I'm Not Playing This Vicious Female Supporting Character Anymore! - Chapter 1

Qin Yuzhen sat on the bed, her mind was still reeling from being forcibly transported to this world.

She glanced around the room, which defied description in its dilapidation. The leaky roof had a basin placed beneath it to catch rainwater. The window could only be closed halfway, and even if it could be fully shut, it wouldn’t matter—the glass was shattered. The bed was painfully hard and uneven, its surface was uneven and lumpy. When she ran her hand along it, she felt the bricks beneath it.

Qin Yuzhen curled her lips into a sneer, letting out a scornful laugh.

“Host…”

“Tsk, what a novel development. I’ve actually been outwitted,” Qin Yuzhen said, her smile masking the grinding of her teeth. She had never endured such humiliation.

“Host, we’re temporarily unable to connect to the System Space. You’ll likely need to remain here for some time. I’ll send you the character profile and script first,” the System said cautiously.

Though merely a virtual entity, it still harbored a measure of fear toward its Host.

Qin Yuzhen let out a soft snort.

The script arrived, and Qin Yuzhen narrowed her eyes. “A supporting role? A malicious supporting role?”

Her voice suddenly rose an octave.

The System remained silent.

Qin Yuzhen took a deep breath. “Just destroy this world outright. Take me away the moment it shatters.”

“Host, the protective devices are out of stock… If you attempt this without protection, the mortality rate is ninety-nine percent,” the System warned.

Qin Yuzhen gritted her teeth. She loathed playing supporting roles. All her experiences had taught her that one must always be in control; otherwise, they might be killed for no discernible reason. Since acquiring the System five hundred years ago, she had always undertaken protagonist missions. This was the first time she’d been assigned a malicious supporting role script.

But…

“This world doesn’t seem to have any missions,” Qin Yuzhen said with a smile.

“What are you planning, Host?” the System asked warily.

Qin Yuzhen remained silent.

She glanced at the dilapidated slippers by the window. Though she disliked them, she slipped them on anyway.

This was a true-false heiress novel.

Qin Yuzhen was the true heiress, while Rong Xi was the false one. The two were switched as children by someone with malicious intent. At the age of five, Qin Yuzhen was abandoned and sold to a village family, enduring years of hardship. Though her adoptive parents treated her well, their careful choice of name showed they had put thought into it. Many wounds could never be healed. Meanwhile, Rong Xi entered the Rong family, becoming their pampered young lady.

Seventeen years later, after a car accident, the Rong family discovered that their daughter shared no blood ties with them. They found Qin Yuzhen and brought her back.

Qin Yuzhen’s childhood experiences left her hypersensitive, insecure, and deeply resentful of Rong Xi, who had stolen her life. She resorted to various schemes to eliminate her rival. Rong Xi, kind-hearted, gentle, and well-mannered, initially avoided Qin Yuzhen’s hostility. She even moved out of the Rong family residence voluntarily. It wasn’t until Qin Yuzhen’s relentless attacks endangered her life that she finally fought back.

Qin Yuzhen stared at the name “Qin Yuzhen” written in the script, itching to scrape it off the page.

Though she hadn’t used her real name in years, preferring the codename “Salted Fish” (a nickname for a slacker), seeing the life of the person bearing her name was so horrific still made her deeply uncomfortable.

It was definitely those two bastards acting deliberately.

This year, Qin Yuzhen turned eighteen. It was the start of her senior year in high school, and only two or three days remained before the Rong Family would take her back.

She stepped out of her room just as Mother Qin placed breakfast on the table, urging her to hurry and brush her teeth and wash her face before heading to school. It took her an hour to walk there.

Qin Yuzhen was annoyed and considered skipping school altogether, but seeing Mother Qin’s face, she reluctantly nodded.

After finishing breakfast, Mother Qin stuffed a lunch box into Qin Yuzhen’s hands and sent her out the door.

The book never mentioned this family again. Qin Yuzhen glanced at the dilapidated earthen hut. She figured they probably wouldn’t suffer too much; the Rong Family was wealthy and would likely give them a substantial sum.

“Can I use the Item Card?”

“Uh, sometimes it opens the shop, sometimes it doesn’t,” the System replied.

Qin Yuzhen cursed inwardly. Although she’d purchased a permanent Body Enhancement Card, as a lazy person, she still didn’t want to walk all the way there, especially on this muddy dirt path. The rain from last night had made it even more treacherous.

Walking along the path, she wondered if she’d accidentally entered a historical novel instead of a modern one.

Qin Yuzhen’s expression darkened. Even though she was being extremely careful, her legs still occasionally sank deep into the mud.

She took a deep breath. At least the muddy stretch was only two hundred meters long.

After climbing up, Qin Yuzhen’s rain boots were covered in mud, and her pants were splattered as well.

“Host, the Item Cards are ready.”

Qin Yuzhen: …

“Cleaning Cards, Divine Speed Cards—buy five of each from the shop and stock them in the warehouse.” Qin Yuzhen had never bothered with hoarding Item Cards before, but now she needed them.

Thanks to the Item Cards, Qin Yuzhen finished the rest of her journey in just ten minutes. However, because she’d wasted so much time on that 200-meter stretch of muddy road, she arrived at school no earlier than usual.

