After Her Mind Is Read, the Slacker Cannon Fodder Supporting Character Adopts a Zen Attitude

An aloof heroine who truly wants nothing out of life except to die × a domineering CEO who is mercilessly sharp-tongued to everyone else, but a bedraggled puppy in front of her.

After a car accident, Shen Zhiyi becomes self-aware and realizes she is a minor cannon fodder character in an old-school domineering CEO novel-an NPC who disappears a second after making her entrance.

As cannon fodder, all she wants after finishing her part in the plot is to quietly wait for death. Unfortunately, the main villain insists on following her around, and no amount of rejection makes him stop.

She thinks, Whatever. I'm going to die anyway. Being annoyed to death still counts as dying, right?

One day, Chi Ye hears someone's thoughts. That someone happens to be Shen Zhiyi, the woman who has been tied to his bed.

This woman has a cold face and an even colder heart. Her thoughts are simple and straightforward: every day, she is either cursing him or wishing she were dead.

She glances at the balcony eight hundred times a day, or fixes her gaze on the endless stream of traffic. Whenever she does, she is thinking about death.

Drawing on the last scraps of his conscience, Chi Ye decides to save this woman who seems to have absolutely no will to live.

From then on, Shen Zhiyi's thoughts become nothing but:

He's so annoying. Is there something wrong with him? He seems even more psychologically troubled than I am. Why would he want me to kiss him? Yep, there's definitely something wrong with Chi Ye.

To everyone else, Chi Ye is the king of swagger, ready to mouth off at heaven, earth, and even the air itself. After meeting Shen Zhiyi, however, he turns into a bedraggled puppy.

He is always gazing at Shen Zhiyi with a wounded expression, the corners of his eyes red, pleading,

"Please pay attention to me, Shen Zhiyi."

Or, when Shen Zhiyi looks toward the balcony, he shields her with his entire body and chokes out,

"Please kiss me, Shen Zhiyi."

Shen Zhiyi thinks, All right, I'll give Chi Ye a kiss. He looks even more pitiful than I do.