I Conquered the Villain Boss Chapter 36
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 36: Did She Bully You?
Su Qin saw how Jiang Ran pushed the girl down the stairs. Thinking at first that Jiang Ran would suffer in silence, Su Qin couldn't help but applaud her for her action now. This was the way to do it. When dealing with people who wouldn’t listen, one should teach them a lesson until they would listen.
After a while of spinning, Zhou Jian's vision went dark, and the bones in her body felt as though they were falling apart. She felt sore and painful.
She lay stiffly on the ground. It wasn't until her vision returned that she suddenly realized that she had been pushed down the stairs by Jiang Ran.
"Zhouzhou!" Luo Rui, who had been watching the confrontation between Zhou Jian and Jiang Ran, saw that things had gotten out of hand. She quickly came out of the room and ran downstairs to help Zhou Jian up. "Are you okay, Zhouzhou?"
Faced with her friend’s comfort, Zhou Jian suddenly couldn’t hold back the grievances she had been feeling. Her eyes reddened, and she wiped away the tears that were streaming down her face. She choked with sobs. "I... I'm okay."
Xie Chengzhi also heard the commotion.
As the captain, even if it was just to maintain the most basic dignity of the team, Xie Chengzhi could not watch Zhou Jian being bullied by Jiang Ran without saying anything.
He raised his hand to stop Jiang Ran who was about to leave, and his eyes fell on the girl's face with a tinge of anguished regret.
Ranran wasn’t this way in the past. Although she didn't like to talk much, she was very well-behaved, listened to him, and would rescue stray kittens and puppies. His Ranran was a kind and gentle girl, just like Luo Rui. She wouldn’t hurt others, nor would she bully others.
However, what was she doing now?
She pushed her former teammate down the stairs with a nonchalant expression on her face... Was this the Ranran he once liked?
For an instant, Xie Chengzhi felt as if he had never understood Jiang Ranran.
But after a fleeting moment of doubt, he felt sad for the girl's change.
Being stopped by the guy, Jiang Ran looked at him coldly. "Xie Chengzhi, why are you blocking my way?"
She called his name coldly, and her eyes no longer had the anticipation and tenderness she had when she looked at him in the past. Xie Chengzhi's heart tightened inexplicably. It finally dawned on him that this woman no longer had any affection for him.
"You can't leave." His eyelids drooped, hiding the disappointment in his eyes, and he whispered, "Zhou Jian is my teammate. You did such an outrageous thing to her. You should account for it."
"Account for it?” Jiang Ran said calmly, "What do you want me to explain?"
She asked him what kind of explanation he wanted? How should he answer that? Was he supposed to push Jiang Ranran down the stairs? Xie Cheng was speechless for a moment.
"Ranran, I don't know what Zhouzhou said to make you angry, but you went overboard by pushing her down the stairs." Luo Rui supported Zhou Jian upstairs, wearing a cold expression on her face. "Apologize to Zhouzhou."
"You said it was my fault that I pushed her downstairs and demanded that I apologize." Jiang Ran said, "She accused and slandered me without getting the facts right. Shouldn’t she apologize to me?"
"I didn't." Zhou Jian retorted, "When did I slander you? Do you have evidence? Don't talk nonsense!"
"When did I push you downstairs? Do you have evidence? Don't make things up!" Jiang Ran replied calmly. "You obviously slipped and fell."
Zhou Jian, "...???"
It was the first time she met such a shameless woman. She opened her mouth, not knowing how to respond.
"Did you see me push her down?" Jiang Ran interrupted Zhou Jian, and glanced at Xie Chengzhi and Luo Rui, who had grim expressions on their faces. "Did you see that?"
Xie Chengzhi was silent.
He didn't see it, but he knew that Zhou Jian wouldn't be so stupid as to slip and fall.
Luo Rui glanced sideways at the silent Xie Chengzhi. Luo Rui wanted to testify for her friend, accuse Jiang Ranran, and get her to bow and apologize...
