A Rotten Peach Blossom Clings to a Good Tree

Li Yiyan gestured to Aunt Liu and walked over to Mu Yuqing.

"Are you here to see Little Chen?"

Mu Yuqing tightly gripped the hem of her clothes. Now she was finally certain that she had not been mistaken—the color of Li Yiyan's aura had changed.

Li Yiyan had become the male lead of this world.

Why? Why?

Mu Yuqing's mind spun wildly as she recalled the descriptions in the novel. Clearly, Li Yichen was supposed to become the final ruler of the Li Household. How had that suddenly changed? Where had things gone wrong?

After thinking for a long time, Mu Yuqing suddenly seemed to realize something. Based on the current timeline, Li Yiyan should have died in an accident half a month ago.

In the original novel, she and Li Yichen had argued. To avoid him, she had fled into the mountains, and Li Yichen had chased after her. In the end, she and Li Yichen had both been rescued safely, but Li Yiyan had fallen off a cliff and died while searching the mountains for his younger brother.

But now, Li Yichen had suddenly started working at Shen Corporation some time ago. Her chances to meet him had become few and far between, so how could they have had the chance to argue? As a result, that entire plotline had vanished.

Li Yiyan had not died, so he had become the one in power at Li Corporation.

That was why Li Yiyan's identity had changed.

"No, Brother Li, I came to see you. Thank you so much for specially finding a doctor to treat my eyes. I'd like to treat you to a meal. Do you have time?" Having reached her conclusion, Mu Yuqing quickly adjusted her expression and smiled at Li Yiyan.

Her goal was to become the female lead of this world—the future Mrs. Li. No matter who the male lead was, she could simply fall in love with someone else.

Hearing Mu Yuqing's words, Li Yiyan's brain failed to react for a moment.

Shen Jingmo thoughtfully glanced upstairs.

Zhu Yu was utterly stunned, his eyeballs nearly popping out. She had said that to the wrong person, hadn't she?

--[Is this woman sick? Which eye of hers saw that Li Yiyan had specially found a doctor for her? Anyone with eyes could tell that he had only compromised because of his younger brother, okay?]

--[I'm finding this woman harder and harder to understand. Shouldn't she be saying that to Li Yichen? Why was she suddenly saying it to Li Yiyan? Something's wrong, very wrong. What did I miss?]

Downstairs, Li Yiyan heard Zhu Yu's words and nodded furiously. Something had definitely happened.

"Miss Mu, you're too polite. Little Chen was the one who asked me to find you a doctor. If you want to treat someone to a meal, you should invite Little Chen."

"I know. A-Chen has helped me a lot, but I can't find him right now, so I wanted to treat Brother Li first. Besides, if I appeared before A-Chen now, he might grab me again. That wouldn't be good for either of us."

"I like A-Chen very much too, but I like him as a younger brother."

Crack, crack... Zhu Yu desperately needed a big truck to haul away the shattered pieces of himself.

What kind of bizarre statement was that? The female lead said she did not like the male lead and saw him as a younger brother?

--[What nonsense. Why don't you say you like Li Yiyan and treat Li Yichen as a substitute? If you dare say that, I'll at least respect you as a real tough woman.]

Li Yiyan involuntarily took a step back as well. Could this woman really have been sent by a rival company to drive a wedge between him and Little Chen?

The hall fell completely silent in that instant. There was not a single sound, save for the tick-tock of the antique clock.

Zhu Yu clutched his head tightly, trying his hardest to recall exactly which part had gone wrong.

--[Ah! I know!!!]

Shen Jingmo and Li Yiyan's eyes lit up when they heard that. He knew? Hurry up and say it.

--[I just checked the date. In the original novel, Li Yiyan should have fallen off a cliff and died in an accident more than half a month ago.]

--[But because of an unexpected factor, Li Yichen started working at Shen Corporation a month ago, completely disrupting the timing of Li Yichen and Mu Yuqing's meetings. They barely met at all, much less argued and ran into the mountains.]

--[That allowed Li Yiyan to escape his great life-or-death calamity. If Li Yiyan didn't die, Li Yichen couldn't possibly become the one in power at Li Corporation. This world is a domineering-CEO novel; the male lead can only be a domineering CEO.]

--[So could that have caused this world's male lead to change? For example, Li Yiyan has now become the male lead, so the female lead's preferred man, based on this world's prevailing consciousness, has become Li... Yi... Yan!!! Oh my god, what a rotten peach blossom clinging to a good tree!!!]

After hearing Zhu Yu's inner voice, Shen Jingmo and Li Yiyan exchanged stunned looks.

Shen Jingmo: This world is a novel? What kind of joke is that?

Li Yiyan: Just because I didn't die, I have to end up with this rotten peach blossom?

Mu Yuqing did not receive a definite reply and was just about to step forward.

But before her foot could touch the floor, Li Yiyan stopped her. "Don't move!!! Let me process this."

Upstairs, Zhu Yu stood by the railing, sorting through the overwhelming amount of information.

Just as Zhu Yu finished sorting it out, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be another person involved in the room behind him.

Li Yichen had not heard Mu Yuqing, had he? If he heard that, wouldn't he explode?

Zhu Yu took a breath, then turned around and met a pair of bloodshot eyes.

Zhu Yu jumped in fright and retreated several steps until his back hit the wall. Li Yichen's eyes had not mutated, had they?

Watching his friend, who looked like steam was about to rise from his head, Shen Jingyan silently reached out and fanned him from the side.

(KK had something to say:

Mini Theater

After the male lead became Li Yiyan

Little Fish was completely dumbfounded: This part wasn't in the book! Was this some newly added play?

Shen Jingmo: What's the big deal? But what's this about the world being a book?

Li Yiyan looked at Shen Jingmo and gave a cold laugh. Sure enough, when the fire isn't burning you, it doesn't hurt. You won't die either. When Su Duoduo starts clinging to you later, let's see what you do then.

Shen Jingmo: ...What kind of bizarre rotten peach blossom is this? KK, remove it! I'm going to have a wife someday.

KK hugged the book and pen, looking left and right. How about I let you all write this book instead?

Starting tomorrow, KK will update two chapters a day (◦˙▽˙◦)

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