Transmigrated as the fake young master, I'll beat up the scumbags and b*tches-Chapter 286Vol. 1 - - An Unexpected Person

With that, she turned and headed for the school gates. But Shi Dan kept pace beside her, lips curled in a mocking smile.

“Plans? Didn’t your mom say you’ve been studying non stop lately? Studying’s exhausting, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you relax at a bar or something?”

“I don’t go to those places.”

“Then let’s just grab dinner somewhere private. You haven’t tried most of JingDu’s best food, right? Places like that don’t just require money—they require status. Didn’t your mom ever take you?”

He leaned in closer. “If she had, you’d already be addicted.”

Ye QiuXue came to a sudden stop. Slowly, she turned her head. Her face was completely expressionless.

“Shi Dan, bringing that woman up in front of me doesn’t work. Did you really think I see her as my mother? A woman who gave birth to me but never raised me—I feel nothing for her.”

Shi Dan’s smile faded. He tilted his head back, gaze fixed on her.

He had to admit—Ye QiuXue’s face was exactly his type. More importantly, her mother was his stepmother. He originally thought Ye QiuXue would be easy to manipulate.

But now, it seems... not quite.

At first, when his stepmother mentioned her daughter had come to JingDu for school, he didn’t think much of it. But when he realized that daughter was Ye QiuXue—he was pleasantly surprised.

Of course he knew who she was. They just hadn’t crossed paths much before. Word was, Ye QiuXue rarely went out. So he gave up the idea of approaching her.

But this was different now. With that kind of connection, Shi Dan felt confident he could make her his.

After all, if her mother was such a vain, shallow woman, then surely her daughter couldn’t be much different.

“That so? But Ye QiuXue, you seem to have misunderstood something. When I want something, I get it. Doesn’t matter if you’re her daughter or not—I’ll have you anyway.”

Shi Dan’s words were blunt, careless of how she felt.

Ye QiuXue’s expression tightened, her eyes flashing with disgust.

“Yes, yes, that’s the look I like. I love it when you glare at me like that. Keep acting all cold and distant. Later, I’ll have you on your knees, begging.”

He reached out, trying to touch her face.

Ye QiuXue slapped his hand away without hesitation.

At that moment, she didn’t care who he was. He had crossed a line.

“You’re insane.”

Leaving those words behind, she walked away without looking back.

Shi Dan watched her retreating figure, then pulled out his phone and made a call.

“Your daughter doesn’t seem to like me very much, Auntie. I think you should educate her a little better.”

“You do realize that the only reason you’re still welcome in the Shi family is because of me, right?”

He chuckled coldly, staring after Ye QiuXue like she was already in his grasp.

…

“HuMing?!” Ye QiuXue’s eyes widened at the sight of him, clearly caught off guard.

He hadn’t mentioned anything about coming in their recent messages.

Yet the moment he appeared, the anxiety in her chest faded, just a little. Maybe it was because of him, that her mind finally began to settle.

But she didn’t say anything about what had just happened.

She’d heard that HuMing was still busy trying to root out a mole in the Gu family. She couldn’t let her own problems become a burden to him.

Besides—this involved the Shi family.

It wouldn’t be right for HuMing to confront the Shi family on her behalf, not after he had only just returned to the Gu family.

“Have you eaten yet? If not, let’s grab a bite. Kinda been craving your noodles,” HuMing said with a smile.

His blatant attempt to invite himself over made Ye QiuXue laugh.

She put her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow.

“Eat? Sure. But you can’t just show up empty-handed, can you? HuMing, shouldn’t you at least offer something?”

“I’ll do the dishes!”

“That’s it?”

“Then what do you want? Just say the word—I’ll make it happen.”

Hearing that, Ye QiuXue silently made a wish in her heart. But she didn’t speak it aloud.

Instead, she shook her head and nudged HuMing from behind, pushing him upstairs.

And HuMing?

The moment his back was to her, the smile on his face disappeared.

He had seen the heaviness in her eyes.

What has been bothering her lately? Was it school? Or something else?

Ever since moving to JingDu, Ye QiuXue’s life didn’t seem all that different from before.

She rarely went out to eat. And if she did, it was usually just a school event or a group gathering.

So HuMing never really worried about finding the right cookware at her place.

But this time, instead of waiting outside the kitchen, he rolled up his sleeves and started prepping ingredients beside her.

“You know how to cook?” Ye QiuXue asked, watching him slice sashimi with swift, precise movements. Each cut was perfectly even, without a flaw.

As someone who cooked regularly, she could tell—his knife skills were no joke.

She’d expected him to get in the way, not actually help!

“How could I not know how to cook? Back when I went missing, I had to make every meal myself. Honestly, being able to cook is a good thing—I’d probably starve otherwise.”

He finished plating the sashimi with a flourish.

“That’s true. You’ve really grown up, haven’t you…” Ye QiuXue murmured, her heart tugged by the memory of the HuMing she once knew.

(SHMOLL: I can’t go to their world, bruh. This is the first novel I have ever read where I would not like to transmigrate. Things are good just the way they are.)

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