There were no classes on Tuesday morning.
Chen Tang returned to her own home.
She pulled out a notebook from under her computer desk.
“I recommended that he meet with her—if the plot proceeds as expected, she’ll agree to his confession, but one year later, she’ll also betray him. Just like Xia You, even though I drove her away in high school, once they reached university, they still met, they still dated. She still broke his heart.”
Writing up to this point, Chen Tang paused her pen. “But, the good news is, the fact that I’ve become a beautiful girl does seem to have become a variable. In a sense, Liu Yan is indeed a lecher! He can’t refuse a pretty girl’s request. In the original novel, as his brother, I tried to comfort him, but he rejected me. Now that I’ve become a beautiful girl, he didn’t turn down my invitation.
So, does this count as finally making the plot change?
If Bai Mengling rejects his confession at this point, then it means the plot has indeed changed. If she still chooses to accept… then I still need to keep working.”
Writing this, a helpless smile appeared on her face.
It had been over ten years since she transmigrated into this world. She hadn’t wanted to be a Devil Child since childhood… she just wanted to change the ending of this story.
Liu Yan was the male lead of this story.
However, the name of this story was “After I Died, They Went Crazy with Regret.”
As the name suggested, Liu Yan, the male lead, would encounter all kinds of girls, but these girls would misunderstand him for various reasons and part ways with him. Only after news of his death arrived would these girls begin to regret.
And Chen Tang was Liu Yan’s good brother, playing the role of a messenger in the story—he helped Liu Yan arrange the funeral and berated each female lead at the funeral.
She had transmigrated after touching a meteor shower.
She had done many things to keep Liu Yan, the male lead, away from those people. However, when they reached university, it was as if the hands of Heaven’s Will manipulated everything, making everything she did meaningless. Liu Yan still came into contact with Xia You, still started dating Xia You. She realized that perhaps she couldn’t change anything at all.
When she heard news of a meteor shower and saw a meteor fall nearby, she thought—maybe this was her chance to go back.
She couldn’t change the story’s plot.
But—
She had turned into a beautiful girl, and the World Line had undergone some kind of change at that instant.
She suddenly realized…
This story could be changed.
Because the character Chen Tang had already changed.
She was almost certain—she had become a part of the story herself.
She couldn’t say whether this was the original author suddenly writing an alternate route side story or something, but she knew she hadn’t been able to go back.
However, she might really be able to change the story’s ending.
Let’s give it a try.
Use Bai Mengling’s character to test it out!
Having figured all this out, she put away her diary and lay down on the bed.
Closed her eyes.
…
Liu Yan had no idea he was being considered a lecher.
Xia You was a very beautiful woman. On the campus network, gossips had rated her as one of the school beauties, and since she came from an ordinary family, she was the Commoner School Beauty. In a sense, she was even more popular than Bai Mengling.
After all, with someone like Bai Mengling, people wouldn’t harbor illusions.
The gap in status and wealth was too large. Many men naturally felt inferior.
But someone like Xia You was different—there were always people who thought they could reach her.
When he first met her… it was when he helped her fend off harassment from other men. Of course, at that time, he hadn’t planned on pursuing her.
He just chatted with her, talked about some things from the past.
Later, they kept running into each other, and their feelings gradually grew.
Eventually, they started dating.
Playing games with Chen Tang hadn’t given him much time to think, but when he stopped, past memories resurfaced in his heart.
What had gone wrong between him and Xia You?
Could Xia You really just break up with him in just two or three days?
He wasn’t unable to accept this outcome—after all, he was just an ordinary college student. For a school beauty like Xia You to break up with him one day seemed perfectly reasonable.
But what he couldn’t understand was how hasty and simple it was… it made him angry.
There wasn’t even a proper reason.
A feeling of fate?
Who was she trying to fool with that kind of thing?
So, when Chen Tang suggested confessing to Bai Mengling, he agreed.
So what if Xia You was a school beauty? He’d do something different!
Young and impulsive? Too rash?
Wasn’t being impulsive part of being young?
He just couldn’t swallow this anger. He was furious!
