Why Are the Psychos Obsessed with a Mere NPC?
Chapter 1: The Transmigrated Passerby A

Chapter 1: Chapter 1: The Transmigrated Passerby A

"We’re in an interstellar beast world! She should be building a harem, fair and square. Those seven guys don’t even mind sharing a lover, so what’s the heroine hesitating for?"

The System complained as it transmitted the plot summary.

"Hehehe, they’re so handsome."

Jian Yu was a total sucker for pretty faces. She stared at the photos sent by the System, scrutinizing each one.

She rubbed her hands together gleefully, zooming in on each photo to savor the male leads’ features.

Lost in admiration, she started running her mouth. "She’s like a pig turning her nose up at premium feed. Seven isn’t even enough for me. I’d need thirty—a fresh one for every day of the month."

"What about months with thirty-one days?"

"Day off."

The System grew excited, feeling it had found a kindred spirit.

"See, Host, you’re so much more open-minded. One a day is perfect; it’s not like all seven would jump her at once. This current heroine is a real handful. Even guys that handsome aren’t good enough for her. The ’organization’ is very disappointed."

Jian Yu’s eyes gleamed with mischief. "That girl is just too damn spoiled. Give me two episodes in her shoes, and even the F7 would be running from me."

’Loving someone so much you cage them, lock them away, hold them so tight no one else can even look at them...’

’Whew, a little suffocating, a little intense... but I kinda like it~’

Jian Yu was a devoted fan of "dark romance" novels. As far as she was concerned, as long as there was no real physical abuse, everything else was fair game.

’Of course, if this happened in real life, you’d call the cops immediately.’

Jian Yu looked up. "Is my mission dangerous?"

"You’re just an extra—you don’t have a mission. Think of yourself as an NPC; no one will notice you. Once the story wraps up, I’ll send you back. You’ll get a payout of at least two hundred million for your ’role.’"

Feeling bold, Jian Yu pushed her luck. "Since I can’t be the female lead, can you at least give me a good background role? Preferably somewhere near the heroine so I can ship her with the guys up close."

The System stared at Jian Yu’s flawless face, seemingly lost in thought.

"Host, read through the plot for now. I’ll be back in a moment."

The plot was quite simple, and Jian Yu finished reading it quickly.

A Noble Beast School plus a chaotic scene of male competition.

The heroine was named Xu Jianjuan. Through her own hard work, she had successfully tested into the Noble Academy.

Her character profile: a scholarship student dedicated to her studies who utterly despised the rich and powerful.

Because at the welcoming ceremony, she had declared: "What’s so great about the F7? They just got lucky in the birth lottery."

And so, the bullying began.

Xu Jianjuan’s defiance earned her the classic F7 line: "Woman, you’ve successfully caught my attention."

There was the ethereally handsome F1 and the cold, aloof F2.

The gentle "green tea" F3, and the calm, scheming F4.

The ruthless F5, the selfish and cruel F6, and the unhinged, psychopathic F7.

Through coercion, obsession, and depravity, they always found a way to make the heroine "willingly" walk into their cages.

The heroine feared their advances and loathed their condescending charity, yet she was forced to seek shelter under their protection.

On her deathbed, after a long life, she wished for freedom, hoping she would never again be entangled with the F7 in her next life.

Jian Yu was reading with great relish. "Huh? System, why do you look all bruised and battered?"

"It’s not important. Get ready, I’m sending you in."

It was rare for the System to find a Host who shared its views.

It had secretly gone off to fight the Main System and had successfully secured a "rebirth" scenario for Jian Yu.

The original heroine had been reborn, and to a point in time before she ever met the F7.

Whether her previous life’s wish would come true all depended on the choices she made this time around.

When an original heroine no longer wants to play her part, the world naturally generates a new one.

"Host, you’re good-looking. You’ve got a real shot."

"Huh?" Jian Yu blinked, not understanding what it meant.

"Host, close your eyes. I’ll come get you when the plotline is complete."

"Okay." Jian Yu closed her eyes.

She was twenty-two, raised in an orphanage. Too broke to afford tuition, she had dropped out in her final year of high school.

She was in perfect health, with eighty years left to live.

Fair skin, a beautiful face, long legs, and a photographic memory—aside from being dirt poor, she was flawless.

When the "Extra System" found her, she agreed to bind with it without a second thought.

When she opened her eyes again, she was already a character in the book.

At that very moment, the heroine, Xu Jianjuan, was being bullied.

A cliché opening line drifted to her ears.

"I told you to get water for Young Master Huang, and you bring back this cheap crap? A dog wouldn’t even drink this!"

A kick to the shoulder sent Xu Jianjuan falling onto the lawn with a thud.

Her eyes widened with humiliation and fury. "If a dog won’t drink it, then why don’t you?"

Huang Yuan, lounging nearby, sneered softly, "My, you’ve got some nerve today, Xu Jianjuan."

Not wanting to get involved, Jian Yu quietly turned to leave.

’It’s just a novel.’

’None of it is real.’

’This isn’t the time to be a saint, and it’s not like I have a heart to begin with.’

Jian Yu turned and left without the slightest hesitation.

She completely failed to notice that behind her, after a brief moment of daze, Xu Jianjuan snapped her head up and glared at her retreating back as if transferring her rage.

Huang Yuan was used to Xu Jianjuan’s disdain, her struggles, her resistance—even her lashing out.

That defiant look, combined with her recent "subversive" remarks, only made people want to break her more.

He waited, expecting her futile resistance.

But this time, Xu Jianjuan lowered her head, her posture surprisingly docile.

’The school has no shortage of beauties like her. A cat that has lost its claws is just boring,’ Huang Yuan thought.

He waved his hand, signaling his lackeys to let her go.

"People are born into different classes, and you’re at the very bottom. You say we nobles are just good at being born, but tell me, wouldn’t you want to be one of us?"

Huang Yuan no longer looked down on her.

He crouched down and gripped her chin. "Fairness? Hah. This world has never been fair. Don’t you find your own words ridiculous? If you want to survive in this school, you’d better learn to behave and stop making trouble."

For once, Xu Jianjuan nodded. "I... I understand."

’No one would bully a scholarship student forever, especially a normal person like her who hadn’t even Awakened a Beast Soul.’

’Once the novelty wore off, she’d become as inconspicuous as the other scholarship students, too ordinary for anyone to notice.’

’How could she not understand a lesson she had learned in her past life at the cost of so much pain?’

’She didn’t know why she had been reborn, but she wouldn’t let herself repeat the tragedy of her past life.’

’Stay away from those seven demons, graduate without any trouble, go wherever she wanted, and be with the person she truly loved.’

"?" Huang Yuan hadn’t expected such a response. He raised an eyebrow.

"From what I know about this school, you’ll be forgotten in two weeks, tops."

He stood up. "That is, provided you stop fighting back and give up any delusion of being some ’special’ student."

Huang Yuan’s voice faded as he walked away. "Just bear with it. Until everyone’s anger cools, you have to pay a small price for your childish and pathetic actions."

Xu Jianjuan watched them leave.

As she stood, she staggered slightly and murmured, almost to herself, "I need to find someone else to take the heat for me."

She knew that everything Huang Yuan had said was true.

But enduring two weeks of this... even if it didn’t kill her, she’d be left half-dead.