“Leave.”
“Haotian is back. He’s the true young master of the Jiang Family and my real brother.”
“From now on, don’t ever come back to the Jiang Family.”
“…”
Inside the luxurious villa, Jiang Chen opened his eyes with a bewildered expression. The first thing he saw was a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a voluptuous figure, looking as though she had stepped straight out of an erotic manga. Her astonishingly ample chest was practically as dazzling as a pair of 4K headlights, while her face was cold as she stood before him.
‘Wait, what? Where the hell am I?’
‘And what’s with this stupid dialogue? Why does it sound exactly like the novel I was just reading?’
‘This setting. This villa!’
‘Something’s wrong!’
‘Could it be…? I transmigrated into a novel!’
Worse still, he had transmigrated into Proud Haotian, an outrageously melodramatic novel about a real and fake young master!
He had become Jiang Chen, the cannon-fodder fake young master whom the Jiang Family had adopted because they missed their son!
The author had apparently been too lazy to create nine separate characters, so Jiang Chen alone had been assigned the glorious role of simping for all nine female characters in the original novel.
The busiest guy in the circus. The craziest guy in Gotham City. The guy standing guard outside McDonald’s. Both Jokers in a deck of cards.
The strongest legendary simp of them all, Brother Jiang himself?!
‘Wait. If I remember correctly, aren’t all nine of these women completely insane yanderes…?’
Among them was the woman standing right in front of him, the CEO of Jiang Corporation. She was one of the five adopted daughters of the Jiang Family and was infamous for the titles “Wheelchair Collector” and “Leg-Breaking Boss.”
His eldest sister, Jiang Qingli!
‘Damn it! What kind of hellish opening is this?!’
‘These nine Calabash Brothers… No, wait!’
‘These nine crazy women might all be devastatingly beautiful, but they’re also the kind who like to give someone their “heart and soul” in the most literal way possible!!’
‘If these psycho yanderes ever find out I’ve been simping for several women at once, won’t they chop me into minced meat?’
“Qingli, why are you wasting your breath on him?” a voice suddenly interrupted.
“Haotian is still lying in the hospital! If he hadn’t pushed Haotian down the stairs, would Haotian have ended up like this?”
“Tell him to get the hell out of the Jiang Family!”
Jiang Chen had read countless yandere novels, and just as he was preparing to call the police and cling desperately to them for protection, a voice that sounded like salvation itself rang out. A middle-aged couple made their grand entrance.
Jiang Chen recognized them immediately.
‘That harsh tone. That unmistakable cannon-fodder aura. These have to be my bargain-bin parents, the richest couple in Lin City!’
Jiang Chen’s eyes instantly lit up. He looked at his adoptive mother with barely concealed delight and asked, “You really want me to leave?”
‘That’s right!’
‘The “destined lover” of these yanderes is supposed to be the protagonist, my younger brother Haotian, not me. What the hell am I panicking about?’
Right now, he had only just pushed Jiang Haotian down the stairs and was about to be driven out of the family, which meant he could finally get far away from these yanderes.
He had not yet reached the point where this cannon-fodder character turned evil, started causing trouble, and eventually got himself killed.
‘This is a good thing!’
‘All I have to do is take the money and run.’
‘No more being a simp. No more being cannon fodder.’
‘I can just find somewhere safe and lie low until the novel ends!’
‘These yanderes can’t possibly go insane just because they lost one simp, right?’
“You seem quite happy?” Jiang Qingli asked.
Jiang Chen’s reaction caused Jiang Qingli’s beautiful eyes to narrow dangerously.
‘Why is Jiang Chen acting so strangely today?’
She had always known that Jiang Chen had feelings for her. His pursuit of her had begun when he was adopted into the family at the age of five, and it had continued unwaveringly for 10 years.
For countless days and nights, he had silently pursued her and watched over her.
Whenever she had her period, he would brave the pouring rain to deliver freshly prepared brown sugar bubble tea to her company.
Whenever her bipolar disorder flared up, he would stay by her side night after night, even if he ended up getting hurt himself.
He remembered everything she liked. If she casually mentioned that she enjoyed a certain food, he would willingly stand in line for hours just to buy it for her.
His love for her seemed to have seeped into his very bones.
Yet now that she was telling him to leave the Jiang Family, he had agreed without the slightest hesitation?
“Ahem, how could I possibly be happy?”
Almost the instant Jiang Qingli’s voice turned cold, every hair on Jiang Chen’s back stood on end.
The pressure radiating from the woman before him was terrifying, like a venomous snake lying silently in wait.
Jiang Chen immediately put on a heartbroken expression and said, “Sister, are you really going to drive me away? Why can’t you trust me just once?”
