Strategy to Conquer the Vicious Female Supporting Character [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 26

Fortunately, the heroine’s childhood friend, the second male lead, Chu Ruoyuan, arrived just in time and rescued her, narrowly preventing a tragedy.

At this point, the male lead finally appeared. With just the slightest movement of his fingers, everyone who had been bullying the heroine instantly received their comeuppance. The heroine was deeply moved, feeling that the male lead was her one and only salvation.

She had no idea that, if she hadn’t helped this “wolf of Zhongshan” in the first place, none of this mess would have happened at all.

(TN: “Wolf of Zhongshan” is a Chinese idiom meaning an ungrateful person who repays kindness with betrayal)

The heroine quickly fell for the male lead. But just then, the male lead decided to act reserved, saying things like, “Someone like me, living in the darkness, isn’t worthy of someone as radiant as you under the sunlight…” He went on and on, telling her about how, even though his family was wealthy, his father had always ignored him since childhood, too busy with business; how his mother died from anger caused by a mistress, who then married into the family as his stepmother and even bore his father a younger brother; how his father adored only the stepmother and brother, leaving him neglected; and how he was constantly bullied by the two of them.

All this earned him endless sympathy from the heroine, and her feelings for him only deepened.

The second female lead, Situ Lan, entered the stage at this time. As the male lead’s fiancée, the eldest Miss Situ was extremely displeased with the “vixen” who dared to seduce her fiancé. She directly showed up at the heroine’s class to make a show of force.

What followed was the usual string of clichés, the second female lead framing the heroine, the male lead defending her, the heroine crying and saying she didn’t want to ruin his relationship with the second female lead, and the male lead crying along, insisting there were never any feelings between him and the second female lead. Their bond deepened, while the second female lead, upon hearing of it, only escalated her schemes against the heroine — an endless cycle.

From beginning to end, whenever the second female lead schemed against the heroine, the male lead never once stepped in to stop it. Whether openly or secretly, he always remained silent.

Meanwhile, the second male lead silently protected the heroine all along. But because of his “deep love hidden in the heart, hard to voice aloud” setting, he never once managed to confess his true feelings to her.

Until, on the eve of the college entrance exams, the just-turned-adult male lead lost control and slept with the equally just-turned-adult heroine. The heroine accidentally became pregnant. The male lead immediately vanished.

The heroine, stubborn as ever, refused to abort the child. She wanted to give birth to what she saw as the crystallization of their love, and because of that, she missed the college entrance exams.

Originally, the heroine planned to have the baby and then go find the male lead. But suddenly she heard news of the male lead’s engagement to the second female lead. On the spot, she fainted, lost the child completely, and if not for the second male lead once again rushing over in time, she herself might not have survived.

Reading this far, Qi Lin honestly felt her head pounding and needed to take a break.

What kind of nonsense plot is this?!

Qi Lin wearily rubbed her temples.

From the moment she transmigrated into Hua Xiyu, Qi Lin had also brought along the {“Charm Enhancement Spray”}, which immediately took effect. Hua Xiyu was already school-belle level, and with the added charm boost, she looked even more dazzling. Even her deskmate, who had been utterly absorbed in picking at her fingernails, couldn’t help but glance over and was completely dazed by the sight.

Qi Lin: “…”

[Qi Lin: 403, use the 10,000 experience points I just earned to buy that {– ”Attribute Suppressant” –} you mentioned before. Apply it to me now.]

[403: Understood, Host!]

[403: The {“Attribute Suppressant”}, worth 10,000 experience points, has been purchased and applied. The effect of {“Charm Enhancement Spray”} on the Host has been successfully suppressed!]

Her deskmate blinked. That sudden illusion of having just seen a fairy descending from the heavens vanished instantly. She paused for a moment, confirmed she must’ve just had a brain cramp and hallucinated, then pursed her lips and went back to her dedicated nail-picking business.

Math class, after all, she had no intention of listening to it anyway.

Qi Lin let out a soft sigh.

The experience points she had just earned were already gone. They really didn’t last long.

She needed to complete this world’s dual-track mission quickly to earn more.

Qi Lin analyzed Murong Shuyan’s situation. A child raised in an environment where the material conditions were too abundant but the spiritual environment was lacking — early maturity, isolation, sensitivity, and paranoia were all common outcomes. The male lead fit the mold perfectly, though his traits were far too extreme, to the point of being abnormal.

In short, he was a certified nutcase.

The male lead fancies himself as someone who “stands in the darkness.” To him, the heroine is like the very first ray of light in his life. But given the male lead’s twisted, deep-well mindset, he decides to drag the heroine into his darkness as well — only then could he truly possess her.

This is what leads to the chain of events where he nearly pushes the heroine to suicide.

From the original plot, it’s clear the male lead had been secretly watching the heroine all along. When he saw her on the brink of taking her own life, he felt his goal of pulling her into the darkness had already been achieved. And when a powerful rival, the second male lead, appeared to rescue her, he obviously couldn’t keep hiding anymore. He had to step forward and take action, helping her out of her crisis so that she would depend on and fall for him.

And he did quite well at it.

