After Transmigrating into a Scum Alpha Supporting Female Character, I Conquered the Female Lead - Chapter 1

“Cough, cough!” Rong Yang’s delicate brows furrowed slightly as she slowly opened her eyes.

So bright!

Suddenly, her eyes flew wide open. Hadn’t she died in the hospital?

“The Fifth Princess is awake! Hurry and call the imperial physician!”

The maid outside received the order and ran quickly down the corridor.

So noisy. Who was speaking beside her ear?

Inside the room, a breeze carried the restless heat of midsummer and brushed across Rong Yang’s face.

…

Rong Yang leaned against the headboard, her gaze somewhat unfocused as she quietly took in everything around her.

What entered her sight was an ornate, magnificent room with intricate patterns, an antique-style folding screen…

The Fifth Princess was awake?

“Princess, are you feeling any better?”

Chunxi quickly approached the bedside. Looking at Rong Yang’s current expression, anxiety appeared on her face.

This time, the princess had injured her head. The imperial physician said the matter could be serious or minor, and everything would depend on the princess’s condition after she woke up.

“Princess, this time you were injured, everyone in the residence said it was Su Yao who pushed you…”

“She has already been locked up to await punishment.”

Su Yao?

What an unfamiliar name.

At the moment before her death, someone had spoken into her fading consciousness.

[Dying one, you are about to die in the real world. I will now arrange for you to transmigrate into an ABO novel. Only by surviving as the vicious supporting female character, Rong Yang, and changing her doomed ending will you have a chance to return from death.]

[Note: Please try not to go against the character setting or do anything inconsistent with the persona.]

[If you violate the character setting more than three times, you will be punished.]

[The female lead’s current hatred value is 70. If it reaches 100, the host will be replaced and returned to the real world to accept the ending of death.]

Could this be the world inside the book?

A moment later, memories belonging to the original owner, along with fragments of the original owner’s story in the book, suddenly surged into her mind. Her head spun, and she lay back down again.

What kind of ridiculous melodramatic plot was this?

The original owner possessed the finest Qianyuan bloodline and the noblest status in the Kingdom of Yong, but her childhood sweetheart was unwilling to marry her. Unable to obtain the one she loved, she vented all her resentment on her betrothed, Su Yao.

She disappeared on their wedding night?

She arranged for the female lead to live in the worst house in the residence.

She allowed the female lead to suffer every kind of bullying and cold treatment in the residence.

Whenever she was in a bad mood, she would summon the female lead over and humiliate her. Later on, she even used a whip on her!

She made the female lead live in the Princess’s residence like a stray dog that had lost its home…

And afterward, she did a whole series of things that pushed the female lead into blackening.

She forced the female lead to strive desperately in that kind of environment. After the female lead achieved success and made a name for herself, the first thing she did was secretly imprison the original owner.

She tortured her until she wished for death, subjecting her to all thirty-six kinds of torture, leaving her with an ending where even her body had no place to be buried!

According to the plot, there was only one year left before the female lead blackened!

No way!

I just finished dying, and now I have to die again?

The plot made Rong Yang’s vision go dark.

In other words, I have to maintain this persona while eliminating the female lead’s hatred toward the original owner within one year?

And I also have to make the female lead spare the original owner once she achieves success?

If I had to transmigrate into a book, couldn’t it have been into a simpler plot?

Rong Yang sighed silently. In the real world, she had originally been a wealthy young lady from a family with countless assets. Unfortunately, at a young age, she became a sickly person who had fought cancer for many years. Every day, the moment she opened her eyes, she smelled hospital disinfectant and faced all kinds of medical equipment. Her family had money, and they used that money to drag out her life, but she truly had enough of those days…

She gave a bitter smile. Did they think my previous life wasn’t miserable enough?

The original owner’s ending could be called even more horribly tragic.

Of course, the prerequisite was that she had committed all kinds of evil…

A thought flashed through Rong Yang’s mind. She committed all kinds of evil, so can’t I just not commit evil?

After a long while, Rong Yang slowly accepted the reality before her.

Since she was already here, she might as well settle down. No matter how one looked at it, she had still gained something…

She had gained one year of time, had she not?

“Princess, are you feeling unwell again?” Chunxi, the personal maid standing at the side, asked nervously.

