The Wicked Female Lead Quits

It wasn't until she was twenty-four that Yu Zi learned she was the villainess in a wealthy CEO romance novel.

In the book, the male lead was her childhood friend, while she was the wicked childhood sweetheart who kept causing trouble for him and creating obstacles on the path to his love story with the Cinderella heroine.

Of course, the spoiled, malicious childhood friend didn't get a happy ending. After going bankrupt and being disfigured, she was despised by everyone and lived like a rat in a gutter.

Meanwhile, the male lead and his fated love wrote a legendary romance together.

Yu Zi: So I'm supposed to be sacrificed just to make their love look better? Yeah, no way in hell!

The Yu and Shen families were old family friends, and their marriage alliance was all but certain. But on the eve of their engagement, Shen Ming, the young master of the Shen family, fell in love with someone else and refused to honor the agreement.

When Shen Ming saw Yu Zi appear before him again, he assumed she had come to pester him once more. He scolded her in annoyance, "Yu Zi, give up. I'm not marrying you. You'll never set foot in the Shen family home."

Yu Zi: ??? Who wants to?

As soon as Shen Ming finished speaking, a tall, handsome figure appeared and shielded Yu Zi, staring at Shen Ming coldly. "Since when did you get to make decisions for the Shen family?"

Shen Ming saw his half-brother Zhou Jinyan, now the head of the Zhou family. Although Zhou Jinyan had long since left the Shen family, most of its shares were still in his hands. Shen Ming called out unwillingly, "Big brother."

Zhou Jinyan gave him no face at all. He scoffed, "Don't call me that. My mother only gave birth to me. How dare a bastard son call himself my brother? And Zi Zi is the lady of the Zhou family. She'd never lower herself to marry into the Shen family."

Little scene: The marriage alliance between the Yu and Shen families fell through, and people all over City A waited to laugh at Yu Zi. Everyone knew the Yu family was short on cash and counting on the Shen family to help. Now that the Shen family had refused the alliance, the young heiress Yu Zi was about to lose everything.

But instead of hearing that Yu Zi had fallen on hard times, everyone got news of a marriage alliance between the Yu family and the prestigious Zhou family.

Everyone was in an uproar! Yu Zi was incredibly lucky. The Shen family couldn't even compare to the Zhou family.

Not long after the couple married, a secretly recorded video surfaced online. Someone asked Yu Zi, "They say you married Zhou Jinyan for his money."

Yu Zi: "Of course."

All the gossipmongers perked up again, and one fearless reporter even waited outside Zhou Jinyan's company building. "Mr. Zhou, how do you feel about your new wife loving you only for your money?"

Dressed in a perfectly tailored suit, the man stood out from the crowd like a crane among chickens. His refined, aloof expression softened into a faint smile as he heard the reporter's question. "I love her too."

Everyone: ??? What did he mean? Had the great Zhou Jinyan gone mad because he couldn't accept that his wife loved only his money?

"Mr. Zhou?"

"Before I met Zi Zi, I had nothing but money. Money was all my life consisted of. So if she loves my money, doesn't that mean she loves me?"

Everyone: ...For a moment, no one could argue with that!

Note: A love-brained male lead versus a spoiled, fussy little wife

Theme: A wonderful life