Fall In Love with the Male Protagonist of the CEO Novel

I traveled to the time when the hero and heroine of the story were being intimate in the kitchen.

I was sitting in the living room, where I could see them having an intimate contact just by turning around. So, I remained silent as I looked at the glass of water in front of me.

Part 1

“Please.”

I swear, the voice behind me was definitely retribution for reading the story. But it was different if I was suddenly brought into the book.

I was sitting on the sofa in the living room, while they were in the kitchen. As long as I turned around, I could see them doing the intimate thing. So, I just kept silent.

But I noticed that the man who made out was one of the male protagonists and the female protagonist. Yes, one of the male protagonists in the story.

The book was about a sweet and lovely story with two male protagonists, while the female protagonist was born in poverty and was sold to the one of the male protagonists as his wife by her biological mother who favored boys over girls.

As for how the heroine's illiterate mother got to know the wealthy hero, it did not matter after all. It was just because the plot required it.

“Hmm….” The voice of the heroine, Janette Casey, came from behind me again.

“Janette, keep your voice down. Your friend is here. She will hear you if you are too loud,” the male protagonist said in a loud voice, as if worried about my presence. 

However, no matter how soft your voice was, I still could hear both of you, Sir. 

Looking at the glass of water in my hand, I couldn't bear it anymore.

I decided to slam the cup heavily on the table, making a thunderous cracking sound.

There seemed to be a moment of silence behind me and then a few minutes that I did not want to describe.

Part 2

On the one hand, while reading the story, I complained to the author for having no logic, no values and no plot. But on the other hand, I was really addicted to it. However, I begged you, I just didn't want to be there! 

What was more, I was just a tool.

Why did I say that?

Because there, when the male and female protagonists were flirting, the male protagonist gave me two more glances to make the female protagonist jealous and then warned me not to have a wishful thinking.

But I was quite aware if the heroine was in danger, so I would take the blame and be beaten by the bad guys, delaying time until the real hero arrived to save the heroine. 

So, please tell me if it was one of the blessings to save Janette, the heroine who was only 20 years old. After marrying the hero, she went to college with the help of the hero. Then she met me, a tool character.

I was a blessing for you, Janette. But did you really want it?

Judging from the plot in the kitchen, it should be the part during the summer vacation.

Originally, even if you shouted until the roof was collapsing, no one would be able to hear you. But it was different for me, since I was so close to both of them.

For your information, my actual name was Flora, a common and popular name. 

Meanwhile, in the story I became Flora Watts, a tool which was only a side character.

Part 3

After a few long minutes, the heroine came to me carrying a plate of crookedly cut fruit.

“Flora, eat some fruit,” Janette's face had an abnormal blush and her voice was slightly hoarse when she said it.

“My stepmother and I cut the fruit together,” Joseph said as he took the fruit plate and held it in front of me.

I could not help screaming in my heart, ‘Oh please, just have fun all you want, guys. Don’t do it to me. Can you imagine how I can look at the fruit plates straight in the future if I eat that? Just come and kill me directly, don’t torture me like this!’

Suddenly, there was a loud thunder outside, as if answering my wish.

‘Damn! Sorry, I was just kidding.’

I didn't move, nor dare to eat.

Joseph glanced at me from head to toe and smiled perversely.

"Flora, are you disgusted by the fruit plate I cut?” he asked in a hoarse voice.

“I just drank too much water, so I can't eat now.”

“Really?” Joseph asked again while looking at me very ambiguously.

Perhaps seeing how close Joseph and I were, Janette interrupted with a hint of jealousy, “It looks like it's going to rain, Flora. Why don't you stay today and sleep with me?”

Joseph immediately sat back down and looked at her lovingly while saying, “It was just thunder, not raining. If you're worried, I'll have someone drive Flora home.”

Janette was forcefully pulled to Joseph's side and nodded with a red face.

“I think it's getting late, Miss Watts.”

I, Flora, have always been very observant. So, I said, “Right, I suddenly remembered that the gas at home seemed to be not turned off. I have to go back and check it.”

“Then Flora, go back and take a look!”

Joseph laughed when he heard it.

I carefully observed the seriousness on Janette's face and concluded that she was not pretending when she said that.

Part 4

“You heard it all,” Joseph's voice sounded behind me as I just walked out the door.

My eyes lit up because I remembered a part of the scene. In the original novel, the heroine initially resisted the illicit relationship with her stepson, but the resistance was ineffective.

Once Flora found out, Joseph offered a hush money of 700,000, but Flora, the silly girl, refused. Then at that moment, because of my arrival, it seemed that the scene had been brought forward.

