My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

"I heard you went to the Zhou family to cause trouble today and severed ties with them?" Xu Yingying spoke first.

"broken."

"congratulations."

"I am very vulnerable right now."

"Oh? You can't bear to leave the Zhou family?"

"It has nothing to do with the Zhou family." Yang Fenglan choked up, feeling wronged. "I'm very fragile. Could you show me your chest to encourage me?"

Xu Yingying: ...

"The same lines I've used before are nothing new to you. So, tell me, you got beaten up by the Zhou family? You've brought your sisters to back you up?"

"No." Yang Fenglan put away her feigned grievance and said calmly, "I stepped in poop."

Xu Yingying thought she had used a metaphor and comforted her, "I've also inquired about the Zhou family these past few days. They really are a huge mess. It's not a big deal to throw them away."

Yang Fenglan: "I said, I stepped in poop."

"??"

In the blink of an eye, Xu Yingying had jumped more than ten meters away.

Yang Fenglan stood there bewildered in the wind for half a minute.

"I'm clean now."

"No matter how clean you are, I don't want to sleep with you."

"..."

Yang Fenglan found a rock to sit on and said, "Let's get down to business. I'm really conflicted right now and need your help to figure out what path we should take next."

When this was mentioned, Xu Yingying stopped being cheeky and sat down next to Yang Fenglan to listen to her talk about what had happened in the past few days.

In summary, there are two points of contention.

First, Shen Yu and Gu Ming clearly hit it off. From her observation, Shen Yu is not a bad person at heart, and Gu Ming is also a gentleman of unparalleled elegance and refinement.

Yang Fenglan, driven by her own selfish desires, forcibly separated a couple, which is immoral.

The male and female protagonists in the book were supposed to be a couple, and as long as the two of them didn't offend them, they could probably live in peace.

Secondly, Shen Yu's good luck equals Yang Fenglan's bad luck; every time Shen Yu is lucky, Yang Fenglan is unlucky.

This conclusion has been derived from "big data" and is 90% accurate.

In other words, if the plot of the book is left to develop, Shen Yu will have a string of good luck, while she will be plagued by bad luck.

After thinking about it for a minute, Xu Yingying said, "First of all, you did not break up Shen Yu and Gu Ming, because they were never together. Shen Yu married Zhou Jingyi and is his legal wife. Gu Ming was the third party who interfered. So you don't need to feel guilty."

"Secondly, if we don't offend the male and female protagonists, we might be able to live in peace, or we might starve to death in a famine."

Yang Fenglan: ...

Okay, that's enough.

"One last thing..." Xu Yingying stroked her chin, "The book doesn't mention anything about 'luck,' but it seems to say that with 'my' meddling, the female protagonist decisively divorced, and from then on, her awful ex-husband's family—that is, your family—started to have bad luck."

"So unlucky that soup spills down your crotch, food gets you injured, washing clothes is torn, and you step in dog poop while walking."

Yang Fenglan: ...

Okay, that's enough.

"So," Xu Yingying concluded, "you said your original owner was weak-willed, but she was indeed an extreme character in the book. Is it possible that because her luck was stolen by the female lead, she was truly desperate and, under 'my' instigation, went to cause trouble for the female lead?"

"Very likely." Yang Fenglan nodded.

"That settles it then. Everyone looks out for themselves." Xu Yingying patted Yang Fenglan on the shoulder. "You're still too kind. We're the best of the best, and we'll fight to the death to uphold our dignity and resist the female lead!"

Yang Fenglan: ...

How can she fight back?

Stealing the female lead's luck?

Every time she finds something, she gets unlucky; does she have to risk her life to snatch it?

Seeing Yang Fenglan's worried expression, Xu Yingying said, "If all else fails, I'll go and snatch it. You stay home and lie in bed. I don't believe you can still have bad luck like that."

"Row!"

She refused to believe that she could be unlucky while lying in bed.