The male supporting character was actually myself.

"Biu!" The fluffy ball of fluff swayed its tail to cover its round body, then shook its tail and got up from the ground, transforming into a silver-haired catgirl wearing a white dress.

She stepped forward and hugged the host's arm, blinking her big, watery blue eyes, and said in a soft, coquettish voice, "Host, please tell me!"

Who would you like to play the male lead?

The script seems to only feature a few characters over and over again. Are there any other characters mentioned only briefly, like a mysterious young master or a gang leader?

“There’s no such character appearing yet.” Jiang Chen shook his head, gesturing for her to come closer, then whispered in the catgirl’s ear, “Let Ye Xingluo’s father—Ye Zhong—be the male lead.”

The catgirl's eyes widened, and she stammered for a moment in shock, "No, no, this can't be right? She was supposed to be his wife, and now she's going to become his stepmother?"

"Wow, the age difference between these two is too big!"

"Don't many young girls like the 'older man' persona?"

Besides, Ye Zhong is only forty-six years old, in his prime. He's handsome, rich, and in charge of the Ye Group. He's more than a match for a naive and innocent girl.

In this way, it makes more sense than having Ye Xingluo as the male lead.

Look, the script team didn't consider Ye Xingluo's downfall at all, and they didn't want to put their brains into writing a business war, so they pushed all the tasks onto us and asked us to figure out how to help him rise to power.

Think about it with your little finger: a young person with no background and no favor wants to overcome many obstacles and finally gain power. How could such a person have time to skip work and go out for romance with a naive and innocent girl every day?

With wolves in front of him and tigers behind him, he wouldn't have the time or energy to think about how to date.

Ye Xingchen and Yang Qingwei are both handsome, wealthy, and skilled at getting things done. Compared to these two peers, Ye Xingluo has absolutely no advantage and must constantly be on guard against them plotting to kill her.

He skips work every day to go out and have fun with the female lead. Isn't he just waiting for her to find a chance to kick him out?

But Ye Zhong is different. He holds great power and has been a top student since childhood. He is still charming and debonair, attracting countless beauties.

His character is most appealing to imaginative, brainless young girls.

It's only natural that An Muya would develop feelings of affection for Ye Zhong, the chairman of the board, who would protect and dote on her.

For Ye Zhong, the energetic, innocent, and naive An Muya was like the bright sunshine in spring, allowing him to feel the long-lost youth and satisfying his masculine desire to be admired.

The two of them together, one admiring and the other yearning for youth and vitality, make a reasonable and realistic comparison.

And the most crucial point is—to make Ye Zhong the male lead, since he comes with a vicious female supporting character.

Yang Yingying is definitely not someone to be trifled with.

With a legal wife and a mistress, all of whom had given birth to sons, the fact that she managed to fight her way up from among a group of women without having children speaks volumes about her shrewdness.

But after all, she's getting older, and no matter how well Yang Yingying takes care of herself, she can't compare to the allure of a girl in her twenties.

See? Now the scriptwriting team has all the actors they wanted to perform in the play they wanted to sing, right?

The little cat girl stomped her feet excitedly, "And we have to follow the host's description exactly. I think this play is much more exciting than the script written by the script team!"

I'm so excited! Host, how should we break things up?

Where do you start breaking it down? I'll help you!

"Of course, we should start by creating new encounters between the male and female leads!"

Jiang Chen smiled slightly, "Xiao Bai, you're the most important person in this scene. Tomorrow, you must make sure Ye Zhong and An Muya meet and leave a deep impression on each other."

The catgirl pouted, "That seems a bit difficult. Let me think about the common tricks that Mary Sue male and female protagonists use when they meet, and try to create an opportunity for them!"

He leaned close to the kitten's large, perky ears and whispered a few words.

Little White's initially confused eyes blinked rapidly, then brightened with anticipation!

The next morning, at the headquarters of the Yip Group.

"It's a brand new day, you have to do your best, An Muya!" An Muya, with her sweet-looking face and hair in a bun, stood in front of the Ye Group's gate, took a deep breath, and clenched her fist to cheer herself up.

I come from an ordinary background and have nothing special about me from childhood to adulthood.

My academic performance was always average. My college entrance exam score was about the same as usual, neither high nor low. I got into an ordinary university that was neither good nor bad. I blindly chose the very general management major.

An Muya, who was usually a bit absent-minded, didn't know what she had learned in the past few years of college. Anyway, before she knew it, it was time to find an internship.

