“Dong Ding Dong Ding!” A series of urgent ringing sounds.
Su Banxia was startled awake by the ringing of her phone and subconsciously reached for it to turn off the alarm.
As she touched her phone, her awareness gradually cleared, and she abruptly opened her eyes to take in the surroundings.
White bedsheets, a room adorned with various beautiful ambient lights, and the sound of rushing water coming from the bathroom. This was a hotel room.
Su Banxia lay motionless on the bed.
Let it all be destroyed. She was tired.
Ordinary people who woke up in an unfamiliar hotel would immediately get up and leave, but Su Banxia lay on the bed, staring at the beautifully decorated ceiling in a daze.
Half a second later, the alarm on her phone, like a ghost urging her on, rang on time. She picked up her phone and saw that it was a call from her father.
She answered the call, and a cold voice came from the other side, speaking the same unchanging lines she had heard several times before: “Where are you? Are you at Lanting Hotel?”
The deep, middle-aged male voice carried a tone of interrogation, very piercing.
Su Banxia moved the phone away from her ear and replied impatiently, “Yeah.”
Before the other person could speak, she hung up the phone with a snap, got out of bed, put on her shoes, and prepared to leave. As she passed by the wall-mounted full-length mirror, she glanced at it.
In the inset mirror on the wall appeared a completely unfamiliar girl.
Long wine-red wavy curls, slender and tall figure, almost pale skin, delicate facial features, but with serious dark circles under her eyes. Her overall aura looked gloomy and gave off a sharp feeling.
Su Banxia approached the mirror, staring at ‘herself’ in the mirror. The exaggerated heavy makeup would make many people instinctively resist the image of a ‘bad woman’ seen in TV dramas, resembling a malicious supporting character who is overbearing and vicious.
This face resembled hers, but it wasn’t her, and this body didn’t belong to her either.
Su Banxia walked towards the room door.
Just as she reached the doorway, her arm was suddenly grabbed and forcefully pulled back, almost causing her to be thrown to the ground.
She turned her head and saw a young man in his twenties, wrapped in a bath towel. He had fair skin and a handsome face with golden hair.
He frowned at her, his eyes showing a hint of disgust, and his tone was unfriendly. “Where are you going?”
Su Banxia twisted her arm and struggled hard. “Let go quickly.”
The man furrowed his brows even tighter. “Su Banxia, it’s not fun anymore if you keep playing hard to get.”
To hell with your playing hard to get, Su Banxia almost laughed out loud. You’re too confident in yourself.
“Let go, quickly!” She said coldly. “Otherwise, I’ll call the police.”
She still couldn’t figure out why the supporting character chose such a low-quality substitute. It was probably for the sake of being trendy.
The man realized that she wasn’t joking and released his grip. He looked at her with contemptuous eyes. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you. If you leave today, don’t regret it.”
Su Banxia didn’t spare him a glance and directly opened the door and walked out.
The man was dumbfounded, gritted his teeth, and quickly chased after her. “Su Banxia, don’t run, stop!”
This luxurious hotel presidential suite cost tens of thousands of dollars, and he had paid for it. If Su Banxia ran away, he wouldn’t be able to recover the cost.
It’s strange if she doesn’t run, Su Banxia didn’t even look back and rushed towards the elevator.
Just as she reached the front of the elevator, the man caught up. The elevator door opened with a beep, revealing a group of people who were glancing at each other.
“Sister, you’re really at Lanting Hotel!” A beautifully dressed girl in the crowd exclaimed in surprise.
Inside the elevator were several black-clad bodyguards wearing sunglasses, each with a tall and imposing stature, giving off a strong sense of oppression.
In front of the bodyguards stood a middle-aged couple, and there was a young girl wearing a white dress. She looked at Su Banxia with astonishment in her eyes.
Su Banxia stopped in her tracks, her scalp tingling. Here it comes again, a ‘caught’ and ‘caught in the act’ situation.
…
After falling from the stage and waking up in an unfamiliar hotel, she was caught and realized that she had transmigrated into a novel she had read before.
On the eve of the performance, her best friend recommended a novel to her because the name of the malicious supporting character in the novel was exactly the same as hers. The most astonishing thing was that the name of the female protagonist was also the same as her archenemy.
The novel was called “Rebirth of a Sweet Wife.” It told the story of the female protagonist, Mu Ruxue, who was reborn into the past and changed her fate, living a smooth and prosperous life with the male lead.
In Mu Ruxue’s previous life, her fake rich girl identity was exposed, and she had planned to scheme her way into marrying the male lead but ended up accidentally marrying the disabled male supporting character, Shang Lu.
Shang Lu had a sinister and peculiar personality, despised women approaching him, and Mu Ruxue lived a life like a desperate widow. With a heart as lifeless as ashes, she died in an accident.
When she woke up again, Mu Ruxue found that she had been reborn, and nothing had happened in this life. She could use the beauty and fortune given by the system to absorb the fortune of others and become more and more beautiful.
In the book, the malicious supporting character, who shared the same name as Su Banxia, was born into a wealthy family, had a privileged background, fair skin, a beautiful face, and long legs. After she grew up, she met the male lead at a banquet and became infatuated with him. However, the male lead had no interest in her and only loved the kind and beautiful Mu Ruxue.
