“No way, seriously? The report didn’t work?!”
Yu Lele stared at the message sent by the website’s backend on her computer screen.
“Hello. The evidence you provided regarding plagiarism in the work Reborn in the Seventies, I Stole the Female Lead’s Luck is insufficient. The work cannot be taken down. Thank you for your supervision.”
Yu Lele tossed aside the mouse in her hand and slumped into her chair, absolutely furious.
“System, give me a bottle of energy drink to calm my nerves!” On the empty tabletop to her right, a bottle of Red Bull appeared out of thin air.
Gulp, gulp, gulp. After downing an entire bottle of Red Bull, she tossed the empty can into the trash. Refreshing!
It was bad enough that someone had plagiarized her work, but the plagiarist had even made the second female lead abuse the female lead and steal the male lead. They had even added a Cannon Fodder character who was also named Yu Lele.
Just what level of insanity was this?
“I, Yu Lele, have roamed the jianghu for more than ten years, and I’ve never suffered this kind of grievance before! System, think of a way to deal with them!”
After a long while, a childish electronic voice sounded in Yu Lele’s mind: “Host, are you sure?”
…………
“Rustle, rustle…… Oink, oink, oink……”
Halfway up the mountain behind Linjia Village in Sanhe Town, Yu Lele struggled to open her eyes.
Sparse rays of sunlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves and fell upon the ground, which had only recently been soaked by rain.
Every breath was filled with the fragrance of earth……
“I got kidnapped just from going to sleep? I can’t be this unlucky, can I……” Yu Lele muttered softly as she raised a hand and pinched her own cheek.
It felt smooth, tender, and firm beneath her fingers. The texture was pretty good! And it hurt, so this was not a dream.
“Host, this might not be the time to be thinking about that.”
Not far ahead, the branches creaked and groaned. Inside a crude net suspended by several hemp ropes, a wild boar piglet bared its tusks and struggled violently, looking as though it could escape at any moment!
“This is going to kill me!”
Yu Lele cried out softly. She had to get out of there quickly! With her small frame, even if it was only a piglet, one collision would be more than enough to do serious damage.
She hurriedly turned sideways, braced her left hand against the ground, and pushed hard with both feet. With a sudden slip, she went down with a smack and fell flat on the ground.
Yu Lele felt bitter inside, but she said nothing.
What kind of immoral kidnappers threw her onto a mountain and even hung a wild boar right across from her?!
“System, if you don’t help me soon, your master is going to die!”
That fall had not been light, and the rain-soaked ground was slippery. Getting back to her feet again was going to be difficult for a while.
The System’s childish voice sounded again: “Host, is it possible that you’re already dead……”
“I’m perfectly alive, dead my…” Before she could finish speaking, the rustling sound of footsteps came from the direction of the wild boar.
Had the kidnappers appeared?
From behind a tall, straight tree trunk, a tall man stepped out. He had short hair, with faint bluish stubble around his lips. He did not look very old, only in his early twenties.
Two thick, sword-shaped eyebrows framed a pair of cold peach-blossom eyes. Beneath his long, curling eyelashes were a high nose bridge and thin lips pressed lightly together. His face, rugged yet somewhat handsome, matched his powerful, well-defined muscles surprisingly well.
His patched white shirt had already yellowed from repeated washing. On his lower body was a pair of equally patched gray trousers made of coarse linen. The frayed trouser legs had been rolled up to his knees, revealing wheat-colored skin.
He glanced at her without betraying any emotion, then reached out with his thick fingers and grabbed one of the struggling wild boar’s tusks.
His gaze darkened on his resolute face, and his fist, as large as a sandbag, made intimate contact with the wild boar’s head. Through his close-fitting shirt, the bulging muscles could even be seen twitching for an instant.
The wild boar struggled violently several times inside the net, let out two grunts, and then went completely still.
D… dead?
Yu Lele’s mouth dropped wide open in shock. This young man was seriously fierce! If that punch landed on her, even if she did not die on the spot, she would definitely end up in the ICU……
The man took down the net hanging from the tree, slung it over his shoulder, and trudged toward Yu Lele, each step sinking unevenly into the ground.
