After Transmigrating into a Book, I Was Bent by the Villainess (GL) - Chapter 1

Flop Author: “Luo Luo, my latest finished novel flopped again. Help me see where I wrote poorly, please, please~” She then sent over a web link.

Xia Luo massaged her forehead. She didn’t need to look to know it was another terrible novel. This wasn’t the first or second time. To have a friend like this was truly a debt she owed from her past eight hundred lives. Finally, under the “Flop Author’s” attack of various pity-selling emojis, she ultimately compromised and grudgingly replied with two words: “Fine then.”

After staying up for two whole nights, Xia Luo finally couldn’t resist the drowsiness and fell asleep the moment she saw the words “End of Text.” Even when her phone dropped with a “thud” and smashed into her face, it couldn’t wake her up.

Upon waking up, Xia Luo found herself in a void, with a stiff, AI female voice echoing in her ear:

【Transmigration System automatically activating, program loading, please wait…】

“Who’s talking?”

Xia Luo desperately strained her eyes, looking up, down, left, right, front, and back, but she couldn’t see anything. There wasn’t even blackness; it was like the emptiness seen by the closed eye when you open one eye and close the other—a void, nothing at all.

Xia Luo thought: Did I overdo the all-nighter and suddenly drop dead?

System: 【Loading complete. System is ready. Welcome, esteemed party, to the Transmigration Modification System. Book Title: The President’s Wife is So Charming, Author: Cucumber for Life Extension (續命黃瓜).】

Xia Luo was horrified: She actually transmigrated into her friend’s flop novel!!!

With this vulgar title and this atrocious pen name/ID, Xia Luo truly felt like dying!

In short, this was a super Mary Sue, dog-bl00d (melodramatic) novel—stinky and long like the bound feet cloth of an old society woman, with messy logic and rotten, cliché tropes.

The female lead followed the Cinderella-rising-to-the-top archetype, starting with a common, tragic backstory.

A kind, lonely elderly woman found the female lead in a swaddling cloth while collecting firewood in the mountains. Five years later, the old woman passed away, and the female lead was adopted by a couple and renamed Xia Chuci.

From then on, the small female lead began a miserable life: abuse from her adoptive parents, bullying from her younger brother—a complete arrangement of child-abuse schemes.

In her second year of university, Xia Chuci accidentally rescued a small cat, which changed the trajectory of her life.

That day, the male lead Gu Xin’s younger sister, Gu Miao, came to visit her brother at the university with her beloved cat. As soon as she got out of the car, the cat bolted and was gone in a flash.

The Gu siblings and the driver searched for over half an hour, finally finding the soaking wet cat by the lake, along with a similarly soaking wet Xia Chuci.

From then on, the female lead began to enter the circle of the wealthy, capturing the deep and sincere devotion of various high-quality men along the way. One after another, they swore they’d marry no one but her, and even after the female lead married the male lead, they were still willing to silently guard her and serve as her standby boyfriends.

What kind of twisted values are these!

While it’s understandable for a young girl to want an excellent man to exclusively dote on her, having ten-plus men revolving around you is going too far. If the platform allowed it, would you try to write an NP (multiple partners) ending?!

Of course, the “real and fake daughter” drama is never absent. The most conventional plot for a commoner to suddenly become a noblewoman is being recognized by a prestigious family.

To increase the dramatic effect, the fake daughter is naturally the major villainess female second lead. Fighting for men, for parents, and for the family fortune—she dragged this out for over two thousand chapters. It would be a crime against heaven for this kind of novel not to flop!

The most frustrating part is that a talented, beautiful, and cool goddess-villainess was defeated by the mediocre, inexperienced female lead. This is simply grinding the readers’ IQ and moral compass into the dirt repeatedly.

A goddess with such high-end features could make even women fall for her, so why can’t she get into the titanium-alloy dog eyes of you male NPCs? Every single one of you rushes to carry the inexperienced female lead’s shoes, willingly acting as her lickspittle. This kind of brainless Mary Sue is long outdated!

Shattered values, abandoned plot holes, landmines everywhere, no logic whatsoever, crude writing—how many blossoming young girls must be ruined before this stops? It’s no injustice that this novel flopped!

System: 【This system sincerely provides dedicated service to the esteemed party. We hope that the esteemed party can realize the author’s wish and transform this flop novel into a classic masterpiece worthy of applause. We wish you a pleasant transmigration journey!】

Xia Luo stretched out her Er Kang (dramatic) hand and shouted: “Wait, System, I still have questions…”

After a dizzy spell, Xia Luo felt a white light through her eyelids. She slightly moved her eyeballs and slowly opened her eyes, seeing a clean-cut boy leaning over, his face full of concern, asking softly: “Chuci, you’re awake. Are you still dizzy?”

