The Supporting Female Lead in the 1990s Comparison Group Rises to the Top

[Passing angels, please add my next novel, The Fussy Female Side Character Wins by Doing Nothing in the 1970s [Space], to your collection! The blurb is below~]

Blurb:

Tang Li transmigrates into a book set in a bygone era, becoming the contrast character who exists to make the heroine shine.

According to the original plot, she's in for a package deal of awful relatives: a mother who favors boys and indulges her younger brother, a cold father who leaves everything to others, an uncle who constantly mooches and drags them down, and several siblings whose lives are full of hardship and end in tragedy.

As for Tang Li herself, she goes to great lengths to land a rich husband, only for him to become a gambling addict, squander their family fortune, and leave her unable to afford medical care. Helpless, she dies a miserable death in a dilapidated home with leaky walls and no running water.

In short, it's one word: miserable.

Tang Li, who thrived in the entertainment industry in her previous life, says: Why go after some rich husband? The 1990s are an economic boom. Wouldn't it be better to build a business with the whole family? Dying poor isn't going to happen.

She sets up street stalls, starts a company, invests in a breeding farm, and sells cultural products all over the world. Later, she even starts a film and television company that turns a whole bunch of actors into award-winning stars.

Years later, her timid eldest sister has become a powerful businesswoman, her hot-tempered second sister is an exemplary healthcare worker, and her mischievous younger brother has made it into university. Even the uncles who used to farm in the countryside have become agricultural entrepreneurs. The whole family is thriving.

Meanwhile, Tang Li holds the award for the most beautiful businesswoman in Province A and smiles with confidence: So what if I'm a side character? A side character can rise up and become a winner in life too.

Zhang Xue can dream of the future. When she gets laid off, she isn't worried, because she dreamed that the factory would soon go bankrupt and that she would make a fortune by starting a business. She isn't worried when her blind date, Qi Zhen, falls for Tang Li, either, because she dreamed that Qi Zhen would become a gambling addict and that her destined love was a future tech mogul.

But gradually, Tang Li's business flourishes more and more. Qi Zhen not only stays away from gambling, he dotes on her endlessly. Zhang Xue looks at her own struggling career, then at her mediocre husband, and panics.

[Coming soon. If you're interested, please add these to your collection! ^_^]

① The Fussy Female Side Character Wins by Doing Nothing in the 1970s [Space]

Jiang Xu is reborn, returning to the 1970s, an era of shortages. At the same time, she discovers she's a contrast character in a novel set in that period.

The heroine is her cousin Jiang Yue, who lives with her family. Although Jiang Yue lost her parents when she was young and grew up dependent on others, she's hardworking and capable, and has the innate skill "charisma." Not only do Jiang Xu's parents and brothers like her, everyone in the surrounding villages praises her.

With her innate skill, everything goes smoothly for Jiang Yue. After her arranged-marriage match breaks off their engagement, she marries an excellent soldier instead. He rises through the ranks, and she lives happily ever after with children of both sexes and a powerful husband who dotes on her.

As for Jiang Xu, she's a textbook contrast character. In an era of scarce food and clothing, she's spoiled and fussy. Her family can't stand her, people in the surrounding villages gossip about her, and her husband divorces her because of her behavior. Although she lives to a ripe old age, she ends up alone.

This time, Jiang Xu's rebirth isn't for nothing. First, she learns Jiang Yue's secret: that "charisma" skill is actually sustained by the "dislike points" Jiang Xu earns when people hate her. In other words, Jiang Yue's smooth life is all thanks to people disliking Jiang Xu. Isn't that ridiculous?

Second, Jiang Xu discovers that the Ant Space she loved playing with in her old age has come back with her. She can raise chickens and grow trees inside it. Whatever she wants to eat, she can get for herself, so she no longer has to pester her parents.

Later, Jiang Yue notices that fussy Jiang Xu is still just as fussy, but somehow, everyone likes her. Not only do her parents and brothers praise her, but people from every nearby village do too.

If even a fussy girl is liked by everyone, then what was the point of Jiang Yue binding herself to the "charisma" System?

② After Transmigrating into the Hehuan Sect as a Female Demon, I Took Up the Unfeeling Dao

One day, Yun Miaomiao transmigrates into a book and becomes a naturally seductive female demon of the Hehuan Sect.

According to the plot, she'll get intimate with countless male cultivators, drain their yang energy to nourish her yin, become the greatest member of the Hehuan Sect in a thousand years, and lead its arrogant disciples to dominate the Demon Realm and invade the Immortal Realm... only to be killed by a single sword thrust from Qingyun Mountain's sword cultivator Jiu Li, leaving her soul and spirit utterly destroyed.

Fortunately, when Yun Miaomiao transmigrates, she's still a junior disciple and hasn't embarked on the path of dual cultivation. Unfortunately, her master tells her to start choosing partners for dual cultivation tonight! Looking at all the men before her, some stout and some slender, no, looking at these male cultivators, some as broad as bears and some as frail as the wind...

Yun Miaomiao decisively reaches out with her Er Kang hand.

"No, don't come any closer! I... I'm taking up the Unfeeling Dao!"

So she packs her things and flees overnight, heading straight for Qingyun Mountain in the Immortal Realm, the Hehuan Sect's enemy.

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Yun Miaomiao's days on Qingyun Mountain are quite carefree.

As a low-ranking disciple, all she has to do each day is keep her secret identity hidden, cultivate, do a few tasks, and occasionally fight demon cultivators... As long as she stays far away from the legendary senior brother Jiu Li, she should be perfectly safe.

The only problem is that a junior brother keeps clinging to her. His cultivation is too weak, so she always has to protect him.

Until one day, she is accidentally injured by a demon cultivator, and her junior brother casually kills the demon with a single sword stroke.

The demon cultivators: "That's Qingyun Mountain's Jiu Li Sword!"

Yun Miaomiao stares at her junior brother in shock and says bitterly, "You lied to me!"

The fake junior brother, actually senior brother Jiu Li, raises an eyebrow and smiles with the poise of an immortal, calm and unruffled. "Didn't you lie to me too?"

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Later.

After they've been getting intimate, Yun Miaomiao asks weakly, "Aren't you cultivating the Unfeeling Dao?"

Jiu Li's voice is hoarse. "And aren't you from the Hehuan Sect? How can you be so useless, hmm?"

A goofy heroine who thinks her secret identity is well hidden but is actually running around with no disguise vs. an actor of a male lead who seems delicate and easy to push around but is really the strongest in the Immortal Realm, a scheming wolf in sheep's clothing

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