The White Lotus Won’t Put on an Act Anymore

Chu Chu followed Luo Xunlan for three years before she learned that she was nothing but a lowly stand-in.

The day his first love returned, Chu Chu took the initiative and broke up with him.

The rain that day fell as hard as it did on the day Yiping went to ask her father for money. Tears glistening in her eyes, she gazed at him as if she had something to say, but in the end she only choked out, "I wish you both happiness."

Then she dragged her suitcase away without looking back.

*

After Chu Chu left, Luo Xunlan always felt an emptiness inside.

At night, he even dreamed again and again of Chu Chu's slender figure walking away through the rain, utterly resolute.

A friend was opening a bar, so Luo Xunlan went to show his support and drank bottle after bottle.

His friend tried to cheer him up. "It's just one woman. Pick whichever woman you like here tonight. Look, that one over there seems great. She looks hot and fun."

Luo Xunlan looked over.

The woman wore a spaghetti-strap minidress, her snow-white skin seeming to glow. She picked up the drinks in front of her and downed them one after another. Once she was done, she launched into her advice:

"Getting rich is easy. Find a rich guy, act weak and play the victim, and scam him out of some money."

"What, Luo Xunlan? I wouldn't recommend him. He's way too stingy."

"Just find someone in his seventies or eighties. In a few years, you'll inherit his estate."

Luo Xunlan: …

#You said you loved me deeply, but you're just a liar#

Warning:

The female lead isn't genuinely kind and good. She got together with the male lead for his money at first.

A light, fluffy story. I hope it makes everyone smile. Don't overthink the logic.

Please add my next novel, "Be a Doormat Again and You'll Die," to your collection!

Rong Shuang becomes the villainess in a dark novel. The villainess comes from a rich family, but after offending the male antagonist, she meets a terrible end. The male antagonist, Wen Yu, is exceptionally intelligent, but he suffered endless abuse as a child. As an adult, his mind becomes twisted and he takes revenge on society, giving everyone a bad ending.

When Rong Shuang enters the novel, the future big bad is being beaten up, and she is standing to the side clapping and saying, "Good! Give it to him!"

The villainess and the male antagonist are sworn enemies, with a deep-seated grudge.

Rong Shuang has no such grudge. Her do-gooder instincts kick in, and she decides to raise the currently pitiful, weak, and adorable male antagonist into a model young socialist with impeccable roots, so the whole story can have a happy ending.

In the days that follow, Rong Shuang devotes herself to getting along with the big bad. She brings him food, helps him improve his grades, and shields him from harm...

Her efforts pay off. In just a few months, Rong Shuang has built a good relationship with Wen Yu, and she thinks she can now live out her life in peace and comfort.

You don't know how much it hurts until the knife is in your own flesh.

That is, until the big bad kills her with his own hands, takes her family fortune, and sneers, "Sister, did you really think that pretending to be nice to me would make me forget everything that happened before?"

Rong Shuang: Fuck this. If I'm ever a doormat again, I'll die!

You can take my life, but you can't have my money!

She is reborn. This time, Rong Shuang decides to strike first.

Be as strong as you want. I'll snuff you out in the cradle and see how strong you are then!

The big bad puts on a pitiful act in his little-kid form, but Rong Shuang stares straight ahead, utterly unmoved.

The big bad calls her "Big Sister" in a soft, sweet voice. Rong Shuang smacks him across the face. "Who said you could call me that?"

After someone bullies the big bad, he curls into a ball in the corner. Rong Shuang walks over and gives him two more kicks.

Rong Shuang has already seen through him: he's a black-hearted little dumpling. So when the big bad's eyes turn red and he nearly bursts into tears as he tells her, "Big Sister, I really do like you," Rong Shuang replies with a cold expression, "You mean you like my money?"

#See all this money? I'd rather throw it away than give it to you#

#Of course I'm not throwing it away. I'm going to pick it right back up#

Theme: As long as life goes on, never stop learning