It had rained all night, and the sky had finally cleared. Outside the courtyard, the ground was covered with fallen flowers and leaves. Sunlight spilled in through the window, stretching from the office desk all the way to her feet.
Yun Yin stood stiffly in front of the desk. A roaring filled her ears, and a familiar stab of angina spread through her chest. Before her was a pile of glaring white documents. She wanted to see them clearly, but all she felt was dizziness clouding her vision.
Instinctively, she closed her eyes and braced one hand against the desk, keeping herself from fainting.
In just a few minutes, a thin sheen of sweat had appeared on Yun Yin’s smooth, fair forehead, and there was not a trace of colour on her face.
It felt as though she were trapped in some bizarre, surreal dream, unable to break free.
Line after line of text transformed into scene after scene of dreams, flashing before her like a revolving lantern, until finally everything froze on a pair of eyes as dark as ink.
After who knew how long, Yun Yin’s lashes trembled. Clutching her chest, she gasped for breath. Sunlight spread from the floor to her body, but she could not feel even the slightest warmth.
The surgery had failed.
She had not died.
Instead, she had transmigrated into a book.
And worse, she had transmigrated into a male-protagonist business-war novel from a certain site that she had only recently finished reading. The title was *Turbulence in the Business World*.
Because she had only just finished it, Yun Yin still remembered the overall plot quite clearly.
The one who had left the deepest impression on her was not the male lead, but the greatest villain in the story, the one who stood against the male lead—
Pei Yu.
Although he appeared abstinent, cold, and aloof on the surface, in private, he was an utterly temperamental lunatic.
Because of certain special and tragic experiences in his youth, Pei Yu’s personality became increasingly twisted. He had no empathy at all. Later, he struggled his way up from the bottom, earned his first pot of gold, and built his own business empire.
No one knew how he had survived all those years. After all, Pei Yu was not the male lead, so his past was only briefly mentioned in the novel. Because of this, the character carried an added layer of mystery.
Even so, the author had still created an obstacle in the villain’s romantic storyline.
That obstacle was the original owner of this body.
Without even thinking, one could guess that the original owner did not like Pei Yu. She liked the male lead.
The plot was that melodramatic. So by the later stages, after Pei Yu blackened, his personality became even more paranoid and twisted, reaching an almost insane degree.
When the male lead found out that Pei Yu liked the original owner, it just so happened that the two men were engaged in business competition. The male lead simply persuaded the original owner to pretend to be with the villain and obtain business secrets at the right time.
Under the male lead’s coaxing, the original owner actually agreed. The male lead was able to bring down the business empire that the villain had built with his own hands, and this chess piece had played a crucial role in that.
When Yun Yin had read the book, she had found it impossible to understand. Someone as frighteningly intelligent as Pei Yu—almost demonic in his cleverness—had actually been deceived by the original owner? It did not make sense at all.
But with her god’s-eye view, she slowly understood later on.
What villain? What white moonlight?
They were all just tools used by the author to push the plot forward.
The novel’s descriptions of Pei Yu mostly focused on his back-and-forth business battles with the male lead. The plotline between him and the original owner was basically skimmed over in a few strokes.
At the time, she had even complained about this plot bug.
She had never expected that she would become that bug herself.
Now, she could only accept things as they came.
Yun Yin sorted through the plot of the novel and the memories in her mind. After figuring out her current situation, she looked at the stacks of documents on the desk and fell into silence.
What confidential documents?
There were so many of them. How was she supposed to tell which was which?
In the novel, although the original owner was weak and sickly, she was deeply scheming. Otherwise, she would not have been able to steal confidential documents from the villain’s company so easily.
But here came the problem.
She was not!
The words “deeply scheming” had absolutely nothing to do with her.
At this point in the plot, she had already helped the male lead steal Pei Yu’s company’s bidding documents. It was because of those bidding documents that the male lead successfully defeated Pei Yu and obtained the bidding opportunity.
But Yun Yin, who had read the novel, knew very clearly that the bidding documents on the table were not the real bidding documents. They were something Pei Yu had deliberately used to test the original owner.
The original owner had also seen through Pei Yu’s test. She simply went along with his plan, leaked false information, and then worked with the male lead to bribe a senior executive in Pei Yu’s company. In the end, they obtained the real bidding documents.
The two sides schemed against each other, back and forth, with all kinds of strategies, making readers exclaim that it was brilliant.
Yun Yin looked at the documents on the table and could not help sighing.
She had spent her whole life accumulating virtue and doing good deeds. So why had she transmigrated into a business-war novel?!
So now came the question.
Should she steal them or not?
She was thinking back on the later plot and did not notice that the study door had been pushed open at some point. A tall, straight figure walked in.
Hearing the movement, Yun Yin abruptly returned to her senses. Her gaze immediately focused, and she looked at the man in front of her with shock and suspicion. Her eyelashes trembled along with it.
The man stood against the light. He was extremely tall, with broad shoulders and a wide back. Standing there, he blocked most of the light, and the shadow he cast easily engulfed Yun Yin completely.
Yun Yin could not clearly see his face. She could only see a pair of eyes as dark as ink.
Those narrow eyes were looking at her without any emotion. His pitch-black pupils seemed as though they wanted to devour everything, including her. When his gaze lowered, there was a faint sense of cold indifference in it.
For some reason, Yun Yin felt a sudden panic under his stare.
Those eyes were very familiar.
It seemed as though she had seen them somewhere before.
Just as she was still trying to remember where she had seen them, a cold, indifferent voice sounded beside her ear.
“What are you doing?”
At this moment, Yun Yin finally came back to herself. She also finally realised who the man in front of her was.
