Quick Transmigration: What to Do When the Male Supporting Character You Saved Becomes Obsessed with

She looked even younger today without makeup; her features were quite prominent on her small face, making her appear strikingly beautiful.

"What's wrong?" An Tang took off her gloves. "Why didn't you have class today?"

"College students don't have classes every day!"

The girl across from me rolled her eyes: "Didn't I tell you? You have to call me every few days! Otherwise, I won't feel at ease!"

Lu Liruan had just walked in when she heard these words and paused... Why does this sound so anti-Heavenly Gang?

An Tang laughed: "Who's older between us? You're getting more and more disrespectful to me these days, and your sister Li Ruan is laughing at you!"

Lu Liruan waved her hand, indicating that she hadn't done anything wrong and shouldn't drag herself into this.

Lu Liruan and Xiao Qi barely exchanged a few words, and their conversation revolved entirely around An Tang.

For example, last time, Xiao Qi said to me with a serious expression, "Sister Li Ruan, she gets prone to getting a sore throat every autumn. Can you help me keep an eye on her and make sure she eats less spicy food?"

Lu Liruan had no idea that An Tang had this problem. The next day at noon, when ordering takeout, Lu Liruan suddenly remembered and mentioned it. An Tang was quite surprised: "Xiao Qi told you?"

"Hmm...she told me to go outside to answer the phone when you were video chatting with her yesterday." Lu Liruan took credit for Xiao Qi: "See how much her sister cares about you~"

An Tang waved her hand: "I hope she spends more of her energy on herself, rather than on me."

Lu Liruan didn't quite understand at the time.

Later, I gradually came to understand.

Xiao Qi is particularly dependent on An Tang. Even when he is studying in another city, he keeps in touch with her every day. Compared to how much An Tang cares about Xiao Qi's daily life, Xiao Qi cares more about An Tang.

Even Lu Liruan could feel the concern he was showing, even through the screen.

Xiao Qi was still the kind of girl who was a little proud. Whenever she cared about An Tang, and An Tang didn't seem to care, she would inevitably start to throw a little tantrum.

Like an angry rabbit stomping its feet.

An Tang jokingly described Xiao Qi like this.

“Didn’t we talk on WeChat?” An Tang took a sip of water and coughed twice.

"But I didn't see you, did I?" Xiao Qi said unhappily.

"What, could someone steal my phone here and then impersonate me to text you? If you're so worried, next time we can agree on a secret code or something, and meet up before each chat to confirm each other's identities?"

An Tang teased her.

Xiao Qi ignored her teasing and moved her face closer to the camera. Even without makeup, her thick eyelashes were clearly visible. She frowned and asked, "Cousin? Do you have a cold? Why are you coughing?"

"No, I choked on my water." An Tang's expression softened when she heard her question: "Even if you don't have classes, go out and have some fun with your classmates. Don't stay cooped up in your dorm all day."

"I don't like going..."

"Then go do something you like! I still have things to do here, a ton of work to do! I'm hanging up now, you focus on your studies, understand?"

"Oh..." Xiao Qi rested his chin on his hand, clearly not happy about it.

An Tang pretended not to see it, waved her hand, and hung up the video call...

Lu Liruan could clearly sense that An Tang's mood had changed. Since the day she arrived, An Tang had been like an older sister to her, and Lu Liruan rarely saw her impatient.

It wasn't just impatience; it was also mixed with frustration.

"Sister Tang... what's wrong?" Lu Liruan felt a little wronged for Xiao Qi. She had always been a very observant child. She knew that if she did something good for someone but they didn't appreciate it, she would definitely get hurt.

"I didn't treat her badly..." An Tang saw Lu Liruan's indignant expression and quickly waved her hand, a bitter smile appearing on her lips.

“She’s always been a bit of a loner.” An Tang sighed. “She’s been like that ever since I met her.”

“I thought it would get better as she grew up, but it just got worse… If I hadn’t insisted on sending her to university outside the city, she would have stayed in the city and attended a school with a much lower admission score than hers, just so she could commute.” An Tang wiped her hands with a wet wipe.

"I see..." Lu Liruan could hear the helplessness in her voice.