So, she started causing trouble for the female protagonist, bullying and framing her, but every time she failed, the male lead and the male supporting character would show up in time to expose her.
In order to win over the male lead, the supporting character completely lost her mind and resorted to drugging him to try to take his place. As a result, she ended up sleeping with the male lead’s brother, Shang Lu, for some unknown reason.
When everyone discovered the scene of the two of them sleeping together, even though nothing had happened, the Su family and the Shang family still decided to let them get married.
To go against the female and male leads, the supporting character agreed to marry the male lead’s brother.
Upon seeing this plot, Su Banxia immediately put on a mask of pain. After all, the male lead was not the only man in the world, there was no need to bother with him.
The most melodramatic plot was yet to come. On the day of the supporting character’s wedding to Shang Lu, she made a shocking move and ran away to another country.
In the grandest wedding venue in the whole city, the bride was nowhere to be found, and the Su family and the Shang family became the laughingstock of the high society.
A few days after running away, the supporting character was captured and then she cried and protested, unwilling to marry the disabled Shang Lu. But marriage was not child’s play, and she was ultimately forced to marry Shang Lu.
The last plot Su Banxia saw was that after the supporting character was captured, she was locked up in a dark room and met a tragic end.
Su Banxia couldn’t bear to watch anymore. The malicious and neurotic supporting character with the same name as her and the female lead, who shared the same name as her archenemy, were both enjoying happiness with their golden fingers.
She couldn’t help but suspect that someone intentionally wrote this to provoke her.
In the scene before her eyes, Su’s father led the bodyguards to catch the supporting character, coincidentally catching her with a male PR representative, which infuriated him, and he brought her back and beat her harshly.
…
Mu Ruxue looked at Su Banxia with an incredulous expression, then looked at the man who was chasing after her wearing only a bath towel and asked, “Sister, who is he?”
Su Banxia replied, “If I say I don’t know him, would you believe me?”
“But… he’s chasing after you.” Mu Ruxue looked skeptical and turned to their father, saying, “Dad, listen to sister’s explanation. She definitely didn’t intend to run away.”
The father’s face turned as black as coal, looking at his eldest daughter, who had brought shame upon him, and raised his hand to slap her.
Su Banxia took a step back to avoid it.
Her scumbag father wanted to hit her again, but luckily she was prepared.
“Husband, let’s talk things out instead of resorting to violence,” a middle-aged woman in traditional cheongsam next to Su Banxia’s father quickly intervened, tears welling up in her eyes. She said, “Our daughter has voluntarily come back. Let’s discuss this at home.”
Mu Ruxue said, “Dad, please listen to sister’s explanation. She definitely didn’t intend to run away.”
The more Mu Ruxue tried to persuade her father, the angrier he became. He pushed aside Su Banxia’s mother and said, “Get out of the way. I’m going to kill this rebellious daughter!”
Su Banxia closed her eyes and promptly chose to faint.
As long as I faint quickly enough, no one can punish me.
She heard exclamations around her, but she paid no attention. After all, she had bodyguards, so she wasn’t worried about falling.
The bodyguard swiftly caught her, and amidst the chaotic voices in her ears, perhaps due to exhaustion, she actually fell asleep.
…
When Su Banxia woke up, she found herself lying on a comfortable large bed in a castle-like setting. The surroundings resembled a princess’s palace, with exquisite furniture and extremely luxurious decor.
She glanced at her left hand, with a needle inserted for a IV drip.
During the intravenous infusion, a nurse came in a few times, asking questions that she ignored. They were only responsible for changing the medicine bottle, seemingly to prevent her from escaping again. They would lock the door from the outside whenever they went out.
Su Banxia licked her dry lips and accepted the fact that she had to follow the plot as a transmigrator.
The first time she transmigrated, she didn’t believe it. She pushed away the bodyguards and tried to run, but she was caught and died with her eyes open and closed in just a few days, only to wake up again in the presidential suite of the hotel.
The second time she woke up, she pretended to follow Su’s parents back home, acting pitiful and forcing them to agree that she wouldn’t marry the deranged male supporting character. She thought she was free and could get rid of the main and supporting male leads and the nonsensical plot. She wanted to live as a wealthy second-generation, doing nothing but enjoying life.
But then… she didn’t even have time to eat a single Häagen-Dazs before she died again.
After coming back, she spent two days lying in bed receiving intravenous treatment. Her body finally regained some strength. Su’s father and mother arranged for her to apologize to Shang Lu.
In the bathroom, Su Banxia stared at the girl in the mirror.
During the few days when the supporting character ran away from the wedding, she didn’t eat properly and combined with her depleted luck, her body was extremely weak. Her face was pale and ghostly, emanating a gloomy and chilling aura.
Su Banxia glanced at her own face, which could easily find work in a haunted house. With this appearance, how could the male lead possibly like her?
After hearing about her escape from the wedding, Shang Lu fell ill and was hospitalized. He still hadn’t woken up.