His eyes reddened, tears gathering at their corners as he gazed at her with overwhelming affection. He looked as though he had lost his entire world, the pain cutting straight into his bones.
Combined with the handsome face that ranked first in appearance throughout the original novel, his performance clearly made Jiang Qingli freeze for a moment.
‘Damn it, I’m not even acting. This is all genuine emotion!’
‘It’s easy to joke about yanderes online, but if you actually meet one in real life, who wouldn’t call the police immediately?’
“Considering that the Jiang Family has raised you for so many years, we won’t pursue the matter of you pushing Haotian down the stairs this time,” Jiang Qingli said.
“This card contains 5 million. Consider it compensation.”
After meeting his “gentle and affectionate” gaze, Jiang Qingli’s expression finally softened. She coldly held out a bank card.
If Jiang Chen had not been the one at fault this time, she might not have driven him out after all the years they had spent together.
However, she had never expected him to be so narrow-minded that he would actually push someone down the stairs.
Worse still, not only had he refused to apologize afterward, but he stubbornly denied doing it.
So many people had witnessed what happened! She had seen it herself. How could it possibly be false?
Perhaps it was better for him to leave.
She was sure her second and third sisters would not object once they learned Jiang Chen was gone.
Especially her second sister. She would be returning from abroad in a couple of days, and she hated Jiang Chen more than anyone.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen stared at the card in shock.
‘5 million?! Wait, what?’
‘You’re even giving me money to run away? You should’ve said that earlier!’
“Sister, don’t worry! Since you don’t believe me and you hate seeing me this much, I’ll disappear completely. From now on, I promise I’ll never come looking for you again!”
‘I hereby take my leave! And once I leave, I’m gone for life!’
Jiang Chen was practically bursting with joy, yet he still forced himself to look deeply wounded and affectionate. With tears filling his eyes, he forcibly pulled the bank card from Jiang Qingli’s hand.
Then he turned and walked away, his retreating figure resolute yet desolate.
Watching him leave like that, Jiang Qingli frowned. For some inexplicable reason, an uncomfortable feeling stirred in her heart.
The words “disappear completely” felt strangely piercing.
In the end, however, she merely turned around coldly and returned to her room.
Meanwhile, Jiang Chen began frantically packing every valuable item in his room.
Watches, necklaces, rings, suits, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin…
There were all kinds of luxury goods, enough to nearly blind Jiang Chen with their brilliance.
‘If I sell all this stuff, I should be able to get at least 10 million!’
Without hesitation, Jiang Chen hired a Huolala moving truck.
Right in front of the Su Family parents, he stuffed the small truck to the brim. Afterward, he found the contact information for Jiang Qingli and everyone else in the Jiang Family.
Block. Delete. Done!
Still feeling unsafe, he even pried the SIM card out of his phone, snapped it in half, and threw it down a drain.
Then he tossed the phone out the window and watched a car run over it, crushing it into something straight out of Cthulhu.
Only then did Jiang Chen finally breathe a long sigh of relief.
He climbed into the passenger seat of the moving truck, pulled out a thick stack of cash, and handed it to the driver.
“Sir, the southern suburbs! Hurry! My wife is about to give birth to my milk… Pfft! My wife is about to give birth to my son!”
“Hurry! I’ll give you an extra 2,000. No, 5,000!!”
‘Evacuate! Evacuate! This time, I absolutely have to escape!’
‘Yes! This is it!’
‘I refuse to believe they can still find me after all this.’
‘If they do, they’re definitely cheating!’
Besides, according to the original host’s memories, Jiang Qingli had never cared about Jiang Chen, her pathetic simp.
Even if he blocked them 10,000 times, they might never notice.
And with the wealth he possessed now, he had more than enough money to change his name, buy a house somewhere, keep a low profile, and enjoy beautiful women on both arms!
‘Being rich and handsome while not having to deal with yanderes? This life is way too good!’
Jiang Chen decisively pulled out another phone, preparing to transfer the 5 million into his own bank account.
However, the next second, he noticed something was wrong.
‘Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands…’
‘100 million! There’s actually 100 million in the original host’s bank account!’
Jiang Chen was stunned.
‘What the hell? Was the original host trafficking drugs or doing some other shady business?’
However, when he opened the transaction history, he found nothing but enormous transfers, each marked with a person’s name.
‘Psycho yandere loli. Psycho yandere mature beauty. Psycho yandere professor.’
‘Brother Chen, seriously? You’re not even trying to hide it anymore?’
Even the smallest transfer was 3 million.
‘This bastard actually spent 100 million being a simp!!’
‘And now I inherited all of it!’