Even if the false heiress comes to City A, she will hardly be able to find out where Fang Baiwei lives. And even if she somehow gets that information, the security at Mu Yue's estate is tight enough that she will never get past the gates. She won't even be allowed to linger long at the outermost entry and exit points. That makes this whole situation surprisingly easy to handle.
With no way to track down Fang Baiwei's residence, and the start of the new semester just around the corner, there is a very high chance the false heiress will lie in wait near the university. Old romance novels are full of that exact kind of plot: after the hero and heroine finally get together and are about to step into a bright new life, the declining villainess will suddenly lose her mind, stab the heroine out of nowhere in the middle of the street, and cruelly tear the couple apart with a life-or-death separation.
This story about the true and false heiresses is not that kind of typical romance novel, but the false heiress has grown far more unhinged than she was in her past life. She already attacked the eldest brother's fiancee once, so going after the true heiress would not be a stretch for her. What is more, for the false heiress, Fang Baiwei, the true heiress, is a constant thorn in her side. She will never allow Fang Baiwei to live a better, more comfortable life than her.
The false heiress is a wanted criminal at large who fled from City H. The police would definitely investigate all the places she could possibly go and hunt her down, but the original plot dotes on the false heiress so unreasonably that she still manages to slip through the net.
If Fang Baiwei does not make any preparations, that old-fashioned street stabbing trope might very well actually happen.
The police still have not tracked down Fang Surou, and Mu Yue suspects it is mostly related to the Fang family. They tried to contact Fang Baiwei many times but got no response, and soon found they had all been blocked. They are fully aware that Fang Surou is very likely to come looking for Fang Baiwei and harm her, but they will not warn her. In fact, they will deliberately hide the whole thing from her, because Fang Baiwei is too disobedient and impossible to control. They think she deserves to suffer a little lesson.
That leaves Mu Yue with only two things to do. First, tell Fang Baiwei the whole situation so she can stay on high alert. Second, tip off the police, clearly explaining the relationship and the bitter conflicts between Fang Surou and Fang Baiwei.
Fang Surou has committed a criminal offense, and the Yu family never planned to let her get away with it, so the police will definitely take the case seriously.
When Mu Yue brings the matter up to Fang Baiwei, she finds that Fang Baiwei already knows about it, since Lin Xiaoxiao told her earlier too. In her past life, she never did anything to hurt Fang Surou, but Fang Surou still arranged such a brutal, tragic end for her. In this life, Fang Surou will never let her off the hook.
But that is just fine with her. She never planned to let Fang Surou off the hook either.
Mu Yue can tell exactly what she is thinking just by looking at her expression. Fang Baiwei is most likely planning to lure Fang Surou out into the open. She knows Fang Surou will definitely try to attack her, so she is thinking of letting the other person injure her on purpose. After what she did to Yu Qingqing, if Fang Surou hurts Fang Baiwei too, her sentence will definitely be much longer and heavier.
But Mu Yue does not like this kind of tactic that costs you eight hundred of your own to hurt the enemy one thousand.
She says, "Baiwei, you need to love yourself more."
Fang Baiwei was just lost in imagining the scene of running into Fang Surou, and the words make her freeze. She turns to look at Mu Yue, who is gazing right back at her as if she can see every single thought running through her head. Fang Baiwei parts her lips and says softly, "I..."
She was about to say that of course she would, but the thought that had just crossed her mind made it perfectly clear that she really had not been cherishing her own well-being enough. Yes, this body was hers. Even if she could make Fang Surou's punishment harsher, she herself would still suffer harm. Who could guarantee there would be no unexpected mishap? What if she ended up with some permanent, irreparable damage to her health because of this? Would that even count as revenge anymore?
The people of the Fang family had already been cruel and cold enough to her. Did she have to be cruel to herself too? The pain would be hers and hers alone. This was not the dead end she had faced in her past life. She was only eighteen years old, and the path ahead of her was not shrouded in darkness, but rather —
She looked over at Mu Yue, who was smiling at her. Spring sunlight spilled over the courtyard, gilding the strands of the other girl's hair with a warm glow. The natural sweet scent of spring flowers in the yard drifted to her nose, wrapping everything in a feeling of gentle comfort and beauty.
