The Fake Daughter Want to Be Villainess - Chapter 2

Pei Wang initially thought it was a prank.

The absurd dialogue content and the distinctly electronic synthetic audio made the sudden voice seem like nothing more than a crude joke, akin to a child expressing dissatisfaction.

He frowned slightly, his gaze lingering on Jiang Shu for a moment. In her candid yet puzzled eyes, he sensed something amiss.

Everyone’s reactions were too natural, as if no one else had heard the mechanical voice.

Pei Wang’s eyelashes fluttered briefly, concealing his scrutinizing expression. He looked at Jiang Shu again, extending his hand politely and distantly, “Hello.”

Jiang Shu gently shook his hand and then sat beside Mother Jiang.

Mother Jiang offered him a somewhat cautious smile. After gauging his expression, she spoke with some guilt, “I’m sorry—”

“Ding! Detected the vicious supporting female character Jiang Shu! The first stage of the face-slapping task is now activated!”

The electronic synthesized voice suddenly rang out again, blending with Mother Jiang’s voice, making neither audible clearly, yet causing his head to throb.

Pei Wang lifted his hand to rub his forehead.

Mother Jiang noticed his movement and paused hesitantly. Pei Wang seized the moment to speak, apologizing, “I need to use the restroom.”

He rose and left the living room, following the housekeeper’s directions to the bathroom. Once inside, he locked the door, stood at the sink, brushed away the strands of hair by his ears, and straightened his collar.

Completely clean, there was nothing on him that could produce sound.

Yet the voice kept incessantly repeating, “Please continue your face-slapping task.”

Pei Wang frowned for a moment before he dialed his assistant: “If someone hears voices in their mind, what’s happening?”

Assistant: “?”

The assistant hesitated momentarily, “Is it a friend of yours experiencing this? I have the number for the city’s best psychiatric hospital, should I send it to you?”

Clearly, it must be the boss’s friend having such an issue. How could such a brilliant and decisive person like the boss suddenly suffer from a mental illness? Haha!

Pei Wang was unsatisfied with this answer. He was silent for a while before responding, “His mental state is perfectly normal.”

The assistant also fell silent. His gaze helplessly scanned the room and landed on his girlfriend, who was engrossed in reading a novel on her phone.

An idea struck him suddenly, “Boss, why don’t you ask the voice who it is? Aren’t there supposed to be souls from another world or some kind of system in novels—”

Realizing the flaw in his wording, the assistant quickly corrected, “Not you, I mean your friend.”

Pei Wang rubbed his forehead, “It seems you have quite an imaginative leisure life.” He criticized coldly, “I don’t want to hear fantastical responses like that again.”

He hung up on the assistant’s reply.Pei Wang silently stared at himself in the mirror for a moment, pursed his lips, and asked matter-of-factly, following his assistant’s fantasy-filled suggestion, “What are you?”

The electronic synthetic voice actually replied, “Face-Slapping System.”

Holding his phone, Pei Wang quickly searched for what a “Face-Slapping System” was.

He skimmed through the results and turned off the phone screen, “I don’t need you. Can you be unbound?”

A jumbled humming resonated in his mind, and the electronic voice raised slightly, “Are you sure?”

“You just need to slap supporting characters in the face to immediately earn system points and exchange them for shop goods!” It enticed, “Do you want riches and wealth? Do you want to become famous? Do you want luxury cars and beauties—”

Pei Wang raised his hand to press his temples, “I don’t want them.”

He asked again, “Can you be unbound?”

The electronic voice replied, “No, it cannot be done.” It even announced excitedly, “The first step of face-slapping is activated! Drive the adopted Jiang Shu out of the Jiang family! Let everyone know you are the sole heir of the Jiang family! Current task progress: 1/100!”

Pei Wang felt a headache again.

He pressed his phone’s power button twice, then paused for a moment and suddenly asked, “As a binding person, do I have an operation panel?”

This was the first time Pei Wang showed a cooperative attitude, and the Face-Slapping System was almost teary with joy, eagerly projecting the control panel in front of him, “Yes, yes, of course, you do.”

Then it watched as Pei Wang raised his hand and turned the system volume to zero on the control panel.

He said, “Very user-friendly design, I like it.”

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Jiang Shu sat on the sofa, admiring her freshly done manicure while half-listening to Mother Jiang’s complaint for the hundred and twentieth time, “Why did Xiao Wang suddenly go to the restroom? Did I say something wrong just now that upset him?”

