Why Isn't My Husband Dead Yet?

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Jian Tong is a female supporting character in an old-school novel, the kind of lovesick fool who desperately throws herself at the original male lead.

Whatever the original male lead, Song Siyi, wanted, Jian Tong could get for him with her money, eagerly placing it in his hands just to earn a kind look.

Until one day, she was shoved and struck a jagged rock. With blood streaming down her face, Jian Tong suddenly awakened.

Facing the version of herself who had been out of her mind all these years, she found her embarrassing past playing back in crystal-clear 4D.

As she clutched her head and screamed, a text message arrived.

"Come settle the bill tonight. Bring that black card of yours."

Nobody believed Jian Tong would give up. She would always come running back like a dog.

Everyone was waiting for a joke, but all that arrived was a lawyer.

The lawyer cleared his throat. "Mr. Song, please repay the loan our client is owed as soon as possible."

His hand shook as a bill longer than his life itself unfurled onto the floor, ending with more zeroes than anyone could count.

Everyone: ...?

The hotel owner stepped forward at just the right moment. "So, who's paying the bill tonight?"

Everyone looked at Song Siyi.

Song had assumed Jian Tong would show up with a card, but she hadn't brought one: ???

*

After awakening, Jian Tong was fabulously wealthy, beautiful, and free to do as she pleased. Most importantly, her husband, whom she'd married for the sake of an alliance, was bedridden, and nobody could control her.

She lounged by the pool of her enormous mansion, radiating beauty.

The plot was getting stranger and stranger, though. Why hadn't her husband died yet?

The heir to the Bo family was the undisputed darling of heaven, if not for a rare genetic disease.

He was supposed to die soon in accordance with the plot, but nothing had happened yet.

Tired of being tied to him, Jian Tong said, "Maybe we should just get a divorce."

She could take whatever share of the Bo family fortune she could get.

Bo Yan, whose brain activity had all but ceased, suddenly displayed an astonishing will to live. He jerked his eyes open and clutched her hand. "...Honey."

Jian Tong: ...???

Damn, he's come back from the dead!

*

[You are the vicious supporting character everyone looks down on, forever lurking in a corner to watch the male lead. You are resentful. You are jealous.]

[Until one day, on the brink of death, you awaken to your own consciousness, steal the male lead's aura, and even become more dazzling than he is.]

[When you stand at the peak of the world, you won't care whether anyone replies to your messages.]

"I should still care a little," Jian Tong said, lowering her eyes to her phone. "My clients' messages are pretty important."

Saved on 25/5/27

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