Volume 1 - CH 6

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Lately, He Ran has been partying every night in the CW commercial district, all for Landy, his junior in the second year of the biological engineering program.

He Ran attended the basketball game of the biological engineering department, all for Landy, his junior in the second year of the program.

He Ran repeatedly defended Landy's honor in public, even at the expense of his own fiancée Gou An. All for Landy, his junior in the second year of the biological engineering program.

Landy, Landy, Landy.

The situation was quite awkward. Gou An could feel the attention from all directions on her face. Some people even quietly raised their phones, capturing the scene. Sympathetic, regretful, mocking gazes converged on Gou An, making her the center of attention for the second time in a month.

If it had been before, Gou An would have felt ashamed and angry. She might have even smashed the table in front of her and demanded an explanation from He Ran. But this time, she remained expressionless, unsure whether to pity He Ran or herself.

What was the use of He Ran's efforts? Landy might have had a brief fling with him, but she would ultimately end up with He Jinhang.

A foolish supporting male character, he could only hope for an NPC role on another website. Too bad.

Amidst the expectant gazes of everyone, Gou An smiled and suddenly turned to look at someone squatting nearby, watching the commotion.

Their eyes met for a few seconds.

Without warning, Gou An called out his name, "Zhou Yanji, do you want some water?"

Her voice was light and airy.

All the attention that had been focused on her suddenly shifted. The onlookers were almost surprised enough to exclaim, "Oh my God, who would have thought Zhou Yanji still had a role to play? How exciting!"

The person called out looked initially bewildered. But quickly regaining his composure, he stood up slowly, holding his knee, and ambled over with his hands in his pockets. Zhou Yanji picked up the mineral water that He Ran had refused and said, "Hmm, I'm a little thirsty."

He Ran had been watching him closely since Zhou Yanji stood up.

He was now fixated on every move he made.

Landy stood behind He Ran and cautiously tugged at his sleeve, but he didn't turn around or acknowledge her. He just stared at Zhou Yanji, who drank half a bottle of ice-cold mineral water after unscrewing the cap.

Apart from the flicker in his black eyes, He Ran's face remained completely expressionless.

Zhou Yanji screwed the cap back on and stuffed the bottle back into his pocket. After a moment, he looked up at He Ran and smiled, "I really did drink it all. Is that alright with you?"

In front of so many people, He Ran's expression was cold and indifferent. "Why are you asking me?"

Zhou Yanji nodded. "Right, you don't drink anyway."

Then, he turned to Gou An and thanked her in a particularly calm voice.

Amidst the shocked expressions of everyone, Gou An sat back down in her seat on the sidelines.

As soon as she sat down, Tang Xinjiu leaned over and exclaimed, "You're amazing! I was so embarrassed just now that I thought you were going to tear down the gymnasium and I was considering whether to take you and run for our lives. How did you dare to call out Zhou Yanji's name? He's not even with He Ran. How did you know he would have your back?"

A barrage of questions rained down on her.

Gu An patted the nonexistent dust off her legs, lifted her eyelids, and fluttered her long eyelashes before saying calmly, "I just knew."

Tang Xinjiu was still marveling at the wonder of the Creator.

...And wasn't it just so miraculous?

"I Saw His Love Rising and Falling" system actually used a hundred-point scale.

And if the favorability score exceeded 80%, the color displayed would be pink.

A young man nearby holding a bottle of mineral water with a brilliant pink color on his head was enough to explain everything.

Character: Zhou Yanji.

Friendliness: 85.

Simply too high to be true.

...

Gu An had no class in the afternoon. After watching a basketball game in the morning, she slipped out of the gymnasium while the game was still in its final moments and called her family to send a car to pick her up.

...Actually, Gu An preferred to take the school bus home with her friends on a regular basis and rarely had her family send a driver to pick her up.

But today, thanks to He Ran, everyone was waiting to see her joke, and she had no interest in such masochistic hobbies.

