After Becoming His Ex-Girlfriend, I Flirted the Cold Genius into Losing Control

Lu Zhi wakes up to find herself transmigrated into a campus novel as the universally loathed ex-girlfriend, a disposable side character. The original Lu Zhi was materialistic, spoiled, and obsessed with keeping up with others. In three months, the cold, aloof top student Qi Yanbai will break up with her, after which she’ll be saddled with accusations of bullying, plagiarism, seducing someone, and more before meeting a miserable end.

Even more absurdly, the “Lifespan-Extending Romance System” bound to her announces from the start that she can’t break up immediately or stray from her character. She must complete intimacy tasks to extend her life.

Lu Zhi looks at the sixty-three cents left on her meal card, then at the ascetic top student across from her, who eats by the second and insists on setting his water cup at exactly the right angle. She makes up her mind: first, stay alive; then, mooch meals; and, ideally, score a safe place to live.

So, while grumbling like a lazy fish, she sweetly coaxes him: “Qi Yanbai, I don’t have a home anymore. Could you take me in?” Everyone expects to see her thrown out, but Qi Yanbai falls silent for three seconds before handing her a set of cohabitation rules.

Lu Zhi assumes she’s only using the male lead to complete her tasks and will run off once the plot is over. But after cooking, studying, grocery shopping, and dodging System tasks together every day, the boy who was as cold as a precision instrument starts changing his routine for her, getting jealous, losing control, and even pinning her against the door on the day their breakup countdown ends to ask in a low voice, “Did you get my permission for this limited-time romance you keep talking about?”