The Supporting Female Character Wakes Up and Gets a Happy Ending with the Female Lead (GL) - Chapter 5

After a peaceful evening self-study session, Lin Ji left the school and headed straight for her family’s car parked outside, and then went home.

She had just opened the door and was about to go upstairs when Aunt Wang rushed out of the kitchen: “Miss, I’ve stewed some pork ribs and mushroom soup for you. Please have a bowl before you go upstairs.”

Lin Ji paused, subconsciously wanting to say no, but Aunt Wang had already bustled back into the kitchen and returned with a bowl of fragrant, rich mushroom soup.

“I saw you weren’t feeling well this morning, and I thought maybe you studied too late last night and hurt your body.” Aunt Wang stirred the mushroom soup with a spoon. The ribs settled beneath the rich white soup were stirred up, looking particularly tempting.

Lin Ji was silent for a few seconds. She handed her backpack to Aunt Wang, took the bowl of mushroom soup, and sat down at the dining table.

The soup was rich and fragrant, and the ribs were soft and tender.

In no time, Lin Ji finished the soup to the last drop. Seeing this, Aunt Wang was about to ladle another bowl, but Lin Ji stopped her.

“Aunt Wang, I’m not having any more. I want to ask you something.” Lin Ji gestured for Aunt Wang to sit down.

“Oh, okay, okay. Miss, what do you want to ask? I should know everything about this house.” Aunt Wang smiled, then became slightly more serious, “But Miss, before you ask me, I must say one thing: don’t study so late at night anymore! It’s too bad for your health! It’s not worth getting good grades if your health suffers.”

Lin Ji looked thoughtful and asked tentatively, “Is it very late? It should be fine, right?”

Aunt Wang immediately disagreed. She slapped her thigh: “How is it fine! Every time I get up at night, I hear you reciting readings at three in the morning! Sometimes it’s English, sometimes it’s Chinese. Sometimes there’s no sound, but the light is on, so you’re probably studying.

“I remember the latest time, the light didn’t go off until four o’clock. You have to get up at six or seven in the morning for school. When do you actually get to sleep, day after day?” Aunt Wang shook her head. “It’s the same if you study during the day.”

Lin Ji maintained a calm expression, but inwardly, she had the answer to a few things.

“M-hm, I know.” Lin Ji casually asked Aunt Wang a few more questions, then went upstairs.

After taking a bath and changing into her pajamas, Lin Ji walked to her desk. Looking at the clean desk and the bookshelf messy with a few comic books, she found it hard to imagine that she stayed up late studying every night as Aunt Wang had said.

Lin Ji sat at her desk, looking it over. She suddenly noticed several locked drawers underneath. The keys were all in the locks. Lin Ji opened them one by one. The drawers contained nothing but comic books. There were no test papers or practice questions for studying.

While thinking, Lin Ji suddenly reached under the drawer subconsciously and pulled out a thick, unimaginably large “comic book” the size of a textbook from the bottom. She habitually flipped it open—it contained some problems she had been working on recently.

“…” Lin Ji was stunned for a few seconds, then everything suddenly clicked.

“So that’s how it is.”

When Ji Baixing was explaining problems to her during evening self-study, she noticed the other test papers Lin Ji had worked on that afternoon. She quickly glanced at them and saw that Lin Ji had gotten almost all of them right. When their surprised eyes met, Lin Ji almost thought she would face some restriction, but found that there still wasn’t any.

It was Ji Baixing’s words that made her suspicious.

Ji Baixing had said to her then: “I remember you haven’t handed in any homework since the second year of high school. You took the exams, but your grades were terrible. Lin Ji, are you secretly studying behind everyone’s back?”

She was definitely Lin Ji herself, not anyone else, and she hadn’t transmigrated.

It was just that a nobody who should have been diligently playing a different role had gained her own consciousness.

Consciousness could be acquired, but if her original character setting was that of a poor student, even with self-awareness, she hadn’t been studying. How could she solve those problems and still get a decent score?

Either she was a once-in-a-thousand-years genius, or she had been studying in secret.