“Even if she’s dependent on her parents, shouldn’t she be growing up at her age? What’s the point of her sticking around me all the time? Besides, she’s very thoughtful, and sometimes I really don’t know what to do with her. If I talk too much, it will sound like I’m trying to get rid of her, but I really don’t mean that.”

An Tang didn't seem to know who to talk to normally, but today Lu Liruan saw her and she simply complained a few times.

Lu Liruan looked at her...

An Tang had never shown this expression before. As far as Lu Liruan knew, An Tang had never revealed this emotion before.

Thinking about it this way, the girl on the other end was probably really being quite unreasonable...

Lu Liruan didn't know the past between the two of them, and didn't know how to advise them.

He could only walk up to An Tang and say, "Maybe things will be better after graduating from university, or maybe... things will be better after getting a job?"

An Tang raised an eyebrow, then resumed her relaxed tone: "Sigh, my treatment of raising children is quite different from Tingyuan's."

"I'm only this age, and I've already experienced this: hoping my child would finish high school, and now I'm hoping they'd finish college. It sounds quite heartbreaking..."

Lu Liruan was amused by her and nodded in agreement, pretending to be serious: "Then Teacher Liao is different from you because I didn't go to university!"

“Then you can start studying now, and I can tutor you.” An Tang grabbed her arm.

Lu Liruan wanted to run away: "No, no! I haven't suffered the hardship of studying for so many years!"

Just as the two were about to continue working, An Tang's phone rang again.

Upon picking it up and looking at it, An Tang sighed...

Lu Liruan showed her the phone screen; it was another call from Xiao Qi.

It was clear that she wouldn't stop until the other party answered.

An Tang seemed to have long been aware of the other party's character, so she could only press the answer button again, put on a forced smile, and tilt her head: "My little darling, what's wrong now?"

Xiao Qi looked unhappy: "I forgot to mention the important thing because I was arguing with you earlier!"

"You have important business to attend to?" An Tang smiled helplessly.

"How can I not have anything important to do?"

"Okay, okay, so what important business do you have?" An Tang didn't treat the previous conversation as an argument and went along with her now.

"Sister Tang, do you still remember Chengcheng who used to always be with me?"

"I remember, isn't she the little girl who's a year younger than you and has known you since childhood?"

Xiao Qi breathed a sigh of relief when An Tang said she remembered.

"What's wrong?" An Tang noticed that something was off with her and asked.

“We went to the same high school. She’s younger than me and is a senior this year. When I came back last time, she asked me for my notes… I gave them to her then. She said she would contact me if she had any questions for me.”

"Did she contact you?" An Tang didn't understand why the girl was bringing this up.

"...We've been in contact. I remembered a while ago that I probably still have a few study guides at home that she might need, so I thought I'd ask her to come and get them from you."

“Okay, then let him come and get it! I haven’t touched any of your things. Tell me where they are and I’ll go find them.” An Tang thought Xiao Qi wanted her to do him this favor.

Xiao Qi shook his head: "No, it's because I can't get in touch with her..."

"Can't get in touch?" An Tang thought for a moment: "Oh, right, don't you high school boarding students have to hand in your cell phones?"

"I remember that in your senior year of high school, unless there were special circumstances, you would go home once every two weeks." An Tang still had a pretty good impression of Xiao Qi's senior year of high school.

Because the child couldn't go home, and Antang was worried that she wasn't eating well at school, she would send some food and drinks to the school every few days.

At that time, An Tang remarked to everyone, "Kids these days really have it tough... When I went there, it felt like visiting someone in prison!"

"Now the top classes only get one day off a month..." Xiao Qi was clearly reminiscing about his senior year of high school.

"A holiday once a month?" An Tang asked incredulously.

Lu Liruan was also incredulous and leaned over from the side: "You're staying at school for a whole month?"

Xiao Qi nodded.

The three people on both sides of the camera each said: "Luckily, I'm older and started high school early."

"Luckily, I've already graduated..."

"Luckily, the lousy high school I went to didn't have such terrible rules."

Everyone seemed to feel a sense of unease.

Xiao Qi was the first to snap out of it: "That's not what I meant!" She clapped her hands, bringing the two of them back to their senses.

