The Villain Runs Wild

Ch 16 - Second Generation Ancestor x Illegitimate Child: Treasure in the Palm of His Hand


The day the college entrance exam results came out, the phone at the Lin house was blown up with calls.

This year's top scorer had 736 points, and his name was Lin Sui.

Lin Sui had long since prepared to face this scene where the whole family, from Grandfather Lin down to the garden dogs, was petrified, very casually soothing them and explaining things.

The family especially confirmed the name three times, but they couldn’t accept it calmly.

“I’m following after my grandfather. Wasn’t grandfather also an excellent student back then?”

Lin Sui simply didn’t say too much, he didn’t need to prove himself, still having that irreverent, conceited, second generation ancestor look.

In any case, the facts really weren’t fabricated. The Lin family just gladly accepted it and thought that Lin Sui was just so smart, and they kept helping Lin Sui find reasons for this, from his genes to his childhood, so Lin Sui didn’t have to do anything. The calmer he was, the more other people felt that it was a matter of fact.

The Lin family stated on the spot that they were going to throw him a large party, and that the banquet would last three days at least, and that they were going to make a donation in the name of this celebration, etc. In short, it was going to be extremely extravagant, and they wished the whole world could know.

The System asked him: [Since you wanted to keep a low profile, why make such a public display?]

Lin Sui answered: [There will be a trail to follow for anything that happens.]

And he was right in the middle of making the trails necessary for his end result.

The System: [The Son of Fortune’s mother doesn’t have much time left on her side.]

Lin Sui was smiling as he toasted in celebration with his family, and the smile on his face didn’t change when he heard this.

Although the Lin family bragged like this, Lin Sui let them celebrate. However, Lin Sui did not want to accept any interviews to show his face, so those activities were all politely declined.

Since the other party was the young master of the Lin family, the media couldn’t do anything to win him over, so they had no choice but to turn their sights onto the other double-eggyolk1 top scorer, but they didn't expect that the other person would also refuse, so they couldn’t find anyone at all.

At this time, Yan Qin was in the hospital under the Lin family’s name, his heart submerged in coldness as he stared at the red light of the operating room.

He knew there was no cure for his mother’s illness, and that she could stay one day at a time, but he still hoped she could live a little longer.

When Yan Qin checked his scores today, he was very surprised to learn from his teacher that Lin Sui had scored the same as him, he’d been hiding his talents all this time, but he didn’t expect that Lin Sui would also be so surprising.

This was an exceptionally good reason to use as an excuse to go to the Lin home and meet Lin Sui face to face, instead of waiting in the villa for him to return at some unknown time, but just at that time he received a phone call from the hospital.

He had already prepared his heart when he came, but it was hard to avoid feeling sad. His mother, who’d been sleeping in a very bad condition, was in particularly good spirits today, and she also knew she wasn’t getting better, but rather that it was a moment of lucidity as she lay on her deathbed.

His mother spoke to him a lot, she said she was sorry for giving him such a life, said she loved him, and said she hoped he would be able to find someone to love and grow old with in the future.

He never resented his circumstances, he knew he couldn’t choose his birth, and he believed in his mother’s love for him.

As for the person to love….. It was just unfortunate that the person he had in mind was at the peak, and he was in the bottom of the abyss.

Time passed little by little. The light in the operating room went out, and the people inside walked out, shaking their heads at Yan Qin.

The light in Yan Qin’s eyes suddenly went out, leaving behind a melancholy colour like that of residual ashes.

Yan Qin completed all the procedures mechanically, keeping the coffin, cremating, and burying it. Tao Ting and Chu Feng accompanied him, both people wanted to say something, but didn’t know where to start, so they patted Yan Qin on the shoulders.

Yan Qin stared at the picture on his mother’s gravestone, telling his friends they didn’t need to accompany him. He sat beside his mother, gazing at the vast sky, sitting in silence for the afternoon.

On the other side of the city, Lin Sui was so wrapped up in flowers and praise that he almost could not get away from it on a daily basis.

Everyone in the Lin family took turns to ask questions, and some of the younger ones even wanted to try their hand at asking Lin Sui to tutor them with homework.

Not to mention Lin Sui’s pack of friends, who all had their jaws hanging open from shock.

For the people in the circle, the shock of Lin Sui taking top place was no less than that of having Antarctic penguins dancing in the rainforest.

The Lin house was packed not only with people from the Lin family, but also those who wanted to befriend them.

Lin Sui showed his skills when he had to, and went through the motions when he had to, and was so entangled he couldn’t get away.

He went to the second floor in annoyance, and Song Yunqing couldn’t help but laugh when he saw him hiding away.

“Who told you to to hide your secrets, young master Lin? This time you became an overnight celebrity.”

When Song Yunqing heard the news, he was also shocked for a long time, if it weren’t for the fact that it wasn’t April Fool’s day, he would have thought it was all a big joke.

