ice pick, stabbing straight at Mu Xue, who was just about to turn and leave.