My Possessive Childhood Friend Doesn't Want a Bad Ending [Book Transmigration]

This novel has been unlocked. Please don't jump into the pit. Gu Baiye is a little mermaid who gets tossed into a romance novel and becomes its vicious villainess. The villainess is a beautiful, delicate darling, useless at everything, and childhood friends with Lu Xijiu, an obsessive second male lead and the villainous boss. In the original story, Lu Xijiu is obsessive and ruthless, fixated on the heroine. The villainess has secretly loved Lu Xijiu since childhood, but her love goes unreturned. Cowardly and ignorant, she is manipulated into framing the heroine. Once exposed, she vanishes without a trace. * When Gu Baiye transmigrates into the book, Lu Xijiu is still a little boy. Bound by the plot, she can't leave his side until he comes of age, and is forced to endure a childhood-sweethearts plot, for crying out loud. At this point, her little childhood friend isn't a creep yet. He's clever, steady, and rather clingy. It's just that his personality changes without warning sometimes. He likes cornering her against the wall and, with a serious look, saying all sorts of strange things. * Gu Baiye stays with Lu Xijiu from the age of three to seventeen, for fourteen years. The day the heroine appears, she prepares to run away, only to find her childhood friend blocking the doorway. - Lu Xijiu has a childhood sweetheart, a beauty with a mischievous streak who loves eating and playing and has no heart. Her catchphrase: "Xijiujiu, save me!" From childhood to adolescence, she keeps stuffing rabbits into his arms every day, making his heart itch and his feelings impossible to control. * In his previous life, he was only a little too late, and never got the chance to confess. In this life, he hides his true nature and pretends to be a sweet, harmless boy. He schemes to capture her attention, but she still wants to run. He stops pretending, lets his obsession grow unchecked, and complains in her ear, his voice full of grievance: "After all these years, you still don't understand how I feel." Gu Baiye: "???" He grits his teeth. "In this life, you're not going anywhere except staying by my side." Gu Baiye: "!!!" Childhood friend, I think you've got the wrong person? * [Xijiu will always love Baiye.] An adorable, head-empty mermaid who transmigrates into a book × an obsessive, crazy childhood friend who loves acting sweet and innocent A sweet childhood-sweethearts story Blurb for "After Winning Over the Villainous Boss, I Couldn't Escape": Li Mingzhu is the number-one villainess in an old-fashioned sweet romance novel. With an enormous intelligence-debuff halo over her head, she gets face-slapped for being jealous of the heroine, mocked for obsessing over the male lead, and rejected by her family despite trying to please them... In the end, the male lead, Ji Muyang, treats her as a substitute for the heroine, Li Yue. On her way to deliver her to her rival in love, Chi Yi, she dies in a multi-car pileup. Reborn, Li Mingzhu only wants to get rid of her intelligence-debuff halo and live as she pleases. To do that, she binds herself to Ji Xingyao, the most rational character in the entire book. Ji Xingyao is the male lead's older half-brother. A cool, top student, he's a distinguished young heir from a wealthy family, the sort of person people say is fit only to admire from afar, never to approach. He's also the biggest villainous boss in the book, though few people know it yet. She needs to complete missions related to him to gain the rationality points needed to remove her halo. And so During gym class, Ji Xingyao faces off against the male lead on the basketball court. [Special mission triggered! Cheer Ji Xingyao on and give him your one-of-a-kind support for the whole game.] Li Mingzhu: I know how to do this one! She borrows a megaphone from the school shop and shouts toward the middle of the court: "Ji Xingyao, you are light, you are oxygen, you are my ideal man." Bystanders: Seriously? Does anyone actually think that's enough to win over the top student? * On Christmas Day, 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 finds the manicure kit she bought online and knocks on the door across the hall. "Want to have hot pot and watch a movie together? We could do matching Christmas nails too." System, covering its face: He's a ruthless villain. Do you think you're having a girls' night? * One day, someone on the school forum discovers that top student Ji and Li Mingzhu own a bunch of matching items: thermoses, backpack charms, scarves, manicures... They even go to and from the same building in the same residential complex... The whole school is shocked!!! - Li Mingzhu gets involved with Ji Xingyao, earns 99,999 rationality points, and successfully removes her intelligence-debuff halo. She secretly figures that since he's a year above her, they'll naturally drift apart once he graduates. But on graduation night Ji Xingyao grips her hand, his gaze dark, his smile tender. "Try sneaking off with someone else and I'll break your legs!" Li Mingzhu: "..." Wait... Have I got a clingy one now? - He was born evil, cold and ruthless. But one day, a rose bloomed in his barren world. Content warnings: 1. Fantasy romance. There's no point applying real-world standards. The author's made-up settings are endless, and the plot takes priority over logic. Read at your own risk if that's not your thing. 2. Ninety percent sweet, everyday romance; five percent high-energy plot twists; five percent pure comedy. The chuunibyou levels may occasionally get out of hand, so proceed with caution. 2. Please don't compare it to other works or make personal attacks. (Blurb is provisional and may be revised. Screenshot saved on 2021.1.7, lightly revised on 2021.4.11, revised again on 2021.6.15.) Theme: Be confident, love yourself, stay positive, and grow together.