Fang Baiwei's eyes grew a little moist. She smiled back at Mu Yue and nodded firmly. "You're right. I will remind myself of that every single moment!"
Seeing that Fang Baiwei had changed her mind, Mu Yue went on to talk about providing clues to the police. They had no intention of dragging things out. The sooner they handled this, the better. As soon as the police received their information, they immediately took the case very seriously.
At that very moment, Fang Surou was nearly reaching City A. The distance between City H and City A was short enough that a plane ride would only take two or three hours, but Fang Surou was on the run. She could not use her ID card openly and legally, so she had to take vehicles that did not require identity checks. Almost all of these unregulated routes were short-distance, which meant she had to get off at every stop and transfer to another ride. Constantly switching vehicles was exhausting, and the worst part of all was that she could not check into any hotels or inns.
Fang Surou got a bitter taste of what it was like to live on the streets.
She had never suffered such hardships in her entire life. Every time she thought of Fang Baiwei, who was in City A, her hatred burned even hotter. It was all Fang Baiwei's fault! If that girl had never showed up, how could she have ended up in such a miserable state? Unable to stand this kind of life any longer, Fang Surou found someone online who made fake identification documents. After wasting some time waiting for the fakes to be done, she was finally able to check into a hotel again. Even so, she had to disguise herself every day, terrified that the police would catch up to her at any second.
When she was almost at City A, Fang Surou began to daydream. She dreamed that everything went perfectly for her during the national college entrance exam, while Fang Baiwei failed to finish the test smoothly and had to repeat her senior year. During that whole extra year, Fang Baiwei was bullied constantly on campus. In that dream, none of those messy, upsetting incidents from real life ever happened. She herself lived a wonderful life, got into a top university, and had a perfect relationship with her fiance. Meanwhile, Fang Baiwei grew more and more disliked by the Fang family.
Later on, Fang Baiwei was sent abroad, only to be locked up and tormented by a deranged person, until she died a tragic, miserable death. And Fang Surou? She remained the most beloved Little Princess of the Fang family, living the glamorous, envy-inducing life of a wealthy heiress.
Fang Surou woke up laughing. But when she saw the shabby surroundings of where she really was, she felt as if a huge hollow had opened up in her chest. She had a strong hunch that the life in her dream was the one that should have been hers all along, and Fang Baiwei had ruined everything for her. She would make that girl pay the price, no matter what!
Once Mu Yue had rested enough, she headed over to Fenglin Hot Spring Resort. Since it wasn't the right season yet, there was no sea of blazing red maple leaves blanketing the hills, but the resort was meticulously maintained. It spanned a far larger area than Yujiang Garden, with plenty of open, spacious grounds, a lake, and gently sloping grassy meadows dotted with all sorts of small, unassuming wildflowers that exuded a wonderful, unforced natural charm.
After a quick tour of the property, Mu Yue did not hesitate for a second and bought the entire resort outright. She had all the old facilities replaced with brand new ones, and had the disused horse riding arena fully renovated — the work was so extensive it was nearly the same as tearing the whole structure down and rebuilding it from scratch. Mu Yue never considered swapping the arena out for other amenities; she thought that going for a few gallops on horseback through such a beautiful setting would be an absolutely lovely experience.
There were no horses in the arena yet, but that was hardly a problem at all.
This big purchase cost Mu Yue a total of 700 million yuan, and earned her 7,000 reward points in return. Now her total points crossed the 30,000 mark, and she still had 400 million yuan left in her bank account. Even with the annual maintenance costs for her two resorts, plus the upkeep for her private jet, Mu Yue no longer worried about not having enough places to spend her money.
Mu Yue did not have any immediate need for the points right now. She decided to wait until the first three months were over, then pay a large sum all at once to get a big batch of points, and only keep 2,000 points in reserve for emergencies.
