The truth revealed in 64
◎Three people confronting each other◎
Jian Liyun froze for a moment, but Yan Sui read too many emotions in those dark eyes.
There was reluctance, resentment, sadness, and heartache...
Jian Liyun lowered her hands. If it weren't for the blessing ribbon that had tied their hands together, she estimated that she would have been three or five steps away from Yan Sui.
Yan Sui's pink lips parted slightly; she saw Jian Liyun's gaze—
Then, before Yan Sui could react, and before either of them could react, he grabbed Jian Liyun's collar with his other hand to prevent her from leaving.
Yan Sui didn't speak. She tiptoed slightly, tilted her head back, and kissed Jian Liyun's lips.
Just as she had imagined, Jian Liyun's lips were soft and cool.
Yan Sui knew how absurd she was doing, but she couldn't care less. She just looked into Jian Liyun's slightly watery black eyes and pleaded, "Don't cry."
Yan Sui was the one who told others not to cry, but she was also the one who choked up first.
Until someone suddenly pulled the two apart, the prayer ribbon that bound their hands broke and fell to the ground.
Lu Shutian shielded Yan Sui behind her, saying, "Stay away from her!"
Lu Shutian was both shocked and furious. Sure enough, Jian Liyun was a person who broke her promise. She had clearly agreed with her that she would leave Yan Sui after the filming was over, but now she actually dared to kiss Yan Sui!
If she hadn't been suspicious and secretly followed the two, Jian Liyun might have actually succeeded.
But what truly frightened her was not Jian Liyun's broken promise, but rather—
The look in Yan Sui's eyes when she looked at Jian Liyun.
It was heartache, a kind of love that Yan Sui herself might not even be aware of.
Lu Shutian could not allow or accept Yan Sui looking at Jian Liyun with that kind of gaze.
Jian Liyun was also pushed away by Lu Shutian and staggered back several steps. She lowered her head, her long and thick eyelashes obscuring her eyes.
"I regret it."
Jian Liyun didn't know what she was regretting.
Is she regretting agreeing to Lu Shutian's request, regretting making that decision back then, or regretting not having had the chance to properly express her true feelings to Yan Sui?
She didn't know.
But she knew that her chest was now completely filled with an emotion called regret.
Lu Shutian sneered, "You regret it?! Fine, I regret it too."
She turned to look at Yan Sui, gripping Yan Sui's wrist tightly with her right hand. "Sister, listen to me."
If Jian Liyun is heartless, then don't blame her for being unjust.
Lu Shutian calmed down and said, word by word, "Actually, Jian Liyun didn't obey He Chenyu because she was threatened. She didn't care about Dean Lei at all! Rather, she wanted to use He Chenyu to torment Dean Lei."
The tense atmosphere instantly turned into a freezing, bone-chilling deep lake in winter.
Jian Liyun did not struggle or try to stop Lu Shutian.
From the moment she saw Lu Shutian rushing towards her, she had already prepared herself mentally.
A gentle mountain breeze rustled through the ancient trees, making the leaves and the wooden plaques hanging on them whisper in the breeze.
Jian Liyun stood frozen in place, her eyes unblinking, quietly waiting for the man she loved most to pronounce her death sentence.
Yan Sui looked at Lu Shutian, whose chest was heaving violently, and said calmly, "I know."
"So I said... Sister, what did you say?" Lu Shutian was all prepared to scold Jian Liyun with Yan Sui, but she didn't expect to hear such a reply.
Yan Sui broke free from Lu Shutian's hand, walked around her, and came to Jian Liyun, who was looking down.
Yan Sui said softly, "Li Yun, I know everything."
With her beloved right in front of her, Jian Liyun didn't even dare to raise her head.
Lu Shutian stepped forward and said coldly, "Sister, you're still too soft-hearted. Now that you know, you should realize that this person isn't as gentle and kind as you seem."
Yan Sui reached out and straightened Jian Liyun's collar, which she had just tugged at.
Softening her voice, Yan Sui said gently, "It's alright, Li Yun. In that kind of environment, just wanting to survive was already a huge struggle."
A person who grows up being nurtured by love, malice, and hatred at the same time will become contradictory and complex.
