I suddenly stood up, ready to call the doctor to come and check, but just as I got up, I was pulled back.

I turned around to see Gu Yan, who had been unconscious just moments ago, now sitting up.

He was staring at me with a sharp and cold gaze.

“You want to find another father for my child?”

“You want my child to call someone else ‘Dad’?”

“You want to be with another man?”

“Over my dead body!”

After saying that, he pulled me into his arms and forcefully kissed me with his thin lips.

At the moment Gu Yan kissed me, a flood of strange information poured into my mind.

At the same time, many of my doubts were suddenly resolved.

---

It turned out that Gu Yan, like me, was a paper character with self-awareness.

He refused to accept his role as the male lead and didn’t want to follow the plot where he was supposed to develop a relationship with Su Jin.

He had been fighting against the storyline all along.

Unlike me, who could avoid the plot by running away as a minor character, he was the protagonist—the plot revolved around him. He didn’t even have the option to escape.

But he still didn’t give up.

He couldn’t say no to Su Jin, so he chose to ignore her instead.

No wonder he had completely ignored Su Jin back at the Imperial Garden, and the same thing happened when we were at the club.

“Still planning to run?”

Just when I was about to run out of breath, Gu Yan finally showed mercy and let me go. He stared at me intently, with an obsessive intensity hidden in his eyes that would make anyone tremble.

But I wasn’t scared at all.

This man had defied the fate of this world for me, risking his own life in the process…

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“I won’t run, but…”

“Don’t worry, I won’t let you be scared anymore.”

Gu Yan pulled me into his arms, gently patting my back to soothe me.

“I’ve won. Fate can no longer control me, and you are no longer just cannon fodder.”

…

That very day, Gu Yan was discharged from the hospital, leaving the doctors staring at him in shock as if they had just witnessed a medical miracle.

The next day, the two of us went abroad and got our marriage certificate.

On the day we returned from abroad, Su Jin barged into the Imperial Garden, looking disheveled.

“Gu Yan, how could you do this to me? You obviously like me, you—”

“Get out.”

Gu Yan glanced at her with disgust, his voice cold.

I could tell that Gu Yan didn’t want to say another word to Su Jin, but now that he had finally broken free from fate, he could finally say what he had always wanted to say. He no longer had to endure her.

Su Jin looked at him in shock, unable to accept the situation. “How could this happen? Weren’t you supposed to follow fate and be good to me?”

With that one sentence, Su Jin exposed herself.

That’s when I realized Su Jin hadn’t just accidentally discovered that Gu Yan couldn’t refuse her; she had known the plot all along.

Since that was the case, there was no need to be polite to Su Jin anymore.

Gu Yan called in the bodyguards and ordered them to throw Su Jin out, and he also instructed them to never let her enter the Imperial Garden again.

In the past, Su Jin could come and go because Gu Yan couldn’t refuse her, but now that he was no longer controlled by fate, Su Jin had no chance of getting close to him again.

After dealing with Su Jin, I focused on my pregnancy.

Four months later, I gave birth to a lovely daughter by C-section.

One night, I suddenly woke up from a dream and couldn’t help but laugh.

It turned out, the script of this world had changed once again.

What was originally a heterosexual (BG) story had now turned into a boys’ love (BL) story.

(The End)

Translator’s note: Hope you are reading this in Shanghai Fantasy website. See you in my other translations!