After entering the book, I no longer want to be a substitute

Yunxiu was so angry she had no place to vent it. To maintain her "gentlemanly" demeanor, she started out politely, "Excuse me, is there anything I can help you with?"

Zhou Xi was silent for a few seconds, seemingly trying to suppress his anger. "What on earth do you want to do? Do you love to provoke others? How many people do you want to sacrifice before you feel satisfied? Now you even want to let Cheng Yan go?"

Yunxiu looked quite confused. This guy was so boring and just talked nonsense all day long.

She asked from the bottom of her heart: "Did I let anyone go?"

Zhou Xi uttered half a word, then stopped halfway, feeling very upset.

"Didn't you say you wanted to study hard?" He lowered his head and leaned very close to her, their distance intimate. "Is this how studying should be done?"

Just talk, why do you always like to get so close to her? Yunxiu didn't hesitate at all and just avoided her.

She said impatiently, "I study however I want to. What's it to you? Stop flattering yourself. It's as if I'm studying just for you."

These words hit Zhou Xi's heart like a heavy stick. He asked in return, "Isn't it?"

A thin layer of sweat appeared on the boy's fair and smooth forehead. It was unclear whether it was because of the heat or anger.

He just laughed out loud, full of sarcasm and a little lost.

Yunxiu cursed him as a psycho and turned away.

But this was not that easy, Zhou Xi quickly pulled her back.

Yunxiu closed his eyes, opened them again, took a deep breath, as if he had made some decision.

She said, "Let's finish it all at once. I don't have that much time to chat with you."

Zhou Xi: "Don't you like to pretend to be quiet to annoy me? Why don't you come?"

Yunxiu was just about to say that the face was actually fake, it was not naturally like that at all, it was just the result of superb makeup skills.

The words were on the tip of my tongue, but I felt that it was not appropriate to change my face now. It felt like the wrong time. The incident happened too suddenly and it would affect my classes at school, which would not be good.

Besides, apart from Yun Yuan and Yun Lin, who knew about Yun Xiu’s imitation makeup, everyone else basically thought that she really looked like Meng Yao.

She thought about it for a few seconds without replying, and he became confident again, "Feeling guilty, huh? I knew you were like this. You've always loved following me around since you were little, but suddenly you don't want to stick to me anymore. You must be playing tricks..."

Before he could even utter the word "tricks," Yun Xiu rubbed the back of his head and interrupted him: "Well, let me clarify, when I was a child, I loved playing with Shen Que the most."

Zhou Xi's eyes went dark and he almost fainted on the spot. He could say anything, but he had to mention Shen Que.

He said unreasonably, "Shen gave birth to you and raised you, so why do you favor him so much?"

Zhou Xi tried to pinch Yunxiu's chin, hoping to find the pitiful expression of fear and attachment to him on her face, but unfortunately, he couldn't. She had become too cold and distant, no longer afraid of him, and no longer even showing any obvious emotions.

Yunxiu hated being touched on the chin, so she subconsciously dodged it. She frowned, unhappy, "Are you questioning Meng Yao, or Yunxiu?"

She asked this question again. To be honest, Zhou Xi couldn't answer it. The person who originally wanted to harm Yunxiu accidentally harmed Meng Yao. He couldn't hate her for it, but he couldn't help but blame her.

Meng Yao is Meng Yao, Yun Xiu is Yun Xiu. No matter how similar they look, he has never mistaken who is the wrong one. The talk of whether they are substitutes or not is just self-consolation.

He had never thought of looking for the shadow of Meng Yao in Yunxiu, but why did he insist on letting her learn from Meng Yao, and why he was unhappy after learning from her? He couldn't explain it clearly.

It was as if he would rather Yunxiu be a substitute and live as Meng Yao for the rest of her life than let her be herself.

Silence fell again, just like last time. Yunxiu felt that she could no longer see through him. "I can't possibly approach you again under the banner of being half Meng Yao like before. Even if you ask me to do so, I don't think I would agree. Life in the past wasn't easy. Perhaps it was because I longed for someone to love me, or perhaps I envied Meng Yao too much. I don't know the reason, but there is one thing I hope you understand. That's all in the past. From now on, I'm just Yunxiu, and only Yunxiu."

Yunxiu spoke for a long time and then left. Morning self-study was over and the ten-minute break had passed. She knew what she should do. Instead of wasting time on a man, she might as well study.

Zhou Xi behind her just stared at her leaving back, thinking about something.

Yunxiu returned to the classroom. The first class happened to be mathematics. The classmates were all yawning. She was awakened by Zhou Xi's noise and joking.

[Yunxiu]: Xiao Ai, is Yunxiu's imitation makeup just to imitate Meng Yao and then attract these young men from noble families in the book?

[System]: Host, in principle, this should not be revealed to you.

[Yunxiu]: Is it or isn’t it?

[System]: Yes and no.

[Yunxiu]: ...Do you mean that I need to figure this out myself?

[System]: Yes, master, no matter how the plot develops, as long as you help Yunxiu turn over and be herself again, you will gradually understand why.

Yunxiu didn't ask any more questions. She only knew the brief plot and didn't know a long part in the middle.

The original owner lived in North City until he was six years old. After his sixth birthday, he went abroad with his mother Yun Yuan to study piano and painting.

This was enough time for two years, and if she remembered correctly, Meng Yao was also there.

It is estimated that the imitation makeup officially started from this time. After she came back, everyone was very surprised and discussed why she looked so much like Meng Yao.

People who originally liked to interact with her, including Zhou Xi, gradually disliked her less and more, became more and more distant from her, and even felt a little disgusted with her.

This kind of antipathy towards her had already shown some signs before she went abroad. At that time, it seemed that it was because Meng Yao had been hurt several times, and for some unknown reason, she was inexplicably accused of being the one who did it.

Between a naughty and rude little girl with impure thoughts and a simple, kind and innocent little girl who was victimized, even she herself would not choose the former to associate with.

Yunxiu was often bullied when she was a child. Her birth experience almost made her a laughing stock among the other children. But people like Shen Que, Zhou Xi, and Cheng Yan liked to pretend to be heroes to protect her, especially Shen Que, who was old enough and good at pretending.

She was full of energy and could beat up three people at once. Meng Yao was frail and sickly, so she could scare three people to death at once.

I don’t know since when, Meng Yao gradually became the protagonist among the children, while Yun Xiu became more and more disliked.

So in the final analysis, did Yunxiu imitate Meng Yao's makeup just to compete for a few stinky men?

Why bother.

Wouldn’t it be good for two girls to work hard on their own lives?

She couldn't even imagine how happy she would be with this family background.