Princess Sickness

Mae Smith stared at the novel in her hand, her anger escalating with each page she turned.

Despite having over half of the book left, she could no longer contain her frustration and tossed the novel out of sight.

It was past eleven in the evening. Rubbing weary eyes, Mae Smith slipped into her pink pyjamas and headed to the bathroom.

While brushing her teeth and washing her face, she couldn't help but mutter, "Is the male lead an idiot? He didn't even bother to ask and assumed that the supporting female character was his childhood benefactor because Mae Smith and May Smyth sounded similar? Moreover, the female lead is malicious. The supporting female character did nothing wrong. She was just treated kindly by the male lead for a short period because he mistook her for someone else. Yet, ultimately, the female lead sold her to work in a coal mine and was never allowed to return. Is this how humans should behave? Who did the supporting female character offend to deserve such a tragic fate? It's really an unjust cause that brings about a disastrous effect!"

This wasn't Mae Smith's first time reading a novel, but it was undoubtedly the first time she felt this infuriated.

There were two reasons for her anger. The first reason was that the supporting female character in the book was truly innocent. Initially, the male lead didn't say anything but started treating her kindly. She lived in fear and joy daily, worrying about whether she had done something wrong. However, that kindness was quickly taken away, and she was in big trouble.

The second reason was that she shared the same name with the tragic supporting female character in the novel! This was truly unfair.

But after all, it's just a book. Mae Smith simply vented a few sarcastic remarks and then forgot about it.

After all, everything in a book is just an author's arrangement and can't be taken as reality. Anyone who takes it as reality is a fool.

With these thoughts in mind, she went to bed and fell asleep.

A gentle voice woke Mae Smith: "Mae Smith, wake up quickly. The second young master from the Brian family has sent someone with fruits and milk for you again."

Mae Smith woke up without feeling angry about being disturbed. She felt confused as she sat up from her desk, rubbing her sleepy eyes before slowly opening them.

But after a few seconds, she widened her eyes in surprise!

Wasn't she sleeping at home? Why did she wake up back in class?

She received her university admission notice recently and will attend in a month. What's going on?

While Mae Smith was still confused about what had happened, fruits and milk mentioned earlier were passed from one student to another until they reached her desk near the window.

The whole process only took one or two minutes. Everyone in class was used to helping Mae Smith pass things around like this.

She unconsciously looked at the transparent box on her desk and opened it. Inside were various colourful fresh fruits, and a disposable plastic plate had been thoughtfully prepared on the side.

Mae Smith opened the plastic bag to take out the plate and picked up a slice of mango to eat.

Oh, it's sweet.

Can you taste things in dreams, too?

While Mae Smith was eating fruit, several voices (sour grapes) rang around her.

"Mae Smith, what's your relationship with Andrew Brian? Why does he send someone with fruits for you every day?"

"That's right; today is already the third day."

"Mae Smith, did you know Andrew Brian before you transferred schools?"

Andrew Brian? Which Andrew Brian?

Before Mae Smith could comprehend what was happening, the voice she had heard earlier exclaimed loudly, "Quick, stop talking; the homeroom teacher is coming!" Only then did the girls nearby reluctantly end their discussion.

Mae Smith hadn't had time to react when her desk mate quickly helped her clean up the fruit on the table and put it in the drawer: "The homeroom teacher hates anyone eating in class."

Mae Smith responded indifferently: "Oh."

After a morning of classes, Mae Smith realized a fact - she had crossed into a book. She had crossed into the book "Deeply Enthralled" that she had read before going to bed last night, becoming the pitiful supporting female character in her own words!

It was truly unfair. Indeed, one should not speak carelessly. Mae Smith crossed into the book when she said it wasn't real!

At this point, the plot had just begun.

After the supporting female character graduated from high school, she transferred to the high school where the male lead was in his senior year. The male lead accidentally heard the supporting female character's name on her first day of school and thought she was his childhood benefactor, May Smyth, who saved him from an accident when he was young. So he began to repay her in his own way.

First of all, not to mention whether there is a problem with how the male lead repays her. In fact, there is nothing wrong with the starting point of the male information. Andrew Brian regarded the supporting female character as a "life-saving benefactor" and wanted to repay her. Thinking that she had just transferred schools and might be unable to quickly adapt to the new learning environment, he wanted to become a solid backing for her and help her get acquainted with her classmates. After exercising every morning, he would have someone bring delicious food to her.

In fact, because of his behaviour, the supporting female character really enjoyed life like a celebrity. The girls in class often asked her about Andrew Brian out of curiosity or deliberately flattered her everywhere. No one dared to touch her. This made the supporting female character surprised and happy, as if a pie had fallen from the sky.

Indeed, it was a pie falling from the sky, but this pie was quickly snatched away by the male lead. Not long after, the real benefactor of the male information appeared. After the female lead appeared, there was no more story about the supporting female character.

After losing the care and attention of the male lead, she suddenly felt like she had fallen from heaven to earth. At first, how much praise did she receive from her female classmates? Then, they ridiculed her just as much. Even worse, the female lead saw her as a thorn in the side.

Because this female lead thought that the supporting female character was deliberately impersonating herself.

