The Vicious Supporting Character Must Flirt or Die [Transmigration into a Book] - Chapter 1

“The plane has encountered a temporary malfunction.”

“All passengers, please put on your oxygen masks and fasten your seatbelts.”

“Boom!”

Flames burst through the cabin. A wave of heat slammed into her face—

“Ahhhhh!”

Jiang Yuan jolted upright, gasping for air.

She opened her eyes. The soft lighting filled the room, casting a gentle glow over the luxurious warm-toned décor and thick velvet curtains. This clearly was not a plane. A vast stretch of blue ocean shimmered beyond the window. Her breath eased, if only slightly.

This was not Peace Airlines.
This was not the burning aircraft to M Country.

So… where was she?

Knock knock knock.
Someone was at the door.

An elderly man stood there in a pristine suit, shoes polished to a mirror shine. His moustache was sharply trimmed, and not a single hair on his head was out of place. He bowed respectfully, exactly thirty degrees.

“Miss, we are scheduled to arrive at Nancheng Port in one hour. I have already contacted Mr. Li Tingshen. His secretary will meet you at the dock. You should see Mr. Li within half an hour after disembarking. Also, here is the list you requested. Please check if anything needs to be added.”

He handed her a sheet of paper.

Jiang Yuan accepted it without thinking.

Her brain was completely foggy. No matter how hard she stared, the words on the page blurred together. All she could clearly see were her own fingers, slender and pale, with nails painted blood red and studded with diamonds.

Real diamonds.
Not the plastic ones from nail salons.

She had been a luxury counter saleswoman. She could tell the difference at a glance.

Just the value of the diamonds on her nails could cover two years of her salary, assuming she neither ate nor spent a cent.

Her eyes widened.

She slowly looked up at the mirror.

Long golden hair fell to her waist. Her lashes were ridiculously thick, her pupils were enlarged with colored contacts, and her lips were smeared with Barbie-pink lipstick. Her skin was powdered whiter than a corpse.

That is not my face.

She looked down.

An exaggerated leopard-print dress clung to a curvy body with a plunging neckline that exposed her impressive chest. A glittering Cartier diamond pendant swung above it all.

This body that screams carnal temptation… is not mine either.

Jiang Yuan stood frozen, her lips slightly parted, unable to process what she was seeing.

Anyone would panic if they went to bed as an A-cup and woke up with a pair of 36Ds.

Ding.

A soft chime echoed in her mind.

“Dear Player, as of 18:00:01 on March 3rd, 2019, you have been successfully transported into the mission world. Remaining Life Value is 100. Please complete the mission of gaining the protagonist’s affection within the allotted time. Failure will result in depletion of Life Value and entry into the cycle of death. Below is your mission file. It will not be repeated. Please read carefully.”

Original Name: Jiang Yuan

Current Identity: Jiang Yuan, heiress of Jiang Corporation

Remaining Life Value: 100

Protagonist Affection Value: 0

Time Left to Exchange Life Value: 10 days

Key Relatives: …

Key Friends: …

Registered Assets: …

…

The more she read, the colder her hands became.

This background was exactly the same as the novel she had been reading before the plane crash. The title? Priceless Best Actress: The Ex-Wife Everyone Wants.

She remembered the plot.

The female lead, Jing Ying, had been raised by a single mother. A car accident left her mother hospitalized and needing one million yuan for surgery. Desperate, Jing Ying turned to her relatives, only to be tricked into working at a hostess club. Just when everything seemed hopeless, she met the male lead, Li Tingshen.

Li Tingshen, of course, already carried someone in his heart. She was his unreachable first love. Pressured by his family to marry, he found Jing Ying, who bore a vague resemblance to his beloved, and used her as a stand-in.

He gave her the money for the medical bills, signed a fake marriage contract, and brought her home to provoke the woman he actually cared for.

Throughout their marriage, he kept up his flings, whispering sweet nothings to his white moonlight while dragging along other women, too. Jing Ying couldn’t take it anymore. She moved out. One year later, she paid him back ten million and filed for divorce, leaving with nothing.

That was when the male lead suddenly woke up.

He discovered his beloved first love had cheated on him countless times. He realized Jing Ying had been clever, strong, and worth admiring. He decided she was the one he truly loved and began chasing her.

Jiang Yuan had stopped reading at that point.

It was just too stupid.

The male lead was a two-faced, selfish bastard. He flirted with every woman he saw, then blamed it on being “cold and reserved.” He never committed, but never rejected anyone either. And yet, every woman in the book was crazy for him. They fought over him like moths to a flame, no matter how many times they got burned.

Meanwhile, the female lead bore the title of “Mrs. Li” and was targeted from all sides. Jealous love rivals came one after another just to throw themselves in her way and deliver slaps to their own faces.

And Jiang Yuan…

The original character who shared her name… was one of the worst among them.

Not just one of the obsessed.

The absolute worst.

She was beautiful, born into wealth, and backed by a powerful family. At first, she was simply spoiled. Then she went mad. She eventually surpassed even the first love and became the most dangerous villainess in the story.

Out of sheer curiosity, Jiang Yuan had skipped to the end to see how her namesake fared.

That woman tried to harm the female lead’s child in the finale.

The male lead snapped.

He destroyed her family’s fortune. Her father died of a heart attack. Her mother jumped off a building. Her brothers either died or went to jail. She was sold to a nightclub and died alone from a disease.

…

Jiang Yuan stared at the data hovering in front of her.

So I’ve transmigrated.

Into a book.

As a villainess.

One with a guaranteed bad ending.

And to make it worse, that system had just told her she had ten days to gain the protagonist’s affection.

Which meant… she had to fight the female lead for the male lead’s heart? Gather enough affection to survive?

Wasn’t that exactly what the original villainess tried to do?

She wanted to yell, but the system voice was gone. The data had vanished, too.

All that remained was a faint glowing ring around her wrist. Inside it, a small blue number flickered softly.

That was her current Life Value.

“Miss? Is something wrong?”

The butler noticed her troubled expression and asked patiently.

Snapping back, Jiang Yuan shook her head. “No, I was just debating whether to revise anything. Um… Uncle Jiang, right? You can leave everything here. I’ll take a look in a bit, alright?”

She smiled awkwardly. When she felt her heavy makeup shift awkwardly on her face, she quickly dropped the smile.

The butler blinked. That was the first time he had ever heard the young lady speak so gently.

He gave a respectful bow and quietly exited.

The moment the door closed, Jiang Yuan collapsed onto the bed like a sack of rice.

She grew up in an orphanage, worked hard her entire life, and just when she thought she had finally caught a break, she found herself thrown into a life-or-death countdown with no instructions at all.

So she had money now. And status. And didn’t need to work for a living.

But the price was a life-or-death game of collecting affection.

She stared at the glowing ring around her arm and groaned.

Ten days.

How was she supposed to get affection points in ten days?

She picked up the list and scanned it again. Her eyes stopped at the last line:

“Cash reward of one million.”

Her gaze lit up.

Collect affection points from the protagonist?

It never said which protagonist.

The female lead could count too, right?

Does love between close friends not count?