We Agreed to Build Merit, So Why Has the Marquis’s Estate Become a Morgue?

[A young lady with a murderous streak * a lovestruck, rakish young marquis from the capital]

When she opens her eyes, metaphysical arts expert Wen Yihuan has gone from a psychiatric hospital into a book, reborn as a beautiful but clueless cannon-fodder supporting character.

As a sacrificial character, her very first appearance is being caught in bed by the novel’s heroine.

She fights back and schemes, determined to use her mystical arts to defy fate and keep herself from living in the heroine’s shadow.

But the heroine is blessed with all the luck in the world, and Wen Yihuan is thwarted at every turn.

Unwilling to give up, Wen Yihuan earns merit by telling fortunes and builds herself a golden aura, predicting her way from cannon fodder into a master everyone admires.

But this harem novel is starting to go off-script.

The Zhou family’s young marquis, Zhou Jingzui, is a prodigy. He rode across the thirteen prefectures of the northern frontier, earning glorious honors and inheriting a prestigious family legacy. In the book, he’s the heroine Wen Shuyue’s most devoted and utterly shameless simp.

The first time they meet:

Wen Yihuan is picking on Zhou Jingzui’s beloved, Wen Shuyue. When he catches her at it, she scoffs and taunts him: “What, are you going to hit me or scold me?”

The young marquis of the Zhou family flashes a rakish smile. “Hitting means affection, scolding means love. So, Miss, would you like me to kiss you or love you?”

Wen Yihuan: “?”

Get a grip. You’re the heroine’s simp.