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

52: Chapter 52: The male lead has appeared?!For her, the heaviest stone pressing on her heart had finally been removed.

And this joy of relief was naturally linked to the person before her — her father’s medical expenses and the financial support that sustained her family during the most difficult times all came from Su Bai.

In her heart, her father’s awakening seemed to carry the good fortune brought by Su Bai’s support.

”So, you rushed to call me over just to tell me this?” Su Bai asked, looking at the pure brilliance in her eyes.

Mu Xue’s cheeks immediately flushed with two patches of red.

Yes, she just wanted to see him immediately and tell him the good news in person, so she almost unthinkingly set the meeting place in this familiar hotel suite.

Now that the words were spoken and her excited emotions had somewhat calmed, she belatedly realized how ambiguous this invitation seemed under normal circumstances.

”I... I’m going to take a shower.” She nervously averted her gaze, trying to use her usual routine to hide her current shyness and a touch of awkwardness.

”Tsk, you called me out of the game just to say this?” Su Bai grumbled with a hint of complaint, but his actions contradicted his tone.

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Night.

Su Bai drove Mu Xue home; after all, she had class the next day, and it wasn’t appropriate to stay too late tonight.

In the car, Mu Xue’s small mouth occasionally recounted details of her father’s awakening at the hospital, her voice light and cheerful.

However, as the car stopped at the alley entrance near Mu Xue’s house, and Mu Xue had just pushed open the door to get out, Su Bai’s gaze was drawn to a figure under a utility pole by the streetlamp.

It was a young man, dressed in simple jeans and a hoodie, with a slender figure, carrying an old schoolbag. He seemed to have been waiting there for a long time.

His gaze was fixed firmly on Mu Xue.

”Mu Xue,” the man called out, his voice slightly hoarse.

Both of them looked in the direction of the voice.

Su Bai narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing him — the other person appeared to be around Mu Xue’s age, with a lingering boyish innocence on his face, but his eyes did not belong to a seventeen or eighteen-year-old.

”Xiao Fan?!” Mu Xue exclaimed in surprise, her steps halting.

Xiao as in the surname?

This surname instantly triggered an alarm in Su Bai’s mind.

He also pushed open the car door, took a long stride, and stood beside Mu Xue.

Xiao Fan quickly walked a few steps to Mu Xue’s front. His gaze inevitably swept quickly over Su Bai — his clothing, his demeanor, finally returning to Mu Xue’s face, his brow furrowed slightly.

”Why are you here?” Mu Xue asked, her tone surprised, but more of a... blandness?

Even with a hint of subconscious distance.

This was clearly not the long-awaited reunion reaction Xiao Fan had expected.

”I’ve moved back to A City, I’ve been looking for you for a long time,” Xiao Fan explained, his voice trying to suppress his emotions.

He felt that something was wrong, very wrong.

His little sister Mu Xue, the girl who used to sweetly call him Brother Xiao Fan and follow him around when they were kids, why did she now look so calm, even... somewhat polite, instead of the surprise he had anticipated in her eyes?

”Su Bai, this is Xiao Fan, a former neighbor who lived across from us. We often played together when we were little.” Mu Xue turned sideways, introducing the two, then turned back to Xiao Fan, her cheeks slightly flushed, but her voice clearly stated: ”This is Su Bai. My... boyfriend.”

After speaking, she quickly and a little nervously glanced at Su Bai. Seeing no displeasure or contradiction on his face, a ripple of relief mixed with secret joy quietly passed through her heart.

Boyfriend?

Xiao Fan’s gaze suddenly sharpened, piercing Su Bai.

At this moment, Su Bai’s brain was analyzing the plot and matching identities at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary people:

Neighbor’s older brother, suspected childhood sweetheart attribute, strong return after years of disappearance, surname Xiao (a high-risk protagonist surname), clear preconceived expectations for Mu Xue, intense reaction when the boyfriend identity was declared...

This character template has an extremely high overlap with the initial configuration of a protagonist.

If he is the protagonist, then Mu Xue, who has a childhood sweetheart relationship with him... could she be the true female protagonist of this novel?

And Lin Wan might just be some kind of interference or a secondary female protagonist?

Su Bai’s expression remained calm.

No matter how he thought about it, something felt off, but this Xiao Fan, from every angle, really seemed to be making his entrance with a standard male protagonist script!

Is this right?

Su Bai quickly ran through all possibilities in his mind. He was no stranger to harem novels; a multi-female protagonist setting was entirely reasonable in this novel world, a fact he had long been mentally prepared for.

Even when he learned about Mu Xue’s family situation, a flicker of doubt crossed his mind about whether her plight was too much of a female protagonist standard, but Mu Xue’s act of selling herself for money at that time made him overturn this idea — it seemed to deviate from the core persona of a pure and resilient female protagonist in male-oriented novels.

Of course, if this were a female-oriented novel, that would be another matter.

A female protagonist with a difficult fate, enduring hardships, even forced to make certain compromises, and finally being saved and deeply forgiven by a powerful male protagonist, is practically standard.

But he was certain that he had transmigrated into a male-oriented novel.

So, could Mu Xue... really be the female protagonist?

The appearance of this Xiao Fan made the answer to this question once again mysterious.

”Hello.” Xiao Fan actively extended his hand, forcing an unnatural smile onto his face.

”Hello.”

Su Bai’s expression was calm as he raised his hand to shake it.

As their hands met in the air, Su Bai immediately felt a gripping force from the other’s palm, with a clear hint of competition.

However, this force on Su Bai’s hand was like a mud ox entering the sea — he only felt the other party gripping tightly, but experienced no pain.

Their handshake lasted two seconds, the atmosphere subtle.

Xiao Fan was the first to let go, a fleeting look of unbelievable astonishment flashing in his eyes.

He had just used enough force to make an ordinary adult male wince in pain, yet the other party’s expression hadn’t changed, and there was almost no feedback of muscle tension?

This guy... could he be a hidden martial artist?

Su Bai’s image instantly became shrouded in an impenetrable mist in Xiao Fan’s mind.

”Are you transferring back?” Mu Xue’s voice broke the silent confrontation between the two men.

She keenly sensed the awkward atmosphere and tried to change the subject.

Xiao Fan quickly adjusted his expression, putting on a sunny and nostalgic smile as he looked at Mu Xue: ”Yeah, I always felt uncomfortable staying abroad, so I came back. And, I’m at the same school as you, little sister Mu Xue.”

The protagonist has appeared? Isn’t that a bit fast?

A faint alarm rang in Su Bai’s heart.

According to conventional tropes, a protagonist making a ’king’s return’ entrance like this should appear later, at least a few years down the line, right?