In her previous life, Chen Yi was nothing but a cannon-fodder character.
Transferred from a remote rural village to the bustling city, she was insecure, sensitive, and cautious, yet she was still bullied and ostracized.
Then she met a boy just like the male lead in a novel. He cared for her and protected her, stirring the heart of an utterly ordinary girl.
Chen Yi lost herself in those feelings, convinced he was the male lead destined for her. She finally worked up the courage to confess, only to be told in front of everyone that she was nothing but a stand-in, a joke.
Without the boy's meddling, Chen Yi's life returned to the way it had been before, only worse.
She was dragged to all kinds of venues to be gawked at in her humiliation, then pressured into selling drinks for a thousand yuan a night. She sank to rock bottom and ultimately died in a chaotic night of bloodshed.
Reborn on the day she transferred schools, she lifted her bowed head and introduced herself to the little monsters in a calm, self-assured voice.
Chen Yi didn't go looking for revenge or face-slapping like the heroines in rebirth wish-fulfillment novels. She knew she had neither money nor power.
The only thing she could do was study hard, get out of the class full of little monsters, and figure out the rest one step at a time.
One tiny, unremarkable flap of a butterfly's wings was already changing the future that had been laid out for her.
The scumbag who had approached Chen Yi in her previous life because he thought she was a stand-in was now following her around despite her rolling her eyes and shouting at him in public. His unrequited crush had appeared, and his burning gaze stayed fixed on her face like a fly that just wouldn't go away.
The aloof, tsundere top student who had once seemed beyond her reach sat beside her and asked her an incredibly simple geometry question.
The vicious school boss, as poisonous as a scorpion, acted cute and pitiful in front of her, calling her “big sister” in a sweet, soft voice.
