3 – Is She the Mary Sue Female Supporting Character?
The next day.
Ye Jin, who had fainted from the pain, finally woke up. The chaotic images in her mind had now sorted themselves out.
She truly never expected that what she had thought was merely her own foolishness in her previous life was actually because she was a female supporting character! And not just any female supporting character, but a cannon fodder one in a Mary Sue novel with relatively little screen time.
She was specifically designed to deliver equipment and men to the female protagonist during the early stages of her development!
Previously, she thought her rebirth and the records of cultivators she had seen in the Dimension were already unbelievable enough.
Now she realized she was living inside an apocalyptic Mary Sue protagonist novel!
A novel was one thing, but it turned out to be a protagonist wish-fulfillment novel where the female protagonist claimed to be independent and strong while tormenting various brainless female supporting characters, collecting all sorts of handsome men, and ultimately reaching the peak of life!
The female protagonist of this novel, titled The Apocalyptic Female Protagonist’s Path to Glory, was actually her good cousin Yu Ruanruan—the very one who had caused her death! And she herself was that cannon fodder female supporting character who delivered equipment to the female protagonist in the early stages.
So her rare Water, Lightning, and Wood Three-Type Nucleus Crystals were originally just early-game equipment the author handed to the female protagonist?
Hah, what kind of twisted moral compass must the author have to write such a novel?
As the novel progressed, the female protagonist wasn’t just a Mary Sue—she also had no standards when it came to men. Anyone with a bit of power, regardless of appearance or age, was fair game. Even the Zombie Emperor was one of her male leads.
It really was a brainless novel focused solely on wish-fulfillment. The author didn’t even write an ending, abandoning the story partway through.
Then again, what kind of ending could possibly do justice to the female protagonist’s overpowered halo? The author probably couldn’t make up a suitable conclusion and simply dropped the story, leaving it without an ending.
Thinking about the men Yu Ruanruan had seduced, Ye Jin frowned deeply. Yu Ruanruan herself wasn’t frightening, but her male supporters were each formidable in their own right, not to mention the bizarre System that appeared throughout the novel.
Although this world was just a fictional one, Ye Jin was a real person.
She had grown up in this world, with family and friends. No matter that Yu Ruanruan was the female protagonist, since heaven had given her a second chance at life, how she lived this life was entirely up to Ye Jin.
Not a single debt of vengeance would go unpaid!
Once her Mental Power had recovered slightly, Ye Jin emerged from her Dimension. The room was filled with a foul stench.
She realized the smell was coming from her own body.
Exiting the Dimension, she covered her nose and rushed to the bathroom, where she saw her entire body covered in black grime, as if she had been dug out of a garbage dump. It was likely the accumulated impurities from years within her body being expelled. She quickly took a shower.
Steam filled the shower room. Ye Jin reached out and wiped the condensation from the bathroom mirror.
The girl in the reflection was stunningly beautiful, completely devoid of the haggard exhaustion from her previous life of desperate survival. Her perfectly oval face was adorned with striking features—arched eyebrows and eyes that held a cold arrogance yet were irresistibly captivating, a slightly upturned nose that didn’t look petty.
Fresh from the shower, her body temperature had risen, giving her cheeks a faint blush that made her appear even more radiant.
Standing nearly 1.7 meters tall, she had a slender figure and waist-length hair cascading down her back, her skin as fair as snow.
Her beauty was intensely aggressive. With such striking looks, wasn’t she just perfect for the role of the vicious female supporting character in a Mary Sue novel?
Female supporting characters never had happy endings. In the apocalypse, beautiful women faced even greater hardships. A woman without strength could only become a plaything for the powerful.Ye Jin touched the red lotus mark over her heart. After entering the dimension, the jade pendant had vanished—this must be the Dimension Mark. It was just as well; she wouldn’t have to worry about others noticing it and trying to kill her for the treasure.
In the apocalypse, possessing such a dimension would be an extraordinary advantage, something absolutely no one could ever find out about. This was her trump card.
There were only two months left—time was tight, and she needed to hurry with her preparations.
Ye Jin took stock of all the assets currently at her disposal. Besides this apartment near her school, she also owned two villas, five commercial apartments, and ten shops.
These properties had remained in her hands ever since her parents passed away. Only the company shares were held in her younger brother’s name. Xiao Chen was just fourteen and hadn’t yet reached the age of inheritance; any changes required approval from her and her Maternal Uncle.
