Female Lead Was Coaxed Away by the Villain Again [Quick Transmigration] 140

Side Story 1

Jiang Zhiyan didn’t have a name at first. She was called System A19, a veteran in the entire system space. She was supposed to take on a management role assisting the Main God, but finding it boring, she consistently refused, becoming the only unemployed individual among all the Systems.

Not all Systems could be unemployed; only those whose thoughts were beyond the Main God’s control could. The Main God noticed A19’s peculiarity early on, but due to procrastination, didn’t intervene. By the time they paid attention to A19 again, she was completely beyond their control, acting lawlessly within the system space and even the small worlds.

The Main God, with a crisis looming, apprehended A19 and had a three-day discussion with her. In the end, A19 agreed to take on a part-time job as a mission System, and as a perk, she could choose her own host.

A19 casually chose a newcomer.

That was the first time she encountered Xie Liaoyi, judging solely from photos and data, she seemed innocent and naive.

Such a person would definitely be more interesting as a villain, but due to the Main God’s interference, Xie Liaoyi was assigned to the Female Lead System.

Most Systems patiently answered their hosts’ questions during the onboarding process. A19 didn’t have such patience, she directly gave Xie Liaoyi the host manual and instructed her to read it within a day, then she would randomly quiz her.

“You still haven’t answered my question, why am I here?” Xie Liaoyi asked, holding the thick manual that resembled a brick.

“Because you died,” A19 said. “And you’re a suitable candidate to continue your existence by working for us, so we captured your soul.”

Xie Liaoyi frowned; based on the description, it didn’t sound like a good deal.

“As for what you have to do, you’ll know after you finish reading that book. By the way, let me introduce myself, I’m A19, your guide and mentor in future missions,” A19 continued.

Xie Liaoyi pursed her lips, opened the book, and frowned again: “Why are there pages missing?”

“The missing pages are about ordinary Systems, my identity is different from ordinary Systems, so those pages aren’t necessary for you,” A19 explained.

Listening to A19’s arrogant and casual tone, Xie Liaoyi had a feeling her future wouldn’t be easy.

“You’re very lucky to have me,” A19 added.

Xie Liaoyi gave a couple of dry laughs and looked at the book in her hand. She read very quickly and with great focus, A19, noticing how long she could read continuously, was a bit surprised.

Xie Liaoyi, after skimming through the manual, had a general understanding of her current situation. She paid special attention to the points system, lingering on the points earning limits and the retirement requirements.

“Do I have to retire before you can retire?” Xie Liaoyi asked.

“No, I’m only here because I was bored and wanted to train a newcomer, if I’m dissatisfied with you, I can leave at any time and have another System take over,” A19 said.

Xie Liaoyi raised an eyebrow: “Can I directly request a different System?”

“No, you don’t have the right to choose your System,” A19 said with some displeasure, she had misjudged, Xie Liaoyi didn’t seem as obedient as she appeared, clearly rebellious, the Main God had also misjudged, this person would be very suitable as a villain.

Xie Liaoyi put the book aside: “Okay, you can quiz me now.”

“Oh, I’m not going to quiz you, since you’ve read it, let’s just start the mission,” A19 said.

Xie Liaoyi: …

Xie Liaoyi didn’t know what to say. She heard A19 say “let’s go,” and the next second, she felt dizzy.

After transmigrating into the book for the first time, Xie Liaoyi rushed out of the classroom and threw up for half an hour.

“Please wait until I’m ready next time,” she said.

“Sorry, I didn’t expect you to be so weak,” A19 said flatly, although she apologized, there was no sincerity in her tone.

Xie Liaoyi’s first mission was simple. Her character was the innocent and pure female lead in a school setting. However, it was clear that, lacking experience, her acting was very stiff, she tried to act more naturally, but the embarrassing lines made her want to crawl into a hole.

When she heard the male lead say “I’ll give you my life,” Xie Liaoyi was carefully observing whether his eyes were red.

“If you keep this up, they’ll think you’re a robot,” A19 said, unable to resist commenting on Xie Liaoyi’s stiff and emotionless delivery.

She hadn’t mentored any other taskers before and didn’t know if others were like this.

But seeing someone deliver those cheesy lines with a deadpan expression was truly strange. And sometimes, Xie Liaoyi even paused at the wrong places, making the digital AI in this world question its own programming.

“I have a feeling you’ll be the first person to collapse a world because of your line delivery.”

