I Was Supposed to Play the Tragic Lover, but Got the Drama Queen Script

Before her Book Transmigration, Zhao Fei was famous in the entertainment industry for his first-love heartthrob looks. Afterward, he got saddled with the reputation of being a scheming, high-maintenance flirt. In the original book, the orphaned protagonist was adopted by Zhao Fei’s family as a child. His adoptive parents never paid much attention to him, and he also had to deal with his brother Zhao Fei, a scheming flirt who acted sweet and considerate to his face while secretly making life difficult for him at every turn. The poor protagonist was trampled into a thoroughly forgettable nobody until he met the male lead, the savior of his life. As it happened, the villainous older brother also fell for the male lead. He stopped at nothing to steal him, even going so far as to cause his own family’s deaths. In the end, his revenge failed, and he got himself killed in front of the male leads’ car. Before her Book Transmigration, Zhao Fei had starred in a hit idol drama adapted from this very book. But his role had clearly been the tragic protagonist! On his first day in the book, Zhao Fei could already recite the original story by heart… He looked at his father, who had a long-standing, secret feud with the male lead, and said with a world-weary sigh, “Dad, the weather’s turning cold. Shouldn’t our Zhao Group…” Dad Zhao: “?” When he saw the protagonist washing dishes, cooking, and mopping the floor in his old clothes, Zhao Fei took his hand, lips trembling. “These hands are only meant to play the piano! You must be trying to deprive our Zhao family of a future artist. What are you plotting?” The protagonist: Just hit me if you want to. The slap he expected never came. Instead, the male lead’s voice came through the phone Zhao Fei had forgotten to hang up: “Has your brother leveled up his scheming skills?” Zhao Fei: “Hey, where’s that dog barking coming from?” The male leads: “?!” At last, the day came when the male lead brought people to the house to stand up for the protagonist. Zhao Fei automatically overlooked the tall, handsome male lead and whistled at the pretty younger brother. “Woo! What a gorgeous little brother!” … When Lu Qin was seventeen, his cousin tricked him into going to his younger boyfriend’s house, saying they were going to fight. The target was a scheming little flirt who bullied his boyfriend every day. But when he arrived, he found a stunning beauty whistling at him. A beauty with a beauty mark at the corner of his eye and a bright, curved smile, who ignored his cousin and gazed at him meaningfully for a long time. That day, the scheming little flirt his cousin had talked about smiled gently and sat in the sunlight. “Little brother, what’s your name?” From then on, Lu Qin had someone in his heart, always with him, making him ache with longing. Four years later, the Zhao family went bankrupt, and Lu Qin rushed to the Zhao residence through the rain. He saw Zhao Fei, who had always been neat and elegant, soaked through and sitting in the garden by the entrance, looking utterly miserable. The beautiful man was barefoot, his feet filthy. His uncut hair covered half his face, leaving only a beauty mark visible. “Congratulations to the Lu family. You finally got your revenge.” That day, broken raindrops fell from the man’s lashes into the torrential downpour. Lu Qin scooped Zhao Fei into his arms without a second thought and took him home. * Zhao Fei’s perspective: The day the family went bankrupt, Zhao Fei excitedly went out to get soaked in the rain. In his excitement, he even took off his shoes and threw them like a ball. He was only a few stretches away from celebrating with a morning exercise routine. After calming down, he slumped in the little garden and texted his parents: Don’t cry, everyone. We’ve lost our money, but we’re still alive! (Besides, we still have money!) He never imagined that, from that day on, three men would be unable to forget his destitute appearance, thinking of him day and night. A tea-arts master of a beautiful, high-maintenance flirt as the shou x an gong who goes from pure-hearted young man to little psycho Content warning: After his Book Transmigration, Zhao Fei has a bit of a crowd-pleaser quality. Most people who hate and despise him at first will end up spectacularly eating their words. * No choosing sides, Lu Qin is the gong. Don’t ship the wrong pairing. * Alternate-universe setting where same-sex marriage is legal, 1v1, shou-focused 2021.6.23 Next novel: You Can’t Treat Me Like This [Book Transmigration]. Blurb: Li Duoyang transmigrates into a male-lead-centric novel about breaking off an arranged engagement. Unfortunately, he’s the character who gets humiliated by the male lead over and over. In the original book, he and the male lead were engaged as children. At first, he schemed to win over the male lead by any means necessary, hoping to benefit from his illustrious family background. Unaware of the male lead’s sexual orientation, he even wore women’s clothes from time to time. But when the male lead’s family fell on hard times when he turned eighteen, Li Duoyang immediately humiliated him and broke off their engagement. Afterward, he kept coming back to kick him while he was down. It took only a few years for the male lead to make him eat his words in spectacular fashion. Li Duoyang turned dark, but didn’t stay that way long before he was killed off. Li Duoyang looked up at the young male lead standing before him. At this point, they were both still in middle school. The male lead shoved him away impatiently. “I told you to stop bothering me!” Li Duoyang said something so quietly it was like a mosquito buzzing. The male lead snapped, “Speak up!” Li Duoyang pulled the hair clip off his head. “I-I’m breaking off our engagement!” The male lead: “???” Li Duoyang muttered softly, as if he were about to cry. “I don’t want a little kid. I want a handsome grown-up.” …The male lead, “humiliated,” gave him a brooding glance. Later, Li Duoyang moved abroad with his parents. It was snowing heavily on the way to the airport. He didn’t know that a boy was running after him, crying, for a very, very long time. When the male lead turned eighteen, Li Duoyang returned to that city. The male lead’s downfall from the original book had never happened. On the contrary, his family had grown so powerful that Li Duoyang’s family couldn’t hope to match them. He heard the male lead had lost his memory, and that his family was looking for a more suitable marriage partner for him. Li Duoyang went to break off the engagement as planned. That day, the male lead kicked down the door he’d been locked behind and staggered into the hall, blood smeared across half his body. In front of everyone, he dropped to one knee and pressed his face against Li Duoyang’s hand, staring up at him with gloomy, pleading eyes. “Don’t break off the engagement. Please, don’t! I did everything you asked. You can’t treat me like this…” * Li Duoyang (shou) x Pei Shiyi (gong) The gong is the type who falls in love first and then realizes how good it is. 1v1, happy ending, shou-focused, modern alternate universe, same-sex marriage is legal, no underage romance Theme: Face difficulties without giving up, and live life with optimism.