As for He Ran’s favorability levels, on this night, after the two had another big argument, it inexplicably went up from [40] to [45]. 

Gou An took off the bath towel and looked down at the underwear she wore today—

Pink.

It was very much in accordance with the lucky color rules of today’s Five Elements of Dressing [Popularity, Social interaction].

No wonder there were so many good things that happened today—she got a lot of crazy points after one meal!

A certain stupid cat who incarnated as a system was also happy because tonight two Sons of Fortune of this world have increased their favorability points. He was full of food and drink, and was happy in body and mind. Now he was wagging his long tail and talking arrogantly.

[Jiaojiao: Come on, work hard, I know you are working hard now OvO, but as long as He Ran’s favorability score reaches 60, the system will activate the secondary system function <The Story of Your Life is My Gorgeous Epitaph>, and we will be able to see the detailed plot about He Ran.]

Although the name of the secondary function was really unfortunate, Gou An realized that this broken Windows 98 system could actually be upgraded and evolve.

[Jiaojiao: Of course it will evolve! Do you think I lied to you? Don’t you realize that now you only know a rough outline of all the original plots and character relationships?]

Gou An: “I know, it’s why I’ve been cursing all day long. Do you think I’m just in a bad mood and wanted to curse?”

[Jiaojiao:…]

[Jiaojiao: He Ran’s character basically runs through the whole text. If you know his plot, you can predict many main plots happening. He is very useful!]

Gou An: “…sounds quite tempting. If I go to school and wash his feet tomorrow, do you think my favorability can reach 60?”

[Jiaojiao: Can you be more serious!]

Gou An: “No! because I’m so annoyed with He Ran right now that I don’t want to be favorable with him at all.”

There was a kind of bad performance where the heroine has not yet exerted much effort, and the vicious female supporting character already wanted to give up the task first.

At this time, Gou jiejie¹, who had just taken a shower, was happily doing skin care on herself. While chatting with the silly cat, she was combing through her long hair with her fingers. She was sitting at the dressing table, smelling particularly nice. She was just about to relax and watch a variety show before sleeping when the phone vibrated.

[JIUJIU:² Do you remember the exam at the beginning of school next week? It will show rankings per major, have you opened the books? Have you reviewed?]

Gou An took a screenshot of the variety show she had just opened and been watching for five minutes and sent it to her.

The other person responded quickly and sent her a photo.

The background of the photo was the university’s study room. It’s almost 11:30 in the evening. The lights were still brightly lit in the study room. In addition to the seniors who were planning to stay up late and work hard for their postgraduate entrance examination, in the corner of the study room, a very familiar figure was sitting very low-key.

Wearing a white shirt, jeans, and simple black-framed glasses perched on the bridge of her nose, her soft long black hair naturally rested on her thin shoulders as she wrote.

She had her head lowered, but even from such a distance, one could still see the tip of her straight and small nose. Her eyelashes were very long, and she was a top-notch beauty no matter how you looked at her…

It was Lu Wan.

The men in Domineering CEO novels may have no brains, but they cannot have no eyes. The market for pitiful, little, white flowers—innocent and pure—have passed. Now we have gone back to the original standard and returned to the era of ancient novels which featured the heroines who were the most beautiful in their world. The heroine was the most popular. She was so beautiful that everyone around her was crazy about her—

Gou An looked at herself in the mirror without expression. She wasn’t ugly, but to be honest, she was not as good-looking as Lu Wan.

A natural beauty like that could make a person mad. Gou An has been pampered for twenty years. But no matter how expensive the skin care products were, they cannot compare to the heroine with built-in cheats who only washes her face with water every morning.

Gou An pushed away from the mirror and opened her cell phone which was still buzzing and vibrating.

[JIUJIU: This classmate who is working hard today seems to be determined to do well in the exam… I heard that the one who takes first place in the opening exam will give the speech at the freshman orientation festival at the end of the month.]

Gou An had no interest in the freshman’s orientation speech.

[JIUJIU: I don’t know what the benefits of being in the limelight are.]

[HOLD ON GOU CAN WIN³: The first place will receive a scholarship of 3,000 yuan, and I guess you can get a good reputation in the Department and get a good part-time job from the work-study program.]

[JIUJIU: Work-study program?]

[HOLD ON GOU CAN WIN: Yeah, she lives in Zhaipu District.]

[JIUJIU:?]

[JIUJIU: So outrageous?]

[JIUJIU: You know your love rival very well.]

Gou An sneered.

[HOLD ON GOU CAN WIN: He Ran ‘kindly’ gave me some news flash tonight. The news is fresh and hot.]

[JIUJIU: …]

In this three dots, Gou An saw infinite sympathy from her friend.

She was a little annoyed. She quit WeChat and was about to continue watching the variety show. At this time, the cat in her mind rolled around and meowed and started its popular knowledge again——

[Jiaojiao: Hey, it seems that Lu Wan did get the first place for this opening exams. If I remember correctly, this is almost the beginning of the plot of the original novel.]

Gou An: “…”

“Wait— I’ve almost gone crazy from being tortured. And now you tell me that the first chapter of the original novel hasn’t even been started yet??”

From The Day The Engagement Was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 9.2 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.3 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 9.4 — The Hero and Heroine Meet
Chapter 10.1 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 10.2 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 10.3 — Don’t Use Honorifics
Chapter 11.1 — Young Uncle
Chapter 11.2 — Young Uncle
Chapter 11.3 — Young Uncle
Chapter 12.1 — Conflict During the Welcome Speech
Chapter 12.2 — Conflict During the Welcome Speech
Chapter 13.1 — He Ran Makes an Official Announcement on Weibo new
Chapter 13.2 — He Ran Makes an Official Announcement on Weibo new
Chapter 14.1 — The Gears of Fate Rumble new
Chapter 14.2 — The Gears of Fate Rumble new

FOOTNOTES:

1. jiejie or jie means ‘older sister’, not necessarily blood related. I’m keeping it in pinyin because it will come up a lot—it’s actually a plot point—and using the English equivalent is unwieldy. ↩︎
2. Jiujiu (as in alcohol/liquor) is the WeChat name of Gou An’s timid friend, Tang Xinjiu. Xinjiu means fragrant/spicy wine ↩︎
3. Gou An’s WeChatname is a battlegame chat reference and fully translates to ‘Hold on, Don’t Be Afraid, I Can Win This‘—but it’s too long in English so I fudged it a bit. When a player in a team is in dire straits, the strategy is for the player to escape/avoid confrontation and give his teammates time to rescue him. This is called ‘gou zhou’ meaning ‘hold on’. It’s the same character as Gou An’s surname. So Gou An’s chat name is a phrase said by the player’s teammates to reassure them.  ↩︎