The Difficult Female Side Character Just Wants to Lie Low

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A sweet, romance-focused story~ Also known as I Heard My Husband Loves Me Very Much

Gu Zhishu lived for 23 years before discovering she was the supporting contrast character to the heroine of an old-school romance novel: a spoiled, troublemaking cannon-fodder villainess.

This old-school, melodramatic romance, Sweet Love, tells the story of a kind and beautiful rich heiress who falls in love with a poor boy.

The two overcome the heroine's white moonlight, prejudice over their identities, and class differences, bravely pursuing true love and remaining devoted to each other until death.

In the end, they discover that the poor boy, the male lead, is actually the real rich young master, switched at birth with a fake heiress.

Gu Zhishu is the genuine article: the spoiled fake heiress.

Perhaps this gender-defying baby swap is the damn charm of old-school melodramatic romances, with nowhere else to go.

Gu Zhishu causes trouble at every turn, serving not only to highlight the contrast heroine Bei Yinyin's kindness and goodness,

but, more importantly, to add fuel to the melodramatic love story between the male and female leads.

The heroine, Bei Yinyin, likes the second male lead, Qin Chen, and everyone is saying their families are about to arrange a marriage.

The spoiled cannon-fodder Gu Zhishu rushes in and uses methods too explicit to pass censorship to force herself on him.

She uses a baby that doesn't exist to blackmail the second male lead, Qin Chen, a man who values fidelity and loyalty, into marrying her.

This leaves the heroine to drown her sorrows at a bar, where she meets the male lead, Gu Yanzhi, a delinquent top student who can't stand the sight of her.

After finally forgetting her white moonlight, the rich heiress falls passionately in love with the poor boy.

Gu Zhishu then does everything she can to court disaster, abandoning her wealthy husband and throwing herself into the arms of the "brother" whose identity was switched with hers.

Her husband finally can't take any more of her reckless antics, so he grants her wish and divorces her.

Her "brother" promptly bundles her off to a foreign land, where she eventually dies miserably on the streets. Only her loyal ex-husband comes to collect her body.

After her death, the original leads live happily and lovingly ever after.

Her ex-husband, who believes in fidelity, feels unworthy of remarriage because he was once married to her, so he remains single for life and quietly stays by the original heroine's side.

"..."

After learning the plot, Gu Zhishu only wants to stay away from the heroine and be a laid-back couch potato. She's done following the plot.

First, stay away from the heroine. That means staying away from the second male lead, Qin Chen.

But by the time the plot awakens, she's already slept with Qin Chen!

No problem.

Isn't Qin Chen supposed to remain faithful to Bei Yinyin and never marry anyone else? And isn't Bei Yinyin determined to marry him?

As long as she keeps quiet and he pays her enough hush money, they can all get what they want. It's a win-win-win.

But the second male lead, Qin Chen, actually follows the plot and wants to marry her!

No problem.

They can get married and then divorced, and she'll get a hefty alimony payment.

Divorced and single, with money in hand! Isn't that the laid-back life she's after?!

But gradually, Gu Zhishu realizes that the "plot" is getting more and more out of hand...

Why is her wealthy husband, who was supposed to remain faithful to the heroine, pinning her against a wall with bloodshot eyes and screaming, "You'll never get divorced in this lifetime. The only way you'll leave me is if one of us dies!"

From the very first moment Qin Chen met Gu Zhishu, he began having an absurd dream. At first, the dream was filled with the sweet, passionate scent of spring.

But after their intimate moments, the "plot" in which they were supposed to marry never happened. Instead, he was the one blushing and begging for it to happen.

He thought the "plot" had changed, so why did she then follow the "plot" and divorce him?!

Whatever happens, in this life, unless he dies, he will never divorce her.

He absolutely will not let the tragic "plot" from his dream come true.

No one knows that from the very first moment he saw Gu Zhishu, he had already surrendered to her, gladly and willingly.

Please follow the upcoming story next door~ After Being Forced to Die for Love with My Ex-Husband, I Was Reborn

Blurb:

Love after divorce.

1. Your side of the story:

Here's what happened. My fake-gentle, genuinely cold and humble ex-husband, who was forced to marry me, actually wants to die for love with me.

He suddenly changed from his usual cold and gentle self, tied me to the bed, and said excitedly and darkly that he loved me very much, that he'd been hopelessly in love with me since the first time he saw me, and that he'd never stopped wanting to take me apart and devour me whole.

I suspect he's lost his mind, because all he does is talk. He hasn't so much as touched me, let alone taken me apart and devoured me whole.

If the bomb on him hadn't needed to blow up right next to me, he might not even have hugged me.

One second before I was tragically blown away, I returned to the moment after we signed the divorce agreement. Looking at the impeccably gentle man in front of me, who might be a madman, I said generously, "I know you're sick. I don't mind remarrying you."

Ex-husband: ?

2. My side of the story:

Here's what happened. My proud and spoiled ex-wife actually wants to remarry me.

She says she knows I love her very much, that I've wanted to make her mine ever since the first time we met, and that in the end, unable to win her love, I wanted us to die together.

Setting aside the fact that she was only ten when we first met, how could I possibly die with her in my arms? Even though I'm her ex-husband, I've always thought of myself as her "older brother."

This must be her latest trick to humiliate me. To let her finish her tantrum and leave me in peace, I won't refuse, initiate, or take responsibility. Surely she'll realize I am not sick, don't want to remarry her, and certainly don't want to die with her.

When she finally says she's had enough and humiliating me isn't fun anymore, and that she's going to marry another man, I really do tie her to the bed and try to die for love with her.

I thought I was getting revenge for the humiliation she'd put me through, but the moment I held her, I realized she was right: I really am sick.

I'm so sick that even admitting my feelings for her drives me mad.

Proud, spoiled heiress VS gentle, obsessive simp

Bonus scene:

One early morning, Ying Chenfeng gently put his arms around Chu Mo. "Darling, shouldn't we get remarried?"

Chu Mo sleepily nuzzled against him. "Mmm~ Later. Let me sleep a little first..."

Ying Chenfeng got out of bed with a gloomy look, but still spoke softly and gently. "Then go back to sleep. I'll go make you a bomb egg."

Several seconds later, Chu Mo, still half-asleep, was startled awake by Ying Chenfeng's "bomb egg" and sat up. She didn't even have time to put on her shoes before rushing to find him, shouting as she ran, "Let's get remarried. Right now!"

Ying Chenfeng, still frying the egg in the kitchen, heard Chu Mo's voice drawing closer and immediately turned off the heat. He covered the half-finished bomb egg, then turned and smiled as he walked toward her.

"All right. Let's go get changed."

As he spoke, he scooped Chu Mo up and carried her toward the bedroom.

Chu Mo: ...

Something feels off.

Latest revised version: 2023.2.2

Theme: Live earnestly and love wholeheartedly