After all, second master Lin had been an ignorant and incompetent nitwit since he was a kid, basically not going to school much, having fun car and horse racing while those beside him were studying, flying to Paris to watch a show while others wrote exam questions. Most of his life was spent playing around, making it hard for people to associate him with genius.

Many people actually thought that it was the Lin family who might have arranged some sort of cheating, but young master Lin was first place, his scores were so high it was hard to fake, and he answered questions with such ease that people had no choice but to admit that some people were born with brains and backgrounds from Rome2.

“What I hate most is people questioning me.”

Lin Sui replied casually, his brows raised in wanton arrogance.

This brash appearance should have made his teeth itch, but Song Yunqing found that he liked the way Lin Sui looked like he didn’t care about anything, as if nothing in the world could get to him.

“The results have been out for so many days now, and you still haven’t told me what you want me to do.”

“I still haven’t thought about it, what’s the hurry?”

“Isn’t this being in a rush to serve our young master Lin and be at his beck and call?”

Song Yunqing joked, his bright eyes shimmering under the moonlight.

“There’ll be a chance, just wait.”

Lin Sui’s peach blossom eyes rose, and the corners of his mouth pursed into a meaningful smile.

Song Yunqing’s heart was messed with in a strange way by that smile, so he took out a cigarette case from his pocket as if to cover it up.

“Do you mind if I smoke a cigarette?”

“I mind.”

Lin Sui pointed to the door, indicating that he should go outside to smoke.

Song Yunqing didn’t object, grabbing a cigarette and walking out.

Lin Sui was actually not repulsed by the smell of smoke, he used to be addicted to nicotine and could hardly be separated from his cigarettes.

Then he transmigrated into a different world, changed into a body that didn’t have a natural addiction, and since the cultivation world didn’t have things like tobacco, he automatically gave it up. Nowadays, when he smelled it again, he actually got a little irritated, as if he would once again remember the times when he needed to rely on them to get through anything.

Lin Sui’s eyes unconsciously glanced out the window, pausing slightly as they swept past a certain place.

He stared at the somewhat protruding shadow under the shade of the tree, and found a person standing underneath, almost blending into the shadows.

He couldn’t see his face clearly, but he subconsciously knew who that was.

He was about to ask the System why it hadn’t warned him, but then thought it was unnecessary, since the System didn’t tell him everything.

Lin Sui knew Yan Qin’s mother had been buried today. He knew Yan Qin would be sad and in pain due to his loved one’s passing, and knew that he might be desperate for his gaze, or his embrace, his kiss….. or something else.

But so what?

He didn’t grieve for that woman’s passing. Sometimes, because of his own karma, he even cold-bloodedly thought that this woman was also just a symbol. Her destiny was to give birth to Yan Qin, to make Yan Qin suffer, and then to make Yan Qin transform.

These kinds of disassociated and even scornful thoughts were truly repulsive, Lin Sui believed that even if he wasn’t sad, he shouldn’t have these kinds of thoughts, because as far as the woman herself or this world’s Yan Qin was concerned, that was not the case at all.

Lin Sui withdrew his gaze, slightly tilting his head up to look at the night sky, pretending he didn’t discover the guest standing out in the courtyard.

The System did not understand, and asked: [You aren’t doing anything?]

It thought Lin Sui would do something, after all, the Son of Fortune was in such a state that it would be very easy to overwhelm him, so even if Lin Sui only spoke a few words to him or gave him a single look, the Son of Fortune would probably find it hard to free himself.

It was such a good opportunity, but the vixen didn’t do anything, so he didn’t seem like a vixen anymore, and it was really not predictable at all.

Lin Sui raised his eyebrows: [Do you want me to sleep with him?]

The System: [No!]

Lin Sui: [Then shut up.]

Lin Sui’s hand extended out the window, grabbing onto a handful of moonlight.

Yan Qin didn’t need anyone to become his light, because he himself was light.

Ruminating on pain was the only way to walk father into the darkness, because it is only when there is no way out from behind that one has no choice but to keep moving forward.

There were only two outcomes for anything, winning or losing.

That gaze seemed to follow him relentlessly, as if it was tainted onto Lin Sui’s soul.

Lin Sui saw the cigarettes placed on the desk by the window. He took one and bit into it, and was just about to light it when he put it down again.

Forget it, boring.

Lin Sui threw the cigarette out the window with waning interest, then turned around and left.

The moonlight was too bright tonight, disturbing people’s peace.

The shadow under the tree only moved until the figure by the window completely disappeared.

He walked under the moonlight and picked up that bitten cigarette, holding it in the palm of his hand like a treasure.

 

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1 An expression for when there are two people tied for top scorer, like when you crack open an egg and it has two yolks. Top.

2 From 有人出生就在罗马，有人生来就是牛马 lit. some people are born in Rome, some people are born as oxen and horses (but the saying rhymes in chinese). Means that some people simply have things others don’t. Top.