What Could a Female Supporting Character Possibly Do Wrong?

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Yu Zhiwei joined the Discipline Committee so she could sneak out of school.

She hadn't expected the iron-fisted committee president to leave her no room to maneuver.

For the delicious food just outside the wall, Yu Zhiwei swallowed her pride and did everything she could to get on his good side, hoping he'd let her slip out through the back door.

Before she knew it, she'd gotten a little too close, and the untouchable flower had fallen from his pedestal.

So she climbed over the wall with confidence to grab a bite.

The moment she came back, the guy who had just made a college entrance exam pact with her turned on her in the name of justice.

Yu Zhiwei, furious: What college exam? What pact? Did she ever make one? Where's the proof?

The new Discipline Committee president, Qing Jian, excelled academically and was exceptionally handsome. Unfortunately, whenever those pretty lips of his opened, he was either docking points or calling someone out for breaking the rules, sending countless girls packing.

They grumbled indignantly: Qing Jian, you could have been a beauty, but you're such a jerk.

His nickname was Dog Bro.

So when he docked the school beauty Yu Zhiwei's points, no one was surprised.

Isn't that just Dog Bro's usual routine?

Maybe only the school rules themselves, if they came to life, could earn his special favor.

Then someone saw it.

After evening study ended that day, Qing Jian, sporting a head full of bumps, was miserably writing a self-criticism in an empty classroom.

Yu Zhiwei sat off to the side with her arms crossed, furious.

Qing Jian: ...Actually, I think what you did was... fair.

Yu Zhiwei hurled the date she had been eating at him. "Shut up! Just keep writing!"

Qing Jian shrank back and continued writing.

The angrier Yu Zhiwei got, the more she fumed. "I'm cutting all ties with you! Our pact is over!"

Yu Zhiwei: "..."

Yu Zhiwei: "Why are you crying?"

Qing Jian said nothing, his eyes red-rimmed. He sniffled and continued writing his self-criticism.

Yu Zhiwei: "You're still crying!"

Yu Zhiwei: "Fine, fine, the pact isn't over, okay?"

Qing Jian sniffed and gave a meek, pitiful reply.

The person peeking through the crack in the door sucked in a sharp breath.

That night, a post like this suddenly appeared on the school forum:

Help! Has Dog Bro found the school rules come to life?

A stern, proper guy in public, but a weepy little softie in private × a short-tempered, tsundere heroine with maxed-out combat skills

A sweet slice-of-life story

Novel blurb

[1]

Qin Zhi unexpectedly found out that her boyfriend of seven years

was the male lead in a novel, destined to have a passionate romance with its heroine,

while she was nothing but a tragic supporting character, abandoned with a massive breakup settlement.

So when she noticed the male lead and heroine starting to fall for each other,

she quietly left the battlefield.

She couldn't win, couldn't win. She was scared, all right.jpg

Wouldn't it be better to explore the forests beyond?

What could a supporting character possibly want?

She just wanted to collect her breakup settlement safely.

And if she could move on without a gap, even better.

Men, after all,

were replaceable if money was involved.

[2]

Three months after Gu Junze and Bai Nanzhi got together,

he started feeling that something was off. Everything he saw reminded him of Qin Zhi.

So he secretly went to visit her at her home.

There he found Qin Zhi, who had cried her heart out when they broke up and had even had the breakup settlement forced on her,

smiling as she nestled in the arms of a strange man,

coaxing the obviously unhappy man in a sweet, tender voice.

"My ex and I were only putting on an act. You're the one who makes my heart flutter."

Gu Junze: ???

That's not what you said back then!

Theme: Self-respect and decisiveness