Bo Yan nearly failed to catch his breath and staggered back several steps.
Watching the pervert crawling toward him across the floor, Bo Yan felt the veins in his forehead throb.
Unwilling to share a room with a lunatic any longer, Bo Yan turned and left, his face dark.
Though from behind, he did look rather like he was fleeing in defeat...
Silence settled over the room again.
A few minutes later, a long exhalation sounded in the room.
Wen Ning collapsed on the floor.
Barely a few seconds later, something occurred to her. She got up and kicked the combat knife on the floor under the bed.
Fuck, that scared her to death!
This villain was seriously insane. Carrying a knife around was bad enough, but he didn't even blink when killing someone!
Still, judging by his reaction just now, had she... scared him?
As unbelievable as it was, she really had escaped this calamity through her own perversion!
Still apprehensive, Wen Ning began making plans for herself.
If being a pervert worked, then from now on, she would diligently devote herself to being a good pervert!
"Hiss."
Her overexcitement pulled at her wound, and only then did Wen Ning remember the injury on her neck.
Luckily, she had dodged a little when she lunged at him, so the cut wasn't very deep.
Holding her neck, Wen Ning looked around.
She had encountered a famous scene that nearly killed her the moment she transmigrated, leaving her time for only a cursory glance at her surroundings.
Looking again now, she realized this so-called home was even more sparsely furnished than her rented place. Apart from a bed, a desk, a very shabby-looking long sofa, and a small wooden wardrobe, there was nothing.
Calling it four bare walls wouldn't have been an exaggeration.
Wen Ning remembered this. Her best friend had mentioned that although the villain had been brought back into the Bo Family, he was an unfavored illegitimate son.
On his very first day back with the Bo Family, the villain had been driven into the annex where the servants lived-and into its basement, at that.
His living conditions were worse than those of the Bo Family's servants.
After marrying the villain, the original owner had frequently mocked him over this.
When mocked, the villain would merely say listlessly, "If you're that unhappy, get a divorce."
To the original owner, getting divorced meant letting the villain do whatever he pleased in the Bo Family, which would only become an obstacle to the male lead, Bo-to the male lead.
Of course she wouldn't let the villain off so easily.
Just how devoted had the original owner been to the male lead?
Enough that Wang Baochuan would wake up to find herself knocked down to second place.
The original owner mindlessly protected the male lead. Even though the male and female leads had a child together, and the male lead had brought the female lead home, the original owner still loved him unwaveringly.
Her best friend had said the original owner had one particularly classic line. It went something like-
"Liking you is my business, not yours! I'm going to like you, until heaven and earth grow old, until the seas dry up and the rocks crumble! Even if you can stop me, you can't stop my heart!"
Wen Ning: "..."
Love brain really was something you should never touch. What kind of idiotic line was that?
Then, for the male lead's sake, came all those brain-dead plotlines: the original owner drugging the villain, joining her disreputable friends in humiliating him at a banquet, hiring someone to deliberately play dirty against him in the boxing ring, poisoning his food, and so on.
She was an outlaw through and through.
When Wen Ning had heard this part, she had even complained that the supporting female character simply had life too easy. Make her work for a few years, spend a few years as a corporate workhorse, and see whether she still had the energy for all this.
The villain really had suffered eight lifetimes of rotten luck, running into a toxic solo stan of the male lead like this supporting female character.
As for the male lead, since he was in a female-oriented novel, his male virtue had to score full marks, and he could love only the female lead for his entire life.
Wen Ning didn't know much about the plot involving the leads, or the male lead and the supporting female character.
She only vaguely remembered that the main villain regarded the female lead as the only light in his life and had secretly loved her for years. Later, he apparently nearly died taking a knife for her.
Like the formula in most romance novels, as the sole villain, Bo Yan gave all of what little affection he had to the female lead without reservation.
Unfortunately, the male lead already filled the female lead's heart, and the villain's feelings were nothing but a burden to her.