Just now, although Zhou Yanji came to her rescue, she was very aware that she didn't make much progress.

She knew this by checking the school's WeChat group.

People in the group were busy playing with their phones while watching the game and gossiping about "a bloody case triggered by a bottle of mineral water"...

Gu An watched herself being filmed from every angle and felt sad to discover that when He Ran, that scoundrel, pushed away the water she had handed him and turned to ask Lu Wan for water, she was shocked to the point where her pupils shrank, although she looked expressionless.

So many people were watching.

She didn't expect He Ran to be capable of doing that.

Quietly, she paused a certain video and, as if self-flagellating, used two fingers to enlarge her own face.

[Jiao Jiao: Yeah, really, my pupils were shocked and contracted into a black dot.]

[Jiao Jiao: You have such a poor mental endurance.]

"..."

In a certain foolish cat's calm and cutting remarks, Gu An wished she could slap herself hard: the protagonist of other transmigration novels knew the future plot and was calm and collected, cool and domineering, while she was like "Although I knew it would be like this, you really scared me to death, I can't control my own expression, ahhh!!!"

The discussion in the group was extremely lively.

[What is He Ran doing? Isn't Gu An his fiancée?]

[What's going on? Who is Lu Wan? The third party?]

[No, why are you calling her a third party? He Ran never said Gu An was anything to him, isn't that what you guys have been saying?]

[Huh?]

[Gu An isn't He Ran's girlfriend?]

[No, no, no, @He Ran, come out and say it, is Gu An your girlfriend?]

Gu An originally thought that He Ran wouldn't even bother to read the group chat, let alone respond to a casual mention.

But to her surprise, a few seconds later, He Ran actually appeared.

[He Ran: ?]

[He Ran: @Wang Gege Who said I have a mistress?]

[He Ran: Did I mention I have a girlfriend?]

This Wang Gege is none other than the passerby who asked if Lu Wan was a mistress earlier.

With just this one retort from He Ran, the group chat fell into silence for more than ten seconds.

Gu An raised her phone, wanting to smash it, but then realized that she shouldn't throw it on the ground, but should smash it on He Ran's face instead.

After a moment of silence, the appearance of the person involved triggered a frenzy of gossip in the group chat -

[Ignoring the fact that the He and Gu families have a marriage alliance, this was even reported in the newspaper!]

[The person upstairs is so funny. The He family has so many descendants, not to mention the collateral line. Is it necessary for the legitimate heir, Young Master He, to come out himself for a marriage alliance? His uncle is He Jingxing, He Ran's biological father, He Yanzhang's full brother from the same parents.]

[Exactly, who said He Ran and Gu An are really a couple? We just assumed it because of our first impression. The main point is that He Ran doesn't want to, so who can force him!]

[Right, is Lu Wan in the group? Let's apologize to her for our speculation just now hahaha!]

[Apologize, apologize!]

[Tsk tsk tsk, this is the first time I've seen He Ran speak in the group chat.]

[Aiyo, who is it for?]

[Who is it!]

[Who is it!]

...

The people in the group chat formed a long queue, and Gu An stopped paying attention to what they were saying. On one hand, she thought, "Forget it, forget it, forget it, I owe her this." On the other hand, she thought, "But I can't swallow this anger." So, while everyone was happily queuing up, she typed -

[Gu An: 99].

And then, amidst a bunch of "..."s, she left the group chat in a relaxed manner.

...

How should the malicious supporting female character deal with this?

[Jiao Jiao: ...Have you already started thinking about malicious things? Wow, you've really immersed yourself in this role! Meow meow meow!]

Gu An: So sometimes the malice of a supporting female character might also be forced out of her!

If it doesn't work, she could go home, throw herself into her mother's arms, cry loudly, and force a high-profile banquet to publicly cancel her engagement with He Ran. While she's at it, she could also slap those idiots who kept saying "The He family's marriage alliance doesn't necessarily have to be with He Ran. The family might send someone else instead."

