A Guide to Winning Over the Male Lead's Rival (Transmigrate into a Book)

Upcoming novels: The Unworthy Minister (Imperial Examinations), I Help His Majesty Ascend the Throne, and I'm a Pro at Winning Without Trying

Blurb:

Jiang Chuqing transmigrates into a book, and the System tells her to win over the gentle, devoted male supporting character, Li Xingyu.

Gentle? Devoted? Isn't that just a model graduate of the School of Good Husbands? Jiang Chuqing figures it shouldn't be too hard.

But the moment the two of them meet, he kills her with a single sword thrust.

Only then does she realize this male supporting character is ruthless and not someone to mess with.

So she works hard to act the part, pretending to be kind and innocent in the hopes of winning him over and changing him.

She thinks she's got it in the bag, but it turns out he's pretending too, and he's far better at it than she is. He's a master of the art of tea.

Once her act is exposed, Jiang Chuqing gives up and starts slacking off. But on the Nth day of trying to win him over, she never expects the master of tea to drop the act...

"Everyone else has left. Are you going to leave me too?" Li Xingyu's long hair falls loose, his gaze is wild, but his fingers caress her face with endless tenderness as he murmurs softly.

Jiang Chuqing blinks, glances at the dagger at her throat, and sighs inwardly. So he's a total psycho after all...

Reader's guide: 1. The male lead is not a good person, and his thinking is deranged.

2. The female lead, who transmigrates into a book, doesn't know the original plot. She has a golden finger, but it's not very powerful. The System won't appear very often.

3. Writing is hard, so please support the official release. Also, you don't need to tell me if you drop the novel. Thanks.

Upcoming novels

The Unworthy Minister (Imperial Examinations)

In his previous life, Xie Liangchen was a rich playboy, spending his days in a haze of parties and brawls, with dismal grades to match.

He thought that even if he never achieved much, he could still live a carefree life. He never imagined that one day he'd transmigrate and become a little boy in a remote mountain village.

He has a large number of siblings, and as the most forgettable child in the middle, he can barely get enough to eat.

Xie Liangchen, accustomed to a comfortable life in his previous existence, refuses to accept this. He'll make his way in the world even in ancient times, soar into the heavens, and seize every luxury life has to offer!

So Xie Liangchen, who has barely ever studied seriously, starts doing whatever it takes to learn to read. He is determined to place first in the imperial examinations, earn a government post, and rise through the ranks.

But he doesn't want to become a great minister or wise chancellor. He wants to be a powerful official who holds all the power, one the emperor wouldn't dare move against!

A hundred years later, scholars of later generations are divided in their assessment of this powerful official, who almost changed the course of the dynasty.

His supporters say he rendered outstanding service and was a great benefactor who helped the people of China live in peace and prosperity. He drove back foreign enemies, quelled internal unrest, restored public confidence, and safeguarded the state. A genius like him appears only once in a thousand years.

His detractors despise him for lacking the integrity of a scholar, being arrogant and unruly, and having the manners of a common ruffian. He doesn't deserve a place in the Lingyan Pavilion. Some even call him a traitor who held the emperor hostage!

When someone later asks the Xie family what they think, the family patriarch hears them out, goes back to look through the old ancestor's diary, and replies, "Oh, the person who said our ancestor was a common ruffian? I think he said that after getting beaten up on his way out of court. As for the rest, hold on, let me look it up."

As soon as he finishes speaking, the people who had come to question him scatter in every direction.

I Help His Majesty Ascend the Throne

Jiang Li transmigrates into an angst novel, where the System tells her to help the gentle, harmless, kind, and naive male supporting character ascend the throne.

You've got to be kidding! The original male lead is ruthless and cruel, and this supporting character is so ordinary he doesn't even have a hint of those "admirable qualities" like being unpredictable or cunning!

System: He doesn't have any of those qualities? You can change him.

Jiang Li: Teaching someone to be bad will bring divine punishment.

System: Do you still want to live?

Jiang Li: All right, let's learn how to frame someone today.

Feng Xu has always suspected that the daughter of the Minister of War might have something wrong with her head.

For instance, he was happily playing in the imperial garden when she suddenly told him to jump into a pond. When he refused, she pushed him in.

Then there was the time she tried to coax him into eating poisoned food. She said she had an antidote and that he shouldn't be afraid because the poison wouldn't kill him, and that she was doing it for his own good. When he refused, she secretly slipped him the poison anyway.

And then there's how she suddenly pulls out all sorts of strange things and tells him to take them to his father and curry favor. She insists his father will be amazed by him once he sees them. But Feng Xu thinks that if he really took those things to his father, he'd probably be sent straight to the Cold Palace.

So Feng Xu, who never wanted anything, suddenly feels his life is full of danger. One wrong move could cost him his life, so he starts developing into an all-around talent, just in case this lunatic launches a surprise attack.

Years later, Jiang Li sees the man before her and sighs with satisfaction. I really do have a talent for teaching. The little white rabbit I knew has finally become a big bad wolf.

Feng Xu gives her a sidelong glance. You might be mistaken about yourself.

I'm a Pro at Winning Without Trying

Yun Qing's previous life, or rather, her many previous lives, all went remarkably smoothly because she was the heroine of a novel where the female lead wins without lifting a finger.

What does it mean to win without lifting a finger? It means she does nothing, and everything is simply handed to her.

If she's in a power-struggle power fantasy, she always has a formidable family background, while all the villains suddenly lose their intelligence at crucial moments. She gains both fame and fortune, and the heroine's halo shines across the land.

If she's in a pampered-romance story, even if she looks down on the male lead and treats him as worthless, he still thinks she's extraordinary and falls madly in love with her, unable to escape her charms.

She thinks she'll go on living happily ever after, but after yet another familiar transmigration, she discovers that her life has switched from easy mode to hard mode.

For instance, she used to be everyone's darling, but now she's a pitiful little nobody whom everyone can bully.

And in the past, whenever she met a handsome man, he would either be infatuated with her or love her from afar. Now, if she so much as looks at someone twice, she's accused of deluding herself.

Most ridiculous of all, one day she discovers that this world has a heroine just like the one from her previous life, while all her own character traits seem strangely familiar. She's the disposable female supporting character...

So what should she do? Yun Qing thinks it over and realizes she's pretty experienced at winning without lifting a finger. Maybe she can use that to defeat this novel's heroine.

So, to everyone's astonishment, she starts a competition with the heroine to see who can slack off the most. After all, when it comes to winning without lifting a finger, she's a pro...

Theme: True feelings can never be faked, and no amount of schemes can win a sincere heart