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Six years after our breakup, I sat in his emergency room. "I'm pregnant, and the baby is yours." His face turned livid. "What kind of baby takes six years to gestate?" The atmosphere turned awkward to the extreme. "You're not going to acknowledge it?" "Do you think I'm going to take the blame?" he retorted. I fell silent for a few seconds. "Fine, then I'll find someone else to be the father." Nine months later. He fiercely grabbed the attending doctor. "Buddy, please, make sure you stitch her up nicely. She loves her appearance."

My mother, a prostitute, sacrificed her own flesh and blood to finance my father's studies and his imperial examinations. Five years later, when my father successfully passed the exam and was betrothed to a princess by the emperor, he defied the royal match in the Hall of Golden Thrones, preferring instead to marry my mother in a grand ceremony with a ten-mile-long red wedding procession. The princess was displeased. Three days later, my mother was found disheveled and abused, lifeless in an alley. Half a year later, the princess married my father as she had wished. Little did she know that this was merely the beginning of her misfortunes.

I have traveled through time, or... through a book. Before I could even congratulate myself for having the omniscient perspective of a god, I tragically discovered that I had become the villainous female side character in this story. To make it worse, the time period of my arrival is precisely when the female side character's misdeeds have reached their peak and her luck has begun to turn sour, marking the turning point where the original female lead rebounds from her lowest point. Faced with such desperation, it seems I can only devote myself to studying the survival guide for the villainous female side character and seize any opportunity to escape. Unfortunately, I'm also burdened with a bunch of incompetent "pig teammates" - a corrupt and power-hungry father obsessed with political intrigue, a lazy and irresponsible playboy brother who can't seem to do anything right, and the original female side character's antics from the earlier chapters of the novel. At this moment, I am undoubtedly trapped in a dilemma, and even if the author agreed to let me run away, the female lead probably wouldn't. And as for the standard configurations of a romance novel - the domineering and scheming male lead, the gentle and romantic second male lead, and even the third and fourth male leads... they are all under the spell of the Mary Sue-like female lead. As a cannon fodder female side character without a golden finger, in order to survive, I must constantly remind myself not to covet beauty and indulge in foolish fantasies. I must keep in mind the eight-character truth - "There are many handsome men, but none are mine." However, the butterfly effect is never just a scare tactic. The male lead's attitude is gradually becoming ambiguous and unpredictable, and the second male lead, who should have been infatuated with the female lead, has inexplicably begun to target and test me. I don't know if these two men want my affection or my life. The duplicitous male lead, the smiling assassin of the second male lead, and the new, unsuspecting puppy-like third male lead, all of them are harder to figure out than the next. So who should I choose? The collision of values from different worlds ultimately leads to an uncontrollable chain reaction. With the bronze equipment of the villainous female side character in a tormented novel, can I, a diligent and enterprising young woman of the new era, turn the tide against the wind?