The Villainess Awakens After Marrying the Male Lead’s Brother - Chapter 01
“Wen Yu, what are you doing this time?!”
A voice full of alarm and disgust startled the stunned girl.
As soon as Wen Yu regained her senses, she saw the man in front of her clutching the towel tightly around his waist, as if afraid that she would take advantage of him. She immediately felt a sense of ridicule and instinctively thought about turning around and leaving.
However, her feet seemed to be rooted to the spot, unable to move. The man in front of her grew even more vigilant, but neither of them dared to make any sudden movements. They stood there, facing each other, like two wooden posts.
It seemed unlikely that she would be able to go now!
In this situation, Wen Yu tightly gripped her phone. Summoning all her strength, she opened the gaming app on her phone.
The sound of “Timi—” broke the silence in the room.
TL’s note: Timi is the symbolic opening sound of a very famous Chinese game which is equivalent to League of Legends (Wangzhe Rongyao/王者荣耀 or Honor of Kings)
For a moment, the person in front of her immediately had a strange expression.
She seemed to regain some control over her body. A thought flashed through Wen Yu’s mind, and Wen Yu pouted and cried, “Brother! I just got flamed while playing the video game. I’m so angry. Aren’t you a really overpowered King player? Quickly, go carry me!”
TL’s note: “King” is the highest possible ranking in Wangzhe—similar to how “Unreal” is the highest rank in Fortnite (not that any of us plays Fortnite haha).
Jiang Yunjin’s expression crackled: “…What did you just call me?”
She gained even more control over her body. It seemed that this move was correct. Wen Yu said naturally with a hint of confusion, “Brother. I was being roasted alive while playing the game. Aren’t you going to help me? They flamed me for being a stubborn Bronze player. It pisses me off! What’s wrong with being Bronze? I want to reach King, and you should carry me to King! Watch me annihilate them!”
As she spoke, she started to sob uncontrollably again.
Jiang Yunjin’s expression grew even more peculiar, showing a mix of disbelief, hesitation, and concern.
Following that, Wen Yu suddenly realized that her legs could move again. In the next second, her legs gave way, and she fell to her knees on the ground.
Jiang Yunjin’s complexion changed slightly, and he immediately moved forward to support her, “Don’t be like this. I’ll carry you!”
Wen Yu still maintained a look of distress and discomfort. At the same time, the interface of the mobile game had already loaded, and she anxiously looked at him. Her gaze inadvertently caught a glimpse of his well-built chest revealed by the loosened towel. She quickly averted her eyes and hesitated, saying, “Should we start now?”
Jiang Yunjin glanced instinctively, his face slightly changing. He wanted to let go, but seeing her kneeling on the ground, he found it inappropriate. Instead, he lifted her and carried her to the couch, “Wait here, I’ll change my clothes.”
Wen Yu nodded obediently, “Okay.”
Jiang Yunjin grabbed his clothes and then stared at her for a couple of seconds.
Wen Yu blinked innocently and shook her phone, “Hurry up.”
Jiang Yunjin muttered under his breath, “What’s going on?”
He still went into the bathroom.
Wen Yu immediately tried to get up, but as soon as she moved, she felt a dense stinging sensation of pins and needles. Her expression changed as well. Could she still not walk?
Did the plot really have to go in this direction?
Wen Yu felt the urge to curse.
God knows how, just now, she suddenly awakened the memories of her past life. Only then did she realize that, for all these years, she had been unknowingly following the path of a vicious supporting female character in the storyline.
——
Wen Yu possessed memories from her past life.
In her previous life, she was just a diligent office worker, working hard until 9 p.m. every day with a monthly salary of six thousand yuan for her boss who drove a six-million-yuan luxury car.
As a result of excessive overtime work, she tragically passed away from a sudden death, only to transmigrate and be reborn into a new life.
Initially, she still retained her memories from her past life, but as she grew older, those memories gradually faded away. Then, her parents died, and her family went bankrupt. She had no choice but to seek shelter in the Jiang family, where she grew up with Jiang Yunjin, the second son of the Jiang family who was just two years younger than her. They were childhood friends, and since their teenage years, she had admired him.
However, Jiang Yunjin did not have romantic feelings for her and only treated her as a younger sister figure.
Originally, everything was peaceful. With the pretext of being his younger sister, she would often meddle with Jiang Yunjin’s romantic encounters, hoping that one day he would turn his gaze towards her.
However, the female lead appeared.
Jiang Yujin was the male lead, a second-generation rich kid. Even so, he didn’t want to join his family’s corporation and instead went against the grain. He plunged himself into the entertainment industry, first as a popular idol before later transitioning into acting. He was extremely popular and adored by fans and fellow stars alike.
