I'm Too Cautious, Yet I Became the Strongest in Another World

Bai Ruan transmigrated into a prematurely abandoned apocalyptic novel for men, as the vicious side character who failed to frame the male lead and was killed instead. Bai Ruan: ? I just want to survive. Stay away from me. To stay alive, Bai Ruan is extremely cautious-- The second male lead threatens her? Kill him. Someone holds a grudge? Kill them. Someone's scheming? Kill them, too. System: "???" * In the System's eyes, Bai Ruan's survival plan for the apocalypse is to win over the original supporting cast, find the male lead and clear her name, and seek protection from a powerful base and team... But Bai Ruan is busy fighting the supporting cast for evolution resources, putting together her own team, and using every trick she can think of to plan a hundred ways to kill the male lead. While everyone else schemes in the wasteland and acts out apocalyptic romances, Bai Ruan is planning escape routes in case she can't win a fight, figuring out how to cover her tracks after a kill, clean up after clearing out mutated creatures, and frame the villain for stealing evolution materials... She thought she'd gone off the plot a long time ago. Yet the female side character who hated her became her team's healer, the male side character who despised her confessed his feelings, and the villain who saw her as an insect made her his sworn enemy. Even the supporting characters one by one came to pledge their loyalty to her. Bai Ruan: ... -- Much later, Bai Ruan became the strongest person in the apocalypse and was feared by every faction. Even the white tiger she raised became the apocalypse's most fearsome beast. Countless people speculated about how she'd risen to power. Bai Ruan sighed. "At first, I just wanted to stay alive." ////// In his previous life, Qin Yu gave everything to his base, only to be betrayed. Once he saw the truth, he blew up the base and took everyone down with him. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself reborn. He had become a tiger cub in the early days of the apocalypse, and the poisonous woman who had framed him in his previous life had picked him up. Unable to fight back, Qin Yu sneered inwardly. He would lie low and endure the humiliation, then deal with every one of the people who had betrayed him in his previous life! He'd start with the Bai Ruan right in front of him! One day, Bai Ruan showed the precious tiger cub a hand-drawn picture of the male lead. "Tiger, remember this man. His name is Qin Yu." "He and Mommy are enemies. If you ever see him, kill him!" The figure in the picture had a huge pancake face, tiny mung-bean eyes, and a vicious, crooked grin. Qin Yu: ...? [Content notes and clarifications] 1. Extremely cautious, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside heroine VS good guy who fails to turn evil. 2. The heroine grows over time. Before she transmigrated into a book, she was just an ordinary girl, not an overpowered expert from the start. The male lead is even weaker early on, a short-legged tiger cub who will become human. 3. Supporting characters who spend time with the main characters may die, since this is the apocalypse, not peacetime. Please don't read if that bothers you. 4. A male side character falls for and pursues the heroine, so there is some competition between men. After all, who wouldn't like a beautiful, capable woman? 5. The heroine will kill proactively to survive. She isn't purely good, so please don't read if that bothers you. 6. I was craving an apocalypse story, so I wrote one for myself. Feel free to stay or go, but insults will be deleted. -- Coming soon: Reborn from the Start with Death, I Become a God in the Weird World Lu Qiu is a second-rate citizen, a beggar surviving among ruins and garbage. Until one day, she digs a gold coin out of an ancient ruin. The great figure praised on the back of the coin has the same name as her, and the portrait engraved on the front is her own! "To the supreme lord Lu Qiu, who led us out of the darkest night." She traces the inscription on the coin, imagining she's a princess lost on some ruined planet, or perhaps descended from an ancient noble family. But when a tentacle pierces her chest and a monster tears out her organs, Lu Qiu thinks: So much for that daydream... She's just a weak nobody, not even worth calling cannon fodder. As her consciousness fades and she's on the brink of death, a twisted black hole slowly appears: [Gate to the Weird World 11503--] [Spore lifeform detected nearby... Enter the gate?] Lu Qiu's finger twitches in the pool of blood. The black hole flickers and sucks in her broken body. [Welcome home, child of the Mother Goddess.] * Spores spread, four-dimensional bugs appear, and contaminated zones fall. Parasites and Awakened emerge, while the Fallen and the Executioners fight to the death... Moving along the edge between the three-dimensional world and four-dimensional space, Lu Qiu rises from an obscure nobody who keeps her head down to a fearsome ruler of the Weird World, making everyone uneasy. Lu Qiu feels she's been misunderstood. At first, she only wanted to survive. Later, she thought being a gourmet wouldn't be so bad, either. She toys with the gold coin her people had minted out of gratitude to her. It's identical to the one she found in the ruins back when she was still a beggar. Looking up at the misty blue-gray gloom, Lu Qiu wonders, at this moment, what the real world is. The idea was conceived in 2021, and the title and outline were already in place before September 2022. Please don't copy them. Theme: Even in danger, never give up hoping for the sunshine