Later, when his fiancée appeared, the male lead did nothing except comfort the heroine afterward and cry with her. His excuse was that his father and stepmother forced him not to offend the Situ family. But in reality, he simply both feared and coveted the Situ family’s power — hypocritical and selfish.

Let’s not forget, while he could hold the heroine and cry with her, he could also sweet-talk the second female lead in his arms.

To the male lead, the heroine was nothing more than a pastime — at most a lover.

So when the heroine got pregnant, for the barely-adult male lead, it meant nothing but fear and trouble. He brushed it off lightly, walked away, and went to marry the Situ family’s eldest daughter, leaving the heroine to face her dire situation alone.

He did like the heroine, yes. But he also liked the Situ daughter. And above all, he liked himself the most.

Well, at least the basic logic of the story is clear. With a mindset of ‘courage and righteousness’, Qi Lin continued to read through the plot.

After losing her child and barely escaping with her life, the heroine became utterly despondent, ready to give up on living. It was the second male lead, gentle, devoted, and unwavering, who stayed by her side, until years later she finally smiled again.

And then the heroine told him,
“Brother Ruoyuan, you’ll always be my best brother in this life!”

Qi Lin: “…”

She almost couldn’t hold back a laugh.

Wait, this second male lead is way too tragic, isn’t he?

Never mind how he managed to swallow his pain with a smile, spitting teeth and bl00d, according to the main storyline, after a string of twists and turns, the heroine and the male lead rekindle their old romance. Meanwhile, after officially marrying the male lead, the second female lead proved far too domineering. She constantly urged him not to waste his life, to work hard and make something of himself. The male lead grew increasingly annoyed and dissatisfied with his wife. So of course, the moment he encountered his gentle, sweet first love again, the heroine, he refused to ever let her go.

What followed was the story of a scumbag and his mistress working step by step to destroy the original wife, marrying in the end, and enjoying her inheritance together.

The end.

Qi Lin: “…”

Wonderful. The entire plot consistently maintained the same worldview-shattering tone.

Rubbing her temples again, Qi Lin more or less understood what mission goals she needed to achieve in this world. As for the ‘romance line’, that went without saying, “stay as far away from that twisted male lead as possible”. But based on her experience from the previous world, it seemed she would also have to make sure the male lead gave up on her completely, which was going to be a bit troublesome.

As for the career line, Qi Lin asked 403 for confirmation. Since the heroine was still a high school student and the latter half of the original novel hardly mentioned her career, she obviously couldn’t count “becoming a mistress and climbing the ranks” as her career path. Instead, the ‘career line’ was converted into “study hard and get into N University, a prestigious school.”

As someone who had always been a top student, Qi Lin wasn’t worried about this at all. Back in her own college entrance exams, she had even ranked among the top five science students in the entire province.

…Wait a second.

Qi Lin flipped over the test paper on her desk, turning from the back problems to the front cover to check the title.

“Math, Second Year of High School (Arts).”

Qi Lin: “…”

Now that was a bit awkward.

Although no matter how brilliant someone was at the college entrance exam, after more than ten years, not many people can still recall it, as liberal arts isn’t like the sciences. Once you grasp the method in science, everything connects, but liberal arts requires solid memorization, recitation, and accumulation.

But since things are already like this, it’s time to work hard on politics, history, and geography.

Back in Qi Lin’s first year of high school, before the classes were divided into liberal arts and sciences, she had never scored poorly in politics, history, or geography.

Looking at the paper with that glaring 18 points written on it, Qi Lin found it a bit of an eyesore.

…Wasn’t the full score on this test 150?

With the female lead’s level in math, it seems that even without the pregnancy incident getting in the way, she would still have a hard time getting into university…

In mission worlds, the host must play the role of the original character and can’t allow others to grow suspicious. Qi Lin felt helpless, math was her strong suit, but with Hua Xiyu’s results at this level, she couldn’t suddenly raise the grades all at once. It would have to be gradual.

In fact, the very first thing Qi Lin thought of upon figuring out the mission was transferring schools, to go somewhere without that mentally unstable male lead, without classmates who cold-shouldered her or campus bullies. Hardly anyone knew her anyway, so she could have immediately raised her grades, simple and comfortable.

But that thought only stayed in her mind for a few seconds.

After all, the main stage in this period of the original story was precisely this No.1 High School. Ji Huaixu’s mental fragment was very likely inside the body of some female character here.

She couldn’t bear to leave.

Besides, according to 403, just like in the last world, making the person who carried Ji Huaixu’s mental fragment fall in love with her would increase the stability of the fragment’s return.

So Qi Lin chose to stay.

At present, the time point Qi Lin had crossed into wasn’t an ideal one, the male and female leads had already had their first meeting, the male lead had already fallen for the female lead and started preparing to drag her into darkness, and several smaller instances of baseless harassment had already happened to the female lead.

The female lead had a fragile, innocent disposition. She was terrified and bewildered when faced with such things, but at least she still knew to seek help. So-called “friends” were already a thing of the past. Just yesterday, the female lead had mustered up the courage to look for the homeroom teacher, only to be scolded and lectured instead, leaving the office with tear-filled eyes.

And in the break after this math class, Qi Lin would have to face the situation of the female lead being targeted and beaten by her classmates for the very first time.