Chapter 1 Transmigrated as a Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character: First Update
Wang Xiao was awakened by crying.
The sobbing, filled with resentment and sorrow, drilled into her ears, disturbing her peace of mind. Instinctively, she called out, "Grandma, water."
But no one brought her water, and there was no grandmother there either. She finally managed to open her eyelids, which felt like they were glued together, and saw only the face of a haggard, swollen middle-aged woman.
The woman cried and cursed under her breath: "You stupid girl, do you think you're making your father and me die of anger? You're going to ruin yourself! Is being a stepmother easy? You're an innocent young woman, not deaf, mute, blind, or lame. You're a college graduate and a government official. Are you going to take on someone else's burden? Are you out of your mind? You're jumping into a fire pit!"
Wang Xiao was so overwhelmed by the barrage of insults that he felt dizzy and wondered if he was dreaming.
Then she looked up and saw the furnishings in the room, and suddenly she couldn't even keep her eyes open anymore.
No, this whole country is painted red; it's so tacky it makes my scalp crawl. This cramped, stuffy room is bigger than even the storage room in her large apartment in the city, let alone her grandmother's three-story villa.
The most deadly thing was the face reflected in the dressing mirror on the dowdy wardrobe facing the bed. It wasn't the face of a naturally vixen with upturned peach blossom eyes and an oval face, but rather the face of a top lesbian with sword-like eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose bridge, and exquisite features.
If this face weren't on her own body, Wang Xiao would definitely scream and whistle at the girl in the mirror: "Sister, I can do it!"
But now, she opened her mouth, her mind filled with three deadly questions: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
The thought had barely crossed her mind when a torrent of Chinese characters flooded her head: Wang Xiao, female, born in 1969, from Jinning, university graduate, working at a chemical research institute…
Before he could finish reading the rest of the text, Wang Xiao suddenly felt a jolt.
Wait, no way, the transmigration warning really happened to her?
Before the celebration party for a book that had sold over 10 million yuan, she was bored while waiting for her friends who were stuck in traffic, so she casually browsed a Mary Sue novel pushed to her phone.
Good heavens, this is a memoir of a Mary Sue heroine, filled with the nauseatingly sweet, manipulative tone of a green tea b*tch, lamenting how everyone loves her and how conflicted and helpless she is.
She wasn't interested in novels that were intellectually deficient. But then, one of the female supporting characters in the book was also named Wang Xiao, and her obsessive pursuit of love was outrageous.
This Wang Xiao had a relationship that no one in her family approved of. At twenty-one, a promising young woman, she recklessly insisted on marrying the female lead's ex-husband, eagerly becoming a stepmother to his burden. However, the family she managed to join turned out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, skilled in manipulation and exploitation, and an ungrateful child who offered empty promises but repaid kindness with ingratitude. Later, the beloved female lead returned, and the family was reunited. Having been squeezed dry of her last bit of usefulness, Wang Xiao decisively and cleanly kicked the bucket, leaving her place in the family.
At the time, Wang Xiao couldn't explain why he was so eager to be tortured, and why he had to see just how despicable the female supporting character with the same name could be.
Later, she showed absolutely no sympathy for the female supporting character, rolled her eyes and cursed, "Serves her right!" She hurriedly closed the novel page and then frantically jumped and danced at the party to wash away the unpleasant feeling that felt like being entangled by a venomous snake.
It turns out that someone like her, a hard-working entrepreneur, is not naturally suited to enjoying life.
If she had honestly worked overtime to earn the second ten million, she wouldn't have ended up like this, accidentally jumping into the swimming pool and transmigrating into the body of the paper doll she had been criticizing.
This scene should mark the beginning of the tragedy of the saintly female supporting character, the moment she is about to marry the wolf in sheep's clothing.
The woman by the bed was still crying and cursing: "You've lost your mind, you don't know what's good for you. You're really crazy..."
Wang Xiao felt her throat was parched and burning, and her words were filled with anger: "Alright, stop crying, I'm not getting married."
