I’m Really Not Trying to Be Chased by the Heroine as the Villainous Playboy! – Chapter 235

Chapter 88: Rainy Night

No little girl can keep her cool when her parents talk about romance.

Nia was completely caught off guard by the sudden assault. Just as she flailed around, stammering and trying to brush it off, Janthea’s relentless words came crashing down again.

“Forget about him.”

“Huh?”

“Unless he’s willing to return to the Verdant Council with you, you two will never see each other again. Besides, you should know that being with him will only bring him danger.”

“Wait a second, mom! You haven’t even met him, how can you decide that so hastily?!”

Nia couldn’t help but raise her voice, finally showing anger on her face.

Janthea’s rejection of Roy was more unbearable for Nia than being dragged back to the Verdant Council.

“No need to meet him at all. Feelings during school are blind; whoever he is, he’s not worth you risking leaving the Verdant Council!” Janthea narrowed her cold eyes, her tone even more stern than before.

But this time, Nia’s patience had hit its limit.

She shot back with her own glare and shouted, “Isn’t this the same for you, mom?!”

“What?!”

“Weren’t you in love with dad at the Academy?!”

“Shut your mouth…”

Fueled by her boiling blood, Nia didn’t notice the change in her mother. Years of pent-up frustration and anger burst forth, unstoppable in that moment.

“Don’t belittle him like that! Just because you loved dad doesn’t mean I can’t like someone else!”

“I said, shut up!”

With Janthea’s roar, the wind howled, dark clouds churned, the landscape trembled, and the extraordinary energy in the air felt like it froze, making even the atmosphere shudder.

That thunderous shout completely stunned Nia.

“This ends here!”

“Tomorrow you return to the Verdant Council, and never think of seeing him again!”

After her cold reprimand, Janthea exhaled a heavy breath and softly told the still-standing girl, “This is all for your own good.”

For my own good…

Those four words weighed heavily, making it hard for her to breathe.

Nia had always wanted to believe that, and that’s why she endured. But what truly was for her good?

“Nia.” Janthea lowered her voice, trying to soften her severity.

But this time, Nia finally couldn’t deceive herself any longer.

“I won’t.”

“What did you say?”

“I’m not going back with you! I want to stay at the Academy!! What happens between him and me isn’t your business!”

“You…”

Janthea’s face darkened, and she seemed about to lose her temper again, but this time, Nia’s anger was far greater, like a fire roaring even more fiercely in the storm, shouting at her.

“I said, I don’t care!”

“If it were dad, he would definitely agree with me!”

Mentioning that person made Janthea lose her composure completely.

Under Nia’s astonished gaze, Janthea struck the table fiercely, hysterically shouting, “Ain has already died! If he could have stayed in the Verdant Council, he wouldn’t have had to go that far! Do you want to follow in his footsteps?!”

“Mom, you also…”

“I was too foolish back then! That’s why I don’t want you to make the same mistake!”

Once those words slipped out, Janthea froze, and it was too late to take them back.

Nia’s eyes turned red, her breath trembling, like a fragile blade of grass swaying in a storm, as if she might shatter at any moment.

There are some things that shouldn’t be said, even in anger.

Even though they had never met, Nia’s feelings for her father were beautiful and deep, not to be denied by anyone.

The girl who had never truly shed tears in front of Janthea now spoke with a quivering voice, “Mistakes… is that all there is between you and dad?”

“No, I meant…”

“Enough. It’s clear that you only care about blood ties; you don’t care at all about me and dad!”

After saying that, as if unable to bear it any longer, Nia immediately stood up and turned to leave.

Watching the girl’s determined departure, Janthea weakly reached out her hand, but it was like a lump in her throat; she could only watch helplessly as Nia vanished into the deepening night.

After a long while, only a sigh echoed in the air.

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By the time Roy arrived at the “West Wind,” night had already fallen.

As luck would have it, the weather turned sour, with rumbling thunder followed by a downpour that quickly turned into a torrential rain.

Since the “West Wind” restaurant required reservations, Roy had to take cover at a nearby café.

It was just then that an unexpected piece of news entered his ears.

“This rain is coming down so hard; I bet the open-air ‘West Wind’ has to close, right?”

“No, actually it closed before the rain started. It seems some powerful Extraordinary Being got angry, causing quite a scene and scaring all the customers away…”

An Extraordinary Being got angry?

A sense of foreboding surged in Roy’s heart. This gathering wasn’t in the original story, but the very fact that someone got angry didn’t bode well.

The increasingly worried young boy couldn’t sit still any longer. He stood up and walked over to the two people discussing it.

“Can you tell me more about what just happened?”

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As night deepened, thunder rumbled, and soon heavy rain poured down, causing pedestrians on the street to vanish as if they had all suddenly disappeared.

Only Nia, a fleeting silhouette in green, wandered aimlessly in the cold, empty rain-soaked night.

After the anger came profound loneliness and helplessness. Nia felt utterly exhausted, walking without knowing where to go.

She understood her mother had her reasons, and she knew that when it came down to real talk, she had no way to resist. Even if she got mad, it would just be a child throwing a tantrum; it wouldn’t mean anything in the end.

But she was simply too tired. Tired of thinking about all these trivial and complicated matters.

The rain hammered down on her, cold and piercing, yet so heavy that it made the already fatigued girl almost unable to lift her own body.

Her withdrawal procedures were already in progress, and she couldn’t return to the dorm. She had no money in her clothes, so she couldn’t stay in an inn.

Nia glanced around in confusion, momentarily unsure of where to go.

Maybe she should go home.

But that would mean total defeat, being dragged back to the Verdant Council by her mother, and never seeing Roy again.

Even if it was just one more second, Nia didn’t want to go back like this.

If she had to say…

Before her mind could clarify, Nia mechanically took a step forward.

There was no reasoning behind it, just that under this freezing, suffocating curtain of rain, her subconscious craved warmth.

Warmth belonging to that young boy.

By the time Nia snapped back to reality, she found herself deep within the Academy’s residential area. Just outside a familiar small house, faint warm lights painted a welcoming glow.