"Although the school will hand in our phones, Chengcheng has kept one of them, so we can still contact each other, but usually after they go back to their dorms and turn off the lights."

An Tang and Lu Liruan neither commented nor expressed any doubt about this behavior.

What's the point if that person doesn't have a cell phone?

How can people not use their phones?

Kids these days are amazing; they can actually go without playing on their phones!

These thoughts simultaneously filled both of their minds...

"Maybe the phone is out of battery?"

"Or was your phone confiscated?" Lu Liruan guessed from the side.

"It shouldn't be either of those..."

“At first I thought so too, but later when she was supposed to leave school for vacation, I couldn’t contact her either.” Xiaoqi’s expression became serious: “I called her home, and I have her mother’s contact information. But what her aunt said was very strange… She said Chengcheng had already come back.”

"I asked Chengcheng where she went after she came back, what she did, and why I couldn't contact her, but she seemed to know nothing... In short, it was very strange."

Xiao Qi looked worried.

"I'm worried... has something happened to Chengcheng?"

“Her parents said he came back, but maybe they don’t know what she did when she came home?” An Tang guessed. “Chengcheng probably didn’t tell them what she was doing.”

“Chengcheng has excellent grades, and her family cares a lot about them… Even though she has these two days off, her parents have found her private tutoring classes, saying they're taught by famous teachers. She never likes to go, but her aunt forces her to go every time. How could she not know what she's doing?” Xiao Qi shook his head, which is why I found it strange.

"Kids these days are so tired..."

Lu Liruan couldn't help but sigh again.

Liao Tingyuan had cleared away the pebbles from the turned-up ground in the yard, and now he came in carrying a bucket of larger stones.

"Teacher Liao, you can put it there. Tang-jie and I will pick one later..." Lu Liruan called out to him.

An Tang plans to mix the usable stones with the remaining stones in the fish tank to make a path in the middle of the yard.

"Brother Tingyuan!" Xiao Qi greeted him.

Then Liao Tingyuan asked her, "Which school did you graduate from?"

"Third Middle School... Brother Tingyuan, didn't you pick me up from school back then?" Xiao Qi blinked.

“Tsk, that’s just how men are…” An Tang waved her hand: “Go on.”

Lu Liruan shrugged at Liao Tingyuan. An Tang had automatically switched into parent mode, which was quite different from usual.

"So what do you want to do?" An Tang always respected her child's ideas.

In particular, Xiao Qi felt that something had happened to Chengcheng.

Xiao Qi doesn't have many friends, but Cheng Cheng is one of her closest friends...

At that time, Xiao Qi was in high school. Although they were not in the same grade, he often played with Cheng Cheng and sometimes even brought Cheng Cheng over to eat together.

An Tang had met the little girl before; she was a very quiet girl who spoke very politely. She seemed a little timid.

Xiao Qi is quite different from An Tang, who was surprised that the two children could become friends.

Seeing that Xiao Qi cares about Chengcheng, he is very supportive: "Do you want me to help you contact Chengcheng's parents?"

"Even if something happened to Chengcheng, judging from her mother's tone, she didn't seem to want to tell me..."

"Sister Tang, could you go to No. 3 Middle School sometime? You could meet Chengcheng in person and ask her if anything's wrong. If so..." Xiao Qi thought for a moment, "If she's in trouble, I'd like to see if I can help her."

“Okay, I understand.” An Tang agreed readily.

Xiao Qi was able to tell An Tang about this, which clearly shows that he understands her and expects her to help him.

At this moment, Xiao Qi breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you, Sister Tang."

"There's no need to thank me," An Tang smiled. "Don't worry, I'll definitely tell you if anything comes up."

Xiao Qi nodded.

Ever since An Tang took over almost all of Xiao Qi's upbringing, she has maintained this attitude.

While taking care of the child, one should not treat her as a complete child in spirit. In everything one does, one should consider her thoughts and feelings, and discuss things with her openly and honestly.

That's why Xiao Qi told An Tang about his affairs without having to hide anything.

Lu Liruan raised her hand: "I'll go with Sister Tang. I want to see what high schools are like now..."

An Tang glanced at her: "Be careful, or I'll just drag you into a repeat year..."

Lu Liruan looked terrified: "No way, my life can't take that much torture right now."