The Villainess Only Wants a Career, but the Villain Wants a Happy Ending

[The companion novel, After Saving the Sickly Demon Lord, is currently being serialized]

[The xianxia transmigration-into-a-book novel, The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Survived Until She Became the Female Lead, is complete =3=]

[Completed. Could you leave a good rating in the bottom-right corner of the app?]

Cang Zhen transmigrates into an old-school xianxia angst novel and gets the role of a minor, beautiful-but-tragic female supporting character who shares her name.

According to the original plot, she is about to fall in love at first sight with the story's greatest villain, Emperor Yaoyuan. Her love goes unrequited, and in addition to losing her heart, she nearly leads the entire demon clan to ruin, becoming a stepping stone on the female lead Luo He Xianji's path to becoming everyone's beloved.

And right now, she's about to meet Emperor Yaoyuan for the first time and fall in love, while serving as the romantic backdrop for the original male and female leads.

Cang Zhen doesn't want to lose her mind over the villain and become so lovesick that she gets her entire clan killed, so

Cang Zhen, looking earnest: "Your Majesty, how about a deal? We help each other. I'll help you win her over, and you give me your villain position. What do you say?"

Yaoyuan looked at the red-clad, dazzling Demon Queen before him and smiled nonchalantly. "Sure."

Later.

In the palace high above the Nine Heavens, gauzy curtains drifted as Yaoyuan held Cang Zhen captive in his arms, leaving her unable to move.

His eyes were dark, as if they held an entire sea of stars. He murmured softly in her ear, "Cang Zhen, didn't you say you'd help me?"

Cang Zhen: ...This isn't the kind of helping each other I had in mind!!

* Two beautiful-but-tragic leads, 1v1. The male lead only loves the female lead; this will be explained later.

* The female lead has a secret identity early on. Readers find out who she is in Chapter 27.

* Sweet-talking, cold-hearted Demon Queen x scheming, sickly Emperor

* A hodgepodge of personal worldbuilding. Read for fun, don't overthink it =3=

This novel is participating in the Technology Powers the Nation event. Reason for entering: The heroine uses her scientific knowledge to control and harness fire, protect her people, preserve their home, and advance society.

[Upcoming novel: After Saving the Sickly Demon Lord]

Yu Lang transmigrates into a short-lived female supporting character in a Mary Sue xianxia novel. Unfortunately, despite being a peerless genius, she is infatuated with the male lead and has a saintly heart.

According to the plot, she's about to seal her cultivation, have her eyes gouged out and her liver and kidneys cut out by the male lead to save the female lead's life, then smile and wish the leads happiness with her dying breath.

Yu Lang: ...Heavens, you have no heart! I'm not getting involved in this plot!

She flees for her life and runs into her badly wounded senior apprentice brother.

Yu Lang recognizes this seemingly unremarkable, dying senior as Lu Zhenzhou, the future Demon Lord.

Yu Lang: More friends mean more options. If I pick up this powerful ally, I can stay in his shade!

She skids to a stop, hoists her senior apprentice brother onto her back, and keeps muttering, "I'm Yu Lang, your lifesaver. Senior, you have to stay alive and repay me a hundredfold in the future!!"

As Lu Zhenzhou lies unconscious, his mind shrouded in viscous darkness, all he hears is a gentle, resolute voice.

Like light breaking through fog, it calls him to live.

Later

Yu Lang casts aside her saintly heart and focuses on cultivation. She distinguishes herself in the sect competition, then takes first place in the Four Realms trial.

Male cultivators hoping to become her Dao companion circle the immortal mountain three and a half times over.

Yet the Demon Lord abducts Yu Lang into a barrier.

Lu Zhenzhou trembles as he holds Yu Lang in a restrained embrace. His eyes seem to melt with the whole galaxy, while obsession lurks in their reddened corners. "You promised to repay me a hundredfold. Why won't you anymore?"

#I gaze at you, wait for you, and yearn for you with all of me.

Only you.#

* Stunningly beautiful, incredibly powerful, straight woman x sickly, obsessive man who convinces himself she's in love with him

* 1v1, both leads' first time, equally matched

Some recommendations from my writer friends that I hope you'll enjoy ^^

Traditional cultivation: A Question for the Immortal Path [Cultivation] by Kou Hong Wei Ming: A stunningly powerful female lead starts a new account and wrecks the pond

Xianxia transmigration-into-a-book: After I Became a Qingluan Egg, the Demon Lord Picked Me Up by Ning Bei: A Qingluan growth diary

Core theme: Work hard and protect your home