Yan Sui knew that Jian Liyun must have a dark side, but so what? In a way, her dark side also protected her and allowed her to grow up smoothly.
Lu Shutian simply couldn't understand, "Even if Dean Lei had treated her badly, he still raised her to adulthood. Yet, after growing up, she repaid kindness with enmity, tormenting Dean Lei for so many years, and the other children in the orphanage too..."
"A person needs a fulcrum to live."
Yan Sui suddenly interrupted.
"This fulcrum can be love, or it can be hate."
"Li Yun has been tormented for so many years, it's not something she can just let go of. Besides, regardless of what she thinks in her heart, from a practical point of view, Dean Lei has indeed lived for so many more years because of her decision, and all the children in the orphanage have been properly taken care of, and some have even been able to get jobs in a large corporation like the He family."
Jian Liyun slowly raised her head, her moist black eyes filled with unbelievable joy.
She never imagined that Yan Sui would still stand firmly on her side after learning the truth.
Lu Shutian nodded repeatedly, "Good, very good. Sister, you've fallen in love with her, haven't you? Have you forgotten that she's just a mission target for you? We are the true lovers who can resonate with each other on a soul level!"
Yan Sui's pupils constricted.
The system has been fighting with its superior for so many days and it's still not over. At this moment, only .001 is by Yan Sui's side.
The .001 system emitted a sharp, piercing sound: [Transmigrator Yan Sui, stop the female lead! Don't let the female supporting character realize the truth of this world!]
If the female supporting character were to realize the truth of the world, the world would not collapse, but .001 dares to guarantee that Yan Sui's task would reach an unprecedented new level of difficulty.
Jian Liyun felt as if her brain had rusted and was difficult to function. "What, the target of the mission?"
Yan Sui said in a trembling voice, "Please stop talking, please stop talking."
Lu Shutian smiled menacingly, "Anyway, the mission is going to be completed, so I'm going to tell you anyway! Jian Liyun, let me tell you the truth, this world is a novel world, I am the female lead in this world, and you were originally a supporting female character who loved He Chenyu so much that she committed suicide because she couldn't have him."
Yan Sui rushed forward, trying to stop Lu Shutian from continuing to speak, but Lu Shutian grabbed Yan Sui's hands with one hand and lightly pinched her neck with the other. Her tone was unmistakably sick: "Sister, don't move, the three of us still have something to talk about."
Yan Sui may have fallen for Jian Liyun.
This realization completely clouded Lu Shutian's judgment; she would not allow anyone to take Yan Sui away from her.
"A villain like you, full of bad intentions, do you really expect anyone to unconditionally tolerate and like you? Don't dream, Jian Liyun. If it weren't for this mission, I wouldn't even give you a second glance!"
"Lu Shutian," Yan Sui couldn't take it anymore, "Shut up!"
“I won’t,” Lu Shutian said, looking even more agitated than Yan Sui. “What, are you feeling sorry for that wild woman? Sister, you’re just too soft-hearted, so soft that you can do anything for her without any bottom line.”
Jian Liyun hadn't fully processed what Lu Shutian said, but she had grasped the core point.
She spoke haltingly, like a robot that had short-circuited, "So, Sui Sui, it's because of the mission? Everything is because of the mission."
Not because I like it.
"No, Li Yun, let me explain." Yan Sui's eyes were already brimming with tears. She desperately looked at Jian Li Yun, but all she saw was numbness in the other's eyes.
Lu Shutian still held Yan Sui firmly in her grasp. She ground her back teeth and sneered.
"Fine, I've become the villain who breaks up the couple."
"When I first came into this world, it was indeed... um..."
Yan Sui wanted to explain, but Lu Shutian covered her mouth.
"If you talk to that wild woman again, I don't know what I might do." Lu Shutian's tone was calm, but her words sent chills down one's spine.
She coldly glanced at the woman standing not far away. "Jian Liyun, He Chenyu wants to harm you and me. Now let's deal with him together. It's better for you, for me, and for my sister. I told you before, after this, your career will rise steadily, and everything will get better and better—"
"However, one should not be too greedy. A hypocrite like you does not deserve to stay by your sister's side."
