Transmigrated Into the Male Lead’s Long-Term Meal Ticket

A quick plug for my upcoming novels set in the 1970s: Selected Goods in the Seventies and The Chubby Little Cannon Fodder of the Sixties. If you're interested, my lovely readers, please add them to your reading lists!

There are always a few novels whose male lead has a childhood-friend girl as a supporting character. She's beautiful and comes from a good family, but for some reason she's completely smitten with him and won't give up no matter what anyone says.

In a story about educated youth sent to the countryside, she might go with the male lead and provide him with food and clothes. In a domineering CEO romance, she might give him resources to help his career take off.

But whatever the story, she never ends up with the male lead. Instead, she becomes cannon fodder or a villain. First, she causes trouble and gets in the way of the leads, then their happily-ever-after team-up sends her off to meet her maker.

Zhao Lingxi, who transmigrated into the role of a supporting female character in a novel set in the 1970s: ???

She looks at the male lead, who eats her food, drinks her drinks, wears her clothes, and uses her things, all the while insisting he thinks of her as a little sister. He keeps her hanging and takes resources from her, yet happily dates the female lead.

Then she looks at the female lead, who knows what he's really like and still joins him in leeching off her, while treating her like a homewrecker.

Little sister?

Ha! You two can forget it.

I'm your daddy!

Content warnings:

1. The female lead has a golden finger and isn't a saint. Not being a saint doesn't mean she isn't kind.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners. The male lead isn't the male lead of the original novel.

3. A parallel, fictional setting, very loosely based on reality. Everything else takes a back seat to the plot, so readers who care about historical accuracy may want to steer clear.

Theme: Have your own thoughts and opinions. Don't be a 'pushover' who lets others take whatever they want.