She Only Lied to Me, She Wasn't Trying to Kill Me!

School life in the early chapters, city life later on. After cannon fodder Qi Yuan awakens, she still can’t escape the plot. To avoid the original story’s bad ending, she uses a little trick. When she’s being bullied, she runs into the novel’s antagonist. At this point, the antagonist is a sunny, cheerful boy, occasionally a little rebellious and chuunibyou. Since he instinctively mistakes her for a boy, he casually says out of habit: “Call me Dad and I’ll protect you.” Ji Xuran keeps his word and takes her under his wing as his little sister. She’s a strange and special person. Whenever she thinks of him, he can hear her thoughts. From her scattered, incoherent thoughts, he learns that she’s only using him, and that even their meeting was deliberate. (•̀へ •́ ╮) How could she do that! It’s fine! It’s fine! She only lied to me. It’s not like she’s trying to kill me. I’m not mad! * After the college entrance exams, he lies near death in the emergency room that night, yet still tells people to protect her and help her leave town. Years later, Ji Xuran is no longer the Ji family’s only son. Abandoned by his parents, he’s a poor, homeless soul. That day, rain pours down harder than it did the day Yiping asked her father for money. Ji Xuran crouches by the roadside as the raindrops mercilessly beat down on him. Someone holds an umbrella over him. He looks up and sees a familiar face: the girl he once loved, and now thinks about day and night. She says gently, “You can make one wish.” Ji Xuran says, “I wish you would stay by my side.” He’s taking a gamble, too, betting that the person who once cried for him will find it in her heart to take pity on him.