In the End, I Can't Compete with the Scenery in Your Eyes

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Qiao Tianhao studied Zhang Na's face with a complicated expression and said, "If you can forget, then forget."

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Just a little short story! I wrote it in my first year of high school when I wasn't paying attention in class = =

I can't believe it was six years ago already. That's terrifying! Time really does fly!

[Currently serializing "The Noble Academy F4 Are Putting on a Show Again"; completed works include the lighthearted romance "The Female Supporting Character in a BL Novel at the Noble Academy" and the historical romance "Weiyang Is Like a Valley." Click the author's page to check them out!]

[Coming soon: "I'm a Fake Beloved in the Wasteland" and "My Black Lotus Ex-Husband's Second Male Lead Takes the Top Spot." Blurbs are at the bottom.]

---- Blurb for the ongoing novel "The Noble Academy F4 Are Putting on a Show Again" ----

Wu Mengying, a new employee in the transmigration-into-books department, transmigrates into an old-fashioned novel set at a prestigious academy. She becomes the pure, innocent heroine and follows the plot.

It's just that she has limited experience... and accidentally puts her own spin on things.

In the story, the arrogant, wicked rich heir F1 is supposed to pin her in a corner and force a kiss on her.

To show that she won't bow to his power, Wu Mengying actively bites and gnaws at his lips.

F1, who has been keeping his lips tightly shut, finally can't take it anymore. Blushing, he pushes her away and wipes the blood from the corner of his mouth with a tissue. "Wu Mengying, are you a dog or something?"

The aloof, popular idol F2 sees the merchandise hanging from her bag and gives her a disdainful look. "You're a fan of mine too?"

But then he spots her open backpack, stuffed with his merchandise, along with a pair of lace panties printed with a giant photo of his face.

F2 is stunned by the up-close assault and runs off screaming, "Aaaaaah! Idol otakus are disgusting!"

Her healing, gentle childhood friend F3 is gravely ill and bedridden, but stubbornly refuses to touch the medicinal soup she made.

Following the plot, Wu Mengying spoon-feeds him, refusing to let him gulp it down. "Drink up! Why did you stop?"

He looks at the bowl of bitter soup, bitter enough to make him gag. A vein at his temple twitches subtly, and he forces a smile. "Wu Mengying, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you?"

The clingy, dark, catlike younger man F4 turns against his cousin F3 over the heroine, just as he does in the story.

But for some reason, he still hasn't locked her up like he does in the novel.

So Wu Mengying takes out a pair of handcuffs and a thick rope and advances on him step by step. "Why are you cowering in the corner? Hurry up and tie me up!"

At long last, just as the plot is about to wrap up, the male lead suddenly bites the dust.

Mission failed.

Only later does she find out:

The four male leads already knew they were characters in a novel, and had been pretending to play along with the original plot all along.

[Wait, so you were all putting on an act for me!?]

In a New Game Plus, affection carries over.

So does resentment.

Wu Mengying had thought all four male leads hated her, an outsider who had transmigrated into their world. But not long afterward...

F1, always so arrogant, cries like a dog. The aloof F2 grabs her wrist. The gentle F3's eyes redden. The dark F4 simply locks the door.

"If you're leaving, take me with you."

"Don't you dare run!"

"Are you going to forget me all over again...?"

"Senior, where do you think you're going?"

*The original comic's plot is particularly dumb and ridiculous, and makes no sense.

*The cover character design was made with Picrew, and is available for commercial use.

---- "I'm a Beloved in the Wasteland" ----

Lin Yiyi, the only survivor of the apocalypse, opens her eyes and suddenly transmigrates into another apocalyptic world.

Here, people with supernatural abilities and monsters are everywhere, humans coexist with beastfolk, and the outskirts are a wasteland that could become contaminated at any moment.

From the start, the world greets her with wanted posters covering the entire city.

Lin Yiyi: ...I haven't done anything to any of you.

The System bound to her says she seems to have unlocked the beloved-by-all attribute--

Lin Yi faces countless pursuers: ...You call this being beloved by all?

