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

43: Chapter 43 Xiaoyou, you have to keep going!”I’m unhappy?”

Su Bai repeated the question.

He lay on his back, his gaze falling on the hazy shadows on the ceiling. After pondering for a few seconds, he replied in a matter-of-fact tone, ”I’m very happy.”

Wasn’t every day like this? No worries about food or clothing, doing as he pleased, no need to strive for any goals, and no need to care about anyone’s opinion.

How could such a near-perfect life of slacking off be unhappy?

He felt that Mu Xue’s question was somewhat inexplicable.

Mu Xue didn’t press further; she simply buried her cheek deeper into the warm crook of his neck and rubbed gently. Her hair brushed against his skin, bringing a slight itch.

If he didn’t say it, she wouldn’t ask.

As the one on the receiving end of all this, she was more capable than anyone of subtly sensing his emotions.

【System Administration Bureau】

Inside the cold, open-plan office area, countless light screens floated and flickered.

”Xiao You! How’s that case you’re responsible for? Has the plot interference level reached the standard?” A colleague at the next workstation, wearing energy-monitoring glasses, turned around and knocked on the partition to inquire.

The young system administrator called Xiao You abruptly looked up from a messy pile of report screens. She subconsciously rubbed her slightly chubby cheeks and squeezed out a dry smile: ”It’s... it’s okay. It’s progressing, it’s progressing.”

”You’d better work harder,” the colleague lowered their voice, sounding a bit like a fellow sufferer. ”The internal notice just came down. For this quarterly settlement, our sector only has one spot for an intern World Administrator to become a permanent employee. Your internship hasn’t been short; if you can complete this case beautifully, the evaluation bonus points will definitely be high, and your chances of becoming permanent are great.”

”Haha, yeah, I... think so too.” Xiao You tried hard to maintain the curve of her lips, but only managed a fake smile that looked worse than crying.

She wanted to complete it too! Heaven knows how much she wanted to wrap up this mission perfectly!

But the reality was that her bound host, Su Bai, had been in a signal-shielded state ever since the Novice Gift Pack was issued!

Forget about guiding him through the plot or boosting the female protagonist’s favorability; she couldn’t even manage basic communication!

How was she supposed to complete her KPIs like this?

Ever since her last attempt to activate communication was ruthlessly ignored, Xiao You had fallen into a sort of ostrich mentality, almost not daring to check Su Bai’s specific progress in real-time anymore.

Just thinking about Su Bai’s cold ’stay away from me’ attitude toward Lin Wan made her feel like she was going to black out—with that, he still wanted to achieve the hidden mission of the Villain’s counterattack and wooing the female protagonist before the original story’s protagonist appeared?

It would be faster to just dream!

And this novel even had a harem setting!

As the childhood fiancée who had an engagement with the Villain from the start, Lin Wan should have been in the lowest difficulty tier for a typical transmigration Villain’s conquest rating—she should have been a point-farming tool!

Calculated according to the original plot’s timeline, Su Bai and Lin Wan’s university life had already passed for over a year.

Under normal circumstances, there should be some interaction, even if it’s bad interaction—that would still count as plot progression!

Xiao You didn’t dare to open Su Bai’s real-time monitoring screen at all.

She was afraid that as soon as she opened it, she would see Su Bai completely deviating from the main plot path, racing down the wrong road of a slacking rich second generation until he could never be pulled back.

It was foreseeable that when Su Bai’s natural life in this small world ended and the mission settlement was performed, her plot interference and character fate reversal degrees would definitely be pitifully low. Forget about extra points; she’d be lucky if her performance pay wasn’t docked.

She had finally endured until the late stage of her internship, seeing an opportunity to take on a mission that seemed low in difficulty and could boost her permanent status evaluation. In the end... in the end, something went wrong during the soul-binding induction, and the wrong Protagonist was pulled in?

She had bound this Su Bai, who was completely impervious to persuasion and only wanted to lie flat.

Look at how efficient her colleagues in charge of the Heart Voice Listening System were; they directly opened a one-way function for the target female protagonist. The host didn’t even have a shielding option, and emotional fluctuations and inner secrets were visible at a glance, making guidance twice as effective with half the effort.

And her?

She had taken over the Intercept System, the core of which was to encourage the bound person—usually a Villain or a supporting character—to change their fate and seize the opportunities and beauties that originally belonged to the Protagonist.

But now?

The Villain Su Bai didn’t have the slightest awareness or motivation to intercept anything!

If he didn’t act, the system missions couldn’t be triggered; without missions, there were naturally no reward points to exchange for any items or abilities that could change the situation.

No rewards, no performance... her dream of a permanent position was probably going to vanish into the wind, just like the data streams in her hands.

Meanwhile, inside the hotel room.

Su Bai, who was lying on the bed, suddenly sat up without warning, startling Mu Xue who was snuggled beside him. She also propped herself up: ”What’s wrong?”

”I forgot something important.” Su Bai rubbed his brow, his tone carrying a rare hint of urgency. He rolled out of bed and began briskly picking up his scattered clothes to put them on.

Even though Mu Xue was already familiar with this body from their intimacy over the past year or so.

Every time Su Bai got up so abruptly, her gaze would still be uncontrollably drawn to him, staring blankly as she followed his movements until he had dressed himself neatly again.

At nineteen, they were in their prime of youth.

”You rest, I’m leaving first.” Su Bai fastened the last button, grabbed his coat, and left those words as he walked straight toward the door without any extra comfort, not even waiting for Mu Xue’s response.

The door made a slight clicking sound as it closed, completely sealing off the residual warmth and scent in the room from him.

Mu Xue sat alone on the messy edge of the bed, dazed for a moment, before slowly moving off the bed to put on her clothes one by one.

She walked to the coffee table, her gaze falling on that forgotten, long-cold fried rice noodles.

She opened the lid; the oil had already solidified, and the rice noodles had lost the vibrant aura they had when fresh out of the pan, clumped together limply.

An unsolvable paradox:

If she hadn’t agreed to Su Bai’s deal because she was at a dead end, their life trajectories would have been like parallel lines, never intersecting.

She wouldn’t have known him, wouldn’t have received his help, and even more so... wouldn’t have developed these extravagant hopes that shouldn’t exist.

But because she did agree and entered this relationship built on money and bodies, she was forever nailed to the position of a transaction partner. It was no longer possible for her to occupy even a tiny, unique corner in his heart.

The cold rice noodles entered her mouth.

No one could tell what kind of emotions Mu Xue was feeling at this moment.