How Does a Silly Kitty Mark the Male Lead?

Eighteen-year-old Tao Tao transmigrates into a book, landing in an old-school cultivation novel for male readers about breaking off an engagement. She is now the villainous fiancee of the aloof male lead.

The System tells her to follow the plot of bullying the male lead and recklessly courting death.

Ying Tao has just differentiated as an alpha. Armed with her top Alpha certification, she confidently reports for duty and gives the System an OK sign.

The male lead hasn't reached Foundation Establishment yet and needs food to survive. Tao Tao snatches his meal without hesitation and coldly tosses him the worst-selling bitter-melon and engine-oil-flavored nutrient drink in the galaxy.

The male lead falls into an icy domain and loses consciousness. Tao Tao promptly kicks him while he's down, summons her Maine Coon spirit animal, and has it stomp on him as she dances on top of him.

The male lead wins the top swordsmanship title and basks in glory. Tao Tao releases her top Alpha white-peach pheromones and suppresses him so thoroughly that he has to spend the whole day soaking in a cold spring before his mind settles.

The story reaches its pivotal moment.

--The face-slapping, the broken engagement, drugging the righteous and radiant male lead and ordering others to bully him, then getting stabbed to death by the male lead, who has been biding his time. A glorious curtain call.

Ying Tao coldly tosses the broken engagement letter at him and mocks him for his delusions. She would never call him baby and bite the back of his neck to mark him, not when he's such a pretty but useless omega.

Behind his back, she lights incense for herself, calmly joins her hands in prayer, and waits to exit the story.

The System announces: Mission complete. Check.

Your reward has arrived. You can go home now, kiddo (*σ´∀`)σ!

And then... the male lead stabs her with his sword.

No, the male lead's vines wrap around her.

"Kiddo... sob!"

The System's voice is suddenly cut off, and a shrill alarm rings out.

Before her, the usually cold and taciturn youth sets down the matching heart-lock he has just finished making. He slowly raises his long lashes, their gaze frosted over, and looks from the broken engagement letter to the medicine she forgot to put away, which he draws from behind her waist with an icy finger.

Without a word, he calmly drinks it all in front of her.

The vines slowly tighten around her slender ankles. The male lead grips her chin and lifts her face toward the mirror.

The sting makes her jolt. Her blurry gaze meets the youth's unfamiliar black eyes. The carefree brightness of the past is gone, replaced by cloying, gloomy sickness that engulfs her, nearly swallowing her whole.

The System's alarm abruptly stops. Ying Tao's heart pounds, and a chill runs down her back.

An icy fingertip intimately and slowly traces the soul-bond on her chest, burning hot. The beautiful, rich-voiced youth speaks at an unhurried pace.

"Baby... is this how you mark someone?"

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[Before You Read] BG romance. The female lead is an alpha with no extra appendages. Her anatomy is that of an ordinary woman; she only has pheromones and a spirit animal. The male lead isn't an omega but a normal person. The heroine just assumes he is.

At heart, this is a fluffy little romance about two people talking past each other and thinking in completely different ways. It's a niche trope the author is writing for herself. The heroine's character is already clear: she's a silly little cat, a goofy and sweet girl. If this isn't your thing, please don't come in and wreck the place or insult the author, thanks.

Theme: Happiness