The Tenth Year After My Childhood Friend Left Me

[Both leads are each other's first | Reunited after years apart / coercive romance | Straightforward heroine x brooding hero]

Qiu Yi knows she's the evil supporting female character in a one-sided-love novel.

She's the male lead's childhood friend and has loved him for over ten years. When she discovers that the female lead has a crush on him, she viciously attacks and frames her, eventually bringing ruin upon her own family.

Qiu Yi has fought back and tried her best, but she can never resist the power of the plot.

Ten years pass, and Qiu Yi has accepted her fate.

She marries her current husband and has a child. Her life is ordinary, but still happy.

Until one day, Qiu Yi comes home from grocery shopping and finds a Rolls-Royce parked outside her door.

Shang Quezhi, her childhood friend whom she hasn't seen in years, opens the car door and gives her the same smile as always.

"Qiu Yi, long time no see."

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Before meeting the fated heroine, Shang Quezhi was every bit the heaven-blessed prodigy.

The only thing on his mind was when he would confess to Qiu Yi, and when he could bring her home as his wife.

But after meeting the fated heroine, Shang Quezhi discovers that he's the handsome, tragic male lead of a school-life novel.

Shang Quezhi fights against the so-called original plot. He tries to hurt himself, but the System controls his body and forces him to follow the story.

He has attempted to ... himself, but comes away completely unharmed, while Qiu Yi is constantly falling ill with minor ailments.

Shang Quezhi exhausts every possible method.

At last, the System promises that once the major plot points of the original story are complete, it will stop controlling anyone.

And so, after the novel's ending,

Shang Quezhi can finally go find Qiu Yi.

Even though he knows Qiu Yi is already married.

So what if she's married?

She'll get divorced eventually.

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Little scene

Qiu Yi comes home from grocery shopping and brings Shang Quezhi, her husband Song Yan's boss, with her.

When he hears that Qiu Yi and Shang Quezhi know each other, Song Yan freezes for a moment, greets Shang Quezhi, then naturally bends down and kisses Qiu Yi on the forehead.

During the few minutes Song Yan is in the bathroom, Shang Quezhi suddenly stands up and touches Qiu Yi's forehead. Already completely flustered, Qiu Yi jerks her head back like an ostrich. Her slender, pale shoulders tremble as she stares at Shang Quezhi in fear.

Shang Quezhi tilts his head, puzzled. "How come he can kiss you, but I can't even touch you?"

His gaze is pure and confused, as if making advances on a married woman were perfectly normal.

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead is chaste and a virgin, and has nothing to do with the original female lead. The plot details are spoilers. This is a coercive romance about a voluptuous married woman, with a straightforward heroine and a hero who seemed boyish in her memories but is actually a brooding, voyeuristic stalker.

2. The heroine is timid and meek, a truly straightforward person. She was born to be the male lead's fiancée. The details of this characterization are spoilers. The male lead has never done anything to hurt her.

3. The heroine and the second male lead get their divorce papers at the beginning. They were never married in practice. The child is neither the heroine's, nor the second male lead's, nor the male lead's.

Theme: Love is the greatest force in the world