QTMWSFC Chapter 1

When Xu Xinghe woke up in a daze, he heard a furious and loud female voice by his ear.

Along with the female voice, a white piece of chalk “swished” past his ear.

Whether it was muscle memory or not, Xu Xinghe instinctively turned his head and dodged it.

Only…

This seemed to have annoyed the person even more…

“Xu Xinghe, get out and stand in the hallway!”

No one needed to urge him. Before his mind was even fully awake, his body had already habitually walked towards the classroom door.

Xu Xinghe grabbed a textbook that was cleaner than his own face, smoothly stood outside the door, and even “thoughtfully” pulled the door shut behind him.

Xu Xinghe stood motionless outside the door and began to contemplate life.

That’s right, he had transmigrated. This fact, which was somewhat shocking yet not entirely unexpected, was now repeating endlessly in his mind.

He clearly remembered sitting in a car heading to a business meeting when a runaway truck crashed head-on into him. He must have died on the spot, otherwise he wouldn’t have ended up in this strange place or even become a high school student.

Come to think of it, before transmigrating, he had been a proper, bona fide eligible bachelor. How did he end up like this?

Not to mention getting married, he hadn’t even been in a relationship yet! How frustrating!

And then there was that hundreds of millions in cash flow he had in his pocket. Before he could even enjoy it, he was already dead…

Xu Xinghe couldn’t help but sigh in despair. Now everything had reset to zero. He would have to start over from scratch…

Xu Xinghe was still grieving internally when suddenly…

[Ding—

Detected that the host is now fully awake. Beginning binding to System No. 0250: Save the Supporting Female Character.

Binding progress: 2%… 10%… 30%… 99%…

Binding complete.]

Xu Xinghe was dumbfounded.

System?

A “Save the Supporting Female Character” system?

He’d heard that systems were very popular these days. Had he just caught up with the trend?

[Congratulations, host, on the perfect binding! A perfect binding gift pack has been awarded!

In consideration of the host’s accumulated merits in your previous life and your failure to find a beloved, the system has free of charge conducted a destiny detection service for the host and successfully matched you with your destined person.

Due to a disorder in the heavenly order, your destined one meets a tragic end. Only by successfully saving your destined person across various small worlds can the host truly meet your beloved!

Keep working hard, host!]

Xu Xinghe: ???

So this system, which seemingly for saving supporting female leads, was actually helping him find a wife?

And such a good deal existed?

Xu Xinghe asked the system in his mind, “Why me?”

The system did not answer him. It merely continued mechanically: [Plot transmission will begin shortly. Please prepare, host.]

Receiving no response, Xu Xinghe had no choice but to accept it.

Never mind for now. He’d worry about it later. Surviving was the most important thing.

Then a swelling sensation filled his head as the plot and background of this small world rushed all at once into his brain.

The story of this world wasn’t too complicated. The setting was a modern city.

The original owner, which was actually himself, was the young master of the Xu family in the capital, a typical rich spoiled brat.

The Xu family’s influence was vast, with connections both legal and illegal, and their assets were enormous. The only regret was that the family had few members. By Xu Xinghe’s generation, only he and his older brother Xu Nian remained.

Therefore, as one of only two children in the family, Xu Xinghe was showered with the family’s affection. Everyone wished they could give him the best things in the world. This caused Xu Xinghe’s already arrogant and unrestrained behavior to grow even worse.

But when it came to actually doing bad things, Xu Xinghe had never done any. At worst, he was just too much of an ‘enthusiastic citizen,’ often causing misunderstandings.

Now a second year in high school, Xu Xinghe was attending No. 1 High School in Haicheng City. Haicheng City’s education quality was nationally renowned for being excellent and strict.

Because the family felt that Xu Xinghe was too unruly and his grades were worrying, the free and exciting campus life in the capital city didn’t suit him. On the contrary, the strict management in Haicheng City might be able to discipline him. So they didn’t hesitate to spend a large sum of money and threw him into Haicheng No. 1 High School.

It was just the cost of one building, which to the Xu family was like a drop in the bucket. So even Haicheng No. 1 High School, which was known for its strictness, made an exception and accepted this spoiled rich kid.

