The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Draws Blind Boxes in the Cultivation World

(Preorders: Saving My Pitiful Childhood Betrothed (Matriarchal Society) / The Deadpan Slacker Refuses to Win Over Four Male Leads. Their blurbs are at the very end.)

Luo Ningning, a master at transforming terrible blind-box pulls, wakes up to discover that she's transmigrated into the novel she's been reading, as a cannon-fodder supporting female character.

The awful System she's bound to not only loves assigning her all kinds of difficult missions, but also randomly forces her to take part in blind-box draws.

And the blind-box settings are even more ridiculous: "Guaranteed to have someone else snatch the prize," "Absolutely get lost in every new place," "Become a copycat in no time," "I'm terrible, but I want to trade three moves with anyone," and so on.

Luo Ningning: "What kind of blind box could anyone design in this world?"

The transmigration System calmly replies, "That's right. The blind boxes in this System are called 'Unlucky Bastard Blind Boxes.' They contain nothing but unlucky settings. Every single one is a dud, with no rare or popular pulls at all!"

Luo Ningning: "..."

With things as they are, Luo Ningning has no choice but to find ways to turn the rotten into the miraculous and embark on a journey of subverting the usual tropes to avoid punishment.

She encounters a villain and is about to have her hands and feet broken by him?

She uses the "Guaranteed to Have Someone Else Snatch the Prize" blind box, then watches as the third male lead arrives to claim the prize and fights the villain to a mutual defeat. Luo Ningning makes a clean getaway with the spiritual treasure.

She faces someone in a duel, and her opponent's sword is the fastest in the world?

She uses the "Become a Copycat in No Time" blind box. Her opponent discovers that Luo Ningning's sword is just as fast as his, and finally runs out of stamina and leaves an opening. Luo Ningning defeats him in one move and earns a place as True Person Lingwei's final disciple.

Her grandmaster wants to test her, but she's only at the Golden Core stage and can't withstand even one move?

She uses the "I'm Terrible, but I Want to Trade Three Moves with Anyone" blind box, successfully takes the grandmaster's move, and earns a reward.

Over time, Luo Ningning actually rises to the top by making clever use of her blind boxes.

The sect's disciples: "Who would've thought Junior Sister Luo could take the grandmaster's move without a scratch at such a young age? She's truly terrifying!"

The elders: "Who would've thought we'd see a junior whose swordsmanship rivals the Xue family of Beihai at this year's disciple selection? The young are truly formidable!"

The villain: "Who would've thought this young girl could be so cunning? She even set an ambush in advance. She's not to be underestimated!"

At last, after overcoming one challenge after another, Luo Ningning receives the System's final mission: help Fu Jingyun, the immensely gifted senior disciple abandoned by the Way of Heaven in his previous life, succeed in his cultivation.

To complete the mission, Luo Ningning has to stick close to the aloof Fu Jingyun like an obsequious lackey.

He's in danger? Luo Ningning rushes to save him without hesitation! He's hurt? Luo Ningning goes to great lengths to find medicine for him! He wants revenge? Luo Ningning does everything she can to help!

Before long, everyone in the Tianze Sect thinks Luo Ningning is hopelessly devoted to Fu Jingyun. But Luo Ningning only wants to swear to the heavens: "I swear, I just want to finish my missions quickly!"

At last, with Fu Jingyun on the verge of ascending to immortality and her mission almost complete, Luo Ningning immediately packs her bags and fakes her death to escape.

But one day, when Luo Ningning carefully puts on a secret identity and heads to a Dharma assembly for some fun, she turns around and tumbles into a familiar embrace scented with plum blossoms.

Forced to reveal herself, Luo Ningning looks at the inscrutable Demon God before her and falls into deep thought. "Huh? How did the sect's shining star go from being perfectly fine to turning evil instead of becoming an immortal?"

Reborn, Fu Jingyun sets his sights on his junior sister Luo Ningning, who's always been so attentive to him, as he plots his revenge.

He intends to keep up his elegant, otherworldly facade, using and seducing her so she'll serve his ends.

But as they spend day after day together, he starts to feel insecure and afraid of losing her.

Some fool dares to propose to her? Fu Jingyun cuts him down at the foot of the steps with one stroke.

She seems to have gotten close to someone? Fu Jingyun tosses the suspect more than four hundred kilometers beyond the sect.

Someone he can't stand invites her out? Fu Jingyun pretends to be weak and innocent, doing everything he can to stop her from going.

Before he knows it, Fu Jingyun wants to give her every beautiful thing in the world, just so she'll stay by his side forever.

He thought he was only looking for a way to pass the time after being lonely for too long.

It isn't until he watches the once-lively, clever girl fall into the boundless depths of the Weak Water that Fu Jingyun finally understands: all he has ever wanted in his life is Luo Ningning.