Lu Shutian could feel Yan Sui's tears flowing into the palm of her hand covering the other's lips, wet and hot.
But she still didn't give Yan Sui a chance to explain, "The plan remains the same, Jian Liyun, just go your own way."
Lu Shutian swept Yan Sui up in her arms and left the scene with a cold face.
Yan Sui went from struggling desperately at the beginning to giving up completely. She was carried by Lu Shutian to the mountainside and then stuffed into the passenger seat of the car.
Lu Shutian was afraid that Yan Sui would try to run away, but Yan Sui just sat quietly in the passenger seat, not saying a word.
If you ignored the tears streaming down her face, Yan Sui's expression could even be described as calm.
Lu Shutian sat in the driver's seat, but did not start the car for a long time.
"Sister, you shouldn't be so soft-hearted towards such a scoundrel." Lu Shutian looked at Yan Sui's perfectly proportioned profile and said sternly.
Yan Sui thought she should have a calm and rational talk with Lu Shutian.
But as soon as she opened her mouth, she couldn't help but choke up.
“Only two hundred days left…” Yan Sui’s tears fell one after another, her eyes filled with deep pain. “I can only stay by Li Yun’s side for two hundred days, why did you have to tell her the truth?”
Seeing Yan Sui's tears, Lu Shutian's eyes also gradually welled up with tears. She broke down and said, "Because you fell in love! Sister, you clearly said yourself that you wouldn't fall in love with anyone, but you just clearly..."
Yan Sui laughed sadly, "Li Yun isn't a bad person, I am. Yes, I did kiss her just now. I just can't bear to see her sad, I can't bear to see her cry."
If Jian Liyun is sad, Yan Sui will do everything she can to cheer her up, even if it means Yan Sui kissing her, even if...
Yan Sui thought, even if it meant loving her herself.
Lu Shutian's tone was pleading, "But sister, we were clearly the first ones to meet."
This isn't fair; she was the one who arrived first.
Yan Sui looked at Lu Shutian's wet face and her pink lips parted slightly.
"actually……"
Yan Sui thought that when Lu Shutian proposed to her in a wedding dress, she was momentarily stunned and almost said yes.
But she didn't say it; instead, she closed her eyes.
When Yan Sui opened her eyes again, all she could see was a numbness that was calm to the extreme: "I'm not a good person, and I don't know how to love properly... Tian Tian, after the mission is over, don't follow me anymore."
In just a few seconds, Yan Sui cruelly dissected her own heart.
She thought to herself that although she said she was incapable of liking anyone and would never like anyone, she couldn't refuse Jian Liyun and Lu Shutian's advances.
Even when faced with actions that clearly crossed the line, Yan Sui belatedly realized it but allowed the other party to continue to overstep the boundaries.
The one who was truly unworthy of the other in this love triangle was Yan Sui.
.001 panicked too; its top priority now shifted from observing the female supporting character's condition to comforting Yan Sui.
[Yan Sui, the transmigrator, please don't belittle yourself. Growing up in that kind of environment, it's normal that you're not good at handling intimate relationships.]
.001 had previously been puzzled by Yan Sui's occasional blockhead behavior. She was such a smart person, so why did she always make mistakes when it came to matters of the heart?
But after carefully reviewing Yan Sui's life in the original world, .001 understood why Yan Sui was like this.
As a Go prodigy, she spent most of her childhood interacting not with people, but with Go boards and Go pieces.
Among the people she encountered, her mother was strict with her, and their relationship was more like that of a teacher and student than mother and daughter. Her younger sister, on the other hand, showed her more respect.
Although she had a good relationship with the servants in the house, Yan Sui was essentially in a master-servant relationship with them, and true equality was impossible.
As for the opponents encountered while playing chess, there's even less possibility of any emotional connection between them.
During her brief university life, Yan Sui met some nice roommates, but they weren't truly close.
The people Yan Sui encountered and the various relationships she formed in her short twenty-odd years of life could not serve as a model for her to apply when facing Jian Liyun and Lu Shutian.
Yan Sui had never entered into a truly intimate relationship with anyone. If she had to say, her relationship with Xiao Niao was indeed very close.