Rong Yang took a deep breath. First, she had to go meet the female lead. She opened her clear, beautiful peach blossom eyes, and her cold voice sounded.

“What did you just say?”

Chunxi froze slightly, then recalled, “Are you feeling unwell again?”

“Not that. The line before it.”

“Su Yao has already been locked up to await punishment…”

“Where is she locked up? Take me to see her.” Rong Yang got up and flicked her sleeves.

“Princess, but your body…” Before Chunxi could finish speaking—

Rong Yang lifted her eyes. Her expression was as cold as frost as she said lightly, “It’s fine.”

An oppressive aura of dignity without anger swept over them. Chunxi instantly fell silent.

“Lead the way,” Rong Yang said again.

“Yes.” Chunxi lowered her eyes and walked ahead.

Although Rong Yang had a rough impression of the Princess’s residence from the memories transmitted to her, seeing it with her own eyes was another matter entirely.

The splendor and magnificence here still left Rong Yang greatly amazed.

They passed one courtyard after another and turned through several long corridors.

At last, they arrived in front of a crude house that was utterly out of place in the Princess’s residence.

There were so many empty rooms in the Princess’s residence, yet they actually locked the female lead in such a remote and shabby house. The original owner really didn’t treat her like a person…

When the guards standing at the door saw the princess arrive in person, they immediately straightened their bodies and knelt respectfully on the ground.

“Greetings, Princess!”

Rong Yang asked, “Is the Fifth Princess Consort inside?”

The two young servants raised their heads and glanced at each other, completely confused.

Who was the Fifth Princess Consort?

“This servant does not know which princess consort Your Highness is referring to!” the young servant replied, trembling with fear.

Rong Yang suddenly remembered. Ever since the original owner had married Su Yao into the residence, there had not been a single day when she treated her as her own princess consort. As for the servants in the Princess’s residence, they naturally acted according to Rong Yang’s wishes. Even if the emperor had bestowed the marriage, since the princess did not like her, Su Yao was naturally unworthy of being the mistress of the Princess’s residence.

Chunxi, who stood beside her, reminded them, “The princess has come to see Su Yao.”

Only then did the two guards realize she meant the woman inside who had been locked up and deprived of food for a day and a night.

“Yes!”

The two young servants hurriedly pushed the door open and were about to go in and bring Su Yao out.

But before Rong Yang could wait for them to act, she had already stepped one foot into the room.

Chunxi hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping herself. The princess had always loved cleanliness. How could she enter such a filthy place?

This room was worlds apart from the bedchamber she had been in just now. All the windows in the room had been sealed shut. A hot, murky smell filled every corner, and there was not even a proper bed, only a straw mat spread on the floor.

Su Yao sat lifelessly in a corner of the room. Hearing the noise, she lifted her eyes slightly.

Rong Yang’s somewhat nervous gaze landed on her. Her little life was held in this person’s hands.

Her waterfall-like long hair fell down from her shoulders to the ground, covering her thin body. Her snow-white, beautiful face looked somewhat disheveled, yet it still could not hide her stunning beauty.

So pitiful and lovely. Such a beauty had been imprisoned in the residence all this time, and the original owner had not been moved at all?

When Su Yao looked up and saw that it was Rong Yang, a trace of icy hatred flashed through her eyes.

The moment their eyes met, Rong Yang felt cold sweat run down her back. That look…

Was there really still any saving this? It felt like the female lead already wanted to cut the original owner into a thousand pieces.

The hatred vanished in an instant, leaving only despair without the slightest ripple. Su Yao lowered her brows and no longer looked at her. This madwoman had actually woken up so quickly. Hadn’t they said she had hit her head and was about to die?

Rong Yang stepped forward, her hand suddenly clenching tightly. Standing before Su Yao, she looked down at her and said coldly, “Get up!”

Su Yao did not say a word, nor did she move. At worst, it would just be another beating.

For the past two days while Rong Yang had been unconscious, her ears had finally been quiet. How she wished Rong Yang would never wake up again!

But then again, letting her simply sleep through it like that would be far too easy on her…

Seeing that Su Yao had not moved after a long while, Rong Yang bent down and approached her, then crouched. At this moment, she had only one thought: take the female lead away from this place.

