Transmigrating into the book was yesterday’s affair; leaving is today’s.
The bright living room, with its two enormous arched French windows, offered an unobstructed view of the expansive lawn outside. Natural light poured in without obstruction, falling on the gilded, carved railings—
a scene reminiscent of the calm before a storm.
Shang Yan, feigning composure, placed the test paper on the table. The edges were slightly wrinkled; she smoothed them out with her hand, then her gaze drifted to the handsome man on the sofa, his features refined by time.
The bright red markings on the paper were glaring, but the score of twenty-eight was even more so. Shang Yuanlin’s temples throbbed with every glance. He opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it again when he saw his youngest daughter smoothing out the paper.
What a troublesome thing!
This wasn’t Shang Yan’s fault; after all, no one expected that transmigrating into the book would coincide with an exam!
Who knew that the moment she opened her eyes, she would hear that urgent, death-defying exam bell? For someone who had graduated several years ago, it was a nightmare!
Fine, transmigrating here is fine. With the current economic downturn and poor economic climate, it’s not uncommon for transmigration novels to happen in real life. The novel Shang Yan transmigrated into was called “The Flowing CEOs, the Unchanging Heroine.”
As the title suggests, it’s a harem novel. The heroine, Lin Yuan, has numerous high-quality male friends, and whoever she ultimately likes becomes the male lead. However, she chooses the least desirable one, Huo Yunjian.
Unfortunately, the Shang Yan in the book, sharing the same name, is one of the villains, the most troublesome character throughout the entire story, not particularly harmful but certainly tormenting.
In the original story, Shang Yan deliberately bullies and suppresses Huo Yunjian because she dislikes his arrogance, and she also hates Lin Yuan, who tutors her, being praised by Shang Yuanlin, thus constantly causing trouble for the two of them.
Unexpectedly, her three older brothers and one younger brother all fell in love with Lin Yuan. After discovering that she was bullying Lin Yuan, her three older brothers disciplined her severely, and her younger brother threatened her openly and secretly, making their already cold family relationship even worse. Of course, she never learned her lesson and became even more ruthless in bullying others the more she was disciplined.
She originally just wanted to read a light novel to have some fun, but the villain in the book happened to have the same name as her, so she didn’t get to enjoy it because most of the fun in the book was based on the villain’s evil deeds.
However, it must be said that in some ways, this villain is quite similar to Shang Yan herself. Every time she saw her messing with that pretentious male lead, Shang Yan would laugh.
It is reasonable to suspect that the author of this book was one of her enemies.
In the end, Shang Yan’s ending in the book is: she is imprisoned by the male lead who has achieved success and gets a government job, thus eating the rice bowl of the state. However, she is not fortunate enough to enjoy this iron rice bowl and is abused to death by her “colleagues”.
At this moment, Shang Yan still wanted to say, “Damn it, I hate pretentious people the most.”
After venting, she still had to take the exam. Fine, she thought, she could just scribble anything. But just as she mentally prepared herself, she looked down and saw that the exam was chemistry! How could anyone do well?
You see, Shang Yan was a complete chemistry dunce. Even after the bonus points were added to her college entrance exam score, she only scored a little over forty points. Her brain was like it was filled with cement; not a single bit of knowledge could be inserted.
So, this twenty-eight points was already the result of her high-level performance. Anyway, she was quite satisfied; she guessed half of the multiple-choice questions correctly!
In the oppressive silence, Shang Yuanlin finally waved his hand, not wanting to see Shang Yan’s face that had angered him. “Take it away, I don’t want to see it.”
Shang Yan stood still, silently pushing the test paper forward a little. “It needs a parent’s signature.”
The report card had already been sent to the parents’ phones by the school, and Shang Yuanlin knew about her terrible grades immediately. If it weren’t for the need for a parent’s signature, Shang Yan wouldn’t have willingly gone to be scolded.
In the book, the original owner’s father was an extremely strict person, with notoriously demanding requirements for his juniors. Any imperfections would result in punishment, so the original owner’s three older brothers had excellent grades from a young age, standing out among their peers. However, with her, this excellent gene had suffered a major setback.
