After I Kidnapped the Male Lead's Older Brother

Prepublication titles: After I Keep Going Crazy with the Second Male Lead and A Substitute Supporting Actress's Guide to Self-Rescue. Please add them to your reading list

Blurb:

Silly, carefree, and upbeat heroine * gloomy, calculating, flirtatious male lead

Lian Qiao is the supporting actress in Enchanting Demon. She loves the male lead to the point of obsession, and when he rejects her, she kidnaps his older brother, who looks almost exactly like him, then uses every underhanded trick in the book to force him to give in.

When Lian Qiao transmigrates into the story, Lian Qiao has already washed the male lead's brother and tossed him into a room, ready for a romantic night in a world of flowers and moonlight.

The noble and pure older brother has a look of humiliation on his face. A dagger rests against his neck, but he would rather die than yield.

Without hesitation, Lian Qiao unties him. "Go. I got the wrong person. I'm in love with your younger brother."

Older brother: "?"

"...You dragged me here and humiliated me, and now you don't want to take responsibility?"

As Lian Qiao stares in shock, the male lead's brother finally gives up resisting. "What's done is done. The rice has been cooked. From now on, in life I'm yours, and in death I'm your ghost. Come on."

Lian Qiao: Did I transmigrate into the wrong story, or did I land in fanfiction on some website?

My future enemy has suddenly changed. He looks at me with hungry eyes and treats me so ambiguously. Is this a scheme? I don't understand, and I'm deeply shocked.

*

In his previous life, Chi Xingchui was hated by his family, betrayed by his friends, and condemned by the world. The nightmare that began his miserable life happened when he was young.

When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to his youth. The woman who sent his life spiraling off course is sitting beside his bed, eager to make her move.

In this life, he won't repeat the path that left him abandoned by everyone. He'll make this woman pay.

But he discovers that the woman has suddenly come to her senses.

It must be a scheme. He'll stay and tear away her innocent disguise, shatter her hypocritical mask, and make her learn what it feels like to want to live but be unable to, and to want to die but be unable to.

Later, tsk, it really does feel like wanting to live but being unable to, and wanting to die but being unable to...

Chi Xingchui: My whole life seemed to have been sunk in the mud from the very beginning, but someone was willing to take my hand and walk with me out of hell.

Reader's Guide and Content Notes:

① The heroine transmigrates into a book; the male lead is reborn.

② Book Transmigration story. The leads are morally dark. A story without morally dark leads has no soul.

③ The heroine doesn't want to act like a person. She may be out of character.

④ Many original worldbuilding details. This is my take on cultivation, so please don't overanalyze it.

⑤ Trope noted on May 2, 2022. Screenshots have been posted on Weibo.

After I Keep Going Crazy with the Second Male Lead:

There are plenty of old-school stories where the male lead belongs to the heroine, but the second male lead belongs to the readers.

And then there's a book that features an NPC like this to highlight the second male lead's devotion and breathtaking good looks: she boldly confesses her love to the beloved second male lead in public eighteen times, and is rejected eighteen times, yet remains utterly devoted.

Rong Yi transmigrates into the crazy NPC who exists only in off-screen narration, never appears, yet is present throughout the entire book. As the heroine's universally loved foil, she's laughed at from the first page to the last.

System: "No matter what it takes, get the handsome, tragic second male lead back on track and keep the lovesick heroine from ruining his life."

Rong Yi: "Oh."

When the second male lead is surrounded by villains and on the brink of death, Rong Yi appears at her leisure and suddenly brandishes a huge saber. "Say you love me, or I won't save you."

Mei Suixing: "?"

When the second male lead crosses mountains and rivers of blood, enduring every hardship to find a healing elixir, Rong Yi holds up the antidote. "Say you love me, or I'd rather feed this medicine to a dog than give it to you."

Mei Suixing: "???"

When the second male lead is abandoned by his master, misunderstood by his junior sister, and reviled by his sect, Rong Yi says nothing, hoists her saber, and takes on everyone in a one-versus-ten showdown. "Suixing is mine. I can't even bear to scold him, and you lot dare? I'll kill every last one of you..."

Mei Suixing: "?????"

Mei Suixing is so amused by the young woman's outrageous behavior that he laughs in disbelief. "Rong Yi, a gentleman may be killed, but not humiliated."

"Then let me humiliate you and see what happens."

Mei Suixing: "…" Just destroy the world already. Hurry up.

So, through all sorts of coercion, threats, bribery, and outright lies, Rong Yi gets the second male lead to "voluntarily" confess his "love" for her, and Mei Suixing's reputation for noble resolve is completely ruined.

He's become the fool who uses every dirty trick to confess to the one he loves.

The main story has only just begun, and he has already lost any chance of getting close to the pure and flawless heroine.