Her crouching frightened Chunxi and the two guards behind her so much that they hurriedly knelt down.

“Princess, your body is worth a thousand gold. How can you lower yourself for a criminal?” Chunxi cried out in alarm.

Rong Yang knew Su Yao was a very stubborn person. There was no need to keep confronting her like this. The female lead would not take the initiative to leave with her either. The simple and rough method would be the fastest.

Rong Yang wrapped one arm around her waist and hooked the other under the bend of her knees. She felt the female lead’s soft body tremble slightly, as if she had been caught off guard.

And just like that, under the shocked gazes of the four people, Rong Yang lifted Su Yao into her arms.

Perhaps Qianyuan in this world were naturally stronger. Added to the fact that Su Yao was pitifully thin and clearly malnourished at a glance, Rong Yang carried her with ease.

A trace of disgust flashed in Su Yao’s eyes. She exerted force, wanting to struggle free from Rong Yang’s body.

“Don’t touch me!”

Rong Yang abruptly held her even tighter. Her cold expression fixed on Su Yao.

“Don’t move!”

Su Yao lifted her eyes, her gaze cold, clear, and ruthless as she stared at Rong Yang without the slightest willingness to yield.

At such a close distance, the two were locked in a stalemate. No one dared to make a sound.

Rong Yang felt helpless inside. I don’t want to be fierce to you…

But how did Su Yao’s aura resemble that of a malnourished, fragile Kunze at all?

Rong Yang’s forehead and palms were already faintly sweating.

She wanted to say she would take her to see the imperial physician, but after opening her mouth several times, she discovered she could not say those words. She could only speak according to the persona.

“You’d better not move. Be obedient, unless you want to die here!”

Rong Yang had tried organizing other, gentler words, but found it would not work at all. In the end, only this sentence came out most naturally!

As expected of a vicious supporting female character. The original owner must have said this kind of thing plenty of times.

The condescending look, the innate arrogance, the tone that brooked no resistance.

All of it made Su Yao feel disgusted. A trace of mockery flashed in her eyes.

“Dying here—isn’t that exactly what you want?” She closed her eyes silently, hiding all her emotions.

“Heh. If you want to die, that’s easy. But what about the people still alive?” Rong Yang stared closely at Su Yao.

It was a blatant threat.

In the book, the people the female lead cared about most were her parents.

Su Yao fell silent. Her whole body remained stiff, but she no longer resisted.

Carrying her, Rong Yang walked all the way toward Jinxiu Hall. Along the way, the maids and guards coming and going saw from afar that the princess was holding someone in her arms and immediately lowered their heads, afraid that if they looked one more time, their eyes would be gone.

Chunxi followed behind nervously, her mind spinning rapidly.

This… what was the princess trying to do now?

After arriving at Jinxiu Hall, Rong Yang originally wanted to gently put Su Yao down, only to discover that her hands would not obey her again. Even this was restricted!

“Get down! How long do you expect me to keep carrying you?”

Rong Yang deliberately made her tone sound impatient.

Su Yao’s face was as still as water. Her feet touched the ground, and she weakly turned around to find a seat farther away from Rong Yang.

“Go ask why the imperial physician who is supposed to take my pulse still hasn’t arrived.”

Rong Yang shouted in reprimand, startling the maids inside and outside the hall so much that their hearts trembled.

Xiaqing quickly stepped forward and answered respectfully, “Princess, she is already waiting outside and is ready to be summoned at any time.”

“Let her in.”

The Imperial Physician Li who came in was a female Zhongyong, with two attendants carrying medicine boxes behind her.

“Greetings, Fifth Princess.” Imperial Physician Li led her attendants in bowing and offering greetings.

Rong Yang nodded. “Take my pulse.”

“Yes.” Imperial Physician Li knelt beside Rong Yang and took her pulse.

“Your Highness’s body is not seriously harmed. It is only that your mind is somewhat unsettled. This official will prepare a prescription for calming the mind and aiding sleep for Your Highness shortly.”

“Mm.” Rong Yang withdrew her hand, glancing from the corner of her eye at Su Yao, who sat to one side.

“Come here. Let the imperial physician examine you.”

