The Grueling Journey of Winning Over a Court Official

Yu Shiqi's classmate recommends a romance game called A Difficult Journey of Winning Over All Kinds of NPCs.

The refined and elegant left chancellor, He Qingchen

The cold, beautiful crown prince, Yin Li

The spirited young general, Jiang Chuan

It sounds pretty appealing, but although it's described as a political intrigue game with romance, playing it is unbelievably difficult. One mistake and you're dead without a trace!

After countless efforts, every route ends in a bad ending without exception.

Yu Shiqi: That's right, I've died countless times :D

On her first playthrough, she becomes a plaything for the rich and powerful. The crown prince uses her to deliver a letter to the left chancellor. The next day, the chancellor comes to call and demands to know whose handwriting is on it.

On her second playthrough, she saves a blood-soaked boy at the border. His muteness never heals, and the boy takes her to the capital, where she attracts the covetous attention of every faction. Then, on the day of the Lantern Festival, those two finally set their sights on her...

When she opens her eyes again, she's the daughter of a minor official from a remote backwater. She vows not to go anywhere near the main plot again, and to keep as far away as possible.

One day, she feigns illness and stays in bed. When she wakes, she learns that all three men came to visit, but were turned away.

The next day, three handsome young gentlemen with pale faces and smoldering eyes block the entrance to her home.

Yu Shiqi: (Frightened cat face, turns to run, gets grabbed by the scruff.)

One-on-one, happy ending, multiple personalities. I wrote this for my own taste, so if anything bothers you, please stop reading halfway through. Don't force yourself!

Related completed novel: After the Villainess Dumps the Heroic Senior Brother and Fakes Her Death

The Right Guide to Winning Over My Black-Hearted Junior Brother. Add it to your bookshelf if you're interested!

[Calculating, vengeful, timid senior sister x vindictive, unhinged junior brother]

Liu Shaoshao transmigrates into a book and becomes the wicked side character who has a one-sided crush on the hero.

The System says that if she can reform the book's second male lead, she'll be able to go home.

Liu Shaoshao: Who doesn't know that the second male lead is a dashing young man in fine clothes, but secretly cruel, bloodthirsty, and moody, a future yandere villain destined to destroy the world?

And she's transmigrated into the cannon-fodder senior sister who takes pleasure in abusing and humiliating him. (smile)

OMG, the heavens want me dead! (hysterical)

*

To stay alive, Liu Shaoshao obeys his every word along the way. Serving tea and water becomes routine, and she hones her skills as a lackey, completely losing her dignity as a senior sister.

Liu Shaoshao: What good is dignity? Staying alive is what matters!

She never imagined that after offering him her whole heart, he'd trample it underfoot every time.

The cold wind cuts to the bone.

"Sincerity in this world is all for show. If you have nowhere to offer yours, toss it to a stray dog by the roadside."

In the hazy night air, his voice is colder than the snow in the depths of winter.

How cruel.

As if mocking her clumsy, futile efforts.

It turns out cannon fodder is destined to remain cannon fodder, unable to change their fate in the slightest.

*

When demonic energy engulfs him, everyone is afraid.

Their gazes are full of fear, as if they are looking at a monster.

After abandoning the path of immortality and falling into demonic cultivation, Song Lingyu has grown used to such looks.

But when everything changes and an exception appears, he discovers he wants far more than that.

He pushes her away with his own hands, yet all the while longs for her.

Song Lingyu doesn't know what's wrong with him.

The young woman's gaze gradually turns cold. Everything proceeds according to plan.

As expected, yet still beyond anticipation.

She's getting married.

On the night before her wedding, he tosses and turns, unable to stop recalling that dusk he doesn't want to remember.

The setting sun's afterglow falls across her profile. The young woman throws herself in front of him, her gaze both gentle and resolute.

"Does this make us even?"

Only after many years does he truly understand what she meant.

*

The snow in the mortal realm is so white, fluttering lightly as it swirls. A single walk through it feels as if they could spend the rest of their lives growing old together.

The person on his shoulder flutters her raven-black lashes. Her slender hand, wrapped around Song Lingyu's neck, stirs as she murmurs in her sleep.

Even in her dreams, it's still Rong Heng's name.

Song Lingyu lowers his dim gray eyes. "Liar. Didn't you say you only loved me?"

The person on his shoulder doesn't answer. He furrows his brow, suddenly realizing how inappropriate those words were, and falls silent.

#One realizes too late, the other lets go without hesitation. Let's see who's more heartless, and who's more devoted. #

Currently serializing, over 50,000 words, saving up bookmarks. Give it a try if you're interested!

Self-reliant, resilient young woman x cool, upright young Daoist

[Updates with the rankings before VIP, daily updates after VIP, seven thousand words per update when there are no rankings]

The early pacing is slow, so you can let chapters build up. Add it to your bookshelf if you're interested!

