After Being Reborn, the Cannon Fodder Female Lead Says She Loves Me

Status: Preparing for exams... I'll be back.

Jiang Nan's POV 1:

"Would you dare to try something more daring?"

"Like what?"

I didn't answer. I leaned in and kissed her. The moment our skin touched, I couldn't stop trembling. She froze at first, but then she wrapped her arms around me and deepened the kiss.

Her lips and tongue were slick and sweet. I licked at them greedily, closing my eyes and using my whole soul to feel this deep, entangling kiss.

She put strength into it, and I matched her. It was a contest, or at least I had to make her think it was.

The wet sounds of our mouths filled the space between us. We kissed for a long time, until our throats grew dry and our lips began to swell.

She still attacked my mouth recklessly, as if taking it by storm. How I wanted to push her away, kiss her eyes and brow, and tell her,

"You don't have to be so fierce. If you want me, I'm yours, inside and out."

But she didn't want me. Right now, she was only playing a game of daring, a novel challenge in rebellion.

And I was just an outlet for her rebellious streak. When she came to her senses, I would become a stain on her past.

Ah, I wanted to cry, so I pushed her away.

Her eyes were hazy, with a trace of confusion and bewilderment, as if she wanted to ask why I had stopped this game of desire.

I forced a smile and said hoarsely,

"I lost."

Wen Xin's POV 3:

There was a small tiled ledge around a roadside flower bed, filthy with grime. Wen Xin sat on it, her head nearly buried between her knees.

She was thinking, turning over thoughts that were pointless yet necessary.

She thought that in the life she had always kept so orderly, Jiang Nan seemed to be the one exception that never changed.

What did it matter if she tried to stay out of things, or weighed the pros and cons? The moment Jiang Nan was involved, she cast it all to the winds.

"Just because of a message from before I died in my past life, I came back reborn and lost my head, thinking I could be some kind of savior. Absurd.

And now look at me. I made an impulsive decision and got rejected completely. Stupid.

Just because she was gentle with you and showed you a little extra care, probably out of gratitude for what you did for her as a child, you thought she loved you and would defy the world with you. Arrogant."

Wen Xin seethed inwardly, repeating over and over:

"Absurd! Stupid! Arrogant!"

But the more she said it, the more it felt as if a massive stone were pressing on her chest, leaving her unable to breathe. Her thoughts circled endlessly:

"She doesn't want me."

"She doesn't want me."

"How can she not want me?" Wen Xin clenched her jaw and began to sob.

Reader's Guide

BOLD CAPITALS: The world exists to serve the ending and is based on an original work.

1. The heroine's emotional fluctuations toward the original male lead early on follow the original story's trope of a scummy man and a shameless woman. They aren't the heroine's true feelings.

2. The heroine is a lesbian, not bisexual. Not bisexual. That's why she threw up: it was a physical aversion.

3. All the characters on the character cards are women, and each has her own storyline. There are men, but most are just part of the background setting, and there aren't many.

4. There is a heterosexual side couple, but only a tiny bit (Zheng's couple). The focus isn't on romance, but on a tragic supporting woman's attempt to save herself. I'll warn you when those chapters come up, so you can skip them.

5. Supporting character Lin Shu isn't interested in men! Not at all! The desk mate is only there to break an old, tired trope.

6. There's mother-daughter love, and it's wonderful!

7. If it's not your thing, leave using the top-left corner.

8. If you like it, feel free to bookmark it and let the chapters build up before reading. School stories unfold slowly, and if you read them on and off, it's easy to forget some of the foreshadowing and details.

9. Thank you!

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