Why should he?
Had he done anything wrong to Xia You?!
He absolutely could not accept this!
Go to sleep first!
Time quickly arrived at the afternoon.
“The Student Union seems to have a meeting tonight, it’ll end around nine o’clock.” Chen Tang held a bouquet of flowers and handed it directly to Liu Yan. “I asked my aunt to wrap it for you. She said if you’re confessing to someone, she’d give you this bouquet for free.”
Liu Yan took a look—a bouquet of roses with nine flowers inside.
Small and delicate.
The quantity wasn’t excessive, but it looked very beautiful.
“Please thank your aunt for me.”
“We finish afternoon classes and head straight to the Student Union. In front of everyone, you confess to Bai Mengling! Even if you get rejected, it doesn’t matter. Your goal isn’t to get her to agree anyway. What you want is to let everyone know that you dumped Xia You!”
Although imagining that scene made Liu Yan feel very embarrassed, thinking back—after all these years hanging out with this Devil Child Chen Tang, he’d been through even more embarrassing situations…
He remembered back in middle school, this jerk had written an extremely cringey love letter full of cheesy lines and given it to the class beauty at the time, signed with his name. That class beauty read it out loud on the spot, making him lose all face.
He went back and fought Chen Tang over it.
Now that he thought about it, he still found this person wicked.
But thanks to her training over the years, he wasn’t actually that afraid of embarrassment anymore.
Just like she said, being rejected by Bai Mengling wasn’t something to be ashamed of. Who hasn’t been rejected? Being accepted was something impossible.
If you don’t hold expectations, you won’t feel disappointment.
His pain came precisely because he had actually become Xia You’s boyfriend and then was abandoned—if they had never had a relationship from the start, how could he feel pain?
It was precisely because he had possessed and expected that he felt pain and sorrow.
Afternoon classes were College English, which he spent slacking off as usual.
No one knew someone was about to pull a big stunt—well, even if they did know, they’d probably just come to watch. Watching a commotion was human nature after all.
But as for how many people really cared about it?
Probably only the person involved would care.
After class ended, the two dashed toward the Student Union with the flowers. In reality, the Student Union president herself had set the evening meeting time.
In university, the Student Union could be said to have authority or not. It mainly depended on how much everyone acknowledged it.
Bai Mengling was clearly someone that everyone acknowledged. Mainly, if you were a Student Union member working under Bai Mengling, you got real tangible benefits.
Miss Bai wasn’t short on money.
So when Miss Bai set an evening meeting time every day, the Student Union members never showed up late.
“We’ll eat dinner after we get back, okay?” Chen Tang suggested. “My parents don’t seem to be home today, so I’m coming to your place to mooch a meal.”
“Can’t say about my parents—how about we eat out instead?”
“I want barbecue.”
“Too expensive. Best I can do is Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles.”
“Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles works.”
With casual conversation like this, they arrived at the Student Union office.
It was now seven in the evening.
The Student Union usually held meetings at this time—since Xia You was also a member, Liu Yan knew her schedule.
He suddenly pushed open the Student Union meeting room door!
Normally, people knocked. But then again, it was just the Student Union after all… many people liked to emphasize rules, but really, if you had urgent business, even kicking open the principal’s office door didn’t matter much?
But this action immediately drew everyone’s attention.
Chen Tang followed behind Liu Yan. Her gaze immediately landed on Xia You, who was sitting on the left side—she was a member of the Organization Department.
The other’s expression changed drastically, clearly thinking Liu Yan had come to confront her. Her face looked terrible.
And the Student Union president, sitting directly across from the door—a bespectacled woman with a slender figure and commanding presence—looked at Liu Yan with a peculiar expression.
“What are you here for!”
A Student Union member stood up and questioned Liu Yan.
Liu Yan glanced at him, then strode forward with the bouquet in hand.
Under everyone’s gaze…
Chen Tang had already seen Xia You stand up, her expression shifting rapidly, probably thinking about how to reject Liu Yan’s flowers.
But!
That was completely wrong!
