Quick Transmigration: The Mad Beauty Refuses to Be the Scapegoat!-Chapter 444: Cannon Fodder Stepsister Doesn’t Want to Die (1)
By the window sat a voluptuous woman with curly hair and exquisite makeup, looking very fashionable.
Seeing Jiang Lai awake, she let out a sigh of relief and hurried over to show concern.
"Lai Lai, how are you feeling? Dizzy? How many fingers is mom holding up?"
Mao Fang held up three fingers in front of Jiang Lai, shaking them continuously. Jiang Lai replied absently.
"Three."
Then she closed her eyes again.
"Mom, my head hurts, I want to sleep a little longer. Go out and buy me something to eat."
Seeing her daughter looking so sickly, Mao Fang left, cursing under her breath, repeating a name.
Jiang Ci.
You don’t need to think to know that it’s about that young man with cold eyes who would step over her head instead of helping.
"Transmit the plot."
"Hmm, transmitting plot... Plot transmission complete."
This time, Jiang Lai entered a campus sweet romance script, as the stepsister of the story’s passionate yet crazed male second lead, Jiang Ci.
After Jiang Ci’s biological mother passed away, his father Jiang Zhen Sheng brought a new wife, Mao Fang, into the house in less than half a year. Mao Fang also had a daughter, who soon took the Jiang surname as well.
Jiang Zhen Sheng treated the original character as his own child and was very loving, especially doting on Mao Fang. Since then, Jiang Ci’s days became harder and harder, his mother died early, his father remarried, and he had an inherent stepsister who was sharp-tongued and willful, always finding ways to drive Jiang Ci out.
As for Jiang Ci, because of an accident in childhood, he became blind in his left eye. This physical defect subjected him to peer bullying all growing up, which further intensified his withdrawn and cold demeanor.
Moreover, the original character, as this intrusive stepsister, kept calling him a one-eyed freak, causing Jiang Ci to hate her to the core, and despise Mao Fang, the woman who "stole" his father, even more.
Without warmth from the family, Jiang Ci seldom went home, always renting an apartment outside. Although still attending school, Jiang Ci had an innate talent for computers, making him a well-known hacker at home and abroad in his youth. Through his tech skills that could manipulate the online world, he had already amassed a fortune of over a billion, something the Jiang Family was completely unaware of.
The only person in real life who knew his identity was the main female character of the story, Qiao Chuweng.
Qiao Chuweng, the only daughter of the Qiao Family in Z City, her father was a car tycoon and one of the top three riches in Z City. As the Qiao Family’s daughter, Qiao Chuweng was also exceptional, beautiful, academically excellent, and the student council president of Z City Noble Middle School, seen by everyone as the darling of the heavens, amiable yet modest.
In her past life, Qiao Chuweng dropped out of school because of the Qiao Family’s bankruptcy. After experiencing a life that fell from heaven to hell, she was reborn back to her most beautiful years, the Qiao Family did not go bankrupt, she did not drop out, her parents did not commit suicide, and she did not end up with nothing, regrettably passing away from illness.
After her rebirth, Qiao Chuweng, in order to change her fate, leveraged the information gap between her and her peers from a lifetime of experience. Not only did she seize Fu Ming, the male lead she regretted missing in the previous life, but also took the initiative to befriend the loner Jiang Ci.
Jiang Ci was bad-tempered and cold-natured, always keeping people at arm’s length. To quickly win Jiang Ci’s heart, Qiao Chuweng set her sights on Jiang Lai, who had been bullying Jiang Ci, making him feel there was no home to return to.
She felt that Jiang Lai’s mother, Mao Fang, was the mistress who stole Jiang Ci’s father, and also knew that Jiang Ci hated this mother-daughter duo most for destroying his family. Qiao Chuweng despised such people, and thus in helping Jiang Ci exact revenge on Jiang Lai, she showed no mercy.
She knew Jiang Lai was bad at academics, only getting into this prestigious school as an arts major. She also knew Jiang Lai would eventually get into the country’s best drama university.
During an important school arts performance, she preemptively learned of Jiang Lai’s planned piano piece, and when the show started, she chose to perform the same piece.
With the help of the main character’s golden touch cheating ability, the original Jiang Lai’s most prized piano skills were thoroughly outshone by Qiao Chuweng. Afterward, she angrily ran to question Qiao Chuweng, only to be met with remarks from bystanders saying, "Competence cannot blame Qiao Chuweng."
The original character’s proudest aspect was easily defeated, rendering her deflated. Following this, during the arts entrance exam, her poor performance caused her to fail outright.
Only receiving this punishment was nothing compared to Jiang Ci’s experiences, and Qiao Chuweng wouldn’t let her off easily. By leveraging her lineage and beauty to infiltrate Jiang Lai’s circle of friends, she repeatedly crushed Jiang Lai in the fields she excelled in, in front of everyone.
Gradually, Jiang Lai became ever more self-abased and self-abandoning, eventually becoming slightly mentally unstable. Her already mediocre grades dropped to the bottom of her class, and after a year, her boyfriend couldn’t stand her paranoia and broke up with her, eventually becoming yet another admirer of Qiao Chuweng.
A Jiang Lai, driven to the breaking point, finally snapped. On the day of the national exam results, failing even to nearly meet the qualifications for a bachelor’s degree was unsurprising. Meanwhile, Jiang Ci and Qiao Chuweng, as top students, entered the nation’s top universities.
That night, Jiang Lai waited on Qiao Chuweng’s route home, preparing to question what exactly Qiao Chuweng was targeting her for. During the confrontation, Qiao Chuweng stumbled and fell, at which point the male lead suddenly appeared from the corner and kicked Jiang Lai to the ground.
Jiang Ci followed closely behind, called the police without hesitation, and sent Jiang Lai to the station.
After that, Jiang Zhen Sheng’s company was dismantled by Jiang Ci, Mao Fang missed the optimal treatment time for pancreatic cancer due to swapped medical reports, and with insufficient treatment funds, she couldn’t save her life even after exhausting all family resources.
Jiang Ci’s most hated family was finally toppled by Qiao Chuweng, and their relationship eventually became that of the closest good friends. With Jiang Ci’s help, Qiao Chuweng and the male lead Fu Ming founded their own business in university, going public post-graduation, and the story among the three continued.
But the original Jiang Lai’s story could not continue.
After Mao Fang’s death, the original’s depression triggered her to leap to her death, with the main trio looking on from the side, they left only after a moment of sighs.
After receiving all the plot, Jiang Lai opened her eyes again.
"In short, you were merely a stepping stone on the road where the female lead and male second lead met. Jiang Ci couldn’t be bothered to act, so Qiao Chuweng dealt with your whole family for him."
Jiang Lai slowly sat up.
"Helping others get revenge, she really is a chivalrous female lead."
The life of a cannon fodder isn’t worth much.
Even if the original truly hurt Jiang Ci, it was only with constant verbal attacks, but the ending was indeed a complete downfall.
No choice, the female lead must act ruthlessly, otherwise, it wouldn’t match her decisive and fierce persona.
Moreover, she truly hadn’t committed any crimes, and the original character just died, with no problems visible to outsiders.
"So, is Mao Fang a mistress?"
