Chapter 2: The Male Lead

——This genetic upheaval was enough to destroy Blue Star. The people at that time still mistook it for ‘rabies’. The party in the high-end nightclub burned with enthusiasm. Jiang Ye, this playboy dressed in a floral shirt, was sunk deep into the luxurious sofa, surrounded on left and right by women with explosive figures…

Bai Chen Zhu remembered how ‘himself’ appeared in the book. He had a particularly deep impression of ‘his’ scenes, even though this was a minor supporting character who occupied less than ten thousand words in a book of several million words.

Or rather, the only character he remembered clearly throughout the entire book was that supporting character.

Congenital heart disease, an extremely poor physique, working part-time as a waiter in a nightclub to earn living expenses—he unexpectedly ran into the vile young master Jiang Ye, as well as the class beauty Wang Xin Xin, who had confessed to him but was rejected and now harbored resentment.

When the three parties collided, Bai Chen Zhu, targeted by the other two, naturally fell at a disadvantage.

In the book, Wang Xin Xin appeared to plead on his behalf, but in reality kept fanning the flames, deliberately putting on a show in front of the pursuing Jiang Ye that said ‘you’ll never measure up to him in my heart’.

In the ensuing conflict, ‘Bai Chen Zhu’ was ruthlessly kicked by the enraged Jiang Ye. He tumbled to the ground, spat blood, and suffered a seizure. Jiang Ye thought he had caused a death and immediately paled, roaring for someone to call an ambulance.

‘Bai Chen Zhu’ was hospitalized from then on and remained unconscious.

Wang Xin Xin quarreled with Jiang Ye. The jealous Jiang Ye deliberately had him sent to a VIP ward and used ‘Bai Chen Zhu’s’ hospitalization expenses to coerce her. The two signed a master-servant agreement and flirted coquettishly in the villa until the apocalypse began.

And ‘Bai Chen Zhu’, this cannon fodder existing merely as a playful element in the little couple’s romance, never appeared again.

Now, for some unknown reason, he had personally entered the book. He had not fainted according to the original plot. Bai Chen Zhu touched the large footprint on his chest and sucked in a cold breath.

He did not know if the original host had felt pain, but the spot where he had been kicked burned with fiery pain. He raised his eyes to look at the culprit before him, and Bai Chen Zhu’s gaze chilled slightly.

“Tch, what are you spacing out for?” Jiang Ye discontentedly kicked the expensive wooden table. The table tilted 30 degrees, and the glassware atop it clinked noisily. The liquor in the cup on the table sloshed around, spilling some and pattering onto the surface.

He snorted with arrogant amusement. “Are you going to drink it yourself, or should I have someone ‘invite’ you to drink?”

As soon as Jiang Ye spoke, his surrounding cronies erupted in cooperative laughter, and the room grew boisterous for a moment.

Bai Chen Zhu stared fixedly at the outwardly human Jiang Ye. To outsiders, he merely looked stunned with fear.

The original male lead Jiang Ye—to put it nicely, he had an antisocial personality; to put it bluntly, he was no good. He led people in painstakingly searching for light amid the darkness, only to personally snuff out the apocalypse’s hope after finding the spark, right before everyone’s expectant gazes.

——He was a devil who ascended to ‘godhood’ and then directly annihilated the world.

But what did that have to do with Bai Chen Zhu?——That sentiment held only up until Bai Chen Zhu transmigrated.

Now, he had been killed by Jiang Ye’s ‘author dad’, only to transmigrate into the book and live again. But according to the plot, he would soon be done in by the male lead.

This connection was enormous.

Bai Chen Zhu pursed his lips. The Jiang Ye before him was clearly not the powerful, reliable base leader of the later stages, that so-called “light of humanity” laden with expectations.

The current Jiang Ye was merely a novel