The Cool Beauty Needs No Conquest [Dating Show]

The cast of male guests for the new season of the dating show Heartbeat Forbidden was exceptionally dazzling. On the day they were announced, one male guest alone dominated several trending topics at once. Each was more gorgeous and harder to win over than the last, and excited viewers jokingly dubbed them the hardest-to-conquer boy band in history.

Wouldn’t they need some female guests of equal caliber? Viewers waited eagerly for the official accounts to announce the lineup. Mm-hmm, a fair-skinned, beautiful, radiant actress. She’ll do. Mm-hmm, the sweetest female idol in Chinese entertainment. She’ll do. A genius goddess from the computer science department at Imperial University. She’ll do too. Mm-hmm, a mysterious heiress from a wealthy family. She’ll al, wait!

What does Si Si have to do with being a mysterious heiress?

She’s a Qing Dynasty female zombie living in the twenty-first century, still wrapped up in old-fashioned notions and holding herself to the standards of a proper young lady. She even covered her face from reporters at her grandfather’s memorial service. She never interacted with men, and she only ever wore skirts that reached past her ankles, afraid that showing even a little skin would be improper and make her future husband reject her!

She’s going on a dating show?

And at the same time as the hardest-to-conquer boy band in history?

What a waste of a spot!

Even a cutout of some pretty actress might be better at flirting than her.

While viewers waited in a different kind of excitement to see Si Si embarrass herself, the System was practically gushing digital nosebleeds as it stared foolishly at the Host it had just found.

She was dressed head to toe in a heavy black gown, and wore a gauzy veil that hid her face, leaving only her red lips visible. Yet there was an indefinable allure surrounding her, making even a mere bundle of data inexplicably flush with excitement and utterly bewitched.

I-Is this the natural gift of a nine-tailed fox?

The System wiped away its nosebleed. [Host No. 129, your main quest has been generated: while keeping your original persona essentially unchanged, join the dating show Heartbeat Forbidden and win over Male Lead One, Male Lead Two, Male Lead Three... until their Heartbeat Values reach the maximum.]

[P-please rein in your aura a little. This quest requires you to succeed through your own means, not your natural gifts.]

[A friendly reminder: this is the final world prepared for you. Once you complete the main quest, your sentence of 960 years will be over, and you will be free.]

A sentence of 960 years! The System marveled silently. What earth-shattering crime had this nine-tailed fox committed to deserve such a long sentence?

It assumed its new Host would be thrilled to hear that freedom was within reach. And yet...

Beneath the black veil, her red lips were calm, and a cool, porcelain-like sheen rested on her small, snow-white chin.

A cool, chaste, bewitching beauty × a bunch of awful men

Reader’s Guide: This story consists of episodic scenes and ends with one-on-one romance. It has the writing style of an old-school Mary Sue story, with poor prose and no logic. The author’s preferences are the standard; the triggers are unpredictable. The only things excluded are non-virgin female leads and virgin male leads. All other potential triggers are included. I’m very sorry if you can’t enjoy it or find it upsetting.

If you’re interested in the upcoming story, please save it from my author page: The Obsessive Female Supporting Character Who Disguised Herself as a Man

The System tells Yao Yao that she has transmigrated into a dark Mary Sue novel as a paranoid, unstable cannon-fodder female supporting character.

The supporting character has a twisted, obsessive love for the male leads. She’s too afraid to express it to their faces, so she secretly collects things they’ve used, follows them and takes pictures, sends the photos to them in harassing private messages, and even disguises herself as a man to sneak into the dorm where they live.

Her task is to maintain the character’s persona and, when the plot calls for it, meekly let the male leads discover her identity, after which they’ll be so disgusted with her that they throw her out of school.

The task is rated five stars for difficulty. Countless transmigrators have been discovered by the male leads as soon as they arrive, long before the plot calls for it, and promptly forced out of the story.

The System assumes its new Host will be terrified when she hears about this dreadful task.

Instead, she gives a gentle smile, and in an instant all things in the world fade into the background beside her.

She can accept the task, but there’s one little problem.

She’s a hibiscus grass spirit, the kind that can make people lose their senses and fall under her spell without even doing a thing.

Reader’s Guide: The hibiscus flowers in this story differ from those in real life. The story includes original worldbuilding.

Theme: Love everyone who deserves to be loved.