“Zhou Yan, take a look at yourself in the mirror. You’re such a failure as a human being, how do you even have the nerve to breathe?”
“It’s a travesty against heaven that a man like you even has a wife.”
“I must have had eight lifetimes of bad luck to end up married to you.”
“I refuse to live in a place with this cleaver-shaped apartment layout anymore. Go sell a kidney right now so you can rent me a proper house!”
“It’s your good fortune that someone actually wants your kidney.”
“That’s the only thing of value you have left on your body.”
What a poisonous thing to say!
After Jiang Zhixue finished speaking, even she fell silent.
A flood of unfamiliar memories surged into her mind.
—She had transmigrated into a book!
She had become the vicious ex-wife of Zhou Yan, the protagonist of a male-oriented urban power fantasy novel.
When Zhou Yan went bankrupt and hit the absolute rock bottom of his life, she had subjected him to constant verbal and physical abuse, exploiting him every day. She had even colluded with her lover to sell Zhou Yan’s kidney.
In reality, the protagonist Zhou Yan was the long-lost prince of a powerful wealthy family. After being found and brought home, the AI company he created reached a market value of trillions.
He eventually married a young lady from the Jing Circle to whom he had been betrothed since childhood, becoming the head of a conglomerate and a tycoon who controlled the lifeblood of future technology and the economy.
As for Jiang Zhixue, upon learning this, she refused to accept it. Manipulated by her lover, she repeatedly harassed and framed the protagonist. After being utterly discarded by him…
Her lover, seeing that she no longer had any utility and noting her beauty and fine figure, sent her to Paradise Island to become a plaything for the elite.
In the end, she became an experimental subject for drug testing. After enduring inhuman torture, she died a miserable death—
What kind of insane, tragic fate for a vicious female supporting character was this?
Jiang Zhixue felt utterly numb!
She looked across the room at Zhou Yan, who was huddled on a bed that looked like it belonged in a cave.
Jiang Zhixue: |д′)!!
As expected of a protagonist, he was 189 centimeters tall with broad shoulders and a narrow waist.
He wore a faded white T-shirt. The arms emerging from his short sleeves were bulging with muscle; his neck was lean and strong, and his prominent Adam’s apple moved as he choked back a sob. He was both rugged and sexy.
His features were perfectly balanced, without a single flaw, exuding a hint of cold, noble air.
Jiang Zhixue, who had spent her fair share of time scrolling through “male Bodhisattvas” on Mouyin, felt her eyes light up.
This man had more masculinity and charm than those thirst traps.
However, right now, after being berated to his face like that, his head was bowed low. His face shifted between pale and flushed—humiliated and grief-stricken.
“Um, I…” Jiang Zhixue covered her chest, trying to soothe her trembling heart.
Bearing the tragic fate of such a vicious female supporting character, and having just insulted the protagonist so severely, she was truly terrified.
“If I said… I was soul usurped, no… I did the soul usurpation, would you believe me?”
Only then did Zhou Yan lift his head to look at her. His bloodshot eyes grew redder, filled with despair, inferiority, pain, and self-reproach.
As a man, he had forced his wife to live in a place like this because of his own failures.
He was bankrupt and owed a hundred million. For a small-town problem solver like him, his life was over; there was no chance of a comeback.
He was the one who had ruined Jiang Zhixue.
That was why he hadn’t uttered a sound the entire time, keeping his head down and letting her scream at him.
Jiang Zhixue was stunned.
Setting aside what this man would become in the future, his early life could already be described as exceptionally brilliant.
As a small-town problem solver, Zhou Yan had been a stunning genius and a top student—a “noble son from a humble house.”
He had fought his way from his village to the city, and then, as the provincial top scorer, he entered Haida University in Haishi as a genius scholar.
In university, he encountered AI.
In his sophomore year, he developed an AI mini-program. With his extraordinary talent, he became a genius that second-generation rich kids scrambled to recruit, eventually co-founding a company with them.
Two years after graduation, the company successfully developed a mature, widely applicable AI program. The company went public, and he became a tech nouveau riche worth 300 million.