Ye Jin’s mother, Ye Yun, was the cherished daughter of the capital’s Ye family. While studying in the capital, she fell in love with Yu’s Father. At the time, Yu Zhenhua was just a poor boy from the countryside who had managed to test into the capital—a city teeming with the wealthy.
Romances between poor boys and rich girls in storybooks never ended well, but Ye Jin’s parents were an exception. Yu Zhenhua was driven enough to eventually achieve success in S City.
Back then, her maternal grandmother had strongly opposed her parents’ relationship.
Ye Yun’s older brother, Ye Zheng, was also entirely against it, but he couldn’t stand against his sister’s feelings and reluctantly gave his consent—on the condition that their first child must carry the Ye surname. Yu’s Father had no objections; he believed that as long as the child was his and Ye Yun’s, it would be his precious one, regardless of the surname.
The capital was quite a distance from S Province. Even though transportation was relatively developed back then, it was still difficult for her grandmother to spend much time with her granddaughter.
In the following years, her grandmother’s health declined further, while Yu Zhenhua’s career was booming, and Ye Yun was also caught up in the busyness.
Worried that her grandmother might feel lonely—after all, he had taken away her beloved granddaughter—Yu Zhenhua sent Ye Jin to the Ye family when she was five.
The Yu family, especially Yu Zhenhua’s mother—Ye Jin’s grandmother and Ye Yun’s mother-in-law—was a sharp-tongued, stereotypical rural woman.
Proud of having given birth to two sons and deeply entrenched in son-preference, she disapproved of Ye Yun’s involvement in Yu’s Father’s company affairs. She believed women should focus on thrift and household duties—what was the point of a woman always showing her face in public?
Not only had Ye Yun given birth to a “useless” daughter, but she had also let the child take her surname. This left Yu’s grandmother resentful toward Yu’s Father as well, while she favored her eldest son, Yu Zhenguo—who was all talk and no action—and constantly found fault with her younger son’s family.
Fortunately, Ye Jin didn’t see much of her. She left for her maternal home not long after and spent nearly half her childhood there. In the Ye family, she had a cousin just two years older who played with her every day, making her childhood largely a happy one.
But happiness is always fleeting. After her grandmother passed away, Ye Yun, pregnant with her second child, grew increasingly depressed and withdrawn. On the way to a prenatal checkup with Ye Yun, Yu’s Father was in a car accident—a drunk driver caused the crash, killing both the driver and Yu’s Father on the spot.
Ye Yun was rushed to the hospital, but despite the doctors’ best efforts, they could only save her prematurely born son, Yu Zichen.That day, Ye Jin lost the parents who loved her most and gained a baby brother still in swaddling clothes. Being too young to understand anything, she treated her younger brother Yu Zichen coldly, believing it was his birth that had left her homeless at such a tender age.
She maintained this indifference toward her brother throughout their childhood. Yu Zhenguo, coveting the company assets of Yu’s Father, outright rejected Maternal Uncle Ye Zheng’s request to take Ye Jin and her brother to the capital. He insisted he would surely take good care of his own brother’s children, claiming that since Ye Jin and Yu Zichen were both members of the Yu family, there was no reason for them to be taken away by their maternal relatives.
Ye Zheng clearly saw through Yu Zhenguo’s schemes, but he had no legitimate grounds to forcibly take away his sister’s children. He could only secure more safeguards for them and wait until Ye Jin grew older.
The dowry of Ye Jin’s mother and the savings Yu’s Father had accumulated over the years were all left to Ye Jin. However, due to her young age, the company naturally fell into Yu Zhenguo’s hands.
Over the years, Yu Zhenguo had been brainwashing her. While putting on a decent facade, he privately complained to her daily about financial struggles, claiming the company was performing poorly. He pretended to care for her like his own daughter, emphasizing they were family, all in an attempt to persuade her to transfer the company shares.
In her previous life, having lost her parents at such a young age, Ye Jin already felt insecure. Although she knew Yu Zhenguo wasn’t genuinely kind to her, over time, and with Yu Ruanruan constantly whispering poison in her ear, she eventually came to see them as family. In the end, she signed the share transfer agreement, and Yu Zhenguo only gave her a pittance in return. At that time, she had been utterly foolish to believe such nonsense.
From what she knew, although Yu Zhenguo was an incorrigible good-for-nothing, his eldest son, Yu Leyang, was no simple character. In just a few years, he had revitalized the company, expanded into subsidiaries, and secretly consolidated shares.
