“Villainess Quick Transmigration System host — Liuyue is entering a minor world.”
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[You are Zhu Liuyue, the only daughter of this generation in the Zhu family.]
[The Zhu family runs the largest medical conglomerate in the city — even the entire country — with hospitals, health checkup centers, and pharmaceutical supply chains generating endless wealth for the family each year.]
[And as the young Miss of the Zhu family, you were raised in luxury and privilege, living what could only be called the “darling of the family” script.]
[After graduating from university, you entered the social circle through family arrangements and, with the blessing of your elders, became the girlfriend of Ye Yunjin, the eldest son of the Ye family.]
[Your engagement ceremony is set to take place soon.]
[Ye Yunjin also has a twin brother, Ye Yunche — a man with a strange temper and a sharp tongue who hates women above all else.]
[As his future sister-in-law, every time he sees you, not only does he refuse to greet you, he goes out of his way to ignore you.]
[The most recent incident: when Ye Yunjin was too busy with overtime work, he asked Ye Yunche to accompany you in picking out your engagement dress. He said he would come, but in the end, he left you waiting at the bridal shop for three hours.]
[When you later asked about it, apparently the brat had gone off to the mountains to race cars with his friends.]
[Everyone in the social circle jokes that Ye Yunche doesn't like women — only racing. His car is his wife.]
[Of course, you didn't care either. After all, your boyfriend was the reliable and steady Ye Yunjin, not the good-for-nothing Ye Yunche.]
[Everything changed when Ye Yunjin's first love, Bai Shurou, returned from studying abroad. You heard plenty of mutual friends whisper about the “first love” saga, but you brushed it off — surely that was just something from their school days.]
[On the day of the engagement ceremony, someone told Ye Yunjin that Bai Shurou had been in a car accident and was hospitalized. He actually abandoned you in front of everyone to rush to the hospital to see his first love.]
[That moment, you knew you had become a laughingstock.]
[But you are the proud Miss Zhu. You would never admit defeat.]
[If Ye Yunjin can't let go of his first love, then wouldn't it be only fair for you to find yourself a new boyfriend?]
[Someone like... his twin brother, Ye Yunche.]
...
“Did you hear? Bai Shurou is back in the country.”
“Who's Bai Shurou?”
“You're too young, you wouldn't know. Back in college, she was Senior Brother Yunjin's campus beauty, his first love. The two of them almost ended up together — if it weren't for the Bai family sending her abroad to study, they'd have been a done deal!”
“What? This is the first time I'm hearing about this. But Yunjin-ge is about to get engaged to my cousin! I have to tell my cousin about this.”
“Zhu Qi, you little brat, wait! Zhu Liuyue loves Yunjin-ge so much — if she finds out about somebody like Bai Shurou, she'll throw a huge scene. Don't make both families lose face.”
The private room door swung open.
The chatter inside came to an abrupt halt.
A dozen or so people sat in the room — all second-generation heirs and heiresses of the city's elite circles.
Seeing who had arrived, they all plastered on smiles and greeted her.
“Liuyue-jie, hi.”
“Liuyue-jie, you look gorgeous today.”
Their smiles were as sincere as could be — as if they hadn't just been gossiping behind her back seconds ago.
Zhu Liuyue understood her situation the moment she pushed the door open.
Tomorrow was the engagement ceremony.
What was being held tonight was her bachelorette party.
She walked into the room with a smile, glancing around at everyone.
Zhu Qi stood up, scratched his head, and said, “Cousin.”
He was her uncle's youngest son. Everyone here tonight had been gathered by Zhu Qi, and it was also his idea to throw his cousin a bachelorette party.
Such a sweet, obedient little cousin — Zhu Qi had doted on Zhu Liuyue her whole life, following her around like a shadow since childhood.
But after meeting the female lead, Bai Shurou, he had become like a man bewitched.
In the end, he would even hurt Zhu Liuyue for Bai Shurou's sake.
Because in this world, Bai Shurou was the acknowledged female lead, while Zhu Liuyue's role was merely that of the villainess side character.
“Is everyone here?” Zhu Liuyue gave a faint hum of acknowledgment.
She swept her gaze across the people in the room.
Zhu Qi shook his head. “I invited Yunche-ge. He said he'd come, but it's been half an hour already...”
Ye Yunjin was a workaholic.
Even the night before his own engagement ceremony, he was still at the office working overtime.
His twin brother, Ye Yunche, was the complete opposite.
He was a playboy — not in the womanizing sense, but in the sense that he was a total thrill-seeker. When he wasn't racing cars, he was flying around the world doing extreme sports.
Things like via ferrata climbing, wingsuit flying — absolutely terrifying. In the end, he was only forced to give them up when Ye Yunjin threatened to cut off his allowance.
Zhu Liuyue nodded. “Alright, give me Ye Yunche's number. I'll call him myself.”
Zhu Qi was taken aback. “Huh? Cousin, you don't have Yunche-ge's number?”
The others around them found it a bit absurd.
They were about to become family, and yet she didn't even have his contact information.
In truth, Zhu Liuyue had never bothered at the start. She thought her boyfriend Ye Yunjin was good in every respect, and that Ye Yunche, as his younger brother, only knew how to eat, drink, and make trouble for his elder brother.
Taking on the perspective of a sister-in-law, she found the headache-inducing little brother...
Quite annoying, too.
Zhu Liuyue said, short and crisp, “Mm. Give it to me.”
“Oh... okay, okay...” Zhu Qi stood there dumbfounded, instinctively handing over his phone.
Zhu Liuyue glanced at the number, quickly typed it into her own phone, then turned to the others and said, “You all go ahead and have fun. I'm going to make a quick call.”
With that, she stepped out of the private room, closed the door behind her, and shut out the music from inside.
She tapped the call button.
The phone rang with a series of beeps.
Three seconds later.
He answered.
A lazy, flippant voice came through the line.
“Who's this calling at this hour?”
Zhu Liuyue's eyes flickered. She replied, “Your sister-in-law.”
“My sister-in-law? My brother isn't married yet, so how do I have a sister-in-law... wait... You're Zhu Liuyue?”
“That's right.”
“Zhu Liuyue, why are you calling me at this hour?”
“Zhu Qi invited you to the party tonight. You're already half an hour late. You're not planning to stand me up again like you did at the bridal shop, are you?”
“Wouldn't be a bad idea, honestly.” A deliberately annoying male voice came through the line, practically dripping with smugness.
“So last time — you did that on purpose?”
“Not bad, you're not completely stupid after all.”
“Why?”
“Why what? Simple — I don't like women. So that means I don't like you either.” Ye Yunche's tone remained as annoyingly casual as ever.
“What if I told you... I actually quite like you?” Zhu Liuyue's tone was unhurried, her voice not loud but carrying a calm, deliberate conviction.
“...” Three seconds of silence on the other end.
Then came the shriek of a young man.
“Ahh! What the hell, Zhu Liuyue — are you messing with me on purpose? Is it fun messing with me? I already told you, I DON'T. LIKE. YOU!”
