The Mary Sue Female Protagonist Fell in Love With Me - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Transmigrated?!

Jiang Nianyu felt she was dreaming.

In the dream, she had no body, only her soul wandering in the void.

Suddenly, she encountered another mass of soul.

That mass, which called itself the System, solemnly informed her that she, Jiang Nianyu, had transmigrated into a book!

Upon learning she had transmigrated, Jiang Nianyu felt neither fear nor anxiety but was strangely excited, so much so that her soul scattered into random shapes.

How amazing, I actually transmigrated!

It can’t be a dream, can it?

Jiang Nianyu was half-skeptical, firing a rapid stream of questions at the System named Xiao Qi: “What book did I transmigrate into? What is my mission? Will I die if I fail? What are the rewards for succeeding?”

This barrage of questions made Xiao Qi dizzy, nearly making it forget its carefully designed opening speech.

“Do you still remember the novel The Heavenly Descent of the Delicate and Sweet Wife: Young Master Murong’s Fierce Love?”

Xiao Qi raised the question as a subtle hint. It had envisioned that upon hearing the title, Jiang Nianyu would remember she was the author of this novel.

In that case, many problems would be easily solved, and it wouldn’t need to waste any more words explaining.

Moreover, after that, Jiang Nianyu would surely dedicate herself to working with it to add bricks and tiles to the male and female leads’ beautiful love story. After all, what author doesn’t want their own male and female leads to end up sweetly together?

Truly unprecedented! Xiao Qi felt like a genius the more it thought about it!

The Heavenly Descent of the Delicate and Sweet Wife: Young Master Murong’s Fierce Love?

Jiang Nianyu repeated the title silently.

To be honest, she found it a bit difficult to accept.

The tropes were too complete! It had the heavenly descent, the delicate white flower female lead, the rich young master male lead, and the male lead even had a compound surname like Murong.

It was practically pointing at her nose and loudly shouting that this was a Mary Sue novel.

For a moment, countless “famous scenes” flashed before Jiang Nianyu’s eyes.

One second, the male lead pinches the female lead’s waist, his neck veins bulging, roaring with bloodshot eyes: “Woman, don’t provoke the fire.”

The next second, the male lead slams the female lead onto the bed and leans over her: “Woman, do you believe I’ll take care of you right now?”

Help! Just reliving these scenes in her mind made her feel like ants were crawling inside her brain, an unbearable itch.

When she was thirteen, she would have loved this book to death.

But she was thirty now!

Besides, she hadn’t read a Mary Sue novel in over a decade. Even if she had read this one, she probably wouldn’t remember it now.

Jiang Nianyu rummaged through her mind, searching carefully for a long time, yet still couldn’t find any memory of the novel. So, she answered truthfully: “I don’t remember.”

Jiang Nianyu’s three light words overthrew all of Xiao Qi’s beautiful assumptions.

“What!” Xiao Qi broke down, its cloud-like soul jumping up and down anxiously. “How can you not remember!”

You’re the author! How can you not remember?!

Seeing Xiao Qi so distraught, Jiang Nianyu felt a little sorry and consoled it: “How about you give me some more hints? I don’t usually remember book titles.”

A little hope reignited in Xiao Qi’s heart.

“Then do you remember Murong Yechen?” It cautiously probed. Its earlier confidence that Jiang Nianyu would definitely remember was forcefully halved, but its tone still contained strong expectation.

She should remember, right? Murong Yechen is the male lead! The core of the novel! She can forget anyone but him!

Uh…

Although she didn’t want to discourage Xiao Qi, Jiang Nianyu genuinely had no impression, only figuring out that this Murong-something person was the male lead because of “Young Master Murong” in the title.

Jiang Nianyu wanted to shake her head to answer Xiao Qi, as body language would be gentler than the cold words “I don’t remember.”

“I don’t remember,” Jiang Nianyu replied. To avoid upsetting Xiao Qi, she deliberately softened her tone.

Hearing the second denial, Xiao Qi instantly drooped, beginning to feel that its decision to bind the novel’s original author was not entirely correct.