In less than a year, he went bankrupt, losing everything and ending up a hundred million in debt.
But even so, he was a rare, dazzling genius of this era.
Now, he had been scolded by his own wife until he had no temper left, looking like a dejected dog.
Jiang Zhixue felt her heart ache just looking at him.
Hearing her sudden remark, Zhou Yan’s eyes held a hint of scrutiny, as if he were looking at a crazy person.
He had gone bankrupt three months ago and moved here afterward.
His beautiful wife couldn’t handle the transition from their newly purchased high-end apartment to this rental unit. She cursed at him every day and demanded a divorce.
Now, she was even forcing him to sell a kidney.
The only explanation for her sudden strange comment was…
—She had truly lost her mind.
“I agree to the divorce,” Zhou Yan spoke, his voice hoarse and heavy with a sense of profound powerlessness.
His life was over, but Jiang Zhixue was only twenty-five. She could start over and pursue the life she wanted.
Jiang Zhixue was jolted.
But seeing that he didn’t look like he was going to jump up and hit her, she breathed a sigh of relief.
After being so provocative and vicious, the fact that she hadn’t been beaten to death only showed that Zhou Yan had a good temperament and upbringing.
After her mind raced through the situation, she immediately made a decision:
“I… I’m not getting a divorce…”
She didn’t dare to!
Thinking back on what the original host had done to Zhou Yan and the things she had said over these past three months of bankruptcy, Jiang Zhixue just wanted to die on the spot and go back.
She had completely offended him now.
And outside, there were malicious villains with ulterior motives waiting for her. After they finished using her, they would send her to Paradise Island for the rich to use as a plaything and a drug testing subject…
She didn’t want to take a single step into that wretched plot.
Besides, the man in front of her was the protagonist of this world.
Soon, his wealthy family would come knocking to bring him back to the elite circles. In the future, he would be worth trillions.
In her previous life, Jiang Zhixue had been a female small-town problem solver.
A gambling-addicted father, a biased mother, and a brother who leeched off her—she had been burdened with every negative buff imaginable.
Yet, she had never bowed to fate.
She studied hard, got into a top-ten university, and worked part-time while attending school in Modu. She majored in finance and took electives in economics and management.
Not only did she put herself through university, but she also funded her brother’s vocational college and sent a thousand yuan home every month for living expenses.
After graduation, relying on her “workhorse” spirit and sheer competence, she entered the higher-paying Hong Kong-Macau financial circle and successfully started making money.
In just three years, she went from a monthly salary of eight thousand to an annual income of a million.
She didn’t just renovate the family’s rural house into a two-story villa; she also bought a house and a car in full for her brother in their hometown city and provided a 200,000 yuan dowry for his marriage.
She thought her struggle for that family could finally end.
But when she went home for Lunar New Year, her biased mother took her ID and took out a three-million-yuan loan to buy a house in the city’s best school district for her brother’s non-existent son.
Returning to Hong Kong and Macau, Jiang Zhixue had no choice but to resume a life of sleeping only three or four hours a day, desperately making money to repay the loan.
Then, she died suddenly in her five-square-meter coffin room.
And became the current Jiang Zhixue.
Facts proved that working hard didn’t necessarily mean winning, but working too hard might mean dying.
Since she was here, she had to make the best of it.
Even though she was a vicious female supporting character, she had the ultimate trump card in her hand: the protagonist, Zhou Yan.
She had already made up her mind. First, she would mend her relationship with Zhou Yan.
Even if they divorced later, they wouldn’t be enemies.
Moreover, she could accompany him as he rose from the ashes. When they eventually divorced, she might even get a huge settlement, allowing her to buy a house in Haishi and live the free, comfortable retired life she had planned in her previous life.
Jiang Zhixue immediately set her plan in motion.
Seeing that she refused to divorce, Zhou Yan’s face darkened slightly. He asked, “The kidney buyer you mentioned… how much are they offering?”
“Wha… what do you mean?” Jiang Zhixue was a bit dazed.
“I’ll give you the money from the kidney. Then we divorce.”