Chapter 3#
World 1: The Tragic Supporting Male Lead Changes the Script Online#
Qin Qing walked slowly towards the lively and noisy night market stalls.
His stomach was still cramping violently, but he was already numb to it. He asked in a hoarse voice: “Did I seize the body of the original Qin Qing?”
996 was stunned and quickly denied: “It’s not body seizing. He voluntarily gave up his life and entered reincarnation early. Every identity we arrange for you is authorized by the original host.”
“Voluntarily gave up, why?” Qin Qing suddenly stopped.
“How would I know, meow.” 996 impatiently wagged its big fluffy tail.
“Because his own fate was too ill-fated, so he gave up? And I am the one here to continue this ill-fated destiny in his place?” Qin Qing lowered his head and looked fixedly at 996 with bottomless eyes.
996’s wildly wagging big tail stood stiffly upright, its little head thinking fast about how to answer. The employees of the Tragic Supporting Male Lead Group in the Department of Misery had all run away. Now it was just a commander without soldiers. It couldn’t let Qin Qing run away too.
Qin Qing was still gazing at 996, his gaze clear and thorough.
When 996 finally made up a decent reason and was ready to fool its only employee, Qin Qing suddenly chuckled in a low voice, catching it off guard.
“I was just asking casually, please don’t mind.” He nodded politely, and then continued to walk forward, as if he didn’t care at all about what kind of tragic fate he was about to step into.
996 laughed dryly twice, then lowered its head and breathed a sigh of relief unnoticed. Fortunately, Qin Qing came from the cultivation world and didn’t understand anything.
However, did Qin Qing really not understand anything? After obtaining the original host’s memory, he already understood what a supporting male lead was.
A supporting male lead is the green leaf that sets off the fresh flower, the pebble that paves the life path for the protagonist, the tool that can be thrown away after use.
The sounds of finger-guessing games came from the night market stalls, and the burnt aroma of roasted meat floated in the cool summer breeze.
Qin Qing looked at the bright lights ahead, but he already understood that his future would only be darkness.
He curled his lips slightly and smiled helplessly, but a determined light flickered in his eyes.
“It doesn’t matter, as long as I can go back…” He told himself in a voice so low it was inaudible.
“Qin Qing, why is your face so pale? How about you don’t sell liquor today and go to the hospital to have a look.” Brother Jiang, the liquor shop owner who was fierce just now, said kindly to Qin Qing who was walking slowly.
“Brother Jiang, I’m fine, thank you for your concern. It’s already the end of the month, I’ll help you sell out the liquor.” Qin Qing slowly rolled up his sleeves, walked into the warehouse, moved out a few boxes of liquor, and stacked them neatly at the shop entrance.
When he bent down to move the boxes, thin muscles bulged on his back, demonstrating strength and beauty. His waist was cinched extremely thin by a belt, and his legs were long and straight. When he stood up and lifted the heavy box, this slender waist was exceptionally powerful, and the biceps on his arms bulged, clinging to the fabric, appearing firm and sexy.
Unknowingly, Qin Qing, who was moving boxes, had become the focus of attention for many diners, but he himself seemed completely unaware.
This was the largest night market stall in Hai City, covering an area of tens of thousands of square meters, with hundreds of stalls, capable of entertaining tens of thousands of people dining at the same time.
996 jumped onto a diner’s table, stole a raw oyster while no one was prepared, and then licked it happily with its tongue while flipping through the script.
The script recorded that Qin Qing only sold a dozen bottles of beer tonight, and the commission was pitifully small. In his anxiety, he angered a table of guests, causing these drunk guests to pick up knives and attack Qin Qing and another table of guests.
To protect a female guest, Qin Qing grabbed the knife with his bare hands, his tendons were cut, and he became disabled from then on.
“Tsk tsk tsk, what a miserable man!” 996 was full of sighs, but had no sympathy in its heart for Qin Qing who was about to become disabled. Anyway, in the next world, he would return to his original state. This injury was nothing.