Other students' families, which had connections, had already made arrangements;

If you don't have any connections, just find a small company to work for a few days to get familiar with the overall environment.

Only a girl like herself, with no connections in her family and unwilling to be mediocre, sent out resumes everywhere hoping to find a bigger company to work for and broaden her horizons. If she was lucky, she might even be able to stay on as a job.

"Hehe, I've always had pretty good luck, so today will definitely be another day full of energy and smooth sailing!" An Muya adjusted the bow on her chest, stepped lightly through the door, swiped her internship card, and entered the building.

She was indeed lucky; the interns who were originally selected for the Ye Group were all pre-selected.

However, the grandson of one of the executives had already received an internship offer, but unexpectedly, he was involved in a traffic accident the night before and broke his leg, so he couldn't come, and suddenly there was a vacancy.

As luck would have it, An Muya's resume caught the attention of the person in charge. In order to fill the quota so that the interns could be trained together, she was selected by chance.

However, compared to interns from other prestigious universities, An Muya's academic background was not very impressive, so she was ultimately assigned to a less important project department to help with tasks such as organizing materials.

The job was easy and didn't require her to show her face in public. After the three-month internship, she could just be dismissed with a stamp on her resume. Therefore, the team leader, who had received special permission, always assigned An Muya, a special intern who was just there to make up the numbers, some miscellaneous office tasks and never let her handle any important documents.

Having received its host's orders, the little white cat was full of energy, perched on An Muya's shoulder with a gossipy look on its face, and followed her into the building, took the elevator to the office to do odd jobs, and quietly waited for the right moment to make its move.

Time passed slowly, and An Muya was assigned to put labels on the file folders.

The little white cat was almost asleep while watching, but fearing it would miss the best opportunity, it patted its face with its paw and took out the script to flip through it.

"Hmm... there's no timeline here. When exactly did the female lead hook up with Ye Xingluo? How did my host know that there was an opportunity to arrange for An Muya to meet Ye Zhong today?"

The fluffy little dumpling carefully read the script line by line, when suddenly its eyes lit up and it finally found a clue!

The script simply summarizes one thing in a short sentence: before the male and female leads met, Chairman Ye Zhong came to the headquarters for a meeting, and An Muya happened to be assigned to go downstairs to pick up some documents.

As a result of her clumsiness, she tripped over her own shoelaces, fell to the ground, and scattered her documents all over the floor.

On such an important day, her clumsy and disheveled behavior almost led to the chairman's attention, causing An Muya to be ridiculed and deeply wronged. However, after meeting Ye Xingluo, she was able to get her revenge. All the managers, team leaders, and even security guards and cleaners who had spoken rudely to her would be begging for forgiveness on their knees...

"So, all we need to do is wait until Ye Zhong appears and then make An Muya fall down next to him!" The little white cat licked its paws and grinned mischievously. "Sure enough, this soft and adorable little kitten is getting smarter and more capable!"

Chapter Thirteen: Stupid, Useless, and Unaware of His Own Flaws

"An Muya, why are you so slow at doing things?"

The team leader is a meticulous and demanding girl. After graduating last year, she fought her way through many challenges to enter the Ye Group. She was promoted to team leader a month ago, and it was a crucial moment when she was full of enthusiasm for her work.

She was already anxious because the project had been temporarily shelved. Now, she was assigned an intern who occupied a spot but did almost nothing, so the team leader naturally didn't have a good attitude towards An Muya.

What's most infuriating is that I assigned her such a simple task first thing in the morning, and she still hasn't finished it after almost an hour!

The team leader's tone was naturally somewhat impolite, "Don't even mention working in a big company, with your slow and sluggish work style, even supermarket stockers wouldn't hire someone this slow, okay?"

"But... I was clearly working very hard and diligently."

An Muya pouted, her eyes filled with tears, and muttered softly, "You have to be careful when putting on labels. Each one has to be straight and all four corners have to be flat. It's already very slow."

Besides, you gave me over two hundred tags...

The team leader, with a gloomy face, stepped forward, picked up a stack of labels, and stuck several on in a row with a "slap slap slap," while the female protagonist, An Muya, hadn't even torn off the label she was holding.

"Don't make excuses."

Remember this: in the Ye Group, superiors only care about results; no one cares about the process. If you didn't do it well, you didn't do it well. Look for the reasons within yourself and think about why others can do it faster and better than you.

