The Variety Show Supporting Actress Won't Follow the Plot

My completed novel, Paper Doll Husband Returns from the Dead, is in my profile.

Yu Zhenxia is a socially anxious manga artist. While planning a manga adaptation of a famous novel IP, she suddenly died from overwork.

One piece of good news and one piece of bad news.

The good news is...

She transmigrated into a book, becoming a top-tier beauty from a wealthy family, a flower of the high life. She was financially free from then on.

The bad news is...

As far as she knew, this was a story about former lovers getting back together.

The male and female leads were each other's first love and ideal partner. They had parted ways over a misunderstanding, then reunited by chance on a dating show years later. After all kinds of twists and turns and overcoming every obstacle, they got their happy ending.

And Yu Zhenxia was the obstacle.

As a vain, troublesome female supporting character with nothing but good looks, she made a scene at every turn until she ended up washing dishes in a foreign country, alone and helpless...

Yu Zhenxia: What kind of miserable life is this?

Yu Zhenxia was widely regarded as a menace to dating shows.

She was haughty and spoiled, with a celestial face and a devil's figure. There was no one she couldn't flirt with and no stunt she wouldn't pull. She was the perfect example of a heartbreaker who used her looks to get her way.

Just when the audience was cursing her and waiting to see what new trouble she'd cause, she walked through everyone's gaze to the gloomy programmer nobody liked and said, "It was love at first sight. You're the only one for me."

Everyone: ...???

No one knew that Yu Zhenxia was so embarrassed her scalp was prickling, and she was on the verge of fainting.

She had read the original novel from cover to cover and knew Shang Xianyu wasn't a disposable extra. He was the devoted male supporting character, unfailingly loyal to the female lead and a nontraditional domineering CEO who never gave up on love.

So even if a notorious heartbreaker like her came ashore for his sake, Shang Xianyu would never give her a second look.

That meant Yu Zhenxia could naturally keep her distance from everyone else, pretend to leave in disappointment, and become a happy little rich woman who had lost her love life and her fish pond, but gained joy and happiness.

Yu Zhenxia: Plan executed √

But...

One day, Yu Zhenxia received a text from the production team.

"Ding!"

"Your crush has chosen you, too. Get ready to begin your romantic journey together!"

Yu Zhenxia: ...Huh???

--Upcoming book: Jealousy Sets the World Ablaze--

On the evening of their university graduation, the night wind was still, and the cicadas sang softly.

Ji Qingyan and Chen Jian broke up amicably.

At the time, the lamplight cast shifting shadows.

Ji Qingyan stood there, cool and composed, her shadow stretching long beneath her. The moonlight veiled her eyes and brows.

Before they parted, she held out a hand and said calmly, "I guess we won't see each other again, will we?"

Chen Jian held an unlit cigarette in his mouth, his jawline elegant and handsome. He glanced at her as if he didn't care. Casually, he reached out and clasped Ji Qingyan's hand. His voice was languid and lazy. "No, we won't."

She said, "Let's part on good terms."

Chen Jian said, "I hope you find someone better."

But years later, the two unexpectedly crossed paths at a classmate's wedding banquet.

Ji Qingyan smiled brightly, her arm linked with her boyfriend's, and greeted Chen Jian as if he were an old friend. "Long time no see."

"Long time no see." Chen Jian nodded, pulled a cigarette and lighter from his pocket, and gestured with them. A ring of tattoos resembling a cursed shackle wound around his wrist.

"I won't keep you. I'm going out for a smoke."

Outside, the night wind cut into Chen Jian like a soft blade. He pretended to shield himself from the wind, hiding his damp eyes.

As he lit his cigarette, an orange flame burst to life, dispelling a small patch of darkness.

Chen Jian flinched and hid his face in the shadows again. Gray-white smoke drifted from his thin lips, carrying away his hoarse whisper with it.

"That's good..."

Ji Qingyan was much more carefree than he was.

Part on good terms, find someone better.

He hadn't managed to do either.

#Cool-voiced, classical beauty, high school teacher#

#Devoted but stubborn, handsome with a sweet voice, venture capital mogul#

#Reader's guide#

1. Lovers reunite after a breakup / healing each other

2. Each other's first love / one-on-one romance

3. Neither got over the breakup / both are pretending / both are putting on an act

Theme: Cherish the people around you.