With a single thought, he fails to become an immortal and instead becomes a demon.

Little scene:

Fu Jingyun: "Junior Sister, are you planning to elope with another sweetheart again? Is that why you're so cruelly leaving your senior brother behind?"

Luo Ningning: "Huh? Help! Who is this possessive, jealous Demon King? Give me back my elegant and refined senior brother!"

Fu Jingyun: "Since you kept me from becoming an immortal, Junior Sister, you owe me compensation."

Luo Ningning: "What do you mean?"

Fu Jingyun: "I mean you have to grow old with me. We'll never part."

A clever, trope-subverting junior sister who insists on being a lovesick romantic but is passionate about her career, paired with a fake aloof beauty and real scheming, jealous senior brother who starts out focused on his career but gradually becomes a lovesick romantic.

One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first relationship.

Preorder: Saving My Pitiful Childhood Betrothed (Matriarchal Society)

Meng Rong wakes up to find she's transmigrated into a matriarchal romance novel. Looking at the pitiful young man kneeling at her feet, beaten to a wretched state, she falls into deep thought...

Help! Isn't this Gu Xiu, the novel's stunningly beautiful, universally adored male lead, who was born into a noble family but kidnapped as a child and made to suffer every hardship imaginable?

According to the plot, the whole Meng family is a textbook bunch of vicious cannon fodder.

In the book, Meng Rong's younger sister is a spoiled, lecherous good-for-nothing who's had her eye on her elder sister's childhood betrothed, Gu Xiu, for ages. After he rejects her, she flies into a rage and repeatedly tries to kill him.

Meng Rong's younger brother is arrogant and brainless. Jealous of Gu Xiu's beauty, he repeatedly tries to disfigure him, using methods that are especially cruel and vicious.

Her stepfather, who hides a venomous heart behind a kind face, has mistreated and beaten Gu Xiu behind closed doors countless times. He even plans to sell Gu Xiu to secure a future for his own children.

Gu Xiu is miserable every day in this living hell. Even the servants can bully him. Meanwhile, the original Meng Rong, his future wife, has been deliberately spoiled into a useless person by her stepfather. Selfish, cowardly, and easy to manipulate, she looks down on her lowly childhood betrothed and lets the Meng family torment him.

The transmigrated Meng Rong looks at this rotten family of cannon fodder and the meek, pitiful young man and immediately declares that she's splitting from the family!

Her stepfather instantly reveals his hideous side and tries to stop her.

Remembering how they end up in the book, Meng Rong smiles coldly and points at Gu Xiu.

"I only want to take my childhood betrothed with me! I want nothing else from the Meng family!"

*

After Meng Rong leaves with the pitiful male lead, the Meng family assumes her life will be as miserable as possible. They figure she'll pawn off Gu Xiu for money after ten days or half a month. But Meng Rong's life only gets better and better. Before long, she's wealthy and famous across the land.

With Meng Rong doting on him like a precious treasure and tirelessly rescuing and protecting him, Gu Xiu blossoms into a graceful, captivating beauty, no longer looking pitiful at all.

Meng Rong is pleased. She knows the heroine and Gu Xiu's powerful mother will soon find him and take him away.

Of course, they won't let the cannon-fodder who once bullied Gu Xiu off the hook, especially the original Meng Rong and her family.

Meng Rong has devoted herself to caring for Gu Xiu, and all she hopes is to bow out successfully without making enemies of the heroine or Gu's mother.

*

Before long, the heroine and Gu's mother arrive to take Gu Xiu home.

Meng Rong waves at Gu Xiu with a relieved smile.

"A Xiu, hurry home."

Facing his noble mother and the heroine, so elegant and impressive, Gu Xiu looks at Meng Rong with red-rimmed eyes.

"A Rong, you don't want me anymore, do you?" he cries, clutching at her sleeve in despair.

Looking at this beautiful male lead, who constantly acts timid and cute to beg for hugs and keeps saying he wants to spend his whole life with her, Meng Rong feels a headache coming on.

When Gu Xiu refuses to leave Meng Rong no matter what, his mother has no choice but to let him stay by her side for a few more days.

Unexpectedly, during that time, Gu Xiu sneaks into Meng Rong's bed, tries every trick to seduce her, and even attempts to use drugs to force the issue.

"I know I'm not worthy of A Rong, but I still want you to be my wife. I don't want anyone but you." Gu Xiu, breathtakingly beautiful, clings to Meng Rong's shoulder and speaks with an almost crazed determination. "A Rong, promise you'll never leave me, okay? If you leave me, I don't know what I'll do."

Looking at Gu Xiu, who has clearly gone off-script, Meng Rong suddenly realizes that something seems wrong...

Could she have raised the male lead all wrong?