Later, during a kidnapping plot where she had to choose between the male lead and the villain, the female lead chose the male lead without hesitation. From then on, the villain blackened completely, embarking on an outlaw's road of no return that would ultimately lead to prison...
Her best friend liked only Bo Yan. Every time, it was Bo Yan this and Bo Yan that, while the other characters received no more than a passing mention.
Wen Ning remembered very little of the original plot.
Now she regretted it. She regretted it terribly!
If she'd known, she would have listened to her best friend and read this novel!
But who could have imagined that transmigrating into a book would happen to her?
"What rotten luck!"
The first-aid kit sat on the room's sole table. It looked as though the villain used it often; everything inside bore signs of frequent use.
The wounds on his body were enough to tell her that.
Grumbling and cursing, Wen Ning carried the first-aid kit into the bathroom.
The bathroom was tiny too. Almost everything on the small vanity was the original owner's toiletries.
Wen Ning found a spot to set down the first-aid kit, then raised her head to examine her wound in the mirror.
But she froze for a moment when she met the face reflected there.
It was a very... awkward-looking face.
Delicate features and striking looks, yet the makeup made her look washed out.
And then there was the white dress she wore, which looked like mourning clothes...
Wen Ning quickly understood.
It was probably another one of those classic plots where she deliberately imitated the female lead to attract the male lead's attention.
In the original novel, the female lead seemed to be a little white flower, with a pure air and elegant looks.
Wen Ning leaned closer for a look. The original owner's appearance was sixty or seventy percent similar to hers.
Both had rather deep-set, strongly defined features.
She just hadn't worked enough.
Was a man really worth all this?
Her brows tightly knitted, Wen Ning treated her wound.
She had lived alone since finishing her college entrance exams. She occasionally got hurt during her part-time jobs, so handling injuries like these came easily to her.
"The villain has rotten luck, but however rotten his luck is, it can't be worse than mine..."
As she disinfected the wound, Wen Ning muttered complaints at the person in the mirror.
"Transmigrating into a book out of nowhere, and as the vicious supporting female character, no less!"
"I'm not the one who beat him, and I'm not the one who wanted revenge on him. Doesn't your conscience hurt, dumping such a huge pot of blame on me out of thin air?"
Unfortunately, the "Wen Ning" in the mirror offered no response to her resentment.
Once she finished treating the wound, Wen Ning quickly removed her makeup.
Only when that lovely, radiant face emerged did she feel a little better.
Had Bo Yan been there, he certainly would have noticed that Wen Ning was now calm and composed, as though she had become a different person, nothing like the pervert who had clung to him and kissed him all over half an hour earlier.
This was Wen Ning's true personality.
She understood people, handled situations smoothly, and knew better than anyone how to adapt to changing circumstances.
She was more mature and steady than others her age.
Seeing no movement outside, and with the villain apparently not planning to return, the mature, steady Wen Ning began surveying her surroundings while making plans for her future.
Divorce clearly wasn't a viable option.
The original owner had already committed so many misdeeds against the villain. Even if they divorced, with his disposition of avenging even the slightest grievance, he would absolutely never let her off.
For now, her only option was to keep being the villain's brain-dead simp.
As long as she worked hard enough, she believed that one day, her persona as Bo Yan's crazed admirer would become firmly rooted in everyone's minds!
Then she needed to hurry up and recall what other plot developments lay ahead so she could prepare for them in advance. And she needed to find some way to explain away the original owner's habit of whipping the villain at the drop of a hat...
No, why did the more she thought about it, the more she felt she was un-
Wait!
A whip?
Why had the supporting female character attacked the villain tonight again?
Wen Ning pounded desperately at her head. She distinctly remembered her best friend mentioning this part. What was it again?
Suddenly, Wen Ning's eyes went wide!
An image flashed into her mind with the speed of thunder that left no time to cover one's ears!
She remembered!
Wasn't this-wasn't this that plotline!
Meanwhile, after leaving the annex, Bo Yan ran into Bo Xubai, who was heading toward it...