I'm Still Playing the Fool in an Old-School Angst Novel

[A True Strong Female Lead] [A Satisfying Power Fantasy!]

Lou Wangshu is emotionally deficient. She is sent into three thousand melodramatic little worlds to undergo trials, and in these tragic romance stories, there are always male leads, female leads, and supporting characters who just can't think straight...

Lou Wangshu: I'll teach you how to behave.

1. The male lead mistakes someone else for his benefactor, marries the supporting female character who stole her identity, and leaves the female lead's entire family destitute and suffering for half their lives.

When Lou Wangshu returns to the day the male lead was rescued, she not only refuses to save him, she calls the police and makes sure his photo is displayed prominently on the anti-gang campaign homepage.

2. The female lead's heart's blood is needed as an ingredient in medicine for the supporting female character, so the male lead comes to take it.

Lou Wangshu glances at the dying woman. "There's no saving her. Take her away and bury her."

3. A child bride supports her husband through the imperial examinations. After he passes, he will divorce her and marry a noblewoman from a powerful family.

When Lou Wangshu arrives, she kills the husband, takes his place in the exams, and holds a knife to the examiner's throat, demanding the answer key.

4. Before entering a story about a deposed empress, when the emperor and empress are at odds, the consorts say, "Stop arguing, stop arguing" (while thinking: Fight! Fight!).

When Lou Wangshu transmigrates into the empress, the consorts say, "I've bled for the empress, I've taken a blade for the empress. My heart belongs to the Party... no, to the empress."

You can say I'm not favored, but you absolutely cannot say I'm not loyal to Her Majesty the Empress!

5. Because of a misunderstanding, the male lead hangs the female lead on the city wall for three days and three nights. When he finally remembers her, he asks if she's admitted her mistake.

During those three days, Lou Wangshu uses her high vantage point to take in the city's defenses, joins forces with the enemy army to break through the gates, and cuts the male lead down from his horse.

6. The supporting female character is ill and needs the female lead's kidney, so the male lead takes the female lead to the hospital without a moment's hesitation.

Lou Wangshu pulls out her medical license and flings it at the male lead and supporting female character. "Bet you didn't see this coming. I'm the surgeon performing your operation."

7. The male lead loses his memory and disappears, forgetting his wife, the female lead, and falling in love instead with the supporting female character, a Cinderella.

Lou Wangshu wraps things up and sells the male lead's company. You can go have your sickly-sweet romance, while I build a thriving career.

8. The male lead marries the female lead in a family-arranged union, but can't let go of the supporting female character, his first love. He torments the female lead and divorces her, only realizing she's his true love after she's gone.

Lou Wangshu smacks him across the face, then decides one slap isn't enough and smacks him again. "Have you been eating too much salt or something?"

When Lou Wangshu finally emerges from the little worlds, everyone discovers that her condition has gotten worse.

Reader's Guide:

This is the second book in the series I Became a Goofball in an Old-School Tragic Romance. You can read it without having read the first book.

Theme: No one should have to pay the price for someone else's love.