Chapter 1

Chapter 1

My best friend and I were classmates in high school, and I always felt the two of us were especially fated to meet.

Because we both had absurdly melodramatic names.

Her name was Su Ruanruan.

That’s right. Su Ruanruan. The kind of name that would get you laughed at eight hundred times in real life.

But she was the female lead of a domineering-CEO forced-love novel.

Su Ruanruan had a pitiful background. She had grown up in an orphanage, but she had a childhood sweetheart, Lu Qingyuan.

Both of them were orphans. They supported each other from a young age, first becoming each other’s family, then each other’s lovers.

And the male lead, Gu Beichen, fell in love with Su Ruanruan at first sight.

Not only did he tear Su Ruanruan and Lu Qingyuan apart, he also imprisoned Ruanruan.

To better control her, Gu Beichen broke the hand she used to paint with and destroyed her career.

Then, with a doting look on his face, he said to her, “Be good. Once you become the CEO’s wife of Gu Group, I can give you anything you want. You don’t need to earn money yourself.”

Lu Qingyuan went through untold hardship to rescue Su Ruanruan. The two of them fled together, only for Gu Beichen to catch them and drag them back.

Gu Beichen broke Lu Qingyuan’s legs, then locked Su Ruanruan up in a villa and forced himself on her every day in the name of love and hate.

Because of his so-called “jealousy,” Gu Beichen wanted Lu Qingyuan dead.

Su Ruanruan finally gave in and submitted to him, begging only that he spare Lu Qingyuan.

In the end, Lu Qingyuan was sent overseas, and he and Su Ruanruan never saw each other again, not in life or in death.

Meanwhile, Su Ruanruan became Gu Beichen’s caged bird, and over the endless days they spent together, she fell in love with him.

But what she didn’t know was that Gu Beichen had never planned to let Lu Qingyuan live in the first place.

Her lover had long since been thrown into the sea to feed the fish, but she would never learn that secret.

My name is Bai Mianmian. I’m the pampered eldest daughter of a wealthy family.

I asked my mom, “Why did you give me this name back then?”

My mom explained, “Mom didn’t want to, either. Back then, a Daoist priest said you were destined to face a calamity, and this name would bring you good fortune.”

Me: “Mom, he scammed you.”

I had it even worse than Su Ruanruan. I was the female lead of an angst novel.

The male lead was Shen Xingjin.

His parents and my parents were old family friends.

When I was very young, Shen Corporation went bankrupt, and the Bai Family did not step in to help.

In the end, the Shen couple jumped to their deaths, and Shen Xingjin disappeared without a trace.

However, because we hadn’t helped, Shen Xingjin held a grudge all along. He even blamed us for his parents’ deaths.

Years later, Shen Xingjin returned to the capital as the richest man in the city, out for blood.

The first thing he did was ruin my family, drive my parents to their deaths from rage, and send my brother to a psychiatric hospital.

I became his plaything, too.

Not only did he torment and humiliate me every day while claiming to hate me more than anyone, he also allowed the second female lead to bully me, the third female lead to bully me, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth female leads to bully me as well.

When I got pregnant, he made me abort the child. Then he forced me to get pregnant again, only to make me abort it again.

Later, a supporting female character forged a medical report and claimed she had kidney failure.

Without another word, Shen Xingjin had my kidney cut out and transplanted into her.

I died on the operating table.

After I died, Shen Xingjin suddenly became smart and uncovered the truth of what had happened back then.

It turned out his family had gone bankrupt because his father had been the problem. He had embezzled public funds to build shoddy construction projects and had even withheld his employees’ wages.

My parents had actually given them a sum of money so they could live properly, but Father Shen took that money and gambled it away.

My brother and I knew nothing about my parents sending money to the Shen Family. And since my parents had been driven to their deaths by Shen Xingjin far too early, they never had the chance to explain.

After I died, Shen Xingjin suddenly realized he had fallen in love with me and was overcome with regret.

He destroyed the second female lead to avenge me, then destroyed the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth female leads to avenge me.

In the end, he sat atop a fortune worth billions and spent the rest of his life alone and in agony.