My Villainous Persona Collapses as My Family Reads My Mind - chapter 8

Chapter 8

After dinner, Meng Zhiyi greeted her family and went upstairs to her room.

She had barely flopped onto the bed when her phone rang.

She picked it up and saw it was a call from someone saved as Zhang Xiaoxiao.

As soon as she answered, deafening music blasted from the other end, along with a girl’s voice: “Meng Zhiyi, I’m at Miu Qing with Qianqian right now. Jiang Yubai from the Jiang Family just got back from abroad. Do you want to come?”

As if worried Meng Zhiyi would refuse, Zhang Xiaoxiao continued, “I heard this Jiang Yubai and Shen Que have been buddies since they were kids. Maybe Shen Que will show up later.”

If it were the original Meng Zhiyi, she probably would have dashed out of the room at the mention of Shen Que’s name.

But Meng Zhiyi just squinted, lazily turned over on the bed, and said, “I’m not coming. My hand hasn’t healed yet, so I can’t drink. You guys have fun.”

She hung up directly, not giving the other side a chance to reply.

[Shen Que, Shen Que, Shen Que-always the same excuse. How do they not get bored?]

[Only that idiot original Meng Zhiyi would rush over at the mention of Shen Que like a dog spotting poop, and every time she went, she ended up paying!]

[Moron!]

After hanging up, Meng Zhiyi sat up and began to study the original’s social circle.

Zhang Xiaoxiao, who just called, was one of the original’s fair-weather friends. Her family ran a moderately sized company, so she was fairly well-off. But compared to the Shen Family or Meng Family, it was nothing.

Besides Zhang Xiaoxiao, there was another girl named Zheng Qian, whom the original met at school after returning to the Meng Family.

These two, who called her “bestie” to her face, actually just saw her as a cash machine and a stepping stone.

Zhang Xiaoxiao had always wanted to break into high society. Anywhere the top-tier rich kids hung out, she would go without fail.

But even among circles, there are levels. With Zhang Xiaoxiao and Zheng Qian’s family backgrounds, they couldn’t get close to the real elite.

After hitting many walls, they finally found the original Meng Zhiyi, the perfect sucker.

With Meng Zhiyi, the Meng Family heiress, Zhang Xiaoxiao and Zheng Qian repeatedly used Shen Que’s name to lure her out, and through her, met several rich young men.

But the original was too naive to see Zhang Xiaoxiao and Zheng Qian’s true intentions.

Once Meng Zhiyi sorted it all out, she felt even more annoyed.

“Rich and dumb” really described the original, didn’t it?

No wonder, with the Meng Family parents giving her three hundred thousand yuan a month for pocket money, yet her account had less than five thousand left.

No wonder she tried to steal Meng Tinglan’s underwear to sell-having two leeches around her, she had to make money somehow.

Just thinking about how the original spent millions on those two made Meng Zhiyi’s heart bleed!

“From today on, if they manage to scam even a penny from me, I’ll admit defeat!”

After cursing them out, she felt a little thirsty.

She got up, grabbed a glass, and went downstairs for water. As soon as she entered the living room, she saw four people sitting on the sofa, staring straight at her.

[What are they doing? Plotting something shady behind my back?]

As if caught, Meng Father coughed lightly, then pretended nothing was wrong and took a sip of goji berry tea from his thermos.

Meng Mother forced a smile, her face full of concern. “Yiyi, why aren’t you asleep yet?”

Meng Zhiyi raised the glass in her hand and replied sweetly, “I’m thirsty, just came down for some water. Dad, Mom, and my brothers, why aren’t you resting yet?”

Meng Yanchuan, leaning on the sofa, adjusted his glasses and said coolly, “Adults are talking. Kids should go to bed.”

Meng Zhiyi: “…”

She filled her glass and slowly went upstairs, wishing she could look back at every step to see what they were hiding from her.

At the corner of the stairs, Meng Zhiyi quietly leaned on the railing, straining her ears to eavesdrop.

[Let me hear-are they talking bad about me behind my back again?]

[I embarrassed myself in front of Shen Que today, and none of them even scolded me.]

[Something’s up, definitely!]

In the living room, the others, who could hear her thoughts, tacitly avoided saying anything and instead asked Meng Yanchuan about his work.

Meng Zhiyi listened for a while, got bored, and went back to her room.

