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

An Ling had just waved goodbye to Fa Cai when a bright white light appeared before her eyes again, and Fa Cai was also covered by the white light and disappeared from An Ling's sight.

She closed her eyes and then slowly opened them again, finding herself lying in bed with Yan Yu's furrowed brows in front of her.

An Ling's first reaction was:

Oh no, I forgot to ask that question.

Who exactly heard my innermost thoughts? Is Yan Yu among them?

Yan Yu had initially relaxed upon seeing An Ling wake up, but his expression became subtle again due to An Ling's subsequent thoughts.

Yan Yu coughed lightly:

"Xiaoling, you're awake? Is there anything else that's bothering you?"

He was terrified when An Ling fainted. He rushed over, hugged her, and was about to call an ambulance when he heard An Ling, who was clearly unconscious, still "talking".

After listening for a while, Yan Yu realized that she seemed to be communicating in her mind with something called "Fa Cai" (meaning "get rich"), which was either human or some other species. Her sudden fainting was probably caused by Fa Cai in order to communicate with her.

However, he could only hear An Ling's voice and not what Fa Cai was saying on the other end, so he only had a general understanding of what they were talking about.

But he didn't care about those things, as long as An Ling was alright.

Thinking that Anling would wake up after their conversation, Yan Yu carried her to the guesthouse room to make her more comfortable.

An Ling's eyes widened instantly: Yan Yu's expression...

[No way?! Yan Yu could hear that too?!]

Yan Yu awkwardly turned her face away. "You must be hungry, right? I'll go get you something to eat."

Yan Yu's reaction leaves no doubt about it!

[Oh no! He can definitely hear us!]

An Ling grabbed Yan Yu's sleeve. "Wait!"

The two locked eyes, and An Ling looked directly into Yan Yu's eyes and asked, "Did you... hear something just now?"

Yan Yu felt that the tips of her ears were getting a little hot.

He hadn't looked at An Ling so closely for so long in twelve years. In the past, An Ling would either be extremely disgusted or roll her eyes when she saw him. Even since he could hear An Ling's thoughts, she would always deliberately look away when she saw him in order to maintain her image.

Seeing that Yan Yu hadn't spoken for a long time, An Ling thought he didn't want to admit it, "Speak."

Yan Yu's gaze involuntarily moved to An Ling's lips again, following her voice. His Adam's apple bobbed as he realized his mouth was a little dry, and he managed to squeeze out an "Mmm."

An Ling recalled the several scenes of her interactions with Yan Yu after her rebirth, and realized that the most awkward one was still the first time...

[So he heard me when I said Yan Yu was a masochist?]

Yan Yu: ...

There's no need to dwell on the past.

Now An Ling no longer needs to play a role and can interact with Yan Yu naturally without any worries.

In fact, ever since she was reborn and got rid of the props that kept her in the role of a villainous female supporting character, she realized that she really owed Yan Yu a lot.

Even if her behavior was influenced by the system's props, the harm Yan Yu suffered from her was real, and it was both physical and psychological. So she had been thinking that if she could wait until the day when she no longer had to play the villainous female supporting character, she would apologize to him properly no matter what.

She knew some things were hard to explain, but since Yan Yu had already experienced being able to hear her thoughts, maybe he would believe her explanation?

Wait a moment.

The thought that Yan Yu could hear her thoughts made An Ling realize that the situation seemed to be different from what she had previously thought.

When Yan Yu came to visit her after she sprained her leg, An Ling thought to herself that Yan Yu's liking for her must be due to the influence of the original plot, so Yan Yu must have heard those words.

Moreover, combined with the information she found about the transmigrator and the system through the character lookup tool, as well as what Fa Cai had just told her, it seems that in this novel world, only she was using a tool to forcibly maintain the original character setting, so everyone else's actions were out of their own will.

What about Yan Yu?

He was clearly not affected by the original plot, so why did he still like the person who caused his leg injury?

An Ling looked at Yan Yu in confusion, completely unaware of the source of his obsession with her.

But she still wanted to say what she had always wanted to say first.

"Yan Yu, I have something to tell you. I know you might think I'm lying to you after you hear it, but I promise that everything I'm saying now is true."

An Ling looked at the person in front of her with a serious expression, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

"I want to apologize for what happened before. Not only did I cause you to fall off a cliff and break your leg, but I also treated you very badly afterward. If I said that none of this was my intention, would you believe me?"

"I believe you." Yan Yu nodded solemnly to An Ling without the slightest hesitation.

"You believe it?" Yan Yu's straightforward nod surprised An Ling.

“Xiaoling, you don’t need to apologize to me or explain to me. I know you’re being controlled.”

Like An Ling, Yan Yu also had many things he hadn't dared to say before that he wanted to clarify with An Ling.

Just like An Ling's parents, who chose to keep it a secret after discovering they could hear An Ling's thoughts, he was also worried that revealing certain things might hurt An Ling.

Whether it was An Ling's behavior being controlled before, or his sudden ability to hear An Ling's thoughts afterward, there must be some kind of power beyond his comprehension at play.

No one knows what the consequences will be if they speak out rashly.

So he didn't dare to gamble.

But today, through some of the conversation between An Ling and that "get rich," he learned that these things would no longer have any impact on her, so he wanted to tell An Ling all the secrets he had kept hidden for so many years.

He knew An Ling's personality. He knew that even if she had no choice but to treat him so badly before, once she broke free from control and came to her senses, she would still feel guilty when she looked back on her past behavior. He didn't need that guilt, and he didn't want An Ling to feel indebted.

"Is it because Gu Chenming and that so-called system did something to you?" Yan Yu asked directly.

An Ling was very surprised, "My parents told you that?"

She couldn't think of any other possibility.

She found out through the character lookup tool that Gu Chenming had the system when he was at the An family home. Yan Yu was not present at the time, so it could only be An's parents who told him.

“It wasn’t my uncle and aunt who said it. In fact, I’ve known about this for a long time, but I’ve never been sure if it was true.”

"But when you fainted, I heard you talking to someone named Fa Cai. I could only hear your voice and not what Fa Cai was saying, but that was enough for me to confirm that Gu Chenming has a system."