On September 1st, the first Monday of the new semester, Ruan Xingmian took a day off.
She didn’t go to her junior college.
Instead, she sat brazenly in the cafeteria of a top-tier 985 engineering university.
Her eyes twinkled like stars.
She was practically drooling.
One gasp of admiration escaped her after another.
That guy’s boyish features are to die for.
That one has faint outlines of lean muscle.
Wow, look! A beauty with long legs.
However, Ruan Xingmian was in no mood to appreciate the sights.
She lowered her head to look at her own abdomen.
It was still flat for now.
Soon, it would swell day by day like an inflating balloon.
At the tender age of twenty, she—was pregnant.
Ruan Xingmian had come here for the sole purpose of finding the baby’s father.
A month and a half ago, she had been lounging comfortably on a rocking chair in her quaint little courtyard, scrolling through videos on her phone. Just as she was about to fall asleep, she unintentionally clicked on a novel and read it all in one go until the grand finale.
She fainted from staying up all night.
And just like that, she had transmigrated into the book, fresh as a daisy.
No one had given her any advance notice; she hadn’t even had time to pack her luggage.
She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she had become Ruan Xingmian—a rebellious, ostentatious, and love-crazed Villainess Supporting Female Character who shared her name and face.
What a situation.
The moment she arrived, she was on a luxurious king-sized bed in a hotel.
Her jacket was off, leaving her in a striped tank top, pressing down on a coolly handsome man.
The hotel lighting was a warm yellow.
The handsome man had a fair, cool-toned complexion. His brow bone was prominent, and the slight downturn of his eyes held a sharp glint.
His entire body was limp, and he panted with anger, his tone a warning. “Ruan Xingmian, don’t do something you’ll regret.”
Even though he had been drugged, he was still thinking of her. “You’re only twenty. Your sister, Ruan Xingyue, would definitely not want you to… do this.”
Ruan Xingyue?
My sister?
Ruan Xingmian found the scene incredibly familiar.
Wasn’t this from that poorly ended romance novel that had left her with the most regrets?
Although it had been a long time since she’d read it, she still remembered the key plot points.
The Villainess Supporting Female Character, who shared her name, had been instigated by the Male Lead, who was jealous of the Second Male Lead. She bought that kind of drug online, fed it to the Second Male Lead, and planned to fake a one-night stand to force her way into being his girlfriend, all to monitor his activities for the Male Lead.
Without much thought, Ruan Xingmian felt waves of impulse surging from her lower abdomen.
The original owner of this body was a ruthless woman.
When she drugged the Second Male Lead, she had poured a glass for herself as well.
She and the villainous Male Lead had arranged for an old street prostitute for the Second Male Lead.
They had set up a hidden pinhole camera in advance to record video evidence, which could be used later to threaten the Second Male Lead into handing over his Scientific Research Achievements.
As for the original owner herself, she had her sights set on someone else. The villainous Male Lead she was infatuated with was waiting for her in the room next door.
“Ruan Xingmian…”
To be called by this face, which was desperately suppressing its desire…
Ruan Xingmian, who had been single for all twenty-eight years of her previous life, felt her rationality being devoured by the drug as her consciousness gradually faded.
Both of them were burning with lust.
Panting heavily.
Skin slick with sweat.
Breaths heavy and damp.
Ruan Xingmian’s body went limp, and she fell onto him.
She bumped her nose.
The sensation was half-soft, half-hard, half-cold, half-hot.
Ruan Xingmian propped her hands on his lean abs.
Her entire head felt hot and swollen.
She had just bumped her nose on someone’s pectoral muscles…
“Sorry, little bro…”
Ruan Xingmian feebly rolled off him, unexpectedly tumbling onto the carpet.
She had taken the drug later than he had, so its effects were just beginning to kick in.
She gritted her teeth, veins popping on her forehead, and used both her hands and feet to crawl away.
She couldn’t take advantage of him, and she certainly couldn’t follow the plot. She had to crawl, even if it meant crawling into the bathroom to wait for the drug to wear off.
A series of knocks echoed from the door.
Ruan Xingmian’s back stiffened slightly.
It’s over!
That old woman is here!
With a thud, a comforter fell from the sky, landing on Ruan Xingmian’s legs.
A long, powerful hand reached out from under the covers and clasped her slender, fair ankle.
The Second Male Lead had completely lost control…
He was too strong. Ruan Xingmian couldn’t shake him off or move.
She lay paralyzed on the spot, her mind blank.
She watched, wide-eyed, as a steamy, devastatingly handsome face emerged from the bedding.
His clear, cold eyes reflected her panicked features.
They were filled with the word “desire.”
As the man pounced, the knocking at the door stopped.
Ruan Xingmian pushed him a couple of times, but her lack of strength made it look more like a coy refusal. Every breath she took was a mist of passion. She closed her eyes and resigned herself to her fate.
It would be a shame to let such a handsome face be enjoyed by someone else, she consoled herself.
“Be gentle…”
He gnawed at her neck like a dog.
She was ticklish and kept trying to dodge him.
The next second, her hips were held in a tight grip.
She couldn’t move an inch.
Dry tinder meets a blazing fire.
They were in the prime of their youth.
A night of earth-shattering passion ensued.