After hearing the door close, the people in the living room finally breathed a sigh of relief.
“Where were we just now?” Meng Mother asked in a low voice.

Meng Yanchuan was staring at his phone. When he saw his colleague’s reply, a strange light flashed in his eyes behind his glasses.

“According to her inner voice, they really found the victim’s head in that abandoned well.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the whole living room fell into a dead silence.

After a while, Meng Zhizhou finally spoke slowly, “So, her inner voice can predict things that will happen in the future, and she also knows all of our final outcomes.”

Meng Mother panicked. She grabbed Meng Zhizhou’s hand and said anxiously, “Does that mean we really will end up as her inner voice said, the family would be destroyed and people would perish?”

Meng Father stood to the side, his face grave, remaining silent.

Meng Zhizhou gently patted Meng Mother’s hand to comfort her. “Mom, don’t worry. Now that we can hear Yiyi’s (nickname for Meng Zhiyi) inner voice, we can anticipate what’s going to happen and change the outcome.”

Meng Mother said, “But we were too indifferent to Zhiyi before. Will she…”

“Just don’t let her find out,” Meng Zhizhou said. He seemed to think of something else and continued, “Maybe we misunderstood her in the past. Some things might not be what we thought at all. Everyone was just impatient with her and always thought it was her fault.”

“From now on, let’s be more patient with her.”

Meanwhile, at Miu Qing Bar.

Zhang Xiaoxiao looked at her phone after the call was hung up, a hint of irritation on her face.

“So, when is she coming? Young Master Jiang is still waiting in the private room,” the girl beside her asked.

Zhang Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth, her face full of displeasure. “She said she’s not coming.”

The girl panicked and quickly lowered her voice, “What should we do? We’ve already taken the money!”

“Don’t panic. She broke her hand not long ago. We’ll just tell Young Master Jiang that, and wait until school starts to invite her out again.”

After speaking, Zhang Xiaoxiao dragged the girl back to the private room.

*

In a flash, summer vacation was over.

Meng Zhiyi had been very well-behaved during this time, barely leaving the house, just staying home to recuperate.

However, when she said she wanted to go back to school for the new semester, Meng Father and Meng Mother both looked at her in surprise.

“Yiyi, your hand hasn’t healed yet. Don’t rush back to school. Stay home and rest a while longer.”

“No, I’ve already fallen behind in too many classes. If I don’t go back now, I won’t be able to keep up.” Meng Zhiyi said this very earnestly, wearing an expression of someone who truly loved to study.

Of course, that is, if you ignored her inner voice.

[If I don’t go to school, how am I supposed to cling to Shen Que and rack up my Dislike Value?]

[I absolutely won’t give Shen Que and Song Wei a chance to be alone together. I’m going to be the troublemaker, making sure they have no peace!]

[By then, Shen Que will definitely hate me. My Dislike Value will max out, ahahaha…]

Hearing her hysterical inner voice, Meng Father and Meng Mother could barely keep a straight face.

If they weren’t worried about revealing that they could hear her inner voice, they would have already taken her to see a psychiatrist.

Is this what unrequited love looks like?

Shen Que was certainly outstanding, but if Meng Zhiyi really ended up having some kind of breakdown over him, they wouldn’t allow it either.

Should they find a time to ask the Shen Matriarch to call off the engagement?

Well, it was just a thought for now.

In the end, Meng Father still sent a driver to take her back to school.

Meng Zhiyi was now a sophomore at A University’s College of Arts. Because Shen Que was here, she insisted on coming even if it killed her.

Although the original host wasn’t particularly impressive, with her looks and the Meng Family’s financial backing, she got into this school without a hitch.

After dropping her luggage in the dorm, Meng Zhiyi couldn’t wait to head to the Finance Department to find Shen Que.

It had been over a week since she last saw him-she really did miss him!

At this moment, the System, which had been silent, suddenly spoke: [Host, aren’t you actually missing that thirty billion?]

Meng Zhiyi curled her lips in a proud smile. “If you know, just don’t say it out loud.”

System: […]

But as soon as she walked out of the dormitory building, she saw Shen Que and a male student escorting Song Wei toward her.

Meng Zhiyi’s eyes instantly lit up with excitement.

She immediately put on an act and shouted angrily at the approaching group, “Song Wei, do you have any shame? Why are you always clinging to my fiancé!”