Rong Yi: "I did it."

System: "...Aaaah, Rong Yi, you absolute idiot!!!"

*

In his previous life, Mei Suixing suffered the double betrayal of his closest friend and beloved, lived a life of humiliation, died miserably, and was reborn as a youth. He is determined to tear away their false disguises.

At this point, everything is still under control.

Except for that girl from his previous life who keeps haunting him. Why is she becoming more and more outrageous and doing whatever she wants?

"Mei Suixing, you've got such a remarkable build. I want to get together with you."

The boy props his chin on his hand, a glint of interest in his clear eyes... Huh, maybe that wouldn't be so bad?

Please Note:

① The current heroine transmigrates into a book; the current male lead is reborn.

② The current male lead isn't in love with the original heroine. Both leads are each other's one and only.

③ The whole story is comedic and unapologetically over the top.

④ Trope noted on March 3, 2021. Screenshots have been posted on Weibo.

A Substitute Supporting Actress's Guide to Self-Rescue:

Before hanging up her boots, Yu Yao takes one last job: return to a hundred years in the past and kill someone for her client, Yu Yao.

Yu Yao had been perfectly ordinary, but luck was on her side. She was taken in by Qingyu Palace at a young age, where her master doted on her, her senior brother protected her, and her love interest flirted with her every day. Yu Yao thought her life was going smoothly and that it would always stay that way.

That is, until her master brought back a living soul from the South Sea.

That year, the soul used her body to be reborn. Yu Yao's screams echoed throughout the underground palace.

Her face was ruined, her meridians shattered, and she was abandoned in a lightless place, where she spent years raving mad.

Her master despised her, her senior brother grew sick of her, and the man she loved hated her... All the beautiful appearances crumbled overnight.

Meanwhile, the soul rose higher and higher with the peerless body she had remade from Yu Yao's bones, smiling like a spring flower on a branch.

Later, Yu Yao heard people chatting that before her, Qingyun Palace had already had a junior sister.

That junior sister had been about her age, clever and lovable, but had died in an accident.

From beginning to end, Yu Yao's existence was nothing more than a substitute for that junior sister... and then a vessel for her return.

She was ordinary and had no family or friends. That was exactly why she was isolated, helpless, and without support.

When Yu Yao transmigrates into the story, her client's soul has been shattered. She has spent three years in a lightless underground palace, and has been mad for three years.

Yu Yao: What's the use of killing one person and taking back a body? I'm going to take them all down.

Master: "You're ordinary. Taking you as my disciple was already a gift. If you keep pestering me, I'll expel you from the sect!"

Yu Yao: "That doesn't sound right."

Yu Yao turns around and becomes sworn siblings with the grandmaster. "I'm your martial aunt now. You have no respect for your elders and you're completely ungrateful. I'm expelling you from the sect."

Master: "?"

Senior brother: "I've always thought of you as a younger sister. You're so much like Wanwan."

The next day, Yu Yao takes someone out onto the street in a wheelchair. The person is slender and gentle, and his smile is like a spring breeze.

"Let me introduce you. This is my brother, my real brother. You look just like him. The only reason I've put up with you all these years is that you remind me of my brother. Otherwise, who would bother with a dumbass like you?"

Senior brother: "??"

Love interest: "There's no future for us. I only love Wanwan. I only ever saw you as her substitute."

"Who are you?" Yu Yao has an arm around each of two people, a flower from a young heartthrob of the Hehuan Sect between her teeth. "Oh, you're that... I can't remember. Get in line if you want to see me. But that fur coat of yours looks awful. Throw him out and beat him to death. Don't let him offend my eyes."

Love interest: "???"

Rival: "Stop clinging to me. The only reason I put up with you is that you look like Wanwan."

Yu Yao: "No, I followed you because I realized we really do have a huge grudge. I'm here to wipe out your whole family, every last one of you."

Rival: "Help~~~"

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I shall become an immortal and enjoy life in heaven. All you rotten fish and shrimp can die out there.

A Few Things to Know:

> The heroine pulls a lot of outrageous stunts and has a fiery temper. She's not a traditional good girl.

> There is a couple. The love interest is the leader of the Assassin Sect.

> This was a spur-of-the-moment idea, and I'm letting it run wild.

Completed works: Transmigrated into a Cannon Fodder Supporting Actress and Found a Life with the Villain, Forcing the Male Lead's Substitute to Marry Me [Book Transmigration], The White Moonlight of My Meal Ticket Has Returned, After My Dao Companion Eloped, I Got a Happy Ending with My Green-Tea Younger Brother After Being Dumped, Moonlight Border, Wild Light. Please add them to your reading list

Theme: Strive to cultivate, and press onward without hesitation.