After Becoming a Drama Queen, I Survived on Absurdity

Please add my upcoming novel, A Glimmer, to your reading list. Its blurb is at the bottom.

This novel's blurb: Qiao Yiming transmigrates into a melodramatic novel as the nasty, tantrum-prone female supporting character.

The original keeps competing with the heroine for attention and the man she loves, digging her own grave in every possible way. In the end, all she wins is a court judgment and a miserable death in prison.

When Qiao Yiming first arrives, she's in the middle of falling from a building.

Qiao Yiming: Help!

A System appears in her moment of danger: Congratulations, you have been...

"Bind, bind, bind!" Whatever the System is, as long as it can keep her alive.

She regrets it the moment the binding is complete.

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The System not only demands that she change her tantrum-prone image, it also requires her to get close to the male lead, Luo Chenlin. Otherwise, her life force will keep dropping until she dies.

As if!

Does she look like the kind of person who'd grovel just to stay alive?

Sorry, she is.

To survive, Qiao Yiming tries all sorts of tricks to get close to him, constantly courting disaster and dancing on his last nerve:

She shouts in front of everyone outside his company, "I'm pregnant! You're going to be a father!" and takes advantage of the chaos to feel him up.

Luo Chenlin gives her a death glare. "These hands keep touching things they shouldn't. Maybe I should cut them off."

She gives him a sycophantic smile. "You're not a thing. You're the one who can save my life."

She sneaks into his bedroom in the middle of the night to steal his personal clothes and nearly gets thrown out as a pervert.

Luo Chenlin gives her a cold look. "Money or your life. Pick one."

She blushes coyly. "I want to cuddle up with you."

When she sees that he's injured and downhearted, she brings him medicine and offers comfort, but she gets drunk after one drink.

The next morning...

Luo Chenlin crosses his arms. "Do you want me to kick you out of bed, or will you get up on your own?"

Qiao Yiming looks horrified. "I didn't do anything to you last night, did I?"

*

After being kidnapped as a child, Luo Chenlin developed PTSD and came to hate physical contact with others. But ever since Qiao Yiming fell from that building, he has found himself desperately craving her touch.

He rejects her sternly on the surface, while secretly looking forward to it. So he makes a deal with her. But then she suddenly gets serious about her career and starts thriving:

A revered artist who hasn't taken a student in years announces that she will be his last disciple.

She enters an international painting competition and wins first place, making a name for herself while still a student.

She appears in a movie no one expected to succeed, and it becomes a hit. Though only a supporting actress, she unexpectedly goes viral.

Luo Chenlin waits and waits, but his wife never comes over to ask for cuddles: ...

*

Later...

Luo Chenlin: Why did you stand me up again?

Qiao Yiming: Wait until I finish filming this... Hang on, why are you taking your clothes off?

Luo Chenlin's fingers pause, his ears turning red. "Don't you want to cuddle?"

Qiao Yiming's eyes widen. "You're acting strange!"

A quirky, shameless, melodramatic heroine who gets close to him by any means vs a cold, untouchable CEO who eventually eats his words

Please add A Glimmer to your reading list!

When Shu Yuexi first meets Qin Cheng, he is destitute, and anyone can walk all over him. Yet he still steps in to help her out of a difficult situation.

When Shu Yuexi discovers his talent for painting, she follows him down several streets like a little tail.

Caught red-handed, she has a brain freeze and says the boldest thing in the smallest voice:

"Do you want to live with me?"

Qin Cheng: "?"

*

Through a twist of fate, the two become business partners. When she takes him to see their office, Shu Yuexi stays huddled in a corner the whole time, afraid to move.

Qin Cheng's voice is low and languid. "Didn't you say you were hiring me as your art assistant? Where's the painting?"

Shu Yuexi trembles, looking terrified, as if she is about to cry.

Her fear of men is acting up again.

In the end, she takes out her phone and communicates with Qin Cheng by typing face-to-face.

Qin Cheng: "??"

*

After spending some time together, Qin Cheng is drawn to Shu Yuexi, who looks delicate but is actually a tireless workaholic, and the two gradually fall in love.

Then his enemies appear. To keep Shu Yuexi from being dragged into the conflict, Qin Cheng has no choice but to leave her of his own accord.

But fate binds them tightly together. When they meet again, Qin Cheng decides to be selfish for once.

Later, Shu Yuexi's mother conspires with her abusive father to sell her to Qin Cheng's enemy in exchange for a huge fortune.

At the critical moment, Qin Cheng arrives just in time and reaches out to her resolutely. "Come with me."

Shu Yuexi clutches his hand tightly, as if it were the last straw keeping her alive.

*

Later still, Qin Cheng's past is dug up by his enemies. Public opinion puts him in the eye of the storm, turning him into a pariah whom everyone wants to punish.

Shu Yuexi alone stays by his side, holding his hand. "I believe you. Get back on your feet."

She becomes his light, piercing the clouds and cutting through the darkness to illuminate his bleak future.

But that light is on the verge of fading because of a carefully plotted scheme.

Qin Cheng's eyes turn bloodshot as he personally uncovers the truth that has been hidden for years. He transforms into a powerful avenger and deals with his enemies.

Once everything is settled, he finally holds that light firmly in his hands, cherishing it until it shines brilliantly.

Introverted, man-fearing children's book illustrator x fatherly, cunning game developer

Theme: Do whatever it takes to stay alive