A first time colliding with a first time, amplified by a potent drug, led to a fierce, sleepless night. When it was over, Ruan Xingmian couldn’t sleep soundly.
Her body was exhausted.
Her heart was even more so.
In the latter half of the night, after he had fallen asleep, she woke with a start. Her legs trembling, she got out of bed, gathered her clothes, and fled.
For the entire summer vacation, she worked part-time jobs to save money while meticulously organizing the novel’s plot and the original owner’s relationships on paper.
It became increasingly certain.
She had transmigrated into a book.
On her very first day, she had disrupted the original owner’s plan and, by a strange twist of fate, had well and truly slept with the Second Male Lead, Gu Xing.
In the original plot, the original owner had no intention of sleeping with the Second Male Lead; after all, she was waiting to go to the Male Lead in the room next door.
She was supposed to record the video of the old prostitute defiling Gu Xing and give it to the Male Lead as leverage to steal his Scientific Research Achievements in the future.
After the prostitute left, she would come over from the next room, lie down beside the Second Male Lead, and create the illusion that they had done something reckless.
A month later, she would first use the baby in her belly to threaten the Male Lead into giving up the Female Lead and marrying her.
He would heartlessly push her down. It would be the unsuspecting Second Male Lead, who mistakenly believed they had slept together, who would take her to the hospital.
She would then direct all her malicious schemes at the Male Lead, conveniently pinning the child on the highly responsible Second Male Lead.
She would force him to take responsibility for her and demand marriage.
The Second Male Lead would devotedly care for her for six months of her pregnancy.
Only when discussing the betrothal gifts would she discover that the Second Male Lead was unloved by his parents, no different from an orphan.
She would drain him of all his money and stubbornly go for an abortion. During the procedure, she would die from excessive bleeding after they failed to save her.
After her death, her cousin would harbor a deep hatred for the Second Male Lead and help the Male Lead suppress him.
The two men, once friends who cherished each other, would become mortal enemies.
The Second Male Lead, who had grown up like a weed, yearned for a family. After the original owner’s death, he handled her funeral arrangements, clutching the ultrasound photo and crying his heart out.
The Male Lead, in a move of ultimate cruelty, would then appear with the video of the old prostitute, telling the Second Male Lead that the wife and child he mourned were never his.
The Second Male Lead would have a complete mental breakdown.
He left the funeral home and was never seen again.
At the end of the story, the Second Male Lead’s body was discovered by someone in a mountain forest.
When the police sorted through his belongings, they found a laminated ultrasound picture and a suicide note in his pocket.
Meanwhile, the Male Lead, having taken all of the Second Male Lead’s hard-earned achievements, went on to pursue his master’s and doctorate, start a company, become a CEO, stay at the university as a professor, and become a leading authority in the Artificial Intelligence Major. He married the Female Lead and reached the pinnacle of his life.
While reading the story, Ruan Xingmian had been frustrated by the wasted potential.
The original owner was a wicked, stupid, and ungrateful wretch.
She was always making the wrong choices.
In her memory, the original owner’s father had died in the line of duty before she was born.
Her mother took the pension and left without a word.
Her paternal grandparents raised her until she was six, the age to start school, at which point they took her to beg her aunt.
Her aunt was kind-hearted and took her in, raising her for over a decade.
The original owner had been spoiled by her grandparents and developed many bad habits.
Her aunt, a public school teacher, was strict with her.
But the original owner refused to change, no matter how many times she was taught.
She was constantly and unwillingly compared to her well-behaved cousin, Ruan Xingyue.
Ruan Xingyue was the Female Lead of this novel.
The original owner had been jealous of her cousin since childhood.
Since she couldn’t beat her cousin in academics, she would dress up flamboyantly to steal her cousin’s men.
At an age before she had even experienced her first crush, driven purely by jealousy of her sister, she had dyed her hair green just because the Male Lead had casually remarked, “You look really good in green.”
It was simply breathtaking.
Back when she was reading this novel, Ruan Xingmian had kept going entirely for the Second Male Lead, Gu Xing.
When Gu Xing died, she was filled with so much resentment that she found the author and posted twenty long reviews in a row until the system banned her account.
She abandoned the novel after that but could never get the character out of her mind.
She and Gu Xing shared similar family backgrounds.
Both had parents whose relationship had broken down, and neither parent wanted them.
Gu Xing grew up being passed between his paternal and maternal grandparents.
Living under someone else’s roof.
He had endured all sorts of hardships.
He was always the last one in his class to pay his tuition fees.
His living expenses were entirely covered by the national Financial Aid Grant and Scholarships.
When he got tired of eating plain boiled instant noodles, he would swallow his pride and go to his parents’ homes separately to beg.
To save face, they would each give him a couple hundred yuan to send him on his way.
Although it was humiliating, at least he could afford to eat rice and stir-fried dishes for the week.
It was this pitiful Second Male Lead who, upon learning of the original owner’s pregnancy, felt a tiny flicker of secret joy in his heart.
Having just received his summer job wages, the first thing he did was take the original owner to an all-you-can-eat buffet.
“If you give birth to it, I’ll raise it.”
He said those six words.
Then he added, “If you don’t want it, I’ll cover all the expenses.”