No way around it. What he was offering was just too much.

Unfortunately, though, even in this school with its serious learning atmosphere, Xu Xinghe still didn’t seem to awaken any learning talent. He slept through class every day, and his textbooks remained as clean from the start of the year to the end.

But Xu Xinghe had one good point: when sleeping, he never disturbed others during class, so few people expressed dissatisfaction with him. Only his homeroom teacher felt frustrated that iron couldn’t become steel, inviting him to the office for tea every few days to discuss ‘dreams and the future.’

Although Xu Xinghe had a powerful background, he was just an extra in the plot. His role was to later become a business partner of the male and female lead and help them reach the peak of life.

The female lead of this small world was named Wen Li, and the male lead was Su Yan. Their story went from wearing school uniforms to wedding gowns, a sweet campus romance.

Su Yan was the typical aloof academic genius and campus heartthrob. He was cold on the outside but warm inside. In reality, he was also a jealous king who was a bit slow to recognize his own feelings.

Wen Li possessed the typical qualities of most female leads—kind and gentle. She scored first in her hometown on the high school entrance exam and got into Haicheng No. 1 High School. Her grades in high school remained easily within the top ten of her grade. She was a combination of talent and hard work. After a chance encounter, she developed a crush on Su Yan, and the two began a sweet romance.

Wen Li came from a very ordinary family, which was quite different from Su Yan’s background. So the latter part of the story inevitably involved how the two overcome the gap in social status to be together.

Overall, this was a campus sweet romance story where “you like me, I like you”—a mutual crush with hidden sweetness, eventually becoming unbearably sweet.

In this story, the destined target Xu Xinghe needed to win over was named Xia Qingmeng.

She was a supporting character who would later become severely dark and serve as a tool to hinder the development of the male and female leads’ relationship.

Xia Qingmeng and Wen Li were middle school classmates and good friends. They both got into Haicheng No. High School and were especially lucky to be placed in the same class when they were distributed into different classes in their second year—Class 7, Second Year¹Also known as Year 11, junior (second year) in high school. The school levels in China: Middle School (3 years, Year 7-9) followed by High School (3 years, Year 10-12), and then college or university. It is different from other countries. For other countries usually: Junior High School (4 years), followed by Senior High School (2 years), and then college or university

Xia Qingmeng’s family background was even worse than Wen Li’s. If you compared family background to a house, Wen Li’s at least didn’t let in the wind and could still keep you warm. Xia Qingmeng’s was practically letting in wind from all four sides.

Xia Qingmeng’s parents favored boys over girls. Her father developed bad habits of smoking and drinking when she was still young, and he was also prone to domestic violence. He had no good words for Xia Qingmeng, the ‘money-losing girl’. He treated her with extreme contempt.

But Xia Qingmeng’s mother never protected her. Instead, as if suffering from Stockholm syndrome, she blindly tried to please her husband and joined him in yelling at and beating Xia Qingmeng. When Xia Qingmeng first started middle school, her mother gave birth to a second child. Fortunately, it was a boy, but this only made the already poor family even worse off.

With a younger brother, Xia Qingmeng was even more ostracized and mistreated. Because she had a strikingly beautiful face, her father even wanted to sell her to an old man as a plaything.

Xia Qingmeng’s grandmother couldn’t bear to see her like this any longer. She took Xia Qingmeng in and raised her with her meager pension.

Xia Qingmeng’s family background made her personality quiet and somewhat people-pleasing. She was terrified of doing anything wrong and being disliked. So even though she didn’t say it, deep down she was competitive in every way.

This showed in her studies. She worked extremely hard, so hard that you almost never saw her playing or chatting idly. She was either doing practice problems or memorizing books, like a learning machine that never stopped. This formed a sharp contrast with Xu Xinghe, who sat at the desk behind her and did nothing all day.

The college entrance exam wasn’t necessarily absolutely fair, but for most ordinary people, especially those from poor families like Xia Qingmeng, it was definitely a good way out. So Xia Qingmeng took it very seriously.