She Doesn't Want to Be the Female Lead!

[A cute, clumsy yet sensitive wooden-headed girl x a proud, tsundere guy who always wears his confidence on his sleeve.]

1.

Lin Wenwen transmigrated into a book. The System told her that if she could win over the male lead, she would come back to life and return to reality.

But was there any point in returning to a world where she didn't even dare to dream about the future?

Her company exploited her, she had no friends she could rely on, and her parents kept calling to pressure her to get married so they could use her bride price to help her older sister pay the down payment on a house...

So, in order to stay, Lin Wenwen found the book's second male lead and asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend.

The first time she met Fu Yu was on a school walkway. He was very tall, his skin was pale, and it gleamed delicately in the sunlight.

Just as she wished, Fu Yu agreed to pretend to be her boyfriend for a year. In front of the male lead, he played the part of a perfect, devoted boyfriend to a T.

But when Fu Yu was alone with Lin Wenwen, he let his showy nature come out.

"It's rare to find a guy as outstanding as me."

"It's nothing. Just talent."

Lin Wenwen: ...

Fine. As long as he could make the male lead like her less, she could put up with him.

2.

In Lin Wenwen's plan, her relationship with Fu Yu would end amicably after a year. Then came the night they started giving each other the silent treatment, though Lin Wenwen was the only one who had started it.

It all began when Fu Yu said she was the kind of person who would rather make herself miserable than stop trying to please others.

Unable to bear hearing that, Lin Wenwen's expression darkened and she stormed off. But she didn't know whether she was angry at Fu Yu, or because he had seen right through her self-deception.

A few days later, she saw Fu Yu standing at the school gate. Lin Wenwen intended to ignore him and walk past, but Fu Yu grabbed her wrist and wouldn't let her go.

"What are you doing?" Lin Wenwen asked.

Fu Yu gently bit his lower lip. "I'm sorry. Who you choose to be nice to is your freedom. I shouldn't have judged you."

Lin Wenwen froze, as if she hadn't expected him to apologize first.

She was about to say it was fine, but he continued, "But that's only if they're sincere toward you."

"Like I am."

As she gazed into his soft, lake-like eyes, Lin Wenwen's breathing grew heavier. It was as if a tiny butterfly had quietly begun to beat its wings in her heart.

3.

"But are you really sincere toward me?"

One day, Lin Wenwen accidentally got hold of Fu Yu's phone. The screen showed:

[Current female lead favorability: 90%]

[Current personal protagonist value: 90%]

[Stage reward issued: Identity as an illegitimate child erased.]

[Keep up the good work. When the female lead's favorability reaches 100%, the System will help you fulfill your true wish.]

Clatter.

The phone slipped from her hand and slammed onto the floor.

So he had been using her all along.

*

How do you prove that your feelings for someone are real?

At three thirty in the morning, Fu Yu posted the question on social media. His swollen eyes stung in the computer's glow, and tears kept welling up.

Less than a minute later, replies appeared.

[Where the money is, that's where the love is.]

[Be her simp. Keep showing up by her side, no matter how shameless you have to be.]

[Are you handsome? If you are, you can cry in front of her.]

After reading them all, the man closed his laptop and lowered his forehead onto the desk. His back trembled uncontrollably.

It was no use. He had tried all of that.

Theme: Study hard and keep striving