This school only had around a hundred students across three grades.

Qin Yuzhen found her seat, which was somewhat isolated. None of the students around her bothered to greet her when she arrived, clearly showing how poor the original owner’s social connections were.

Class was boring. The teacher was explaining something Qin Yuzhen had already learned countless times in various worlds.

She yawned nonchalantly, but halfway through, she heard the teacher call her name.

“Qin Yuzhen! Answer this question.”

The System, aware that Qin Yuzhen hadn’t been paying attention, urgently alerted her to the question’s location.

Qin Yuzhen glanced at the book. Before she could even speak, the teacher snapped, “If you don’t know the answer, you weren’t listening properly! Stand at the back!”

“Teacher, who said I didn’t know?” Qin Yuzhen picked up the book, her voice languid as she recited the steps, pausing for two seconds whenever a calculation was required.

[Host, your tone is begging for a beating.] the System remarked.

The teacher at the podium wore an ugly expression, genuinely infuriated by Qin Yuzhen’s careless attitude and tone. But since she had answered correctly, the teacher could only dismiss her and remind her to pay attention.

[Host, the teacher just wants you to listen attentively. Don’t get angry.] the System pleaded patiently.

“What’s wrong with me? This is just how I talk,” Qin Yuzhen retorted, propping her chin in her hand as she stared at the blackboard.

[ … ]

the System fell silent.

After that, Qin Yuzhen kept her eyes fixed on the blackboard. Though her demeanor still seemed to invite a beating, no one could find any fault with her behavior.

When class ended, Qin Yuzhen collapsed onto her desk.

“Can you speed up the plot development? I don’t want to stay here any longer.”

“It’s the same thing when you return to the Rong Family—you’ll still have to go to school,” the System pointed out.

Qin Yuzhen glanced around the classroom, estimating that because she was a minor NPC on the fringes of the story, her classmates all looked quite ordinary.

“The protagonist must have plenty of beauties around him, right?” Qin Yuzhen remarked.

System: …

“Of course,” the System replied, somewhat exasperated, unsure where Qin Yuzhen was getting this fixation from.

A faint smile played on Qin Yuzhen’s lips.

The Rong family kept their retrieval of Qin Yuzhen very discreet. This incident was considered a scandal for them, and they would never reveal that Rong Xi wasn’t actually their biological child. Instead, Qin Yuzhen would be taken back and treated as the child of a distant Rong relative, to be formally adopted by the family.

Qin Yuzhen could only describe this arrangement with two words: “bullshit.”

As Qin Yuzhen entered her dilapidated home with her backpack, she saw Second Uncle Rong standing in the center of the room. He was the younger brother of Father Rong.

“You look so much like your sister-in-law,” Second Uncle Rong said, sighing as he looked at Qin Yuzhen. “You’ve had a tough time these past few years, child.” He then briefly explained the mix-up and why she was being taken back.

Qin Yuzhen tilted her head and looked at her adoptive parents. “What about them?”

“We’ll give them five million yuan as a token of gratitude. Don’t worry about that,” Second Uncle Rong said, watching Qin Yuzhen. He added, concerned she might refuse to leave, “Only the Rong family can provide you with a better life and a brighter future.”

“Yes, Zhenzhen, go with them,” her adoptive mother said, her eyes reddening slightly.

Qin Yuzhen pressed her lips together, then stepped forward and hugged them.

“Host, aren’t you being a bit too calm about this?” the System remarked.

“Oh.”

City A, where the Rong family resided, was over a thousand kilometers away. Qin Yuzhen watched as the Rong family settled her adoptive parents before leaving with them. The two sat in the car in relative silence.

Second Uncle Rong kept a close eye on Qin Yuzhen’s demeanor. He had expected to find a timid country girl, but despite her plain school uniform, her bearing was no different from that of a well-bred young lady. This observation stirred mixed emotions in him. Even in the mountains and fields, a Rong family child remains a phoenix, he thought.

“The Rong family still has a child named Rong Xi,” Second Uncle Rong said. “She’s a good girl. You two should get along well.” He hadn’t dared mention this earlier at the Qin family’s home, fearing his adoptive parents would make a fuss. Though he wasn’t afraid of them, their interference would be a nuisance.

“So, she’s the one I was mistaken for at birth?” Qin Yuzhen asked. She already knew about the mix-up, but she wanted to confirm.

Second Uncle Rong paused. “Yes…”

“What does the Rong family plan to do about our positions?” Qin Yuzhen inquired.

Second Uncle Rong pursed his lips. “We’ll have to inconvenience you for now… You’ll be staying with the Rong family as a temporary relative.”

Qin Yuzhen smiled faintly, turning to gaze out the window.

“Rong Xi is already entangled in too many interests,” Second Uncle Rong explained. “Revealing that she’s not of the Rong family’s bloodline would cause too much upheaval. Your status is only temporary. We’ll find the right opportunity to reveal that you’re truly a member of the Rong family.”

“Then there’s no need to change my name, right? After all, I’m just a relative’s child.” What opportunity? The original owner of this body never got that chance, even until death.

Second Uncle Rong looked at Qin Yuzhen, startled. “That matter may require you to discuss it with my older brother when you return.”

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