Her fiancé, the male supporting character who was originally going to cancel their engagement, suddenly announced her identity as his fiancée—and the hero even took her home in his car.

The heroine…

Perhaps she could only take the last bus home in tears?

Was this the treatment of a female supporting character who awakened? Once the female supporting character awakened, was she destined to win a great victory and completely become the biggest obstacle to the heroine’s success?

This was not impossible. Let’s not even talk about her future as a female supporting character. As long as Lu Wan—as the heroine—was not able to manipulate the He family, then at least He Jinxing wouldn’t bring a truckload of police officers to handcuff her and drag her away. This miserable scene will never appear—

Hahahahaha!

[Jiaojiao: Aren’t you being too naive?]

Gou An:?

[Jiaojiao: Have you never read a domineering CEO romance novel? According to statistics, the first 35% of traditional domineering CEO novels are devoted to sadomasochism. Isn’t it normal for the heroine to suffer some setbacks? First, the hero and the heroine are separated, then the hero comes to power, and then the hero and the heroine who had been separated are reunited…]

Gou An is still a little unconvinced: But that fool He Ran just announced me—

[Jiaojiao: Haven’t you seen the plot where the hero or the male supporting character abandons the heroine to look for the female supporting character because of some trivial matter? The heroine is heartbroken and the female supporting character shows off her power! This is a familiar trope that you can guess without needing to read the original work! The plot has come to the ‘separation’ of the male supporting character and is nearing the heroine’s ‘separation and reunification’ with the hero!!]

Gou An:? ? ? ?

Gou An: What the hell?

[Jiaojiao: This is how scripts are written. Wake up, female supporting character!]

How would the male supporting character and the hero stage a sadomasochistic love affair with the heroine? Of course, a vicious female supporting character who has temporarily defeated the heroine was indispensable…

If the script at this moment had a storyboard——

The heroine would be sitting on a shabby bus, leaning her head against the window and staring at the night scene of the street outside with tears streaming down her face;

On the other end, a picture of the vicious female  supporting character sitting in the hero’s Maybach, thinking that she has won, the corners of her lips raised in a crazy smile.

Gou An:……

Turning her head, Gou An saw her reflection in the window: the corners of her lips were indeed curled up in pleasure like a fortune cat. She wordlessly raised her hands to pull the corners of her lips back down to their original arc.

Gou An: So what I did just now was part of a process to get the heroine to go through some mental abuse?

[Jiaojiao: Yes.]

[Jiaojiao: You’ve set your own pace well. You are worthy of being the author’s female supporting character and a good tool for plot development.]

[Jiaojiao: Wait, let me check the system tools if you can be rewarded with some scraps— Okay, no. No rewards.]

Gou An:……

Gou An: Can you be even more stingy?

Gou An: Can’t the system provide something useful like beautiful eyes, silky skin, or peerless treasures. Or at least—

[Jiaojiao: Which website did you read your domineering CEO novel?]

Gou An: … something to reduce the pores on the tip of the nose?

[Jiaojiao:…]

Gou An: So stingy.

[Jiaojiao: Here is a reminder from us stingy people: During the period when the male supporting character and the heroine briefly break up, the heroine may use some tricks to get close to the hero by accident.]

Gou An:……

[Jiaojiao: I don’t know the specific plot. At present, we can only see the parts of the plot related to your various attempts at courting death that would promote the progress of the script.]

Gou An: Tell me what is your use!

[Jiaojiao: It’s all because the hero’s favorability towards you is too low, isn’t it? We can’t see any plot points other than what’s related to you. How can you blame me? Meow meow meow!]

Gou An: Stupid cat, don’t you dare inflict PUA¹ on me. But to be perfectly fair, He Jinxing’s favorability level has increased a little bit tonight——

[Jiaojiao: Always be vigilant!]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

He Jinxing was originally replying to an email, and while he was thinking about what to say, he caught a glimpse of the little miss sitting next to him suddenly getting excited.

The whole person went stiff.

Then she let out a nervous hiccup.

He Jinxing glanced at her in confusion, “Cold?”

Gou An shook her head wildly, thought for a moment, and nodded again. At this time, without any additional instructions from Mr. He, the driver in front turned off the air conditioner and lowered the windows.

The car drove sedately into a high-end villa community where both the Gou and He families lived. The community was built on the mountainside, covered with greenery and sparsely populated. The early autumn evening breeze mixed with the smell of earth and tuberose blew into the car.

The Gou family lived a little nearer, and the Maybach stopped at the gates of the familiar yard. Gou An couldn’t wait to open the door and climb out of the car.

The sound of the door slamming was quite loud.

He Jinxing raised his eyebrows.

The Maybach restarted, and at this time, a head peeked in from the open window in the rear seat——

The little miss who left with a slam of the car door has turned back, not knowing that she was almost deducted favorability points again. At this time, she was leaning on the edge of the window looking at the man sitting inside, her dark eyes moving uneasily in her eye sockets…

She hesitated to speak.

He Jinxing recalled that he only said the word ‘cold’ to her as a question in the car tonight, so he couldn’t figure out what kind of mistake he has made for her to treat him like this, looking at him timidly like he was a murderer.

“Ah… um, Young Uncle.”

The young lady’s canvas shoes were almost sparking as they rubbed against the asphalt road outside.

“Thank you for tonight.” She blinked, “I’m sorry that your suit jacket got dirty.”

When the opened bottle of Coke was thrown at her, half of the contents spilled on Gou An, and when the two of them were fighting for the microphone, his suit jacket fell to the ground during the struggle and who knew which one of them stepped on it…

It did get dirty.

It didn’t matter to He Jinxing.

However, before he had time to speak, the little miss’ white arms had already stretched out from the gap in the window without any warning, “I will take it to the shop where my dad often gets his suits dry cleaned, get them washed, and make sure they are cleaned perfectly before returning them to you.”

The white and delicate hands were spread out in front of Mr. He. The fingers were not slender, but because they never did housework, they looked a little fleshy, delicate and soft——

It was accompanied by a faint, sweet aroma, as if the bottle of over-sweet Coke had splashed and invaded her bloodstream.

He Jinxing raised his eyelids and lazily looked at the person outside the window gap. With her head and arms—almost half of her upper body—thrust into the car, the little miss blinked sincerely.

As if to say: Why are you hesitating?

He looked for a long time.

Gou An, who was half-lying on the car door, felt that the atmosphere in the car relaxed for a moment.

“Okay.”

This was the second word He Jinxing said to Gou An after getting in the car tonight. It replaced ‘good night’ and became their last conversation that night.

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

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Chapter 15.1 — Soft and gentle
Chapter 15.2 — Soft and gentle

FOOTNOTE:

1. PUA originally meant pick-up artist but it has since come to refer to emotional manipulation in a relationship, telling the other person they’re not good enough in subtle ways and undermining their self-esteem. ↩︎