There's No Reasoning with This Male Lead

(A lighthearted HE story. Life is hard enough already, so let's have some fun together in this story.) Zhenjing transmigrates into the daughter of a villainous consort in a male protagonist's coming-of-age story. She is arrogant and domineering, bullies the weak, abuses the male lead from the start, and gets abused by him in the ending. The original heroine, meanwhile, is lively, adorable, kind, and unpretentious. She constantly warms and helps the original male lead. In the end, they work together to become emperor and empress, then have Zhenjing, the villainous consort's daughter, executed by slicing her a thousand times to satisfy their hatred. Having been sliced a thousand times, Zhenjing remains optimistic: I know how to do this! I'll be lively and adorable, kind and unpretentious, and warm the male lead. How hard can it be to sweet-talk someone? Then she discovers that the original male lead is such a lunatic that he really can't be sweet-talked, and she'll have to find another way to survive. (Note: The original book's male lead is not this book's male lead. Of course, this book's male lead isn't easy to sweet-talk either.) New story, now open for pre-collection. Next up, a "If you don't love me, I'll take you home by force" trope: "The Black Moonlight Fails to Exit the Story" Ruan Bai takes a job playing the main gong's black moonlight in various worlds. He commits one vile, self-destructive act after another, successfully helping the main gong see how wonderful the main shou is. The gong then dumps the black moonlight and finds happiness with the shou. Once Ruan Bai completes his mission, the System will pay him a large sum of money, so he can live a comfortable, carefree life in another corner of that world for the rest of his days. But Ruan Bai never expected that, after doing all he could to get himself killed and preparing to exit the gong-and-shou storyline, the main gong wouldn't let him leave. When he sees Ruan Bai insist on running, he even takes him back to his own home... World One: The all-powerful Eastern Depot Chief (gong) * The down-and-out top scholar (shou) In the original storyline, Ruan Bai's top scholar character strings the main gong along for favors, while giving in to lust and falling for the frail, innocent main shou. He even wants to use the favors he got from the main gong to support the shou. The main gong has long since grown disgusted with the top scholar, who is fine on the outside but rotten within. Then, after this betrayal, a twist of fate lets him discover the main shou's virtues. He dumps the top scholar, his black moonlight, and lives happily ever after with the shou. After Ruan Bai finishes his self-destructive act, he waits for the main gong to grow sick of him. But the all-powerful Eastern Depot Chief acts as if nothing has happened, continuing to indulge and dote on him. Ruan Bai wonders if the main gong is too embarrassed to change his mind and choose someone else while he's still around. So he figures that if he leaves first, that should solve it. Who could have guessed that the day after he left, he'd open his eyes in the Chief's residence and find himself unable to get out? World Two: The Penglai Immortal Venerable (gong) * The outwardly gentle, inwardly sinister young disciple (shou) World Three: ... An alternate-world setting. Updates begin November 5, 2021 (or perhaps earlier). Pre-collection opens here. See you then. Theme: Strive relentlessly and work hard