The Domineering CEO, but a Crybaby! - Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Dress Like A Boss
In broad daylight, you’re showing me this?!’ This kind of adult-only plot is something she’d only dare to enjoy alone in bed at night with the door locked.
Handcuffs?
He Shu frowned slightly. She had only ever seen these on TV.
This was her first time seeing them in real life.
One end of the silver handcuffs was cuffed to a hospital bed rail, and the other was locked around a pale wrist.
Following the smooth arm, He Shu looked again at the unfamiliar woman cuffed in her arms.
The woman was resting on her forearm, her jasmine-and-milk-white curly hair fanned out like seaweed. A few strands had snuck inside He Shu’s open collar, making her feel ticklish.
But He Shu didn’t have time to scratch.
The woman in her arms seemed sick; her breathing was rapid, yet her lips were completely colorless, almost as white as the ball stuffed into her mouth. He Shu looked past the ball at the leather straps fastened at the corners of the woman’s mouth. To hold the ball in place, the straps were so tight they had left red marks on the woman’s fair face.
This thing… if she wasn’t mistaken, was probably called a gag.
A kind of, well, hard-to-explain item.
Wait.
Handcuffs!
A gag!
A bed!
A lightbulb went off in He Shu’s mind. When these things appeared together…
This couldn’t be, S&M, right?!
What was going on?!
Why did she wake up in this strange hospital room?
And why was a woman who seemed to have a ‘special fetish’ lying in her arms?
He Shu pulled her arm back and sat up, reaching out to push the woman.
“Hey, wake up!”
She wanted to wake her up and ask what was going on.
But the moment she touched her, a sharp electronic voice abruptly rang out in her mind.
“Detecting host’s vital signs. System is automatically activating and completing binding. Please hold your breath!”
He Shu quickly held her breath, but a second later, a cheerful electronic voice chimed in.
“Ding, ding, ding. Binding successful. Hello, host. The Crappy Story World Salvation System welcomes you!”
“What the hell?!”
She wasn’t even breathing, so why did it bind her?!
Before she could ask about this “Crappy Story System,” her mind felt like it had been stuffed with cotton. Each wisp carried words, a jumble of them, but her mind miraculously started reading them on its own.
A minute later, He Shu scrambled off the bed!
What the hell?! She had transmigrated into a book! And an unfinished, crappy one at that!
He Shu knelt beside the bed and looked at the woman who was cuffed. This was her doing!
No, to be precise, it was the doing of the character she had transmigrated into.
She was the one who was into this S&M stuff!
And the woman on the bed wasn’t a willing participant; she was brought here by force!
The more information that filled her mind, the wider He Shu’s eyes grew.
Not only had she transmigrated into a perverted, domineering CEO who loved forced situations and had a special fetish, but this person was also an idiot!
The woman on the bed was not the ‘little white flower’ the original owner thought she was. She was a ‘man-eating flower’ who could kill at any moment!
According to the system’s introduction, this woman’s name was Cen Qianyi. She was the top assassin in the book with the highest bounty, and the story was about the protagonists’ painstaking journey to eliminate her and her assassin organization.
And He Shu was just a minor cannon fodder character who appeared early in the book, only to be killed by the antagonist after forcing her.
After being told that she could communicate directly with the system in her mind, He Shu frantically called out to it.
“Let me go back! I don’t want to transmigrate! This is also a forced situation, and forced situations don’t end well!”
The system reminded her: “Host, you overworked yourself in your original world, which led to a heart attack. You have been declared dead and are awaiting cremation.”
What? She was dead?
He Shu quickly clutched her heart, remembering that she had felt discomfort in her chest last night while working overtime on a PPT. She had tried to call for an ambulance but lost consciousness.
She had just died, like that…
At least she was an orphan; otherwise, it would have been a terrible tragedy for her parents.
He Shu felt a pang of sadness, but also grew wary. The system couldn’t possibly be giving her a new life out of the kindness of its heart just because she died too early.
She called out to the system in her mind: “What’s your purpose?”
What did it say it was? A “crappy story” system? Was she supposed to finish the story? She couldn’t do that.
The system quickly cleared things up for her.
It turned out that every book, from its creation, automatically formed a world. Each character in the book was a real person in that world.
The original plot summary of this book said the antagonist would eventually be killed by the protagonist.
But the author abandoned the story! They stopped writing just as the antagonist had captured the protagonists and was about to execute them!
Without the author’s blessing, the antagonist swiftly dealt with the protagonists.
Everything would have been fine; the antagonist would have just become the new protagonist.
The problem was that Cen Qianyi, for reasons unknown, destroyed the entire world shortly after killing the protagonists.
This caused the world’s lingering resentment to become too heavy, which activated the self-salvation system.
He Shu was a bit confused after hearing all of this.
“She wants to destroy the world, so why did you bring me here? To have another person die with her?”
“Host, the salvation of this world depends on you!”
He Shu’s eyes widened. “Depends on me?! With this handcuff? What are you talking about? If I had that kind of power, would I be waiting to be cremated at such a young age?”
“Host, don’t worry. This world doesn’t have cremation.”
He Shu rolled her eyes. This stupid system!
“What use am I? Do you want me to beg the antagonist to turn over a new leaf and stop destroying the world?”
