Chapter 1 – The Three Years Studying in Germany Were the Most Unforgettable Seven Years of the Male Lead’s Five Years of Life (2/2)

It was over. She felt like she’d been so infuriated she was about to develop a terminal illness.

[Cannon Fodder System No. 7409740, very unhappily at your service.]

[That’s the situation. Host, the world you live in is actually a novel, and your identity is: the vicious cannon fodder supporting female character.]

As a shut-in who had consumed countless anime, Jiang Wan needed exactly zero seconds to accept the existence of transmigration and a system, however absurd it sounded.

Listening to the system’s explanation, Jiang Wan suddenly understood everything.

At last, she realized why she’d been so unlucky all these years—every time she thought she was about to make it, reality would slap her in the face even harder.

She had always assumed she was simply cursed, never imagining it was all because she was just a supporting character.

Before the plot officially began, she was destined to dutifully play her part: an eighteenth-tier pseudo-famous actress known only for her scandals and pretty face.

If she actually became popular, it would completely break character!

In the air, a book glowing faintly gold slowly descended onto the desk in front of her.

[Host, here you go.]

Jiang Wan nodded to show she understood.

She pulled a pen from her pocket, opened the book to the first page, and started writing:

To Cannon Fodder System No. 7409740…

The system screamed:

[Who told you to sign a dedication?!]

[Host, maybe this is a book. How about you try opening it first?]

Jiang Wan put her pen away and flipped the book open.

She quickly skimmed through the contents.

She displayed the expression of that subway grandfather staring at a phone meme.

Because Jiang Wan read so fast, by the time she realized what she was looking at, it was already too late.

“The Domineering CEO Fu’s Exclusive Pampering: Qiao Qiao’s Sweet Daily Life”

Tags: Reunion After a Long Separation, Unrequited Love Comes True, Girl Pursues Boy.

This book told the story of the actress Qiao Zhiyi and the domineering CEO Fu Siyue, from high school sweethearts to a wedding gown romance. Jiang Wan was the unlucky cannon fodder who had the misfortune of getting entangled in their love story.

The Fu family and the Jiang family were both powerful clans. Technically speaking, Jiang Wan and Fu Siyue could be called childhood friends. Unfortunately, this was the classic kind of story where the girl who fell from the sky would always defeat the childhood friend.

Back in high school, Qiao Zhiyi fell in love with Fu Siyue at first sight. However, she had been shy and reserved, and at that time, Fu Siyue had always been surrounded by perfect girls like Jiang Wan, who was beautiful, well-educated, and came from a good family. Her inferiority complex wrapped her up like an endless net.

Unable to confess her secret love, she lost touch with Fu Siyue when he went abroad for university after graduation.

Until halfway through filming the reality show Love for the First Time, Fu Siyue unexpectedly appeared as a guest, and Qiao Zhiyi was stunned and overjoyed to realize—

After all these years apart, he had never dated anyone.

He must have been waiting for her.

So, gathering all her courage, she applied to join the show, steadfastly choosing Fu Siyue as her love interest the entire time, and at last, they ended up together.

Meanwhile, Jiang Wan, as the vicious supporting female character, would spend the entire show acting like a total manipulative green-tea bitch in order to steal Fu Siyue away.

Jiang Wan:

“Hold on—are you saying Fu Siyue and Qiao Zhiyi aren’t together yet?”

[Of course they’re not. The story hasn’t started yet, and the leads haven’t reunited. Why would you think otherwise?]

Jiang Wan slapped the table.

“Because everyone online says they already are!”

Damn it.

If the two of them hadn’t even dated, why the hell were their fans scolding her?!

The Jiang family and the Fu family were in similar lines of business—they were competitors. For years, although they interacted quite a lot, it was always just for appearances.

Back in high school, Jiang Wan and Fu Siyue had both been sick of their families trying to arrange a marriage between them, so they joined forces to pretend to be interested in each other. But because of the “family feud,” they still kept their distance.

Then after graduation, the two families unexpectedly reconciled, planning to cooperate on a big venture.

To show mutual sincerity—and since the two kids supposedly had feelings for each other anyway—why not get them engaged and turn old enemies into allies?

Ha. They’d overacted and now it had all gone too far.

Jiang Wan had been so terrified she nearly cut ties with her family altogether and fled into the entertainment industry.

Fu Siyue had taken an even simpler approach: running off abroad and never coming back.

In a way, Fu Siyue hiding overseas did have something to do with Jiang Wan.

At least, that’s what Jiang Wan had always believed. She’d felt guilty ever since, because that ridiculous fake romance idea had been hers.

Until today—when the system flatly denied it.

Then what the hell had she been feeling guilty for?!

[I can only say, the male lead going abroad was related to you. But the fact that he never returned—honestly, no.]

Jiang Wan was even more shocked.

“What?! Are you telling me Fu Siyue really stayed in Germany because he likes German art and wanted to be immersed in it?”

That was the official explanation Fu Siyue had given everyone, but Jiang Wan had never believed it.

Him?

A colorblind man going to art museums every day? What could he possibly see?

The system spoke in a distant voice.

[The three years the male lead spent studying in Germany will be the most unforgettable seven years of his five years of life.]

Jiang Wan:

“……???”