After Marrying the Cold and Elegant Beauty, I Fell in Love (GL) - Chapter 1

Han Shuangshuang has transmigrated.

It all started because she couldn’t pass a level in a mini-game, so she watched a thirty-second advertisement. The ad featured a snippet of a novel, and Han Shuangshuang noticed a female supporting character who shared her exact name.

Guided by the excellent philosophy of “memorize the whole text to prevent transmigration,” she decided to read on.

The result? The more she read, the angrier she got.

The story was a total “synopsis scam.” The beginning was set in a university, and the synopsis described a touching love story between a “Phoenix Man” (a poor man who strikes it rich) male lead and an illegitimate daughter female lead.

Halfway through, she discovered that the male lead’s values were completely warped—he relied entirely on women to climb the social ladder. The female lead was an illegitimate daughter who spent every waking moment emotionally blackmailing others. The supporting characters were pure “tools”—stepping stones for the leads with zero self-awareness. The plot was incredibly stiff; if the leads didn’t have their “protagonist halos,” they would basically be criminals.

The character sharing her name turned out to be a “low-IQ” vicious cannon fodder supporting character. To make matters worse, she was the female lead’s older sister—the “buffs” for tragedy were fully stacked on her.

After the female lead appeared, the supporting character’s mother died in a car accident. The female lead’s mother—the mistress—married into the family. She was a two-faced hypocrite who acted like a loving mother in front of the father but revealed her ugly, cruel face the moment he was gone. This caused the supporting character to grow up unloved and rebellious. She became a delinquent who hung out with bad friends and managed to fail ten out of twelve university courses.

Worst of all, the female lead was a “white lotus” who constantly “defended” the supporting character in front of the father, making herself look weak and virtuous while actually fueling the father’s rage.

It was the most tragic setup: the original wife is gone, the daughter is bullied, and she’s been raised to be a failure.

If you looked at it from the cannon fodder’s perspective, it was enough to make your blood boil. At 2:00 AM, Han Shuangshuang threw her phone onto the bed in a rage, cursing the “trash novel.” The plot had ruined a perfectly good night, and she was so angry her heart actually hurt.

Eventually losing all patience, she skipped to the middle-end for two chapters and then jumped to the grand finale. She discovered that a minor character with very little screen time had counterattacked and become the “Great Female Villain,” eventually killing off both the male and female leads.

The villain was beautiful, gloomy, and paranoid—exactly Han Shuangshuang’s type. She read a few more lines of the character description. There, she saw that the supporting character sharing her name had accidentally offended this villain due to her brainless antics. Her end was horrific: after her family went bankrupt, she had no survival skills and literally starved to death on the streets. Those she had bullied in the past came to kick her while she was down, getting their revenge before she died.

Han Shuangshuang shuddered, immediately closed the app to calm down, and deleted the novel.

Then, she saw a question on a Q&A site: “If you transmigrated into a low-IQ cannon fodder character with your same name, how would you dominate the book and turn the tide?”

Han Shuangshuang thought: Now that you’ve asked, I’m wide awake.

Hmph. If she transmigrated into that novel, she would definitely pull off an earth-shattering counterattack.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed before her eyes.

Just like a scene transition in a video, a BGM echoed in her mind: [System Prompt: Congratulations to the Host for successfully entering the world of the book.]

Han Shuangshuang realized she was suddenly standing in a small park. In front of her was a calm little lake. Under the bright sun and clear sky… she had actually transmigrated?

“Shuangshuang, hurry up! What are you waiting for?”

An impatient, urging voice from behind snapped her back to reality.

Directly facing her was a pair of frost-cold phoenix eyes. There wasn’t a hint of emotion in them. Han Shuangshuang immediately associated them with the female villain she had read about that night: Shen Yuru.

Enduring, restrained, sharply beautiful, and gloomy—these were the adjectives used in the book to describe her. Contradictory yet perfectly fitting.

She had transmigrated? So, which chapter was this? Cannon fodder characters die very easily! And Shen Yuru was staring at her; the pressure was immense.

Han Shuangshuang silently looked away and suddenly spotted the male lead, Long Aodi, hiding behind a large tree nearby.

The plot rushed back to her.

Since both Han Shuangshuang and Shen Yuru were supporting characters, the book didn’t spend much time on them. But Han Shuangshuang had a deep impression of Shen Yuru because she was exactly her type. She remembered that Shen Yuru played the “pig to eat the tiger,” hiding her strength before completely blackening. In the early stages, she endured; in the later stages, she was a true powerhouse. The leads and everyone who bullied her were “deleted.”

She was no exception, though she had skipped through the chapters too fast to remember exactly when she met her end.

The current scene: the original host had been tricked by the male lead. Having found out about her engagement to Shen Yuru, she had come to cause trouble and push Shen Yuru into the water. The male lead, Long Aodi, would then jump out to “save the beauty.”

“Han Shuangshuang, what’s wrong with you today? Why are you being so timid? You aren’t actually scared, are you? Shen Yuru is just a sickly weakling. If you’re this scared, you might as well stop showing your face at Z University,” Wang Yahong urged impatiently.

Han Shuangshuang knew this woman was the male lead’s lackey; Long Aodi had sent her to whisper poison in her ear.

As Wang Yahong stepped forward to shove her, Han Shuangshuang immediately reached out and gently wrapped her arm around Shen Yuru’s waist, pulling her out of the way.

Wang Yahong stumbled forward from the momentum. Han Shuangshuang was quick—she delivered a front kick, sending Wang Yahong flying into the lake.

