My Tool-Man Boyfriend Is a Top-Tier Star [Book Transmigration]

Jiang Shi transmigrates into a sweet romance novel as a supporting female character who shares her name. The worst part is that the original character is a romance novelist, with a crowd of eager readers clamoring for updates every day. Jiang Shi, who's been single her whole life, racks her brains but can't come up with a passionate love story, and she doesn't want to break character, either. So she spends a whopping 200 yuan a day to rent a boyfriend near a university. Her boyfriend is named Lu Jing. He's slim-waisted and long-legged, with a handsome face. Most importantly, he's hardworking, dedicated, and talented. Proud puppy, obsessive wolfhound, abstinent big shot, unhinged beauty... Give him a prompt, and he brings every character to life, making them doting and seductive. He gives Jiang Shi endless inspiration. He's the perfect tool boyfriend. Jiang Shi is very satisfied. Until she discovers that her tool boyfriend is the female lead's unforgettable ex and the novel's important male supporting character, who will later have a forced-kiss scene with the female lead. Competing with the female lead for a man? Oh, exciting. So exciting that Jiang Shi breaks up with him that very day. Lu Jing hears her out, narrows his eyes, and elegantly tears up the contract they signed. "Good. I was thinking the contract needed an update, too." Jiang Shi: "???" Lu Jing stretches out his long legs, his gaze dark. "Which storyline do you like better: the big shot's unforgettable first love, or the obsessive, lovesick beauty's one true love?" Jiang Shi: "...Help, my boyfriend has gotten way too into role-playing!" In a moment of impulse, Lu Jing signed a contract and got a girlfriend as passionate as a rose. His girlfriend has strange ideas in her head every day. To indulge her, he's forced to change outfits and play a different kind of man every day as he dates her. He'd originally taken it up as a pastime to hone his acting skills. But when she asked to break up, he realized that he'd been going along with it willingly, and that loving her had become instinct. I have a rose, one that grew without my noticing, blooming in the softest part of my heart. Every petal is engraved with your name. You are the sunshine I've long prayed for. Seeing you fills me with joy; not seeing you leaves me lost in emptiness. New novel, "After Winning Over the Villainous Big Shot, I Couldn't Escape": Li Mingzhu is the leading supporting female character in an old-fashioned sweet romance novel, with a huge stupidity halo over her head. She envies the female lead and gets humiliated, loves the male lead and gets mocked, and tries to please her family only to be rejected... In the end, she dies in a chain-reaction car crash while being sent to her rival in love, Chi Yi, by the male lead, Ji Muyang, who treats her as a substitute for the female lead, Li Yue. After being reborn, Li Mingzhu only wants to get rid of her stupidity halo and do as she pleases. To that end, she binds herself to Ji Xingyao, the most rational character in the entire book. Ji Xingyao is the male lead's half-brother. A cold, brilliant student, he's the aloof, untouchable scion of a wealthy family. He's also the novel's biggest villainous boss, though few people know that yet. She needs to complete missions involving him to earn the rationality points she needs to remove her halo. From then on... During PE class, Ji Xingyao faces off against the male lead on the basketball court. [Special mission triggered! Cheer Ji Xingyao on and give him support that's one of a kind.] Li Mingzhu: I know how to do this one! She borrows a megaphone from the school store and shouts across the court, "Ji Xingyao, you are light, you are oxygen, you are the ideal of humanity." Bystanders: No way, does someone really think this is enough to win over the top student? * On Christmas, Ji Xingyao is home alone. [Special mission triggered! Keep him company and give him a warm holiday experience.] Li Mingzhu: I'm an expert at this one! She digs out a nail-art kit she bought online and knocks on the door across the hall. "Want to eat hotpot and watch a movie together, and maybe do matching Christmas nails?" The System covers its face: He's a ruthless, cold-hearted villain! Do you think you're having a girls' night? * One day, someone on the school forum posts a list of all the matching items shared by top student Xingyao and Li Mingzhu: thermoses, backpack charms, scarves, manicures... They even go to and from the same apartment building, entering the same unit... The whole school is shocked!!! - Li Mingzhu gets close to Ji Xingyao, earns 99,999 rationality points, and successfully removes her stupidity halo. She secretly figures that since he's a year ahead of her, their contact will naturally fade once he graduates. But on the night of his graduation... Ji Xingyao grabs her hand, his eyes dark and his smile tender. "Try climbing the wall and I'll break your legs!" Li Mingzhu: "..." Wait... Is he stuck to me now? - He was born evil, cold and ruthless. But one day, a rose bloomed in his barren world. Coming soon: "The Rich Heiress Gets Famous on a Dating Show": Gu Zhining transmigrates into ancient times, becomes a princess, and helps the young emperor ascend the throne, before transmigrating back to the present. She is a throwaway supporting female character in the novel "The Top-Tier Star Couple Is So Sweet," appearing as the male lead Bai Mo's fiancee and joining him on a dating show. On the show, she's mocked across the internet for being too "difficult," and her engagement is called off before filming is even finished. She returns just before filming for the dating show is about to begin, right after the whole internet learns that top-tier star Bai Mo has a fiancee from a wealthy family. Netizens: "I heard Bai's fiancee is affected and petty. She's going on the show just to stake her claim..." "What a scheming fake innocent! So annoying! Poor Bai!" Not long after, the dating show "Love, In Progress" is livestreamed nationwide... The netizens and fans are on high alert, waiting to bash Gu Zhining, and she doesn't disappoint. On the first day, the cast arrives at the filming location and looks for a place to stay. The other guests run so fast that the wind follows them, afraid they'll miss out on a good place. Gu Zhining walks five steps, stops, and says, "Bai Mo, my feet hurt. Carry me for a bit. A hug would work, too." Netizens: "So difficult!" The next day, the cast works in the fields, and everyone gives it their all. Gu Zhining offers 18,000 yuan an hour to hire ten staff members, who plow the field in front of the house five times in two hours. She sits on the field ridge taking pictures of Bai Mo, then posts them in a nine-grid collage. Netizens: "So infuriating!" As the second and third shoots roll around... Netizens: "Has anyone else noticed that Gu Zhining is perfectly polite and normal with the staff, but turns all sweet and spoiled around Bai Mo?" "Bestie, I noticed too! And Bai Mo is as dense as a block of wood. It's driving me crazy! When will the 'Straightforward' CP finally give us some sweet moments?" "Gu Zhining is rich and beautiful, has professional-level piano and violin skills, is fluent in four languages, and can also play the guzheng and pipa, ride horses, brew tea, play chess, and grow flowers. She's good at everything, and she's completely devoted to Bai Mo. I'm so jealous!" - Bai Mo has a childhood sweetheart fiancee who's spoiled, willful, unpredictable, bad-tempered, and always clinging to him. He never indulges her, but he never imagined she'd leave on her own. Until the day the livestream for the third episode of "Love, In Progress" ends. In their room, Gu Zhining says calmly, "Bai Mo, I've made up my mind. Let's end our engagement." Bai Mo doesn't feel the expected relief. Instead, his heart is gripped by overwhelming fear and unease. * Because of the contract and the show's desperate pleas, Gu Zhining agrees to finish filming. She's still the happy, difficult heiress, but she stops acting spoiled around Bai Mo. Bai Mo can't get used to it. Now he's the one begging her to act spoiled. Content warnings: 1. One-to-one silly, sweet romance. Contract relationship at first, then the fake relationship becomes real. 2. Fictional setting. The plot takes priority over logic, so proceed with caution if that's not for you. 3. 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