Gu An stood with her arms akimbo, ready to go home and whine to her mommy, when she heard a soft voice behind her -

"He Ran, the competition isn't over yet. Why are you coming out now?"

Gu An paused mid-step and turned around. From her position, she could see a man and a woman standing at the entrance of the sports hall.

The man was wearing a black tracksuit with a whistle hanging from his chest, his hands in his pockets, and a slightly impatient expression on his face.

It seems he had come out in the middle of watching the competition.

At this moment, a girl standing in front of him was half a head shorter than him. She was holding a box of mineral water and wearing a duckbill cap. Her long straight hair was tied into a low ponytail, and the petite and erect tip of her nose had a delicate halo in the sunlight...

She looked up at the boy in front of her.

Before the person who was called out could speak, Lu Wan nodded like a little chicken pecking at rice. "I know. Someone in the group just saw that Guo An left before finishing the competition. Are you in a hurry to find her?"

Guo An felt that what Lu Wan said was absurd and sounded like a fantasy.

Obviously, she was not the only one who felt that way.

He Ran hesitated for a moment, as if he quickly realized what Lu Wan was talking about. The impatience on his face disappeared, and he bent down slightly to take the box of water from her hand. "No, I'm not."

He denied it decisively.

Lu Wan looked at him.

"I didn't pay attention to when she left." He Ran turned his eyes away, looking a little unnatural. After a moment, he turned the conversation to Lu Wan. "Did you see what was said in the group just now?"

Lu Wan slowly said, "Ah," and He Ran's gaze swept over her face. "They were cursing you pretty badly. Later, I didn't see you in the rest area, so I came out to take a look."

"..." Lu Wan seemed to carefully follow the logical relationship among these things. Soon, her fair face turned a little red. "No, no. The competition is about to end. I don't care about what was said in the group. I just came out to buy water for the competition staff."

"Oh," He Ran said.

"It's okay then," he said, lifting his hand and weighing the heavy box of mineral water in his hand. His face looked calm and composed. "Let's go back."

It seemed that He Ran was not interested in the fact that Guo An left early, nor did he think it was a big deal.

Finding Lu Wan and confirming that she had not been angered by what was said in the group was what he wanted to do.

He Ran turned around to return to the gymnasium. As he lifted his foot, the girl behind him pulled his sleeve. He turned his head and saw the girl standing behind him saying, "Um, He Ran, don't say things that are easily misunderstood in front of so many people in the future, regardless of whether you have anything to do with Guo An or not. This makes me very embarrassed."

The young man fell silent for a moment and muttered, "What relationship do I have with her?"

Then, a nonchalant expression appeared on his handsome face. "Which sentence are you referring to that I said?"

The little deer behind him, who was pulling his sleeve, suddenly blushed all the way up to her neck.

"Let's go. Don't worry about those things. Why do you care so much about her?" He Ran said.

"Okay," the little deer replied.

Ten meters away.

Guo An: "..."

[Jiaojiao: Are you okay? Don't cry. Be strong.]

Guo An (parrot mimicry.JPG) (weird yin-yang expression.GIF): "Why do you care so much about her?"

[Jiaojiao: ...]

Guo An: "Yuer!"

[Jiaojiao: ...]

[Jiaojiao: Okay, you're fine.]

Author's note: An An: Stop talking, Natty!

Friendly reminder: This guy is here to find An An.

Friendly reminder two: Regarding the original female lead, Lu Wan, if she doesn't turn into a one-dimensional, scheming and full of loopholes villainess, then we would just be deceiving readers with a false premise of a novel featuring a villainess. We are not interested in playing that game, and you will find that if we switch the perspective, she is simply fulfilling her duty as the female lead in a CEO romance novel.

Friendly reminder three: The young master He has done some despicable things, but we cannot dispose of him just yet as he still has some use (although not for the purpose of making readers angry).

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