The Cannon Fodder Scumbag Ran Off With the Tyrant’s Baby (System)

This novel will go into paid backlist on November 30. Chapters 36 to 160 will be locked, so please take care not to buy them twice, cuties! Kisses. My latest ongoing modern-day comedy romance is The Irresistible Him.

Xu Yinuo discovers she's transmigrated into an early-era harem tragedy with a terrible ending. She's become a minor beauty who gets no favor, serving a peerlessly cruel tyrant.

They say the tyrant is so beautiful he can steal people's souls. Any woman who enters his chambers either dies or goes mad. He doesn't eat people, but otherwise he's done every evil imaginable, and the court officials dread attending court as if they were heading to the execution grounds. The tyrant has a beloved consort whom he cherishes above all else. When she dies in the palace intrigues, the tyrant goes completely berserk, locks horns with the loyal and patriotic Prince Regent, and launches a war... And that's it. No ending. The story was abandoned!

System: If you dare to raise the tyrant's rage meter, you can level up overnight to become a Gold-Rank Rage Fighter, return to your original world at max level, and get a super skill as a bonus!

Xu Yinuo: I'm just a cannon-fodder character. Are you deliberately trying to get me killed?

System: Better to die beneath a peony than to live a dull life!

Xu Yinuo (spitting out her drink): That's a man-eating flower! A top-tier one, at that.

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Xuan Yuan Ye suddenly realizes that the well-behaved little beauty from the Xu family has become more and more unruly.

She trespasses in his forbidden place. "Your Majesty, after seeing you, there's only one thing I want to be: yours."

She burns an imperial gift. "Your Majesty, do you smell something burning? That's my heart going up in flames."

She sees him kill someone with her own eyes. "Your Majesty, you're especially detestable today. I mean, especially lovable. I could never get tired of looking at you."

Every day, the people in the palace wait for news of the beautiful Xu's death.

Instead, they hear that she's become the imperial consort's very best friend, and that the tyrant has taken a liking to her. She rises through the ranks from Jieyu to Zhaoyi to consort, skipping three ranks at once and becoming the most favored woman in the harem.

System: Congratulations, Host! You've unlocked the plot instance The Mischievous Imperial Consort Runs Away Pregnant. Complete the quest for a surprise!

Xu Yinuo: You little shit! And you said you weren't trying to get me killed?

System: Friendly reminder: the little bean has taken root. If you don't leave the palace, you'll be done for!

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Xuan Yuan Ye realizes that the woman who told him last night, "I'm very capable. There's only one thing I can't do: I absolutely won't leave you," has suddenly vanished.

On the run, Xu Yinuo suddenly freezes as the System yells in her mind: Congratulations, Host! Your rage meter is full. You've leveled up to Gold-Rank Rage Fighter!

Xu Yinuo: ...

[A hilarious, fake-cold female lead who keeps hopping back and forth on the brink of death VS a seemingly delicate but secretly gloomy villain who only wants to destroy the world, a truly apocalyptic male lead]

Reading guide:

1. A lively, goofy female lead; a gloomy, secretly passionate, iron-blooded and upright male lead. One-on-one, both virgins.

2. Romance takes center stage, with the System helping her punish scoundrels on the side. Plenty of everyday scenes.

3. Don't overanalyze the details. If it's not your thing, please don't flame me.

Blurb for my latest ongoing modern-day comedy romance, The Irresistible Him:

After her three-year relationship goes down the drain, good girl Feng Piaopiao undergoes a transformation.

Dutch courage gives her the nerve to grab a muscular hunk outside a private room and vent all her frustrations about life.

She thinks it's a simple fling, with them parting ways at dawn.

But the hunk starts showing up outside her office every day, luring her with delicious food and asking her out on dates.

Feng Piaopiao hints and then spells out that they're not right for each other, but the hunk remains determined to take her out to eat.

She can't resist his appetite for food, beauty, and sex, and falls for him.

She lets the tiger in her heart loose, trying every position and all sorts of tricks.

Only after successfully getting revenge on her ex, a philandering scumbag, does Feng Piaopiao come to her senses and decide to turn over a new leaf.

Nie Yunchi, handsome face dark as he is discarded after being used, says, "You agreed to be my girlfriend."

Feng Piaopiao denies it. "I was drunk. You can't take it seriously."

A month after they split up:

To get back a contract that was inexplicably passed over, Feng Piaopiao boldly barges into a powerful client's dinner.

The instant she sees the client's real face, she loses her nerve.

Nie Yunchi toys with his wineglass, his voice cold. "We know each other? Not well."

From then on, Feng Piaopiao stands outside his office every day, acting out The Daily Comeuppance of a Heartbreaker,

until she finally gets a contract absolving her of all guilt.

Nie Yunchi: "It's in black and white. No taking it back!"

A seemingly sweet but actually flirtatious good girl x a socially awkward, secretly passionate straight-laced guy

Theme: The meaning of life is in our own hands, not in other people's mouths.