“No. Host, you cannot change the plot within fixed scenes. You must follow the story as it was written in the book.”
“Follow the plot?” He Shu felt like the system was outrageously stupid. “If I follow the plot, won’t I just be courting death?!”
He Shu didn’t want to waste any more time. Now that she knew the woman on the bed was a ruthless assassin with a desire for world destruction, the smartest thing to do was run.
She swiftly scrambled to her feet and, ignoring the warnings in her mind, ran toward the door.
But the moment she opened it, she woke up back on the bed, holding the antagonist in her arms again!
“Host, escaping a plot scene is considered rejecting the system’s mission. Everything will restart from the beginning.”
He Shu jolted upright and clutched her heart, gasping for air.
She felt like she had been pulverized into dust and then re-solidified the moment she opened the door…
A delayed wave of pain washed over her.
It hurt so much!!!
She wanted to swear. The system was basically telling her that if she ran or failed a mission, she would die and start over again!
She couldn’t run away, and she couldn’t avoid the plot… He Shu, her pain subsiding, tried to negotiate.
“I want to change roles!”
She absolutely could not follow this perverted domineering CEO’s plot. She didn’t have these kinds of ‘special hobbies.’
【Sorry, host. Activated and bound accounts cannot be changed.”
This time, He Shu’s mind worked quickly. “Then I can run away again, go back in time, and re-bind! If I have to follow a plot, I’ll choose the protagonist!”
The embodiment of justice with a strength equal to the antagonist’s—that seemed like the only person who could save the world!
“Activated systems cannot be unbound even when returning to the past!”
He Shu didn’t believe it and thought the system was being stubborn. Just as she was about to speak, the electronic voice actually let out a sigh.
“Host, even if you could unbind, there are no more roles available.”
“Huh?”
“You are the 99th host. There are a total of 99 named characters in the book, and the previous 98 have all failed.”
He Shu’s face turned dark. This sounds even more terrible!
This meant that even the protagonists had failed. So what could she, a pervert, do to stop the antagonist?!
As if hearing her thoughts, the system said: “Host, don’t belittle yourself. You are the first person so far who hasn’t asked the system for a weapon. Brave people save the world!”
He Shu was surprised. “I can ask for a weapon?”
“No.”
He Shu was so angry she rolled her eyes. “Then what’s the point of saying that?!”
“Are you ready to receive the script for your character?”
He Shu: “No!”
“Script sent. Please read carefully.”
He Shu’s mind flashed with text in the form of PPT slides. The system had extracted all the parts of the original book that were about He Shu.
He Shu read just two lines and her face went hot.
“In broad daylight, you’re showing me this?!”
This kind of adult-only plot was something she’d only dare to enjoy alone in bed at night with the door locked.
Tsk tsk, I’m really perverted.
Pah, she meant the original He Shu!
He Shu glanced around. This very upscale hospital room was one of her ‘hobby’ scenes, and the reason she could play here was because the entire hospital belonged to her…
So rich, and so perverted.
She even had a villa specifically for these kinds of ‘hobbies’… full of all sorts of props…
It was too much to read. He Shu quickly scrolled to the end, where she saw her death.
“Cen Qianyi gracefully poured corrosive liquid over He Shu’s fingers, melting them away little by little… Soon, some fingers were only half-left, some a third, and some were just a tiny bit of bone. Cen Qianyi’s light purple eyes reflected her pained and twisted face. With a slight smile, she inserted one bamboo bone after another into the remaining fingers, creating a special kind of musical instrument. With a casual tap, a beautiful melody accompanied by He Shu’s piercing screams, composing a moving piece of music…”
“I can’t do it! I can’t follow this plot! Send me back to be cremated now!!!”
The system reminded her: “Cremation has already taken place. Your remains are now in a box.”
He Shu: !
“Host, are you ready? Detecting a change in Cen Qianyi’s vital signs; she is about to wake up. The first plot scene is about to begin.”
He Shu shouted in her mind: “No, I’m not ready!”
“Script has been sent. Host must follow the original plot. Not a single word of the dialogue can be changed. Failure to complete the mission will result in a return to the starting point!”
He Shu: !
“Countdown: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1.”
He Shu’s scalp instantly went numb. Her body began to tremble uncontrollably as she met those light purple eyes, as if she were already at the scene of her torture and death.
Tears streamed down her face.
The alarm in her mind grew louder and louder.
“Dialogue, say the dialogue! Warning, warning! Refusing to follow the plot is a serious violation. In three seconds, the character will be erased and the mission will restart!”
[3]
He Shu’s throat tightened. She remembered the pain of her body being shredded into powder just now, and she really didn’t want to experience that a second time!
[2]
He Shu let out a sob. Without time to think of a plan, she hurriedly spoke before the countdown hit [1].
“Don’t think I’ll let you go just because you’re sick, waaaah. Follow me and willingly become my plaything, or else… waaaah, I have my ways!”
After reciting the lines while sobbing and gasping, a crimson exclamation mark abruptly appeared in He Shu’s mind, followed by a string of text.
[Action Prompt: Upon seeing the woman’s lack of response, He Shu feels she has lost face. Anger rises to her head. She gets off the bed and slaps the woman, forcefully turning her head to the side!]
He Shu: “What?! I have to hit her?!”