After the minor character transforms into a beauty, she steals the heart of a tycoon's son.

Ruan Tang sat back on the sofa with her phone in her hand, opened the forum, and found the gambling page.

He bet all of the 500,000 yuan that had just arrived on the lottery.

Odds 1:99.

For her now, it's a huge sum of money.

The system's sweet, childlike voice popped into her mind, tinged with uncertainty, "Tangtang, can this money be redeemed? You're not being scammed, are you?"

Ruan Tang replied in her mind, "This is the Shenglan Forum, who dares to challenge us?"

The system thought about it and agreed.

In Saint Lan, even the smallest thing can be seen as a provocation against the nobility.

Moreover, to cheat these aristocratic students out of their bets is definitely a death wish.

-

On the top floor of the student council building, on the other side, is the office of the deacon.

Pei Heng looked at the real-time data of the forum's gambling games; the number of participants had already exceeded five figures.

He whistled.

"The betting pool is already this tight, and this little secretary hasn't accomplished much, but she's always stirring up trouble in Shenglan."

The deacon team are forum administrators who can see the real data behind the betting games.

Pei Heng flipped through the betting list and suddenly saw a familiar name. "Damn, Wen Yan, when did you place your bet?"

Wen Yan smiled faintly upon hearing Pei Heng's words.

"Do you know the inside story?" Pei Heng jumped up from the sofa and walked over to Wen Yan. "Is Si Lin not planning to touch her?"

Wen Yan smiled faintly and remained silent, refusing to tell him.

Pei Heng then turned to look at Ji Yan.

Ji Yan also held a phone in his hand, tapped the screen with his thumb, and then turned the phone over to show Pei Heng.

On the betting page, he also bet on no, and the amount was not small.

"Did you place a bet too?" Pei Heng asked.

"What are you two hiding from your brother? Did Si Lin tell you something?"

Ji Yan smiled and put her phone away. "I don't know anything. I just have a gut feeling that Ruan Tang has a way of coaxing Si Lin away from this blacklist."

"What intuition? What kind of intuition could someone like you, who only thinks about his white moonlight all day, have?" Pei Heng muttered, then looked down at his phone again.

He scratched his head. "Fine, I'll bet it all too."

"After all, she's a member of the deacon group; let's give her some face."

-

Before the first class in the afternoon, Ruan Tang walked into the teaching building.

The electronic screen hanging high in the lobby showed no signs of any blacklist updates.

Several students fell silent when they saw her.

Some people were hostile, while others nudged the person next to them with their elbows.

Passersby reacted in various ways, but none of them were well-intentioned.

New discussions began to emerge.

"Really nothing happened? He snatched the microphone from Young Master Si at the school anniversary celebration, and there wasn't even any punishment?"

"Impossible. Anyone who offended the deacon in the past has never had a good ending."

"The big screen is indeed not moving."

"If Si Shao really punishes her, how dare she still come to class so readily?"

"Perhaps the deacon team hasn't had time to deal with her yet?"

"The school anniversary celebration has been going on for a whole day and night now. How could Young Master Si not have time? Last time Fang Zhaoyang offended Young Master Si, he was blacklisted on the same day."

"Keep your voice down. She's still her secretary and she's very favored. Be careful, you might be the next one to drop out of school."

The forums have exploded.

Each time the homepage is refreshed, dozens of new posts appear.

The titles kept getting longer and longer, and the number of exclamation marks kept increasing.

Someone took a picture of Ruan Tang walking from the teaching building to the classroom and posted it on the forum with only four words in the caption: "Completely unharmed".

The number of comments below surged.

"This can't be, is there a mistake? Is there a delay in updating the blacklist?"

"Am I having a memory lapse? She snatched the microphone from Young Master Si in front of the whole school, didn't she? And she got away with it? When did the Butlers become so accommodating?"

"It's not just about grabbing the microphone; Young Master Si personally announced that the resistance group was on the blacklist, and she directly used Young Master Si's name to withdraw."

"So how on earth did she get away with it?! ...

People started analyzing the situation.