Barely two days after she took ownership of Fenglin Resort, the stream of visits and invitations Mu Yue received grew dense once again. Even without meeting those people face to face, her point balance kept creeping up by dozens or a hundred points every now and then — all of these points came from the wealthy, upper-class characters that appeared in the *White Moonlight* novel.
Out of all these invitations, Mu Yue turned down every single one except for the one from Shi Yu. She had a perfectly ready excuse: the new semester was just around the corner, and she needed to get prepared for it. Everyone knew perfectly well there was actually nothing that required that much preparation, though.
Over the course of that week, Mu Yue packed up a portion of the souvenirs she bought during her trip and mailed them to Lin Xiaoxiao. She had the rest sorted out by her housekeepers, planning to give them to her roommates once she got back to campus. She had bought far too many of these little trinkets, and then she thought of Wen Yuanting and his little sister, so she simply called Wen Yuanting over and let him take a bunch of the gifts away for them.
They hadn't seen each other for a while, and Wen Yuanting was dressed so strikingly and attractively that day that Mu Yue ended up asking him to stay over, and the two of them spent a wonderfully harmonious, pleasant night together.
Students started returning to campus one after another, and both Fang Baiwei and the local police had finished all their preparations.
There were two key spots they needed to keep a close eye on: the main school gate, and the girls' dormitory building, with the dormitory area being the higher priority.
A University had a huge student population, and during the two days of the return period, the area around the school gate was packed with people and vehicles. Trying to pick out one specific person from such a massive crowd was far from an easy task.
That turned out to be exactly the case. Fang Surou was not lingering around the school gate at all. She had no idea when Fang Baiwei would arrive, and besides, A University had more than one entrance. But the girls' dormitory was a different story. She had already looked up that first-year students at A University were required to live on campus, and they could only apply to live off-campus starting from their sophomore year.
Over the past couple of days, she had also found out which dorm building Fang Baiwei lived in, and even tracked down her exact room number. It was actually a lucky break that she managed to get information about Fang Baiwei to begin with — the person she had first noticed was Mu Yue.
Of course Fang Surou remembered Mu Yue. That arrogant woman who popped out of nowhere was far wealthier than even the Fang family, and had publicly humiliated Fang Surou on that cruise ship. Now that Mu Yue had enrolled in this university, she was acting so high-profile that anyone you asked would know exactly who she was. Some people talked about her luxury sports cars, others gossiped about her designer outfits and expensive goods, and there were even those who mentioned how she had her servants bring her gourmet meals every single day.
Fang Surou hated Mu Yue with every fiber of her being. She had failed to take her down back on the cruise, but now that Mu Yue was right here on the same campus, and Fang Surou had even found out which dorm room Mu Yue lived in, she was determined to settle that old score once and for all.
Who would have guessed that when she got there, she would find out Fang Baiwei was also staying in this exact same dorm? The moment Fang Surou learned that, she nearly burst out laughing. It was like the universe was handing her exactly what she wanted without her even having to look for it. Those two little bitches—they both deserved to suffer!
Fang Surou had already pretended to be a student passing by the dorm the day before, but the door had been locked tight back then.
This time, when she walked past again, she spotted that the door was already propped open.
A smirk spread across Fang Surou's face as she stared at the open door. She squeezed the strap of her backpack, then stepped right inside. There was only a middle-aged woman in the room, cleaning up with a broom. Fang Surou assumed she must be one of the students' parents.
Fang Surou had already prepared a whole cover story: she would just make up a name, say she was that girl's little sister, that they had come to the dorm together earlier but she had run off to the restroom and gotten separated, and that her sister had texted her to come straight to the room to wait. Most parents wouldn't remember every single name of their kid's roommates anyway, and even if they did, she could just say she had the wrong room and wait a little while for her sister to come get her.
But she never got the chance to say a single word of that script.
The middle-aged woman spotted her, and gave her a simple, honest grin, repeating "Hello, classmate, hello" over and over. It was obvious she had mistaken Fang Surou for one of the dorm's residents.
