Villain – Peeking at the Diary, the Female Leads’ Personas Collapse

Cao Zijin disliked that look of hers. Honestly, ever since discovering the diary, besides acting, reading it had become her biggest pleasure. Every day, she read it and even asked for information on these other women.
Mu Jinli gave Cao Zijin a gut feeling that her turn might be coming up.
After all, the campus incident took place at her school, which meant she’d likely get involved. Cao Zijin had done some intensive novel studying. Boldly, she guessed that the female leads probably had access to the diary since, from Chen Fan’s complaints, it seemed these women weren’t following the usual script.
And according to her crash course in novels, the principal’s granddaughter—a great beauty—was a given cue for her to appear. But she waited a long time without appearing. She even started to wonder if she’d grabbed the wrong diary.
Still, seeing this phase of the diary, she found Chen Fan rather amusing, so she lent a hand.
Who would’ve thought, though, that the campus storyline would come to an end, and she still hadn’t appeared?
Thinking it was over, she suddenly sensed something was off when Chen Fan started writing a new entry. After reading it, she became furious.
Damn, was Cao Zijin really Chen Fan’s lucky charm?
Looking at the diary, Ling Yuyan grit her teeth in anger. At first, she disliked Ye Aotian simply because she found him disgusting. She disliked Mu Jinli purely because their personalities clashed. After all, how could a thief and a hero of the city ever get along? And she disliked Chen Fan because this guy wasn’t interested in her teasing, which she took as an insult.
Women held grudges, and Ling Yuyan was especially petty. But now, Chen Fan got lucky.
Lin Qingyue glanced over the diary, sighed with a smile, then looked up at Cao Zijin. “So, what did you come here for?”
“No reason. I’m engaged to Chen Fan, so I just wanted to see the woman Chen Fan is so captivated by. But when I arrived in Qincheng, I heard you had some history with Ye Aotian?”
“You’re a celebrity, and you like gossip?”
“Gossip is interesting! But I didn’t expect you’d be interested in a man like him. I feel pity for you. Unlike me, I’ll be marrying such an excellent man.”
If Chen Fan were here, he’d choose to end it all.
Lin Qingyue rubbed her temples. This woman was clearly trying to irritate her.
She definitely didn’t believe that this woman didn’t know she disliked Ye Aotian. She was certainly one of the female leads, and absolutely had a diary.
“Oh, is that so? Congratulations. But what if Chen Fan doesn’t like you?”
“That’s impossible. Chen Fan will surely marry me.”
Lin Qingyue chuckled and stared at Cao Zijin, saying, “Do you think you’ll marry Chen Fan? Are you truly willing? If I’m not mistaken, your position in the Cao family isn’t very high, is it? You became a celebrity and aimed to climb up just to prove yourself, right?”
Cao Zijin’s smile faded, then reappeared. “So sure of yourself?”
“You don’t really like Chen Fan, and you never will.”
Lin Qingyue stared intensely at Cao Zijin.
Cao Zijin felt a bit intimidated and backed off. Indeed, she didn’t actually like Chen Fan. First, they weren’t close. Second, she detested this arranged marriage concept. Third, she refused to be a housewife.
Lin Qingyue sat down again, victorious in this round.
Cao Zijin gritted her teeth in anger.
At this moment, the door opened, and Chen Fan entered. “What are you doing here? Weren’t you supposed to wait for me at the airport?”
Seeing Chen Fan, Cao Zijin immediately ran over, wrapped her arm around his, and said, “Honey, I came to check out Lin Qingyue. You seem to like her a lot, so I wanted to learn from her and see if I could be more like her.”
Actually, Cao Zijin was going off-script because this part wasn’t in the original storyline.
Normally, she’d only interact with the main character while acting, and her interactions with the female lead were rare and mostly happened later in the story. But she decided to appear abruptly and went with the tea art approach to improvise, but Chen Fan didn’t know how to respond.
No, that’s not how it was written in the script.
According to the story, his connection with this woman shouldn’t be so smooth; marriage only happened when she finally resigned herself to it.
He would only get a free ride.
Chen Fan pondered whether he should act as a lovesick fool or an antagonist.
Maybe he should provoke Lin Qingyue a bit. Wait, he vaguely recalled a scene on his wedding night where he called Lin Qingyue to say he still loved her.
So, he probably was supposed to be the lovesick fool.
“Xiaoyue, let me explain. We just met; she’s a blind date arranged by my family.”
Cao Zijin was dumbfounded.
Lin Qingyue looked at Chen Fan and said, “It’s fine; I understand that feeling. But I believe in you; don’t worry.”