During the argument with the fat cat, her legs hanging on the edge of the bed swung, and then lightly stepped on the ground. Then, as if some nerve was touched, only then did Gou An feel the hangover headache sweeping over her.

She shook her head.

“What’s wrong?” asked someone from not far away.

“Headache.”

Her tone habitually carried the pampered attitude that Miss Gou had long been accustomed to taking towards her bodyguard.

“…”

[Jiao Jiao: Meow hahahahaha kakaka! ]

[Jiao Jiao: His expression right now is quite interesting, why don’t you look up and take a look—it seems like he really regrets asking you “what’s wrong”.]

Looking at the coffin-like face with ‘When are you leaving?’ and ‘Go away’ written all over it from a few meters away, Gou An suddenly felt that this ‘start over again’ experience was actually a pitfall. This person currently disliked her so much and she had to brush up favorability points again…

Why do I have to start from the beginning even though I’ve already completed the walkthrough?

[Jiaojiao: Because you activated the ‘system’ instead of a ‘golden finger’. ]

Gou An had a blank expression on her face, but in fact, she was wondering what level she would have to reach to obtain the function ‘shut down the system’… Even ‘mute system’ would be fine. As long as she was given a goal, she would definitely work hard to reach it.

[Jiaojiao: I know the answer to this question. Raise the favorability levels of the hero, supporting characters, and friends to the highest level. When they are all maxed out, Jiaojiao will be resurrected and will only ‘meow’ from then on!]

Gou An: …

After barely adjusting to the headache and dizziness, Gou An stood by the bed and stared at Ye Lang silently for a few seconds. She hmmed, raised her feet, spread her toes, and waggled them, “Shoes.”

Ye Lang then remembered that when he met her yesterday, she was not wearing any shoes. Without asking why, he bent down silently, found a pair of old slippers from the shabby cabinet and threw them to her.

Gou An put on the slippers, raised her head and was about to say something when someone knocked on the door from outside.

“Ye Lang, are you home?”

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

A female voice was heard from outside the door.

The voice sounded soft and young.

Inside the door, Gou An and Ye Lang frowned at the same time.

Gou An’s reaction was due to possessiveness.

Ye Lang’s was because of Gou An’s presence in his house.

Miss Gou, wearing borrowed slippers and with her hands on her hips, was wondering if she had the right to ask him who was outside the door and how was it that it looked like he knew other girls. Before she could even open her mouth, she was grabbed by the arm and stuffed into the closet.

The smell of mothballs and cheap laundry detergent instantly overwhelmed her. She covered her nose with her hands and sneezed slightly, staring at the person outside the cabinet before the door was slammed unceremoniously shut .

The cabinet was too old, and the door couldn’t be closed completely, so Gou An could still peek through the gap in the door and see the situation outside.

She watched Ye Lang walk to the front door and open it. A little head popped in from outside. Because of this action, the unexpected visitor’s long, straight black hair fell off her shoulders.

Gou An, stuck inside the closet, felt a sudden shock in her heart.

“What are you doing? Why did it take you so long to open the door? Hey, what happened last night was so scary. Are you okay?” a cheerful voice sounded. 

Just as Gou An’s heartbeat was getting faster and faster, the next second, this girl who had been speaking turned her head and looked around—

This was enough for Gou An to see her face clearly.

Lu Wan’s face, which was not made up at all but was nevertheless still delicate and beautiful, appeared before Gou An’s dark eyes.

At this moment, the girl had no idea that there was someone inside the cabinet. She took the cup of soy milk and a bowl of congee she was holding and placed them on the only table in the room with the ease of familiarity.

Then, as if she knew the personality of the person in front of her, once she put down the things she brought, she put her hands obediently behind her back and stepped back a few steps. She showed a bright smile on her face, “This breakfast is for you. Thank you for helping me arrange a temporary job at Endless Night. I was able to raise the deposit needed for grandma’s surgery.”

Ye Lang did not comment.

Lu Wan waited for a while but got no response. As if she was used to the silence of the man in front of her, she waved at him with a smile, said ‘goodbye’, and left.

The door opened and closed, and the room fell into dead silence.

A few seconds later, the cabinet door was opened. The person standing outside did not show any change in expression. He was about to call the scruffy wild cat in the closet to come out.

But then he looked into her eyes and was caught by surprise.

Those eyes were as dark as deep water, like a pond, with no bottom in sight.

“?”

Ye Lang was confused for another moment.

Instinctively, he felt that he didn’t like being looked at by the person in front of him with such a strange and numb look.

“Come out.”

He could only order her to move.

However, the person huddled in the closet did not move at all, maintaining the same posture as when he first stuffed her into the closet, her chin slightly raised. The dirty face no longer had that smile full of familiarity that had been reflected in her eyes from the beginning. She just looked at him silently.

… …

Look at this man.

The vicious female supporting character in the original novel was so evil. So simple. So stupid.

In the past, she thought that she had completely conquered her bodyguard—until her life restarted over again. Even though she knew his name actually appeared on the heroine’s original list of supporters, when she mentioned him just now, Gou An still said without any doubt: He’s my bodyguard, pure white as snow.

She even forgot that the idiot who eventually caused her to be arrested on charges of premeditated murder; the one who did not actually cause any harm at all to the heroine; he who had the wild idea of using a e-shared scooter to ‘teach someone a lesson’—this stupid person was found by Ye Lang.

With his character, he shouldn’t have made such a low-level mistake.

Gou An never once blamed him. Even when she was being pushed into a police car in front of so many people, wearing cold handcuffs on her wrists and losing all her face. She was terrified and anguished, but all she could think was: Oh, I’m so unlucky, why am I so unlucky?

She never thought about how, if someone really loved you, would he let you go astray without saying a word or even let you be charged with murder?

Wasn’t it funny?

It turned out that she had been deceived from the very beginning.

From the Day the Engagement was Broken translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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Chapter 22.1 — A Little Wild Cat
Chapter 22.2— A Little Wild Cat
Chapter 22.3 — A Little Wild Cat
Chapter 23.1 — You Go Away Too
Chapter 23.2 — You Go Away Too
Chapter 24.1 — Business Card
Chapter 24.2 — Business Card