The sun blazed overhead.

Across the road from Yi City Private Noble High School.

A delicate-looking boy stood under a tree, holding a bouquet of flowers, deep in thought.

“Hm? I transmigrated?”

The boy’s name was Lu Chengzhou.

He had kept that pose for a full ten minutes.

To outsiders, it looked like he was trying to act cool. In reality, he was completely dumbfounded.

All kinds of memories that didn’t belong to him flashed through his mind.

In the end, those memories froze on the scene before his eyes.

Lu Chengzhou let out a sigh.

You’ve gotta be kidding me?!

Fine, transmigrating was one thing. But he’d actually transmigrated into a book!

And not just any book. He’d landed inside a tragic romance CEO novel from the female-lead section!

Honestly, getting into this world wasn’t even the worst part. The key issue was that he’d become the book’s infamous simp side male lead!

What did a simp side character in a CEO novel do, and how did he end up? That hardly needed explaining.

Rain or shine, always there. Making soup and porridge for the heroine. Wiping her tears. Running around at her beck and call. A model of selfless devotion.

And what did he get in return? A pile of nice guy cards. In the end, he even died taking a bullet for the heroine.

“Ugh, what even is this?”

Just thinking about his miserable future made Lu Chengzhou want to walk into traffic and reroll his life.

But after considering that rerolling might not actually work, he calmed down again.

As things stood now, the situation was still in his favor.

First, the male and female leads hadn’t officially gotten together yet. The male lead probably wouldn’t have some random hostility toward him.

Second, he’d read this book. He remembered most of the plot!

As long as he used the characters and story well, he could still thrive here.

【Heroine detected! Current distance: ten meters, nine meters...】

A mechanical female voice suddenly appeared in his head.

Before Lu Chengzhou could figure out how to deal with this, four or five girls came into view.

One of them had other people’s schoolbags hanging from her wrist and shoulders, all in different colors.

She was the heroine, Su Qiaoman.

Well, if she was the heroine of a tragic romance, could she really avoid suffering?

Lu Chengzhou remembered that Su Qiaoman had the classic pure white lotus personality. Enduring everything in silence was normal for her. She often agreed to all kinds of unreasonable demands, like carrying everyone’s bags right now.

Once they passed the milk tea shop up ahead, she’d even use her very limited allowance to pay for their drinks.

To be fair, the heroine was pretty.

Her skin was fair and clean, and she looked so fragile she might collapse in a breeze.

Her clothes were a little old, but they were washed spotless and ironed flat.

But that pure white lotus personality was seriously hard to handle.

【Plot point triggered: Would you like to confess to the heroine?】

Confess to the heroine?

Was that what a simp side male lead was supposed to do?

You could figure out with your toes that this was a terrible idea!

Lu Chengzhou knew his current situation very well. Less than a hundred meters away, across the street, the male lead was standing there watching.

If he handed over this bouquet, that jealous freak of a male lead would probably rush over and beat him to death in minutes.

He had zero interest in getting dragged into the male and female leads’ romantic battlefield.

And right at that moment, Su Qiaoman had already noticed him.

“A’zhou, why are you here?”

Lu Chengzhou stared at her blankly.

Su Qiaoman looked at him with a complicated expression, then at the roses in his hands.

One glance was enough to tell these flowers weren’t cheap.

For someone with Lu Chengzhou’s circumstances, buying a bouquet like this would take at least a month of part-time work!

Lowering his own quality of life like this just to chase her... she truly looked down on him for it.

“A’zhou, is this the surprise you told me about?”

Su Qiaoman shook her head in disappointment.

“I’m sorry. I can’t accept it. Please return the flowers.”

The moment he heard that, Lu Chengzhou got mad.

Could this woman’s absurd self-confidence be cured or not?

Who said he was giving these flowers to her?

Now he absolutely wasn’t going to.

Lu Chengzhou let out a cold snort, walked right past the heroine, and headed toward the black-haired girl crouching behind her, teasing a kitten.

“Hey.”

He called out.

The other girl looked up.

The moment he saw her face, Lu Chengzhou felt depressed.

Those huge black-rimmed glasses, the freckles all over her face, and the crisscrossing scars—this girl was shockingly ugly.

But under the gazes of the male and female leads, especially the male lead’s unfriendly stare, Lu Chengzhou panicked even more.

If he wanted to survive the overbearing CEO male lead, he could only bite the bullet and casually confess to this girl.

“I like you. Go out with me.”

The moment those words came out, the whole place fell silent!

Especially Su Qiaoman. She practically thought her eyes were broken.

Wasn’t Lu Chengzhou always following behind her every day, constantly saying he’d protect her for life?

Th-this... this this... how was he confessing to such an ugly woman?!

The girls who loved bullying Su Qiaoman all burst out laughing.

“Su Qiaoman, look! Your childhood friend confessed to someone that ugly!”

“So it was all your wishful thinking. He was never planning to confess to you at all.”

“And you rejected him in advance?”

“Hahaha... a little too confident, weren’t you!”

The flood of mockery made Su Qiaoman wish the ground would swallow her whole.

She glared hatefully at Lu Chengzhou’s back.

That damned guy actually gave the flowers to someone else and made her lose face!

How dare he?

How could he?!

Su Qiaoman was full of resentment, but she didn’t dare let it out.

She noticed that her dream guy, Lin Chen, was watching what was happening from not far away.

She couldn’t let Lin Chen see her lose composure.

The girl crouching on the ground pushed up her glasses.

That trace of surprise in her eyes faded. In its place came a slightly sly smile.

She reached out and took the flowers Lu Chengzhou handed over.

“Sure. I accept.”