Chapter 1: Absolutely Not, Absolutely Not
Beihai City, October. Autumn was in full swing.
The half-red, half-yellow leaves on the roadside were adorned with fragmented light, casting a melancholic dusk glow on the road.
A Maybach stopped steadily in front of an extremely exquisite and imposing private hospital.
Dong Ling got out of the car, wearing Bluetooth earphones, listening to her friend talk while walking towards her destination.
[Detecting stable mental state of the host, binding in progress…]
The sudden, inorganic electronic voice made Dong Ling pause. She looked around, her delicate brows furrowed.
“Shang Shang, did you hear anything?”
The voice was fleeting, like an illusion.
Chen Shang Shang, who was gossiping non-stop on the other end of the phone, paused in confusion: “Huh? What sound?”
“Nothing, I might have been hearing things.”
Dong Ling stayed where she was for a moment. Hearing no more strange sounds, she shook her head at the medical staff who were about to come over and ask if she needed help, and continued walking forward.
“Anyway, her mom caught her and that guy in bed. How could Chen Fei be so bold as to sleep with the kept man her mom supports? She clearly knew he was her mom’s man, tsk tsk.”
Chen Shang Shang finished the gossip that had just been interrupted. She really didn’t understand why Chen Fei would do this when there were so many men in the world.
“Maybe mother and daughter have the same taste. But doesn’t Chen Fei have a boyfriend?”
Dong Ling was routinely shocked by the gossip. She wasn’t very familiar with Chen Fei, but she had seen Chen Fei showing off her love at dinner parties.
“They broke up, it seems? Not sure. Anyway, forget about that, where are you?”
“Nanjia.”
Nanjia was the name of this private hospital, well-known in their circle.
“Visiting Wen Han again? Any signs of him waking up?”
Chen Shang Shang understood, asking with some concern and curiosity. She wasn’t very familiar with Wen Han, but Dong Ling and Wen Han were childhood friends, and they had met a few times.
“No, I’m here to see him and chat with him, see if it has any effect.”
Dong Ling looked at her blurry reflection on the floor, and found these things strange too.
Wen Han was her childhood friend, who had always been healthy. The Wen family had no history of genetic diseases, but two months ago Wen Han suddenly fell into a coma and became vegetative. Despite the Wen family using various methods and consulting specialists both domestically and internationally, they couldn’t figure out the cause of Wen Han’s illness, let alone wake him up.
Naturally, Dong Ling was concerned about her childhood friend. She couldn’t help much, so she often came to chat with Wen Han when she was free, hoping for a medical miracle to wake him up.
Chen Shang Shang teased: “So deeply in love.”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Don’t make such jokes, I don’t like it.”
Dong Ling frowned. She didn’t have those kinds of feelings for Wen Han, and neither did he for her. But because their families were close and they grew up together, people always joked about it. Dong Ling was tired of hearing it. She didn’t care about others, but she didn’t want her good friend to join in.
“My bad, my bad. I just heard people say that you two were planning to get engaged. If Wen Han hadn’t suddenly collapsed, maybe you two would have already…”
“You believe that? There are always people who like to spread rumors. I might as well say my family is going to have an arranged marriage with yours tomorrow.”
Dong Ling touched her newly manicured nails and rolled her eyes.
“No way! I won’t abandon my nails!”
Chen Shang Shang was horrified, vowing to protect her nails. She was a nail art enthusiast and paid great attention to the maintenance of her nails.
Dong Ling took two deep breaths in the hospital corridor to prevent herself from cursing in public.
She tactfully suggested: “My family also has shares in this hospital, you won’t be charged if you come here.”
Get treated if you’re sick!
Chen Shang Shang was overjoyed: “Really? I’ll get an annual membership card later.”
“Get lost. Is getting an annual membership card for a hospital a normal person’s idea? I’m almost there, I’ll hang up now if there’s nothing else.”
Dong Ling entered the elevator and pressed the button for the floor she was going to.
Chen Shang Shang immediately shouted: “Hey, hey, hey, wait, there is something! Dong Nuo is having a non-human themed party tonight at eight, and asked me to invite you.”
Dong Ling estimated the time and replied: “Okay, send me the address later.”
She and Dong Nuo were in the same circle. Dong Nuo loved to throw parties and was a complete party animal. As friends with a decent relationship, Dong Ling usually went as long as her schedule was free, because Dong Nuo’s parties were relatively clean, without any messy or stimulating illicit substances.
After hanging up the phone, Dong Ling took off her earphones and put them in her coat pocket, watching the elevator steadily ascend.
When it reached the twenty-sixth floor, the elevator vibrated slightly as it stopped.
[System binding complete, starting up.]
The elevator’s movement was clearly very slight, almost imperceptible, but Dong Ling’s body was momentarily unsteady, and she even experienced tinnitus. The inorganic electronic voice sounded again, followed by a huge influx of information. Dong Ling felt as if her brain was being crammed with a lot of things, some words flashing quickly through her mind, leaving her a little dazed.
Pressing her temples, she walked out of the elevator, recalling the pile of stuff that had just flashed through her mind, which seemed to be a romance novel.
