[Jiaojiao: Yes, yes, we’re really not there yet! Because I remember that at the beginning of the original work, Lu Wan and He Ran was the default couple as far as everyone knew at school!]

Gou An: “Have Lu Wan and He Ran kissed?”

[Jiaojiao: Huh?]

Gou An: “Probably not. After all, readers now strictly require the main characters to be clean… but it would be better if they kiss. Then someone would definitely scold the author up to their eighteenth generation ancestors for me. Well, I can still hope they get scolded.”

[Jiaojiao:…]

[Jiaojiao: Lu Wan delivered a speech at the freshman welcome orientation, and in the auditorium where she delivered the speech, she met He Jinxing, who had sponsored a scholarship and came as a guest. This was the first time He Jinxing had an impression of Lu Wan! She’s his nephew’s girlfriend or something, hee hee!]

Gou An just listened casually and didn’t take the information seriously at all.

What’s so great about the fact that the heroine got first place in the exam? Even if the heroine wasn’t the first place, and it was the vicious female supporting character instead who was in first place, this novel probably still wouldn’t be renamed ‘The Biography of Gou An’—

Alas.

Etc, etc.

Gou An: “Wait, did He Jinxing first meet Lu Wan at the freshman welcome address?”

[Jiaojiao: Yes?]

[Jiaojiao: Before this, He Jinxing only knew that Young Master He wanted to break off his engagement with his fiancée that the family has approved of, but he did not insist on finding out more about this outsider who was He Ran’s schoolmate. He originally thought that Lu Wan was the kind of person who wanted to take advantage of having saved He Ran back then… Later, when he saw her at the freshman welcome address, he realized that she was not that kind of person.]

[Jiaojiao: Later, after various incidents, he gradually changed his view of Lu Wan and started paying attention to her.]

[Jiaojiao: Then the two of them fell in love the night you went crazy and drugged them, and then they got engaged in a flash—speaking of this, the original work can be regarded as having the tag ‘marriage first, love later’!]

Gou An: “Then did they thank me? Was I allowed to sit at the head table during the wedding banquet?”

[Jiaojiao: No, weren’t you eating prison meals in jail while they were having the wedding banquet?]

Gou An: “…”

[Jiaojiao: By the way, when you think about it, if He Jinxing’s feelings for Lu Wan also has a scoring system, in Chapter 1—which counts as the beginning of the book’s timeline—Lu Wan’s impression score and favorability level should not be much higher than yours.]

Gou An: “…”

Gou An: “If the favorability level is even lower than mine, does it mean it’s zero? How come He Jinxing’s scoring standards for everyone is so outrageous… No, fat cat, is there a possibility that our novel is actually of the ‘alien sci fi’ type? That, in fact, the male protagonist doesn’t like humans at all and he—”

[Jiaojiao: Stop farting nonsense. I’m telling you this to remind you. Look, the heroine is staying up late and working overtime to get higher scores in the exam. But you, you, you! What are you doing?]

Gou An: “The Book of Dao and Its Virtues says, if you don’t fight, then you win.”

[Jiaojiao: …. Bah! You and your crooked ways!]

Gou An yawned: “I want to sleep.”

[Jiaojiao: Go to sleep, and then in a few years you can wait for He Jinxing to hold Lu Wan’s hand, sit on the leather sofa in Gou Yu’s office on the top floor of the Gou Building, and kiss her.]

Gou An: “…”

Damn it.

With a dark face, Gou An pushed away the phone, pulled out a text book from the desk, then found the eyeglasses she used to protect her eyesight and put them on the bridge of her nose.

[Jiaojiao: What’s the situation now?]

“The scene you described was too detailed and disgusting.” Gou An calmly turned the text book to the page that needed to be reviewed, and clicked her pen, “So the vicious female supporting character suddenly decided to sabotage things—I will give away the three thousand yuan scholarship intact. The heroine can have it, but doesn’t the hero appreciate academic mastery? I’d rather work hard and have him appreciate me instead.”

… …

In the original work, the great heroine, Lu Wan, had indeed won the highest scholarship set by the school by achieving top overall score , as well as the student number with the rank of ‘No. 1’.

Gou An was the ‘No. 2’.

To be honest, if the old Gou An—the vicious female supporting character in the original novel—had not deliberately sought death, her life would have been pretty easy: she looked pretty good, excelled in her studies, had a harmonious family, and her parents were protective of her shortcomings—which was a very standard profile for an honorable daughter of wealthy family.

This awakened Gou An studied hard and declined all social interactions.

… …

With He Ran protecting Lu Wan at the cruise ship incident, and the belated recognition of their beautiful childhood memories with her his real white moonlight, plus the incident of passing him bottled water at the gym stadium that day, the relationship between He Ran and Lu Wan developed by leaps and bounds—and Lu Wan finally stopped rejecting Young Master He’s frequent advances…

The two were spotted meeting each other in various corners of the campus many times. 

Nothing really out of the ordinary had been observed, but the atmosphere between them was harmonious enough.

Just as the silly cat system said, in the first chapter of the original work, Young Master He and the heroine were poised at the beginning of their relationship. The closer they got to the first chapter of the original work, the more stable the relationship between these two people became.

His white moonlight has returned, and He Ran was very happy.

As a result, Gou An’s position became more and more embarrassing, and the rumors surrounding her never stopped—

The most prevailing theory was that she probably relied on being He Ran’s childhood sweetheart, and she wanted to get close to him first, but in the end, she was in vain.

Fortunately, they didn’t know the story about the real and fake white moonlight incident, otherwise Gou An would have already been flayed to death by them.

Marriage First, Love Later translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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There is a very vocal segment of c-novel readers who prefer the mains to be ‘pure’ prior to getting together, and authors would try to comply or simply gloss over the past to avoid getting flamed. As you may have noticed, this story was written VERY tongue-in-cheek, with Gou An in particular—as the awakened character—always throwing shade at the genre.

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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