[The special item
'Magic Doll? What is that?'
Ji Yunhe tilted her head, confusion riddling her brows. At her thought, a baby's fist-sized doll appeared out of thin air, fluttering onto her shoulder.
Baa~
Ji Yunhe looked at the little doll on her left shoulder in wonder. No one seemed to have noticed the doll's presence, which meant that this little thing was only visible to her alone.
She studied the doll's features with a frown.
This evil-inducing peach-blossom eyes, round pointy nose, small cherry lips and a succubus-like beauty that could supposedly charm thousands of men – wasn't this a miniature version of Mo Xiangyun?
"Baa." The doll opened and closed its mouth, the sight of its moving stitches spooking Ji Yunhe to the bones. 'It can even talk!!!'
[Host, from now on, the magic doll Mo Xiangyun would be here as a guide for you to act as the original identity. The standards of any violations such as going OOC would be determined by the miniature doll.]
'What!!! That's ridiculous! What can a little doll even do?'
Ji Yunhe had just expressed her opinion, when the doll Mo Xiangyun raised its fingerless rounded hand to point in a certain direction.
Following its direction, Ji Yunhe's curious eyes landed on the seemingly-guarded Li Mubai, or to be exact, the trembling Xu Nian who was hiding behind the knight in shining armour.
"Slap. Her." The doll had only uttered two broken words, but it's enough to leave Ji Yunhe speechless. But then, before she raised her protest, the mission's notification rang against her ears.
[Ding! A new mission has been issued!]
[The Last Beginner's Guide #3: Mo Xiangyun may hate the poor to the bones. However, she hates Xu Nian thousands of times more. Mo Xiangyun only has one goal in life, and that is to destroy Xu Nian to smithereens.]
[Mission: Do as the Magic Doll Mo Xiangyun wills. Contribute to the plot and fill in the Villainess progress bar to 100%.]
[Completion of the Last Beginner's Guide #3 will be awarded with 3000 points and a mystery box. Upon failure, DEATH will only be the end for the failure of a Villainess.]
Every fiber of Ji Yunhe's body seemed to have shivered when she heard the word Death as punishment for failure.
She almost forgot that this new life of hers was never a game to begin with. As the main villainess to the story, she had a plot to play along, and an end that she very much wanted to alter – the fate of her three loving brothers.
Determination took over Ji Yunhe as she strode to the two main leads, Xu Nian and Li Mubai, who were practically sticking onto each other like glue.
Well actually, it was only the trembling girl Xu Nian who was clutching against Li Mubai as if he was her only life-saving rope. On the other hand, Li Mubai merely stood there, cold and rigid.
When Ji Yunhe's eyes met Li Mubai, the male lead who was described as a simple-minded and straight-as-pole type of person, the man looked back at her with a complicated gaze, as if he had a lot to say but didn't know where to start.
"Yunhe, I…" Li Mubai opened his mouth with difficulty, his brilliant eyes jumping here and there but never staying on Ji Yunhe as if he would be burnt at the very sight of her malicious face.
Ji Yunhe no longer spared the fidgeting man a glance, for in the logic of the main villainess, for as long as the very-much-hated female lead exists in the same space as her, no one else could enter the villainess' eyes – not even the so-called male lead of the story.
The doll Mo Yunhe once again urged, "Slap. Her."
Ji Yunhe lowered her eyelids, a veil of darkness looming over her as she approached the two. Once within reach, she stretched out her hand and peeled Li Mubai off Xu Nian's latch, pushing the flabbergasted man to the side.
Exposed, Xu Nian's rabbit-like eyes widened in fear. Tremblingly, she took steps after steps backward, her palm-sized face exceedingly pale as if the terror had long seeped deep into her bones.
As expected of the female lead – so small, fragile, and beautiful as if one mere touch was enough to break her into pieces.
A small squeak of a sob was enough to evoke the sympathy of others, whatmore when a fountain of tears broke free off the dam, rolling beads by beads down her red-rimmed doe eyes.
Slap!!
A loud and powerful crisp sound of a slap rang in the air as Ji Yunhe's palm connected with Xu Nian's palm-sized face, sending the girl's neck snapping to the side, bright red and burning.
The previously-struck Xu Ruohan instinctively took a few steps back in retreat, an indescribable expression flashing across her tear-stricken face as if she was belated that she had been hit by weak-as-chicken Huo Bing and not this crazy Mo Yunhe instead.
The utterly defeated Huo Bing had long been evacuated and brought to the Academy's medical clinic to receive first-hand help, while Ji Manman's shadow was nowhere to be found, probably having scurried away when Ji Yunhe wasn't looking.
Not that Ji Yunhe ever cared, though. She had bullied Ji Manman enough, any more and she might risk going OOC and losing more of her precious points.
Out of the corner of her eyes, she caught sight of the striking pink-colored Villainess Progress Bar rising by 1%.
Ji Yunhe inwardly sighed. Truly, the life of a villainess wasn't easy at all.
Her eyes then moved to the terrified Xu Nian with well-hidden pity. 'I'm sorry, female lead. You don't deserve that slap but what can I do? I am a bitch, and an extremely unreasonable one at that.'
Ji Yunhe may have thought this, but on the surface, all that could be seen was the malicious sneer smeared on her viciously enchanting face.
"What? Cat got your tongue?" She raised her chin high enough to poise the outrageousness of an evil queen, "Daring to latch onto my man and taint my eyes first time in the morning, are you that thirsty for attention? Xu Nian, do you want to die?"
'If it's not for you, crashing into the scene and smashing the other man like crazy, why would Xu Nian be frightened enough to seek protection behind Li Mubai?'
Such were the thoughts running inside most of the leftover crowd. However, not one of them dared to voice out their thoughts and stand against the rich and influential Mo Yunhe.
Lucky for Xu Nian, in every classic campus romance story, pitiful female leads had their own prince charmings to save them in times of danger.
But… What's this?
Ji Yunhe looked at the radiant face of the handsome man standing before her, her eyes narrowing at the small and carefree smile tugged to his lips that hadn't faded since the last time she saw him.
The later-blackened second male lead Ning Xiaoran.
What was he doing here, protecting the female lead behind him instead of the male lead Li Mubai?