A Liar, but Also a Mary Sue

[Revised several times during serialization. Please make sure you're reading the official version ^ ^]

Ming Qu was never an honest, well-behaved child. As she grew up, she became even more vain.

As a child, she lied that her mother, who worked as a nanny, was an office worker at a big company. As an adult, she lied that she was an only child born and raised in a major city. But she looked so obviously poor that anyone could see through her at a glance.

On the forums, she became known as a scheming woman. No one liked her.

Then, one day, the jade bracelet shattered. Suddenly, she smelled a rose fragrance that made her lose herself, as if she had fallen in love in an instant.

From that day on, she noticed that the people around her who disliked her began to feel conflicted. And her face... grew more and more beautiful.

The second son of the wealthy family that employed her mother, the uncle of the young heir she tutored, the older brother of her rich roommate, the golden boy from her boarding school days who was now her boss, a rising entrepreneur... They all changed their attitudes toward her, though only subtly. At first, she didn't notice.

She was crying pitifully at a subway station when someone casually snapped a picture of her and posted it on a short-video app. It suddenly went viral...

At first, Ming Qu really hadn't thought about becoming an influencer, let alone a star. She was afraid her lies would be exposed. But she was just too vain. She wanted everyone to keep looking at her, forever, from youth to old age, and to remember her until the very last moment of their lives.

After all, you'll all fall in love with me, right?

Mary Sue: Ming Qu

: She gradually becomes irresistible to everyone, and her Mary Sue aura grows stronger.

: The heroine isn't clever, but she really is a good girl. All the male leads are devoted to her, and none of them are old.

: Everyone falls for her, men and women alike, though not necessarily romantically.

: An ordinary girl becomes an internet celebrity and then a star.

Please add my new serial, Mary Sue Casts Her Net Wide in Her Dreams, to your reading list ^ ^

Shui Qiao is silly and spoiled. She gets a secret manual for entering dreams, but she's not talented enough to notice that it's incomplete.

She loves making friends and being affectionate, and deep down she longs for love and tight hugs.

But she's so oblivious that she doesn't know she should be careful who she hugs, or mind the other person's gender when holding hands.

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Thinking she'd been abandoned, she decided to cast her net wide.

[The young master who can't forget her: Shui Qiao once served as the sidekick to a haughty, taciturn young master. Their time together was brief, but he couldn't forget her.

She murmured his name, and somehow stumbled into a dream from twenty years ago.

In the dream, she was an illiterate young woman, and she and the young master, a factory worker, were childhood sweethearts who married young. She chose a tragic ending for her husband.

When she died, the young master went gray overnight.

In a daze, she realized the dream hadn't been made up of a few fleeting moments as she'd thought. The young master had truly spent a long time working on an assembly line in the dream, suffering through countless hardships.

But... she hadn't experienced any of it. After she woke up, the young master found her.]

The young master seemed like a decent guy, so Shui Qiao decided to be his good friend. They'd even kissed in the dream, but that was normal between friends, right?

Since they were friends, Shui Qiao figured it was perfectly normal to use his luxury cars and mansion to build her influencer account.

To grow her influencer career, Shui Qiao decided to work every angle.

Only, her dreams were getting harder and harder to control...

: The secret manual will gradually be revealed. The heroine's lack of talent is the main reason she can't read the whole thing.

: Everyone is drawn to her, the male leads are devoted, and they appear one after another.

: No logic.

Theme: Learn to accept yourself