[Coming soon: The Lottery Won Me the First Vacation Island and Becoming a God Starts with Summoning Players (Worldbuilding)] Please add them to your reading list! Their blurbs are below.
Xue Yu, an engineering student, transmigrates into a novel as a cannon-fodder supporting female character. Forced to disguise herself as a man and serve as a stand-in for the real male lead, the prince, she just has to wait until he returns to claim his place. Then her miserable life as a tool character will finally be over.
Xue Yu: Stay away from the plot! Run for my life!
But running away takes resources. Xue Yu diligently invents things and saves money to prepare for her escape, only to discover that the System she is bound to keeps drawing technologies that benefit the country and its people: how to make sugar, improved papermaking methods, breeding techniques, iron smelting, and more.
Little by little...
Her scheming adoptive mother grows kind to her.
Her tyrant adoptive father values her greatly.
Even the powerful tool characters around the male lead look to her with hope...
They tell her: You can change this chaotic world.
Before Xue Yu can figure out what's happening, the court ministers cry, "The Third Prince's succession is well deserved," and send her to the throne.
Only then does Xue Yu realize that, somehow, while she was busy keeping her head down, the male lead's script ended up in her hands!
After the coronation comes the wedding of the emperor and empress. Xue Yu lifts the bride's veil.
Looking at the "bride," she can no longer keep her cool. Mom, why is the male lead here?!
The beauty in red embraces her, the coldness in her eyes already fading. "Your Majesty, why don't we retire for the night early?"
Xue Yu: ???
[The rational, cross-dressing female emperor-to-be Xue Yu x the mad, cross-dressing real prince Fang Jinhu]
A few clarifications about issues that don't exist: The female lead has a hard time early on. She calmly analyzes the situation and focuses on staying alive and escaping, but she grows and changes over time. Later, she resumes her female identity and becomes an empress, working to improve women's status throughout. There are misunderstandings about the original novel's plot. The System causes some trouble, but the female lead figures it out. Villains won't get a pass just because of their blood ties. The male lead becomes the empress in the harem. He's disguised himself as a woman, but also has a male secret identity. He takes the initiative in the relationship, and the female lead does not sacrifice everything for him.
This isn't a story where the protagonist is invincible from the start. If it's not for you, just click X. Please don't criticize based on assumptions.
---Coming soon---
Management and upgrade story: The Lottery Won Me the First Vacation Island
Jian Qianqian, a hardcore management game player, finally completes the entire collection in Dream Inn. She wakes up to find that she has inherited an inn on a deserted island, and the game has become reality!
Jian Qianqian's eyes light up:
Don't touch anything. Let me play first! I'm going to draw the world's best stuff!
[Dear heir, you have activated the game's card-drawing System. System loading...]
[Ding! You've unlocked the special vehicle "Flying Sword"!]
[Ding! You've unlocked the themed building "Dragon Palace"!]
[Ding! You've unlocked the limited-time event "Night Tour of Fengdu"!]
"A brand-new version you've never seen before! A grand production steeped in Eastern tradition! We look forward to welcoming you to our vacation inn!"
In 20xx, when people first heard about a remote inn, most scoffed: "What a load of hype. Don't think you can scam people just by building some fake antique architecture."
Later, those same scoffers started wailing: "Boss, let me in! I want to ride a flying sword! I want to see a dragon! Don't make me kneel down and beg you!"
Someone dug up an old answer from the inn's owner:
-What's it like to run an inn?
Jian Qianqian: Thanks for the invite. Yesterday I went to play, I mean, test the safety of the paranormal investigation attraction. Today I'm trying out the flying sword tour. Tomorrow I've scheduled an underwater expedition, and the day after that, a retro cosplay event. My schedule is packed! I had to grind for every single attraction!
I'm grabbing a bite before heading out to see the sea. It's so frustrating. I haven't even tasted the new dishes yet. Why are the baby dragons and merfolk fighting again?
