Chapter 36 Are Female Leads All This Dumb?

Li Tingting’s tear-filled eyes widened instantly. “I harmed you? I’ve saved you so many times, and you actually think I’m hurting you?! If I really wanted to hurt you, wouldn’t I just not save you? If I really wanted to harm you, why would I go through all the trouble to save you?”

【Because heaven doesn’t let you know it’s helping you. If it let you know, how could there be a ‘beauty saving the hero’? How would the later scenes even play out?】

【But…】 Ruan Yaoyao looked puzzled. 【Such things happen to one person so frequently, and Li Tingting never doubted it?】

【Are female leads all this dumb?】

Mom… isn’t her being ‘dumb’ supposed to be a good thing? Xu Chengyan wiped the sweat off his forehead. If his mom thought Li Tingting’s intelligence was low, and low intelligence was this “terrifying,” what if she were smart? That would be the end of the world.

Xu Chengyan hurriedly said, “It’s not that simple. If I hadn’t gotten into trouble, how could there have been a ‘beauty saving the hero’? Stay away from me. When you’re far from me, nothing happens, but when you get close, something bad always happens. What if one time you didn’t make it in time to save me? Wouldn’t I be done for?”

Still worried Li Tingting wouldn’t believe him, he added: let her ask Wei Kaihao herself. They’ve known each other for years—has he ever been this “unlucky”?

Never in his life.

Li Tingting looked at Wei Kaihao helplessly: “See? He’s just ‘bullying’ me. You’ve got to help me.”

【Ask Wei Kaihao?】

【He’s completely infatuated with Li Tingting now. Will he tell the truth?】

【Won’t the second male lead ruin it?】

Wei Kaihao choked. What does being infatuated with Li Tingting have to do with telling the truth?

He was just unwilling to accept Xu Chengyan “starting a relationship and then abandoning it,” thinking he was too despicable, so he wanted to “stand up for Li Tingting.” That’s all. But if what they said was true, then…

“You really get that unlucky whenever you meet her?”

“What do you think? It’s like Death itself appears. Whenever she shows up, I have to prepare to run for my life… How could I possibly like her? Be interested in her? I’m not a masochist.”

“So… all the things she prepared for you…”

“What did I ever get? Even a cup of coffee could land me in the hospital. You think I could receive anything? I try to keep my distance from her. How dare I accept anything? Don’t I care about staying alive?”

Wei Kaihao: “……”

Really?

Why did he get so many things, and nothing happened to him?

【Hahaha… just look at Wei’s expression—he’s totally confused. He received so many things from Li Tingting and nothing happened, so why was the second male lead so unlucky? He thinks the male lead is lying, hahaha…】

【It’s simple. Because he successfully completed the second male lead’s ‘role’, heaven didn’t trouble him at all—he got all the benefits. But if the male lead doesn’t cooperate, if you never follow the script, heaven gets angry. When angry, you get a rod lesson—bad luck all the way.】

【See? That’s heaven’s method: a rod or a sweet date. Obey and get the sweet date; disobey and get the rod.】

Xu Chengyan was speechless. His mom must think heaven is training them like dogs. And he is that disobedient dog.

Xu Chengyan looked at Wei Kaihao, worried he might slip something, and quickly said, “I know you don’t believe me. Ask her yourself. What did she ever give me? I’ll confront her.”

He even turned directly to Li Tingting. “You tell us yourself. What did you give him?”

“That… heart-shaped water cup…”

Before she could finish, Xu Chengyan said, “No, I never received it.”

“Impossible! I clearly prepared it, drew a heart on it, wrote our names with our initials…”

At that moment, Wei Kaihao weakly said from the side, “That cup is with me.”

Li Tingting was shocked: “How did it end up with you?”

“Forgot? That day it rained. I accidentally got your clothes dirty while driving, so you came to my house and I gave you a clean set. Later, that cup became a thank-you gift for me.”

Li Tingting was confused. She clearly remembered giving it to Xu Chengyan.

But no rush—she had prepared many other things.

“I make you heart-shaped breakfasts every day.”

Xu Chengyan: “I never received a single one.”

“Impossible! Today I made one too—a heart-shaped egg. Yesterday it was a heart-shaped ham. The day before….” Li Tingting recounted everything like a pro and said she even took photos.

Wei Kaihao: “I don’t know about the earlier ones, but for the past week, I ate them all.”

“I gave you a cactus cup.”

Xu Chengyan: “Never received it.”

Wei Kaihao: “It’s with me.”

“I also prepared a cactus pillow.”

Xu Chengyan: “Never received it.”

Wei Kaihao: “It’s with me.”

“I also prepared…”

Xu Chengyan: “Never received it.”

Wei Kaihao: “It’s with me.”

…

【Pfft… all the things Li Tingting prepared ended up with Wei. My male lead got nothing, hahaha…】

【What a tragic male lead! All his benefits went to the second male lead.】

【I just want to ask heaven: when will the second male lead be promoted? Otherwise, whatever—they’re fine together, just don’t make my male lead the scapegoat.】

Wei Kaihao was completely dumbfounded. “……”

Li Tingting was equally confused. How did all the things she prepared for Xu Chengyan end up with Wei Kaihao?

They were clearly her tokens of affection for Xu Chengyan.

Could it be that this is why he “changed his heart”?

Xu Chengyan looked at Wei Kaihao, wanting to ask: See? This is my male lead treatment. You think I could like her in this state?

She says she likes me, but everything ends up with you. You thought that was just the “tip of the iceberg” of her feelings for me and kept envying me…

I… am the biggest unlucky one, right?

“Do you want to know what unlucky things happened to me every time I met her?”

Wei Kaihao was unwilling to give up. “Go ahead.”

“The first time I met her, I was jogging. She had a bottle of some water and tried to poison me…”

Li Tingting immediately shouted, “No! That water was clean, bought outside.”

“I don’t know. I didn’t drink it. I just wanted to stay away from you. Instead, you pretended to fall, staging an accident on me.”

“I didn’t! I really fell…”

“The second time, you threw scalding coffee at me.”

“You were mean to me first!” Li Tingting looked wronged. She only lost her temper because she was cornered.

She’s normally timid like a little bunny and can be bullied by anyone.

“You weren’t even my employee, yet you appeared in my office in janitor’s clothes. Acting suspiciously, and I couldn’t even question you? I went out for a meeting, and I ran into you on the way—either lost, or in an accident. Why don’t you mention that?”

“You got lost yourself. What’s that got to do with me? Can I control your getting lost? And the accident—I couldn’t control that either. If I could, I wouldn’t be standing here.”