The mind-reading fake heiress changes her fate by eating melons.

"Mom and Dad, you two chat first. I have work to do later, so I'll be leaving now." Gu Chenming forced a smile, stood up, and said goodbye to his elders.

Gu's parents didn't try to keep him. They had come to the An family today partly to visit their good friend and partly to test the relationship between the male and female leads. They had no idea that Gu Chenming was also at the An family home.

They didn't really care whether Gu Chenming stayed or left, but on the surface they would still try to hide it and pretend to be concerned, saying, "Okay, then be careful on your way."

But this concern was ultimately an act, revealing a clear lack of genuine concern.

An Ling watched Gu Chenming's retreating figure, eager to know what this real imposter was planning next. The world was not developing according to the plot she had hoped for, and she wondered if he had any other tricks up his sleeve.

Since it was just a convenient thing to do, An Ling entered Gu Chenming's name into the character lookup tool again. Surprisingly, this time, the section about the real world was no longer blank.

You know, when she checked yesterday as usual, she could only find the original setting of the male lead, but today it actually showed up?

She didn't have time to analyze the reasons; all she wanted to do now was to quickly figure out the so-called time traveler and the system.

[This Gu Chenming transmigrated twelve years ago. In his original world, he was also an actor, but he killed someone in a drunk driving accident and fled the scene. After being arrested by the police, something claiming to be a system suddenly appeared in his mind and asked him if he wanted to evade punishment.]

[As long as he transmigrates into the male lead's body and gets the female lead to be with him, achieving the novel's ending, he can stay in that world forever as the male lead, and he can truly obtain the male lead's fortune, living a smooth and successful life.]

On the surface, An's parents were still chatting with Gu's parents, but in reality, most of their attention was on An Ling's voice.

If the information An Ling just obtained from Gu's parents was merely their own speculation, then the information she obtained from directly consulting Gu Chenming should be undeniable, right?

Gu Chenming was actually a time traveler?

Where did the original Gu Chenming go?

If this time traveler's goal is to get Qiu Nian to be with him, then he would never give up so easily. In fact, he has the help of the system, and Gu's parents once speculated that the system has the ability to modify other people's memories. So, do they have any other extraordinary means?

Faced with such a good opportunity, he naturally agreed. However, after he had been in the world for a while, he found that things were not as he had imagined. For example, the main plot would not unfold until more than ten years later, and he could only obediently be a junior high school student for the time being.

For example... I, the supporting female character, am not as infatuated with him as described in the novel.

[I was supposed to be his shadow since childhood, but after he transmigrated, he discovered that I actually had a better relationship with the villain.]

However, the system does have some extraordinary methods to assist him in completing tasks. One is to modify the memories of characters other than the female lead, but this can only be used once per character. The other is to select a character other than the female lead and force them to maintain their original character settings.

[The first possibility is what Mr. and Mrs. Gu deduced; the second possibility is that the person they chose is... me?]

The An family finally understood why An Ling had suddenly become Gu Chenming's lapdog and so disgusted with Yan Yu; it turned out that this system was behind it all.

The more they listened, the angrier they became. It was unbelievable that An Ling had been framed so many years ago, yet they knew nothing about it.

This transmigrator hid inside Gu Chenming's body for over a decade, seemingly intending to occupy that body for life.

Does that mean he can't complete his mission if Qiu Nian keeps refusing to be with him?

But are they really destined to just passively drag things out like this?

【Wait a moment. 】

An Ling's previously somber voice softened slightly.

[Gu Chenming's system disappeared last year? And it happened to be on the same day as the awards ceremony where I was stabbed?]

[Originally, my being stabbed should have been the start of the main plot, but Gu Chenming discovered that such an important plot point had gone wrong. He frantically asked the system what to do, but found that the system didn't respond at all, and it never appeared again after that.]

Although Qiu Nian eventually regained her status as the true heiress, the subsequent plot began to fall apart one after another. Even though Gu Chenming followed the original storyline exactly, it was all to no avail.

A glimmer of hope also rekindled in the hearts of the An family.

Since the system can disappear, is it possible that the transmigrator can also disappear?

[So that's why Gu Chenming suddenly confessed to Qiu Nian! Turns out Yang Yao betrayed him too!]

No, it wasn't exactly betrayal. It was just that Gu Chenming brought it on himself. Yang Yao originally planned to ruin my reputation as Gu Chenming instructed, then make demands of him, asking him to be with her.

[After I didn't renew her contract, she became useless to me, and Gu Chenming simply ignored her. This made Yang Yao resentful, so she chose to achieve her goals in a more direct way.]

She threatened Gu Chenming, saying that if he didn't stay with her, she would expose everything he had ever done. Even if I remained a hopeless simp, the An family would never let him off the hook, and Gu Chenming would be the one ruined.

The An family understood after hearing this.

So Gu Chenming came to Qiu Nian today hoping for a miracle, hoping that if Qiu Nian really agreed, then his mission would be complete, and he would probably not care about Yang Yao's little threat after becoming the Chosen One.

But now that Qiu Nian has rejected him, what does he plan to do next?

[Speechless. Yang Yao was the one who threatened him, so why is he always picking on me?]

[Because the plot points that deviated from the original novel's setting were all related to me, and my attitude towards Gu Chenming after the family reunion banquet was different from before, Gu Chenming already felt that something was wrong with me.]

[Furthermore, he felt that Qiu Nian was avoiding him because of me, so he thought he could try to achieve the original novel's ending and have Qiu Nian be with him after getting rid of me.]

An family members: !!!

What does "eliminate" mean?

He's going to kill An Ling?

He told Yang Yao that if he found out they were together, he would make a huge scene and target Yang Yao relentlessly, making their lives miserable. He said he would grant Yang Yao's wish as long as she could find a way to stop him from opposing their relationship.

But Yang Yao knew how much I had fawned over him before, and naturally knew how outrageous Gu Chenming's conditions were. It meant that as long as I was alive, there was no way they could be together.

So Gu Chenming is trying to use this method to subtly instruct Yang Yao to eliminate me?

[He's really dreaming. Does he really think he's that charming? Trying to use someone else to do his dirty work? Please, this is a real crime. Yang Yao has to be a fool to do that.]

While mocking Gu Chenming's wild ideas, An Ling typed Yang Yao's name to see her reaction.

【Forehead……】

Is Yang Yao really an idiot?