But birds are animals, not people.
Animals express their affection directly and simply: they'll stick to you if they like you, and stay away if they don't.
Yan Sui was also influenced subtly.
She could only clumsily use her own theories about getting along with birds to confront Jian Liyun and Lu Shutian's true feelings.
Yan Sui seemed not to hear .001's words, while Lu Shutian panicked completely after hearing them: "Just because I told Jian Liyun the truth, you're going to abandon me? But if you don't tell her now, will she never find out in the future? After the mission is completed, whether you tell her or not, you'll still be removed from this world!"
Lu Shutian roughly wiped away the annoying yet incessant tears from her face and said fiercely, "Sister, the moment I chose your soul, we were destined to be inseparable for all eternity."
Yan Sui had fallen into a state of self-loathing. She turned her head to look out the window and remained silent.
Lu Shutian would rather Yan Sui argue with her like she did just now than have her remain silent like this.
Forcibly turning Yan Sui's thin shoulder to face her, Lu Shutian stubbornly said, "Sister, don't even think about escaping from me."
Yan Sui frowned slightly, and she parted her lips slightly, but no sound came out.
Because .001, who had just been comforting her, suddenly spoke in a completely different voice than usual.
[Warning! Supporting female character Jian Liyun is about to awaken her consciousness!]
[Warning! Female supporting character Jian Liyun's "darkening" level is about to reach 100!]
[WARNING! The world barrier is fluctuating!]
A series of sharp warnings rang in Yan Sui's head. Her head felt like it was being smashed by a sledgehammer, and the pain made her vision blur.
[Warning! The female supporting character's consciousness has awakened, and her corruption level has reached 100! Transmigrator Yan Sui, your mission to save the female supporting character has failed... Huh? Why didn't it fail? Wasn't the female supporting character's corruption level already 100? Eh, wait, transmigrator Yan Sui, why are you dizzy?!]
Sizzle—
[WARNING! High-level System 001 has been attacked by an unknown force!]
The alarm .001 was still ringing in Yan Sui's mind, but the person in question had lost consciousness.
Lu Shutian watched as the woman so close to her closed her eyes in pain and collapsed softly into her arms.
"elder sister?"
Lu Shutian's voice trembled violently; she dared not breathe or make any movement.
But Yan Sui remained quietly in her arms, without opening her eyes.
Fifteen minutes ago.
After Lu Shutian left with Yan Sui in her arms, Jian Liyun remained standing in the same spot, motionless.
She thought for a long time before blankly saying:
"So that's how it is."
Her lips curled up in a grotesque smile.
"I thought it really was my moon."
That's right. Someone as wicked and stubborn as her doesn't deserve to be redeemed or to receive genuine affection.
Jian Liyun's thoughts were already somewhat dazed. She stared at the broken prayer ribbon clutched in her hand and murmured, "The wish, too, is broken."
No, you can't.
Jian Liyun shook her head, forcing herself to clear her mind, and began to look around.
The broken prayer ribbons were scattered on the ground. Jian Liyun squatted down, picked up the broken ribbons one by one, and held them in her hand again.
The red stripe was stained with mud and turned grayish.
Jian Liyun carefully brushed away the dirt and dust, and finally found the name she had written in a broken piece of tape.
Yan Sui
Yes, although Yan Sui told Jian Liyun to pray on her own, Jian Liyun actually wrote Yan Sui's name on the prayer ribbon.
More than her own wishes, she hoped that Yan Sui would be safe and well, and that her wishes would come true.
Jian Liyun had originally envisioned a wonderful future—
After dealing with He Chenyu for so many years, she was getting tired.
Especially after meeting Yan Sui, Jian Liyun actually regretted the things she had done before.
So she pretended to agree to Lu Shutian's request that she would temporarily leave Yan Sui after filming ended, but would return to Yan Sui's side after He Chenyu was dealt with.
Jian Liyun even thought that she believed her Sui Sui would forgive her for everything in the past.
If that doesn't work, Jian Liyun has other ways to get Yan Sui to accept it, after all, she is the best actress.
