Did the CEO Manage to Rise to Power Today?

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Yan Lu thought she was just an ordinary passerby with a slightly unusual supernatural ability.

Until her eighteenth birthday, when she saw the words "cannon-fodder female supporting character" written across her back in the mirror, with a line of smaller text underneath:

The Yan family goes bankrupt. She becomes the kept woman of the domineering male lead, a substitute for his unattainable first love. Unable to win his love, she resorts to every kind of scheme and ultimately ends up homeless and starving to death.

Yan Lu: ???

She looked at the admission letter in her hand. Were students at Huaqing University really that worthless? Could they end up homeless and starve to death?

*

After entering university, she was surprised to discover:

Her roommate was the female lead who had transmigrated into a book, and a future stock trader guaranteed to make a fortune.

The most handsome guy in the neighboring department was a gentle male supporting character, and a future internet tycoon.

And the older boy next door she'd known since childhood had three identities:

The domineering male lead, an ascetic master, and an apocalypse big shot.

Yan Lu: ...?

Huaqing University students really are worth a lot, ovo.

So she decided:

Hand her money over to her roommate to invest.

Persuade her parents to invest in the gentle male supporting character's internet company.

As for the boy next door, Yan Lu was determined not to see him.

*

At first, everyone laughed at the Yan couple for listening to an inexperienced young woman and handing their money over to an inexperienced trader, then investing in an unknown company.

A few years later, the Yan family's wealth had multiplied several times, and they became the richest family in S City. Everyone was dumbfounded, regretting that they hadn't gotten on the Yan family's ship back then.

Yan Lu glanced at the words "ordinary passerby" and "kicking someone when they're down" written across their backs, smiled without a word, and set off to travel the world.

Then she realized that wherever she went, she could always see the boy next door.

Yan Lu: ...

I really don't want to be a substitute!

*

One day, after a failed attempt to escape, Yan Lu ran into the boy next door at a restaurant.

She saw his eyes turn red. "Why are you avoiding me?"

Before Yan Lu could answer, he continued in a wounded voice:

"You can treat me as anyone you want, as long as... you're willing to see me."

Yan Lu: ...Wait, wasn't I the substitute?

Theme: My fate is mine to command, not Heaven's.