Kangcheng No. 5 High School.
Senior Year Class 1 classroom.
Fifteen days until the college entrance exams.
By now, everyone in the classroom had already left. Only the class monitor, Gu Ziyan, and the study committee member, Sheng Xia, remained behind, organizing the mock exam papers that had just been collected.
“All done, Sheng Xia. The papers are sorted, help me hand them to Old Zhao, okay? I’ve got something to do, so I need to leave first.”
Gu Ziyan placed the neatly stacked papers in front of Sheng Xia, slung his schoolbag over his shoulder, and prepared to leave.
Sheng Xia reached out and grabbed the loose sleeve of his oversized school uniform.
Gu Ziyan paused, then asked in his cool, clear voice,
“Something wrong?”
Without saying a word, Sheng Xia opened her schoolbag and took out a carefully wrapped gift box, handing it to him.
“Happy birthday, Class Monitor…”
Gu Ziyan curled his lips into a smile as he accepted the gift.
“Sheng Xia, how did you know today’s my birthday?”
Sheng Xia secretly clicked her tongue. The plot was unfolding exactly like it had in the original novel.
The female supporting character in the original story had been too shy to give the male lead her birthday present, so this generous lady here would kindly help fulfill her wish instead.
“Your enrollment form.”
“Mm, your memory’s pretty impressive. This isn’t going to be some weird prank gift, is it?”
As Gu Ziyan recalled the bizarre birthday presents his friends had given him over the years, his temples immediately started throbbing.
Oreo cookies stuffed with toothpaste, and don’t ask how he found out, because he refused to talk about it.
A music box that blasted loud “yamete” moaning sounds the moment it was opened.
A towel cake, where you opened the cake box only to find an actual hand towel inside. Where was the promised cake?
A tearjerker candied hawthorn skewer, sweet sugar coating on the outside and raw onion hidden inside.
“Warming fries,” which turned out to be ginger slices shaped like French fries.
He truly had no idea what went through those people’s heads all day long.
Gu Ziyan had been tricked so many times that he was practically traumatized whenever he received gifts.
Sheng Xia’s present was wrapped tightly enough that even she herself had no clue what was inside.
It seemed the original novel never got around to revealing the contents of the gift before the female supporting character named Sheng Xia was killed off.
Feeling a little guilty, Sheng Xia muttered, “You’ll know once you open it.”
Gu Ziyan laughed brightly.
“As long as it’s not something weird, then it’s fine. Thanks!”
“No problem, no problem at all!”
Sheng Xia kept a blank expression, lowering her head slightly. Only after Gu Ziyan had walked far away did she slowly raise it again.
Behind her neat bangs, eyes completely mismatched with her age flashed with helplessness.
She had finally escaped her father’s iron-handed control and run away from the Shaolin Temple where she had trained in martial arts for years. Yet after only enjoying freedom for two days, she stepped outside and got hit by a flowerpot falling from the twelfth floor.
The moment her vision blurred, she opened her eyes again and somehow became the female supporting character from a novel she had once read.
Not only that, but she was a Short-Lived Female Supporting Character who didn’t even survive past twenty chapters, a side character whose name only appeared a handful of times.
The girl shared her exact name, Sheng Xia, except this one was only eighteen years old while the real her had already been twenty-six.
Being eighteen again… honestly, the feeling was pretty incredible.
Sheng Xia stood there for a long while before finally packing her things and leaving.
That night, Sheng Xia lay on her small bed, staring at the moon outside the window in a daze.
She was desperately trying to recall the plot of the novel.
On the eve of the college entrance exams, a blood moon would descend, and the entire world would undergo earth-shattering changes.
Under the night blanketed by the blood moon, strange invisible substances would suddenly appear throughout the skies. Every living organism on the Blue Planet would mutate.
In just a single night, countless black holes and dimensional zones would emerge across countries all over the world. Roads would be cut off, landscapes completely altered, and endless bizarre creatures would crawl out from those black holes and dimensional realms, rampaging through human cities.
The mutated locusts would sweep across the globe almost immediately, devastating the world’s crops and plunging humanity into a food crisis soon afterward.
Humans, once firmly seated at the top of the food chain, would be dragged down from their pedestal and reduced to prey. The world would collapse into chaos, and everyone would live in fear.
The world would be completely transformed, but while humanity struggled to survive, people would also discover changes within themselves.
Under the influence of those unknown substances, human speed, agility, strength, intelligence, vitality, and spiritual power would all evolve.
Some people would even awaken spatial abilities and gain their own Spatial Storage, something that previously existed only in novels, yet it would become reality in her previous life.
Awakened ability users would rise all over the world, beginning humanity’s counterattack against the monsters and fighting to protect human territory.
Some would gain control over the elements, becoming elemental ability users capable of manipulating water, fire, wind, and lightning.
Some would possess overwhelming spiritual power and learn to externalize it into telekinesis, becoming masters capable of controlling objects from afar.
Others, driven by starvation, would accidentally consume the fruits of mutated plants, causing their bodies to evolve and granting them plant-type abilities.
The world would become increasingly fantastical, and humanity’s supernatural abilities would diversify into countless strange forms.
As for Sheng Xia, she possessed a space-type ability.
Not a bad power at all, at least she wouldn’t starve to death.
From the bedroom next door came the occasional sound of someone turning over in bed. Su Mei, the original host’s mother, suffered from heart disease and never slept peacefully through the night.
Tomorrow, Gu Ziyan’s grandfather, Gu Qing, would suggest taking Su Mei to Yanjing for treatment. Just like in the original story, Su Mei would refuse.
No, she couldn’t let that happen. Since there was a chance to leave Kangcheng and head to Yanjing, how could Sheng Xia stand by and watch her die?
The original novel clearly stated that when the mutant beasts breached Kangcheng, Su Mei died protecting her daughter. Meanwhile, Yanjing had constructed defensive fortifications from the very beginning and eventually became the largest and safest city in the entire Huaxia Federation.
No matter what, she had to convince Su Mei to go to Yanjing.
Sadly, she herself was also a short-lived female supporting character from the original novel, someone who failed to survive beyond the first three chapters, whose name appeared only once.
Life was precious. How could it be wasted so casually?
Sheng Xia’s eyes darted around as she tossed and turned in bed. Unable to sleep, she finally got up and practiced a full set of martial arts forms.
After sweating thoroughly and thinking through how she would persuade Su Mei tomorrow, she finally went to sleep peacefully.
The next morning happened to be a rare day off. Early in the morning, Sheng Xia received a phone call from Grandpa Gu, asking both mother and daughter to come to the Gu residence.
Checking the time, Sheng Xia saw it was exactly nine in the morning. Just like the novel described, not even the conversation differed in the slightest.
When she woke up earlier that morning, she had been both shocked and delighted because she discovered that the original host’s space-type ability had awakened ahead of time!
Sheng Xia excitedly did two cartwheels on the spot.
Looks like heaven still wanted her alive!
Next up, it was time to meet the legendary handsome and domineering male lead’s grandfather.