Transmigrating Into a Book, the Villain Becomes the White Moonlight!

38: Chapter 38 One Year LaterTime flies, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed.

Su Bai’s height had quietly increased, shooting up from 175 centimeters a year ago to 178 centimeters.

The youth’s frame had gradually filled out, his posture becoming tall and straight, and that sense of detachment belonging to a transmigrator grew even more pronounced.

Even he couldn’t tell whether this change was due to the exquisite diet at home or if the so-called [Immortal Kidney Body] Novice Gift Pack from the system—which he had completely blocked since its binding—was silently at work.

Yes, he still treated that system like a piece of worn-out trash.

Since the day it was activated, he hadn’t paid it any mind; most of the time, he had long since forgotten that such a thing was even attached to him.

To him, relying on something obtained out of thin air was far less comfortable than living according to his own whims and slacking off.

Over the past year, he had intentionally kept a low profile, and media exposure gradually decreased. However, his status as the only son of the Su Family and his charitable endeavors still acted like a magnet, attracting persistent reporters to spy on him from the shadows.

Early morning, inside the spacious dining room of the Su Family villa.

Ms. Shang Hui was elegantly having breakfast when she spoke up as if suddenly remembering something, ”That child Wanwan just sent a message saying she found another Orphanage in the West District of A City with poor conditions. She’s planning to go there this weekend to deliver some school and living supplies.”

Su Bai was focused on the food in front of him. Hearing this, he didn’t even look up, merely mumbling vaguely, ”She’s really getting into it.”

His tone carried neither praise nor frustration; it was more like a casual comment about something that had nothing to do with him.

”Eat slower.” Shang Hui pushed the warm water beside her toward him, taking the opportunity to pivot to the topic she truly cared about. ”Son, I think that little girl from the Lin family is really quite good—kind-hearted and independent. You two go to school together every day, haven’t you... developed any other feelings?”

This question successfully caused Su Zheng, who had been silently reading the newspaper at the head of the table, to raise his eyes and look at his son.

Su Bai finally looked up, picked up a napkin to wipe the corners of his mouth, his eyes filled with a candid indifference. ”Mom, stop trying to play matchmaker. As for her,”

He paused and emphasized, ”I don’t have even a single shred of those kinds of feelings for her.”

Upon hearing this, Su Zheng turned his gaze back to the newspaper and smoothed things over in a flat tone, ”Maybe our son has someone he likes at school and just hasn’t told us.”

”What’s there that can’t be told?” Shang Hui immediately took up the conversation, speaking to Su Bai persuasively.

”You’re older now; if you should date, then date. If you ask me, experiencing these things early and curing that ’love brain’ thing in advance will prevent you from losing out in the future.”

Su Bai helplessly pressed his hand to his forehead. ”Mom, where did you learn these terms from...”

”Alright,” Su Zheng put down the newspaper, timely steering the conversation toward business. ”Your Uncle Lin told me yesterday that the game you’ve been working on is completely finished?”

At the mention of this, the usual lazy expression on Su Bai’s face faded slightly as he nodded. ”Yeah, it’s basically done. I’m planning to launch it this weekend.”

Although he had provided a detailed blueprint and core design for this game, which he had replicated based on memories from before his transmigration, the actual workload was still massive, taking over a year to complete.

It was also thanks to the group of top-tier talents Uncle Lin had found; each one strove for perfection, polishing the details over and over again to ensure everything was foolproof for the launch.

Although Su Bai’s original intention was merely so he could play the games from his memory in this boring world, seeing it about to be released actually gave him a quiet, indescribable sense of accomplishment.

To reproduce the fruit of another world within this novel’s world... this feeling seemed slightly more interesting than he had anticipated.

It’s time to get a computer for the house.

After breakfast, Su Bai habitually got into the family’s low-profile yet luxuriously-interior sedan to head to school. The route was the same as always, requiring a detour to pick up Lin Wan.

This matter itself was a bit strange. Su Bai remembered clearly that Uncle Fu had mentioned initially that Lin Wan explicitly stated she didn’t need the Su Family to make special trips to pick her up.

But that persistence didn’t last more than a few days before she quietly changed her mind. Since then, the two, who were in the same school and grade and also shared the title of being betrothed since childhood, naturally became regular companions for the commute.

Toward Lin Wan, the female protagonist designated by the original work, Su Bai maintained an attitude of keeping a respectful distance in the depths of his heart.

Looks?

Admittedly, Lin Wan’s appearance was impeccable, but the experience of transmigration had long since reshaped Su Bai’s perceptions.

In his past life, he thought world-class beauties were hard to find, but in this life, under the halo of being the Su Family’s young master, he realized his previous perspective had indeed been narrow.

Beauties of all shapes and sizes were like bamboo shoots after a spring rain—you could find them by the handful.

He even wondered if the author of this novel world had intentionally dialed up the overall beauty level by several notches.

However, what he found most troublesome, even a headache, wasn’t Lin Wan herself, but the friendship that had inexplicably developed between her and Mu Xue.

Yes, the girl he was supporting financially and the fiancée candidate half-acknowledged by his family had actually become friends.

This web of relationships felt absurd even to Su Bai when he thought about it.

Since that sponsorship event, the family burden on Mu Xue’s shoulders had lightened significantly.

(Deleted; just mentions that Mu Xue is now quite attached to Su Bai, only two sentences.)

On the other hand, Lin Wan seemed to have found great satisfaction in charitable work, even showing signs of getting addicted to it.

Donating to impoverished students today, helping elderly people living alone tomorrow—she was kept busy and happy.

Because of her high-profile acts of kindness, her childhood betrothal to Su Bai also spread from a small circle of knowledge to become a topic of conversation for almost the entire A City high society.

Su Bai leaned against the comfortable leather back seat, watching the street scenery flash by outside the window, his brow furrowing almost imperceptibly.

He wasn’t sure if he, the butterfly that had accidentally intruded, had unintentionally flapped its wings and changed the course of the original plot.

According to his fuzzy memory, such settings involving the Protagonist’s key romantic plotlines shouldn’t have been so widely known in the early stages.

When the destined protagonist of the original work makes his grand entrance in the future, wouldn’t this situation... force a ”third party” label onto him out of thin air?

As soon as Su Bai stepped into the classroom, he saw Zhou Feng and several other boys sneakily huddled in a back corner, their heads together, occasionally bursting into suppressed yet excited fits of high-pitched laughter.