When Liu Yan passed by Xia You, he turned slightly and flashed her a smile.
Then…
He arrived in front of Bai Mengling.
He extended the rose bouquet forward.
“Bai Mengling! I like you! Will you be my girlfriend?”
No hesitation, no ambiguity in his words—Liu Yan’s expression was as firm as if he were joining the Party.
Clear and resounding! Powerful!
No one would doubt this young man’s determination.
Everyone’s jaws dropped!
Some people naturally knew Liu Yan—for instance, other members of the Organization Department knew that Xia You had a boyfriend who acted like a lovesick puppy.
“Liu Yan! What are you doing?! Aren’t you Xia You’s boyfriend? Why are you confessing to the president?!”
Xia You’s best friend, Luo Tian, stood up and questioned Liu Yan like this.
She clearly saw her friend’s ugly expression and stood up to defend her.
Instantly, the expressions of the Student Union members changed.
Today, Bai Mengling’s meeting theme had originally been about environmental work on campus…
But environmental work wasn’t as interesting as drama!
For a moment, the entire Student Union was silent, not a single sound to be heard, everyone waiting for Liu Yan’s answer.
“Xia You and I have already broken up.”
Liu Yan stared intently at Bai Mengling. His tone was very flat, as if he were talking about something unrelated to himself.
Luo Tian was stunned. She looked at Xia You beside her. “You two broke up?!”
“…Mm.”
Xia You hadn’t been able to react. When she heard her friend’s question, she was startled for a moment, then gave her answer.
Luo Tian’s eyes instantly turned red. She sternly rebuked Liu Yan, “Liu Yan! You scumbag! Did you dump Youyou just to pursue the president?!”
Holy crap!
Chen Tang almost had to give Luo Tian a thumbs up.
What an ally like you! You didn’t transmigrate from a book too, did you?
Liu Yan responded very quickly: “What does that have to do with you? I’m confessing to Bai Mengling right now! Don’t interrupt me here! I need to hear her reply!”
Xia You had originally wanted to say “I was the one who dumped him.” But at this moment, hearing Liu Yan mention Bai Mengling, she finally remembered that the person involved right now wasn’t herself, but Bai Mengling.
The woman facing a bouquet of roses.
“Delusional!”
Luo Tian’s face showed a contemptuous expression. She clearly didn’t think Bai Mengling would accept Liu Yan’s confession—but Chen Tang knew that Bai Mengling had a very high probability of agreeing.
At this point in time, Bai Mengling should be under a lot of pressure from her family, which would make her agree to Liu Yan’s confession.
In the original novel, a heartbroken Liu Yan happened to meet Bai Mengling off-campus. Bai Mengling comforted him a little, and then Liu Yan said somewhat self-deprecatingly, “Then if I confessed to you, would you agree?”
Bai Mengling said, “Then I’d be your girlfriend.”
So they got together like that.
The truth was, of course, that Bai Mengling also hurt Liu Yan later.
But the two situations were completely different.
That was a private relationship. This was a public confession in front of everyone.
As for Chen Tang herself, she absolutely hoped Bai Mengling would reject him, because if she refused, it would mean the plot had been completely changed by her.
But at the same time, her instinct told her—
This person wouldn’t refuse.
Under the great hand of Heaven’s Will, this person would definitely agree to Liu Yan’s confession.
But agreeing didn’t seem like a bad thing either. At least it took Xia You out of the picture first—what she needed to avoid wasn’t the future where Liu Yan was hurt by various women. What she needed to avoid was the future where Liu Yan died.
“I don’t like roses.”
Bai Mengling suddenly said, “This kind of flower is too flashy. Comparatively, I might prefer something like white roses more.”
This could almost be seen as a rejection.
Luo Tian showed an “I knew it” expression.
Liu Yan nodded and was about to withdraw his hand.
But Bai Mengling grabbed hold of the bouquet.
“Although I don’t like this kind of flower, if it’s from you, I’ll accept it.”
She looked at Xia You. “I’ve already clearly heard that you and Xia You have broken up. So, now you’re my boyfriend, Liu Yan.”