Xia Luo was lying on a bed. She didn’t respond immediately to the boy’s concern, but instead looked around blankly.

What met her eyes was white: a white sheet, a white mattress, white curtains, and a man in a white coat sitting at a desk writing medical records. The wall had a plaque with three large green characters reading “School Infirmary,” and the air smelled of disinfectant.

A hint of coolness came from the back of her hand. Looking down, she saw she was receiving an IV drip.

At this moment, the cold AI female voice rang out again:

【User role bound successfully. Female Lead Xia Chuci. New user activation grants Reader Satisfaction Points: 250】

“Crap!!! You’re the idiot (250), your whole family—ah, no, all your code is idiotic! Also, next time, please give a warning before you speak. Speaking directly in my brain will give me a myocardial infarction!”

Xia Luo naturally didn’t shout it out in anger, but spoke to the System in her mind.

The System ignored her and continued the explanation: 【The esteemed party is currently a Standard User. Other indicator values will be gradually unlocked as the plot develops…】

Xia Luo massaged her forehead: “Enough. I don’t want to hear you read the manual right now. If you piss me off, I’ll pull your plug out in a minute.”

System scoffed: 【This system’s operating energy comes from readers. It does not require power and thus has no plug.】

Threat failed!

I admit defeat, farewell!

Xia Luo closed her eyes, did a few minutes of mental preparation, and finally accepted her fate, opening her eyes.

The man in the white coat walked over, pulled out the IV needle, and asked plainly: “How do you feel now? Is there any other discomfort?”

Xia Luo—ah, no, now it should be Xia Chuci—slowly sat up. The boy by the bed quickly reached out to support her carefully, then propped the pillow against the headboard for her to lean on.

“Besides my ankle hurting a bit, I don’t have any other discomfort. Thank you, Doctor.” Xia Chuci put on a delicate, weak demeanor. Don’t ask why; ask the original female lead’s character setting.

The school doctor nodded: “That’s good. It’s a sprained ankle; walk less these next few days. I’ve prepared the sick leave form. Be sure to rest!”

Xia Chuci quickly thanked him. The boy, who had been working tirelessly, carried Xia Chuci on his back, took the medicine and the sick leave form, and walked silently on the campus path.

This boy was Zhao Wenyang, the childhood friend who silently guarded the female lead.

Sigh, what a good lad. What a waste.

Zhao Wenyang heard Xia Chuci sigh, slowed his pace, and asked with concern: “What’s wrong? Does your foot still hurt a lot?”

See? What a considerate childhood friend.

Xia Chuci lightly coughed and said softly: “I’m fine. Thank you for your hard work. Um… I must be heavy, are you tired? Should I get down and walk a bit?”

Zhao Wenyang slightly raised the corner of his mouth, his voice filled with unconcealed tenderness and indulgence: “I’m not tired. You’re so light; carrying you is no trouble at all.”

Listen to that, what a smooth-talking young man.

However, you are not the male lead. No matter how good you are to the female lead, it’s useless. The author won’t let you two be together. Give up on this idea.

Wake up, kid! It’s still not too late to turn your guns around. If you keep this up, your end will be horrific: to save the female lead, you’ll be pushed by the major villainess Su Yiming from the 32nd floor and splattered into a lump of rotten mud!

That’s too tragic!!!

Xia Chuci sighed deeply in her heart again. Before, when reading the book, no matter how tragic a paper person was, as an outsider, she didn’t feel much. Plus, with “Cucumber for Life Extension’s” rotten writing, feeling empathy was difficult.

But now she was a person in the story. This paper person was being so attentive to her. The scent and temperature radiating from his body all reminded her that this was a living person! To end his life in such a cruel way, she couldn’t help but feel sorrowful.

Wait, what right did she have to pity others? She was even worse off!

After the major villainess Su Yiming completely blackened, she no longer held illusions about the male lead. She intensely hated the female lead for stealing everything she had and only wanted to take revenge and torture her. Her methods were so vicious they reached a point of outrage: kidnapping, needles under the fingernails, locking her in a small dark room with pythons, surgically removing a kidney without anesthesia…

What kind of living hell is this?!

Of course, Xia Chuci had the female lead’s halo—the unbreakable golden body. Even if she was tortured beyond human recognition, she couldn’t die and would ultimately be rescued by the male lead.

But…

Isn’t living torture even worse?! I’d rather die and be done with it. Whoever wants this halo can take it.