So, I should have done it, to make the scene going right like the story told.

While thinking of it, I looked at Joseph with fiery eyes.

Joseph suddenly frowned in disgust and grumbled, “Don't look at me like that. Only Janette can look at me like that."

I rolled my eyes inwardly, but on the outside, I looked surprised and terrified while saying, “You called her... Janette? But she is your….”

“Why are you pretending? You heard it all, Flora,” Joseph sneered.

He took a long step forward and walked in front of me. Joseph was much taller than me, so when he was standing in front of me, it was very oppressive. 

Joseph said, “If you don't want to be dragged into a dark alley on your way home one day and suffer some... bad things, then forget everything you heard and saw.”

I quietly waited for his next sentence. 

“As long as you shut up, I'll give you 700,000. But I hope Miss Watts is a sensible person, so I should not give it as hush money,” he continued.

After saying that, he turned and left.

Part 5

That part was finally appearing, but something was clearly missing.

While looking at Joseph's back, I could not help questioning in my head. But before I could ask him, the only response I got was the sound of the door closing. That was the sound of my dream of getting rich being shattered.

There was only coercion, no inducement.

Part 6

After losing 700,000, I cursed Joseph over and over again in my heart while walking on the road.

“Thank you, big brother.”

“Wow, Handsome Guy.”

Someone suddenly appeared in front of me and helped the child save the cat.

The next moment, I had already held the QR code of my number in front of the handsome guy.

The handsome guy looked a little surprised and blushed. He said, “Miss, I don't have a mobile phone. I only have a phone watch.”

What?

“I'm still in elementary school, but I'm quite tall,” he said. The handsome guy also held up his big genius phone watch in front of me to show me.

What happened to me actually?

How dare I flirted with a boy who was far younger than me. It was embarrassing, as if my dignity for the next ten years was lost on that day.

“Hahaha!”

Who is laughing at me?

When I turned around, I saw an even more handsome guy, clean and gentle.

“Miss, add me on WhatsApp.”

“Are you an adult?” I asked.

“At least I am older than him,” he said. 

So, I directly scanned the QR code coolly and then ran for my life.

How embarrassing!

Part 7

As soon as I got home, the handsome guy who I saw on the street sent me a message. It read, [Save my number, it is Diego.]

After thinking about it carefully, I got some basic information about him.

He was a senior of the heroine and I, we both study at S University. He was a good-looking man with a good personality, good grades and good at everything.

Well, at least I had a handsome guy in that world, even if the money I wished for was gone.

I decided to message him first.

[Flora: Do you like small animals?]

[Diego: I like it, but I'm allergic to cat hair.]

[Flora: Okay. Then, what do you think the weather is today?]

[Diego: What do you want to say actually?]

[Flora: The weather will change into hot summer when I see your abs, Sir.]

It was just a joke, because I did not know what I should say anymore. But my phone was silent for a long time, so long that I began to wonder if I had scared him.

Just when I was planning to apologize, the photo came.

A photo of abs in the bathroom. The owner seemed a little shy, with his clothes only half pulled up. It really made people want to rush over and lift up his clothes to see the whole picture.

I thought so and sent the message directly.

It took a long time for the other side to reply.

[Diego: It's late now, it's not safe for you to go out. But next time you see me, I won’t let you go.]

I laughed like a goose while holding my phone.

Oh my god! My heartbeat could not calm down just a bit when reading the reply message. Why? 

My phone rang again. It was from the heroine, Janette. She asked me to go to her house again tomorrow.

I said I had something to do tomorrow and rejected Janette, because my current identity was simply to protect the heroine from disaster. The farther away from her, the safer it would be.

But the next day, when I opened the door, a Maybach stopped at my door. It was Joseph who came.

“Janette asked you out, why didn't you agree?”

“I'm afraid of spoiling the fun again,” I answered flatly.

“It is disappointing. You know, if Janette is unhappy, I'm even more unhappy,” Joseph said seriously.

As a result, because of Joseph’s plea, I still came.

Janette was a little surprised to see me, but her expression was clearly not happy. She even felt a little unhappy when she found out that it was Joseph who came to my house to pick me up.

What was going on?

Part 8

“Flora, what do you think of Joseph?”

I could not help choking on a mouthful of water. What a strange question.

“It's... pretty good, isn't it?”

Janette smiled reluctantly, “Josh is away on a business trip right now. Although Joseph and I are nominally mother and son, I am actually one year younger than him. It's inevitable that we feel awkward when we get along on a daily basis.

“From the way he looked at you last time, I think you two have a chance. How about I introduce you to each other and you two try to get along with each other?”

How did you know we had a chance? 