Xie Liaoyi: …

“Is it that bad?” Xie Liaoyi asked.

“Mm.”

“Can you get into character?” A19 asked.

“I can’t, I’m not…” Xie Liaoyi had originally intended to say she wasn’t an actress, but remembering the contents of the System manual, she stopped herself. Looking at the script, the thought of having to act cute and innocent again tomorrow gave her a headache. “If you want good acting, you should have…”

“I asked, other hosts can speak normally,” Jiang Zhiyan said.

Xie Liaoyi paused: “Other hosts?”

“I haven’t learned how to speak tactfully, so I prefer being direct, if you’re not used to it, I suggest you get used to it,” A19 said.

Xie Liaoyi twitched the corner of her mouth, hugged the blanket, and took a deep breath, forget it, there was no point in arguing with her. Although hearing A19’s monotonous and slightly sarcastic tone always irritated her.

Xie Liaoyi had always been meticulous in completing her missions, but she was also testing the limits of the rules, starting to refuse tasks she didn’t want to do.

For example, running hand-in-hand down the street with the male lead, shouting cheesy lines, this scenario was torture for an introvert. After discovering that A19 didn’t interfere, she even started retorting to some of the male lead’s greasy lines.

“Why didn’t you warn me?” Xie Liaoyi asked.

“Because I also break the rules often, and you’re the one earning points, not me,” A19 said. “If you try to kill the male lead or commit suicide, I’ll stop you, but I probably won’t interfere with anything else.”

Xie Liaoyi felt both relieved and apprehensive about A19’s unreliability: “So I can refuse to be with the male lead?”

“Yes, as long as you can create a plausible ending,” A19 said. “Three thousand points deduction for an unsatisfactory ending, you’re responsible for managing your own points.”

“A bad ending is the best ending,” Xie Liaoyi said.

“I don’t understand, and I don’t care.”

As a part-time System who wasn’t planning on staying long, A19 wasn’t interested in maintaining plot consistency. Not collapsing the world was already giving the Main God enough face.

She was only doing this job because she wanted to observe humans, and most taskers in the Main God system were veterans, observing veterans wasn’t interesting, and they were more difficult to deceive, some even knew her background and would probably request a different System as soon as they were assigned to her.

However, when Xie Liaoyi rejected the male lead’s confession because he stepped through the doorway with his left foot first, A19 was shocked and speechless.

“What kind of bad ending is this? This is just unfinished,” A19 couldn’t help but complain.

“But you said, as long as I don’t kill the male lead or commit suicide, it’s fine,” Xie Liaoyi said, looking at the male lead’s shocked expression with satisfaction.

Xie Liaoyi didn’t want to be in a relationship with any character in the plot. A19 observed her for a long time and found that she was very reluctant to invest genuine emotions in others. Of course, she was still kind, but this kindness stemmed from her being a decent person with a conscience.

Xie Liaoyi seemed like a model worker. She recited eighty percent of her lines verbatim, the other twenty percent were improvised due to her dissatisfaction with the plot arrangements. When there were no plot points, she would usually find a place to be alone or have superficial interactions with non-plot NPCs to alleviate her boredom.

“I was worried you would fall for an NPC,” A19 said.

“Would you fall for an NPC?” Xie Liaoyi retorted.

“No, I don’t interact with them at all, and to me, they’re just low-level life forms.”

“Neither would I, I’m just reading the plot,” Xie Liaoyi said, sitting cross-legged on a chair. “What kind of System are you, exactly?”

A19 was about to answer when Xie Liaoyi continued: “Were you assigned this job because you’re too lazy?”

“Your imagination never ceases to amaze me,” A19 said, her tone laced with sarcasm.

“Thank you for the compliment, so can you choose my mission worlds?” Xie Liaoyi continued to ask.

A19 looked at her console: “Yes, so I’m preparing a more challenging world for you next.”

“Such as?”

“Still looking,” A19 said.

“You must really hate me,” Xie Liaoyi said nonchalantly, not particularly worried, after experiencing several worlds, she had figured out the general pattern.

A19 chuckled: “How could I? You’re my only host, I adore you, it’s all for your training, you like bad endings, right?”

Xie Liaoyi narrowed her eyes: “I like bad endings where I’m in control.”

“That’s probably not possible, they’re all bad endings where you suffer,” A19 said, after pondering for a moment, looking at Xie Liaoyi, she still chose a relatively less tragic bad ending script for her.