"After eliminating all the impossibilities, the answer is clear: Young Master Si doesn't want to touch her."

"Or to be more precise, Young Master Si can't bear to touch her."

This post was pushed to the top of the trending list, with over two thousand likes.

They split into several factions.

One faction believes that Ruan Tang is an undercover agent of the Deacon Group, deliberately getting close to the Resistance Group and then turning against them, and that the scene at the school anniversary celebration was just an act.

Of course, they all knew this was self-deception. After all, the resistance group might need spies, but the deacon group had absolute power and didn't need such things.

Another group believes she just got lucky, and that Si Lin let her off the hook because he was in a good mood.

There was also a larger group of people who believed that Ruan Tang was more than just a secretary.

"Think about it, Ruan Tang was a specially admitted student, yet she was exceptionally admitted to the Deacon Group. Later, when she was bullied in the classroom, it was Young Master Si who personally came to her rescue. Now, she can even get away unscathed from publicly defying Young Master Si. Do you think an ordinary secretary can receive such treatment?"

"Are you saying they have that kind of relationship?"

"That doesn't make sense either. Young Master Si is known for not touching people from his own neighborhood and for disliking the low bloodlines of commoners."

"That's because you didn't touch her before. How do you know you haven't touched her now? After all, you have to admit, Ruan Tang is indeed beautiful."

"Are you crazy? A special admission student, what right does he have to sleep with Young Master Si? And stir up trouble throughout the entire Shenglan."

As soon as Shui Silin's remarks came out, all sorts of malicious speculations followed.

"Has Ruan Tang been checked? Could she be sick?"

"Those who were with Young Master Si before, weren't they all noble ladies with names and titles? They not only had to go through the Si family's abnormal layers of checks, but also had to take long-acting contraceptives in advance before they had a chance to stand in front of Young Master Si."

"How dare a lowly commoner set his sights on Young Master Si?"

"She's not worthy of him!"

"She's not worthy of him!"

"She's not worthy of him!"

Ruan Tang is unworthy, and countless comments followed.

This last type of comment spread the fastest, reaching the entire forum in less than an hour.

-

Break between classes.

In the corridor of the teaching building, Ruan Tang came out of the restroom and bumped into several girls.

The leader was Liang Jing, a student at the dance academy and Meng Qing's classmate.

She was wearing a shortened school uniform skirt, followed by three or four other girls who were dressed equally elegantly.

They blocked Ruan Tang.

"Oh, isn't this the big shot of the deacon group?" Liang Jing crossed her arms, looked her up and down, and began to make sarcastic remarks.

"Coming to class? We thought you wouldn't have to go to class anymore."

Ruan Tang didn't stop, but walked around her.

Liang Jing turned around and called out to her, "Ruan Tang, how exactly did you manage to coax Young Master Si? Teach us!"

Several girls nearby laughed along, "Yeah, we want to learn too, how do you get Young Master Si to spoil you like that?"

Ruan Tang turned her head and quietly glanced over. "You want to know?"

Liang Jing was taken aback, not expecting her to respond.

"Then let's just go ask Young Master Si." After saying that, Ruan Tang continued walking forward.

Liang Jing realized what was happening, a faint blush rising to her face. "What are you pretending for?"

"So what if she has a pretty face? A special admission student, does she really think she can rise to the top like a phoenix?"

Ruan Tang did not look back.

She knew very well that when she was a secretary, these nobles only treated her as a tool of the deacon group.

One is a gofer, the other handles documents; they're similar to Cheng Jin, nothing to be jealous of.

But once Si Lin showed her indulgence and ambiguity beyond a working relationship, everything changed.

For aristocratic women, the roles of secretary and lover are completely different.

The former is harmless, while the latter touches upon their core interests.

Why is it that a specially admitted student can climb to that position, while these legitimate noble ladies don't even have the chance to get close?

Even if she leaves the deacon group in the future, she can never return to a position like Cheng Jin's.

This past will be branded onto her like a mark, bringing endless trouble.

But coincidentally, she never intended to back out in the first place.