When he handed me the fruit plate, he was clearly testing your reaction to determine where he stood in your heart.

“He's a very good person and will make you feel comfortable,” she continued. 

Seeing Janette's blushing face, it was hard for me not to think crookedly. 

But I rejected Janette's proposal with righteous indignation eventually. After all, I would not touch the heroine's harem.

Besides, although Janette said so, I clearly saw the struggle and reluctance in her eyes.

As a result, Janette's eyes turned red as soon as I rejected her. She was about to cry when she asked, “Why didn't you agree? Flora, last time, didn't you….”

This scene happened to be seen by Joseph. He asked sternly, “What did you do to Janette?”

He rushed in, hugged Janette softly and stared at me angrily. All the actions were done in one go, in the blink of an eye.

“I didn't do anything.” 

After a moment's thought, I added, “Believe it or not.”

“It's not Flora's business. We were just discussing a very sad TV drama plot and I couldn't help crying."

“Of course, it is. When you discuss something depressing, you should cry together. At least, that’s what they call friends right?” Joseph said as he glared at me.

I rolled my eyes at them in my heart. How could they be unreasonable? 

Was it the fate of being a tool?

Alright, I think I should try my best to stay away from the heroine and not seduce the hero. Or in the end, I would return to be the heroine and be targeted by the hero.

After all, I just wanted to live in peace and security, not to mention to lure Diego into my life.

Seeing Joseph hugging her tighter and tighter in the name of comforting her, I remembered that the gas in my house was not turned off again.

Part 9

At night, I was lying in bed getting ready to sleep when my cell phone rang.

It was Joseph’s call.

As soon as I answered the phone, he started talking to me.

The content included, but was not limited to, questioning me about what I had said to Janette during the day. Why she was crying after seeing me, even though it was her who invited me to come. It was as if I was doing something wrong.

But I did not do anything. 

“Flora, it's wrong for you to do this!” he warned me and said that I should not have wishful thinking and not to try to get close to him through Janette.

I wish I could be as far away from you as possible, saying that I did not need both of you in my life. But in the end, I just hung up the phone and told him three words, “You are psycho."

After listening to so many noises before going to bed, I was really afraid of having a nightmare at night.

But after a while, the phone rang again. However, I hung up without even looking at it.

After waking up in the morning, I saw more than a dozen unread messages and missed calls from Diego. The first one was read, [Are you busy? Why didn't you answer my call?]

Then he asked me if I was free tomorrow, because he wanted to watch a new movie with me. However, I still didn’t reply. 

Then he sent me a few emojis with questions and grievances. The last sentence was, [Do you hate me, Flora?]

It turned out that the last call last night was from Diego. So, I directly called back. Fortunately, the call was connected quickly.

“Hello, how are you?” he asked. The voice was a little confused and hoarse. He must have just woken up, but his voice was already sweet and flirtatious.

“I didn't mean to hang up on you last night. I was just too tired and didn't check my phone, so I didn't reply to your message."

“That's good. I thought you hated me," he sounded a little more sober and in a good mood. Then he said, “Do you want to watch the movie this afternoon?”

“Sure!”

Part 10

I kind of regret watching the movie.

Diego didn’t tell me in advance that we were going to watch a horror movie.

That was kind of a problem, because I was afraid of ghosts. Even those scary scenes that look fake at first glance were very scary to me.

When two people go out to watch a movie, shouldn't they both watch some arty romance movies? 

Why did he choose a horror movie?

In the cinema, I huddled in my seat and buried my head in my arms. It was much easier to just listen to the sound and not see the picture.

But after a while, I felt that the posture made me a little breathless.

At that time, Diego stretched out his arm and said, “Please hold my arm. You will have difficulty breathing if you continue like that."

I subconsciously looked up and caught a glimpse of the bloody scene on the screen. In an instant, I immediately ignored everything else and threw myself into Diego's arms.

At the following time, I didn't dare to look up again. Diego held me quietly, a smile flashed across his face and he covered my ears lightly to make the sound quieter.

When the movie was over, I walked out and Diego apologized to me, “It's my fault. This movie has been very popular recently and many people like it. I presume that you will like it too."

I was a little angry at first, but when I met Diego's apologetic eyes, all my anger disappeared.

“Well, it is not so scary with you here, Diego.”

Diego's face and neck suddenly turned red. How could Diego be so cute when he was shy?

Only then did I realize that when a person was shy, his whole body could really turn a light pink.

“Um... I have something to tell you."

“What do you want to say?” he asked. 

“I…."

Suddenly there was a vibration notification sound, but it wasn't from the phone.

“What's that sound?”