I Really Didn't Mean to Pursue the Female Lead

[Mainly plot-focused + modern fantasy + Classic of Mountains and Seas + mythology mash-up]

After bumping her head, Jiang Yiguang realizes that the world she lives in is just a novel, and panics a little.

The novel's heroine, Fu Juan, is the unattainable beauty she has long admired, whom she has forcibly kept at home under the pretense of "taking care of her."

In the future, the heroine's fortune will gradually return to its peak. Jiang Yiguang, a lovesick lunatic, will fall into a ghost lair during an accident, and the heroine will only watch as evil spirits devour her.

As Jiang Yiguang wavers between "if I'm doing it, I might as well go all the way" and "raising Fu Juan's favorability," her golden finger, the Romance System, suddenly comes online. The missions begin as Jiang Yiguang thinks, "With this System, raising favorability will be a piece of cake."

[Beep! Fu Juan's condition is poor. Host, choose one of the following options.

A. Help Fu Juan up after she falls in the hallway and give her an affectionate pat. (Reward: one "666")

B. Sprint a hundred meters, scoop Fu Juan into your arms, and call the family doctor. (Reward: Charm -1)

C. Pretend you didn't see her. (Reward: Stamina +1)

Jiang Yiguang: "???" Does she even have a choice?!

This is a "Romance Obstacle System," isn't it?

Unable to raise the heroine's favorability, Jiang Yiguang can only choose to become stronger herself.

But after Jiang Yiguang keeps her distance from Fu Juan, Fu Juan becomes much friendlier toward her and wards off quite a few of her admirers.

Jiang Yiguang: "..."

Can't she just stop being a lovesick fool?

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When Fu Juan was fifteen, her parents were brutally murdered.

She had been destined to become the leader of the mystic arts world, but after that incident, both her legs were ruined. Confined to a wheelchair, she could only scrape by beneath the regretful, pitying gazes of those around her.

For years, it wasn't the pain that tormented her, but the humiliation of depending on others and the pitying looks anyone felt free to give her.

In the end, only Jiang Yiguang treated her like a normal person.

When she fell into the dust, Jiang Yiguang never offered a hand, only waiting coldly for her to get back up on her own.

When she regained her former glory, Jiang Yiguang merely watched her quietly from amid the crowds, as if they had nothing to do with each other.

It took Fu Juan a long time to understand what she wanted.

She wanted to walk up the long flight of heavenly steps, surrounded by thousands, and kiss the most beautiful eyes in the world.

Theme: Live positively, remember the past, and do right by the future.