Su Yao lowered her clear, beautiful brows. Her thick, long lashes concealed the disgust in her heart. She ignored Rong Yang.

“Go take the princess consort’s pulse.”

Chunxi and Xiaqing looked at each other. The princess called this woman the princess consort!?

Imperial Physician Li lifted her head and looked around. Which one was the princess consort?

Was it the one sitting by the window, dressed in ragged clothes?

She raised her eyes and glanced at the princess. Only after seeing Rong Yang nod did she walk over.

“Greetings, Fifth Princess Consort.” The imperial physician bowed and knelt beside her.

Su Yao lifted her eyes. Her gaze was pitch-black and cold, like an invisible sword pointing straight at Rong Yang.

Rong Yang thought that if looks could kill, she would definitely already have been cut to pieces by the female lead.

Sitting in the seat of honor, Rong Yang met Su Yao’s gaze and said disdainfully, “In one month, it will be Mother Empress’s birthday banquet. If I bring you there looking neither human nor ghost, wouldn’t I lose all face?”

Seeing that the female lead remained unmoved, she added another sentence.

“I heard Prefect Su is also on the banquet invitation list.”

Su Yao gritted her teeth. Only then did she extend her hand for the imperial physician to take her pulse.

Rong Yang remembered that the book had written that in one month, it would be the original owner’s mother empress’s birthday banquet. It was also at that banquet that the female lead met the other female lead, the Third Princess. The two hit it off at once. After the Third Princess learned of her experiences, she became even more disgusted with Rong Yang, who was not born from the same mother as her…

Later, when the original owner found out that the female lead, who was a Kunze, had dealings with the Third Princess, who was a Qianyuan, she flew into a rage out of humiliation and tried to forcibly mark the female lead, wanting to completely control her…

She did not succeed, but because of that incident, the female lead also completely blackened.

Rong Yang calculated inwardly. As long as I get along peacefully with Su Yao, try my best not to commit the foolish mistakes the original owner made, and help her when I should, letting her know that I’m not that bad either…

Then perhaps, if the female lead’s heart softens, once she succeeds, she might let me go!

The female lead was so thin and weak. She had to first let the imperial physician nurse her body back to health. In the original book, during the later stages, because of all the torment the female lead had suffered over the years, her body had needed long-term medication all along.

Su Yao endured the discomfort in her heart. If it were not for her father and mother, she would probably have already dragged the person before her down with her in mutual destruction.

Imperial Physician Li’s brows furrowed tightly. Just from Su Yao stretching out her hand slightly, she could already see the faintly visible, overlapping scars on the back of her hand. New wounds and old wounds had merged together.

After taking her pulse, Imperial Physician Li respectfully came before Rong Yang.

“The princess consort is deficient in both qi and blood. Her body has been severely depleted. Moreover…”

“Moreover what?”

In the capital, who did not know that anyone who angered the Fifth Princess would meet a miserable end? But a physician had a benevolent heart. Imperial Physician Li wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, gritted her teeth, and said, “The princess consort’s body can no longer withstand any further injury or beating. Otherwise, her life may very well be in danger.”

When Rong Yang heard this, she froze. She was already this weak! The female lead absolutely could not die. If she died, that meant Rong Yang would die too!

She immediately gave the order. “Then I will leave the princess consort’s body to you to nurse and treat. Make the Fifth Princess Consort recover as soon as possible.”

Imperial Physician Li paused for a moment. She had not expected that the princess only wanted her to nurse the princess consort’s body, not send her to her death. At once, she let out a breath of relief.

“Yes. Princess, rest assured. I will do everything in my power to nurse her body back to health.”

Rong Yang continued instructing, “Chunxi, Xiaqing, you two clean up Fanghua Hall not far from here and have the princess consort move there.”

“Ah?” Chunxi and Xiaqing found it somewhat hard to believe. Had they heard wrong?

Everyone in the residence knew the princess hated Su Yao. Chunxi and Xiaqing, who usually served by her side, knew it even more clearly. On ordinary days, it was already considered good if the princess did not humiliate or beat Su Yao. Now, she actually wanted the imperial physician to personally nurse Su Yao’s body and even wanted her to live in Fanghua Hall?

Could it be that the princess really had injured her brain?

“Mm?” Rong Yang’s slightly displeased voice sounded.

