The Male Lead Should Study, Not Date

Blurb (complete): When Wang Yue was forty-three, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry but didn't win. Then he woke up inside a novel as a male supporting character who was supposed to compete with the male lead for the female lead. But in this second life, even though he was living inside a novel, his goal was the Nobel Prize. So he devoted himself to studying, stayed away from romance, and kept out of the leads' love life.

A note about this novel: There are no content warnings. If you need to check for specific content, read with caution. Told from the male lead's perspective.

New novel, The Female Supporting Character in a Hong Kong Melodrama, now open for follows: Zhao Siwen transmigrates into a melodramatic rich-family novel set in 1990s Hong Kong. She becomes the wife of Rong Zhengbai, eldest son of the city's most powerful family. Rong Zhengbai is the male lead, but she is only a supporting character.

One of the novel's melodramatic plot points: The Rong family adopted a young daughter, Rong Zhengbai's younger adoptive sister, who suffers from a chronic illness. Whenever she has an episode, only Zhao Siwen's blood can save her. Using this as leverage, Zhao Siwen successfully marries into the Rong family and weds Rong Zhengbai, the next head of the family, joining Hong Kong's wealthiest and most powerful clan.

Another melodramatic plot point:

When kidnappers fail to get the money they want, they get angry and open fire. As a bullet comes flying, Rong Zhengbai pushes his adoptive sister out of the way and shields her with his own body. His wife, Zhao Siwen, can't dodge in time and takes a bullet. By then, they've been married for three years.

After transmigrating, Zhao Siwen has just one thought: It took so much effort to marry into this obscenely wealthy family. She'll make sure the female supporting character becomes the female lead!

My Girlfriend Is Too Weak. I Took Control, But Couldn't Keep It, now open for follows: (Powerful One-Sided Love) In the year 20001, humanity is divided into the gifted, the ordinary, and the powerless according to their ability to control mental energy. The gifted can not only manipulate and move enormous objects, even shifting mountains and seas, but also invade and control other people's thoughts, emotions, and actions.

Jiang Jingyuan is one of the most exceptional among the gifted. He has powerful mental control abilities and comes from a privileged family. Using his mental powers, he kept a person as his pet, turning her into his canary. She is beautiful but timid and meek, dull and uninteresting, yet very obedient. As one of the powerless, she's easy to control, and the more he keeps her, the more he likes her.

But gradually, he discovers that his canary's mental energy is too weak. She's not only easy for him to control, but also easy for others to manipulate. Her emotions are easily stirred, and all it takes is a beckoning finger for her to take the bait. Anyone can control her.

A little scene:

"Who did you say you like?"

"I like Xu Baiyin."

Jiang Jingyuan was so angry he nearly punched the wall. Gripping her wrist, he said harshly, "You can't like him."

How could she unconsciously release her meager mental energy at any moment? She was in a den of tigers and wolves, yet hadn't noticed the danger at all. She was always looking at people with that helpless, innocent, bewildered gaze, trusting them. How could she say she liked him yesterday and Xu Baiyin today?

I'm a Monster's Second Bride, now open for follows: Meng Yin is poor. Though she has never been married before, she becomes the second wife of a man whose first wife has just died. Fortunately, her husband is handsome, cool and aloof, and a doctor. She decides it's not such a bad deal and tries to build a life with him.

But gradually, she senses something is wrong. Her neighbors say her husband goes out at night and makes no sound when he walks, and that he has no shadow. They had just seen him leaving in the lobby on the first floor, but when they took the elevator to the ninth floor, they ran into him again.

When her finger bleeds, her husband sucks the blood from it as if he wants to drain her dry. And when her new husband looks at her, his eyes are filled with menace and possessiveness. She always feels uneasy, cold sweat running down her back. Later, she hears that her husband's first wife was killed by him, but her body was never found.

What Should My Three Roommates and I Do When We Encounter a Monster?, now open for follows: After our exams, my three roommates and I decide to go sing karaoke and maintain our fake roommate friendship. On our way back, we pass a river, and a gigantic, deformed monster with more than ten heads and countless tentacles rises from the water. One of my roommates is almost dragged into the river by the monster, but we grab her and forcefully rescue her from its mouth. That's how the four of us girls come to share a secret, turning our fake friendship into a band of partners who fight side by side.

New novel, The Nineteenth-Century Manor Maid, now open for follows: I wake up as a black-haired, yellow-skinned Asian maid in a Western aristocrat's manor in the nineteenth century, the lowest-ranking servant in the household. I have no intention of staying beneath everyone forever. Once I've saved enough to get started, I'll quit my job as a maid and make my own living.

Duke Herman is thirty-eight and has been a widower for two years, but he owns a vast manor, has untold wealth, and enjoys a noble status. Plenty of women throw themselves at him, hoping to become a duchess. Besides, he's tall and imposing, with blond hair, blue eyes, and the exquisite bone structure of a Western man, as well as an air of aristocratic elegance.

One day, he draws the petite, black-haired maid into his arms and gently coaxes her to stop crying.

Herman's son Vance is seventeen, rebellious and unruly. He looks down on anyone who tries to climb into his bed or marry into the nobility. In his eyes, those maids are vulgar, money-grubbing playthings, and he feels no guilt about toying with them. Especially that short Asian maid with black hair and eyes. Then one day, he suddenly realizes that the maid has grown close to his father. For some reason, it infuriates him. They're both powerful prospects, so why is she trying to climb his father's branch instead of his? If he could, he would make her his woman and give her a respectable status. [Father and son compete for her]

Theme: Learning is more important than anything else