Chapter 1
“Bai Nianqiu! Give it up! I’m never, ever going to marry you!”
Bai Nianqiu looked at the little boy in front of her with decidedly mixed feelings. He was as pretty as a child in a New Year picture, his chubby little face stern as he pointed a pudgy finger at her and shouted.
Who would have thought this good-looking little fatty would grow up to be the novel’s male lead, the heir to the foremost of the Four Great Families? Thousands of girls would fall desperately in love with him and swear they would marry no one else.
Yu Lengye.
The legendary Young Master Ye, worth tens of billions, domineering and merciless, whose obsession with one person would drive him mad.
“Marriages are arranged by parents and matchmakers. My daddy says I’m going to marry you, so you might as well stop fighting it.”
Watching Little Fatty Yu gape at her in shock, Bai Nianqiu raised her chin smugly.
Bet you didn’t see that coming. This girl knows her idioms!
Just think: the man who would one day take the world by storm was currently a baby who couldn’t even string an idiom together.
It gave her enormous confidence in her ability to change the future!
In her previous life, Bai Nianqiu had been an ordinary elementary school teacher. A car accident had abruptly ended her twenty-four years of being single since birth.
When she woke up, she had become a helpless little baby.
Then she discovered that the silly older brother who kept stuffing snacks into her stroller was named Bai Muxia.
Only then did Bai Nianqiu realize she had transmigrated into the book her best friend had relentlessly pushed on her in high school.
How I Made the Heirs of the Four Great Families Fall at My Feet at an Elite Academy.
She had become the third male lead Bai Muxia’s little sister, a vicious supporting character.
As for why the book had left such an impression on her, that was entirely because the heroine’s idiotic antics had nearly given her a heart attack.
When the supporting character bullied her, she used the fifth male lead as a shield.
When the male lead wronged her, she used the fifth male lead as a shield.
When the fifth male lead was bullied, she laughed the loudest.
When the fifth male lead was framed and even thrown into prison, she leaned lovingly against the male lead’s shoulder. Facing the second male lead’s band, which was performing for her, she parted her red lips and said:
“Keep the music playing. Keep dancing.”
Keep the fucking music playing and keep dancing…
At the end, the fifth male lead quite understandably went dark. He tried every means he could think of and finally escaped from prison, then brutally murdered everyone connected to the heroine.
Loved the heroine? Dead.
Didn’t love the heroine? Dead.
A dog the heroine had once owned? Dead.
That included the unlucky little wretch Bai Nianqiu.
At the thought, Bai Nianqiu cast a resentful glance at the little fatty glaring warily at her.
If you hadn’t neglected your own little brother and then sacrificed him in the name of justice,
the story wouldn’t have ended so horribly.
That’s right. The fifth male lead was actually Yu Lengye’s younger half brother, with the same father but a different mother.
Yu Qi.
Yu Qi‘s birth mother had sold drinks at a nightclub. She had used underhanded means to get pregnant with him, driving Yu Lengye’s mother, who was expecting her second child, to such fury that she coughed up blood and miscarried.
The circumstances of his birth had brought him nothing but misery throughout his childhood and teenage years.
After turning dark later in the story, he successfully killed the male lead, became the new head of the Yu family, and swallowed up the assets of the other three families. He brought the entire upper-class circle under his control through bloodshed.
Yu Qi.
Yu Qi, the abandoned one.
Discarded from the moment he was born.
Remembering the original story, she couldn’t help feeling sorry for this future tyrant.
She was going to change Yu Qi‘s future!
Only then could she stay alive and well in this world.
Besides, given her profession, she could never abandon a child like that, even without the plot hanging over her.
At the thought, her righteous desire to serve the people flared to life.
“Lengye, I want to play in your garden.” She opened her round eyes wide, putting on an innocent, adorable look.
Yu Lengye’s chubby little body shuddered at her sickeningly sweet tone.
“No. You’re not allowed.” His refusal was solemn and emphatic.
Bai Nianqiu thought this little fatty was rather petty.
“If you don’t take me, I’ll tell your daddy!”
Sure enough, the threat of being told on instantly deflated him. Looking thoroughly aggrieved, he led Bai Nianqiu toward his family’s garden.
See? Even domineering CEOs were afraid of their parents as children.
The Yu family’s garden.
Bai Nianqiu ditched the little fatty and set off to find someone on her own.
In the original novel, little Yu Qi often went hungry because the servants mistreated him.
To fill his stomach, he had no choice but to work in exchange for food.
Bai Nianqiu could hardly imagine something like that happening in a modern, developed society.
Had the author fed their conscience to a baboon?
The Yu family’s garden was enormous. Bai Nianqiu looked up and saw a mass of red roses in exuberant bloom.
Even years later, Bai Nianqiu would still remember the first time she saw that boy.