Chapter 1: New Life

Chapter 1: New Life

It was early spring.

Several days of continuous spring rain had passed, and the dim sky was occasionally accompanied by rumbling thunder.

Inside the room, the bed curtains hung half-drawn, and the person sprawled within had strikingly beautiful features, with a pair of large, deer-like eyes.

The thunder was so loud it nearly scared him out of bed, and the next moment he grimaced, like it hurt like hell.

This was Chen Shuoan's second day in this new life.

Day two of lying flat on his back after getting the crap beaten out of him.

He had transmigrated into a web novel for women titled *The Tyrannical Crown Prince's Beloved*.

Chen Shuoan curled up, burying his face in the soft quilt, trying his damnedest to remember.

Yes, he was now a throwaway character in this book, with a straight-up villain for a dad.

At that thought, Chen Shuoan closed his eyes and smiled, all peaceful and done with life.

God, I'm done calling you "old man"—you've been playing me for a fool this whole time.

From what Chen Shuoan knew, the original body was the Grand Tutor's only son, a spoiled young master who never had to lift a finger.

The vicious villain Chen Jingxian had the fancy title of Grand Tutor but was a total airhead.

His ancestors had helped the founding emperor win the throne. The current emperor remembered that favor and made Chen Jingxian the crown prince's tutor—but it was just a title, nothing real.

Basically, he was coasting on his ancestors' goodwill.

Even though he was useless, he spoiled his son rotten, which is how you got a reckless little shit like Chen Shuoan.

The original body raised hell in the book until one day he met the fourth Miss of the Su family, the female lead, and fell for her at first sight—and that's when everything went to hell.

As they say, the grass is always greener on the other side.

The more Su Qingwan looked down on him, the more he kept hitting on her.

He wasn't even in the top ten male leads, but he was a champ at digging his own grave.

A few days ago, he and his dumbass friends had set a trap for Su Qingwan, planning to swoop in and save the day at the last second.

But surprise, surprise—the trap worked, and he got caught red-handed by Qin Zhonglian, the son of the Duke of State Stabilization, the third male lead. The whole hero-saves-the-day plan went off without a hitch.

Except the hero was Qin Zhonglian, and Chen Shuoan got his ass kicked, flat on the ground like a beached whale.

Qin Zhonglian didn't hold back—he beat the original body within an inch of his life. He wasn't found until the next day, and by then, the soul in that body was already the new Chen Shuoan.

If the third male lead was this scary, what would the crown prince do if he found out Chen Shuoan was after Su Qingwan? He'd skin him alive and send him straight back to the afterlife.

If he could just avoid the main characters, he'd happily live in a mansion and drive a sports car for the rest of his life.

And how did Chen Shuoan know all this? Because he'd had the "pleasure" of reading this book.

As everyone knows, "crispy sharks" is what they call college kids these days—soft on the outside, fragile on the inside.

Chen Shuoan had ended up in the hospital because his platelet count dropped to zero. He was lying in bed, scrolling through videos, when one of those sketchy ads popped up.

Then his phone, like it had a virus, automatically opened the novel's reading page. Turning it off did nothing, and restarting didn't fix it either.

Chen Shuoan had no choice but to read on, just to pass the time.

Unfortunately, he ultimately died of intracranial hemorrhage, dying in tears while his counselor screamed bloody murder.

And then he transmigrated into the current Chen Shuoan.

At that thought, he couldn't help worrying about his future fate.

The young servant waiting outside approached the bed to change his dressings. Seeing his worried expression, the servant misunderstood and tried to console him.

"Young master, don't worry too much. The master has already gone to seek justice from the Duke of State Stabilization. Young Master Qin is in the wrong here—we can stand firm."

Chen Shuoan: "..."

But I'm the one in the wrong. I can't stand firm.

The servant looked at the bruised and bloody marks on his back and sighed again.

"The master instructed that in a few days, the Emperor will send the Sixth Prince to visit the Chen residence, saying it's to check on you. You must recover from your injuries by then."