At the same time, Qin Qing, who had finished moving the liquor, had washed his hands and face, and casually swept his semi-wet black hair to the back of his head.
Brother Jiang asked worriedly: “Moving out so much liquor at once, can you sell it all?”
Qin Qing smiled slightly: “I can sell it all.”
He picked up the account book and ballpoint pen, standing by the neatly stacked liquor boxes.
He wore the simplest white shirt and black trousers, his figure lithe and slender. His slightly red face and eyes carried a semi-drunken mist, and his body emitted a sweet smell of alcohol and floral fragrance that was too thick to dissolve.
He seemed exactly the same as the drunk diners around him, yet appeared so out of place. In this boiling noise, he was a patch of cold cleanliness, as if never tainted by the mundane world, yet integrated with the rolling red dust.
He flipped through the account book, then raised his head to look around.
With just this casual glance, countless arms were raised in the lively night market stall, “Boss, a box of beer here!”
“Little brother, we want some here too!”
“I want two boxes, trouble little brother to move them over personally!”
Shout after shout, eager and full of expectation, as if they had been coveting for a long time.
The liquor that seemed a lot just now was sold out by more than half in an instant.
Brother Jiang was stunned, then turned to look at Qin Qing’s face, which was stained with a few drops of water and looked as beautiful as an illusion under the bright lights, and suddenly understood everything. All his inventory today would really be sold out by Qin Qing.
996, who looked up after studying the script: “…”
“Meow the kitty! What about the agreed poor performance and anxious mood? The script isn’t written like this!”
996 jumped off the dining table and quickly darted to Qin Qing’s side. Just as it wanted to tell him that the plot was in danger of collapsing, it heard an unkind voice from not far away: “Kid, come over and open the beer for us!”
Qin Qing handed two bottles of cold beer to a female guest, gave a gentle smile, and then turned to look at the person who shouted.
That was a burly, ugly, middle-aged man with a fierce look in his eyes. The man was shirtless, his arms covered with colorful tattoos, looking very hard to mess with. The few men sitting with him also had an air of the underworld all over them, and were looking at Qin Qing with ill intentions at this moment.
“Don’t go over, they are drunk and will cause trouble.” The female guest who ordered two bottles of beer advised in a low voice.
“This is a plot point, meow! Quick, quick, go over!” 996 urged anxiously. It almost thought the plot was going to collapse just now!
Qin Qing certainly knew that the light flashing in those people’s eyes carried malice and mockery, but he still gave the female guest a reassuring smile and walked over slowly.
If he wanted to go back and see that person, he had to be prepared to endure everything…
“Big brother, may I ask if all the beer on the table needs to be opened?” Qin Qing took out the bottle opener and asked politely.
“Open them all. One or two bottles aren’t enough to fill the gaps between my teeth!” The bald man picked his yellow teeth with a toothpick, spraying a strong smell of alcohol from his mouth.
While opening the beer on the table, Qin Qing secretly observed the few people, his gaze paying extra attention to a metal tag worn on the bald man’s chest. The metal tag was engraved with the head of a little girl in fine lines, visible only when reflecting light.
“Big brother, the beer is opened, take your time drinking.” Qin Qing straightened up and said.
“Finish this bottle of wine before you leave!” The bald man grabbed Qin Qing’s wrist.
The bald man’s companion slammed a bottle of beer on the table, making a loud bang, and shouted loudly: “Not only finish it, but also drink it in a swirl!”
“Right, right, right, drink it in a swirl! Perform for us brothers!” The people at the same table all applauded, their laughter full of malice.
The surrounding diners looked over one after another, showing worried expressions.
Brother Jiang ran over quickly, with a fawning smile and an ingratiating tone: “Big brothers, I’ll drink for Little Qin! Come come come, I toast to you!”
“Who do you think you are? Did I let you drink?” The bald man spat at Brother Jiang disdainfully, then grabbed Qin Qing’s collar and said viciously: “What I hate most in my life is pretty boys like you! Sissy, disgusting! Let me tell you, you have to drink this bottle of wine whether you want to or not!”