“Yes, Princess. This servant will arrange it at once.” Chunxi and Xiaqing hurriedly went to carry out the order.

Listening to Rong Yang’s arrangements, Su Yao could not help but sneer.

Changing rooms, nursing her body—Rong Yang, what are you trying to do now?

“This official will go prepare the prescription, gather the medicine, and brew it now,” the imperial physician said.

“You must personally gather and supervise the princess consort’s medicine. It cannot be entrusted to anyone else. If anything goes wrong, not a single member of your family will be left alive.”

As soon as these words came out, Imperial Physician Li immediately felt dizzy. Her legs went weak, and she almost knelt down on the spot.

“If the princess consort’s body improves, I will naturally consider it your merit. Your rewards will not be small either.”

“Yes.” Imperial Physician Li wiped her sweat. She was so frightened that her back was soaked.

“Go.” Rong Yang waved her hand, signaling for her to hurry and get to work.

After that, in the vast main hall, only Rong Yang and Su Yao remained. Neither of them spoke again.

The atmosphere was strangely quiet.

The two of them sat silently on opposite sides until Chunxi came in.

“Princess, Fanghua Hall has been cleaned up.”

“Someone, help the princess consort down to rest,” Rong Yang ordered.

Two maids came in and stood in front of Su Yao, waiting for her to get up.

“Not leaving? Have you taken a liking to my Jinxiu Hall?” Rong Yang said carelessly. “Or do you want me to carry you over again?”

Su Yao gave Rong Yang a weak glance, then slowly got up with the maids’ company.

“You two, support her!” Rong Yang’s cold, stern voice sounded. Why did these two have no sense at all?

The two maids could not help trembling and hurriedly supported Su Yao.

After Su Yao left, Rong Yang instructed Chunxi again, “Go have the kitchen prepare some light porridge and soup and send it to the princess consort.”

Chunxi froze. All of the princess’s orders today were related to Su Yao.

“Yes, Princess.”

“Wait.” Rong Yang called out to Chunxi just as she was about to leave.

“Princess, do you have any other instructions?” Chunxi asked.

“Come here. I want to ask you something…” Rong Yang said lightly.

Chunxi walked closer slowly, almost turning one step into two.

Rong Yang asked softly, “What do you think I should do to make Su Yao forgive me for what I did before?”

Chunxi, who had always been steady, revealed a puzzled and shocked expression when she heard this.

It was as if she had heard something, yet also as if she did not understand what the princess was saying at all.

“Princess… you… your head really is fine, right?” Chunxi asked worriedly.

Rong Yang: “…”

“This princess is serious,” Rong Yang continued. In order not to make Chunxi think she was abnormal, she casually made up a reason.

“During this period of unconsciousness, I met an old immortal. She told me that if I keep tormenting Su Yao, I will have to climb mountains of blades and descend into seas of fire, and I will die an extremely miserable death!”

“So from today onward, this princess will no longer bully her. You should also tell the people below to treat Su Yao well.”

Rong Yang stared at Chunxi, her eyes seeming to say, You dare not believe me?

Chunxi wore an expression that seemed to understand and not understand at the same time.

“I understand, Princess. Rest assured, this servant will arrange everything properly.”

Rong Yang nodded in satisfaction.

“However, making Su… making the princess consort forgive you will be very difficult, won’t it…” Chunxi spoke with extreme caution, somewhat unable to figure out what Rong Yang wanted to do.

“I know it’s difficult. That’s why I’m asking you.”

Chunxi furrowed her brows and thought for a moment. “Why not first release the princess consort’s dowry maid and let her return to the princess consort’s side?”

“Her maid?” Rong Yang asked in return.

“Yes. The princess consort once came to ask Your Highness for her before, but Your Highness did not agree.”

“It seems there was indeed such a thing.” Rong Yang caught that part of the plot. Back then, the original owner had not only refused, but had also whipped that maid several times in front of Su Yao, then courted death by whipping Su Yao a few times too…

“Where is that person now?” Rong Yang asked.

“She is working in the servants’ quarters.”

“Bring her out, clean her up properly, and send her to the princess consort,” Rong Yang ordered.

“Yes! This servant will go at once,” Chunxi replied.