After I Became a Love-Struck Heiress, They Started Acting Strange

After waking up, Shi Hua transmigrated from an apocalyptic world where order had collapsed into an old-fashioned, melodramatic CEO romance novel. She ended up in the body of a cannon-fodder character who shared her name and was engaged to the wealthy male lead.

In the novel, the CEO falls in love at first sight with his nephew's girlfriend, the campus beauty of A University. He begins a series of forceful pursuits and tortured romance, and it all ends happily.

As a universally despised pawn in a marriage alliance, Shi Hua not only causes her family to go bankrupt, but also gets sold overseas, where she dies far from home.

But the novel is 500,000 words long, and the author abandoned it after writing only 100,000.

System: "Life in the apocalypse was tough, right? Look at this civilized modern society. If you help fill in the plot, I'll let you stay here..."

Shi Hua: "What? Three men? Handsome men who are actually alive? I'm in!"

"I lived in the apocalypse for 22 years and never saw a single man this handsome." Shi Hua wept for joy. "Just thinking that I'll get to cross paths with them makes me so happy!"

System: "..."

Does this mean there's no need to force the plot to start?

Did it just randomly pick a total lovesick fool?

Great. The plot unfolded exactly as the System expected, with Shi Hua, a lovesick fool, charging straight down the road to becoming a universally hated troublemaker.

The male lead avoids her, so on Monday and Tuesday she goes to his company, working her way up from cleaner to secretary. She occasionally puts on a qipao or a Western-style uniform to tempt him. One accidental glance from her handsome fiance is enough to make her cheeks burn like a kettle on the boil.

CEO Pei Huai coldly looks away. "What an embarrassment!"

On Wednesday and Thursday, she goes to work at the flower shop run by a fallen young master, cheerfully working without pay. When her hands happen to touch the handsome villain's, she's excited for the whole day, buzzing like a little bee.

Qi Xiujun smiles with refined warmth, but his eyes are icy. "The Shi family's tricks keep getting more and more clumsy."

On Friday, the unruly young master nephew is entering a university motorcycle race. Shi Hua, in hot pants and a tank top, stands among the cheerleaders, a dazzling, vibrant sight who easily steals the pure campus beauty's thunder.

Pei Yuqi fumes. "Tch! I knew she was getting close to my uncle because she was really after me. Shameless!"

Still, even though she's flirtatious, shallow, and stupid, and an old cow trying to eat young grass, she really does love me!

Pei Huai is going on a business trip abroad. "Bring Shi Hua along next week. She'd probably like the islands."

Assistant: "But, CEO, Secretary Shi's contract only has her working on Mondays and Tuesdays..."

Pei Huai: "?"

No wonder she ran off as soon as it turned midnight the last time we went out of town?

Qi Xiujun asks gently, "Little Shi, what would you like to eat tomorrow? I'll make it for you."

Shi Hua: "Oh, no need. Tomorrow's Friday, so I'm going to check in at Big Nephew's place."

Qi Xiujun: "?"

Check in? What are you checking in for?

Pei Yuqi: "I've been thinking. You're only two years older than me, so it's not like we can't..."

Shi Hua: "Exactly. You have to try lots of things in life. Learn from me: try dating both older and younger men!"

Pei Yuqi: "?"

Learn from you? What have you even tried?

The three men looking for Shi Hua on the weekend run into each other. "?"

So she's equally lovesick over every single one of them?

System: "...What now? Which one are you going on a date with?"

Shi Hua, now fully accustomed to modern life, slings a new designer purse over her shoulder and ignores the three men, heading out in high spirits. "What do you mean, which one? It's Saturday! Of course I'm going to find a new man!"

Blurb archived on 2023-05-12

Theme: Someone will always choose you wholeheartedly, because you deserve it