A Short-Lived White Moonlight, Actually the Great Demon King

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Blurb:

Only after Ji Zheng died did she learn that she had been the white moonlight in an old-fashioned, melodramatic tragedy.

The male lead loved him, the villain loved her. Even some of the supporting characters in the book regarded her as the object of their fantasies.

As everyone's white moonlight, Ji Zheng's final fate in the book was to kick the bucket before she even turned eighteen.

Ji Zheng: _(:3"∠)_ I refuse to accept this.

After being reborn, the System told her that if she wanted to survive, she had to be brash, arrogant, overbearing, and unruly, transforming from a white moonlight into a thorny, queenly flower.

The System rapped the blackboard: "You have to turn evil! In other words, become a villainess! You know what happens to villainesses? They don't get killed off until the final episode."

And so Ji Zheng diligently set about her villainous career.

To become a proper villainess, Ji Zheng changed her style completely. She tossed all the princess dresses in her wardrobe and switched to a punk look, with black clothes, black pants, and black socks.

On the first day of school, Ji Zheng arrived at the gates. The breeze lifted the metal chains on her clothes, setting them clanking and jangling.

Up in the school building, by the window, the male lead and the other male characters were gathered together. The breeze lifted the hem of a girl's skirt.

This was also the scene in the original book where the male lead fell in love with her at first sight.

"Quick, look at that girl..."

A boy in the school building noticed what was happening outside the window.

The boy's voice trailed off before he continued: "Her chains are really long..."

-

In the original book, the male lead often watched his white moonlight dance through the door of the dance studio.

At the time, Ji Zheng was practicing alone in the studio. She studied classical dance, and the sight of her dancing gracefully, like a celestial maiden, struck the male lead's long-closed heart.

After that, the male lead would watch Ji Zheng practice outside the dance studio whenever he could.

After being reborn, Ji Zheng didn't want to give up her dream of dancing.

What's the difference what kind of dance she studied?

So she had a sudden inspiration and changed her dance style.

When the male lead came to the dance studio again, he heard a girl rehearsing inside.

As if possessed, he peered through the glass window in the door.

Inside, the girl's slender figure faced away from him. In her black dancewear, she looked like an elegant black swan.

Then came a thump from the dance studio.

The girl braced herself on one knee and bent her leg, executing a smooth and stylish floor move.

Male lead: ...?

~

System: Besides the male lead and the second male lead, you also need to watch out for the villain.

The villain is the person in the book who loves the white moonlight most.

Ji Zheng looked utterly hopeless: ??? Why?

Did I save his life or something?

System: [Bingo!~]

The villain, Xie Shu, had been searching for the girl who saved his life when he was a child.

She was gentle and kind, with features as beautiful as a fairy's.

And she always liked to wear a white dress.

Ji Zheng: Fine, then.

She immediately took off the white dress and pulled on leather pants.

After a series of outrageous maneuvers, Ji Zheng successfully went from being the white moonlight of the male lead and the other male characters to being their big sister.

Thinking she had successfully escaped her fate as everyone's white moonlight, Ji Zheng opened the System panel, only to see a notice that her affection levels had gone off the charts.

Ji Zheng: Uh...

Is there still time to salvage this?

[One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners, and they don't get together until adulthood. The male lead is listed as a supporting character.]

[The heroine only has a romantic storyline with the male lead. With everyone else, it's all about teaching them a lesson.]

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1

Yuan Su was a mermaid princess from the deep sea.

One day, she woke up and found herself transported into a book.

On the first day after transmigrating into a book, the original owner was at the Civil Affairs Bureau finalizing her divorce from her top-tier star ex-husband.

Inside the bureau, the man looked down at Yuan Su. "Wake up. Sign the papers."

Mermaids are delicate creatures of the sea, and mermaid princesses are especially pampered.

Yuan Su glanced at the pen on the table.

Her delicate nature came out in full force. "My hand is tired. Rub it for me."

The man: "???"

2

Before the original owner divorced her ex-husband, she had signed up for a parent-child variety show.

Before Yuan Su took the child to join the show, the internet was full of criticism:

"Why is she on this show again? Is this crazy fangirl following her idol onto the program now?"

"Seriously? Do you think appearing on a show with our brother means you can marry him? Take a look in the mirror. You're not good enough for him, you crazy drama queen with princess syndrome!"

Yuan Su: "Princess syndrome?"

Sorry, but this time you've met a real princess.

3

Yuan Su changed her usual ways on the show. Other parents did the tasks alongside their kids.

Yuan Su handed the tasks to the kid and went back to her room to lounge around like a mermaid.

