Choosing Evil

Temporarily out of inspiration. I'll fill this in when I have time and remember. Let this one lie buried for now.

Also known as: Shackles, A Weapon Called Shackles, ZI GU, ZIHAO, Finger Bones

Blurb: There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.

Content warning: The female lead is genuinely evil. Slow transmigration. It may be one book per world, or several books in one world. I haven't decided yet.

The book's values are skewed. If there are other potential triggers I haven't covered, please decide for yourself whether to click in. Suggestions are welcome. This is entirely fictional and has no deeper meaning, just entertainment.

It's a utopia. Every ending is bad. There are tropes, and I'll try to make them logical. The female lead is a proper young master [wage slave]. She won't get too involved in the plot or fall in love. She may use her own feelings to achieve her goals. She's a despicable person who stops at nothing [which is why she's also called Zha or Za].

She has the standard qualities of a professional worker: she won't develop genuine feelings for the characters, get immersed in their world, or lose herself in it. The female lead is a professional. She may be sincere, but does being sincere about playing you count? She approaches everything with a playful attitude, whether it's reality or fantasy. This includes, but isn't limited to, character types and cannon fodder from traditional, unserious web novels and old-fashioned melodramatic Mary Sue stories, as demanded by the plot. She'll maintain their personas as the situation requires. The System can't force the female lead to do anything. It's just data, a tool.

A tool character, confirmed: she's just there to keep the plot moving.

Maybe it'll be an NP story, maybe she'll be adored by everyone.

She repairs the plot and fixes loopholes. The System is an ordinary System. The two are partners who use each other, with a fake, superficial bond.

[There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.]

She brings the male and female leads together. At first, the System randomly selected the female lead and gave her a choice. She chose to be evil.

A master of time management? To be decided.

Just a story. Read it for fun.

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Theme: I'm just a tool character.