After Forcing the Second Male Lead, My Luck Soared

[Prepublication: I Threw Away the Lovesick Fool Script] The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection~

Blurb:

As a modern-day office worker stuck in the nine-to-five grind, Jiang Suiyu transmigrates into a sweet historical romance novel as the villainess.

In the book, she cannot win Prince Jing's love, so she takes her anger out on the heroine. Fearing the heroine's powerful background, she abducts the heroine's beloved, Cui Mozhou, and humiliates him in every way to vent her rage.

Cui Mozhou was originally a refined young gentleman, as gentle as jade. After enduring the villainess's physical and emotional torment, he becomes ruthless and devious, earning the fearsome name "Jade-Faced Rakshasa." In the end, he rises to become prime minister, the highest-ranking official in the court, while "Jiang Suiyu" meets a truly miserable end.

Just after transmigrating, Jiang Suiyu has already finished whipping the second male lead: ...

She's doomed.

Fortunately, she binds to a System that pushes people in power to excel. The more diligently Cui Mozhou works and the smoother his official career goes, the better her luck becomes, and she can even earn rewards in the form of peerless martial arts skills.

She thought the System would make her change the second male lead for the better and stop him from turning evil. Instead, the System tells her: "As a villainess, Host, you must do your duty and humiliate the second male lead. In doing so, you'll provoke and spur him on, driving him to work hard, endure hardship, and become a great statesman."

Jiang Suiyu: Yeah, right.

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In his previous life, Cui Mozhou endured a great many hardships before finally achieving success and becoming a renowned prime minister. But just as he thought he'd made it, he was sent back to square one, returning to a point seventeen years in the past.

He looks at Jiang Suiyu coldly, assuming she's come to torment him again. To his surprise, she actually encourages him to study hard and secretly protects him in all sorts of ways.

That's it?

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Later, the ministers all agree that there's one married couple in the court you must never provoke. Make the wife angry, and she'll punch your head clean off. Make the husband angry, and he'll smile as he stabs you in the back.

Truly a match made in heaven: a wolf of a man and a tiger of a woman.

They're too dangerous to mess with. We're out of here.

* A brave, clever, and exceptionally strong heroine vs. a beautiful hero who's sweet on the outside and dark within

* Set in an entirely fictional world. Please don't nitpick historical accuracy.

* One-on-one romance, happy ending

Prepublication: I Threw Away the Lovesick Fool Script

Zhaosu transmigrates into a xianxia novel as a lovesick female supporting character who devotes herself to the male lead, a pretty but useless vase of a junior sister.

The junior sister comes from a prominent family. She's beautiful, sweet-voiced, and has a wealthy city lord for a father. She's a rich second-generation cultivator who could coast through life, but she's just a little too stubbornly devoted.

According to the plot, no matter how much the male lead uses her or brings her family to ruin, she remains hopelessly in love with him.

Zhaosu: Sorry, but I'm not playing along!

She eats and drinks as she pleases, leveling up and fighting monsters every day just to protect herself. By chance, she has a breakthrough and discovers she's a cultivation prodigy.

Hmph! Let's see who dares call her a vase now!

One day, she rescues a blood-red spirit snake from the hands of evil cultivators and kindly lets it go. But the snake repays her kindness with treachery, biting her before it leaves.

Zhaosu: Help! Is this snake venomous?!

Fortunately, nothing serious happens, though a strange red emblem appears on her shoulder.

Late at night, the clouds veil the moon. Through the thick, impenetrable fog appears a stunning man in a crimson robe. He approaches her with unhurried steps. "I am a Teng Snake. To repay you for saving my life, I wish to take you as my wife."

How is that repaying her? Isn't he here to get revenge?

"No way. We're different species, and there's a reproductive barrier." Zhaosu refuses him with righteous conviction. Then she pulls out an illustrated book filled with all kinds of spirit snakes and says, with practiced ease, "But luckily for you, you met me. I know plenty of pretty female snakes. I can introduce you to some."

Shi Qinyou: "..."

Later, she discovers that the man who said he wanted to marry her is the novel's great villain, Shi Qinyou, the Demon Lord feared throughout the cultivation world. He can shatter a mountain with a single palm strike, and he will become the male lead's rival.

Zhaosu: QAQ

Can she still run away?

Theme: Study hard and keep improving every day