The female lead, on the other hand, came from a humble background and poor family conditions. She was forced to enter the industry and nearly fell victim to unethical practices. However, she was saved by the male lead, Jiang Yujin and the duo crossed paths many times, eventually leading to their entering a relationship together.
Yet even after they got together, their relationship was far from smooth sailing. In the plot, there was a vicious supporting female character Wen Yu, who after witnessing the male lead’s indifference toward her, impulsively married the male lead’s brother out of sheer anger and confusion. Using her new status as his sister-in-law, she later tormented the main leads both openly and covertly, causing many misunderstandings.
The most severe incident would occur during this particular time.
Not long after, the female lead, who was participating in a variety show, would return with the camera crew. It was supposed to be a sweet and affectionate scene with her boyfriend, but to her shock, she would discover her boyfriend embracing his sister-in-law, and both of them would be in disarray. This revelation would cause a massive uproar across the internet.
The two would almost break up at this point, but fortunately, they would manage to maintain their trust in each other. The two would join forces and devise a plan to bring Wen Yu down. Pretending to reconcile with her, they would lure her into a trap, but in reality, live-stream their entire encounter online, thus exposing Wen Yu’s ugly nature. Jiang Yunjin, who was initially condemned as a cheating scoundrel, would turn into a figure that the whole internet sympathized with as a hapless victim.
As a result of this incident, Wen Yu would also be forcefully divorced by the male lead’s older brother.
In the plot, the male lead stated a memorable line: “If it weren’t for your attempt at cheating, even if you divorced, my brother wouldn’t have let you end up in such a situation. He had mentioned before that the several houses in the Jiangzhou compound were originally meant for you.”
Wen Yu’s misery meant leaving the Jiang family with ten million yuan, only to face betrayal and abandonment from everyone.
Wen Yu, recalling her identity as a working-class individual from her past life: “…?”
This is what it means to be “miserable?!”
Speaking of which, when she took a break from her busy schedule to read the novel, Wen Yu was furious and left a comment. She felt that the author was too lenient toward this villainess—she even received ten million yuan?
At the time, the author replied by stating that the supporting female character had been raised by the Jiang family for over ten years, so it was hard to sever familial ties. Compared to the Jiang family and the several properties originally intended for her, ten million yuan was simply insignificant.
All Wen Yu could think of now was to kneel and express gratitude to the author.
Who would have thought that she would end up being reborn into the body of this malicious supporting female character?!
Putting aside everything else, she still really wanted those properties.
She remembered that Jiangzhou Residential Area was a high-end development region owned by the Jiang family’s real estate company. Even the cheapest property there would cost a minimum of ten million yuan! That was why she must prevent the plot point where she got caught in the act of cheating.
It seemed that she hadn’t completely freed herself from the constraints of the storyline yet as she was unable to leave.
If that was the case, then…
Her phone suddenly rang.
Wen Yu glanced at it. The call was from her fake best friend in the plot, Zhao Qingyuan.
This scene about catching them in the act of cheating was actually orchestrated by Wen Yu herself. If she had not been obsessed with Jiang Yujin’s handsomeness, which led to the exposure of everything, no one would have imagined that she would willingly renounce her reputation for such a gamble.
Wen Yu did not answer the call. She declined it before casually blocking her in the process.
She was not really worried about what would happen in the future.
As long as the incident did not occur, then nothing would matter even if the Jiang family discovered everything.Right at this moment, Jiang Yunjin came out after changing his clothes.
Perhaps still wary of Wen Yu, he wore a shirt with the collar buttoned up tightly around his throat, making him somewhat uncomfortable. As he came out, he was still adjusting his collar, but the moment he saw Wen Yu, he stopped and sat down seriously, “Are we really going to play?”
Wen Yu nodded vigorously and said, “Yes!”
Jiang Yunjin was dumbfounded as he looked at her still somewhat angrily pouting mouth. In the end, she was still a sister whom he had been with for more than ten years. Even if there was no love between them, she was part of his family. Although, in these past two years, he had grown very tired of Wen Yu, he was still soft-hearted at this moment.
And this person was his sister-in-law nowadays.
Jiang Yunjin resignedly turned on his phone and said, “Wait a moment. Our ranks are too far apart to play together. I’ll create a smurf account.”
A hint of impatience flickered in Wen Yu’s eyes. Why was it taking so long to start?
In the story, the scene was supposed to happen quickly. They were only supposed to be entangled with each other for a short period that lasted approximately fifteen minutes. Now, it had already been five minutes, and if they kept delaying, they would not even start!
Fortunately, Jiang Yunjin was quick. In just a minute, he had created a new account and purchased the heroes needed.