Could it be that the one who unlocked the beloved-by-all attribute is her corpse?

At night, a lingering voice echoes in her ear, tender and intimate, like that of an old acquaintance she hasn't seen in ages:

"I'm the one who put a bounty on you."

"Curious? Come see me at Tianmen."

[Tianmen] is the center of the world. Even birds cannot fly over the electric walls, which stand tens of thousands of meters high.

Several days later, Lin Yiyi belatedly realizes that something is a little off:

The cheerful, sunny beastfolk boy reveals his fluffy ears in front of her and wags his tail excitedly. "I don't want to be friends. I want to be your dog! I won't be anyone else's dog!"

The sharp-tongued, scheming information broker touches the wound she stabbed into him, his eyes smiling. "I like that wild streak of yours. Where do you want to hit me next time?"

The mysterious, icy heartthrob sees her for the first time, and his cheeks turn faintly red. "Little sister I've never met, do you still recognize your big brother? I've been wanting to see you for years!"

Lin Yi gazes at the sky in confusion. "Did my beloved-by-all attribute only start working now?"

And at the end of the story, before Tianmen,

Lin Yiyi looks at the ancient evil god and smiles faintly. "Just passing by. Here's your death notice. Please accept it."

*The main focus is the plot. It leans toward Mary Sue, with many one-sided crushes. The heroine is the strongest.

*Outer Gate is wasteland, Tianmen is cyberpunk, and Earth Gate is a transition.

---- "My Black Lotus Ex-Husband's Second Male Lead Takes the Top Spot" ----

Everyone says the third prince is a refined gentleman, elegant and cultured, the unattainable flower that all the daughters of the noble families long to pluck.

Xiao Zhuxuan falls for him at first sight, too.

Unexpectedly, the emperor decrees a marriage, and she ends up marrying Lu Chengchu, a powerful minister at court.

Lu Chengchu is cruel and cold-blooded. Everyone avoids him as if he were a plague.

Then, as if things couldn't get worse, Xiao Zhuxuan's parents die one after another.

Only after her death does she learn that the third prince was behind it all.

Reborn, Xiao Zhuxuan returns to the year before she ever met the third prince. In the woodshed, there's also a destitute little beggar named Lu Chengchu.

Looking at Lu Chengchu, who will one day become a vicious and treacherous minister, Xiao Zhuxuan decides to train him while he's still young into an obedient dog.

Unfortunately, a mad dog is still a mad dog. Xiao Zhuxuan fails to tame him, and he even tackles her to the ground.

"Lu Chengchu, you're crazy! Why are you biting me?" She wipes the blood from her lips, abandons the badly injured Lu Chengchu in a dark, gloomy cave, and makes a clean getaway.

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Several months later, Xiao Zhuxuan returns to the capital and, just as in her previous life, meets the third prince. He asks for her hand in marriage again.

Beneath the bright moon, she lowers her head, unwilling to look at him. "I'm honored by the third prince's affection, but I already have someone in my heart."

The usually gentle and refined third prince's face turns sinister. He grips her wrist tightly and asks in a low voice, "Who is it?"

Lu Chengchu suddenly appears and knocks the third prince's hand away. Smiling sweetly, with a hint of menace beneath it, he says, "Wife, we agreed you'd train me. Why did you leave first?"

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In her previous life,

After their marriage, Lu Chengchu went to see Xiao Zhuxuan every day, asking only, "Do you remember that you once saved me?"

Xiao Zhuxuan would always shake her head in confusion.

"It doesn't matter. We have a whole lifetime. Take your time remembering," Lu Chengchu would think before turning away.

But in the end, she died.

Lu Chengchu had never known what joy or sorrow meant, but his heart ached unbearably.

[Naturally heartless, ruthless mad dog x cool beauty with an unyielding spirit]

*Lu Chengchu gradually regains his memories of his previous life, and falls hard; the third prince, Li Muheng, keeps paying for his actions.

*This is a fictional world, especially fictional. The plot exists to serve the romance 0v0

One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads are sexually inexperienced.

Theme: What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.