Playing the Lazy Fish in a Male Lead's Corruption Novel

Hua Xu died and transmigrated into a book, becoming a background-character upperclasswoman in a sweet campus romance.

She was overjoyed. Being a background character was great: safe!

More importantly, this upperclasswoman was rich!

Later, Hua Xu met a very well-behaved junior boy.

His looks, his figure, his personality: he was exactly her type.

Hua Xu secretly flirted with him, thinking she might as well enjoy a romance with a younger guy while she was here.

But just as their relationship was naturally progressing to the next level, Hua Xu discovered that she had transmigrated into the wrong book!

The sweet campus romance she had read was merely a sweet rewrite readers had spun off from the original because they felt sorry for the characters. In the original, the male lead was actually her junior.

He was the real young master of a wealthy family, but someone had deliberately switched him at birth. He had suffered bullying and abuse ever since childhood, and even after returning to his wealthy family, his biological parents ignored him. He was a complete little victim.

But beneath the male lead's patience lay a carefully laid plan. He would rise to power, bring down the wealthy family, and make everyone who had ever wronged him suffer a horrific fate.

Hua Xu thought about how she'd ordered her boyfriend to do the laundry, cook, mop the floor, trim and paint her nails, tie her hair and do her makeup, and carry her shopping bags... The list went on and on.

Oh no, she'd offended him big-time without even realizing it!

Hua Xu: ...

Her younger boyfriend was delicious, but staying alive mattered more.

Hua Xu put on her heartless-girlfriend face. "Let's break up."

She only wanted to be a lazy background character. She couldn't get involved in a big shot's world.

"Break up?" Xie Duchuan let out a low laugh. He pulled her into his arms, the corners of his eyes reddening, his voice turning dangerous. "Upperclasswoman, you were calling me darling so passionately just last night. Have you forgotten already?"

Hua Xu: "..."

If I'd known you were the original novel's male lead who turns dark, I never would've dared lay a finger on you!

Too bad. She had already fallen into the web of affection her scheming little boyfriend had spun, ensnared so tightly that she couldn't escape.

Xie Duchuan smiled brightly, his eyes dark and sinister. "Upperclasswoman, do you still dare bring up breaking up?"

Hua Xu shed bitter tears.

She wouldn't break up. She wouldn't break up even if she died!

-----Synopsis of the following upcoming novel-----

"Rapping on a Dating Show" Please add it to your reading list!

Nie Shenshen is a rap enthusiast, but she's always been short of a stage.

After blowing herself up in the apocalypse, she transmigrated into this book as a female supporting character hated by the entire internet.

This character was a notorious clout-chaser who latched onto anyone popular, with potential couples pairing off all over the place. Later, she latched onto the top-tier star male lead and managed to get onto a dating show, making the heroine cry. After causing trouble in all sorts of ways on the show, she ended up blacklisted and completely down on her luck.

When Nie Shenshen arrived, the first episode was being livestreamed. It was an escape room, and the premise was: What will your partner do when you find yourself in danger?

As soon as filming began, the original host earned the nickname "Scream Queen," because her catchphrase was, "Oh my gosh, I'm so scared!"

After Nie Shenshen arrived, she rubbed her hands together, feeling a little excited.

An audience, a stage: wasn't this the perfect chance for her to rap?

Nie Shenshen cleared her throat and was just about to belt out a song when someone screamed, "Ah! There's someone hanging here!"

Nie Shenshen: ...

So what if someone was hanging? What was the big deal?

The music kept playing.

Nie Shenshen rapped, completely absorbed: "I'm singing and dancing up front, you're screaming behind me. We haven't even arrived, and you're already pissing yourself. That's pretty funny, but you can't get away..."

The deceased: Could you show me some respect?

The other guests: You can do that?

The production team: The whole atmosphere is ruined!

The audience: What kind of new trick is this?

The next second,

a woman in white, dressed as a ghost, floated in front of Nie Shenshen.

The guests turned pale with fright, and the viewers in front of their screens jumped, too.

They thought Nie Shenshen would scream and then faint.

Instead, they watched her pull out her makeup and touch up the ghost's face.

Nie Shenshen said disdainfully, "You're not taking your job seriously at all."

The ghost: Which one of us is the ghost here?

The other guests: ...You can do that?

The audience: Holy crap, she looks really terrifying with that makeup!

Later, Nie Shenshen, who had once been scorned, turned the dating show into her very own rap stage and became the all-around girlfriend everyone online wanted to have.

The male stars who had once resented her for forcing a pairing with them all started tagging her and asking for a chance.

Nie Shenshen sighed. "I can't help being so charming."

In the end, even the male lead, whose pairing ranked last, couldn't help tagging her: "I've cooked dinner. I'm waiting for you to come home."

The whole internet went into meltdown. Everyone was furious: Shenshen belonged to them, and that shameless guy named Huo had no shame!

Nie Shenshen: ...

Wow, the male lead was now just being called "that guy named Huo."

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A seemingly lazy, wealthy socialite of a heroine * a genuinely manipulative, half-crazed hero

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Note 1: The heroine is two years older than the hero, so this is an older-woman-younger-man romance. (The hero is currently a senior in high school, while the heroine is a sophomore in college. He'll soon get into college.)

Note 2: Sweet romance, no angst.

Note 3: SC, they only have each other.

Note 4: The heroine is the original character, for reasons that will be revealed later.

Note 5: I'll add more if I think of anything...

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