But that's not true at all. From Mae Smith's point of view, the supporting female character is innocent. The male lead didn't say anything but repaid her on his own initiative. He didn't even tell the female lead anything. Even when he treated the supporting female character well, he wasn't doing everything himself. Like just now with fruits and milk, it wasn't Andrew Brian who brought it over but just found a boy in class and paid him some money to help with chores since he wasn't short of cash anyway.

All these are just superficial kindness.

It's been three days since school started, and Andrew Brian has been having someone bring delicious food for three days.

Although nothing happened in reality, in the eyes of the female lead, she has been labelled as "impersonating" and "deliberately seducing Andrew Brian".

From this moment on, even if Mae Smith wanted to protect herself, it was too late. The female lead would not let her go. After all, from the moment she was mistaken by the male lead, she was already guilty.

If that's the case, it's better to either not do it at all or to do it thoroughly and decisively and turn these labels into reality.

The male lead is a fool, both foolish and wealthy, with poor eyesight. Mae Smith will teach Andrew Brian how to be a person.

As for the female lead, Mae Smith has no guilt towards her. She had to face the deep-hearted female lead from the moment she crossed into the book. Moreover, the female information might sell her to work in a coal mine for a lifetime. Furthermore, it's already 9012, and there is no outdated idea of "gratitude for saving one's life and repaying with one's body". Otherwise, why didn't the male lead stay with the supporting female character when he mistook her?

He didn't even bother to show his face!

After school in the afternoon, Mae Smith told her desk mate, Agnes Farah, who woke her up just now, a word, took the fruit box that had been eaten and went to class 12A7.

For two days now, the supporting female character has been shy and fearful in her heart. She basically wants to find something other than Andrew Brian. Even if she thinks about it, the supporting female character doesn't dare. The original character's personality is too introverted, too sensitive and timid.

But she will not be afraid.

The male lead is in class 12A7.

When she went to find Andrew Brian, Andrew Brian's friends were chatting with him.

The tall figure of Theodore Harold stood slightly bent over, his hands propped on the table, his face curious: "Andrew, do you like the transfer student in grade 11?"

Andrew Brian answered succinctly. His whole person was lazy and uninterested in chatting: "No."

"Then why have you had someone give her fruit for three days in a row? Or did your housekeeper cut it and put it in a box to give away?"

Andrew Brian twitched his mouth corner. He had considered an excuse early in the morning: "I and her... had some connection before. I promised her that I would take care of her." In fact, Andrew Brian still secretly said that when he was eight years old, he promised to protect her for life. But now his friends don't need to know about this.

Theodore Harold shouted, his voice showing surprise: "Take care of her a little? How much care? Be careful not to be fooled by others!"

Andrew Brian still needs to answer these questions. He naturally has his own considerations in his heart.

This is also why he did not show up in the past three days.

The accident that year happened ten years ago. Ten years have passed. The little girl who saved him with strength ten years ago is now seventeen years old.

People's hearts are changeable. No one knows what the other party has become after ten years or whether they are as kind as before. Before clearly knowing the other party's character, he is not ready to talk about what happened ten years ago. Ten years ago, he only asked for the other party's name but still needed to reveal his name.

However, he will still fulfil his promise.

As for how to take care of her, there are many levels. It's normal to let her not worry about food and clothing.

Mae Smith didn't know about this conversation between the male lead and his friend. If she knew about it, she would snort coldly in her heart.

In her heart, the male lead is a fool because of his careless behaviour; he ruined a lifetime of the supporting female character.

Even because of the initial care of the male lead for the supporting female character then falls in love with the male information. She remembered him for a lifetime, and even while mining coal and crying, she would recall the "sweet" times they had together. Because of these sweet times, the supporting female character could grit her teeth and persist for many years.

Now that she has become the supporting female character, she can't just sit still and wait for death.

Then don't blame her for causing chaos!

Although the male lead's character is a bit yandere, his behaviour tends to be extreme.

But Mae Smith is not afraid. She has watched anime before and knows that those who are yandere will only show intense possessiveness and delusion towards the objects they like and eliminate the existence that threatens them.

She is just the "life-saving benefactor" of the male lead, so she does not fall into the above conditions.

After Mae Smith went to the male lead's class in the afternoon, she asked a male student sitting next to the window to call Andrew Brian to help her.

Because it was the end of the term, almost all my classmates were still in class, even after school. Although Andrew Brian was a school bully, he still stayed.

After asking someone to pass on the message, Mae Smith didn't take long to see two boys walking towards her, one in front and one behind.

The boy walking in front had thick eyebrows and big eyes; his eyes were bright and shiny, his head was a bit big, and he looked lively and active, definitely not the male lead.

As for the person behind...

As soon as she saw Andrew Brian step out, Mae Smith's eyes lit up.

He is worthy of being the male lead, tall and handsome, with a beautiful face that one would never forget after seeing it once. He is the figure Mae Smith liked before and after crossing into the book, as well as most girls.

His cold eyebrows and unrestrained and frivolous nature are all gathered in those deep, narrow eyes.

Mae Smith jumped forward two steps and called Andrew Brian enthusiastically: "Brother."