The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly

Chapter 41: Chapter 041 Breaking the Door

He Tiantian: ...Buddy, we really aren’t that close, you know!

You come to me and talk about such secrets that aren’t suitable to share with outsiders, is that really appropriate?

Aren’t you afraid this vicious villain would go and tattle to your real mother, sowing discord between you and her?

Perhaps it was because He Tiantian’s expression was too vivid, but Zhou Zixuan understood very clearly.

She chuckled, ”You’re not that kind of person!”

Although she had never spent time with He Tiantian, she had always heard stories about her from others.

Through various details, Zhou Zixuan was confident that He Tiantian was not the type to stir up trouble or spread rumors like some hypocritical goody-two-shoes.

If she really harbored ill intentions and did something secretly, Zhou Zixuan’s relationship with the Zhou Family would be even worse.

Zhou Zixuan knew very well that He Tiantian wasn’t like that; she didn’t cling to Zhou Chuanguo and Feng Mingjie intentionally.

However, it was this sense of respectful distance that made Mr. and Mrs. Zhou grow fonder of He Tiantian, still treating her as one of their most important family members.

And this was exactly what Zhou Zixuan wanted to learn from He Tiantian.

”Okay then!”

He Tiantian felt that the world was truly too fantastical.

She, a notorious villain, had actually gained the complete trust of the female lead, Zhou Zixuan, this, this—

Well, since she was trusted so much by others, He Tiantian couldn’t bring herself to reject this delicate relationship.

”As you said, our situations are quite similar; we are both daughters who were recognized halfway through the journey!”

After saying this, He Tiantian deliberately glanced at Zhou Zixuan.

On the surface, He Tiantian was talking about how both of them had been swapped, later discovering the truth, and then each returning to their original families.

But in fact, He Tiantian was also subtly reminding Zhou Zixuan: Buddy, both of us are replacements, not the original goods.

He Tiantian didn’t know if Zhou Zixuan had gotten the hint, but her expression was extremely serious, as if she were listening to every word He Tiantian said.

Seeing this, He Tiantian couldn’t lay everything out too clearly and continued: ”Neither of us grew up with our birth mothers, and suddenly we had to go back to a strange family and rebuild a parent-child relationship with a pair of strangers, which is very difficult.”

Human emotions are the most complex things.

And human feelings are also complex and changeable.

Just like Mr. and Mrs. Zhou, they felt guilt toward Zhou Zixuan, their biological daughter, but also had a connection through blood.

But this does not mean they would love and spoil Zhou Zixuan unconditionally and without principle.

Zhou Zixuan is the female lead of this book, but she is not the center of everyone’s universe—she can’t expect everyone to like her.

Because of a series of moves He Tiantian made in the past, Zhou Chuanguo and Feng Mingjie not only didn’t start to dislike her foster daughter, but instead felt she was sensible and well-behaved, deepening and beautifying the feelings of the past decade or more.

If Zhou Zixuan held the mindset that ”I am the real lady, everyone owes me,” she was bound to create a rift with Mr. and Mrs. Zhou.

”I can get along well with both my birth parents and foster parents because I can position myself correctly. I am their daughter, but I am not their only one.”

”I respect and show filial piety to them, but I won’t give up on myself! There should also be distance between family members!”

”Too much alienation and too much dependency are both undesirable! We are all independent, complete individuals; we shouldn’t have overly high expectations of others...”

He Tiantian was opening up to Zhou Zixuan for the first, and last time.

The two of them talked a lot that day, opening their hearts to each other, and by the end, they had even started to tear up.

But the next day, it was as if they had both forgotten last night’s conversation.

They were no longer intimate confidants but returned to the state where they didn’t see eye to eye, not close yet not true enemies.

He Tiantian was very satisfied with this kind of relationship.

Because of an underlying feud involving malicious swapping and impersonation, it was impossible for He Tiantian and Zhou Zixuan to bury the hatchet completely.

The distant relationship of mere acquaintances suited them best.

Luckily, Zhou Zixuan had also grasped He Tiantian’s secret, gradually improving her relationship with the Zhou Family’s parents.

Regarding the He Family, she didn’t dismiss them all outright.

While she would never forgive Seo Xiulan, Zhou Zixuan no longer tried as hard as before to distance herself from the warm-hearted Grandpa He and Granny He, and instead would regularly send the elderly couple some food and necessities.

