After My Death, The Villain Blackened Again: Chapter 1

ARC 0: YAN GE

A magnificent wedding was taking place on an outdoor beach surrounded by a sea of flowers.

Under the blessings of the crowd, the bride and groom slowly walked across a red carpet as a comforting tune accompanied them up the elevated terrace.

The pair was a handsome man and a beautiful woman. Neither one lacked money, and so a large fortune was spent on this dreamy wedding.

The emcee asked the groom: "Lin Mingzhe, do you love Song Qian?"

Lin Mingzhe looked at the bride affectionately, but in the crowd couldn't wait for him to speak of his love before yelling: "A Zhe, how can you marry someone else? You forget that a few days ago you said you liked me and that you wouldn't marry if it wasn't with me!"

The groom was a public figure in the entertainment circle and a good number of his die-hard friends were in attendance. Several of them had been using their cell phones to broadcast the wedding.

The audience, both on and off-screen, heard the woman's shout very clearly.

The live stream’s bullet screen¹ was a string of the lines: OMFG OMFG OM² …

This was the rhythm of stirring up trouble!

It should be known that today's Lin Mingzhe had just been promoted from a popular little fresh meat³ to a film emperor⁴. He was a person that could draw in two billion in traffic figures. Even though his wedding was low-profile, a large number of people were watching it online.

No one would go to such a wedding to play a scene of 'Cheng Yaojin ambushing the enemy'⁵.

When the people saw just who rushed to do this, they collectively sucked in a cold breath.

The one walking leisurely up to the bride and bridegroom's ceremony platform was none other than Yan Ge, the singer whose suicide due to clinical depression had been circulating some time ago.

Yan Ge and Lin Mingzhe's sex scandals undulated in the entertainment industry for many years. Every year, the paparazzi would discuss the topic with great enthusiasm.

Both the new and the old appeared together. It wasn't known how the bridegroom was going to resolve this.

The groom clearly did not expect this to happen. He stared at Yan Ge in horror with a paper-white face, and his body could not suppress a shudder.

Yan Ge walked up slowly to the terrace, the corners of her lips raised slightly. Although her face was smiling, those dark eyes made the groom even more terrified.

He could not help but fall back a step. Pointing a finger at Yan Ge, he all but failed to stammer out the words: "What—what are you?"

Yan Ge had a smile that was not quite a smile: "Of course I'm the Yan Ge you repeatedly said you would be with for a lifetime. What, are you unable to recognize me after not seeing me for a few days?"

The melon-eating crowd⁶ was silent. They rarely got to see such a big drama play without a script and naturally wanted to watch it to the end.

Song Qian's psychological quality was much better. She had been measuring up Yan Ge the entire time and realized that not only did Yan Ge have a shadow, but her facial expressions were also real. So she spoke: "Yan Jiejie, a melon won't taste sweet if you forcefully twist it off the vine⁷. You and Mingzhe already broke up. Why should you entangle him again?"

This had a double meaning.

Yan Ge's eyes fell on Song Qian's figure.

That sweeping gaze gave her the unsettling feeling of having her clothes peeled off.

Yan Ge picked up the ring from the emcee’s tray. As she stroked it, she tilted her head slightly and faced her. "You’re called Song Qian? This name is quite familiar.

"Oh, I remember who you are. You're the one who couldn't afford to go to school. For your brother's sake, your parents married you off to some fifty-year-old man. I paid for your studies later on. Oh, then one year you especially came to see me, saying you’d repay me for the rest of your life. Is this how you're repaying me right now?"

Song Qian had also mingled in the entertainment circle. It so happened that in the past two years, she played as a supporting character in two dramas that caught fire⁸. Her profile showed that she was a Jingdu⁹ native, therefore most people in the industry mistakenly thought she was some rich second generation.

At this moment, Yan Ge spoke about her family background in such a public place and she truly had the illusion of being stripped naked in front of everyone.

The blood drained from Song Qian's face, and she had to bite down on her tongue to regain her senses. She answered in a weak voice: "Gu Jiejie, Mingzhe and I truly love each other. I didn't step in when you two were together. As for the kindness you gave me, I'll remember it for the rest of my life—"

Yan Ge looked down at Song Qian's stomach: "How long have you been pregnant?"

There were even children. It can be seen that they hooked up early.

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1. Bullet screena comment section for live stream videos↩︎
2. T/Na censored curse word that could be translated as wtf/omg/fuck. I just casually picked one of these↩︎
3. Little fresh meat (小鲜肉—xiǎo xiān ròu)aka young male idol. Someone who’s popular because of their appearance↩︎
4. Film emperorname for an actor that has won the ‘best male actor award’ at a prestigious/influential film ceremony (ex. Oscar, Cannes)↩︎
5. Cheng Yaojin ambushes the enemy (半路杀出个程咬金—bànlù shā chū gè chéng yǎo jīn)when someone suddenly shows up and messes up a person's plans↩︎
6. Crowd eating melons (吃瓜纯种—chī guā chún zhǒng)refers to people watching drama from the sidelines; they’re like silent spectators↩︎
7. A forcefully twisted melon won't taste sweet (强扭瓜不甜—qiáng inǔ guā bù tián)idiom that means it's no use forcing what's not meant to be↩︎
8. Catch fire (火起来的)figure of speech that means a drama got really popular↩︎
9. Jingdu(京都—jīng dū)a capital city of a country↩︎

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I'll probably be using them on pronouns/honorifics I left in pinyin form. Why? Because the current me thinks the English equivalent is weird to read. It's an ongoing experiment so let me know what you think of it.