The hospital air was filled with the smell of medicine, a bit pungent and unpleasant. Two imposing figures dressed in black followed behind her. They were specifically monitoring her to prevent her from escaping, the bodyguards.
On the way, Su Banxia stopped in her tracks, and the two bodyguards behind her immediately became alert, their eyes fixed on her movements.
One of the bodyguards asked, “Miss, what’s the matter?”
Su Banxia turned around and stared at one of the bodyguards, saying, “Xiong Da, I want to eat ice cream.”
“?”
The bodyguards looked at each other, hesitating in their hearts. Was the young miss planning another trick to escape?
Su Banxia glanced at the indifferent face of the bodyguard, her expression turning cold. She pointed at one of the bodyguards and said, “Xiong Er, go and buy it for me.”
It was scorching hot outside. What’s wrong with her wanting to eat an ice cream?
If even this small request couldn’t be fulfilled, who knew when she would die again and wake up in the presidential suite, having to start over.
The bodyguards negotiated for a few seconds, one of them stayed with her, while the other went to buy it.
The novel didn’t mention anything about Shang Lu being hospitalized. She had no idea how serious his illness was.
According to the original plot, as a male supporting character, Shang Lu was formidable in his competition with the male lead for the family’s fortune. If it weren’t for his weak health, the male lead wouldn’t stand a chance against him.
Su Banxia sighed inwardly. Running away from the wedding that day was indeed wicked, no matter what the reason, she shouldn’t have done it.
If she sincerely apologized and discussed it with Shang Lu, would he forgive her and not lock her in a small dark room?
Su Banxia took a deep breath and pushed open the door.
Entering the ward, she saw the scene inside. The cold room was empty, with a white hospital bed occupied by a person. The sunlight from the window illuminated him, adding a touch of gentle color.
It was a face that could rival any male celebrity, exceptionally handsome. The clear and refined eyebrows and eyes were overly beautiful, almost unreal.
Su Banxia muttered in her heart. It seemed like paper-thin characters were the most attractive. Handsome to the point of being heavenly.
Probably due to a long illness, Shang Lu’s skin was as white as porcelain. His black hair partially covered his brows and eyes. His long and thick lashes cast a faint shadow beneath his eyes. His crimson lips were slightly pursed, like a sleeping vampire count.
【Ding! Congratulations, host, for activating the system!】
Su Banxia: ???
A sweet and milky voice continued, uplifting, 【Do you want to change your destiny? Do you want to stage a comeback? Do you want to marry a beautiful and wealthy man and reach the pinnacle of life?】
【”Loudly tell me, do you want it?”】
“…”
Su Banxia immediately turned her head towards the bodyguard by the door. His expressionless face seemed like a JPEG, as if he hadn’t heard the strange voice.
Has she read too many transmigration novels and started hallucinating?
【”What are you hesitating for? Opportunity knocks only once, quickly tell me…”】
Su Banxia snapped out of her shocked state and instinctively replied, “No, I don’t want it.”
The sweet voice faltered for a moment, screaming, “You don’t want it?!”
The bodyguard wondered, “?” Who is Miss talking to?
Su Banxia scanned the room. Her task for today was to apologize to Shang Lu, but she had to wait for him to wake up. Standing was tiring, so she decided to sit on the sofa for a while.
The sweet voice huffed and seemed angry. “I’ve never seen a transmigrator like you who doesn’t want to survive.”
Su Banxia was confused. “Do you have a solution?”
“Of course,” the sweet voice said in a lovely tone. “I am the ‘Dimensional System,’ codenamed 9677, and my task is to help you stage a comeback.”
Su Banxia asked, “How can I stage a comeback?”
“You are already bound to the chosen one, Shang Lu. As long as you get closer to him, you can regain your luck,” the sweet voice explained.
Su Banxia was half-believing, half-doubting.
“Master, you can open the mobile app to check your luck value,” the sweet voice suggested.
Su Banxia took out her phone and saw that she had a new app called ‘Dimensional System.’
“The system can only be seen by the master and cannot be uninstalled or deleted. All your tasks are in the app, and you can check the data there,” the sweet voice informed her.
Su Banxia opened the app to view her personal data. She had five empty stars above her head and a luck value of 1%.
“Your luck value is currently too low. If it remains below 1% for another week, you will die again,” the voice informed her.
“I understand,” Su Banxia replied.
At that moment, the bodyguard pushed open the door and entered. “Miss, here’s your ice cream.”
Su Banxia felt extremely delighted that she could stay alive. She took the ice cream from him and smiled, “Thank you.”
Her smile, with a slightly sinister and gloomy look on her pale face, sent shivers down the bodyguard’s spine. He dared not speak and returned to guarding the door.
Su Banxia stood by the bed, licking her ice cream, and stared at Shang Lu, lost in thought.
“Master, you can now try to interact with Shang Lu and gain some luck points,” the sweet voice suggested.
Su Banxia held Shang Lu’s hand.
Her heavy and weak body felt as if it had been nourished by something, providing a special comfort and warmth.
Su Banxia’s gaze burned with intensity as she stared at Shang Lu, as if she was looking at a delicious treat.
“What are you doing?” a cold voice rang out.
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