[A strong, free-spirited, resourceful, gentle and doting heroine X A male lead who's beautiful and pitiful on the surface but scheming, possessive, and a cunning little flirt underneath]

Preorder: The Deadpan Slacker Refuses to Win Over Four Male Leads

Yu Yangyang, a slacker who reads novels at work, transmigrates into a book after binge-reading four novels. Just after arriving, her deadbeat father, whose enemies are everywhere, breathes his last. Before dying, he even remembers to give her a jade pendant and tell her to seek out her unseen fiance to save her life.

Yangyang thinks the plot sounds a little dangerous, but her slacker instincts still tell her to go mooch food and lodging.

The very next moment, though, she's captured by the book's great villain.

"Great King, please don't eat me! I'll give you my provisions and the most valuable thing I own, this jade pendant." Yangyang may be spineless, but she knows how to value her life.

The great villain looks at Yangyang's pendant and senses that something is amiss.

Great Villain: "Huh? You're the fiancee of Venerable Qingyue, the grandmaster of the Qianji Sect?"

Yangyang: "That sounds familiar!"

Great Villain: "You're also the fiancee of the legitimate son of the Yuning Immortal Family?"

Yangyang: "That can't be right. How can I have two fiances?"

Great Villain: "You're also the fiancee of the Demon Venerable's son and the sword spirit of the Xuantian Sword?"

Yangyang: "Huh? Are fiances sold wholesale now?"

The great villain stares at Yangyang, lost in thought. Yangyang stares at the jade pendant, lost in thought.

Back then, her deadbeat father followed the principle of diversifying risk. So now Yangyang has four fiances.

And the even worse news is that all four of her fiances are the male leads from the four books she'd read.

Yangyang never dreamed that she would be the cannon-fodder fiancee in all four novels!

Remembering what happens to the cannon-fodder fiancee, Yangyang grabs her bag and tries to run, but the great villain catches her again.

The great villain puts a diligence curse on her. If she doesn't obey, she'll work herself to death!

Yangyang: That's way too cruel!

But if she completes the mission, he can give her enough retirement money to live a comfortable life as a slacker.

With no other choice, Yangyang is forced by the great villain's threats and bribes to complete her mission: win over the four legendary fiances.

But because of the attraction between male and female leads, Yangyang knows that doing this will surely cost her life.

So Yangyang puts her slacker wisdom to work and decides to do the opposite, making the male leads hate her. If they kick her out, she won't have failed the mission!

Venerable Qingyue, grandmaster of the Qianji Sect, is the sect's leading figure, an aloof beauty who hates naturally talentless people. So Yangyang pretends to be a vicious, spoiled brat who never studies.

The legitimate son of the Yuning Immortal Family is a chosen one and the light of the righteous path, who hates anyone being better than him. So Yangyang steals his opportunities and takes the spotlight from him every day.

The Demon Venerable's son seems flirtatious but is actually heartless, and he hates lovesick people who are obsessed with him. So Yangyang turns into a devoted puppy, showering him with greasy love lines and relentless advances.

The beautiful, powerful, tragic sword spirit was raised as a weapon and suffered endless torment. He hates being bullied or abused. So Yangyang becomes a brainless villain and pretends to torment him.

But after a while, the great villain suddenly tells her to hurry back and forget about the mission. He'll still pay her retirement money. Yangyang is overjoyed and immediately prepares to fake her death and escape, but the male leads have all become possessive and obsessive.

Venerable Qingyue, the aloof beauty, descends from his altar: "Yangyang can be useless if she wants. Her master will spoil her."

The jade-faced fox, the immortal family's legitimate son, becomes a lovesick romantic: "Why bother seeking immortality? If Yangyang wants something, I'll take it for her!"

The frivolous, cold-hearted young Demon Venerable convinces himself: "Stop talking nonsense. Yangyang loves me like crazy. She'd never leave me."

The ascetic sword spirit goes straight to Stockholm syndrome: "Yangyang, lock me up and make me yours. I only want to be your canary."

Please! Who wants to be caught up in a tragic love affair with them? Looking at the male leads suddenly going crazy, Yangyang still thinks the great villain treats her better.

Obsequious Yangyang: "Great King! I'm so touched! You got me out of danger and still doubled my retirement money!"

Great Villain: "If it weren't for the fact you've been secretly in love with me for so long, I'd make you work yourself to death."

Yangyang: "You're imagining things. When was I ever in love with you?"

The great villain, furious and embarrassed: "You refuse to win over all these high-quality male leads and slack off every day. Isn't that because you're secretly in love with me?"

Yangyang: "...Great King! I'm innocent! I just wanted to freeload off your retirement money!"

P.S. This is not a story where readers choose between love interests. The male lead is already decided!

Theme: Only by standing on your own two feet can you turn trash into treasure!