Ruan Ying used to be a shy plant spirit from the modern world.
After an accident, she was bound to a System and transmigrated into a badly concluded harem novel as the vicious supporting female character, the third senior sister who envied the heroine.
The System said, "All you have to do is finish the vicious supporting character's storyline, and you'll be free."
So being sarcastic to the heroine, bullying her, and secretly tripping her up... Those were all tasks for the shy little plant.
But the System had considered every possibility except one: the shy little plant it had bound itself to was a social phobe, a social phobe who stuttered even when talking to people!
[During the assigned plot]
The shy little plant steeled herself and, thinking she sounded extremely mean, scolded the beloved heroine: "Fu Qinglian, y-you, you little fox spirit! Have you no shame?"
Fu Qingyan tugged, fascinated, at the green leaves atop the shy little plant's head. "What did you say? I didn't hear you just now."
The shy little plant hurriedly covered her head, her face red with distress.
Why wasn't he following the script?
[The male lead's perspective]
The first time Fu Qingyan met the third senior sister, notorious for her arrogance and domineering ways, she was sarcastic to him from head to toe.
He'd never cared much for verbal sparring and had planned to simply ignore her, but...
Fu Qingyan looked at his senior sister, scowling as she kept spewing cutting remarks.
Then he looked at the little green plant atop her head, trying desperately to curl into a tiny ball and trembling all over.
Fu Qingyan: ...
Afterward, Fu Qingyan paid special attention to his senior sister and noticed that the more harshly she cursed him, the more violently the little plant on her head trembled.
If he stood close, he could even faintly hear soft sobs and whimpers coming from the plant. They sounded like his senior sister, but without her cutting edge, and with a touch of sweetness, like someone who'd suffered a terrible injustice...
Fu Qingyan, being bullied and insulted: ???
1. The male lead, Fu Qingyan, disguises himself as a woman early on and uses the name Fu Qinglian.
2. The male lead isn't actually a heartthrob.
A shy, stuttering, socially anxious plant-spirit heroine.
A male lead who seems steady and aloof but is actually laid-back and loves teasing the shy little plant.
Theme: Break out of your shell, and be confident and brave.