Sitting within the shadow cast by his towering figure, she swallowed and involuntarily shuffled backward.
There seemed to be no emotion whatsoever in the man’s calm, pitch-black eyes. He said indifferently, “Hurry back. If you’re late, Aunt Yu will worry.” Then he turned around and left.
Yu Lele sat on the ground blinking, stunned for quite a while.
So he was not a kidnapper.
But…… wasn’t something a little off? She thought about what that man had just been wearing, then looked down at her own clothes, which were covered in mud.
A rose-red floral top, army-green coarse-cloth trousers, black square-toed cloth shoes with laces, and a pair of dirty hands that were obviously a size smaller than they should have been.
As an online novel author, an extremely ominous premonition welled up in her heart.
“System…… I……”
“You guessed correctly. This is the novel Reborn in the Seventies, I Stole the Female Lead’s Luck. You strongly demanded revenge, so I sent you here.”
“!!”
“You can’t go back, so don’t struggle. Your space has also been reset to zero. Fortunately, thanks to this System supervising you all these years, you managed to pay the transmigration fee in full without going into debt. Ah, right, it wasn’t completely reset to zero. I left you one pack of sanitary pads.”
“I freaking……”
“I know what you want to say. Please have some manners and watch your language.”
Before Yu Lele could finish even three sentences, the System had blocked every one of them. Yu Lele was so angry that her flat chest heaved up and down. This was the solution that damned System had come up with?
She had been cursed with bad luck in her previous life, and in this life, she had become Cannon Fodder.
System, whose side were you actually on?!
And that was not even the worst of it. Just look at this body of hers. She was already eighteen years old, yet even a mosquito would slip if it stepped on her chest. Was there still any hope for her?
She had already been furious to begin with, and now she was even angrier!
The only thing worth feeling relieved about was that, in order to gather evidence back then, she had read this novel a full three times. She even remembered every additional character and plotline that author had added with perfect clarity, so at least she would not be completely blind after transmigrating.
Except for that muscular ** who had appeared out of nowhere just now.
Still, there were only so many people who could be written into a book. It was perfectly normal for there to be people who had never appeared in the novel.
Yu Lele slowly climbed up from the ground, patted the clothes that had been smeared all over with mud, found a tree stump, and sat down.
She carefully recalled this part of the plot. It happened to be the turning point in Yu Lele’s life in the novel.
In Reborn in the Seventies, I Stole the Female Lead’s Luck, Yu Lele could not even be considered a supporting female character. At most, she was a walking ATM and a shield the female lead used while pursuing the male lead.
This spoiled young girl had been blessed with an adorable appearance for nothing. Not only was she pampered, arrogant, overbearing, and unreasonable, but the author had also forcibly lowered her intelligence, allowing the female lead to manipulate her completely.
Her father, who had been the production brigade captain, had only just passed away when the female lead of the novel coaxed her into going up the mountain to confess her feelings to the male lead.
Naturally, the male lead never appeared. Yet for some unknown reason, she fainted, and when she woke up again, she had gone insane.
After that, misfortune repeatedly struck her family. Her mother became seriously ill and died because she could not be cured. Her Eldest Brother and Second Big Brother also met with accidents one after another. With no other choice, Second Sister-in-law could only flee from famine while heavily pregnant, taking her little niece with her. As for Yu Lele herself, she married an older cripple from the neighboring village.
At that point, the life of the character Yu Lele came to an end.
Thinking of this, she could not help but sigh. A brain-dead author had written a brain-dead plot. Throughout the book, there had been hints everywhere that the misfortunes suffered by little Cannon Fodder’s family were the result of someone deliberately setting them up.
She did not know whether that damned author had never figured out how to deal with it or had simply forgotten about it. Either way, even by the end of the novel, that plot hole had never been filled!
But since that damned System had sent her here, for her own sake, she had to change the tragic ending of the Yu Family and her family’s female lead.