The Danmei Novel's Female Cannon Fodder Refuses the Love Triangle [Showbiz]

[My next story will be a female-disguised-as-a-man imperial examination novel: After the Dog Emperor Gave Me a Cup of Poisoned Wine (Imperial Exams). Blurb at the bottom!]

After Xia Nuan awakens to the truth, she learns that she's a cannon-fodder female character in a danmei novel.

This danmei novel is a dog-blooded, chaotic love story where a straight man falls for his rival, and they become lovers. It also has a few female characters who keep getting in the way, and she's one of them.

The top is a rising star in the tech world, and the bottom is a top-tier star. During a laid-back variety show, the female cannon fodder falls for the top, but the top falls for the bottom.

In the original story, she's a flirtatious, troublemaking cannon-fodder woman. She signs a dating contract with the bottom, but keeps flirting with the top, earning the scorn of the entire internet. In the end, she dies a gruesome death in a car crash over a cliff, leaving no body behind.

The top in the book, Ye Li, appears cold and refined, as if he's above worldly concerns. In reality, he's stubborn to the point of obsession. After he and the bottom go through all kinds of melodramatic twists, they finally reach a perfect HE.

Everything's fine, except the top is her ex-boyfriend. They broke up a year ago.

Holding the dating contract she'd just signed, Xia Nuan glanced at Lou Su's sour expression and froze. She lowered her head in thought. It's fine. You two can love each other all you want. She definitely won't get in the way of your romance.

But the plot-protection mechanism forces her to follow the original Xia Nuan's path, so she has no choice but to keep causing trouble.

Luckily, she'll be free as soon as the variety show ends.

She'd planned everything out. Once the plot was over, she'd leave without a fuss. Xia Nuan was supposed to quit the industry and disappear quickly, but her career took a sudden turn for the better.

A web drama that had seemed destined never to see the light of day suddenly aired. A famous, eccentric director invited her to star in a movie, and Xia Nuan's career took off, with one acting offer after another.

In just six years, Xia Nuan went from a nobody ranked eighteenth-tier and hated by the entire internet to an award-winning actress who had swept all three major film awards and was known to everyone.

As expected, women should focus on their careers and making money!

After completing the plot points recognized by the System, Xia Nuan cut off all contact with the top and bottom of her own accord.

But then things gradually started to go wrong.

Lou Su, who had once looked down on her and acted so arrogantly, cornered her in the dressing room.

With wildness in his eyes, he bit her ear and asked, "Sis, you like me, don't you?"

Her reserved, aloof ex-boyfriend held the gift he'd once thrown away, now pieced back together, his eyes red.

He dropped to one knee and clutched the hem of her clothes, pleading carefully: "Can we get back together, Nuannuan?"

Even the second male lead, who had caused the biggest obstacle for the main couple, confessed his feelings to her again and again.

Xia Nuan: ??? What kind of Mary Sue romance novel did she transmigrate into?

P.S.:

1. Lots of male characters, with a competitive love rivalry.

2. Open ending. The female lead is clear-headed, calm, and focused on her career.

3. The top and bottom mentioned in the blurb are both straight men. The female lead initially misunderstands their relationship. There is no male-male romantic tension in this story.

★ My next story: After the Dog Emperor Gave Me a Cup of Poisoned Wine (Imperial Exams)

[Also known as: After I Left the Army for the Brush, I Rose from a Minor Official to a Powerful Chancellor]

When the cunning hare is dead, the hunting dog is cooked. After the foreign threat and internal rebellion were put down, Xiao Fang had her killed with a cup of poisoned wine.

Shen Zhi spent more than ten years in the army and won great victories for the Great Liang dynasty.

She and Xiao Fang had known each other since they were nobodies, and had always trusted each other completely. Aside from the fact that she was a woman disguised as a man, they had kept almost nothing from each other.

·

Shen Zhi opened her eyes and found herself back ten years in the past, as Shen Zheng, a "son" of the capital's Shen family who had tried and failed to take his own life.

The Shen family was a prestigious clan with a century of history, a thriving line of descendants, and students and allies throughout the court. In her previous life, the capital's Shen family really had had a son who died unexpectedly.

She just hadn't expected that this "son" was a woman, just like her.

Shen Zheng's mother, Jing Churou, was a concubine. In order to win favor, she raised Shen Zheng as a boy from childhood. But she suddenly became gravely ill, and, knowing she had little time left, spent a fortune to buy Shen Zheng a student position at the Imperial Academy before passing away soon after.

That alone wouldn't have driven Shen Zheng to despair and suicide. But Shen Zheng had offended the eldest princess's son.

There were frequent wars along the border, and the people of Dingbei were unusually fierce. Several county magistrates had gone there and never returned, so no one wanted to go there, let alone dared to take office.

A purchased student position did not qualify Shen Zheng to be a county magistrate, but she was nevertheless entrusted with an important duty: as Dingbei County's deputy magistrate, she was ordered to "act as" the magistrate.

And so Shen Zhi transmigrated into her body.

·

She knew Dingbei County well!

But the body she had now was terribly weak. Forget wielding a sword or a spear; even walking a little too far left her out of breath. Still, compared with treading on eggshells and scheming among powerful families, she would much rather go to Dingbei County.

But nobody told her that the Dog Emperor Xiao Fang had also returned to the past, and would be stationed in Dingbei for three years!

You can't spend a thousand days guarding against a thief. Shen Zhi decided to get away from this place full of trouble. She was only an appointed official, had no money, and had made enemies. There was only one way she could leave.

The imperial examinations might be fiercely competitive, but they were still better than having her identity exposed and losing her life again.

·

Shen Zhi passed the imperial exams as the third-ranked candidate and was appointed an editor at the Hanlin Academy.

But the day after the palace examination, Xiao Fang returned to the capital.

Wasn't that Dog Emperor supposed to stay stationed at the border? How had he become crown prince so quickly?!!!

Her identity had been discovered.

After the two of them finally told each other the whole truth, Shen Zhi swung a punch, but he caught her wrist in midair.

Instead of getting angry, Xiao Fang slowly pried her fingers apart one by one and pressed her hand against his face. His grip was neither too light nor too tight, but just firm enough that she couldn't pull away.

"A-Zhi, I love you."

He tilted his head and rubbed his cheek against Shen Zhi's palm, his voice trembling with a hint of madness.

"A-Zhi, you have to love me too."

# Reading Guide

1. A devoted one-on-one romance, with other characters who have one-sided feelings for the female lead.

2. Xiao Fang really is a dog, and a truly feudal emperor, but he never intended to have her killed with poisoned wine.

3. The early story focuses on Dingbei County and the imperial exams; the later story focuses on court politics.

4. Xiao Fang is attracted to women. After a painful struggle, he finally accepts that he has fallen for Shen Zhi, only to then discover that Shen Zhi isn't a man.

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