Chapter 1: The Stolen Fiancé (Part 1)

“Jing Yunluo! You old woman, what right do you have to cling to Brother Chen!”

[My Lady, that’s the female lead of this world, Su Wanwan. The man standing next to her is the male lead you need to win over—Fu Chen.]

Almost the moment the system spoke, a flood of information about this world surged into Jing Yunluo’s mind.

Once she sorted out what had happened, Jing Yunluo looked at Fu Chen, then at Su Wanwan, and let out a gentle sigh.

“What are you sighing for? I’m the one who ought to sigh! Brother Chen is clearly my fiancé, yet you keep pestering him!”

Su Wanwan stood with her hands on her hips, her face full of disdain for Jing Yunluo and undisguised pride.

In the original storyline, Jing Yunluo’s mother, Liu Yueru, doted on herself and her so-called true love’s daughter, Su Wanwan. After the divorce, she ignored her eldest daughter and even stole her engagement, giving it to the younger one instead.

The original owner was just a minor supporting character. Her biological father had passed away, her mother didn’t care for her, and the only two relatives she had left in the world died one after another. In the end, she couldn’t hold on to her family’s property and chose to end her life in a dilapidated rented room.

The original Jing Yunluo was weak by nature, unable to protect what was hers. But Jing Yunluo herself was not so easy to trample!

“Is that so?”

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Jing Yunluo’s lips as she looked at Fu Chen, who had been silently observing her from the start. “President Fu, if I remember correctly, it was my family, the Jing family, who arranged the engagement with your grandfather, wasn’t it?”

She then cast a sidelong glance at Su Wanwan. “So what business does someone named Su have here?”

“You—”

Su Wanwan hadn’t expected her elder sister, always so inconspicuous, to be like a different person today...

Jing Yunluo reached up to touch the jade pendant at her chest, pulled it from her collar, and let it dangle from its cord. “This pendant was placed on me by your grandfather himself, Fu Chen. Su Wanwan, you may be my little sister, but my father has only one daughter. You’re surnamed Su, not Jing!”

The last sentence was directed at Fu Chen, a clear reminder.

Fu Chen raised an eyebrow. He hadn’t expected the Jing Yunluo who once only knew how to hide and cry, to be so bold today.

Su Wanwan was flustered, but before she could retort, Fu Chen spoke—

“Miss Jing, I’m a businessman. To me, whether it’s people or objects, value is all that matters.”

Fu Chen’s bluntness made Su Wanwan inwardly rejoice. All these years, she knew exactly what kind of person Fu Chen was—profit above all.

However, today’s Jing Yunluo gave Su Wanwan a sense of crisis. She could tell that Jing Yunluo had changed—she was nothing like the timid girl she once knew.

“Is that so?”

Jing Yunluo wasn’t angered by Fu Chen’s words. She merely smiled. “And what if I told you that I could bring you far more than Su Wanwan ever could? What would you think then?”

“Really? I’d need some proof.”

Fu Chen smiled with a hint of amusement. He didn’t really believe her. As far as he knew, the Jing family’s affairs were now managed by an old friend of her grandfather’s.

Someone who couldn’t even protect her own household—what possible value could she have?

Jing Yunluo nodded. “Of course.”

She pointed to the jade bangle on Su Wanwan’s wrist. “That was my father’s coming-of-age gift to me, but my dear sister took a liking to it and made it hers. President Fu, if you help me get it back, I can help you solve a problem you’ve been facing. Half a year ago, you competed with a rival for a piece of land and failed to secure it, didn’t you? I can help you resolve this issue.”

Of course, Jing Yunluo could hardly say in front of Su Wanwan that she was a bringer of good fortune, capable of granting Fu Chen luck.

Su Wanwan instinctively shielded the jade bangle on her left wrist.

“Miss Jing, you must be joking.”

Fu Chen certainly didn’t believe her. Anyone would think she was teasing him with such claims.

Jing Yunluo’s smile vanished, her expression turning serious. “I’m perfectly serious, President Fu. This isn’t difficult for you, and it’s hardly an outrageous request. Take it as a gamble—what’s there to lose? Besides, it was mine to begin with. Between the Jing family and the Su family, which is more valuable—I’m sure you know the answer.”

Fu Chen looked into her eyes and, inexplicably, felt she wasn’t lying. Indeed, the Jing family’s power was not something the Su family could match.

He turned to Su Wanwan, his voice utterly devoid of warmth. “Miss Su, since it isn’t yours, it should be returned to its rightful owner.”

“Brother Chen?”

Su Wanwan stared at Fu Chen in disbelief. She hadn’t expected him to take Jing Yunluo’s side at this critical moment!

“If Miss Su refuses to return it, then there’s no need for the Fu and Su families to continue our partnership.”

The Fu family’s resources far outmatched those of the Su family.

What Su Wanwan truly coveted was not just Fu Chen’s face, but the Fu family’s wealth.

“Brother Chen! You can’t do this to me!”

Su Wanwan tried to resist, but seeing Fu Chen’s unyielding expression, she finally resigned herself. Sullenly, she slipped the jade bangle from her wrist and handed it to Jing Yunluo.

“Take it! It’s just a worthless trinket—who cares?”

Jing Yunluo accepted it, then fished a sanitizing wipe from her bag and carefully cleaned the bangle before slipping it onto her own wrist.

“Thank you, President Fu. Within the hour, you’ll receive good news. If not, feel free to come find me—I guarantee satisfaction after the sale!”

She patted her chest, waved nonchalantly at Fu Chen, and left in high spirits.

Though the bangle wasn’t part of her mission, making the female lead unhappy pleased her greatly. Jing Yunluo didn’t approve of the original owner’s weakness, but that was no excuse for Su Wanwan to bully her.

[My lady, are you just leaving like that?]

[Yes, what else? Should I stay and comfort Su Wanwan?]

[No, my lady, I mean—the male lead is still here. Are you not going to try to win him over?]

[Of course I will! But right now, Fu Chen is nothing more than a profit-driven businessman. I need to prove my worth to him. Otherwise, it’ll only be harder to win him over in the future.]

The system pursed its lips. The Revered Lord always said this little Fortune Fairy was the most obedient, but now—maybe not!

No, it had to report this to the Revered Lord at once!