The greatest villain in the book—
Pei Yu.
Yun Yin glanced at Pei Yu, then at the documents on the desk. Her back instinctively straightened. Clearly, she had not done anything, yet for some reason, she felt guilty.
Faced with the current situation, Yun Yin tried to come up with a reasonable explanation for why she was here, but her mind was completely blank.
After a moment, she forced a stiff smile and said, “Just wandering around.”
The moment the words left her mouth, a trace of annoyance flashed across Yun Yin’s brows.
Just wandering around?
Could she wander all the way into the study?
Even she herself did not believe this excuse. But since the words had already been spoken, she simply closed her mouth and said nothing more.
Hearing her answer, Pei Yu did not speak. He merely stared at her quietly, his gaze deepening. Suddenly, he let out a soft laugh of unclear meaning.
Yun Yin looked up at him, not understanding.
Only then did he properly look at the person standing before the desk.
She was wearing a simple white dress. One could see the slender, fair curve of her neck, fragile enough that it seemed it could be snapped with one hand.
Above that was a small, pale face. Her light pink lips had almost no colour. She looked like a piece of delicate glass, easily shattered. Yet when those dark, bright eyes shifted, they inadvertently breathed life back into this pale and sickly body.
Pei Yu stared at her, his eyes carrying an unreadable meaning.
In the end, he said nothing.
The study fell into a deathly silence.
Yun Yin felt the air in the study grow thinner little by little. The oppressive atmosphere pressed down on her until she could barely breathe. It was as though her heart had suddenly been seized by someone’s hand, and even her head began to ache faintly.
Her delicate brows furrowed from the pain.
This damnably familiar feeling had come again. Even after changing bodies, it still refused to let her go.
Time seemed to stretch as long as a century. Yun Yin looked at the silent man before her, her brows and eyes listless. Finally, she could not help speaking.
“My head hurts. Carry me back.”
Seeing that Pei Yu still did not move, the two of them remained in this stalemate for nearly a minute. Yun Yin could not help urging softly, “Pei Yu, my head hurts.”
She did not care how great a psychological shock this sentence would cause Pei Yu. She only felt that her heart was about to hurt her to death, and her head felt as if it would explode at any moment.
She clearly realised that her heart disease had flared up.
Before she could think any further, her vision went black. Her body softened and she collapsed straight onto the cold marble floor.
The last thing Yun Yin remembered before fainting was Pei Yu’s calm, emotionless eyes.
—
“How is she?”
“There’s a problem with her heart. For the specifics, she’ll need to go to the hospital for a detailed examination.”
“Then when will she wake up?”
“We can’t be certain. I suggest it would be best to go to the hospital in advance…”
The faint sound of conversation came from not far away. No one noticed that the fingers of the person lying on the bed moved slightly at her side.
The conversation continued. Yun Yin’s eyelashes trembled as well. Who knew what she had dreamed of, but the person on the bed suddenly opened her eyes and sat up, as if waking from a nightmare.
Her movement also startled the two people not far away. Both of them stopped talking at the same time and looked at her in surprise.
The first to speak was a middle-aged woman. Facing her, she said anxiously, “Miss Yun, you’re awake. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”
Standing beside her was a doctor in a white coat, also looking at her with concern.
Yun Yin stared blankly at the two of them and did not speak for a long while.
For a moment, she could not tell whether this was reality or a dream.
“Aunt Lin,” Yun Yin called tentatively after a moment.
“Yes,” Aunt Lin answered, then said with concern, “Miss Yun, if you still feel uncomfortable anywhere, let the doctor take a look.”
Yun Yin shook her head. The hand at her side slowly relaxed. Lowering her lashes, she said softly, “I’m fine. I’ll be all right after resting for a while.”
Aunt Lin could tell now that she wanted to rest and did not want to be disturbed, so she took the initiative to say, “Then Miss Yun, have a good rest. Call me if anything happens. The doctor and I won’t disturb you.”
Yun Yin nodded slightly at her.
“Thank you, Aunt Lin.”
Hearing that sudden “thank you,” Aunt Lin’s expression froze slightly. But she did not think too much of it and walked out with the doctor beside her, closing the bedroom door behind them.
After everyone had left, Yun Yin’s straightened back finally relaxed slightly. Looking at the utterly unfamiliar environment before her, a trace of confusion flashed through her eyes, but it soon vanished.
So all of that had not been a dream.
It had truly happened.
Yun Yin finally accepted the fact that she had transmigrated into a book.
Fortunately, she had fainted. Otherwise, she really would not have known how to face Pei Yu. After all, she had transmigrated straight into a Shura field.
In the novel, in order to show Pei Yu’s ruthlessness, everyone who had ever deceived or betrayed him met a terrible end.
Naturally, the original owner was no exception.
Thinking of the original owner’s final ending, and of the man’s dark eyes that held no emotion at all, Yun Yin could not help shuddering.
In the novel, the original owner had used every possible means to help the male lead obtain business secrets. But after the incident was exposed, the male lead kicked her aside. Then she was sent by Pei Yu, the great villain, into a mental hospital and tortured for many years. After finally escaping with great difficulty, she was killed by some enemy from the past and dumped into the sea.
But then Yun Yin thought again.
She would not become the male lead’s spy and betray the villain like in the novel. Naturally, the things the villain did to the original owner later would not fall on her. Most likely, she could live properly.
All of a sudden, another sharp pain came from her chest for no reason.
Yun Yin instinctively clutched her chest. Her eyes lowered slightly, and the light in them slowly faded.
It seemed that even without the villain, she would not live long.
This body was not much better than the one she had before transmigrating.
Just as fragile and unbearable.
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