Chapter 01
My Wife Came to Save Me~
Cheng Jianian was in a car accident.
Being in a car accident felt terrible. A flash of white light passed before her eyes, her head throbbed with pain, and then she could no longer see anything.
The scenes of her life flashed through her mind, while memories and knowledge that did not belong to her flooded into her consciousness. Things she had never understood before suddenly made perfect sense.
It turned out that she was the vicious supporting female character in an old-fashioned romance novel.
Anyone familiar with stories like this knew the formula. No matter who the heroine was, there would always be a female supporting character in love with the male lead.
This supporting character was usually powerful and influential, yet because she could not win the male lead’s heart, she spared no effort in making life difficult for the heroine. She constantly bullied and sabotaged the heroine, only to unintentionally accelerate the romance between the heroine and the male lead. In the end, she would lose everything and die full of hatred.
In the original story, Cheng Jianian played exactly that role. As the eldest daughter of the Cheng family, she possessed dazzling beauty and had been born a favored child of heaven. Naturally, she was proud and flamboyant.
She entered the entertainment industry at a very young age. Her screen debut was a blockbuster film that grossed over ten billion at the box office, and under her family’s protection, everything afterward went smoothly. By the time she had just entered a top university, she was already an award-winning actress with tens of millions of fans.
Yet despite all of that, there was still something she could not have.
Ji Hanfeng, the young master of the Ji family, whom she had supposedly secretly loved since childhood.
Ji Hanfeng was the eldest son of the Ji family. From childhood through high school, the two had always attended the same schools and shared the same classes. They were considered the perfect golden couple in everyone’s eyes.
Unfortunately, Ji Hanfeng chose to study business overseas for university.
After graduating, however, he resolutely returned to China to build his career and established his own entertainment company.
Many people believed he had returned for Cheng Jianian.
But as the novel’s male lead, he had naturally returned for Shen Yunmiao, the heroine.
Shen Yunmiao was a classic early-era white-lotus heroine. Gentle, beautiful, and resilient, she was an orphan who entered an elite school through her own hard work.
However, because of her impoverished background, she was bullied by Cheng Jianian and a group of wealthy young ladies. Ironically, this misfortune caught Ji Hanfeng’s attention.
Later, after entering university, Shen Yunmiao stepped into the entertainment industry to earn money. Thanks to her beauty and acting skills, she became an overnight sensation.
Driven by jealousy, Cheng Jianian repeatedly targeted Shen Yunmiao and even used her family’s influence to blacklist her from the entertainment industry for three years.
The car accident happened at precisely the time when both Shen Yunmiao and Cheng Jianian had just started university.
After receiving the original plot, Cheng Jianian felt a chill run through her.
Forget Shen Yunmiaoâeven Ji Hanfeng had never occupied much space in her heart.
The Ji family was certainly respectable, but he was hardly their only heir. As the sole successor of the Cheng family, she knew how to maintain relationships, but she would never deliberately curry favor with someone like him.
As for being in love…
Cheng Jianian could barely even remember what Ji Hanfeng looked like.
Love?
What nonsense.
She still had some impression of Shen Yunmiao. She vaguely remembered her as a rather pretty high school classmate.
But Cheng Jianian could swear she had never bullied or blacklisted her.
In fact, they had barely exchanged more than a few words.
…At most, she had merely been a wealthy and influential background character in someone else’s love story.
So how had she become the vicious supporting female character?
Could it be that because she had failed to play her assigned role, she had ended up in a car accident that never existed in the original story?
Cheng Jianian had no answer.
When she opened her eyes again, her entire body ached. Cold seeped into every pore of her body, making her let out a soft hiss.
What came out instead was a weak little meow.
“Meow meow meow?”
Something wasn’t right.
“Meow meow meow?”
What was going on?
Panic-stricken, Cheng Jianian raised a paw.
A fluffy little white paw waved in front of her eyes.
She would have been better off not looking.
The last shred of hope in her heart completely died.
She had…
Become a cat?
Cheng Jianian could not believe it.
Wasn’t she supposed to be the vicious supporting female character?
Why had she become a cat instead?
Slowly closing her eyes, she decided to sleep a little longer.
Maybe everything would return to normal once she woke up.
This had to be an illusion.
Yes, it must have been the head injury from the car accident.
Once she woke up, everything would be fine.
Normally, self-deception was never something President Xiao Cheng indulged in.
But faced with this series of scientifically impossible events, escaping reality for a little while seemed like the only option.
Perhaps because this body was too badly injured, she soon lost consciousness again.
The concrete pavement beneath her was hard and covered in dust.
Heaven knew how uncomfortable the young president felt.
Dream after dream came one after another, all revolving around that cursed original plot.
One moment she was viciously bullying and humiliating Shen Yunmiao.
The next, she was miserably begging Shen Yunmiao to spare her life.
Every dream was equally bizarre.
Half asleep, she felt another white paw gently nudge her.
“Are you okay?”
Miraculously, Cheng Jianian understood the meaning behind the other cat’s meows.
“Who are you?” she asked warily.
Her body hurt too much for her to move elsewhere.
Otherwise, given Cheng Jianian’s usual personality, she would have hidden herself long ago.
“Did getting beaten make you stupid?” the equally filthy little white cat asked. “I’m Xiaobai.”
“…”
Supporting herself shakily on all four legs, Cheng Jianian looked down at her own white fur and fell silent.
If this one was Xiaobai…
Then who was she?
Perhaps noticing her dazed expression, Xiaobai sighed.
“Don’t be too upset. We might get beaten sometimes, but at least we can eat our fill here. We won’t starve. The cats from the street behind us said they have to dig through trash cans just to survive.”
Cheng Jianian ignored Xiaobai’s words.
She was a human, not a cat.
Food and shelter were the least of her concerns.
Getting back to her own body was what mattered.
She awkwardly chased her own tail in several circles, hoping to discover some clue.
Finding nothing, she lay back down to conserve her strength.
Unable to bear seeing her like this, Xiaobai said, “You really didn’t get beaten silly, did you? When that big sister comes later, pretend your leg is broken. She’ll take you to the vet. That’s what happened to Dahuang last time.”
The little cat kept meowing beside her without stopping.
Driven to the edge by the constant chatter, Cheng Jianian found a slightly cleaner spot to curl up before finally responding.
“I’m fine.”
But Xiaobai still circled around her.
“Really? But I clearly saw that black cat bite your neck until it was bleeding.”
Cheng Jianian frowned.
Her neck had been bitten until it bled?
Could it be that the original owner of this little white cat had died from those injuries, allowing her soul to enter this body?
But what about her own body?
Was it dead?
Or had something else taken possession of it?
The thought that some unknown existence might now be occupying her body gave Cheng Jianian another headache.
Her desire to return to herself only grew stronger.
Darkness gradually blanketed the sky.
A bright full moon hung overhead.
After trying every method she could think of and confirming that she really had become a cat, Cheng Jianian finally gave up.
She followed Xiaobai to a safe place and settled down.
Xiaobai said, “That black cat definitely won’t come bully you again this time. Sigh… Why is he so overbearing? That big sister leaves so much food for us. Even if we don’t eat any of it, he can’t finish it all by himself.”
The original owner of this body had ended up so badly injured because she fought another stray cat over food.
Cheng Jianian felt little sympathy.
Countless catsâand countless humansâdied every day.
The law of the jungle applied to every living creature.
But now that she had entered this body, she had no choice but to start thinking about her own safety.