Fang Surou glanced the woman up and down, taking in her cheap, plain clothes and unsophisticated, countrified air. She curled her lip in disdain, not even bothering to say a word back to her.
The middle-aged woman's phone started ringing—it was one of those old-fashioned senior phones, its ringtone shrill and tinny. She set down her broom to answer the call. Fang Surou then began to scan the dorm room. It was impossible to miss Mu Yue's bed and desk, and she headed straight for Mu Yue's spot without a second thought.
But before she could take more than a couple steps, the woman who had been a few paces away from her suddenly lunged forward. In the blink of an eye, she moved with incredible speed and pinned Fang Surou's arms behind her back.
There was a sharp click, and a cold metallic sensation clamped around Fang Surou's wrists. Her heart plummeted. She stared at that unsophisticated, countrified woman, eyes bulging with rage. This wasn't a parent—this was...
Mu Yue and Fang Baiwei arrived at the dorm not long after, and the two of them left almost immediately to head to the police station. Everything at University A remained completely normal. The entire arrest had been carried out so quietly that no one else was disturbed in the slightest.
The police searched through Fang Surou's backpack and pulled out a whole collection of dangerous items: a bottle of sulfuric acid, an opened bottle of spicy chili oil, and even a watermelon knife.
The sheer viciousness of her intentions needed no further explanation. If she had managed to splash that mixture of sulfuric acid and chili oil on someone, the pain the victim would have suffered was too horrific to even imagine.
Fang Baiwei felt a chill run through her entire body too. She didn't dare to bet that if she had followed her earlier plan, she would still be sitting here safe and sound. If all she got out of getting Fang Surou's sentence extended was her own face ruined, or even her life taken, could that even count as revenge? That would be far too stupid.
Thank goodness, thank goodness Mu Yue was here!
At this moment, Fang Baiwei truly believed that Mu Yue must have been sent to her side by fate, to make up for the miserable life she had lived in her past life. Without Mu Yue, the suffering she would have to go through in this life might not be any less than what she endured before.
She heard that Fang Surou was throwing a huge tantrum at the police station, screaming and clamoring to see her, but Fang Baiwei and Mu Yue finished making their statements and left right away. She had no intention of meeting Fang Surou, no matter if the girl had gone mad or was drowning in regret. She never wanted to lay eyes on her again, and the rest of the Fang family were no exception.
Fang Baiwei had no plans to see any of them, she had already cut ties with all her past entanglements, and was ready to move forward down her own path.
But Mu Yue had absolutely no intention of letting Fang Surou off the hook.
C'mon, how could Fang Surou get away scot-free when her evil schemes had only failed by sheer luck? She had picked their dorm room to strike, and even brought that dangerous contraband with her. If Mu Yue had showed up together with Fang Baiwei like they were supposed to, there was no way she wouldn't have gotten caught up in the mess, a hundred percent guaranteed. Back on the cruise ship, that false heiress and her deadbeat second brother had already tried to harm her once, they just didn't pull it off. This time Fang Surou had even snuck into her dorm, and it was completely in character for her to try something vicious.
Villains always hold grudges, and letting someone off easy was never Mu Yue's style.
So, while she was still within two hundred meters of the police station, Mu Yue bought a brand new, fresh-off-the-market item for Fang Surou on the spot, and it cost her 50 points. She thought to herself that she should have just taken one from Wang Jian's stock to keep on hand for situations like this.
This item was similar to the dream-themed props she had used before, but the difference was that the target it was used on would feel every bit of the pain as real. All the torment Fang Baiwei suffered in her past life, and all the cruel things Fang Surou had tried to do to her in this life, Fang Surou was going to get to experience every single one of them herself.
What she didn't expect was that the second she stepped out of the police station, Mu Yue received a new batch of villain points, awarded to her for the trait "ruthlessly decisive", and it added up to exactly 50 points.
Mu Yue laughed and accepted the points happily. The points she had just spent were earned right back immediately, she really was the most clever person around!
