From ancient times to the present, it seemed that no awakened female supporting character has ever spent a long time after awakening to find out that there was actually a big traitor around her.

It was like a ridiculous, large-scale, werewolf killing spree, where you kill like crazy only to find out in the end that the biggest wolf was right next to you.¹

The funniest thing was that from the moment Gou An woke up, she had been waiting for her reunion with Ye Lang and was naively thinking that—this time—she would be very good to him from the start…. If she could, she would convince her parents to let her cancel the engagement with He Ran, and then she would confess her love to Mr. Bodyguard as soon as possible.

It fit the mindset of a young girl very well. If she could start over again, she would make up for all the wrong things that happened—including not wasting even a single day to be with the person she liked.

However, Gou An never expected that all her waiting and longing would collapse the moment Lu Wan walked into Ye Lang’s home with ease.

The biggest setback in her life actually came from the intentional actions of the person closest to her——

If the handcuffs in that policeman’s hand were put on her by He Jinxing himself, then they must have been carefully handcrafted and customized by Ye Lang long ago and kept for later use.

For a moment, Gou An was really shocked and stunned. She didn’t know what expression she should use to face Ye Lang.

The other party had no idea of her mood at the moment——

He didn’t even understand how after being locked in the closet for just two minutes, the person in front of him suddenly looked completely different—as if she had been to the kingdom of Narnia and spent a few months being king…

The way she looked at him was almost as if she was frozen.

“What’s wrong?”

Ye Lang finally couldn’t help asking.

He was not a very curious person, but at this moment he couldn’t help himself. Maybe he was even a little surprised.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the little miss curled up in the closet take a deep breath, close her eyes, open them again, stare at him intently for three seconds, and suddenly ask, “Are you familiar with Lu Wan?”

“?” Ye Lang was stunned for a moment and asked, “Do you know Lu Wan?”

He didn’t react much to her question about Lu Wan. On the contrary, Ye Lang found that he cared more about the fact that she was finally willing to speak again. He actually breathed a sigh of relief.

Wolf ge, who could fight with people on the streets without blinking an eye even if his head was injured and bloody, was actually a little scared by a little miss just now.

Ye Lang watched her fall silent again after hearing his question and then slowly crawl out of the closet.

The wardrobe was very low, and it was a bit difficult for her to move. Seeing this, Ye Lang wanted to help pull her out, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, she dodged to the side like seeing a snake or scorpion.

Ye Lang was stunned again.

After all, last night, this scruffy, little wild cat followed him down the water pipe without saying a word, and after landing on the ground, she climbed onto his back without hesitation and went home with a man who was a complete stranger to her…

Are you just realizing now that you need to be wary?

His dark pupils were still silent and numb, but for a moment there was a flash of unpleasant light.

Gou An didn’t see it. She just climbed out and stood beside the closet. She raised her hand to tidy up her long, curly hair, which was a little messy because she had just gotten out of bed then directly hid in the closet. 

She paused, tilted her head, and asked the person in front of her, “So, do you know who I am?”

Ye Lang shook his head.

He was just about to say that he wasn’t interested in knowing who she was.

At this time, the person in front of him said in a suicidal and aggressive tone, “My name is Gou An. I am Gou Yu’s daughter, He Ran’s fiancée, the one who poured red wine on Lu Wan’s head last week, and stole her scholarship from the opening-of-school exam the day before yesterday.”

The cowardly and fearful person suddenly gained courage and revealed her identity.

Unfortunately, the only response to her bravery was a boring silence.

Gou An raised her head and looked at the familiar handsome face in front of her. He still lacked emotion and looked a little slow to react. She never got tired of seeing him like this before…

Above his head, something resembling computer gibberish was flickering—

The [I See The Ebb and Flow of His Love] system function finally came up.

The display was so dark that she could hardly see it.

[Favorabilty: 10]

There was even a huge exclamation mark above the favorability display.

It told anyone who saw it in a simple and crude way how dangerous the person standing in front of her was to her.

There was no such exclamation mark when He Jinxing’s favorability level was down to [10].

