[Side character awakens + plays sweet and clings to a powerful man + doted on by a big shot + second male lead regrets everything]
Su Ruan awakened.
The man she had pursued for eight years, her unattainable dream, was the male lead in a book.
And she was the book’s wicked supporting female character.
She had devoted herself to following Pei Zhaoye, only to end up with her family destroyed and her heart ripped out.
This time, staying alive came first.
Su Ruan hardened her heart.
She went to Pei Zhaoye’s elder brother’s room to ask for help.
Just as she expected, the aloof, self-controlled man didn’t lay a finger on her.
Taking advantage of the friendship between the Su and Pei families, and knowing he considered her beneath his notice, she went around telling everyone that she had fallen in love at first sight with Pei Qingyan, and that Pei Zhaoye was in the past.
Everyone around her thought she had gone crazy from loving someone she couldn’t have.
She was turning down the perfectly good Pei Zhaoye to fall for his blind older brother?
Su Ruan didn’t care.
Who cares if a human shield is blind, as long as he’s useful?
The Pei family elders were deeply moved.
They arrived with a staggering betrothal gift to ask for her hand.
Pei Qingyan, who had supposedly been blind, gazed at her with smoldering intensity. He personally handed her a black card, while a contract transferring assets worth hundreds of billions sat on the table.
Su Ruan freaked out. She knew she’d taken her act too far.
She had only just packed up, and the next moment, he had her cornered.
“Didn’t you say you’d marry no one but me? Where are you going now, my fi, an, cée?”
Darkened Pei Qingyan was incredibly hard to handle, and Su Ruan swallowed the bitter fruit of her own actions with tears in her eyes.
Pei Zhaoye had personally delivered the little sunshine who used to follow him everywhere straight into his older brother’s arms.
By the time he realized what he’d done, his elder brother was standing at the door of his room. “The wedding is next week. Remember to call her sister-in-law.”
Qin Zhaoye’s eyes reddened with regret.