“You are the author of this novel!”

Huh? Author? Are you talking about me?

Jiang Nianyu was utterly confused; she had no recollection at all!

After emphasizing this fact, seeing that Jiang Nianyu was still blank, Xiao Qi sighed and muttered softly, “Murong Yechen is the soul of this novel. All female characters, including the female lead, are just backdrops used to empower him…”

Xiao Qi’s muttering was too quiet for Jiang Nianyu to hear clearly.

“Jin Yu?!” Jiang Nianyu caught the keyword, her tone and emotion rising simultaneously, like a sail catching the wind, guiding the ship forward through the waves. Anyone could tell her relationship with Jin Yu was not shallow.

Xiao Qi was even more excited than her, flying close rapidly, almost bursting into tears: “You remember the female lead!”

“I remember!” This time, Jiang Nianyu answered definitively.

With Jin Yu’s help, Jiang Nianyu finally recalled writing half a Mary Sue novel during her summer vacation before junior high school. She only wrote half because school started mid-way.

Eighteen years had passed in a flash, the vast span of time blurring all her memories of the novel, except for her heroine, Jin Yu.

She even remembered that Jin Yu ate scallions but not the white part of the onion.

“Then what else do you remember?” Xiao Qi seized the opportunity, trying to make Jiang Nianyu remember more. “Like Hermes Academy, the Four Great Families of A City, and Duanmu Yunche, Nangong Jinyuan, and Dugu Lüeying.”

“The ancient Mary Sue vibes are overflowing!” Jiang Nianyu exclaimed, with obvious pride in her voice. “I was only twelve back then, and I managed to write something this complex! Haha, that’s my style!”

Still didn’t remember anything, Xiao Qi sighed internally.

Forget it, at least she remembers Jin Yu. That’s better than knowing nothing.

Having delayed for so long, it was time for Jiang Nianyu to wake up, or she would miss the first meeting between Murong Yechen and Jin Yu.

“Your mission is to help the male and female leads get together before the female lead’s eighteenth birthday,” Xiao Qi instructed the mission, then reminded Jiang Nianyu, “You can open your eyes now.”

As soon as the words fell, Jiang Nianyu felt her wandering soul return to its place, regaining control of her body.

Smell was the first sense to return. Jiang Nianyu detected a fresh, light, elegant scent, like being in a field of flowers in spring.

Next was sight. The dense darkness before her eyes was diluted by the light filtering through her eyelids. Jiang Nianyu opened her eyes, intending to look at the Mary Sue world she had created, but a data stream of the forgotten background settings of the novel suddenly surged into her brain: the Hermes F4, the Star-Shine Class, the Bright-Moon Class, and the Five Great Families of A City, including the Jiang family…

The data flood crashed through Jiang Nianyu’s brain, playing her nerves like guitar strings and beating her bones like drums!

She was forced to become a one-woman band.

To the eighteen generations of its ancestors!

Why did no one warn me that transmigrating was this painful!

No one in the Star-Shine Class knew that Jiang Nianyu was being deconstructed and reassembled, nor did they know the immense pain this process was causing her. In everyone’s eyes, she was simply sleeping quietly at her desk.

Everyone’s attention was currently focused on the new classmate mentioned by Old Yang, the homeroom teacher.

Hermes Academy was a private aristocratic school with a 16-year continuous system, encompassing the primary, middle, high school, and university divisions.

Unless there were special circumstances, such as family bankruptcy, unfortunate death, or offending a superior, students who entered Hermes would study there for sixteen years, from the first grade of primary school until university graduation.

Under such strict standards, very few people could attend Hermes. There were no new faces among classmates in the same grade. It was a small, low-mobility society of acquaintances; the people around you in the first grade of primary school were the same people around you when you graduated from university.

“New classmate” was a very unfamiliar term to these “natives,” naturally attracting attention.

Old Yang asked Jin Yu to introduce herself to everyone.

“Hello everyone, my name is Jin Yu,” Jin Yu introduced softly.

This sentence seemed like a healing spell; the excruciating pain tearing through Jiang Nianyu’s body vanished instantly without a trace, like the snow accumulated all winter melting in the warm spring.

