How Do I Get By After Reincarnating as the Childhood Friend in a Tearjerker Anime?

[This story is scheduled to go premium on Tuesday, November 10. There will be a 10,000-word update on the day it goes premium. Thank you all for your support!]

Ming Xiang was the childhood friend in a stomachache-inducing romance who lost disastrously to the girl who appeared out of nowhere. After recovering her memories of a previous life, she inexplicably became trapped in an endless cycle of the world.

Whenever Christmas came around, the day the girl who had appeared out of nowhere confessed to her childhood friend and they officially became a couple, the world around Ming Xiang would become distorted. The world would reset, and everything would start over from zero, except for her.

The System gave her just one clue for breaking this endless cycle: get close to an important character in this world, and get together with him.

So Ming Xiang decided to go all out.

First run (before she recovered her memories): Childhood friend route (BE)

Second run: Childhood friend route (BE)

Third run: Her childhood friend's buddy's route (HE)

Fourth run: Her childhood friend's younger brother's route (HE)

Fifth run: Childhood friend route (HE)

Sixth run: Love triangle showdown??

Ming Xiang: Wait, why has my clueless childhood friend suddenly gone dark?? I didn't do anything! QWQ

Reading guide

1. A no-CP love triangle showdown kind of story (open ending; I'll fill in the personal ending in an extra chapter)

2. The heroine is unbelievably awesome

3. An alternate setting, probably with a bit of a Japanese feel (?)

4. I'll add more if I think of anything

*

About my upcoming story, please add it to your collection! Title: On How to Rise Above It All in a Family of Assassins

Blurb:

Hello, my name is Maria. My current situation is that I've been reincarnated somewhere truly extraordinary: into a family of assassins who make their living by killing.

As the eldest daughter, my father, the head of this wicked family of assassins, started indoctrinating me with all sorts of twisted values when I was little, trying to brainwash me into becoming an emotionless killing machine.

He also taught me all kinds of assassination techniques, how to happily toy with the "toys" we captured, how to make poison, and how to eat poison to build up a tolerance. It was downright deranged.

Luckily, I had a strong will and made it this far thanks to my superb acting skills. I was influenced a little, but I wasn't completely poisoned by it.

But my siblings are another matter. Just like my rotten old dad, they're all lunatics, and they even tried to lock me up when I wanted to escape the family.

My rotten old dad raised an eyebrow. "Heh, trying to run?"

The eldest son curled his lips into a dangerous smile. "I won't let you leave, my dear older sister."

The second daughter wore an infatuated look. "Ahhh, Big Sis, let's be together forever."

My twin younger brothers stared at me possessively. "Big Sis, become ours."

Me: ...H-help! I can't escape! QAQ

*

1. Not a choose-your-guy story; aimed at readers of otome fiction, but the main story has no couple

2. The heroine is gorgeous and delightfully overpowered; everyone is devoted to her

3. Everyone in the family is a crazy, messed-up lunatic

4. First-person narration

Theme: Persevere and strive.