The Villain Quits - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

My brother is a novel’s villain, and I am the malevolent female supporting character.

At first, I didn’t believe it.

What a joke.

Never mind the fact that I myself possess a beauty that could sink fish and make birds fall from the sky, or eclipse the moon and shame the flowers.

My brother is 188 centimeters tall, handsome, rich, has a great voice, is considerate, knows how to coax people, and has a six-pack to boot. In a book, he should at least be set up as the male lead, right?

That was until the real male lead transferred to our school.

Xie Yu’an stood there in his school uniform, his features sharp and his expression indifferent. He unhurriedly wrote his name on the blackboard.

I looked at Xie Yu’an, then back at my brother.

I looked at my brother, then back at Xie Yu’an.

Tsk.

My brother really was a bit lacking in comparison.

Perhaps my gaze was too intense, because Xie Yu’an lifted his eyes and cast a languid look in my direction.

With just that one glance, my heart started racing so fast it felt like it was about to give out.

It felt like… like something was stirring restlessly inside me!

Ah, turns out it was my money!

By the time I snapped out of it, I realized I had already pulled my wallet out of my pocket and was counting my meager remaining allowance.

Five hundred yuan. A bit on the low side.

I lowered my voice and poked my brother.

“Bro, I want to keep someone as a sugar baby. What do you think?”

My brother lowered his voice too.

“I think I’ll break your legs. How’s that?”

Whatever.

Before I could snap back at him, our homeroom teacher, Ms. Yu, smacked the blackboard twice and said sharply:

“Shen Tingzhou! Shen Sui! If you have something to say, come up here and say it to the whole class!”

My brother and I hung our heads in shame.

To our surprise, Ms. Yu had no intention of letting us off the hook. She turned to Xie Yu’an with a smile and said:

“The new student hasn’t been assigned a seat yet, right? Perfect. You’ll sit next to Shen Sui. Shen Tingzhou, get up and move to the seat by the teacher’s podium. That’ll keep you two from talking all day!”

What?!

The male lead had just made his entrance, and my brother had already lost his seatmate.

And it was a great seatmate like me!

I was heartbroken. It was all my fault for being momentarily blinded by a pretty face.

The bad blood between these two was forming way too fast.

After class, my brother walked over to Xie Yu’an’s desk with his arms crossed, looking like a total delinquent. He parted his thin lips and let out a cold sound:

“Heh.”

It’s over!

Cannon fodder like my brother was picking a fight with the male lead right out of the gate!

Xie Yu’an had been propping up his head, half-asleep, but now his brow furrowed as he swept a weary, irritable gaze over.

The atmosphere grew tense, the air thick with the smell of gunpowder.

I took a deep breath and spoke with ringing clarity:

“Bro! Spitting isn’t allowed here!”

The veins on my brother’s forehead bulged.

“No, Shen Sui, who told you I was going to spit?”

“Then what were you doing?”

“I-” My brother choked on his words, his face flushing red. He turned and stormed off in a huff.

Just as I breathed a sigh of relief, I noticed Xie Yu’an studying me thoughtfully.

“Um, hey, new student. Sorry about that. My brother, he…”

I tapped my finger against my temple and said with a look of deep sorrow:

“He’s got some issues up here. I hope you can be patient with him.”

Sorry, Bro.

Intelligence is precious, but life is even dearer.

For the sake of our survival, you’ll just have to suffer this grievance for now.

Xie Yu’an arched an eyebrow. I couldn’t tell if he believed me or not, but he put his head down to catch up on his sleep.

I carefully fished a novel out of my backpack.

This morning, just as I stepped out of the house, this book had fallen from the sky and tripped me, sending me sprawling.

I had spent a long time cursing at it with my hands on my hips, only to realize something was wrong once I picked it up.

First.

The villains in the book had the exact same names as my brother and me.

Second.

In the book, every time I appeared, it was accompanied by five thousand words of physical description. Every frown and every smile enchanted everyone except the male and female leads.

Tsk. There was no helping it then.

This was definitely me. There was no mistake.