Jiang Shu sighed, “Mom, isn’t it possible that he just really needed to use the restroom?”

Mother Jiang did not believe Jiang Shu’s reassurance and kept repeating the same question, “It must be something I said that upset him, but what was it?”

Jiang Shu painfully closed her eyes.

She let her mind go blank for a while, and then naturally, her thoughts drifted to Pei Wang and his Face-Slapping System.

Before she heard that system voice, she had intended to get along peacefully with Pei Wang. Although his disappearance had nothing to do with her, she always felt guilty toward him—living a life that should have belonged to him, enjoying care that was meant for him.

She couldn’t change anything, but she could cooperate with that system, play the role of the vicious supporting female character, and make it easier for Pei Wang to accomplish his face-slapping.

Consider it a small form of compensation, but—

But how does one act as a vicious supporting female character?

Jiang Shu pondered for a while and then, taking advantage of a moment when Mother Jiang wasn’t paying attention, pulled out her phone to look it up.

However, as soon as she opened the browser, a novel recommendation popped up automatically.

[She thought she was a celebrity in B City! A new force in the entertainment industry!She is the daughter of the richest man! Who would have thought she was actually a fake heiress? After the real heiress returned, everything about her became a laughingstock!

Jiang Shu: “!”

Although the advertisement was a bit exaggerated, the book seemed quite informative.

Jiang Shu carefully opened the book and began to read quickly. But she hadn’t read much when she noticed Mother Jiang’s body leaning slightly, as if looking toward something.

It was clear that Pei Wang had returned.

Jiang Shu turned off her phone screen, wrapped her arms around Mother Jiang’s, and also looked in the direction of the restroom.

Pei Wang walked back and sat on the sofa, apologizing to Mother Jiang, “Sorry for the wait.”

Mother Jiang waved her hands dismissively, “Not long at all.”

She wanted to say more, but Pei Wang spoke first, “Can we talk in the study?”

Both Mother Jiang and Jiang Shu were taken aback.

It was obviously something private and important that he wanted to discuss alone.

Jiang Shu stood up instinctively, straightened her skirt, and smiled at Mother Jiang, “Coincidentally, the variety show I’ve been waiting for is about to start. Mom, I’ll head back to my room.”

She turned to leave for the stairs but suddenly remembered something and hesitated, slowing her pace.

Wasn’t she supposed to play the role of the vicious supporting female character? Wouldn’t leaving like this be too cooperative?

Jiang Shu hesitated for a moment, and then a scene from the novel she had just seen flashed through her mind like electricity—

The fake heiress intentionally fell next to the real heiress to frame her, claiming the real heiress pushed her. However, it turned out the real heiress had a camera that captured everything, thus the fake heiress was humiliated.

The Jiang family’s living room had cameras too.

The timing and setting were perfect. Jiang Shu struggled for a while before resolutely turning back, slowly making her way to the couch.

Mother Jiang looked at her with confusion.

Jiang Shu made up a reason, “I left something on the sofa.”

She bent over and pretended to grab something between the cushions and the sofa. Then, she turned, lightly kicked Pei Wang’s shoe, found a suitable angle, and weakly fell to the ground.

Both Pei Wang and Mother Jiang were stunned. Jiang Shu took advantage of their momentary distraction to perform the core act of the vicious supporting female character—framing.She grabbed Pei Wang’s sleeve and loudly accused, “Mom! Brother tripped me on purpose!”

As Jiang Shu said this, she looked provocatively at Pei Wang.

I’m acting so blatantly, come on, expose me! The Jiang family’s living room has surveillance cameras; quickly gather the evidence!

Pei Wang instinctively lowered his head.

He saw Jiang Shu lying on the ground but before he could assess her condition, a loading bar suddenly appeared before his eyes, and then a line of bold crimson text was overlaid across Jiang Shu.

[Ding! Vicious Supporting Female Character deliberately fell to frame! Host, please quickly slap her metaphorically in the face! Expose her true nature!]

The muted system urgently upgraded itself, projecting its messages directly onto his retina.

It seemed the upgrade was rushed because the system hadn’t learned to clear the screen before sending new messages, so the continuous stream of new words overlaid the old ones.

The bright red, completely unreadable text filled his entire field of vision.

Pei Wang painfully shifted his gaze away.