I Tried to Save the Heroine, but the Villainess Fell for Me

Actually, Ji Chuyu's mission was to save the heroine in the beginning.

She promised the heroine, a concubine-born daughter forced to take her legitimate elder sister's place in marriage: "I'll do my best to protect you."

She reached out to the heroine, who was being bullied at school in a coming-of-age angst story: "I don't care what other people think. I only know that you helped me once."

She calmly plunged a knife into a zombie's brain, then gestured to the timid heroine, who had yet to be pushed into the mire by everyone around her: "Learn to do it yourself. Never count on anyone else."

She also told the heroine of a cultivation story, whose husband had killed her to prove his devotion to the Dao: "Your life is precious. No one has the right to take it away."

But she never expected that she would... catch the attention of the villainesses?

The white-moonlight villainess, who was the heroine's legitimate elder sister, smiled at her. "I've changed my mind. You're even more interesting than I thought."

The school bully villainess, who was always at odds with her, asked stiffly, her face cold: "Could you stop hanging around her all the time? Could you... look at me too?"

The scheming white-lotus villainess, who had always wanted to push the heroine into a horde of zombies, stopped targeting the heroine and started following her instead. She tugged at her clothes, looking pitiful. "I don't want them. I only want you to take care of me."

Meanwhile, the heroine would always watch Ji Chuyu in silence, as if waiting for her to make a decision.

Ji Chuyu: I only came here to do a mission. Why do I have to deal with this kind of love-triangle hell...

P.S. The love interests in the mini-worlds are the villainesses. The heroine and the villainesses share the same soul, and will become one later.

Worlds planned so far: 1. A story about a concubine-born daughter taking her sister's place in marriage

2. A coming-of-age angst story

3. A zombie story

4. A cultivation story

5. An ABO story

Advance preview for "Becoming the Black Moonlight of a Melodramatic Novel's Heroine":

Lu Yichao became bound to a melodramatic-novel System.

System: "The goal is simple: make the male lead live in regret and pain for the rest of his life. All you have to do is win him over, make him fall in love with you, and then die in front of him."

Lu Yichao readily agreed, then turned around and said:

"Wouldn't it be better for you if I didn't love you? I hope you and him will be happy together."

After saying this to the woman before her, Lu Yichao turned away, trembling but resolute.

The System panicked: I told you to win over the male lead, not the person the male lead loves!

But later, when it saw the heroines turn dark and torment the male leads until they were utterly broken and miserable, the System fell silent.

Having the person who was supposed to be the male lead's lover in the original story destroy and take everything from him with her own hands... Only you could come up with that, Host.

But the System was still confused. "Host, you could have completed the mission by following my instructions. Isn't it much easier to win over the male lead than a straight woman?"

Lu Yichao smiled.

"How does dying in front of the male lead make him suffer? Besides, don't you think this is much more interesting?"

Everything went exactly as Lu Yichao had planned, until...

The cool young woman had watched her leave in the rain, stubbornly refusing to shed a tear. Years later, she was elegant and composed in front of others, domineering and impossible to contradict. Only when she was back at Lu Yichao's side would she gently kiss the back of her hand and say, her voice dark and possessive, "No one will ever separate us again."

Years after they parted at the prince's residence, the valiant woman finally found her. She dismounted and pulled her into her arms without a word, whispering in her ear, "I finally understand why they wanted to lock you away back then..."

On the night the female emperor married her consort, the usually unsmiling, cold-hearted Imperial Preceptor stood in bloodstained white robes and raised a cool hand to her cheek. "Your Majesty will marry no one but me."

Watching the plots of every world veer in an uncontrollable direction, Lu Yichao fell into deep thought.

Had she... taken things a little too far?

P.S. The love interests in every world are the same person.

[Looks passionate but is actually an uncaring black-lotus seductress top x Appears indifferent but is actually a deeply devoted, tsundere, possessive bottom]

First world: (Modern story) A frail young heiress who has secretly loved the heroine for years x a poor, cold-natured, straight female student

Second world: (Transmigration story) The heroine's white-moonlight villainess, killed by the male lead himself x a strong, outwardly cold but inwardly warm female agent

Third world: (Matriarchal story) A lovesick female emperor who willingly gives the throne to the male lead x the cold-hearted Imperial Preceptor admired by the male lead

Fourth world: (Republican-era story) An innocent female student whose true feelings are trampled and family fortune stolen by a male lead who loves his stepmother x a beautiful actress with no home or support, adrift like a duckweed

Fifth world: (Online game story) The white rose ex who has returned from abroad x the red rose current girlfriend who pretends to date the male lead

Sixth world: (Cultivation story) An unlucky senior sister sacrificed by a fallen male lead trying to save the heroine x her well-behaved, loyal puppy-like junior disciple, reborn in a new body

Seventh world: (Vampire story) A human maid tormented in body and soul after being taken by a vampire male lead who cannot have the love of the elder sister he adores x the powerful yet tragic elder sister, a half-vampire

Theme: Even in adversity, keep your heart turned toward the sun.