Jiang Yunjin added Wen Yu as a friend and clicked on the ranked mode. The game began.
Jiang Yunjin said, “Just pick any supporting character and follow me.”
Wen Yu nodded and said, “Alright.”
She hesitantly found and selected a beautiful supporting character. Truth be told, she was not familiar with playing games. It was Jiang Yunjin who enjoyed gaming; he was renowned in their social circle for being a top gamer and had many professional players as his friends. They often played games together.
To get closer to Jiang Yunjin, she had tried to learn how to play the game before. However, she lacked patience and relied on boosting services to climb up to the King rank. Due to her own mistakes, she kept losing again and again until she hit the Bronze rank.
As such, she was not exaggerating when she said she got roasted by other players in the game.
Other players, having been matched with high-level players, initially thought she was a mogul. However, it turned out that she was even worse than them and constantly became a liability to the team. Naturally, they resorted to harsh criticism and verbal abuse.
Just like the current situation—
“Follow me, follow me!” Jiang Yunjin shouted anxiously.
Wen Yu clumsily maneuvered her character, yet she was confused as both sides fought, “Where are you?”
“Ah, ah, help me. I’m under siege!”
The next second, the screen went black.
Just as Jiang Yunjin was about to turn around to save her, he was also beaten in the group fight and killed.
The death countdown was more than forty seconds, and Jiang Yunjin looked at Wen Yu with a grave expression.
Wen Yu lowered her head due to her guilty conscience, “I’m sorry. I didn’t play well.”
Jiang Yujin replied, “It’s okay. I don’t blame you.”
Two minutes later, he looked at Wen Yu, who died again in the game, “Didn’t I ask you to guard the middle tower?!”
“Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. When they pulled me, I didn’t know where to go..” Wen Yu was also heartbroken. She had died so many times that her teammates began to roast her.
Jiang Yunjin: “…It’s fine. Let’s start another game! I don’t believe that we just can’t win!”
Wen Yu hummed and clicked to begin another game. While waiting, she glanced at the time—eighteen minutes had passed. Why hasn’t anything happened yet?
She wanted to call it a day!
She could not experience the game at all because she kept on dying.
——
Su Lengyue was filming an advertisement for a brand.
At the same time, a team was recording her filming the advertisement.
Su Lengyue was a little flower that had risen in the past two years. She did not have particularly stunning looks, but she was pretty and versatile. In short, her makeup and costumes were up to par, and she could look like anything she played: an innocent white lotus, an enchanting oiran, and even an arrogant and pampered concubine.
Her reputation was also good, and her career was rising steadily.
But what made her most popular was probably her romance with Jiang Yunjin. Jiang Yunjin had been nominated for Best Actor many times, and he was a very successful example of transitioning from an idol to an actor, with both popularity and capability.
After entering a relationship with him, her ranking in the circle suddenly improved a lot.
And many shows began to invite her.
It just so happened that she had recently accepted the invitation from a lifestyle variety show that would chronicle three days of her life.
The cameras would follow her for the entirety of the three days.
Today’s agenda was to have a date with Jiang Yunjin in the morning, shoot a commercial in the afternoon, and have dinner together when she returned. She would watch Jiang Yunjin as he acted and advertised for his film in advance.
For this reason, Jiang Yunjin especially told the production crew that he was staying home during the daytime.
It was just that the shooting of this advertisement had not been smooth.
The filming should have been completed a long time ago, but for some reason, the cameras had made several mistakes, and it took until now.
Fortunately, Su Lengyue had a good temper and continued filming without a hint of complaint until the very end. Finally, the cameraman was satisfied, “OK! Perfect! Ms. Su is truly the darling of the camera.”
The photographer smiled apologetically, “Thank you for your hard work.”
“It’s nothing,” Su Lengyue waved her hand, “It’s all for the advertising effect.”
Now that they had finished filming, it was time to leave. Su Lengyue led the production team members to depart together. At this moment, after watching the tedious shooting come to an end, the real-time stream comments, which had become much more lively, excitedly exclaimed: [Wow, wow, wow, it’s finally over]
[Su Su has such a good temper, truly deserving of being successful in her career]
[Hehe, but I love watching romance. We will be able to see Jiang ge soon. (Ecstatic emote)]
[Is Jiang ge so bored that he is playing video games? Hahaha, his wife is not here, so there is nothing for him to do]
The car drove all the way to the crew’s hotel.
Su Lengyue led the cameraman to Jiang Yunjin’s room. When they reached the door, they suddenly heard movement inside. Was that a girl’s voice?
She instinctively tightened her grip on the room key. The previous sense of something being wrong seemed to have an answer at this moment. She was momentarily startled and hesitant to open the door.