Back then, as soon as Yu Leyang obtained the shares, he was poised to implement sweeping reforms. But before his grand plans could take off, the apocalypse arrived.
Since they wanted it so badly, that made things easier. Of course, she needed to carefully plan how to swindle a substantial sum from them.
“Gurgle~”
Ye Jin’s empty stomach began to protest; she hadn’t eaten anything since yesterday.
She went downstairs and headed straight to the breakfast area, buying a large quantity in one go: steamed buns, shrimp dumplings, rice wine, and thick soup noodles. She squatted by the roadside and devoured it all, eating so ravenously and quickly that she finished everything in no time, drawing astonished stares from passersby.
Though it was just the simplest breakfast, Ye Jin found it incredibly delicious. How long had it been since she’d properly eaten?
During the apocalypse, even getting a hot meal was difficult. Later, after struggling through life-threatening situations, she finally climbed the ranks of the Base’s strongest. But before she could enjoy a better life, that lunatic Yang Shuhuai had her strapped to an experimental bed, where she survived daily on intravenous drips!
…
After eating, she immediately went to a real estate agency to list all her current properties for sale.
The agent who received her was clearly a seasoned slickster—portly, dressed in a suit, the typical real estate agent. His blue name tag read “Manager Wang,” suggesting he was someone who could make decisions.
“I have over ten properties to sell,” Ye Jin stated bluntly, getting straight to the point.
“Miss Ye, have you brought the property deeds?”
The agent eyed the young girl before him with skepticism. Could she really dispose of so many properties so casually? Was she pulling his leg?Ye Jin could understand his doubts. She directly pulled out the property deeds she had taken from the safe from her backpack and said, “I require all of these to be sold within one month.”
The agent couldn’t hide his surprise. Though he thought to himself that this month’s performance targets would be easily met, he still maintained caution. Requiring such a quick sale of so many properties, and this woman wearing a mask… her background seemed questionable…
“Don’t worry, I don’t really care about these assets. Except for those dozen or so commercial shops that are newly acquired – that street hasn’t been fully developed yet – I have all the keys to the other properties here.”
After saying this, Ye Jin took out all the keys and gave him a note with the electronic lock passwords for several villas.
Now he was finally convinced. Even if she were a thief, she couldn’t possibly know all the door passwords.
“I’ll go get our manager to assist you.” Such large deals typically needed to go through the manager.
“No need. Let’s sign the contract directly. I don’t want anyone to know about this matter. I only have these few requirements – I’m usually very busy, so you don’t need to notify me for viewings. Regardless of the price, I only require full payment to be received, and all properties must be sold within one month.”
She couldn’t let the Yu family know about her private actions now, so naturally she couldn’t expose herself: “That means you’ll handle everything yourself. Your commission won’t be reduced, and I’ll give you an additional bonus.”
After signing the contract, Manager Wang still hadn’t fully processed what happened. Everything went too smoothly, completely lacking the usual questions from other customers, with full responsibility placed on him.
Before leaving, Ye Jin gave him a phone number, telling him to just send a text message when the money arrived.
Though he found this client rather strange, there were plenty of eccentric wealthy people. Being able to produce so many properties at once probably meant it was for emergency use. One month was too short – looks like he’d be happily working overtime this month.
…
After leaving the agency, Ye Jin randomly found a barbershop by the roadside and asked the barber to directly cut off her beautiful long hair.
“You’ve been growing this hair for many years, right? What a pity to cut it so short. With your beautiful facial features, why don’t I give you the most popular textured perm? It would definitely look good.”
Although the barber had seen many good-looking customers, he was still stunned by her appearance and wanted to recommend hairstyles to Ye Jin, thinking it would be such a waste to cut it short.
“No need, just cut it.” Seeing that the barber seemed like he wanted to persuade her further, Ye Jin directly said: “If you can’t cut it here, I’ll find another shop.”
This Tony teacher was successfully shut down – it was his first time meeting such a customer.
But with the social skills developed over many years, he knew he shouldn’t say more, just nodding and asking: “Is this length okay?” gesturing to about ear-length.
“Anything is fine, as long as it’s short.”
She didn’t care about looking good. In the apocalypse, even drinking water was a luxury. Long hair was always troublesome and could easily get caught by zombies during fights.
Although this beautiful customer’s requirements were quite strange – aside from being short, there were no other specifications – this Tony teacher was still responsible enough to try to give the short hair some stylish layers.
Ye Jin was very satisfied with the final haircut. The ear-length style fit her face shape well, matching her 170cm height – neat and efficient.