The middle-aged woman blurted out, "I'm crying today, but you'll be the one crying for the rest of your life! ...You...you won't marry me?"
The woman, her eyes swollen like walnuts, looked up in astonishment and repeated incredulously, "You're not getting married?"
Wang Xiao nodded and reached out to take off her bright red wedding dress.
In 1990, white wedding dresses were probably not yet common; the original owner was wearing a dragon and phoenix wedding gown. The advantage of this dress was that she could take it off herself easily and neatly without any help.
As she took off her clothes, she complained, "Only a lunatic would marry an old man with a child in tow."
That's a bit harsh. Actually, the person the original author was going to marry is only in his early thirties. Let alone being a celebrity or a baby in the eyes of fans, even the United Nations would have to classify him as a young person.
Of course, Wang's mother couldn't refute her daughter's words. She was more excited than if she had won the lottery jackpot of 500 yuan every time. She even forgot to scold her daughter for "who was the one who acted crazy before?" and nodded frantically: "Yes, yes, no one can marry into his family. His mother is kind on the outside but bitter on the inside, his daughter is unreasonable and irrational, he is just a con artist who specializes in fooling young girls!"
Everyone else could see it clearly, but unfortunately, the original owner was blinded by her own biases and blinded by wishful thinking, which led to her own death and the death of her family who truly loved her.
She put on jeans and changed into a corduroy jacket, casually tied her hair up, and instructed the middle-aged woman: "Mom, cancel the wedding. Take everything down before the banquet starts."
After saying that, she opened the door to pour herself some water. Since waking up, her throat had been so dry it felt like it was on fire.
As soon as the door opened, a short, stout figure rolled in, startling Wang Xiao so much that she quickly backed away.
Before she could react, the short, stout boy lay down beside her legs and wailed, "I don't want you to be my stepmother! Give me back my mother! You're a heartless queen, a big bad guy!"
Wang Xiao rolled her eyes so hard they seemed to say: "The Empress will be your stepmother?"
Little brat, you're quite good at flattering yourself. You really think highly of yourself, like you're some kind of princess?
That would require your father to be a king, not a phoenix man who lives off his wife.
Bah! Calling someone a "phoenix man" is an insult to them; at least a "phoenix man" managed to escape poverty on his own. This guy is nothing but a con artist.
Wang Xiao has never liked children. She can barely manage to play with well-behaved, sensible, and cute children, but these dirty kids who cry with snot and tears all over their faces make her want to vomit, even if she doesn't want them to grow up to be shameless ingrates.
The "shorty" was still throwing a tantrum on the ground, wailing and pounding his chest. His shrill cries were so loud they could pierce eardrums and collapse an entire building.
Wang Xiao avoided her at all costs and made no attempt to help her up.
The Queen Mother was furious; this was the family her daughter was to marry into. "You can tell what a person will be like at three years old," she said, "just by looking at this child, you can tell what kind of people the adults in the family are like."
She quickly emphasized, "Jiaojiao, get up. No one will be your stepmother."
As she spoke, she quickly tried to push her daughter out, fearing that the brat might soften her heart and rush to become a dutiful son of the volcano.
Unfortunately, this little rascal named Jiaojiao would throw a tantrum at people's doorsteps, making it impossible for them to find a place to leave. When the adults spoke to her, she wailed even louder.
Wang Xiao felt the veins on her temples throbbing, and couldn't help but yell, "Who wants to be your stepmother? Don't you have a biological mother? Go find your biological mother!"
The sound stunned everyone in the room.
Even the short, stunted boy who was rolling around on the ground and couldn't understand human speech forgot to continue wailing and stared at her blankly with wide eyes.
Why would Sister Xiaoxiao scold her? Sister Xiaoxiao usually listens to her in everything, and she tries her best to satisfy her every wish.