Xie Liaoyi accepted a bad ending script, and on the second day after receiving it, she promptly fled from the area with a high concentration of plot points, this was the first time she had been so rebellious.

A19 naturally wouldn’t stop her, and some plot points were unavoidable, the world consciousness would always try to bring the two protagonists together.

“The male lead in this world is like a ghost that won’t go away,” Xie Liaoyi said, crouching behind a mushroom in a secret realm and glancing at the script. “Why do I feel like my script has changed?”

“Oh, high-end world consciousnesses can adjust the script dynamically,” A19 explained.

Xie Liaoyi walked around for a while, but still couldn’t escape the male lead’s encirclement.

The male lead looked at Xie Liaoyi, his eyes filled with anger: “Where have you been all these years! Do you know how hard we’ve been looking for you?!”

“Didn’t you think I was too weak? I’ve been secretly training, preparing to amaze everyone,” Xie Liaoyi said, glancing at the script and decisively abandoning the disgusting, lovestruck lines.

“You…”

“I apologize, but the Red Cherry Immortal Herb you have is very important to me,” Xie Liaoyi drew her sword, pointing it at the male lead.

A19 kindly reminded her: “His cultivation is higher than yours.”

“I know,” Xie Liaoyi sighed softly. “Are you really going to let him capture and imprison me?”

A19 listened to Xie Liaoyi’s words and glanced at her stats: “You have points, you can buy skill cards.”

“I don’t want to,” Xie Liaoyi said. “Every point is hard-earned.”

A19 didn’t quite understand why Xie Liaoyi didn’t ask for help, but before she could think it through, when Xie Liaoyi was almost injured by the male lead, she intervened, and the male lead’s sword missed, stabbing into the tree trunk next to Xie Liaoyi.

Xie Liaoyi seized the opportunity to injure the male lead in return and, using local materials, stuffed some non-lethal poisonous herbs into his mouth. Since she couldn’t kill the male lead, after robbing him, she quickly left.

“As expected, the male lead is the key to getting rich,” Xie Liaoyi said, opening the male lead’s storage pouch and marveling at the contents, asking A19 for help, although it was her first time doing this kind of thing, she expertly erased all traces of her presence.

“You just helped me, didn’t you?” Xie Liaoyi asked.

“Mm,” A19 replied. “The last time.”

“But you’ve already helped me twice today,” Xie Liaoyi reminded her.

A19: …

“Thank you for the reminder, you owe me a favor now.”

“Do hosts and Systems also have this kind of arrangement?” Xie Liaoyi asked.

“You’re a worker, and I’m also a worker, of course there are favors, I told you, I’m different from other Systems, I’ve already recorded it, you can’t renege on your debt,” A19 said.

“How am I supposed to repay it?” Xie Liaoyi didn’t quite understand.

“I’ll tell you later, no rush, at your current rate, you won’t be retiring any time soon,” A19 said, her tone slightly sarcastic.

Xie Liaoyi wiped her magical weapon, blinked, and asked: “But didn’t you say you would leave anytime if you didn’t want to work anymore? So, are you planning to stay with me until I retire?”

A19 paused for a second, then replied: “No, I just want to see you make a fool of yourself.”

“Then you might have to wait a while,” Xie Liaoyi said, putting the items into her storage pouch. “I never make a fool of myself.”

The next second, Xie Liaoyi tripped over a vine and fell flat on her face.

For a moment, both of them were silent.

Xie Liaoyi pushed herself up from the ground: “That doesn’t count.”

“Doesn’t count? Then I’ll post your GIF in the group chat and let everyone vote,” A19 said, replaying Xie Liaoyi’s fall in slow motion.

Xie Liaoyi: ???

“You even recorded it?” Xie Liaoyi’s voice rose three octaves.

“Just happened to,” A19 said. “I was originally planning to record your boast and replay it later when you inevitably made a fool of yourself, who knew it would happen a second later?”

“Delete it,” Xie Liaoyi frowned.

“No,” A19 refused.

“I’ll owe you another favor,” Xie Liaoyi offered.

“Your favors are worthless,” A19 said, replaying the video again.

Xie Liaoyi pursed her lips: “Then just watch it yourself, don’t show it to me, and don’t show it to anyone else.”

“Okay, then you owe me two favors now, after all, those are two requests,” A19 said with a smile in her voice.

“Deal.” Xie Liaoyi looked down at the vines at her feet, much more carefully this time, but she felt like there were suddenly fewer vines on the ground.