After the Villain Stopped Fawning Over the Female Lead, She Became Desperate - Chapter 13:

Chapter 13: The Second Female Lead, Su Linyi:

At that moment, a message popped up on Shen Che’s phone.

“Young Master Shen, the information on the sponsored individual is all here. The address and detailed records are in the folder.”

A folder was sent through the WeChat chat window.

This was the information he had instructed his assistant to gather before heading to the Xu family. Shen Che’s charity foundation had once sponsored a girl, and that girl happened to be the second female lead in the entire novel—Su Linyi.

After carefully reading through the contents of the folder, Shen Che couldn’t help but admire the efficiency of professionals. Forget about the address and academic records—there was even data on the last takeout order from her noodle shop the previous night. It was no different from opening a blind box.

In the original novel, Su Linyi was considered the easiest female lead to win over. When she was a child, her father had left home to work in a distant coal mine to support the family, but the mine collapsed, and she lost her father forever at the age of 9.

Due to her mother’s strict discipline, Su Linyi had rarely interacted with boys her age, let alone had any romantic relationships. Personality-wise, she took after her mother—gentle, refined, well-mannered, and grateful. Because of their financial difficulties, she studied exceptionally hard and was diligent in her efforts.

But fate always seemed to enjoy tormenting those who already struggled in life.

At 18, on a bright and sunny afternoon, the usually obedient and sensible Su Linyi was, as usual, helping out in her family’s small noodle shop to ease her mother’s burden. While she was serving a customer, an overwhelming and indescribable weakness suddenly swept through her body.

With a loud thud, her petite frame collapsed uncontrollably to the floor and she immediately fell into a deep coma.

Seeing this sudden turn of events, her mother turned pale with fear and panic. With trembling hands, she dialed the emergency number, her voice quivering with terror.

When Su Linyi finally opened her eyes the next day, she found herself lying in an unfamiliar white hospital room. She tried to move, only to be horrified to discover that everything below her waist had lost all sensation. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t feel her legs.

Not only that, her right hand and half her body had become completely paralyzed, as if under a spell.

The once energetic top student, full of life and academic success, had in a single night become someone who couldn’t even take care of herself.

Doctors then conducted thorough examinations and gave a detailed diagnosis.

The final conclusion struck the mother and daughter like a bolt of lightning on a clear day—Su Linyi had been diagnosed with ALS, a notorious and incurable disease in the medical world.

Even worse, her ALS had already progressed to its late stage, beyond the reach of current medicine.

At the time, Su Linyi’s mother still held on to hope, believing firmly that her always well-behaved and understanding daughter wouldn’t be left to spend the rest of her life trapped helplessly in a cold hospital bed.

Thus began her long and grueling journey in search of treatment. She ran around tirelessly, borrowing money from various sources just to raise funds for her daughter’s medical care. She even resorted to taking out high-interest loans from the underworld.

The money borrowed from friends and relatives was quickly used up, but she didn’t give up. She kept searching for more people to help.

Carrying her daughter, she traveled across half the nation, visiting countless renowned doctors. Yet no matter where they went or which famous specialist they met, the answer was always the same—there was nothing they could do.

But Su Linyi’s mother refused to be defeated. To save her daughter, she didn’t hesitate to mortgage their only home to secure a larger loan.

She shamelessly asked every relative and friend she could find for help, borrowing from everyone possible. But even then, her daughter’s condition showed no improvement.

Desperate, she turned to the internet for a miracle.

With tears in her eyes, she wrote a heartfelt post online, explaining her daughter’s story and their hardship in detail.

Fortunately, the post caught the attention of some journalists, who quickly came to report on their situation. It made the headlines in newspapers and news programs.

With the media exposure, kind-hearted people from across the country extended their help. Donations poured in, and a considerable amount of charity money was raised in a short time.

At that time, Shen Che’s charity foundation also took notice of the struggling girl. Moved by humanitarian concern, they generously donated several hundred thousand yuan solely for the girl’s treatment.

That was also why Shen Che could so easily order an investigation and obtain all this information.

With that hard-earned life-saving money in her hands, Su Linyi’s mother found a new glimmer of hope.

She took her daughter and traveled to the other half of the nation, visiting doctors and trying every possible remedy in hopes of curing the disease.

However, reality dealt blow after blow. No matter how many treatments they tried or how much effort they gave, there was never the slightest improvement in her daughter’s condition.

Eventually, after years of hardship, all the funds raised for treatment were completely exhausted. But what broke their hearts most was that Su Linyi’s illness had not improved at all—not even a little.

Facing the cruel reality that ALS was incurable, Su Linyi’s mother had no choice but to accept it.

In the end, the mother and daughter returned to the Magic City and reopened their small noodle shop in the old neighborhood to repay the high-interest debts.

Their neighbors, sympathetic to their tragic situation, often came to support their little business.

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Su Linyi was the next female lead Shen Che had chosen to pursue. She was low difficulty, and easier to gain Villain Points from.

He was still too weak right now. Changing the novel’s original plotline more often to earn Villain Points and strengthen himself was the best strategy.

Thinking of the plotline, Shen Che frowned slightly. Since he had already stopped the first meeting between Ye Feng and the female lead, did that mean the two would never meet again?

With that question in mind, Shen Che summoned the system in his mind, “System, since I’ve already prevented the first meeting between Ye Feng and the female lead, does that mean they won’t meet again in the future?”

The system replied, [No. Under the influence of the protagonist’s aura, the world timeline will self-correct. This means that although the Host’s interference will delay their meeting for a while, eventually, due to the timeline’s arrangement, the two will encounter each other again through what will appear to be an extremely coincidental event.]

[However, the timeline will not forcibly alter anything. Doing so would cause a disruption in the timeline.]

The system’s explanation was clear. Under Ye Feng’s protagonist aura, Xu Qiuchi and Ye Feng were destined to meet again. That meeting might happen tomorrow or next month, but it would happen. After that, everything would proceed according to the original plotline.