A Soft and Sweet Guide to Staying Alive: The Yandere Chess Prodigy Falls for Me

Transmigrate into a vicious cannon-fodder character in a school novel who doesn't survive past three chapters, and get hunted by the protagonist's group from the start?

Lin Yue has only just transmigrated into a book when she's holding a cup of hot water and the campus heartthrob starts yelling at her for "bullying the heroine." The System's blood-red warning of her ending, "found dead in the street," is shoved right in her face.

Desperate to survive, she drops to her knees on the spot:

"You've got it wrong! I've always had a crush on Shen Zhiqi!"

The whole class falls silent. Only the sickly genius by the window slowly raises his eyes, his gaze as cold as if he were looking at a dead person.

She's the Su family's beloved daughter. Her eldest brother is a ruthless business tycoon, her second brother a scheming medical student, and her third brother a hot-tempered race car driver. Every one of them dotes on their little sister without limit.

But the original owner was used as a pawn by a fake white lotus, obsessed over the campus heartthrob, offended every big shot in the book, and ended up dying horribly in the street.

This time, all she wants is to cling to a powerful backer and coast through to the college entrance exams.

Until she accidentally finds a box he's carried with him for ten years. Inside are an old hair tie, a white handkerchief, and a blurry old photo.

The wispy hair at the back of the little girl's head in the photo looks exactly like hers.

Shen Zhiqi grips the photo between his fingers, his voice hoarse beyond recognition. "Su Nuonuo, I've been looking for you for ten years."

She's stunned. Did she cling to a backer who turned out to be his long-lost beloved? And turn the second male lead into the main character?

The System flashes wildly. "Host! You've changed the ending of the whole book!"

How did her survival journey turn into being spoiled by everyone? She grabbed the wrong powerful leg at the start, only for him to cherish her as the apple of his eye for ten years. She only meant to lie low until the end and then run, but he pins her against the wall, eyes red: "Why run? Do you think I'd let go of the person I've searched for for ten years?"

[One-on-one romance, both leads pure and devoted | Sickly genius powerhouse vs. soft, playful schemer | Sweet, satisfying romance | Beloved heiress who gets to win without lifting a finger]