Brother Jiang wiped the smelly saliva off his face with his sleeve, wanted to persuade, but didn’t dare. Several diners around had stood up, watching worriedly.
Qin Qing’s stomach was still burning with pain, and now being strangled by the neck caused poor breathing, his pupils dilated, ready to faint at any time.
Sensing that Qin Qing’s consciousness was gradually blurring, 996 hurriedly scratched his trouser leg with its paw and urged: “Quickly refuse this man! Don’t drink his wine even if you die!”
Only in this way could the other party be angered, triggering a series of bloody events.
Qin Qing’s forehead was covered with dense cold sweat, his eyelids opening and closing, struggling between consciousness and fainting. He no longer had the strength to act out this part of the plot.
“Do you still want to go back and see that person? Do you still want to ask him a question?” 996 used its killer move.
A trace of glimmer suddenly gathered in Qin Qing’s unfocused pupils. His teeth clenched tightly for a moment, and then he spoke with extreme difficulty: “Sorry, I can’t drink this bottle of wine with you.”
The bald man was so angry that his scalp turned red, and he sneered: “Won’t drink, right? I’ll pour it down your throat!”
He picked up a bottle of beer and wanted to pour it down Qin Qing’s throat.
Cold beer is the great enemy of gastric ulcers. Under the stimulation of carbonic acid and alcohol, severe stomach pain could turn into gastric bleeding, and acute gastric bleeding could kill people.
The surrounding diners made sounds of scolding and obstruction, and some said they would call the police, but the bald man turned a deaf ear to all of them, just strangling Qin Qing tightly and using the beer bottle to pry open his mouth.
Qin Qing reached out his slightly trembling hand and held the bald man’s wrist.
“I won’t drink, and you shouldn’t drink either.” He gasped, saying word by word.
The bald man sneered: “Yo-ho! You’re ordering me around now!” He broke free from Qin Qing’s hand and stuffed the beer bottle into Qin Qing’s mouth again.
“Seeing you drunk, your daughter will be scared.” Qin Qing said weakly.
The bald man was stunned, his tone suspicious: “How do you know I have a daughter?”
“You hang your daughter’s portrait on your chest all the time, I saw it. How old is she this year? Looks only three or four years old, right? Having not seen her father all day, she should miss you very much, right? Your wife persuades her to sleep, she will definitely shake her head and say she wants to wait for her father to come back. So don’t drink anymore, go back early, your daughter is still waiting for you.”
When saying these words, Qin Qing clearly felt that the man was slowly loosening the hand grabbing his collar.
He was touched.
To be able to carve his daughter’s head on a metal tag and carry it with him, the man must love his daughter very much.
Qin Qing possessed eyes that could see through people’s hearts, so he knew how to quell the man’s anger. Now he had to do one more thing, which was to evoke the other party’s kindness.
“Big brother, why make things difficult for me. My father passed away very early. I came out to work in junior high school. I got into university but had no money to study. I have a sick mother and a sister to support at home. Compared with you, what am I? You have a wife and daughter, a house and a car, and social status, but I have nothing. Big brother, if there was really no other way, who would come to suffer this?”
Qin Qing shook his head with a bitter smile and red eyes.
People who take pleasure in humiliating others do so nothing more than to gain some sense of superiority.
The bald man’s sense of superiority was indeed satisfied by these words. He let go of Qin Qing’s collar, and his fierce expression actually changed to a gentle one: “Alright, you go, I won’t make things difficult for you.”
The bald man put down the bottle of beer and waved his hand, feeling rather bored.
Qin Qing bowed to thank the man, straightened up, elegantly smoothed the wrinkles on his shirt, and then walked unhurriedly to another table.
996, squatting aside, stared wide-eyed at this scene.
Meow meow meow? Why not pour the wine! Why not slap? Why not get angry? The script isn’t written like this!
But it’s okay, when the female supporting character appears later, the conflict will escalate again! 996 lowered its head to look at the script and soon regained its composure.