I’m the Paper-Doll Childhood Sweetheart Raised by a Big Shot

[The next book will be I Woke Up with Amnesia, and the Male Lead Insists I'm His Crush. Please add it to your reading list! Its blurb is below.]

Jiang Qizhen has known since childhood that she's a character in a book.

In the book, the heroine is a kind and beautiful adopted daughter of a wealthy family. The domineering CEO male lead loves her so intensely that the whole city knows, while the devoted male supporting characters bang their heads against walls for her.

And Jiang Qizhen is the wealthy family's daughter, who was lost for over a decade before being found. She's venomous and vicious, infatuated with the CEO, and does everything she can to hurt the heroine out of jealousy. In the end, her whole family goes bankrupt, and she dies of a terminal illness.

The All-Purpose Villainess System binds itself to her:

"Even though you're ugly, insecure, and jealous, and had to drop out of school and work because your grades were so poor, don't worry. This System will help you become the most slay-the-whole-room, sultry, shameless villainess in the book!"

To keep the plot on track, the System works tirelessly to push Jiang Qizhen into becoming the perfect villainess.

After a while,

Every time it urges Jiang Qizhen to do something bad, disaster strikes. The System packs up and runs away.

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No one knows that Jiang Qizhen has an amazing childhood friend.

He can sense her joys and sorrows, stay by her side as she grows up, and give her countless gifts.

Even the System is afraid of him.

P.S.:

The heroine has an overpowered golden finger, and the male lead is so handsome he'll make your legs go weak.

One-on-one romance, sweet and satisfying, with a high-sugar-content warning.

[New book: Please add I Woke Up with Amnesia, and the Male Lead Insists I'm His Crush to your reading list!]

New book blurb:

After feeding stray cats, Zhu Yimian returns home late at night and discovers that a flowerpot on her balcony has hit a man.

Lying in a pool of blood, the man's face is stunning. He's Yan Sui, the young heir to a Hong Kong business empire, who came to the Zhu family's home early on the day they went bankrupt to laugh at her.

Everyone in their circle knows that she and Yan Sui couldn't stand each other even in high school. Yan Sui has a crush on her nemesis, Qin Ruochu, so Zhu Yimian dislikes him by association.

After waking up, Yan Sui has lost his memory and thinks she's his girlfriend.

The male lead loses his memory, but not around the heroine, and instead gets picked up by her. It's bizarre.

Burdened with a hundred million in debt and constantly controlled by the plot into becoming a cannon-fodder foil to the heroine, Zhu Yimian lets her wicked side take over. She lies to Yan Sui, telling him she's the "ex" he loved but could never have.

Unexpectedly, he believes her and clings to her, pitifully begging her to take him back.

Zhu Yimian's desire for revenge takes hold. "Want to get back together? Then let's see how you do."

She plays the capricious ex, leaving all the dishwashing, cooking, and cleaning to him, and orders him to go against the heroine.

When the Yan family comes calling, she coaxes him into paying off her debt, maxes out his black card, and uses his resources to make her business thrive, taking down everyone who laughs at her.

She originally planned to use him and then dump him without a second thought--

But wait, the plot's control over her seems to be weakening!

Finally finding a way to escape the plot's control, Zhu Yimian's eyes light up, and she decides to accept Yan Sui's proposal.

Then she discovers that Yan Sui regained his memory after only half a month. He was pretending for the rest of the time.

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Yan Sui has a secret: he fell for Zhu Yimian at first sight when he saw her at fourteen.

A young man's love came on like a storm. He repeatedly tried to show her kindness, only to be rejected without mercy every time.

Yan Sui didn't understand why Zhu Yimian hated him, so he could only bury his feelings deep in his heart.

On the day he regained his memory, Yan Sui saw Zhu Yimian claiming to be his girlfriend. After a moment of confusion, he immediately hugged her as if nothing were wrong.

No matter what, as long as Zhu Yimian was by his side, that was enough.

#Secretly in love for years / unrequited love / schemes to get close to the heroine / once a lofty beauty, now a dark and obsessive man x a cool-faced, adorable beauty who only wants to make money

#Zhu Yimian is a local heroine. A female supporting character transmigrates into a book with a System to steal her fortune.

#Includes some school-life flashbacks

#Both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending

Theme: Independence of mind is a wonderful quality