“…Miss Su, Miss Su? It’s time to wake up.”
“…Mm?”
Amidst a soft calling, Su Wanli frowned slightly, stretched her body over the desk, and straightened her back.
She subconsciously looked toward the source of the voice. Sitting next to her was the brown-haired girl wearing a faint, indifferent smile.
Meng Wange was sitting in the seat right beside her. She blinked gently at Su Wanli and then pointed toward the Math Teacher standing on the lecture platform.
“Miss Su, it’s already class time. If you would like to rest a bit longer, I suggest you fold your textbook into a right angle and stand it up in front of you as a shield so that you won’t be scolded by Teacher Zhang.”
“…”
Listening to Meng Wange’s words—not knowing if she was being serious or just joking—Su Wanli gave her a cold snort and turned her head to look at the scenery outside the window.
‘The hateful thing, wasn’t she unwilling to say even half a word to me just now? Now she’s pretending to care about whether I get scolded by the teacher. I don’t need it!’
…However, this was progress of a sort. Meng Wange was taking the initiative to establish communication.
It wouldn’t hurt to give her a little response, just so this ungrateful Heroine would know exactly what kind of attitude she, as a personal maid, should use to win her favor and appreciation.
With that thought, Su Wanli sat up lazily. She took a gel pen from the desk and twirled it between her fingers a couple of times, looking lazily at Meng Wange beside her.
However, Meng Wange had already prepared her textbook and a blank notebook for this lesson. She was staring intently at the Math Teacher on the lecture platform.
“…Tsk!”
Having been ignored for no reason, Su Wanli gritted her teeth fiercely. She leaned back down on the desk and poked at the blank paper in front of her with her pen.
‘Hmph, it’s fine if you’re not interested in talking to me. Do you think I like talking to you? If it weren’t for the System’s requirements, I would have gone back to being a reckless rich lady long ago. Who would stay here revolving around you?’
‘She’s just a mere Meng Wange! Just a mere Meng Wange!’
Just as the flames of anger in Su Wanli’s mind were growing more intense, a small paper ball was thrown onto her desk from somewhere.
“Oh, this is…”
Su Wanli arched an eyebrow and peeked slightly to her right.
—Meng Wange was still staring straight at the lecture platform, her posture unchanged.
…As expected, she wasn’t the one who passed it.
Su Wanli sighed in disappointment and then shifted her gaze past Meng Wange.
—Xiao Fen, Da Zhuang, and Potato Thunder were waving their arms slightly, making a hand sign toward her.
She had originally thought they wouldn’t have any results until noon at the earliest. How had they managed to gather intelligence after just one break… No, it had been less than five or six minutes. They had already finished their investigation?
Su Wanli suspiciously opened the paper ball in her hand.
‘Boss Su, we saw Meng Wange hanging around the faculty office after class. She chatted with Teacher Liu and several other teachers for quite a while. She only rushed back to the classroom with the Math Teacher right before class started.’
‘Hmm? She went to the faculty office and chatted with various teachers… What is Meng Wange trying to do?’
The System had said that the loyalty of these three subordinates was guaranteed, and they had no reason to lie to her. This intelligence should be true.
Connecting this information with Meng Wange’s actions this morning—she had been carrying a mysterious little notebook, constantly recording things with a pen, and then she rushed to the office as soon as class was over to talk to the teachers for a long time…
…Talked for a long time?
No, that was just the subjective judgment of three foolish subordinates. Why would Meng Wange just casually chat with a teacher? She must have had a more specific purpose for going to the office…
At that moment, Da Zhuang’s previous speculation suddenly surfaced in Su Wanli’s mind—
‘The boss must have missed class yesterday because she was feeling unwell, so she wants us to ask what the teachers taught so it’s easier for you and Boss Meng to review together.’
‘…Eh? Could it be like that?’
Was Meng Wange simply looking for teachers to make up for the content because she missed a day of class yesterday?
That sounded a bit too ridiculous. Given Meng Wange’s academic level, she could have already taken a top spot in the Gaokao. How could she possibly need the teachers for extra tutoring?
If anything, it was more likely that Meng Wange was putting on a show of studying hard in front of the teachers to curry favor with them…
…Is that so? Meng Wange is currying favor with them, not with me…
For some reason, even though she could understand the motivation behind such behavior, Su Wanli’s fingertips still squeezed hard, tearing the note in her hand in half.
…Hateful Meng Wange. Is it because I treated her too well yesterday that she thinks she has already “conquered” me, and no longer needs to consider my feelings from now on?
‘Hmph, I wasn’t being nice to you so that you could treat me poorly! To actually let your guard down because of my thin shred of kindness… Meng Wange, this might be the biggest mistake you’ve made in days…’
—If you want to know why, it’s because for this Villainess Task, I won’t show any mercy! As long as the System gives an instruction, I will complete it exactly as ordered!
**[Well, I am very pleased to see that the Host has this level of resolve. For such a lowly maid who ignores your kindness and even becomes arrogant because of your benevolence, you should indeed strike her with the hammer known as the “Ultimate Villainess.”]**
As if programmed, the moment Su Wanli had that thought, the System spoke up at the appropriate time—
**[Next, the System will inform you of today’s official Villainess Task.]**
**[Premise: After Su Wanli confined Meng Wange at home for a whole day as punishment, she remains unrepentant, ignoring her only Master and even forgetting her duties as a personal maid.]**
**[Faced with such an obvious provocation, Su Wanli naturally feels enraged. However, personally taking action time and time again is beneath her and does not fit the Bullying Aesthetics of a Villainous Eldest Young Lady. Therefore, she has come up with several sinister plans…]**
**[So, your three tasks for today, Host, are—]**
**[One: While Meng Wange is out of the classroom, you must carve insulting words onto her desk to remind her of her duties as your personal servant.]**
**[Two: Find a way to create a sense of crisis in Meng Wange’s heart, making her realize that if you wish to replace her, you can do so at any time, causing her to lose her standing in the Su family!]**
**[Three: Before school ends today, make Meng Wange swear her loyalty to you repeatedly in front of all the students, firmly branding her with this label.]**
**[The above are all your tasks for today. Next, I wish you good luck.]**