The kid she'd brought to the show complained to the camera: "See? This is how she bullies me at home. I'm so pitiful..."

Yuan Su gave him a casual glance and threatened, "Do you still want a bedtime story tonight?"

Kid: "I'm on it! Leave it to me!"

It's just a task. How could it compare to the bedtime stories she told?

4

Later, people noticed that fewer and fewer people were criticizing Yuan Su.

Not only that, Yuan Su even became the darling of a bunch of kids on the parenting show.

A group of three- and four-year-olds gathered around Yuan Su to protect her. "The little mermaid is the most pitiful character in fairy tales. We have to protect her! Otherwise, she'll turn into bubbles and disappear!"

Yuan Su: "...?"

**

Later still,

The parenting show gradually turned into a pursuit-of-the-wife show starring Yuan Su's top-tier star ex-husband.

For a while, netizens weren't sure whether they were watching a parenting show or a dating show.

[Look! The way Movie Emperor Shen is looking at Yuan Su, you'd think he was about to drown in her. I won't believe there's nothing between them!]

[Has no one noticed that Shen Qiongxue's child and Yuan Su's child look kind of alike?]

[?! The person above!]

[??? Shipping them like this, have you thought about what Shen Qiongxue's ordinary-person wife will think? I feel so bad for her. Her husband is flirting with another woman on the show!]

As rumors about Yuan Su and Shen Qiongxue grew more and more intense, just as netizens were accusing Yuan Su of being the other woman and Shen Qiongxue of cheating, a post from Shen Qiongxue set the whole internet ablaze.

Shen Qiongxue V: [Yes, we have two children. @Yuan Su]

Yuan Su V: [I'm not planning to date anyone at the moment. @Shen Qiongxue]

Netizens: [???]

The whole internet exploded.

Yuan Su: The one who turns into bubbles is the lovesick mermaid from the fairy tale.

She's focused on her career.

#TheLittleMermaidFearsNothing #TheMermaidPrincessBecomesTheDarlingOfTheParentingShow #IsItPossibleToWinBackYourWifeOnAParentingShow #BothLeadsAreEachOther'sOnlyPartners#

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Yan Qi is extremely socially anxious. Normally, if she can nod instead of speaking, she will. If she can send a short message instead of a long one, she will.

To outsiders, she's like a cold, aloof snow lotus, as if nothing in the world could interest her.

In reality, Yan Qi can chatter away to herself in her head for more than two hours, all while snacking on sunflower seeds.

One day, Yan Qi learned that she was actually a minor character destined to be cannon fodder in a book.

The male and female leads were the hottest couple on a dating show, and she was the passerby whose job was to ship them on the program.

System: [You need to go on the show and follow the plot, taking the lead in shipping the male and female leads.]

Yan Qi: Ship them? Um... but I'm socially anxious. Can I ship them in my head?

System: ...?

On the show, Yan Qi stuck to her socially anxious nature. If she could nod instead of speaking, she did, and even when introducing herself, she only said her name.

Netizen: Another beautiful but wooden girl.

Netizen: This female guest barely speaks. She's so cold and aloof. She seems kind of arrogant.

Netizen: Um... that kind of personality isn't very popular on a dating show.

Socially anxious Yan Qi couldn't manage three sentences a day on the show.

At first, all the other guests thought she was an extremely cold, wooden beauty.

That is, until they heard Yan Qi's thoughts...

[Ahhh! The first female guest is so pretty! I want to cuddle up to her!]

[The first male guest has huge biceps. Tsk, scary.]

[Ahhh, the second and third male guests both like the first female guest. What a battlefield! Let them fight!]

[Well, well. The first male guest liked the first female guest just two days ago, so why did he write a love letter to the third female guest today? Tsk, what a two-timing jerk!]

[I heard the third and fourth male guests spent over an hour alone together in a room with the door closed last night... Um, and they say they're just good friends. Do they think we're idiots?]

[...? Why did everyone stop talking?]

[Why are you all looking at me?] *peels and eats a mandarin*

*

Yan Qi thought that after the show aired, the netizens would treat her like a nobody.

Unexpectedly, she became famous after the show aired.

Yan Qi: Cold and aloof on the outside, socially anxious too, but secretly munching on sunflower seeds and enjoying all the gossip.

As the show continued to air,

Yan Qi gradually noticed that the other guests were starting to look at her differently...

The heroine seems socially anxious and aloof, but she's really a gossip-loving fun-seeker.

The male lead is one of the show's guests.

All the guests can hear the heroine's thoughts.

A sweet, satisfying, everyone-loves-her story.

-- Blurb written on January 28, 2024, screenshot saved.

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