Chapter 1 The Super Naughty Female Supporting Character Arrives
"Hey, have you guys heard?"
"You have some juicy gossip? Tell us quickly!"
"I heard that last Saturday, a girl from Class B2 was taken to the Qinghe Club by Cai Dongming and Li Zhou from Class C1..."
"Holy crap?!"
“I know you’re shocked, but don’t be. I’ve also heard that Lian Yi was the one who ordered them to do this, and someone saw Lian Yi there.”
"Isn't this going too far? Doesn't the school care?"
"Is this your first day at Wanghai School? What makes you think Lian Yi, who's always causing trouble and has the worst grades, can still stay in Class A1?"
"ha--"
"She's a rich heiress."
During lunch break, groups of students at Wanghai International Middle School couldn't help but share the gossip that had been circulating wildly for the past two days in the Ginkgo Garden.
Behind a huge ginkgo tree not far from them was a swing, and the person they were talking about was sitting comfortably on the swing.
The girl had delicate features, with thick, slightly wavy long hair that made her pearly white oval face appear even smaller. Her eyelids drooped slightly, partially obscuring her amber-colored eyes.
"Lian Yi... I'm sorry."
Across from the swing, a girl in a school uniform with a sea view looked up nervously at the girl on the swing.
She looked uneasy, frequently fidgeting with her palms, and her voice sounded like she was about to cry.
"I'm so sorry. I wasn't brave enough to tell them the truth, which is why they misunderstood you like this. But I really can't say it and I don't know how to explain it."
After a long period of overcast weather, the sky cleared up in Yunjing City.
Lian Yi was enjoying the long-awaited sunlight, but unfortunately, this tranquility was ruined by the incessant, uneasy chatter.
She opened her eyes impatiently, her slightly rounded eyes clearly seeing the other person's uneasy and apologetic expression.
"No, I already said it, the emotions need to be more intense."
A clear, sweet voice, yet one that didn't hide impatience, successfully interrupted the girl's rambling, self-reproachful explanation.
The girl looked up in surprise, and when she met those slightly round, smiling eyes, the arrogant look in them made her subconsciously look away.
After taking a few deep breaths, she spoke in a trembling voice, "Lian Yi, I'm really afraid of being looked at differently by my classmates. If they find out that I was the one who was taken to Qinghe, my reputation will be ruined."
As she finished speaking, her eyes reddened, and she looked at the girl on the swing with tears in them.
"Um--"
Lian Yi lightly touched the ground with her toes, nodded slightly, and hummed a satisfied sound from her nose.
Then, in a nonchalant tone, he said, "So what? I already said, none of this has anything to do with me, so why did you come all this way to apologize to me?"
"But..." the girl stammered, as if she was about to say something she found very difficult to say.
Lian Yi clicked her tongue impatiently, "I only stepped in because Xie Ling was there, and I was very interested in him. If you insist on finding someone to thank, then go find him."
She leaned against the ropes on one side of the swing, her tone languid.
"Besides, you should have heard that I'm not exactly a kind-hearted person, right? So why are you insisting on staying here? Are you afraid they'll still hold a grudge and retaliate afterward, and you hope I'll continue to protect you?"
With her secret exposed, the girl's originally pale face flushed red.
Lian Yi slightly opened her eyes and asked in confusion, "Aren't you leaving yet?"
His casual words successfully made the girl, filled with sadness and fear, turn away while wiping away her tears.
What she didn't notice was that the hem of her school uniform jacket was faintly visible next to a tree she was passing by.
Beneath the tree, the boy's expression was cold, framed by his slightly tousled black hair. Only when the girl on the swing showed a hint of impatience did he close his eyes briefly before slowly walking out.
Lian Yi couldn't help but chuckle to herself. The tree was big, but it was still a bit of a stretch to completely hide a person.
To her, the other party's behavior was nothing short of self-deception, but it didn't matter, since he was her mission target.
Lian Yi smiled, her already sweet appearance bathed in sunlight, radiant and beautiful, her round eyes reflecting the boy's features.
But the other person just stared at her with tightly pursed lips, making no attempt to hide their inner resistance. Beneath the neat white shirt and blue-black trousers was a slightly slender and tall figure, visibly tense due to their excessive wariness.
