After the Cannon Fodder Heroine Toyed with the Second Male Lead and Abandoned Him

You are a doomed cannon-fodder character, but luckily, you have been bound to a Fate-Changing System.

To stay alive, you are forced to share life and death with the morally ambiguous second male lead. To keep him from harming the protagonist, you put on the performance of a lifetime, revealing acting skills you had never shown before.

Love at first sight, a reunion at the edge of a cliff, a vow to die together in a bamboo grove, even pledging yourselves to each other in front of a crowd.

At that very moment, your System gleefully tells you that the second male lead has used up every last one of his schemes to bring down the protagonist.

You are free.

One moment before your wedding to the second male lead.

Outside, drums and gongs thunder, and the red characters for double happiness bathe the whole room in crimson.

He doesn't know that, to you, everything he has painstakingly arranged is nothing but a burden.

Already dressed in your wedding gown, you flee at the height of the celebration.

And on his wedding night, abandoned by you as if he were worthless, he spends the night alone and sleepless.

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You meet him again because the System comes looking for you once more.

This mission is even trickier. After you vanished, the second male lead you left behind uncovered a great deal of evidence.

Proof that you never loved him.

So he turned dark.

The System has brought you back to set this second male lead, now fallen to the demonic path, straight again.

The System is terrified for you and urges you to bring plenty of life-saving magical treasures.

You make no comment.

But when you stand before the second male lead, whom the System has labeled dangerous, he only grabs your hand tightly, his misty eyes fixed on you.

A moment later, you hear him say in a taut voice, as if he already knows the answer, "What are you going to trick me into doing this time?"

"Give up my life, my cultivation, or..."

You look at him with tearful, pitiful eyes. "I only couldn't sleep alone. How could you think that of me, my lord?"

Theme: One person for a lifetime.