I’m Just a Passing Extra in The Butterfly Lovers

Correction: the leads are a woman and a man, not two men. I only just noticed that the tags had been marked as a male-male romance. She is a woman disguised as a man, a woman disguised as a man. The tags were wrong. Transmigrated into The Butterfly Lovers as an extra, and Ma Wencai has his eye on her [2007 version of The Butterfly Lovers + one-on-one romance + mildly silly comedy] [Timid, adorable money-grubber and happy-go-lucky slacker VS scheming, obsessive madman] After Lu Qingtang worked herself to death from overtime, she transmigrated. She became a random extra in The Butterfly Lovers, the very definition of a nameless nobody. On her very first day, she and Master Chen acted out a scene worthy of fighting eccentric relatives over red envelopes at New Year. Then she was assigned to share a room with Extra C. Lu Qingtang said no way, she wanted to room with Zhu Yingtai. Zhu Yingtai: ? She had only wanted to keep her head down and scrape by until graduation, then get herself a diploma. But why was Ma Wencai, the villain in The Butterfly Lovers, fixated on her? Why did he even want to share a room with her? And why did he want to be her friend, imitating the way Liang Shanbo looked after Zhu Yingtai? The plot had gone so far off the rails that even its own parents wouldn’t recognize it. When she was about to lose her secret identity as a woman, she had to confess in hopes of scaring him off. “Actually, I’m into men. Young Master Ma, you’re so dashing and charming...” Just as expected: He kept his distance. But later, when Ma Wencai was called a ruthless hero, she comforted him. To her surprise, he said, “I’m not like Cao Cao. I don’t like married women. I only like...” He glanced at her. She trembled in fear. So Ma Wencai was gay! Lu Qingtang: I absolutely cannot let him find out, and I can’t let Governor Ma find out either, or I’ll lose my life. Ma Wencai: You’d better not lie to me. The countdown to her secret identity being exposed begins. (PS: She’s a woman, a woman, a woman.)