The Supporting Female Character Gets Her Share of Affection Too (Transmigrate into a Book)

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-This novel's synopsis-

After transmigrating into a book as a wicked female side character, Zhao Yijun avoids the original male lead's retaliation and escapes a marriage to a wastrel, but never expects to marry Xiao Yuanqi, a supporting male character who is in love with the female lead.

She imagines married life will be like this:

You go to court, I sleep.

You come back from court, I sleep.

No matter how the world outside changes, I remain unmoved.

But reality is:

"Don't you sleep in the study?" Zhao Yijun asks, wrapped in a quilt and looking utterly shocked.

Xiao Yuanqi calmly takes off his clothes. "The bed in the study is too hard."

"The heir really is pampered," Zhao Yijun says with a teasing expression.

Xiao Yuanqi pauses and raises an eyebrow at her, his tone inscrutable. "Yes, so why don't you help your husband get dressed, A-Jun?"

The northern frontier is in danger, and Xiao Yuanqi is appointed to supervise the army.

"Husband, I'll wait for your triumphant return. Don't get hurt." Zhao Yijun wipes her tears, the corners of her mouth curving slightly behind her handkerchief.

Xiao Yuanqi catches her wrist, his eyes smiling. "Since you're so sad, why don't you come north with me?"

What?

Zhao Yijun jerks her head up, the curve of her lips not yet gone.

"Looks like A-Jun is very happy."

His thumb, cool to the touch, gently rubs the corner of her mouth. Zhao Yijun is forced to admit that she really is delighted.

Later...

"We're only partners."

"Say that again?" Xiao Yuanqi's gaze is deep and unreadable.

Zhao Yijun can't help but tear up. She presses her lips together and says nothing.

A soft sigh sounds in the silent room. Xiao Yuanqi gently pulls her into his arms and places a light kiss on the corner of her eye.

"I'm the one who's jealous, yet you're the one acting hurt."

Her acting is always on point x He thinks she's acting, but she's actually sincere

Reader's Guide:

1. This story is sweet overall. The main couple won't suffer, only the single readers (?).

2. Alternate setting with many invented details.

3. The male lead has a first love in the early story, but... darling, that's not love (suddenly starts humming).

4. The female lead is clever and unafraid of trouble, but she knows when it's best to back down.

-New novel synopsis-

Stealing Your Heart

After six months of marriage, Ruan Yao has spoken fewer than ten words to Prince Su. They are courteous to each other on the surface, but in reality they can't stand the sight of one another.

Prince Su, Feng Chengjin, has a childhood sweetheart who is the love of his life, and Ruan Yao also has someone she admires, a man as bright and pure as the moon and a breeze.

She thinks she'll have to live with her regrets forever, but one day Prince Su unexpectedly loses his memory. He recognizes no one, yet insists on staying by Ruan Yao's side.

That night, Ruan Yao returns to her own room as usual. When she opens the door, Prince Su is standing there looking aggrieved.

"Yaoyao, don't be mad at me anymore."

Ruan Yao: "Who's mad at you?"

Prince Su's eyes light up. "So you'll let me into your room?"

Ruan Yao: "..." That wasn't me! I didn't say that!

But before she can object, Feng Chengjin smiles and takes her into the inner room. His mother-in-law told him Yaoyao loves babies, so he has to hurry up and make one for her to play with!

The amnesiac Feng Chengjin depends on Ruan Yao alone, spoils and loves her without reservation, always putting her first and giving her whatever she wants.

Ruan Yao has never known such wholehearted devotion. Though she struggles against it, she still falls deeply into their relationship.

However, on the very day Ruan Yao learns she's pregnant, Feng Chengjin returns to the prince's residence with his first love.

"A-Jin?" She stands outside the bedroom they share, frowning.

The man before her is still handsome and elegant, with incomparable beauty. But his eyes, which should be tender and affectionate, are now coated in frost. He opens his mouth and snaps, "Who gave you permission to enter my room? Get out."

Ruan Yao senses something is wrong. Deliberately ignoring the provocative smile of the first love beside him, she asks him, "I'm pregnant. Do you want this child?"

Feng Chengjin looks at her with disgust and says coldly, "You had an affair with another man and got pregnant. How dare you ask whether I want the child?"

Hearing this, Ruan Yao only smiles.

That night, the Princess Consort of Su drinks a potion to induce a miscarriage and faints in her room. A few days later, Prince Su finds a divorce agreement in his study.

When they meet again, Ruan Yao has become the emperor's soon-to-be empress. On the night before she enters the palace, someone abducts her from her home.

"You are not allowed to marry him." The man's voice is hoarse, his eyes bloodshot as he pins her to the wall and grips her wrist tightly.

Ruan Yao's eyes are calm. Her red lips move. "Prince Su, I am getting married tomorrow."

"You love me. Why are you marrying him?!" The man speaks urgently.

"My lord, that's a joke. I've loved only two people in my life: the current emperor and an amnesiac fool."

She pauses, then smiles softly. "But you, Feng Chengjin, I have never loved."

Feng Chengjin has never failed to get what he wants. There is only one person he couldn't have. Her surname is Ruan, and her heart is the hardest in the world.

Theme: A twist of fate brings a love that unfolds naturally