The tourists from around the world, who silently deleted their old comments saying, "The author must be dreaming," now wait for the inn to add new attractions and release tickets for its resort. They gnaw on their handkerchiefs:
Darn, she's showing off again! If you can say that, why not let all of us in already!
System: Waaah, what do I do when my Host is such a hard worker!
Western fantasy, player-driven worldbuilding: Becoming a God Starts with Summoning Players
Hilya, the Saintess of Light, never thought she would betray her faith. But the gods abandoned her first.
Hunted into a border forest, with her loyal paladins dead or wounded and all her glory stripped away, she was condemned because prophetic magic foretold that she was not the most suitable Saintess and would bring endless calamity to the world.
Her bloodstained white robe was consumed by the forest and turned dark. Then, strange visitors from another world appeared before her. They were full of energy and curiosity, with boundless enthusiasm for conquering lands and changing the world. From that moment on, the future foretold by the Great Prophecy changed.
Dragons, monsters, elves, and dwarves all bowed before the Dark Saintess Hilya, offering her their loyalty and faith.
The old gods fell, and a new god rose. She commanded night and light, technology and magic. She was both the beginning and the end.
Countless races followed her, and an infinite world unfolded beneath her feet. Yet it all began when she picked up... a rock.
Hilya's first followers, who call themselves players, have a different take:
#The only full-dive game where spending time beats spending money#
#Gods and science coexist. Hilya is the GOAT#
#Can't pilot a giant robot? Try your Hogwarts acceptance letter!#
#The devs should come out and take their beating! You said Saintess of Light Hilya only appears in the expansion!#
#And so, today I am once again hauling bricks for the Saintess#
Theme: Live with your feet firmly on the ground
Why why! ! It's modern times! Simmons is so comfortable and doesn't want to roll over! ! ! ! I can't bear to leave the world with Xiaoyu and Xiaohu, as well as many people in Daqi... I learned a lot of strange knowledge points after reading this article, hhhhhhh, and I was even more moved by the love and family affection of gods, and the friendship of comrades who fight together... Yuhu must be locked up! What a wonderful baby) Finished spreading flowers ~ I look forward to seeing you again in the next article, my wife!
Xue Yu and "Yu Emperor" are both one person and not the same person. What kind of be ending line is that I finally live like the person I love! ! ! I'm gone
I wonder how this lake is so pure and wolfish!
Young Yuyu and Xiaohu are really amazing, I am already feeling heartbroken for the ending in advance.
Finished another good article, so lonely
Looking at it this way, Fang Shuo's death situation really made him feel better.
Every time I call my sister, it's a critical hit! ! !
Watching the wedding again, luckily we are together, they are still the same! ! !
Ahhhhh, the calm and self-possessed researcher x the innocent little wolfdog, bang!
Sibling relationship hehehehe... It's so sweet to me
Why why! ! It's modern times! Simmons is so comfortable and doesn't want to roll over! ! ! ! I can't bear to leave the world with Xiaoyu and Xiaohu, as well as many people in Daqi... I learned a lot of strange knowledge points after reading this article, hhhhhhh, and I was even more moved by the love and family affection of gods, and the friendship of comrades who fight together... Yuhu must be locked up! What a wonderful baby) Finished spreading flowers ~ I look forward to seeing you again in the next article, my wife!
Xue Yu and "Yu Emperor" are both one person and not the same person. What kind of be ending line is that I finally live like the person I love! ! ! I'm gone
I wonder how this lake is so pure and wolfish!
Young Yuyu and Xiaohu are really amazing, I am already feeling heartbroken for the ending in advance.
Finished another good article, so lonely
Looking at it this way, Fang Shuo's death situation really made him feel better.
Every time I call my sister, it's a critical hit! ! !
Watching the wedding again, luckily we are together, they are still the same! ! !
Ahhhhh, the calm and self-possessed researcher x the innocent little wolfdog, bang!
Sibling relationship hehehehe... It's so sweet to me