“Your father said he wants to give your engagement to your younger sister.” Bai He had sharp hearing. Her auricles merely twitched, and she heard Mr. Su’s words from downstairs, relaying them to Ting Wan.
Ting Wan said, “Oh.” “That’s great. I don’t want to marry Xiao Tang either.”
Bai He was a little curious. “You don’t want to marry the Young Marshal?”
Ting Wan had a deadpan look in her eyes. “He treats common folk like dirt, and he’s cold, manic, and paranoid. You like that? I’m supposed to be shining for the organization!”
Bai He recoiled in disgust. “I don’t like him either. He’s the one who gave the order forbidding people from the slums to wander the streets. I want to throw a sack over his head.”
“That’s a possibility,” Ting Wan said, strongly agreeing with Bai He’s idea.
The files stored in the department, provided by 666, were a series of materials presented from Su Youning’s perspective. The original novel material, however, was a single text centered around the protagonist, so it was bound to highlight the good and omit the bad.
Ting Wan had long felt that this plane was far more vivid than what was depicted in the novel.
Take Su Xiaomo, for example. She was full of schemes. Moreover, Ting Wan had already discovered that she had long coveted the engagement to the Young Marshal.
Therefore, Ting Wan wasn’t the least bit surprised to hear Mr. Su say such a thing.
After all, Mr. Su was a selfish man. No matter which daughter ended up with the Young Marshal’s engagement, the man would still be his son-in-law. It was all the same to him.
Ting Wan packed her things while Bai He leaned against the wall, continuing to listen in on the commotion.
Su Xiaomo’s bedroom was on the floor below Ting Wan’s. After talking with Mr. Su for a while, she returned to her room.
“Honestly, what’s wrong with this Su Youning? How did she become so different from the book? She’s not easy to fool anymore!”
Su Xiaomo viciously slammed her pillow onto the floor.
Bai He, with her excellent hearing, caught this sentence.
“Su Youning, your sister said you’re different from what’s in some book, that you’re not easy to fool anymore. Did she specifically study a book on how to trick you? Is she studying psychology?”
Bai He didn’t understand what Su Xiaomo meant, so she simply asked Ting Wan.
Ting Wan froze.
Different from the book.
Had she missed something in the materials she’d read?
She had to find some time to call out 666 and ask.
“Su Youning?” Seeing Ting Wan dazed and not responding, Bai He called her name again.
Her things were packed. Ting Wan closed her suitcase and replied, “Who knows.”
In the dead of night, Bai He was also asleep. Ting Wan closed her eyes and frantically called for 666 in her mind.
The Alliance required that every department must be staffed by a person or a system. Her department only had her and 666. To ensure someone was always in the department, only Ting Wan could go out to complete missions.
However, she could still contact 666.
[Chief, what is it?]
And just like that, she made contact.
“Let me ask you, is Su Xiaomo a transmigrator?” Based on Su Xiaomo’s monologue that Bai He had overheard, Ting Wan sincerely felt that this Su Xiaomo might be a transmigrator.
[No way! It’s not written in the materials!]
666 was a bit baffled. The materials stored in the department couldn’t be wrong; they were compiled using interstellar algorithms. If the plane’s female lead were a transmigrator, it would be impossible not to know!
“Our department has so much stuff, and it’s such a mess. Why don’t you look through it again and see if there’s anything that was missed? After all, Su Xiaomo herself said that I, her older sister, am not like how I am in the book and am no longer easy to fool.”
Thinking of how the department only had room for one desk, with every other space piled high with petitions and materials, Ting Wan deeply suspected that she had simply overlooked some files.
[Okay, Chief, please wait a moment. I’m on it!]
666 was a System and could use big data to search through the piles of petitions and materials, but with so much stuff, it was still a massive undertaking.
While it went back to search, Ting Wan decided to sleep first.
Searching for a missed detail among so many petitions and materials would take some time, even for 666.
She still had class tomorrow and other things to do. Better to sleep first.
She slept until dawn. When Ting Wan woke up, 666’s voice rang out right on time.
[Chief, I really did miss it. This plane has two sets of materials, and they weren’t filed together. This Su Xiaomo really is a transmigrator! The good thing is, she transmigrated on her own, without a system or anything.]
It was true!
“So, a plane with a transmigrator is already considered damaged. If I do something to harm the male and female leads, or even kill them, it shouldn’t have much of an impact, right?”
She really disliked this Xiao Tang, especially after reading the later parts of the book where he would kill people on a whim, without listening to anyone’s explanation.
[Chief, as long as you don’t do it directly yourself, it’s fine. Just don’t be like that one from the Film and Television Department. She killed the male lead directly, causing the plane to explode and triggering a temporal vortex. Not only did she get swept into the vortex herself, but the host of ‘Live Your Best Life 002’ was also affected and is now lost in who-knows-which plane! ‘Live Your Best Life 002’ is going crazy, it can’t contact its host at all!]
“Okay, got it. You can go back on duty. While you’re at it, organize all those files so we don’t miss anything next time.”
With 666’s assurance, Ting Wan had a clearer direction for her actions.
She was just a transmigrator who had an unsatisfactory life in her original world and, after arriving in a book, only wanted to climb to the top while still maintaining a perfect reputation.
Ting Wan didn’t even see her as a threat.
Even if this world wasn’t the real historical world, she still felt that having a heart loyal to the motherland was the rightest path.
“Bai He, I don’t think we’ll have a chance to beat up Xiao Tang for now, but we can definitely beat up his lackeys. Let’s go together.”
After a day of classes, Lin Shuang brought a mission. An informant reported that Xiao Tang’s lackey, his adjutant, had been frequently meeting a foreigner at Yehuanchen for entertainment.
Xiao Tang never did anything that wasn’t to his advantage, and neither did his adjutant.
Bai He was a good actress, and Ting Wan was skilled at makeup and disguise, so the two of them were sent to investigate.
Everyone knew what happened to a city when foreigners got involved. Hong City hadn’t been semi-colonized and wasn’t under the oppression of foreigners. Even with a Young Marshal who was emotionally unstable, wore a perpetual scowl, and occasionally treated the lower-class citizens as nothing, at least there was freedom!
Now, Xiao Tang’s man had gotten involved with a foreigner, and that foreigner didn’t seem like an ordinary person.
The Red Faction had always been suppressed in Hong City, but they weren’t without the courage to investigate.
Bai He disliked Xiao Tang and his men. They were garrisoned in Hong City, but from the Young Marshal down to the lowest-ranking soldiers, none of them treated the common people like human beings.
Furthermore, the Shaoshuai Residence controlled the entire economic lifeline of Hong City. Anyone doing business in Hong City had to pay sponsorship money to the Shaoshuai Residence—oh, no, nominally to the Young Marshal’s army.
Although it wasn’t an explicit demand, and the money wasn’t collected by Xiao Tang personally.
However, the jade-paved floors and resplendent gold of the Shaoshuai Residence were enough to explain everything.
“Alright, let’s make a trip together tonight. I’d like to see what the Shaoshuai Residence and the foreigner are planning!”