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As the eldest daughter of the wealthiest family, Zhen Zhu’s life was supposed to be one of refined elegance and a busy socialite existence.
But then her father remarried, bringing with him a daughter—her step-sister.
Always appearing fragile and helpless, the step-sister would often weep pitifully by her side, which Zhen Zhu found utterly irritating.
Why should I, the dignified eldest daughter of the Zhen Family, indulge this step-sister? If I don’t like her, I’ll scold her!
Yet she never expected… one day, Zhen Zhu awakened to the truth: her fiancé was the Male Lead, her step-sister was the Female Lead—the center of the world—and she, the proud eldest daughter of the Zhen Family, was merely a villainous supporting character in a romance novel, destined for ruin, death, and oblivion?
To celebrate her awakening, the so-called System even gifted her a Happiness Index assessment chart for the Female Lead, tasking her with missions to increase the Female Lead’s Happiness Value.
“Hmph,” Zhen Zhu sneered. “I don’t want that trash, fine. But why should I bother helping her raise her Happiness Value? Do I look like I have nothing better to do? No way!”
If you don’t, Host, you’ll die, the System warned.
At that moment, a thunderclap shook the air outside the window.
…Fine, Zhen Zhu gritted her teeth and resolved to push her step-sister’s romantic plot with the Male Lead forward.
But everything went wrong. Her step-sister, whenever faced with trouble, would only flutter her doe-like eyes and sob behind Zhen Zhu’s back. And because she was the Female Lead, Zhen Zhu had to restrain herself from scolding her too harshly.
The most infuriating part was the Happiness Value, which kept fluctuating wildly.
Trying another tactic, Zhen Zhu gifted her step-sister, who was learning to paint, the most extravagant Diamond Paintbrush. The Happiness Value instantly soared, just a hair’s breadth from reaching full capacity.
Seizing the momentum, she told her step-sister that the Male Lead had asked her to deliver it.
Freedom was so close… But then… the Happiness Index she had painstakingly built up plummeted to zero!
Zhen Zhu slammed her fist on the table, exploding. “Screw the bad ending! I’m done!”
Ignoring the thunder and lightning raging outside, she immediately called up a few friends and headed to the White Horse Club. She had just ordered ten male models and taken a sip of tea when…
She woke up to find her ankle chained to her step-sister’s slender wrist.
She lay pitifully by the bed, her eyes swollen from crying. “Sister,” she sobbed, “what must I do… to keep your attention focused solely on me?”
As she spoke, her hand tightened the iron chain, forcing Zhen Zhu closer. Zhen Zhu struggled to suppress her body’s unusual state, frantically questioning the System in her mind about what was happening.
The System’s weak voice echoed in her mind: “Um… after analysis, it seems the Female Lead’s Happiness Index has changed because of you…”
Zhen Zhu: “What?!”
The System paused, then whined in a trembling, childlike voice, “Why don’t you just… give in, Host?”