As a result, that day Fu Yuchen encountered Xia Bai who was genuinely working overtime.
Xia Bai, being the last to leave work, missed the final bus. Combined with the bad weather that night, she couldn’t even hail a taxi.
So, Su Lingyu watched helplessly as the man she liked stopped his luxury car at the bus stop in front of their company. After an exchange of words she couldn’t hear, Xia Bai closed her umbrella and got into the expensive vehicle.
Su Lingyu’s composure immediately shattered!
She hated that vixen Xia Bai to the core!
Thus, the jealous Su Lingyu began intermittently bullying Xia Bai at work.
Later, she even teamed up with Qiao Feifei, who for some reason also disliked Xia Bai. The two joined forces, determined to drive Xia Bai out of the company!
During the over-month-long internship period, they employed every petty tactic imaginable – making her clean the office, shifting work responsibilities onto her, stealing credit for her achievements, framing and ostracizing her.
Yet, most of the time, Xia Bai managed to turn danger into safety.
The main reason was actually Xia Bai’s ability to endure – she often silently swallowed her pride, believing the right time for retaliation hadn’t yet come.
Until today, when Su Lingyu suddenly came up with another idea and suggested to Qiao Feifei that they should ruin Xia Bai’s reputation to prevent her from becoming a regular employee.
The two incompetent schemers immediately hit it off, leading to the scene at the beginning.
“Sigh~”
The female supporting characters test their luck daily on the brink of becoming cannon fodder.
Remembering how the female lead Xia Bai in the novel would seek revenge for the smallest grievance, ensuring everyone who crossed her met terrible ends, Su Lingyu couldn’t help but sigh while massaging her forehead.
What should she do now?
After feeling that her clothes were almost dry, Su Lingyu picked up her jacket and shook it out.
No!
She had to change Su Lingyu’s cannon fodder fate!
Starting with…
Today’s apology!
As everyone knows, the male and female leads in every novel are children of destiny, possessing powerful protagonist aura that turns misfortune into blessing, transforms disasters into treasures, and unlocks new abilities after surviving crises!
Therefore, since she couldn’t oppose the female lead, then—
She should become friends with the female lead!
Given the current… situation, she needed to work on improving her favorability!
Compared to survival, pride meant nothing.
Su Lingyu hadn’t considered accepting this cannon fodder fate.
But what if she died while in Su Lingyu’s body and it turned out to be permanent?
She couldn’t take that gamble.
Therefore, she absolutely couldn’t die!
The only path now was to cling tightly to the female lead’s golden thigh, surviving until after the death crisis or the story’s conclusion, then see if she could return to her original world.
It’s just…
When she originally read this fake heiress novel, she had forced herself through half of it due to book scarcity, skimming through many parts without proper attention. Consequently, she couldn’t recall many specific plot details.
What could have been a powerful golden finger had shrunk to embroidery needle proportions in her hands!
This was fucking awkward!
“Su Lingyu, work’s over. Aren’t you leaving?Li An, carrying her bag, was about to turn off the office lights when she noticed someone sitting in a daze in front of the computer.
Normally the first to leave right on time, what was different today?
She’d been quiet all afternoon – quite unusual for her.
“Oh, right, I’m leaving immediately.”
Snapping back to reality, Su Lingyu quickly gathered her things.
Standing at the company entrance, looking at this unfamiliar world, Su Lingyu suddenly felt lost about where to go.
The evening wind blew, sending a chill down her spine that immediately sharpened her awareness.
She remembered the book mentioned that Su Lingyu loved dressing up and came from a well-off family. Her father was a nouveau riche, and she drove herself to and from work.
During her first few days as an intern, she had drawn the envy of many colleagues.
So, even though she usually didn’t do much work, her colleagues didn’t say anything. After all, she was wealthy, and her internship might just be for the experience.
Thinking of this, Su Lingyu lowered her head and rummaged through her classic monogrammed bag, pulling out a BMW key.
After circling the company’s underground parking lot, she finally found the car by recognizing the emblem and pressing the key to see which vehicle responded.
“Thank goodness I paid extra attention when I came across a character in the book with the same name as me.”
Su Lingyu opened the door, got in, and started the car.
At night, the city was illuminated by dazzling lights, and the roads were filled with a steady stream of vehicles moving along.
Tall plane trees along the river and towering skyscrapers passed by outside the car window. As Su Lingyu gazed at the city bathed in night lights, it was hard to imagine this was a fictional world from a book.
In the end, what was real and what was fake?
Just as Su Lingyu was lost in thought, the car in front suddenly slammed on its brakes.
“Bang—”
Unable to brake in time and too close to the vehicle ahead, she rear-ended it.
Su Lingyu quickly parked her car, got out, and checked the front of her vehicle, letting out a sigh of relief.
“Thank goodness, it’s not too serious.”
Noticing someone getting out of the car in front, Su Lingyu instinctively glanced at the other vehicle’s emblem, and her relief quickly turned to dread.
It was a luxury car worth millions.
“I’m sorry about the rear-end collision. Since it’s rush hour, why don’t we take photos for evidence first, then move to the side and call the traffic police and insurance company?”
Afraid the other party might misunderstand, Su Lingyu added, “Don’t worry, I’ll take full responsibility.”
In this situation, there was no choice but to admit fault.
Lu Jiuyan, who had stepped out of his car, looked at the woman before him, a flicker of surprise in his eyes.
He hadn’t expected her to say that. The moment she got out of the car, he recognized her as one of the main figures in the commotion in the company’s break room earlier that day.
Even now, the scent of coffee on her was still quite strong.
She had been so unreasonable and bullying in the afternoon, yet now she seemed quite rational.
“Are you not comfortable with this?”
Seeing no response from him, Su Lingyu spoke again, already calculating in her mind how much she might have to pay.
“Alright.”
A deep, metallic male voice rang out.
This voice… it’s so captivating!
Su Lingyu looked up, and the first things that caught her eye were his clean-shaven chin, pale thin lips, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses perched on his tall, straight nose. Under the headlights of passing cars, they reflected a dazzling light.
This… this is way too handsome!
He had the aura of a legendary, aloof male god.
“What’s wrong?”
Lu Jiuyan lowered his head and saw the undisguised, blatant admiration in her eyes.
“Huh?”
“Beep—”
The impatient honking from the car behind snapped Su Lingyu out of her daze over the handsome man and brought her back to reality.
She couldn’t let herself be blinded by good looks!
Now was not the time to admire a handsome guy!
“Let’s hurry up. There’s already a line of cars backed up behind us.”
Shaking off those distracting thoughts, Su Lingyu quickly took photos of the collision for evidence.
Lu Jiuyan glanced at her, then took out his phone and snapped a few pictures as well before moving his car to the side of the road.
As dusk fell, the North Star twinkled on the horizon.
After calling the traffic police and the insurance company, the two stood by the railing, waiting.