Chapter 1

Chapter 1

As my consciousness returned, a voice sounded beside my ear.

“Spend one night with me. One million.”

I looked toward the voice.

Was that… Lu Xu?

I couldn’t be sure.

Lu Xu had always loved to smile, all sweet, obedient charm.

But the person in front of me had a few more shades of maturity and cruelty than the docile Lu Xu in my memories.

He was smiling too, but his malice was undisguised.

I frowned. “Lu Xu?”

Lu Xu gave a soft laugh. “What, you don’t want to?”

I was just about to speak when comments suddenly appeared before my eyes.

[Okay, but isn’t Lu Xu going a bit too far?]

[? Why are you being such a bleeding heart? She’s the vicious female supporting character. Do you know how many times she hurt the female lead?]

[Have you all forgotten? Shen Zhiyi pretended to have depression and used excuses every day to lure the male leads away.]

[Good thing the male leads eventually saw Shen Zhiyi’s true colors. Poor baby Zhaozhao suffered so much because of that fake innocent bitch these past few years.]

[? Don’t be so misogynistic. Even if the supporting female character is vicious, she shouldn’t be humiliated like this.]

[Here we go again. The second someone dislikes a female character, it’s a misogyny alert!]

[Confirmed. The commenter above is misogynistic.]

[Lmao, what is this, a misogyny loop?]

The barrage of comments made my eyes ache.

At the same time, a flood of unfamiliar memories forced their way into my mind.

I gathered myself and sorted through the useful information from the comments and those memories.

I had transmigrated.

To ten years in the future.

I was the vicious female supporting character in this reverse-harem “stock-picking” novel.

Originally, I had been the unattainable first love of this group of pampered young masters.

Then my family went bankrupt, and both my parents died.

After that, because I was jealous of the female lead, I targeted her at every turn and was punished by these young masters.

Now, I was seriously ill and about to be written out of the story.

In order to survive, I hoped to borrow money from them on the strength of our past ties.

Instead, the male leads used the chance to vent the female lead’s anger by humiliating me.

I lowered my eyes.

So that was it.

So my family had gone bankrupt.

No wonder Lu Xu dared to treat me like this.

Seeing that I remained silent, Lu Xu raised an eyebrow.

He cupped his face in his hands, looking as if he were thoughtfully making a concession. “How about this, then?”

He seemed to be genuinely considering it. “One piece of clothing, one million.”

“What do you think? Pretty fair, right?”

Lu Xu leaned back against the sofa and winked at me, as though he had already made an enormous compromise for my sake.

Off to the side, Pei Ting frowned, but still said nothing.

From beginning to end, Xiao Xingzhou looked as if none of this had anything to do with him.

The others in the private room wore mocking expressions.

I wasn’t angry either.

My mind raced.

I only had two days’ worth of medicine left, and only twenty thousand yuan to my name.

It wasn’t nearly enough for the surgery.

Stabilizing my condition after the operation would cost another huge sum.

But I didn’t want to die yet.

I lowered my head. I was wearing only a white dress.

Without hesitating, I decisively grabbed the hem and pulled it up, stripping the dress off in one clean motion.