His delicate features were suppressed by his cold expression, leaving only an indifferent look that kept people at a distance. His dark, ink-like eyes stared silently at Lian Yi.
"Xie, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
Putting the conversation that had just taken a backseat, Lian Yi smiled and opened her slightly rounded eyes wide. She leaned forward slightly, tilted her head back, and looked at him with a very focused gaze.
With such a pleasing and handsome appearance, and extraordinary intelligence, Lian Yi would really not have been willing to force such a beautiful young man if it weren't for the plot.
The sun is shining brightly right now, and ginkgo leaves, gradually turning golden, occasionally drift down. The boy, wearing a blue and white shirt, stands tall and has an almost mature and refined air about him.
Being in such a scene, one has to admit, it is truly stunning.
When Xie Ling heard her say those words with a smile, her hand, which was hanging by her side, unconsciously clenched.
The memories of the night before last, filled with ridicule and humiliation, seem to keep flashing before my eyes.
The boy's voice was clear and slightly deep, his expression indifferent. "Regardless of your original intentions that day, I should thank you for stepping in to help me out."
He paused, his gaze lowered, "But the financial aid you mentioned... I can't agree to that."
Lian Yi narrowed her eyes slightly. Holding onto the rope, she sighed with some disappointment, even though it was expected. "I see..."
"But it's a shame that such a farce happened and you lost such a well-paying part-time job."
"And I heard that my uncle's condition hasn't been good lately, and the hospital is pressing for payment again?"
A few words spoken lightly, yet they came at the boy like a violent storm.
Lian Yi smiled slyly, her eyes crinkling slightly. "Why call it financial assistance? My meaning should be quite clear. You need money, and I happen to have plenty. Shouldn't classmates help each other out?"
She was clearly in a dominant position in this conversation.
Its proud expression was like that of a cat that had just pulled fish out of a pond, leisurely licking its fur and squinting its eyes to admire the fish's struggling posture on the ground.
They just won't eat, they just want to play.
Xie Lingqing's usually cold and aloof expression finally revealed a different emotion, even an uncontrollable aversion and resistance towards her.
"Lian Yi, do you really enjoy trampling on other people's self-esteem?"
Hearing this classic and righteous question...
Lian Yi smiled with satisfaction, and couldn't help but sigh, she was really good at playing the villainous female supporting character.
From the moment she opened her eyes as a baby, she was stunned for days by a fake outline of a novel about a rich heiress and a cheat code.
Of the two baby girls whose identities were switched, the fake heiress enjoyed a life of luxury and pampering from childhood to adulthood.
However, all of this came to an abrupt end the moment the real daughter was recognized and returned to the Lian family.
The fake heiress's excellence became hypocrisy, and even her goodwill turned into feigned kindness. The admiration and praise from everyone around her gradually changed, and her repeated attempts to break through her defenses and plot against the real heiress were exposed, making her wickedness stand in stark contrast to the real heiress's excellence.
Ultimately, the fake heiress was despised by everyone, and her parents, disappointed, announced that they were severing ties with her and kicking her out of the house.
If Lian Yi wants to avoid being rejected by the world and having her consciousness erased, she must achieve this predetermined outcome.
Lian Yi, who was still drinking milk in her swaddling clothes, choked and coughed for a long time.
Amidst the panicked attempts of several nannies to calm her down, she clenched her fist and quickly devised a plan for the female supporting character's early retirement—version 1.0.
The core idea of this plan is to avoid taking twenty years of detours.
When Lian Yi was in kindergarten, she would snatch milk candy from President Lin's youngest son one day, eat small cakes from Chairman Li's eldest grandson the next, and lead a bunch of little followers to beat up the naughty kids the day after.
Of all the kindergarten children in Jiangbei District, eight out of ten have been made to cry by Lian Yi, and the remaining two have the advantage of being fast runners.
Her reputation as the "Little Tyrant of Jiangbei" lasted all the way up to high school.
Just when she vaguely felt that she had dragged her public image to its lowest point, the appearance of Xie Ling, one of the male lead candidates in the outline, instantly opened up new ideas for her.