If not for the reminder of the sticky, hot sweat on her back, she might have thought the whole experience was just a nightmare.

Jiang Nianyu raised her head and looked in the direction of the voice, seeing a girl standing gracefully by the podium.

She widened her eyes, trying to see Jin Yu’s face clearly, but her vision was still blurry and faintly dizzy, like having partial sight temporarily stolen after looking directly at a bright light. She could only see Jin Yu wearing a dark blue short-sleeved shirt, revealing two tender, lotus-root-like forearms. Above that were her bright, delicate neck and her small, round head.

Jiang Nianyu rubbed her eyelids, and her vision finally cleared, allowing her to take Jin Yu fully into her heart.

A delicate, pretty little face, with exquisite features positioned perfectly and logically. Not even the Creator could find fault with her.

“Jin, Yu,” Jiang Nianyu silently mouthed the name, one word at a time. Her mouth was filled and stretched by joy, opening so wide that her tonsils were visible. The corners of her mouth curved up uncontrollably, and her eyes sparkled, overjoyed like a mother seeing her long-wandering daughter suddenly return home.

In the face of Jin Yu’s absolute beauty, all language and written words seemed inadequate, whether they were the clichéd, overused adjectives or the ornate descriptions piled high with flowery vocabulary.

“So beautiful,” Jiang Nianyu blurted out, her mind currently only capable of elementary-level expressions.

“Oh! Your drool is about to fall out,” Xiao Qi teased deliberately.

Jiang Nianyu subconsciously wiped the corner of her mouth, then felt a little speechless after realizing she had been tricked.

How old is this System? It’s too childish!

Forget it, I’m the adult; I won’t hold a grudge against a little system.

Jin Yu, hehe, our Xiao Yu, so beautiful!

Jiang Nianyu’s unconcealed, fiery gaze was easily captured by Jin Yu.

“Jin is the nian (念) from ‘miss’ with the heart radical (心) removed. Yu is the yu (愉) from ‘pleasant’ with the heart radical (忄) removed,” Jin Yu continued her self-introduction, her peripheral vision falling on the source of that searing gaze.

The girl was very pretty. Her long, curly black hair was draped over her shoulders, and her features were exquisite and sharp. Though she had an aggressive, glamorous look, the way she cupped her face, with slightly parted lips and crescent-shaped eyes, was somewhat adorable, diluting the aloofness her looks naturally conveyed. This somehow made Jin Yu feel a sense of déjà vu.

But Jin Yu was sure she didn’t know her, hadn’t even passed her in a hallway.

Leaving aside the fact that her former life made it impossible to meet anyone from this school, even if such an opportunity existed, she couldn’t possibly have forgotten her, even after just a glance.

This girl’s looks were unforgettable, even unforgettable forever.

So, they had definitely never met.

Having lost both parents early and living with her grandmother in her uncle and aunt’s house, Jin Yu prided herself on her advanced ability to read people.

Over the years, she had experienced all kinds of stares: warm, sympathetic, disdainful, contemptuous, jealous, greedy, lustful, and malicious…

But she had never encountered a look like this: passionate but not offensive, instead so pure that it inspired goodwill.

Feeling goodwill towards someone she had just met was something that had never happened in Jin Yu’s seventeen years of life.

Jin Yu’s sense of security was very strong. In her eyes, all strangers, especially males and those who acted very warmly upon first meeting, were ticking time bombs. They might rip off their masks at any moment to reveal ugly faces. To protect herself, she had to remain highly vigilant.

But for some reason, Jin Yu couldn’t be guarded against this beautiful girl whose name she didn’t even know. It was as if her dedicated defense system had failed today, damn it.

Encountering such an anomaly on her first day of school might be an omen from fate, hinting that she would not have easy days after entering Hermes Academy.

Jin Yu didn’t find this frightening. After all, what could be more terrifying than not being able to continue her studies?

Even if Hermes was a mountain of knives, a sea of fire, or the eighteenth layer of hell, she was determined to finish her schooling before crawling out!

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