Qingzhou, the Lin family.
Inside her room, Lin Qingxue lay on her cute pink bed with a helpless expression. Only after returning to her own room would this cold and stunning business queen of Qingzhou return to the demeanor of a young girl.
Tonight, because Ye Beichen had caused a scene at the Tang family birthday banquet and angered Young Master Song into leaving, Old Madam Tang had flown into a rage. Everyone in the Tang family then vented all their anger on the members of the Lin family. Left with no other choice, the Lin family no longer had the face to stay at the Tang family, so they could only slink back home in disgrace.
As soon as they returned to the Lin family, Lin Qingxue’s mother, Tang Wanrong, flew into a fury and began cursing Ye Beichen, calling him a jinx for offending Young Master Song. Lin Qingxue’s father remained silent, but his expression was just as ugly. He had not the slightest good impression of Ye Beichen, the man Lin Qingxue had brought back.
If Qin Luo saw this scene, he would recognize it at a glance as a classic power-fantasy trope. As the saying went, today you ignore me, tomorrow I’ll become someone you can’t reach. Once Ye Beichen revealed his terrifying strength, Lin Qingxue’s father and mother would only smile as they handed their daughter over to the Dragon King, Ye Beichen.
However, at this moment, Lin Qingxue’s parents did not know that Ye Beichen had an astonishing background, so they naturally looked down on him with disgust. Instead, they kept urging their daughter, Lin Qingxue, to agree to date Song Yunyi as soon as possible.
Because of this, Lin Qingxue naturally had a splitting headache.
In truth, whether it was Ye Beichen or Song Yunyi, she currently had no such thoughts toward either of them. Relatively speaking, however, compared to the playboy Song Yunyi, Ye Beichen was undoubtedly much better.
She had not known Ye Beichen for long.
A few days ago, because of her grandfather, who said he wanted to find her a personal bodyguard, she had helplessly agreed to let Ye Beichen stay by her side. Who could have expected that Ye Beichen would be so good at causing trouble?
Even at the Tang family birthday banquet, he had dared to slap Young Master Song in the face on the spot.
However, Lin Qingxue did not mind this. She was even happy about it, because she did not like anything about the Tang family, and she hated Song Yunyi’s pestering even more. Now that Ye Beichen had ruined everything, it was actually a good thing for her.
The problem was that the Tang family belonged to Qingzhou’s 10 great wealthy families. After the Lin family fell into decline, her mother had always wanted to return to the family, so she deliberately tried to curry favor with the Tang family’s people. This left Lin Qingxue deeply helpless.
Lying on the bed, Lin Qingxue suddenly noticed a pink diary beside her.
“What is this…”
Doubt flashed in Lin Qingxue’s eyes. She remembered that she did not own such a diary. Had her mother entered her room?
After frowning slightly, Lin Qingxue picked up the diary and saw the words on the first page: Qin Luo’s Diary Copy, Exclusive to Lin Qingxue.
“Who is Qin Luo? What does his diary copy have to do with me? It even says this is my exclusive diary. Who put this in my room?”
Lin Qingxue was somewhat angry. Her room had never allowed strangers to enter. She opened the diary, and when she saw the contents inside, she froze.
“What does ‘the plot begins’ mean? Why does he say Ye Beichen is the Dragon King?”
“Bah. What ‘a little cow stepping on an electric wire, awesome with lightning’? Where did this person learn such a vulgar saying? How improper.”
Seeing the crude words in the diary, Lin Qingxue’s face flushed red, and she could not help but spit lightly in embarrassment.
“The Tang family birthday banquet… That happened tonight. Ah! I remember now. Qin Luo isn’t he one of Song Yunyi’s lackeys? So it was him.”
After pondering for a moment, Lin Qingxue recalled Qin Luo’s figure in her mind and finally recognized his identity.
Qin Luo was only a fighter by Song Yunyi’s side. His presence was not strong. If not for Song Yunyi pursuing her and Qin Luo appearing beside him a few times, Lin Qingxue probably would not have remembered that such a person existed.
As she continued flipping through the diary, Lin Qingxue grew more and more shocked.
“He says our world is the world inside a novel, and in his eyes, we are all characters in that novel.”
“This Qin Luo is actually a transmigrator!”
A storm surged through Lin Qingxue’s heart. The world she had lived in all this time was actually only the plot of a novel. This was far too absurd.
At first, Lin Qingxue also thought Qin Luo was merely spouting nonsense, or had even lost his mind. But then she thought about it again. This was only a copy of Qin Luo’s diary. The things he had written in it were clearly never meant to be seen by anyone else, so the credibility was very high.
Perhaps everything this man named Qin Luo said was true. He was a transmigrator, someone from another world. The things he had experienced were truly unimaginable.
“Playing the role of a plot character, guiding the development of the plot, and some system reward. Once the mission is completed, he can go home.”
Lin Qingxue gradually came to understand Qin Luo’s “mission.” However, she was not interested in Qin Luo’s affairs. Right now, what she urgently wanted to know was what role she would play in the plot that followed, and what her ending would be.
But after flipping through it, she discovered that the diary was full of things about going home and keeping his head down to develop safely.
There was not a single piece of substantial plot mentioned. Lin Qingxue was so angry that her eyes nearly rolled upward.
“What kind of person is this? All he thinks about is keeping his head down and developing safely, or going home. At least tell me how the plot of this novel develops next.”
Lin Qingxue puffed up her cheeks in anger. She grabbed a huge white bear plushie from the bed and began pounding it with her little fists. She really wanted to point at Qin Luo’s nose and properly question him. You transmigrated into this world, yet instead of thinking about fighting the Dragon King to determine the winner, all you think about all day is hiding safely and going home. Are you even a man?
After her emotions calmed down a little, Lin Qingxue continued flipping through the diary curiously. When she saw the next part, a look of embarrassment and annoyance appeared on her face.
“This guy is too much. He actually wrote in his diary that he wants me… wants me to be his wife.”
“Dream on.”
“What’s even more hateful is that if he wants to pursue me, why is he also thinking about stealing all the female leads? Wouldn’t that mean he wants me to be with a bunch of other women…”
Lin Qingxue bit her red lip.
Although she knew that she had been beautiful and otherworldly since childhood, with countless pursuers, and that countless men in Qingzhou wanted to get close to her, directly seeing a man write about her in his diary still felt completely different.
Lin Qingxue reread that passage in the diary. Suddenly, she noticed that after her name on the page, there were four more words: female lead chosen by destiny.
This sentence was not difficult to understand.
From the information at the beginning of the diary, she could tell that in the world of this novel, the protagonist was Ye Beichen. He was the child of destiny of the entire world. Then the female lead paired with Ye Beichen would naturally be the female lead chosen by destiny.
And now, the diary said that she was the “female lead chosen by destiny.” Did that not mean her fate was destined to become entangled with Ye Beichen?
“I’m the female lead chosen by destiny, so what is my ending? Do I really end up with Ye Beichen in the end?”
Lin Qingxue frowned.
It was not that she hated Ye Beichen. If feelings slowly developed between them, then choosing Ye Beichen was not something she could not consider. But right now, she and Ye Beichen were not familiar with each other at all.
For the two of them to suddenly be bound together like this felt as though someone had randomly forced a match between them. This made Lin Qingxue feel deeply repulsed.
On top of that, through the diary, she had learned that this world might be a world inside a novel. Then, the person she fell in love with in the end, would he really be someone she wanted to love?
Or was it merely something the novel’s author had casually arranged?
The more one thought about it, the more terrifying it became. And for a woman, it was even more frightening.