The team leader glanced at her and said with exasperation, "Your academic background isn't good to begin with. No matter what the reason, getting an internship at Ye's Group is a great opportunity for you. You should observe, think, and do more to learn something to take back."

Otherwise, even if having the Ye Group's internship stamp makes it easier to enter other companies, you'll still be kicked out if you don't do a good job.

Look at you! It's been almost an hour and you still haven't finished putting on two hundred labels, and you've made a complete mess of the file folder.

I was also assigned this task during my internship. It took me more than fifteen minutes to finish, and I even helped the archives with the numbering in the remaining time!

Never mind, don't worry about this place. I'll have someone clean it up later.

Now go to the mailroom on the first floor, sign for all the packages for our department, and bring them up to my desk. After you bring them back, finish the forms you weren't working on yesterday. That should be about all the work for this morning.

An Muya stood up, her face showing some grievance, but she stubbornly bit her lip and didn't shed a tear.

She has already worked very hard, so why do these people always bring up her academic qualifications?

All people are born equal and should be treated equally. These people always use comparisons to belittle themselves in order to elevate themselves, as if they were inferior to others...

An Muya secretly made up her mind to work even harder in everything she did to try and stay with the Ye Group!

Then we'll show those snobs how, as long as you're hardworking, kind, and beautiful, even with a low level of education, you can still take on great responsibilities, shine, and make them look at you with new eyes!

"Hehe, it's finally my turn to shine!" The little white cat was eager to try.

However, after the female lead, An Muya, walked out of the office with her head held high, she began to look around curiously with her hands behind her back.

"As expected of the Ye Group headquarters building, it's so high up and has such a great location, the view is really expansive!" She walked down the wide and bright corridor, took out her phone, pointed it at the internship badge with the Ye Group logo pinned to her chest, and snapped more than a dozen photos.

Everyone else was busy with their own things, but An Muya was as leisurely as if she were strolling down the street. She even added positive and uplifting words and posted a nine-grid photo on her WeChat Moments.

"No wonder she's a Mary Sue heroine, so stupid and useless without even realizing it." The little white cat covered its eyes with its paws, looking helpless. "Compared to you, I'm far less useless!"

You're just like the protagonist in those so-called "career-driven female lead" dramas, aren't you?

Always unhurried and glamorous, you always end up getting all the good things.

She's so lucky to be the female lead who wins without lifting a finger!

Don't worry, I'll find you a perfect match right away, guaranteed to meet all the script team's expectations of you.

Unable to bear watching the female lead's constant meddling and helping the cleaner clean up coffee stains, and her gossipy and bossy attitude towards the intern who was putting up posters, the fluffy little dumpling decided to scout out the male lead—Ye Zhong—whom the host had chosen (but couldn't be chosen).

"Chairman, the information that Manager Yang sent back from Donghe City is all here. Manager Yang is indeed worthy of your training. This one-on-one business negotiation went very smoothly. It looks like we will be able to secure the deal and start construction soon."

A male assistant wearing black-rimmed glasses was handing a stack of documents to his boss. The understated yet luxurious van moved forward at a steady speed, and the interior was so quiet that no noise could be heard.

Upon hearing this, a smile appeared on Ye Zhong's face.

Although he is 46 years old, he still maintains a very good figure and temperament, without any of the common problems of middle-aged men such as obesity, hair loss, and greasiness.

He wore a well-tailored black casual suit with a touch of relaxed playfulness. He had a high nose bridge, a smooth and well-defined chin, and a pair of bright, deep, and captivating eyes. If you didn't know his real age and only looked at him, you would probably think he was a young man who was just over thirty years old.

"Qingwei is indeed a good kid. He's quick-witted, hardworking, and eager to learn. With a few more years of training, he'll really be able to stand on his own." Ye Zhong took the documents, flipped through them, and laughed. "He's still too green right now. I'll have to go through the initial stages and he'll clean up the mess."

The assistant, with her head slightly lowered, replied, "It's already quite impressive that you've achieved this at only twenty-two years old."

Today's meeting is to finalize the negotiation plan with Donghe City and then determine the next steps in the work plan..."

Ye Zhong squinted as he listened to the report in a low voice, but in his mind he was thinking about his subordinate's report that the old man and the old woman had gone out all night and had not returned.

He still hasn't received his parents' approval, and he hasn't gotten his hands on either the family heirloom ring or the secret, which makes him very uneasy.