Blurb:

Lin Chaofang transmigrates into a melodramatic cultivation novel.

The heroine avenges her family, defects to the demonic realm, and goes through a series of tangled love-and-hate entanglements with her childhood friend, the righteous male lead. In the end, she defeats the mastermind behind her family's downfall. The novel runs for over a million words.

Lin Chaofang has just finished her college entrance exams. She reads the whole book, then suddenly finds herself transported into this world of flashing blades and swordplay. She only wants to follow the plot in peace, but the story hasn't even started, and everything is still unknown.

The System says there are two missions: win over the sword prodigy of the Heyue Sect, and stop the devoted second male lead, Xie Dao'an, from falling in love with the heroine. Then she can go home. But she's just an ordinary mortal, and she arrives standing in a pool of blood. A man-eating, bloodthirsty monster slowly approaches, shouting that it's going to kill her.

It even says, "Demon blood, demon blood smells so good..."

Just when she thinks she's done for, she's rescued. The person who saves her says he'll carry out the Sect Master's orders and escort her safely back to the Heyue Sect.

*

The young man who saves her is none other than the book's second male lead, Xie Dao'an. Even though he'll become the story's great villain in the future, she's at a dead end, so she can only cling to him and walk on in fear and trepidation.

She's like a piece of Tang Monk's flesh: wherever she goes, demons and monsters come after her. She's suffered countless injuries and shed countless drops of blood. She even has an ugly, centipede-like scar on her shoulder.

She may not be particularly beautiful, but she still cares about her appearance. Xie Dao'an ties up her hair for her, teaches her to read, rushes to protect her when monsters attack, and holds her hand when she's afraid.

Later, she learns that the sword path's top disciple she has to win over is Xie Dao'an's older brother, Xie Wangzhi, who is also the male lead of this wildly melodramatic, tragically romantic novel.

But Lin Chaofang still falls helplessly in love with Xie Dao'an.

Falling for him seems like the most natural thing in the world.

But she's just a mortal, while he's the favored son of the heavens at the Heyue Sect. They are worlds apart. And Xie Dao'an has always thought of her as his best friend.

She hesitates for a long time, and just as she's about to confess, she dies. She becomes a vessel to seal the wicked Lord of the Demonic Realm. It wasn't her choice, but she saves all living beings, so that's good.

*

The mission isn't complete, but she's alive again. This time, she returns to the beginning of the book. She knows the whole plot, but she has no connection to Xie Dao'an anymore. The System says that if she wins over his older brother, she can go home.

She gets a token identifying her as someone who serves the Demonic Realm. All she has to do is compete with the heroine for the male lead... Ha, that's a difficult mission too.

But what can she do? To get home, she grits her teeth and presses on.

But she never expected the pure, serene young man of years past, so composed and self-possessed, to commit such madness: imprisoning her and begging her again and again to take pity on him. Why does she look at his good older brother, and not him?

Advance preview 2: How to Win Over a Black-Hearted, Obsessive Second Male Lead. Add it to your bookshelf if you're interested!

Blurb:

She transmigrates into a historical fantasy comic she's been reading, becoming a cannon-fodder girl who clings to the male lead and doesn't survive past the first chapter.

System: Your mission is to reform the second male lead, build up good karma, and get him to do good deeds instead of going astray.

Yu Shiqi: You might as well have me jump into the Yellow Springs and get reincarnated early.

Yu Shiba knows the comic's plot inside out. Qi Wuyan and the word "good" have nothing in common. He's a true lunatic!

System: ...Okay, just as you wish.

"Better to live badly than die well" becomes Yu Shiqi's guiding principle from then on.

To save her own life, Yu Shiqi treads carefully around Qi Wuyan every day, afraid he'll get in a bad mood and kill her for fun.

But gradually, things seem to change.

That obsessive, bloodthirsty demon lord actually starts groveling and begging her to show him mercy.

Beside a golden cage, red blood crows swirl through the sky.

The young man's fingertips are gentle, his gaze tender and obsessed. "Then hate me. Hate lasts longer than love."

*

People are foolish, sinking into the mire of their seven emotions and six desires. Even if they feign affection and play along, they cannot escape the shackles of love.

Qi Wuyan swears he will never become such a fool in this life.

But one day, the young woman weaves him a dream with her own hands, only to shatter it with an almost childlike cruelty.

Qi Wuyan has long known that her affection is fake, and understands that her fawning is motivated by ulterior designs.

But he is still unwilling to accept it.

Since she dared to provoke him, he won't let go. For all eternity, in every life.

Theme: Treat yourself well and be self-reliant. Only then can you find love and happiness.