The stupid system cat that had been yelling about tea eggs all morning suddenly fell silent. It seemed to have shut down for a few seconds. When it spoke again, its voice was more serious than Gou An has ever heard it before.

[Jiao Jiao: There is an exclamation mark because this person quite simply has a very bad impression of you. It’s unlike how He Jinxing was at that time—he just feels that way about everyone.]

[Jiao Jiao: You can’t make any more mistakes. If you talk now, you might lose 10 points, and that will be really troublesome.]

[Jiao Jiao: Run, don’t look back.]

She ran, and she didn’t look back.

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Ye Lang finally realized that the person he rescued last night was actually the culprit who caused Lu Wan’s series of misfortunes.

Of course he hated this precious young lady of the Gou family, of whom he had only heard stories about. It could even be said that because of Lu Wan’s incident, had he had known that the person he met last night was her—

He might still have saved her.

But he would never have taken her away from the chaotic quagmire at that time and would have just let her fend for herself.

The current plot development was too dramatic. It turned that that he was so kind-hearted that he actually rescued the eldest daughter of the Gou family who bullied Lu Wan?

While he still didn’t know how to react appropriately to the situation (such as chase her away etc.), the wild cat in front of him reacted before him—

Her dark, almond-shaped eyes flashed with inexplicable resentment and determination. She pushed him away with her shoulder and flew to the side of the table!

She grabbed the hot congee on the table and threw it at him!

After doing all this, without giving the stunned Ye Lang even half a second to react, she turned around and ran away!

Knocking the door open then slamming it shut, she ran down the corridor in her dirty, tattered slippers, making ‘clack, clack’ sounds that reached his ears. Judging from the frequency of ‘clacks’, she must have been running for her life.

Ye Lang paused for two seconds and finally came to his senses.

From the tips of his hair down to his chin, hot congee dripped down in a textured track.

The shower he took just now was completely wasted.

Theoretically, no matter how much Ye Lang hated the person in front of him who repaid kindness with enmity, he would not really bring such a little girl back just to beat her up…

But at this moment, he felt a little abnormal—as if he heard something in his mind and he suddenly felt disconnected.

Without even having time to deal with the congee dripping from his hair down to his shoulders, the tall man wiped his face, turned around, and chased after her without hesitation.

He had long legs, and he could easily catch up with the girl running in front of him in just a few steps and a turn.

He saw her scrambling to run away on tattered and ill-fitting slippers—which he himself had thrown to her by the way—holding up the hem of her skirt, stumbling and running like a headless fly out to the shabby alleyway…

The old lady selling breakfast downstairs stood there stunned.

Ye Lang saw her run away in the opposite direction of the exit to this area of tube buildings. He was about to laugh at this young lady, thinking that she might just be stupidly running away so he could catch her—

At this moment, as he watched her running wildly ahead of him, she raised her dirty arm and hastily wiped her eyes.

“…”

Is she crying?

Ye Lang was puzzled.

Last night he did a good deed, but today, not only did he not hear a single ‘thank you’ from her, but wasn’t he the one who got splashed with near-boiling hot congee?

Why was she the one crying?

The pursuit stopped abruptly, and Ye Lang stood in front of a breakfast shop, stunned for a moment, watching the panicked figure truly and completely disappear before his eyes…

“A’ Lang, what are you doing? You look so embarrassed… Oh, were you chasing that little girl?”

In the breakfast shop, the familiar lady boss poked her head out and asked, filled with curiousity, her eyes gleaming with gossip, “Did you bully her?”

Ye Lang withdrew his gaze, and his face returned to the blank expression he sported in the beginning.

“No.”

He said.

“It doesn’t matter.”

The second half was said to himself.

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

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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

1. I think Gou An is referring to the game ‘Werewolf’ here, where the players are assigned characters like ‘werewolf’, ‘villager’, ‘guardsman’ etc. and you’re supposed to find out who the ‘werewolf’ is without being killed by it yourself. An old school ‘Among Us’ game. ↩︎