Lin Ji spread the “comic book” open on her desk. She picked up a pen, about to write, but then, seeming to have a thought, she turned off the room light and turned on the small desk lamp instead.

She leaned over the desk and started working on the problems again.

She didn’t see the words floating in front of her, so she figured the live stream must be off at night.

—

The teachers of Liberal Arts Class 1 felt that the study atmosphere in the class had improved significantly in recent days. The homeroom teacher used the class meeting time to praise the students, but under the students’ frantic eye signals, he finally realized why the study atmosphere had improved.

Lin Ji, who used to cause trouble and only sleep when she was at school, hadn’t caused trouble for several days and had even started turning in homework.

Not only that, her accuracy rate was also very high.

Although she still often slept through the morning, she usually spent the afternoon doing problems and working on test papers. Except for getting water, going to the bathroom, and eating, she wouldn’t even leave the classroom.

The homeroom teacher, Teacher Ai, had wanted to talk to Lin Ji, but every time he walked to her seat, he thought of Lin Ji’s previous arrogant and contemptuous manner and sighed, not knowing how to start the conversation.

Lin Ji didn’t pay much attention to what others were doing. She took photos of the test paper she had just finished and sent them to her tutor for grading. After a while, she received the score and sighed.

She scored just over 600, still dozens of points short of the top ten on the honor roll downstairs.

First place was Ji Baixing, with a perfect 700. Lin Ji was nearly a hundred points behind.

Lin Ji put down her pen and leaned back against the chair, relaxing completely. Her gaze wandered around the classroom.

Ji Baixing walked in from the front, holding a stack of papers. Her clean, beautiful face carried a gentle, heartwarming smile that instantly cooled the summer heat and the restless minds.

“Class President, are there new test papers today?” someone asked.

Ji Baixing answered while distributing the papers according to the names: “Yes. I just went to the office. The Politics teacher has prepared today’s paper, and also the paper for this weekend.”

“Aiya, Old Zhao is not good. He’s only giving out the paper today, and it’s Thursday. Look at our Math teacher, Old Li, he gave us a week’s worth of papers on Monday.”

“Math has six papers, but Politics only has two. Are you comparing them?”

Ji Baixing weaved through the classroom. Her dark ponytail swayed to the left, then to the right. In a blink of an eye, Ji Baixing, with a gentle smile, arrived in front of Lin Ji.

Lin Ji lowered her eyes, then suddenly looked up, meeting Ji Baixing’s gaze calmly.

“Yours.” Ji Baixing placed the test paper Lin Ji submitted yesterday on her desk.

Lin Ji, who was lounging on the chair back, instantly straightened her back. She quickly glanced at the paper: “M-hm, thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

Ji Baixing stood in front of Lin Ji, looking like she had more to say.

Lin Ji looked up in confusion, about to speak, when she heard a shout from the front door that instantly made Ji Baixing turn around.

“Class President, someone’s looking for you!”

Ji Baixing looked back. Her body froze for a moment, appearing a bit surprised, but she quickly suppressed her emotions and walked naturally to the doorway.

Lin Ji also looked over. Standing at the door was a tall boy wearing glasses. He had a slender build and deep-set eyes.

He certainly looked like a male lead.

Lin Ji had memories of this person. Just the male lead in the plot, the top student in the Science class. He was equal in ability to the female lead, perfectly matched in appearance and family background—practically everyone’s dream, naturally perfect pair.

[How long has it been? It’s rare for the male and female leads to be in the same frame! I almost forgot what I was waiting for in this live stream.]

[Thanks to the supporting female character for not causing trouble these days.]

[Are you sure the supporting female character isn’t causing trouble, or is it that the male and female leads weren’t in the same frame so she couldn’t?]

Lin Ji: “…”

Thank you, but she really didn’t want to cause trouble either.

[Ji Baixing and Song Zhaonan standing together are so well-matched! If the supporting female character hadn’t caused trouble, or caused less trouble, and they didn’t have so many misunderstandings, they would probably be together by now.]

Well-matched… really?

Lin Ji stared in that direction, honestly, she couldn’t detect any sign of fondness for Song Zhaonan in Ji Baixing’s eyes.