Wen Han was the male lead, the female lead was named Song Mingzhi, and she… was the vicious female supporting character???
?????
Is this reasonable? Is this reasonable?
It didn’t matter that she wasn’t the protagonist, but where was she vicious?!
Although she hadn’t made any great contributions to the country, she hadn’t done anything bad either. If threatening to cut off Wen Han’s little pee-pee when they were children because he wet the bed at her house counted, then wasn’t that too unfair!
[No time to explain, I’m System 021, please host immediately execute the task right now. The female lead is located 230 meters away from you, please immediately wall-slam(Kabedon) her and recite your lines!]
The system’s voice sounded again in Dong Ling’s mind, with a touch of emotion added to the previous inorganic coldness, very hurried and anxious.
Dong Ling was sure she wasn’t hallucinating. She was a little unresponsive to this sudden event. Infected by the system’s emotions, Dong Ling subconsciously responded loudly in her mind…
[But I’m the vicious female supporting character!]
If the information crammed into her mind just now wasn’t wrong, this was a romance novel, not a yuri novel, right?
021’s voice was filled with despair: [But the male lead is offline! He’s in a coma! I can’t do anything about it! The world line hasn’t progressed for two months, do you know what that means?! If the main storyline doesn’t continue, the world will collapse! You are the closest plot character, now immediately, right now, go! Wall-slam! Her!]
Dong Ling’s heart palpitated from being urged. Her steps involuntarily followed the direction the system indicated, even ignoring the elevator and taking the stairs directly to the twenty-fourth floor.
As she went downstairs, the system’s voice never stopped.
[The current main quest progress is 0. Completing this task will increase the main quest progress by 0.3%. As long as there is progress, the world will not collapse for the time being. Come on, female supporting character, the future of the male and female leads, the future of this world, rests on your shoulders!]
The system’s motivational tone, like a success guru, almost made Dong Ling sprain her ankle as she ran. She slowed her breathing as she pulled open the safety door of the stairwell, looking for the female lead she didn’t know.
021 was very excited: [She appeared! The female lead is right there! Supporting character, go, go, go!]
Dong Ling didn’t need 021 to tell her, because the woman standing in the corridor was really eye-catching.
She was wearing a black trench coat and high heels of the same color. Her face appeared icy white under the corridor lights. Her arched eyebrows and bright red lips didn’t make her look glamorous, but rather more aloof. Eight words suddenly popped into Dong Ling’s mind — icy muscles and jade bones, elegant demeanor.
This was a woman with great temperament, and from a wealthy background, Dong Ling concluded upon seeing her.
Because the bag in Song Mingzhi’s hand was the autumn new release of a certain high-luxury brand, priced at around 1.2 million. Dong Ling wanted to buy it but didn’t have enough pocket money, so she remembered it clearly.
The system in her mind was still urging: [Come on, baby, don’t hesitate, for the world, for a better tomorrow, so we don’t get destroyed together, go!]
Dong Ling felt that this thing was too chatty. Taking one more step forward would be a social death scene, but she had to do it. The fact that the system had gotten into her head was enough proof of the wonders of the world, and she didn’t dare to test it casually, fearing she would die trying.
The corridor light illuminated blurry figures, and the clicking of high heels on the floor was particularly clear.
Song Mingzhi had noticed the girl standing at the other end long ago.
The girl had been looking at her, her gaze too obvious.
That gaze was neither burning nor offensive, but rather shy and hesitant, which aroused a hint of interest in her.
The girl had delicate and pretty features, neither softly innocent nor strikingly glamorous, but somewhere in between, fresh and alluring.
She watched her approach, and adjusted her position casually. She was slightly taken aback when she was suddenly confined within a narrow space by the girl’s arms.
“Um…”
The girl seemed even more embarrassed. Despite such an assertive posture, she didn’t appear domineering at all.
“Kiss me…”
The girl’s voice trembled slightly. After saying this, her eyes widened, her words abruptly stopping, her expression distressed and helpless.
Dong Ling felt like she was dead.
Socially dead.
Her toes were already curling uncontrollably. Hearing the lines the system demanded she say, she choked on the spot.
[What’s with ‘Kiss me and I’ll give you my life’? Aren’t these novel lines too brain-dead? Who says such greasy things when they first meet!]
Dong Ling frantically cursed the system in her mind. She was so embarrassed, this feeling was so embarrassing, the female lead must think she was crazy!
021 corrected: [Excuse me, the main storyline is two months behind, do you know what two months means?! According to normal progress, the male and female leads should already be in the ambiguous stage!]
Dong Ling was numb inside, only feeling that her childhood friend was a real weirdo for being able to say such greasy lines.
Dong Ling couldn’t bring herself to say the rest of the sentence, so she could only stiffly look at the beauty who was taller than her, trying to force the words out.
But before she could open her mouth, she saw the beauty lower her head, raise an eyebrow, and say with a smile: “Alright.”
Alright? Alright what? What’s alright?
Wasn’t it just awkwardly reciting lines, how did it become…?
This was a different price!
Dong Ling was at a loss, screaming for help in her head, asking 021 what to do.
021 was equally complicated: [Girl, you’re damn charming.]
?
Forget it, let’s just explode together.
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