"Regardless of your values, I cannot agree to such an unreasonable and immoral request." The boy's voice was cold, suppressing his emotions. "If you think this is something to be amused and played with, a game to pass the time when you're bored."
His gaze fell on Lian Yi's face, which seemed to be lost in thought, but he quickly looked away, unwilling to look at her any longer. "Then please find another target and don't waste your time on me."
Xie Ling rarely showed his emotions, but when he saw Lian Yi's slightly amused gaze, he knew very well that to a rich heiress like her, he was nothing more than an interesting toy.
From the other party's perspective, his righteous words probably seemed powerless and laughable.
Perhaps there's also the fun in the toy's dying struggle.
He lowered his eyes, concealing his cool gaze beneath his long eyelashes. Realizing that further words would be pointless, he turned to leave.
Despite being harshly criticized, Lian Yi still smiled broadly, not to mention that Xie Ling's immediate reaction was exactly what she wanted to see.
Just seeing his fair skin slightly flushed from the anger surging within him, and the unusual expression on his usually aloof face, was enough for Lian Yi to forgive everything in a good mood.
As Xie Ling turned to leave, she chuckled and said, "Then I wish you won't regret the decision you made today."
Watching that slender figure pause for a moment, then walk away without hesitation, Lian Yi couldn't help but give herself a perfect score for her performance.
In the synopsis, Xie Ling is portrayed as resilient, independent, and intelligent.
Despite her impoverished background, she maintained top grades while taking on various part-time jobs to raise money for her seriously ill father's medical expenses.
The fake heiress used him to put on a show, calling on the entire school to donate money to her father.
The school heartthrobs and academic stars who were once admired to some extent were suddenly being stared at by various pitying or immature mocking gazes.
Xie Ling simply became more silent than usual until she received an offer from a prestigious foreign university and completed her studies with the support of the university's scholarship and full grant.
When he returned to China, he was already a rising star in academia. At a relatively young age, he held a number of patents and became acquainted with his daughter, who was showing great talent.
The fact that the fake heiress was despised and loathed by everyone was partly due to his accusation of academic fraud.
But Xie Ling was also the only one who helped her after the fake heiress was expelled from the wealthy family.
As the saying goes, if you want to retire early, you have to do a good job.
The story of the fake heiress begins when she is twenty years old and ends in defeat, after three years of ups and downs.
As a villainous supporting character forced into her role, Lian Yi only wants to achieve her goal of early retirement. She doesn't need Xie Ling to feel grateful for the kindness she received back then, which wasn't entirely innocent, while making a righteous choice.
What she wanted was for potential male leads like Xie Ling to utterly despise her.
"Ding-dong—"
sxx: [Thank you so much, Lian. I've heard about their transfer. Thank you so much...]
"Ding-dong—"
sxx: [Xie Ling seems to have heard us talking just now. Do we really not need to explain? Um, I feel that given Xie Ling's personality, isn't this way of pursuing her a bit inappropriate?]
After glancing at the two text messages that had arrived in quick succession, Lian Yi clicked her tongue and, leaning against the rope, tapped the screen to reply with a message.
12: [That was a great suggestion. As a reward, will you and Cai Dongming transfer schools together?]
She snorted and stuffed her phone into her pocket. A proper villainous supporting character should pay attention to every detail and never forget to dispel other people's imaginations and feelings of gratitude.
Lian Yi sat on the swing and swayed gently back and forth, in a great mood.
If you had a system at this point, it would also have the function of displaying the favorability values of potential male leads.
She believed that Xie Ling's affection for her had plummeted to zero.
But that's far from enough; how could the vicious female supporting character give up so easily?
Lian Yi hummed a song. For such a self-reliant and resilient high-and-mighty flower, it was only through endless entanglement and flattery, as well as haughty charity and pity, that she could make him completely hate and resent her.
The task is arduous and the road ahead is long.
The melody she was humming suddenly stopped, and her brow twitched slightly.
Despite being in a tranquil ginkgo garden, the noise and commotion from another space grew increasingly intense, drawing her attention.
That was in Ningping City, thousands of miles away. Here, Lian Yi had a new identity, a new body, and a completely different life.
Her name is Meng Er.
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