However, she couldn't.
Yet, just watching the two quarreling without doing anything – as a gentle and magnanimous deputy captain, such behavior would only ruin her image in the minds of Xie Chengzhi and the team members.
If she admitted that she saw it, Jiang Ranran would definitely seize on that and attack her.
It wasn’t worth it to get herself implicated just to get Jiang Ranran's apology.
……
Staring at the three speechless people, Jiang Ran said, "Since no one has evidence, and can’t convince the other party to apologize..." She looked at Xie Chengzhi. "Captain Xie, can I leave now?"
The veins on his forehead twitched. Xie Chengzhi clenched his fingers into a fist and slowly lowered his arm.
"Oh, a word of reminder for Ms. Zhou." After taking two steps, Jiang Ran looked back at Zhou Jian and smiled slightly. "In the future, it is best to know your limits before you decide to stand up for others. Don't be so foolish as to rush to the fore, thinking that you’re so great."
Zhou Jian, "..."
That bitch! Who did she think she was?
If she didn't teach Jiang Ran a lesson, Jiang Ran would really think she was afraid of her!
Blinded by her anger, Zhou Jian rushed forward two steps, conjuring up a thin wind blade on her fingertips. She thought that even if she killed Jiang Ran, Si Xu wouldn’t really kill her for the sake of an ordinary person.
Sensing Zhou Jian's intention, Luo Rui, who was holding Zhou Jian’s arm, pretended not to know and quietly let go of her arm.
The wind blade was conjured up. Zhou Jian stared at the girl's slender back, and was about to release the wind blade when she heard a cold voice coming from the first floor.
"What are you doing?"
The chilling voice bore down on her with spiritual pressure. It felt more threatening than any sharp blade. Zhou Jian's whole body froze, and she retracted her hand reflexively, trying to pretend that nothing happened.
Jiang Ran also heard the voice, and she poked her head out of the corridor. Sure enough, she saw the familiar figure.
The drama upstairs was so exciting that no one else in the room noticed the two people who returned until Si Xu spoke up.
The crowd of onlookers in the corner dispersed.
Gu Yunqing stood next to Su Qin, patted the snow off his shoulders, and muttered, "What's going on upstairs?"
"That girl caused trouble for Ranran, and Ranran taught her a lesson."
While the two of them were talking, Si Xu had already gone upstairs.
When the young man passed by Zhou Jian, he didn't spare her a look.
Zhou Jian's legs went weak as the spiritual pressure swept over her. Fortunately, Luo Rui supported her in time, preventing her from kneeling on the ground.
Luo Rui's condition wasn’t any better than Zhou Jian’s. However, she managed to hold on with perseverance to avoid ending up in a wretched state.
How scary... The spiritual pressure from a higher-level superhuman was terrible.
Jiang Ran didn’t expect Si Xu to move so quickly. Her indifferent expression was quickly replaced by surprise.
Not bothering to care about Zhou Jian, Luo Rui and the others anymore, she ran to Si Xu and helped him brush off the snowflakes on his coat. "Your coat is wet. You’ll catch a cold – didn't you bring an umbrella?"
"It’d be too troublesome." After answering the girl's question, Si Xu avoided her outstretched hand. He tapped her wrist to remind her not to touch him. "My hands are very cold."
The fingertips that came into contact were indeed freezing cold. Jiang Ran ignored his dodging and grabbed his hands, holding them in her palms to keep them warm. "You know it's cold, yet you don't wear gloves."
Was she blaming him? This was the first time Si Xu was lectured by someone. Surprisingly, he didn't feel displeased about it.
The young man’s eyes drooped, and he obediently let her hold his hands and rub them. Feeling that his hands were slowly getting warmer, he focused on solving the matter just now.
Hmm... His gaze swept past Xie Chengzhi and stopped on Zhou Jian.
The hidden tenderness in his eyes was completely gone, and all that remained was the coldness after being offended.