Song Zhaonan…

She couldn’t figure him out either.

If they really liked each other, how could they hide it so well, without showing the slightest flaw?

[D*mn, is the supporting female character looking over there and thinking of some mean tricks again?]

[Please, stop causing trouble! Look at the male and female leads. The misunderstandings are so huge that they look like strangers, no, even more like strangers than strangers!]

?

Oh, so the reason the two were standing there awkwardly, the atmosphere like strangers, was because of the bad things she had done before, creating too many misunderstandings and a rift between the male and female leads.

Thanks a lot.

Song Zhaonan handed what he was holding to Ji Baixing, then turned to leave. Ji Baixing, holding the stack of items, was also about to enter the classroom. Lin Ji suddenly felt thirsty. She grabbed her cup and walked out the back door.

She almost bumped into Li Yu, who was running over from the next classroom.

Li Yu was holding warm milk and some snacks. He enthusiastically waved at Ji Baixing, who hadn’t walked into the classroom yet.

“Class President Ji! Class President, Class President!”

Ji Baixing heard the voice and leaned out of the classroom. Song Zhaonan, who had only walked a few steps away, also turned back.

Lin Ji, holding her water cup, also looked in Li Yu’s direction.

The corridor, which was already not very lively, became even quieter as they saw the four of them looking at each other.

[Hahahaha, oh my god, what a famous scene, hahaha!]

[She looks at him looking at her, and Song Zhaonan looks at all three.]

Lin Ji stood frozen for a few seconds with her cup in hand. She silently closed her eyes, turned her head, and was about to move away from the center of this trouble spot.

Li Yu inexplicably shouted: “Oh my god, why are you here again!”

He stood in the middle of the corridor, seeing Ji Baixing looking behind him at something. He followed her gaze, then hastily ran to the front door and denied to Ji Baixing: “Class President! I must make it clear to you this time! I don’t know this woman at all! I have nothing to do with her! I’m innocent!”

Lin Ji’s footsteps halted.

[Looking at it this way, the hateful supporting female character is also quite pathetic.]

[When he needed money from Lin Ji, he had all sorts of nice things to say. The moment he’s in front of Ji Baixing, he acts like they have no relationship.]

[I still can’t understand how Lin Ji could like a person like Li Yu. It seems impossible!]

Ji Baixing ignored Li Yu. She handed the items in her hand to a classmate to hold, casually found a water cup on a desk, bypassed Li Yu, and walked toward Lin Ji.

“Lin Ji, are you going to get water? I was about to go too, let’s go together.”

Ji Baixing tried to take Lin Ji’s arm, but Lin Ji immediately pulled away.

Seeing this, Li Yu rushed over angrily: “What are you doing? Did she provoke you? Why are you giving her attitude again?”

After yelling, he lowered his voice: “Lin Ji, don’t disrespect me right now. I agreed to what you said about taking you to see the sea tonight. Just leave quickly now.”

Lin Ji lowered her eyes, borrowed a tissue from someone sitting near the back door who was watching the show, and seemed to be listening, yet not listening.

She didn’t react even after Li Yu finished speaking.

“Tch, don’t push your luck!” Li Yu threatened in a low voice, but his hand made a subtle move, about to act, when he suddenly yelped.

“Ah ah ah ah! Let go, let go!” Li Yu shouted, “Lin Ji, let go of me! I’m angry! Are you listening, I’m angry!”

“Oh, you’re angry. What’s that to me?” Lin Ji, using a tissue, grabbed Li Yu’s arm and pulled him back forcefully.

“I’m also quite angry. I was looking through our chat history last night and found you haven’t paid back the money you borrowed from me several times.” Lin Ji continued, tightening her grip, “How about finding a time to pay me back? Or should I find some people to have a chat with you before you pay me back?”

“Go to hell, you…” Li Yu struggled, lifting his foot to kick, but Song Zhaonan, who had returned, quickly covered his face and pinned him to the floor.

Li Yu struggled, still trying to get up, when the Dean of Students’ voice sounded.

“What is all this commotion?! The college entrance exam is fast approaching. Instead of studying in the classroom, what’s all this fuss in the corridor?”