I Was Supposed to Be the Villainess, Now You're Telling Me I'm the Female Lead? - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: The Loneliness of That Day, Growing Lonely

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“Why don’t you just not go tonight?”

Nan Zha looked at Bai Ning with a serious expression.

Originally, she had planned to go with Bai Ning to let her get used to life by her side in advance. After all, she would be attending quite a few banquets in the future. But now that the situation had changed, it was better to forget about it.

“?”

Bai Ning looked at Nan Zha with confusion. What nonsense was she talking about? How could she say go one moment and not go the next?

“Nan Ziyue is probably planning something tonight. She’s vindictive, and since you have a conflict with her, you’d better not go.”

Hearing this, Bai Ning immediately became unhappy, pouting.

Me avoiding her blade?

What a joke! I’m the female lead! Apart from the protagonist, how could such a small cannon fodder hurt her?

My sword has never been dull either!

Nan Zha alone might not be able to handle it, but with her added, it would be different. Bai Ning definitely disagreed.

Moreover, seeing Nan Zha’s grave expression, Bai Ning felt uncomfortable inside. But she absolutely couldn’t be worried about Nan Zha. That’s right, she was just simply uncomfortable because of Nan Ziyue’s matter.

Seeing that Bai Ning hadn’t replied for so long, Nan Zha knew that she probably wouldn’t go with her.

But Bai Ning’s words made her suddenly look up.

“The clothes are all ready, I definitely have to go.”

Looking at Bai Ning’s nonchalant expression, the way she avoided her gaze when she looked over, Nan Zha really wanted to hold Bai Ning and kiss her.

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Seeing the atmosphere become somewhat silent, with a red face, Bai Ning made a fanning motion with her hand and picked up the TV remote.

“Well, well, when soldiers come, we’ll block them with generals; when water comes, we’ll block it with earth. Let’s not think about it now, let’s watch some TV.” While saying this, she turned on the TV—

The TV happened to be playing a music program, and a familiar melody came through.

Bai Ning was quite happy when she heard the intro because she quite liked this song and wanted to recommend it to Nan Zha.

“This song is really good, you…”

But before she could finish speaking, the voice from the TV blocked her words.

“The melancholy of that day, growing melancholy~”

“The loneliness of that day, growing lonely~”

Her smile froze on her face, and Bai Ning’s mouth twitched slightly.

Nan Zha looked with puzzled eyes, seeming to doubt Bai Ning’s taste a bit. Though she didn’t know if she was behind the times, anyway, she felt the melody was quite good, but the lyrics were really too abstract.

If she had to describe it, it was like suddenly stuffing a lump of something into a delicious dish.

Watching the people on TV singing and dancing, Aunt Li standing nearby couldn’t help it either, curling her lips, “What kind of weird thing is this? I might as well sing ‘The watermelon of that day, growing watermelon.'”

Nan Zha originally wanted to nod in agreement, but seeing Bai Ning’s expression didn’t look very good, she just gave Aunt Li a thumbs up behind her back, agreeing with her statement.

“Ahaha, there’s something wrong with these lyrics. I heard it wrong, let’s change it, change it.”

With an embarrassed smile on her face, Bai Ning switched channels with lightning speed.

“Chicken You’re Too Beautiful”

It was an anime. Looking at the little chick in overalls playing basketball above, Bai Ning suddenly felt this was much more pleasing to the eye.

……

Nothing happened all afternoon, except that she seemed very concerned about Nan Ziyue’s matter. Nan Zha would keep staring at her and spacing out inexplicably, making her scalp tingle.

After taking a phone call and checking the time, Nan Zha stood up and said to Bai Ning.

“Get ready, put on the dress first. I’ll have the driver come pick us up.”

“Oh.”

Bai Ning stood up and walked toward the room, with Nan Zha following behind her.

They walked all the way to the room door, and only then did Bai Ning turn around with a puzzled expression.

“Why are you following me? I’m going to change clothes.”

Hearing this, Nan Zha raised the bag in her hand, signaling Bai Ning to look. Bai Ning looked at the bag, and it seemed to contain clothes.

“I need to change too. I can’t just have you wearing a dress, right?” Nan Zha said matter-of-factly.

“Then, then you go change over there, I’ll change here.”

Rendered speechless by Nan Zha’s reasoning, Bai Ning’s face turned red as she pointed to a room nearby.

“Don’t waste time. We’re already at the door. Let’s go in and change together. The banquet will start soon.”

While saying this, Nan Zha carried the bag and turned the door handle, walking inside. As she passed by Bai Ning, she gestured for her to follow.

Bai Ning watched Nan Zha’s swift movements and her casual expression. She bit her lip, hesitated for a while, and finally gritted her teeth and followed Nan Zha inside.

It was just changing clothes anyway. They were both girls, so what was there to be shy about? Besides, Nan Zha had such a good figure that she might even be the one benefiting.

Although that’s what she thought, after going in, Bai Ning immediately distanced herself from Nan Zha, with the two standing on opposite sides of the bed.

After making sure Nan Zha had her back to her, Bai Ning immediately began taking off her clothes, wanting to change into the dress as quickly as possible.

But when you want to do something quickly, something bad always happens.

Haste makes waste, that described Bai Ning’s current situation perfectly.

The dress was a light blue ankle-length gown. Since she rarely attended banquets, she naturally rarely wore formal dresses. Forget about complex little dresses like formal wear, even some normal dresses required Bai Ning to study how to put them on for a while.

So the result of trying to hurry was that all the ties at the back of Bai Ning’s collar got tangled together. Then she started trying to untangle them, but the result was that they became more and more tangled.

Nan Zha had been secretly observing Bai Ning’s movements. Originally, she wanted to catch glimpses of skin that Bai Ning might accidentally expose while changing clothes, but after seeing Bai Ning’s clumsy appearance, she almost couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

After quickly putting on her dress in just a few moves, Nan Zha quietly moved behind Bai Ning. Looking at Bai Ning, who was still struggling with the ties and sweating profusely, the corners of her mouth turned up slightly. She bent down and whispered softly in Bai Ning’s ear.

“Do you need me to help you?”

After feeling the warm breath by her ear, Bai Ning’s body visibly trembled, and her ears turned red.

“N-no need, I can do it myself.”

Flustered, she took a few steps forward and stammered her refusal.

“The driver is already downstairs. Let me help you with it.”

But Nan Zha also followed her a few steps and came behind her again, speaking in a tone that left no room for refusal. While speaking, she directly reached out and touched Bai Ning’s back.

The moment she was touched, Bai Ning froze completely in place, as if under a paralysis spell, not moving at all and letting Nan Zha manipulate her.

This surprised Nan Zha somewhat. She had thought Bai Ning would refuse again, but it was better that she didn’t refuse. Her nimble fingers danced across Bai Ning’s back.