Confronted with his stare, Zhou Jian was like a frightened rabbit. She hid behind Luo Rui in panic.
SI Xu saw the girl’s timid look and looked away, feeling disinterested.
He was disappointed to find that it was someone of such low caliber.
He sighed and turned his attention to Jiang Ran – well, it would be good for his girl to practice her shooting skills with a girl like that.
"Jiang Ran."
"Huh?"
"Did that girl bully you?"
"Huh?"
"She tried to kill you just now." Si Xu said calmly, "I’ll sever her hand and let you use it as a target to practice shooting. Okay?"
Jiang Ran, "Huh?"
She blinked, and realized belatedly that he was talking about Zhou Jian.
Also snapping out of their shock were the girl who was about to be used as a target by the tyrant for his beloved woman to practice shooting with, and her companion.
Although he was almost unable to move due to Si Xu’s spiritual pressure, Xie Chengzhi still stood in front of the two girls and said in a deep voice, "Professor Si, have you forgotten that our two teams are now in a cooperative relationship?"
"Our teams?” Si Xu said matter-of-factly, "That's Gu Yunqing's team. It has nothing to do with me."
That superhuman team was led by Gu Yunqing, not him – speaking of which, he and Gu Yunqing's superhuman team could be considered to be in a cooperative relationship as well.
Was this person going to violate the agreement?! Xie Chengzhi clenched his fists. He gulped and hesitated for just a moment before saying, "Professor Si, I think this matter is a misunderstanding – Zhou Jian is usually so impertinent, so please don't stoop to her level. I’ll apologize to Ranran on her behalf."
After saying that, he looked at Jiang Ran. "Ranran, please be magnanimous and forgive Zhou Jian this time."
He admitted his mistake so easily? For the first time since transmigrating into the novel, Jiang Ran looked at Xie Chengzhi in a new light.
Well, as the male protagonist of the original novel, Xie Chengzhi had a lot of redeeming characteristics – he was good-looking, had a good temper, was talented, protective of his teammates, decisive, and flexible in dealing with strong opponents.
Knowing that Si Xu would not let the matter rest in this situation, and knowing that they were not Si Xu's opponents, Xie Chengzhi didn't even bother to argue and simply apologized to her...
Compared with such a male protagonist, Si Xu, who would break people’s limbs for no reason and feed them to zombies, appeared to be a cruel, ruthless, overbearing and cold-hearted villain.
Fine, he was a villain in the first place.
However, this big villain was hers now. She had always been petty and protective of those around her, just like Si Xu.
Besides, compared with Si Xu, who had never hidden his viciousness, Zhou Jian, who tried to use her powers to kill her, an ordinary person, was despicable.
What Zhou Jian did was despicable, and she couldn't let Si Xu get his hands dirty because of such a person.
At the thought of that, Jiang Ran held Si Xu's hand tightly. "Si Xu, I find it an eyesore to have someone like that to serve as a target for me – I refuse."
An eyesore? Si Xu tilted his head. Did she dislike that woman for not being good-looking? It was just a target for practice, hmm... So, she cared about appearances that much?
Thinking that he had gotten to know Jiang Ran better, Si Xu didn’t force her to accept a target she didn't like. "Don't zombies look uglier than her? You were quite accurate when you shot zombies."
"That's different." His mind sure worked in a different way. Jiang Ran found it funny.
Seeing that he still wanted to ask further, she hurriedly grabbed his arm and headed to their room. "Ignore them. Si Xu, I have something to tell you. By the way, you should change your clothes before we speak..."
After such a ruckus today, Jiang Ran felt that Zhou Jian would likely behave herself for the time being.
Moreover, in the original novel, Zhou Jian's ending wasn’t good – just like her, an insignificant supporting female role, Zhou Jian eventually fell out with Luo Rui, becoming a stepping stone to depict the heroine's powerful aura.
Since that was the case, she just had to prepare melon seeds and fruits and watch them turn against each other. There was no need for her to jump out and cause trouble for herself.
