Meanwhile, Lin Tian was in total shock, his expression frozen.
[WTF?! Li Yunqiu and Li Yangqiu?! Isn’t she the one who had the longest entanglement with Jiang Yifeng in the original story?! Later on, her family gets destroyed, she bears deep hatred, and eventually finds out Jiang Yifeng was tied to it. They end up falling in love anyway after years of torment. Why is she here now?!]
This scene broke all continuity. In the novel, she didn’t show up until months later during a formal banquet. There, she had a love-at-first-sight moment with Jiang Yifeng, who heroically saved a high-ranking official.
[Now she shows up at a random auction? And no sparks flew with Jiang Yifeng?! Is it because the “save old man” scene got skipped?!]
Lin Tian felt like his world had collapsed. Looking around the room, he realized something terrifying. Aside from himself, everyone else here is either a male lead or a female lead.
Shang Chan, Zhao Mengmeng, Bai Bing’er, Xuan Yuan Qingya, Xue Xue, Meng Xiaoling, Li Yunqiu… Seven. SEVEN heroines all in one auction room?!
[This isn’t an auction. It’s a bloody battleground. A Shura Field! No! A stealth Shura Field!]
He wanted to cry and hide, but there was no escape. And his thoughts were all being heard by the heroines.
“Ah, so this little beauty’s also one of Jiang Yifeng’s targets?” Shang Chan’s eyes flickered knowingly.
Having been with Lin Tian the longest, she’d heard the most of his inner voice and noticed a pattern: The more beautiful the woman, the higher the chance she’s a heroine. If Lin Tian had heard this theory, he’d have clapped and shouted, “Exactly!” Because that’s what the original brain-dead harem novel was all about.
Beautiful women = heroines = destined to fall for the male lead. Now that Lin Tian was here, every beauty he met had fallen into this trap.
Shang Chan, ever the decisive CEO, made up her mind then and there. She would sabotage all the heroines’ relationships with Jiang Yifeng. Because if Jiang unlocked the full power of the “Heavenly Sacred Body” like in the original, it would spell disaster for the Zhao family. Shang Chan couldn’t let that happen.
She suddenly looked at Bai Bing’er, the “second heroine” in Lin Tian’s inner voice.
She decided to meet with Bai Bing’er privately after the auction and bring Lin Tian along. But when she turned and gave Lin Tian a mysterious smile, his scalp tingled.
[Oh no. What now?! Why is she smiling like that again?!]
Shang Chan had surprised him too many times already…
Drunk at his place, demanding hugs and kisses, sneaking up behind him in a creepy basement, randomly dragging her chair next to his. She was like a stock chart on crack; stable one second, nosediving the next.
[Please, no more chaos. Just bid, finish, and go home. SEVEN heroines?! I’m not built for this level of psychological warfare!]
Meanwhile, Zhao Mengmeng was staring at Li Yunqiu with widened eyes. So elegant. So graceful. So heroine.
And she thought, Meeting Lin Tian was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Without him, she wouldn’t have realized she’d been marked by Jiang Yifeng. With him, someone finally understood her. He was the only one who still took her out to eat, even when she was annoying. She had completely fallen for Lin Tian. And she’d never tell anyone about hearing his thoughts. Because she liked this secret. Knowing his inner grumbles and affections gave her a warm sense of security.
She looked at him more sweetly than ever, which freaked Lin Tian out.
[WTF?! Zhao Mengmeng’s catching the crazy too?! What’s with those eyes?!] [Why are these sisters acting up together?! I’m begging you, can we just be NORMAL for a moment?!]
Even Bai Bing’er, usually detached, began to feel irked.
Not because Li Yunqiu was another heroine. So what if she was? No, she was annoyed by how Lin Tian’s thoughts involved Shang Chan and Zhao Mengmeng so much. It felt like someone had taken her shiny toy.
This wasn’t love, just possessiveness. She remembered how Shang Chan had just flaunted her curves in front of Lin Tian, blocking Bai’s view, and now…
Something inside Bai Bing’er snapped. She opened her fiery red lips and softly cursed in a voice even she barely recognized:
Why the hell did I call Shang Chan a vixen?!