The Destiny Villainess Wants Me To Work!-Chapter 65: Women...

Lin Fan’s eyelids trembled and opened.

He stared blankly at the sky above him, pupils unfocused, breath shallow. For several seconds, his mind failed to catch up with reality.

"...What the hell?"

His voice was hoarse, unfamiliar yet familiar to himself.

"Where... am I?"

He struggled to move his fingers.

He felt warm.

Alive!

A sharp jolt ran through his spine.

"...Didn’t I die?"

His breathing quickened. He sat up abruptly, only for pain to shoot through his abdomen, forcing a sharp hiss from his lips.

"—Tch!"

But the pain grounded him.

This place. The lake. Those couples’ benches. The memory overlapped perfectly with the moment before he lost consciousness.

Slowly, dread turned into disbelief. Then disbelief turned into realization. His eyes widened, "...No way."

He looked down at his hands. They were young, like his young self, uncallused. His arms were still slender, unruined by the years of labor.

A laugh bubbled up from his throat. At first, low, then disbelieving. Finally louder.

"Ha... hahaha..."

His shoulders started shaking wildly.

"I came back?"

The truth hit him like lightning.

Ten years!

Ten years back, before everything fell apart.

"I... travelled back in time?"

This time, the smile that spread across his face was no longer weak or hopeful. It was sharp. Exhilarating. Almost feral.

"Heaven actually gave me a second chance..."

His gaze hardened as memories aligned. The future knowledge, trends, people, opportunities, disasters, and fortunes. All the things that hadn’t happened yet.

He clenched his fists.

"Mom..."

Emotion flickered briefly across his face, but was quickly suppressed.

"I can see you again."

His voice steadied.

"This time, I won’t let you suffer."

Then another figure surfaced in his mind. Her cold eyes, stern face, and silent concern.

"And Sister Rui..."

A complicated emotion crossed his expression.

"My apology won’t be ten years late this time."

Lin Fan exhaled slowly and pushed himself to his feet. Pain still lingered in his abdomen, dull and deep, but it no longer mattered.

He welcomed it. Because it reminded him that he was alive.

Then suddenly, his gaze turned cold.

"And you..."

Han Jie’s mocking face and Ye Ling’s indifferent glare appeared in his mind.

"That b@stard and the b!tch."

His lips curled into a cruel smile.

"I won’t let this go."

He dusted off his clothes calmly, posture straightening, aura changing completely. The timid, submissive Lin Fan, who lowered his head instinctively, was gone.

Replaced by someone who had already lived through hell once.

"This time," he murmured, eyes burning with confidence, "I’ll return every humiliation you gave me—a hundredfold."

He took one last look at the lake, then turned around and walked away.

His shoulders were no longer hunched. Those eyes that used to be downcast were now sharp and full of confidence for his future.

"Since heaven dragged me back," Lin Fan said softly, arrogance seeping into every word, "I’ll climb to the peak."

"Beauty. Money. Power. I’ll take them all!"

And those who once trampled on him? He would make them kneel.

What he didn’t know was that an unassuming bee that was hovering near him saw and heard all his actions and words.

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Soon, all the memories were transmitted to Su Mo by the bee, who had entered a trance state of receiving the memories.

When Yang Qingxi saw his state, she understood what was going on and waited. As soon as Su Mo’s eyes regained focus, she asked.

"How did it go?"

"Just as I guessed, his girlfriend cheated on him. Lin Fan was humiliated and beaten back. A shot to his kidney activated his memories. Now his personality has changed. He has become arrogant and confident." Su Mo explained everything that had happened. Then asked. "Now what? Should we treat him as an enemy or not?"

Yang Qingxi fell silent, and a look of hesitation appeared on her face. Seeing this, Su Mo frowned. "What are you still hesitating about?"

Upon hearing his question, she answered. "He is different from Ye Chen. He doesn’t have any enmity with the Yang Family, and besides, he is Secretary Lin’s brother... So I..."

"So you can’t make up your mind?" Su Mo completed her unfinished sentence.

Yang Qingxi pressed her lips and nodded. Su Mo sighed in exasperation. "Are you kidding me, Miss Yang?"

"What?" Yang Qingxi looked at him in confusion.

"Do you not understand your situation?" Su Mo’s usual lazy look was replaced by solemnity. "You don’t have the luxury to pity him."

"Heaven has already forced you to stand on opposite ends."

"To survive or to become stronger, you need luck points, which you can only get by stepping on those protagonists. Lin Fan is just one of them."

"Can you guarantee the next protagonist who appears won’t be super powerful or target your family?"

Upon seeing her silence, Su Mo sneered. "No. Right? Accept the reality."

"A villain and a protagonist can only be enemies. A protagonist won’t be a protagonist if he doesn’t step over the villain."

He thought his words would make her understand. However, her reaction differed from what he expected.

The hesitation on her face vanished, replaced by a firm expression, as she retorted. "I don’t agree." Her beautiful crimson eyes gave his face a deep look. "I believe both the protagonist and the villain can achieve a happy ending."

"..." Creases appeared over Su Mo’s forehead.

[Why are women so annoying and stubborn? Whatever I give up.]

"Fine, do what you think is right. After all, it’s your business." Su Mo shrugged, feeling pointless to argue anymore.

Yang Qingxi stood up and said, "I have decided. We are going to treat Lin Fan as our enemy."

"?" Su Mo.

[Is this woman mentally alright?]

His inner thoughts annoyed her; she felt the need to clarify. "I agree with what you said before, only your last line, I’m going to prove you wrong. I believe there would be a protagonist out there willing to side with the villain."

Su Mo’s gaze narrowed, and a look of thought appeared on his face. However, his thoughts were interrupted by her next words.

"Also, I have confirmed with my system that Lin Fan is bound to be our enemy."

"... There’s such a feature." Su Mo was surprised. If there’s such a thing, what was the need for their previous argument?

"Well, it only worked just now." Yang Qingxi averted her eyes, embarrassed.

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[Ding!]

[Hostility Index – Lin Fan: 100]

[Comment – Hates the Yang family to death. He wants to destroy them.]

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