“I originally thought…” Jian Liyun looked at the two characters “Yan Sui” written on the blessing ribbon in her hand, “I didn’t want love that was obtained through deception, but then I felt that even if it was love obtained through deception, I would still be happy to accept it.”
She was someone who craved love, and even though Yan Sui only gave her a tiny bit of love, which was insignificant to Yan Sui, Jian Liyun cherished it dearly.
No one had ever been so genuinely kind to her.
So Jian Liyun thought, what good is love obtained through deception?
Between truth and falsehood, and between falsehood and truth, Jian Liyun herself often found it hard to tell whether she was acting or not.
Jian Liyun had planned everything, but she hadn't anticipated that Yan Sui had approached her with ulterior motives.
Yan Sui saved Jian Liyun, making Jian Liyun's career shine and keeping Jian Liyun away from He Chenyu's troubles, not because Yan Sui liked her—
It was just because of the mission.
It was only because Jian Liyun happened to be the target of this mission that Yan Sui would have spared no effort to save anyone else.
To Yan Sui, Jian Liyun was nothing special.
Crystalline tears fell drop by drop into Jian Liyun's palm, and also onto the red blessing ribbon.
Tears also stained the words "Yan Sui". The moment the tape broke, the liquid quickly spread outwards, blurring the words "Yan Sui" as well, until nothing remained.
Jian Liyun was extremely flustered. She tried to rub the wet, broken ribbon with her fingertips, as if that would restore the name.
On the red prayer ribbon, Yan Sui's name completely disappeared.
Jian Liyun finally broke down emotionally, helplessly repeating over and over again:
"Sui Sui, don't leave me, don't leave me, don't leave me..."
No one responded to her.
"Hmm..."
A sudden, unbearable pain shot through Jian Liyun's heart. She didn't even have the strength to breathe and could only stagger to her knees, supporting herself with one hand while clutching her chest with the other, which was holding the prayer ribbon.
Pain surged from her heart to every part of her body, and cold sweat instantly broke out on Jian Liyun's forehead.
A familiar yet unfamiliar memory flooded into her mind, ignoring the limits of her physical endurance.
Jian Liyun was in excruciating pain. She bit her lower lip tightly, and blood kept flowing from the cut corner of her lip, but she didn't make a sound.
Even such soul-stirring pain could not shake her grief at this moment.
"Female supporting character..."
"Consciousness...awakening..."
"Darkening..."
"ending……"
In a daze, Jian Liyun heard one broken word after another.
She also recalled her past life.
In that life, she also met Yan Sui, but this Yan Sui was not the same as the previous one. So in that life, she was isolated and helpless, and her struggle with He Chenyu ended in a miserable defeat.
The reason she committed suicide in her previous life was not because of "love," but because after losing that game of chess, she inexplicably lost complete control of her body and could only watch herself die.
Jian Liyun died unwillingly and without understanding why.
She doesn't know what happened in the world after death; when she regains her memories, they will be those of this life.
In this life, Yan Sui appeared.
Even though her body was already at its limit, Jian Liyun still managed to laugh out loud.
Her laughter was tinged with sorrow. "So that's how it is."
Jian Liyun stumbled to her feet, her sorrow turning into overwhelming hatred.
"Why couldn't you just lie to me forever? Why did you have to let me find out?"
The surrounding environment distorted for a moment, and a spatial rift appeared in a place that Jian Liyun did not notice.
The overwhelming hatred turned calm and twisted. Jian Liyun still clutched the prayer ribbon tightly. She looked up at the sky, but there was clearly nothing there.
"Just because I'm a supporting female character, does that mean my life is destined to be tragic, destined to be a foil to the female lead?"
"Just because I'm a supporting female character, I had to be tormented as a child, and now even when I meet the person I love, the female lead steals him away?"
"Just because I'm a supporting female character, does that mean I don't deserve pure love or to be with the one I love?"
"Is everything just because I'm a supporting female character?"
[Author's Note]
This chapter actually exposes all three characters' flaws to the fullest extent (? Is this something I can say, haha?), but the author really enjoyed writing it [starry-eyed].
No one is perfect, and they are not perfect either. Their flaws make them more vivid, and at their core, all three are still good kids!
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