No, no, absolutely not. Instead of enduring such cruel punishment, I’d rather just die.

Should I prepare some poison or something, just in case that step is truly destined to happen, and I can just have a quick end…

System ruthlessly denied: 【The protagonist has the unbreakable golden body halo. Any actions outside of system rules cannot deprive the protagonist of life.】

Xia Chuci immediately grasped the key point: “Actions outside of system rules can’t, but actions within system rules can?”

System: 【……】

Having worked for so many years, the System encountered this kind of odd user actively looking for death for the first time. Which transmigration character wasn’t thinking of holding onto their cheats and wearing a golden halo to call the shots in this foreign world?

Xia Chuci urged: “Hurry up and tell me, under what circumstances can the protagonist die? If you don’t tell me, I’ll file a complaint against you.”

System: 【If the user’s value on any indicator falls below 0, this novel will be eliminated, and the protagonist will perish.】

Xia Chuci: “Oh, that’s simple. I’ll just lie flat and do nothing.”

Faced with the user’s negative, defeatist attitude, the System, pressured by KPI, had no choice but to appease: 【The esteemed party may appropriately alter plot details on the premise of adhering to the main storyline.】

Xia Chuci: “Then it’ll be easy. Before the major villainess goes dark, I’ll get on good terms with her. Maybe she’ll cut me some slack later…”

A loud “Beep—” sounded in her ear. Xia Chuci felt a sharp sound bombarding her from her left brain to her right. She trembled all over, and her head slammed heavily against Zhao Wenyang’s shoulder.

Zhao Wenyang was startled and asked anxiously: “Chuci, what’s wrong?”

Xia Chuci recovered from the dizziness in her skull and comforted him: “I’m fine, don’t worry. I’m just a little tired. I’ll just lean for a bit.”

“Okay. Then you close your eyes for a while. I’ll wake you up when we get back to the dorm.”

“Mmm…”

The System showed no guilt for its recent action and sternly warned:

【Yellow Card Warning. Your thought just now seriously violated the original female lead’s character setting and is classified as a rule-breaking action, triggering the automatic alarm function. If you commit another offense, the System will initiate the penalty mechanism.】

Xia Chuci: “What the heck?”

System: 【Rule-breaking actions will automatically deduct indicator values. When any indicator value falls below 0, the System will automatically initiate elimination.】

Xia Chuci was furious: “I can’t do this, I can’t do that, then how am I supposed to change the plot!”

System: 【The esteemed party is currently a Standard User. The OOC function has not yet been lifted. Any action that violates the original female lead’s character behavior will trigger the penalty mechanism. Only by becoming a VIP User will you have the right to fully control the character’s behavior.】

Xia Chuci: “What? I have to pay for a membership? Being a person—ah, no, being a System shouldn’t be this shady.”

System: 【……】

When under someone else’s roof, you have to bow your head. Xia Chuci reluctantly conceded: “Fine. When dependent on others, one can’t be willful. How do I get a membership? Also, what is OOC?”

System: 【Complete the Beginner Task to upgrade to VIP User. OOC, full name Out Of Character, is an ACGN (Animation, Comic, Game, Novel) term. The literal meaning is: not conforming to personality. Here, it refers to a character’s actions not matching the original character setting, commonly known as a character setting collapse.】

Xia Chuci: “Okay, then what is the Beginner Task?”

System: 【It is not yet time to issue the task.】

Xia Chuci: “Give me a hint beforehand, so I can prepare.”

System: 【Heaven’s secrets must not be leaked.】

Xia Chuci: “…….”

Pfft! What kind of immortal are you pretending to be, you broken System?

After failing to steal the question, Xia Chuci decided to understand the current situation first.

“Wenyang, how did I end up in the infirmary when I woke up?”

Zhao Wenyang’s expression went from sunny to cloudy, and he said angrily: “You were pushed down the stairs by Su Yiming and passed out. Luckily, we ran into it right then. I was worried about you, so I brought you to the infirmary first.”

“And where is Su Yiming?”

Xia Chuci frowned slightly, feeling a bad premonition. Could this be the segment where the female lead and female second lead argue, the female lead accidentally falls down the stairs, the male lead sees it, and then the male lead misunderstands the female second lead, causing a rift between them?!

This kind of drama is so dog-bl00d!

Zhao Wenyang comforted her: “Teacher Yao and Gu Xin stayed behind to handle it. Don’t worry. No matter how powerful her family background is, Teacher Yao won’t cover for her.”

Xia Chuci almost spat bl00d. Getting on the major villainess’s bad side the moment I arrived? I must be tired of living.