“You expect me to sign this test with such a low score? How did I give birth to such a stupid brain! Twenty-eight points, even your brothers combined don’t have as many points deducted as you!”
The ceramic cup was slammed onto the table, inevitably spilling tea. A few drops stained the crumpled test paper, gradually becoming damp and transparent.
Shang Yuanlin rarely got angry, let alone cursed at someone so directly. But today was the anniversary of his deceased wife’s death, and he was in a really bad mood. That score of twenty-eight was just too glaring. If it weren’t for Shang Yan’s face, which bore an eight-tenths resemblance to his deceased wife, he would have already whipped her with a belt.
This rebuke made even the seasoned Shang Yan tremble. Her beautiful eyes narrowed sharply. After realizing what had happened, she thought to herself, “Damn it!” From childhood, her greatest strength was throwing tantrums, and no one had ever spoken to her like this before!
“Why are you being so fierce? So what if I did badly on the test? My brothers are so good, why don’t you let them take the test for me? Anyway, that’s all the score I can get. Take it or leave it!”
Shang Yuanlin was clearly stunned, not expecting his youngest daughter to speak to him like that. His chest heaved uncontrollably.
His expression was unpredictable and hard to decipher. After a long pause, he finally uttered, “Where did I yell at you?”
“Aren’t you yelling at me right now? Otherwise, why are you shouting so loudly? To cool off?” Shang Yan retorted righteously.
“I’m going to kowtow to my mother who died young in a little while, and tell her you abused me, so she’ll come to your dreams tonight and curse you to death!” She remembered that today was the anniversary of Madam Shang’s death, which was mentioned in the text.
“I…you!” The usually composed and stoic man in charge of the household was now furious, his face turning red with anger. What a rebellious daughter! Absolutely a rebellious daughter!
“Where are your manners and standards? How dare you mention your mother! I’ve spoiled you too much, that’s why I’ve wronged your mother!”
Shang Yan had never lost a verbal battle. “Where are your manners and standards? If you didn’t yell at me, would I argue with you? Like father, like daughter, I learned all this from you!”
The servants in the living room were all terrified by the scene. They didn’t dare to breathe loudly, trying their best to minimize their presence and carefully busying themselves with their tasks. They had never seen their master so angry before.
Ning Wanyun, who had been watching the drama unfold on the sofa for a while, finally spoke up to smooth things over, seeing the tense atmosphere. “Alright, it’s just that you didn’t do well on the exam. It’s okay, you can go abroad later. Yuanlin, don’t be angry. Yanyan, don’t talk to Dad like that. Apologize to Dad quickly.”
There was a hint of confusion in her eyes. Although Shang Yan was usually reckless, she had never challenged Shang Yuanlin like this before. Not only her, but none of the younger generation in the Shang family dared to do so.
Ning Wanyun’s voice was soft and gentle, and her well-maintained hands were delicate and smooth. She placed them on Shang Yuanlin’s hands with just the right amount of pressure, soothing him.
Hearing the third voice, Shang Yan finally turned her gaze to the lady on the sofa.
The Shang family’s second wife, a smiling tiger. This woman always seemed to be speaking up for her, but in reality, she was trying to make Shang Yuanlin even angrier, since he couldn’t stand having a troublemaker in the house.
Screw you, if you’re so good at acting, why don’t you go and be an actor?
So Shang Yan didn’t even bother pretending, directly turning her face away, “What does it matter to you what I say to my dad? Stop pretending to be a good person. My dad dislikes spoiled brats who study abroad the most, and you’re adding fuel to the fire! Are you doing this on purpose?”
Ning Wanyun’s usually serene face trembled slightly from her outburst, shocked and somewhat embarrassed. Shang Yan usually had a good relationship with her and listened to her quite a bit, never showing this side of herself before.
“You still know what’s going on.”
Seeing that his youngest daughter was somewhat sensible, Shang Yuanlin’s anger subsided a bit, and he impatiently signed his name on the test paper, “Don’t talk to your Aunt Ning like that next time. Go back to your room right now.”
Shang Yan picked up the test paper and left, not wanting to stay a second longer, as if no one wanted to stand there and be scolded.