In the silence, a surprised voice rang out in the living room, filled with heartbroken worry: "Wang Xiao, what's wrong with you? Jiaojiao is young and doesn't understand. How could you scold her? You need to use love and patience to influence her. Only in this way can you build a good parent-child relationship and become a qualified mother."
Upon hearing this, Wang's mother looked displeased and immediately retorted, "Zhang Yan, what nonsense are you spouting? Our Wang Xiao has nothing to do with her family, so don't just spout off."
Wang Xiao was wondering which family this pretty young woman was, this idiot. She wasn't old, and she didn't even have a boyfriend, so why was this energetic young man acting so paternalistic and eager to meddle in other people's business?
After hearing what the Queen Mother said, she suddenly realized what was going on.
Zhang Yan, yet another lunatic in this bizarre novel, is the original owner's unilaterally acknowledged best friend, a character whose sole purpose is to ruin the original owner.
It's perfectly normal for Zhang Yan to spout such nonsense now. After all, without her relentless manipulation of the original owner, the original owner wouldn't be constantly plagued by the anxiety of having a good stepmother to prove herself, gradually forgetting that she is first and foremost an independent person.
As for why Zhang Yan would betray the original owner like this, logically speaking, there's nothing wrong with it.
Her parents worked in the same state-owned factory as the original owner's parents, but her technical title was always lower than theirs. They were only a few months apart in age and had gone to school together since childhood, so the original owner always thought the other was her good friend.
Little did they know that from the moment Zhang Yan could understand human speech, her parents had constantly urged her to compete with the original owner of this body. She finally managed to get into a vocational school after her high school entrance exam, while the original owner only went to high school. Just when she thought she had finally won, the original owner actually got into university. Even though it was just an ordinary local university, in 1986, getting into university was an extremely rare achievement. Thus, the original owner surpassed Zhang Yan once again.
That would be one thing, since the original owner of this body went to work at a chemical research institute after graduating from university, while Zhang Yan was working as a kindergarten teacher in a state-owned factory. These days, those who build atomic bombs are not as well off as those who sell tea eggs, and those who wield scalpels are not as well off as those who wield razors. The benefits and treatment in state-owned factories are much better than those in chemical research institutes, which are always struggling with funding.
But coincidentally, Zhang Yan in the book also had feelings for the original owner's husband. Unwilling to become a stepmother herself, she offered to introduce her crush to someone. However, after pushing the original owner into this mess, she inexplicably became jealous of her, feeling that the original owner had stolen her crush, and thus meticulously plotted to sabotage her.
In the novel, the original protagonist regretted her decision twice and wanted to escape the quagmire of her marriage, but she was too embarrassed to tell her parents and teachers about her distress. When she sought help from her friend Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan repeatedly tried to persuade her, leading the original protagonist to believe that divorce would only make her life worse. So, in a daze, she ended her life in a mud pit.
If we're talking about the culprit behind the original owner's death, Zhang Yan, even if she wasn't the mastermind, was definitely an accomplice.
Wang Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly. Very well, you have a path to heaven but you choose not to take it, and you insist on forcing your way into hell when there is no way out.
You've practically delivered yourself to my doorstep; if I don't give you a good beating, I'd really be letting you down with your face, which's even more radiant than a bride's.
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August 14th of the lunar calendar
Born in the year of Guimao, the month of Xinyou, and the day of Jichou (Year of the Rabbit)
Suitable for: weddings, travel, moving, signing contracts, transactions, moving into a new house, opening a business, breaking ground, praying for blessings, planting, setting up a bed, accepting livestock, burial, hanging plaques, offering sacrifices, construction, dismantling, encoffining, putting on mourning clothes, cremation, removing mourning clothes, adopting children, consecrating, and praying for children.
Taboo: None
It's a legendary auspicious day! I'm starting this project. I'm afraid if I don't start now, I'll just imagine the whole novel and then I'll lose all motivation to write. After all, I've done that sort of thing many times before.
As usual, I'll start writing at 3 PM today, and from tomorrow onwards I'll resume daily updates at 7 AM.
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