When she graduated from college and decided to stay and get married in Capital City, she even took care to send an invitation to the elderly couple of the He Family.

The old couple naturally did not attend, but the feeling of being respected was something both Grandpa He and Granny He sensed and took pride in.

When Zhou Chuanguo and Feng Mingjie heard about it, they not only didn’t feel Zhou Zixuan was too close to the He Family but instead felt she knew how to distinguish gratitude from grievances, a conscientious and emotionally intelligent good child.

And He Tiantian, due to her work, traveling all over the world, ended up diminishing her presence in both the Zhou and He families.

Unless something significant occurred between the two families, she was nowhere to be seen all year round.

Human affection, however, is fostered through interaction, and even the closest of relationships can gradually weaken if there is a long separation.

He Tiantian was no longer the focus of both the He and Zhou families. When Zhou Zixuan received letters from home, the mentions of He Tiantian became increasingly scarce, and her own mentality became more serene, growing closer to Mr. and Mrs. Zhou.

In a few years, Zhou Zixuan had a daughter, for whom Feng Mingjie specifically chose to retire early to help with child care in the Capital City.

Seeing Feng Mingjie’s affection for her child, the maternal love that was once missing seemed to be replenished.

The last remnant of the original soul lingering in the body disappeared, and a sense of relief came from deep within Zhou Zixuan’s soul.

At the same time, He Tiantian, who had been away on business in the UK, also felt an inexplicable sense of relief, as if a certain constraint had been entirely released.

”Ding! The novel world has been completely repaired. Writer’s task is completed.”

”You can now choose to leave the novel world and return to reality, or continue to undertake the next task!”

Hmm?

It’s finished already.

She hasn’t lived out this life yet.

”Student Xiao D, if I choose to leave the novel world, what will happen to He Tiantian in this world?”

He Tiantian asked with curiosity.

”Her life will continue according to the personality and thoughts you’ve set up, just as if you were still there,” Student Xiao D explained.

Although it felt a bit incongruous, it’s common in novels to have characters and plotlines predestined, with endings swiftly concluded.

He Tiantian didn’t think too much of it. She had already gained a lot in this life.

She had experienced seven or eight years of college entrance examinations, mastered English and French, and had also learned German and Spanish.

She had her first experience of going abroad, seeing the customs of many different countries and regions.

Her perspective and broad-mindedness had vastly improved...

He Tiantian was very satisfied; she felt that the subsequent storylines were a waste of time, and she didn’t want to grow old and die in this world.

”Student Xiao D, I want to return to reality!”

He Tiantian made up her mind and spoke to Student Xiao D with determination.

”Task completed, reward Writer Points 1 point.”

Student Xiao D sounded like an unemotional assistant, reporting in a stiff robotic voice.

He Tiantian opened her eyes again and found herself back in the library space.

On the empty bookshelf, a new book had appeared.

”The True Lady is a Boss in the Seventies” by Beauty Xuanji.

When He Tiantian picked up the book, the original title dissipated like smoke, replaced by a brand-new title—

”(Seventies) The Fake Lady is the Real Boss” by He Tiantian.

He Tiantian gently caressed the cover; she hadn’t spent a lifetime in the world of the book, just a mere decade.

But this decade had brought her much.

He Tiantian put her completed book back on the shelf, and at the moment the book touched the shelf, she felt a powerful suction pass through the depths of her soul.

All the emotions she had as He Tiantian in the book vanished.

When she thought back on the entire story again, she had shifted from the first-person perspective to the third-person perspective; she had transformed from being a character in the book to a reader!

How magical!

Even though she hadn’t invested much emotion in the previous world, she still felt a certain affinity for Seo Xiulan, He Dazhuang, and the brothers He Jiabao and He Jiayu.

It was a fusion with the character, a bond of blood.

But now, all of that had disappeared.

To He Tiantian, Seo Xiulan and the others had become ordinary characters in a book, not her relatives.

He Tiantian felt it for a moment and then, with a thought, her Divine Soul left the library space and returned to reality.

Bang! Bang bang!

Just as He Tiantian returned to her own body, she heard a violent banging on the door.

At the same time, her eldest aunt, He Shengnan, was also screaming at the top of her lungs, ”He Tiantian, you ungrateful wretch, get out here! What did you say just now? Say it again to my face!”