Her task was to change the tragic endings of the "vicious supporting female characters" and set this world's values straight.
Ye Jin knew her own limits. She was just an ordinary person-how could she take on male and female leads with golden fingers?
She immediately called out to the system, asking whether it could give her a golden finger. Yet the system, which had only just risen from the dead, fell silent again, leaving her with nothing but a novel library where she could look up the plots!
Ye Jin's mind was filled with nothing but "fuck." Was this trash system seriously not some counterfeit piece of junk?!
Soon, something happened that left Ye Jin even more speechless: she discovered that tonight's banquet was a crucial turning point leading to the Su Group's bankruptcy!
This novel was called "
Revenge
CEO's
Deep Love," and told the story of the male lead, Xie Haoyu, and his enemy's daughter, Su Yinan, finding mutual
redemption
and hurting each other in a
tormented romance.
The male lead, Xie Haoyu, came from the Xie Family, once one of the wealthiest and most powerful families. But six years ago, failed investments had bankrupted the Xie Family, and his parents, unable to bear the blow, had committed suicide.
Su Yinan was the illegitimate daughter of Su Yang from the Su Family's second branch. She was innocent and kind, but many people made life difficult for her because of her illegitimate status.
Xie Haoyu was convinced that the Su Family, which had benefited the most, was the culprit. But with the Su Group's vast wealth and businesses, he naturally could not fight it head-on. He could only build his own business while secretly laying plans to take revenge on the Su Family.
So, taking advantage of the fact that the former head, Su Wei, had been dead for six months and Su Chengjing had only recently taken charge, Xie Haoyu joined forces with overseas □□ to kidnap Su Chengjing while he was attending a meeting abroad.
To prevent turmoil within the Su Group, Su Chengjing's mother, Lin Xiwen, suppressed the news and decided to hold a signing ceremony for a partnership with a multinational consortium before making an official announcement, to stabilize market confidence. At the same time, she would use the ceremony to win over the major shareholders and secure their support for her taking control of the Su Group.
Xie Haoyu naturally had no intention of letting Lin Xiwen bring the situation under control. He then used Su Yinan to pass word of Su Chengjing's disappearance to Su Yang and egged Su Yang on to seize power.
Thus, Su Yang publicly announced Su Chengjing's kidnapping at the signing ceremony, throwing the Su Group into complete chaos. With his wife's family backing him, Su Yang also successfully took power.
But Su Yang was incompetent, and after taking power, his reckless meddling left the Su Group.
By the time Su Chengjing escaped and returned after untold hardships, he faced troubles both within and without, with no power to turn the tide.
At the end of the story, the Su Group went bankrupt. As the targets of revenge, the members of the Su Family's eldest branch either went mad or died.
Su Yang, however, reconciled with the male lead because of the female lead and became the person in charge of the former Su Group businesses under the male lead.
Ye Jin read the entire plot wearing the expression of the old man squinting at his phone on the subway. From beginning to end, Xie Haoyu had never produced any evidence that the Su Group had framed the Xie Family!
Besides, even if the Su Group really had bankrupted the Xie Group, as long as its methods were legal, wasn't that just normal business practice?
Meanwhile, she had somehow become the vicious ex-girlfriend who abandoned the male lead when his family fell on hard times and married his enemy!
In fact, she had merely gone to the same school as Xie Haoyu and dated him for a while because she liked him a little. But after getting to know him, she felt he was extreme and had something of a male chauvinist streak, so she had broken up with him.
What was more, she had broken up with him half a month before the Xie Group went bankrupt, yet Xie Haoyu had still taken that to mean she had known in advance that his family was in trouble and fled!
In the original novel, after the Su Group went bankrupt, Xie Haoyu had even repeatedly sought her out to humiliate her. It became the final straw for her, already suffering from depression at the time, and drove her to suicide.
The corner of Ye Jin's mouth twitched. What a petty bastard. Xie Haoyu probably hated her even more than he hated the Su Family!
Ugh, how annoying. I just want to lie flat and live my own life!
Just then, a gentle female voice rang out, rousing Ye Jin from her gloomy thoughts.
"Xiao Jin, why are you still here? You look a little pale. Are you feeling unwell?"
Looking up, Ye Jin saw an elegantly dressed woman with her hair pinned up, wearing a new haute couture ensemble and jade jewelry worth over a hundred million. Yet even foundation could not conceal the dark circles beneath her eyes.
This was her mother-in-law, Lin Xiwen.
Ye Jin immediately gave her a gentle smile. "Mom, I'm just a little tired. I'll be fine after resting for a while. Don't worry, I won't hold up the signing ceremony."
She held Lin Xiwen in considerable respect. After all, Lin Xiwen was essentially the reason she had been able to marry into the Su Family.
Lin Xiwen had given birth to one son and two daughters. Su Chengjing was the eldest, while one of her daughters was in college and the other was still in high school.
Su Chengjing was a workaholic who had no interest in considering his personal life. At twenty-eight, he still had no girlfriend in sight, so Lin Xiwen was naturally very anxious.
Considering Su Chengjing's personality, Lin Xiwen had not planned to find him a wealthy heiress. Instead, she had taken a liking to the gentle, virtuous Ye Jin, whom a middle-class family of well-educated intellectuals had specifically raised to marry into wealth, and arranged for the two to meet.
After the marriage, the mother- and daughter-in-law got along fairly well. After all, Lin Xiwen came from an old, prominent family. She was elegant, dignified, generous, and not inclined to make life difficult for others, while Ye Jin was well practiced at acting sweet and well-behaved in front of her elders.
Recently, she had endured her husband's death followed by her son's kidnapping. To keep the news from leaking, she had not even dared tell her two daughters. Even the usually dignified and elegant Lin Xiwen could not help looking exhausted.
Ye Jin sighed inwardly. Her mother-in-law really did have it hard, and that idiot Su Yang was about to go mad and seize power without any regard for the Su Group's interests.
Now, whether for her own sake or to help Lin Xiwen, she had to find a way to stop Su Yang.
But she had only recently married into the Su Family and never took part in managing the company. She did not even have a single security guard who would obey her! How was she supposed to stop Su Yang?!
Aaargh! Why couldn't that trash system have activated sooner?! Just a few days earlier, and I could have warned Su Chengjing so he wouldn't get kidnapped. Then none of what followed would have happened!
As she pondered, a man and a woman approached them arm in arm.
Both were dressed with great formality. The man wore a crisp suit, while the woman was decked out like a flowering branch, radiating ostentatious wealth.
The woman's voice held both surprise and disdain. "Sister-in-law, why are you hiding here? Chengjing can't make it back because something came up, so you're the ones in charge. If people suddenly can't find you, they'll think something else has happened to our Su Family."