Chapter 2: The Scheming Protagonist, Lin Ming, Appears
“System, show me my personal panel.”
Wang Haoran: Host of the “Villain Counterattack System”
Fate Points: 0
Ability Points: 0
Strength: 70
Constitution: 90
Mental Power: 200
Charm: 90
Skills: Appraisal (Can identify all things);
Seize (Has a certain probability of seizing an item from the target, 7-day cooldown. 100% probability of seizing one of the protagonist’s golden fingers after killing him);
Ability Block (Consumes a certain number of Fate Points to nullify another person’s special abilities for a period of time);
Items: None
“Hmm…truly unremarkable… But I’ve already killed the protagonist so many times, now with the system’s help, I’m not afraid of him!”
“This time, I’ll aim to kill Lin Ming before the third female lead appears, achieving the fastest possible clear!”
However, when Wang Haoran recalled the plot of Lin Ming defeating him in the original story, he still felt the urge to complain.
Wang Haoran didn’t understand why the rich villain in urban novels always dealt in real estate. Perhaps it was because it made the plot easier to progress.
After all, the protagonist could always find evidence of accidents on construction sites under the villain’s name, or of forced demolitions, and then use this to bring down the villain in one fell swoop.
In the novel’s plot, this was how Wang Haoran ended up in jail, and Liu Yunshuang took the opportunity to unilaterally announce the annulment of their engagement.
However, he later found a chance to escape from prison.
Unfortunately, the prison break wasn’t a benefit the author gave him, the big villain, but rather an arrangement to completely finish him off.
After breaking out of prison, Wang Haoran became angrier and angrier, so he secretly snuck into Liu Yunshuang’s dormitory, wanting to vent his anger.
The protagonist Lin Ming happened to come over to “comfort” Liu Yunshuang, who was “sad” about the broken engagement, and the two ran into each other.
The result was that Wang Haoran was no match for Lin Ming and was killed on the spot. He was a fugitive who had broken into someone’s residence, compounding his crimes.
So, not only was Lin Ming not guilty, he was even praised for his righteous bravery.
Moreover, this scheming male lead could clearly crush him, but he deliberately suffered a minor injury, which was then “accidentally” discovered by Liu Yunshuang, moving her so much that she immediately pulled the male lead into her room to apply medicine.
“Hmm… now that I’ve severed ties with Liu Yunshuang, the female lead… the next step is to remove the malignant tumor from the Wang Corporation…”
Wang Haoran, following his memory, fired the key personnel who would cause problems for the Wang Corporation in the future and replaced them with more reliable individuals.
Although these dismissed employees hadn’t caused any trouble yet, their hands weren’t entirely clean, and Wang Haoran easily found evidence against them.
Busy all afternoon, Wang Haoran drove to the entrance of S City’s First High School in the evening.
Since it was on the way from Wang Corporation to the Liu family home, he decided to stop by and see the male lead.
Some time had passed since school ended, and only a few scattered students were passing by the school gate.
Leaning against his Rolls-Royce, he ignored the amazed gazes of the surrounding students and waited quietly.
Not long after, he saw Liu Yunshuang walking over, accompanied by a cute, pure-looking girl and an ordinary-looking boy with a bandage on his left hand. The three of them were chatting and laughing.
The male and female leads of the early stages of the plot were all present.
Looking at the familiar face with short-cropped hair, tanned skin, and a strong build, Wang Haoran recognized him as the protagonist, Lin Ming.
After messing around for two and a half years, just as he was about to make his final sprint, he finally woke up, shaved his head to show his determination, and decided to work hard.
However, Lin Ming’s so-called “awakening” was simply cheating on exams using his “Perspective Eye,” and his so-called “hard work” was just using tutoring as an opportunity to get close to the class representative, Xia Xinyan, and his English teacher, Liu Yunshuang.
Otherwise, why didn’t he go to the math teacher with only a ring of hair left on his head to ask questions?
Although Lin Ming had ordinary looks and a roguish aura from fighting, and his smile reached his ears, he had such a good relationship with Xia Xinyan, the school beauty of First High School, and the beautiful teacher Liu Yunshuang that it made the male students passing by envious and jealous.
“System, show me his abilities!”
[Okay.]
Lin Ming: Protagonist of “Very Strong, Very Romantic”
Protagonist Halo: 1000
Strength: 120
Constitution: 100
Mental Power: 80
Trust: -10
Charm: 50 (Doubled for female leads, halved for various villains)
Golden Fingers: Low-Level Perspective Eye, King of Killers Inheritance (Progress: 27%)
According to the original work, Lin Ming’s Perspective Eye could not only see through things but also zoom in and out on distant scenes like a telescope, and it would be upgraded later.
However, even though Lin Ming was a bit of a womanizer, he never used his Perspective Eye to peek at the female leads. After all, the protagonist was not close to women, he just wanted to give all the girls a home by creating a harem!
Of course, it was also possible that the author felt that since the protagonist could eventually see everything with his own eyes, why bother doing something as creepy as “peeking”? So, they added such a setting to make the protagonist seem righteous.
Just as Wang Haoran was checking Lin Ming’s abilities, the approaching trio also noticed him.
Since Wang Haoran had often come to greet them before, the three weren’t surprised.
Xia Xinyan first glanced at him with disdain, then said goodbye to the other two and got into a car that had been waiting on the side of the road.
This little girl was still a student and couldn’t control her emotions.
Wang Haoran knew why she was like this.
The novel’s plot described how Xia Xinyan initially misunderstood that Lin Ming had gone to fight again and reported him to the class teacher, which resulted in Lin Ming being criticized.
After learning about this, Liu Yunshuang personally went to Xia Xinyan to clear up the misunderstanding. Xia Xinyan, knowing the truth, felt very guilty and worked even harder to help Lin Ming with his studies. At the same time, she was also very angry at Wang Haoran, the culprit.
When Lin Ming saw Wang Haoran, a strange look flashed in his eyes. Then he timidly said to Liu Yunshuang,
“Teacher Liu, I’ll be going then.”
Liu Yunshuang, who had a “I knew it” expression and was looking at Wang Haoran smugly, seemed to understand something upon hearing Lin Ming’s words and replied with a firm tone,
“Be careful on your way.”
“Lin Ming, don’t worry, I won’t let him hurt you again!”
Watching the two of them displaying their deep teacher-student affection, Wang Haoran’s mouth twitched uncontrollably.
How could Lin Ming, with his just-released-from-prison appearance, put on such a “I’m so scared, please comfort me” act?
Wang Haoran was about to throw up, and Liu Yunshuang actually fell for it?
After Lin Ming left, just as Liu Yunshuang was about to speak, Wang Haoran interrupted her.
“I came to remind you not to forget to go home tonight.”
“I’m afraid you’ll be helping your good student with his homework again, tutoring until you forget the time, just like before!”
“Okay, goodbye!”
After finishing, Wang Haoran slipped into his car and drove away.
Leaving Liu Yunshuang standing there in a daze.
Wang Haoran’s main purpose was to observe the protagonist Lin Ming. He wouldn’t have minded giving Liu Yunshuang a ride, but after seeing that scene, he decided against it.
Liu Yunshuang, left behind, gritted her teeth in anger after a moment of stupor.
She stomped her foot fiercely.
“Wang Haoran! You think your ‘playing hard to get’ will work?!”
“Don’t think I don’t know, you want to break off the engagement so you can complain to my dad and have him force me!”
“Fine, break it off then! I won’t give you, this bastard, another chance!”
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