Han Shuangshuang put on an expression of pure righteousness. “Don’t you dare try to hurt my Sister Shen!”

Shen Yuru, who had been glaring at her with icy daggers, was stunned.

Wang Yahong, who was currently gulping down mouthfuls of salty lake water, was also stunned.

Han Shuangshuang then pointed toward Long Aodi’s hiding spot and shouted, “This was all Long Aodi’s rotten idea! He told me to be the bad guy and push you into the water so he could rush out and play the hero!”

Han Shuangshuang watched as the smile on Long Aodi’s face vanished visibly.

Well, smiles don’t actually disappear—they just transfer to other people. In this case, the smile transferred to her face.

Shen Yuru immediately looked toward Long Aodi.

Han Shuangshuang saw Long Aodi’s face twist from a glare into a forced, awkward smile the moment he met Shen Yuru’s gaze.

Long Aodi: “Senior, don’t misunderstand. I was just passing by. Don’t listen to Han Shuangshuang’s nonsense.”

Wang Yahong was still splashing in the water. Hearing Long Aodi’s voice, she screamed, “Senior, help me! Han Shuangshuang suddenly betrayed us, but my heart is always with you! When I get out of this water, I’m going to give Shen Yuru what’s coming to her!”

Long Aodi’s face turned from twitching to pitch black. His mouth trembled like he had Parkinson’s.

Han Shuangshuang took the chance to explain to Shen Yuru: “Sister Shen, you heard that, right? He wasn’t ‘passing by.’ He forced me to lure you here and push you in when you weren’t looking. He knows you’re in poor health and that falling into the water would make you sick. He wanted me to be the villain so he could save you, gain your trust, and then exploit you!”

Shen Yuru’s eyes remained cold and unreadable. She stared at Han Shuangshuang as if evaluating her entire being, trying to see through her eyes to her true intentions.

Han Shuangshuang had thought that as a modern person, she could handle a “low-IQ” book world with ease. But facing a real villain, she realized the pressure was overwhelming. Just locking eyes with Shen Yuru made her scalp tingle and her body tremble. A chill ran down her spine, as if she were pinned to a board with nowhere to run.

“Why are you telling me this?”

Shen Yuru’s thin lips moved, and her cold voice drifted out.

Even though Han Shuangshuang had skimmed the book, the voice perfectly matched the descriptions. A villain is a villain—even one who hasn’t fully “blackened” yet. Knowing someone was trying to frame her, she remained calm, unfazed, and unafraid.

As Wang Yahong continued to struggle in the water, Long Aodi had no choice but to dive in and pull her out.

Han Shuangshuang stood tall, sounding incredibly righteous: “I can’t stand seeing this kind of bullying on a university campus. I want to be a ray of light for this school!”

Internally, she was cringing so hard her scalp felt numb. But in this situation, she really didn’t know what else to say. Before transmigrating, she was just an ordinary student. It felt like being dropped into a high-stakes palace drama—even if she knew the plot, she felt like she wouldn’t last three seconds.

Long Aodi supported the soaking wet Wang Yahong, glaring at Han Shuangshuang several times as they walked away. Now, only she and the villain were left by the lake. Han Shuangshuang felt the atmospheric pressure drop; it was hard to breathe.

She remembered that in the original plot, this was supposed to be their first meeting. Even if she wanted to cling to the villain’s leg for survival, she needed a plausible reason for their connection. Having left her brain behind after starting university, she now had to pick it up and jumpstart it.

Searching the early plot points, she hit on a key detail.

The supporting character’s mother had been a doctor. A crucial point for Shen Yuru was her weak heart, and the character’s mother had been Shen Yuru’s private doctor when they were children.

Shen Yuru was the unloved eldest daughter of a wealthy family, and the supporting character was in a similar boat. Eventually, they would be forced into an arranged business marriage. Han Shuangshuang knew the plot hadn’t reached that point yet, so she couldn’t let it slip.

“Sister Shen, please don’t be wary of me. Do you remember that my mother used to be your doctor? She told me I had to find you and protect you well.”

Han Shuangshuang saw the icy indifference in Shen Yuru’s eyes thaw slightly, as if she were recalling old memories.

“That’s why I pretended to agree to Long Aodi—it was actually to help you.”

Han Shuangshuang wasn’t sure if Shen Yuru believed her.

“Thank you.”

Shen Yuru had congenital heart disease and a weak constitution. After standing in the noon sun for so long, her face was pale, and her voice lacked strength. Hearing the villain thank her, Han Shuangshuang was overwhelmed.

“Sister Shen, you don’t look well. Let me walk you back to your dorm.”

Han Shuangshuang breathed a sigh of relief, thinking she had dodged a bullet. But as she took a step forward, she accidentally stepped on Shen Yuru’s shoelace. Shen Yuru’s body pitched forward uncontrollably. Han Shuangshuang panicked.

If the villain fell and got hurt now, wouldn’t all the “heroic” goodwill she just built disappear?

Han Shuangshuang lunged forward, catching Shen Yuru firmly in her arms. They were about the same height—Shen Yuru was perhaps slightly taller, but she was slender and light, making her easy to hold.

As expected of a melodramatic novel, Han Shuangshuang thought, hugs and physical contact happen so easily.

At least we didn’t accidentally kiss.

But in the next second, Shen Yuru stepped on Han Shuangshuang’s shoe. Her own body pitched forward, pinning Shen Yuru to the ground, and their lips crashed together perfectly.