The Couch-Potato Supporting Lady Becomes a Hit on a Dating Show

Top-tier star Shi Miao transmigrates into a romance reality show novel full of romantic rivalries, becoming the center of a flop idol group, a scandal-ridden girl who bought her way to the top. On top of that, she's a vicious fake heiress who stole someone else's place, while the real heiress is the sweet, innocent original heroine, a member of her group whom she pushed out of the center position.

In the original novel, the villainess Shi Miao falls in love with the male lead, Jin Zeyu, at first sight. She does everything she can to sabotage the couple's relationship and secretly make life difficult for the heroine. When she's exposed, the entire internet blacklists her. After paying a huge penalty for breach of contract, she takes poison and kills herself.

Determined not to meet the same disastrous end, Shi Miao confidently joins the variety show Love at First Sight. But the male guests seem a little different from how they were in the original novel...

Male Guest No. 1: A domineering CEO who's cold and rigid, but turns out to be a kitty who just wants someone to pet him to his heart's content?

Male Guest No. 2: A witty, easygoing music creator, but turns out to be a cold-blooded vampire who loves pinning people against walls and making them blush?

Male Guest No. 3: A cheerful, affectionate rookie idol who loves calling women "big sister," but turns out to be a two-faced, scheming weather prodigy who can control the weather?

Male Guest No. 4: An esports player who always argues with her and unleashes a barrage of taunts, but turns out to be a lovesick, terminally tsundere puppeteer?

During the first round of dates, all the male guests give their little red flowers to the original heroine.

Shi Miao looks sad on the outside, but is overjoyed inside: Yay, it's already a romantic rivalry free-for-all! Let them fight!

But then...

The male lead of this top-tier dating show, Jin Zeyu, gives his flower to Shi Miao, who's quietly shipping the couples.

Shi Miao: ???

The show takes an increasingly bizarre turn, and laid-back Shi Miao becomes the center of the romantic rivalry vortex.

Shi Miao: I just wanted to coast along...

Reader's Guide:

1. Everyone's caught in a romantic rivalry free-for-all, with a chaotic mix of couples; all the male guests are nonhuman.

2. The heroine isn't your typical laid-back girl: she's a max-level powerhouse with a carefree, easygoing attitude who punches first when trouble comes.

3. A universally adored heroine who's a talented actress; her subtle, flirtatious charm is deadly.

4. This story includes comment sections. If that bothers you, please read something else.

Upcoming fantasy romance: My Mortal Enemy Became the Perfect Couple [From Ancient Times to the Modern Day]

Blurb: Ruan Yunshu and Xie Rongyu are infamous mortal enemies in the cultivation world.

Xie Rongyu wants to cultivate the Dao of Ruthlessness, so Ruan Yunshu keeps collecting all kinds of unspeakable novels and throwing them into his cultivation chamber.

She blushes just reading those novels. How much more heated must Xie Rongyu, who's never experienced the ways of the world, get? Once she successfully reaches Foundation Establishment, won't that little Qi Refining weakling Xie Rongyu be at her mercy?

Just as the novels are about to overflow from the cultivation chamber, Ruan Yunshu successfully reaches Foundation Establishment and goes to gloat at Xie Rongyu. Then a tribulation thunderbolt strikes the chamber.

In her final moments before losing consciousness, Ruan Yunshu thinks: That bastard Xie Rongyu actually formed a Golden Core. What a jerk!!!

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Xie Rongyu and Ruan Yunshu transmigrate into the entertainment industry, where, by some cruel twist of fate, they become the perfect loving couple.

Xie Rongyu looks at the sleeping face in his arms, then coldly kicks Ruan Yunshu out of bed.

Ruan Yunshu forms a spell and picks a fight with Xie Rongyu. They turn the villa upside down, then decide to get divorced the very next day!

However, Ruan Yunshu learns that her predecessor recently signed them up for a couples' relationship show, and that a divorce would leave them facing a huge penalty for breach of contract.

New to this world and penniless, Ruan Yunshu has no choice but to put on a show of "loving devotion" with Xie Rongyu in public, then fight like mad with him behind closed doors.

One time, the media ambush them with a live broadcast. The camera catches Ruan Yunshu with the upper hand, tying Xie Rongyu up like a bundle and tossing him onto the sofa.

The comments flood in: Real couples are something else. They really know how to spice things up~

Ruan Yunshu: Let me explain!

Afterward, Xie Rongyu says, "You handled that well."

The reporter who ambushed them asks with concern, "Mr. Xie, are you hurt?"

Xie Rongyu: "It's just a married couple's little game. You wouldn't understand."

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One day, Ruan Yunshu happens to look through the novels she'd previously thrown into Xie Rongyu's cave. The once-pristine books are now covered in dense annotations.

Beside one passage, Xie Rongyu has drawn a prominent circle in red and written: This method might be worth trying.

Ruan Yunshu immediately suspects that Xie Rongyu must have tricked her with the dual cultivation technique he proposed. She knew he was supposed to cultivate the Dao of Ruthlessness, so how could he be so practiced? He must have been plotting this for ages!

Theme: Freedom to love