Is It Really So Bad to Cheat on Three Paper-Doll Characters at Once?

[The blurb has been changed. If you've already bookmarked this, take a look and see if you still like it. The core idea of the dark moonlight character is unchanged, but the story has shifted from plot-focused to romance-focused.]

Cinderella's Magic is a romance-and-redemption game that has taken the country by storm. Seriously ill, Su Jiaoyue decides to give it a try for fun.

But why did no one tell her that all her paper-doll boyfriends were little animals?

Well, she's already here...

Su Jiaoyue picks the three cutest and most pitiful little ones and begins taking meticulous care of them.

She gets more and more hooked on the game. For the first time, Su Jiaoyue stays up all night, and then... she works herself sick, vomits blood, and falls unconscious.

While unconscious, she gets bound to a System.

System: "Your mission is to play the male leads' first love in three books at the same time, make them fall for you, and then dump them."

"Once you complete the mission, you can return to the real world, regain your health, and live to a hundred."

Su Jiaoyue is tempted and agrees.

In the domineering CEO novel,

The male lead is an arrogant rich second-generation heir, while Su Jiaoyue is a poor, pitiful girl burdened with enormous debt.

He stands up for her and pays off her debts. No one dares say a bad word about her.

The rich kids are amazed, saying the little tyrant has bent to love and become the perfect boyfriend, devoted to her in every way.

That is, until the male lead's family goes bankrupt and he is left utterly destitute.

Su Jiaoyue reveals her gold-digging nature, takes the last of his money, and runs.

In the school-life novel,

The male lead is a poor, frail academic prodigy, while Su Jiaoyue is a princess adored by everyone.

When their relationship comes to light, nobody thinks it will work.

To become worthy of her, the male lead works hard at his jobs, diligently treats his illness, and forces himself to become the kind of person others call "outstanding."

Until one day, he suddenly falls ill and collapses helplessly in the pouring rain.

Su Jiaoyue tells him she only got together with him because of a bet, and that she doesn't like crazy people.

In the crime-investigation novel,

The male lead is a criminologist incapable of feeling emotions, while Su Jiaoyue is the sole survivor of a series of murders.

He leads Su Jiaoyue out of the dark abyss step by step, changing from a lofty god into a mortal with human emotions and desires.

Until one day, the male lead is framed, and Su Jiaoyue takes the stand to identify him. He watches with his own eyes as she points at him.

Su Jiaoyue thinks she's truly awful as a dark moonlight character, but fortunately, these worlds also have Cinderella, where raising little ones can soothe her tormented heart.

What she doesn't know is that from the moment she opened the game, the male leads entered Cinderella every night and became the little ones she was raising.

Not long after, she successfully dumps all three male leads and returns to her own world.

The three little animals in the game finally reach max affection, too.

At midnight, Su Jiaoyue stays up for the second time, just to be the first to see the little ones she's raised turn into humans!

A flash of starlight...

She unexpectedly sees the faces of her three ex-boyfriends.

Su Jiaoyue: "?!"

Before she can recover, the System she had been unbound from appears again.

System: "I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"

"The bad news is that the male leads in all three worlds have fallen into darkness and gone off the rails. You need to get rid of their resentment."

"The good news is that you don't have to travel to those worlds anymore. They've all merged, and your ex-boyfriends have come here!"

Su Jiaoyue: "Just let me die!"

[Bonus scene]

After the worlds merge, Su Jiaoyue lives in constant fear every day.

"They must hate me so much now! Waaaah, do I really have to go?" Su Jiaoyue whines to the System in her mind as she slowly crawls like a snail toward her class reunion.

The academic prodigy, now a famous painter, arrives early. He appears to be chatting pleasantly with everyone, but his mind is elsewhere, and he keeps glancing toward the door.

The moment Su Jiaoyue appears in the doorway, he immediately straightens his back.

But before she can come in, an arm reaches out and stops her.

"Temporary search. Please cooperate and show your ID." The former criminologist is now an untouchable godfather of criminal investigation.

A lazy voice cuts in: "Officer, if you're going to search people at my hotel, shouldn't you notify me first? I'm the owner, after all."

It's the rich heir, now a domineering CEO.

Su Jiaoyue: Shivering.jpg

Reader's guide:

1. The male leads are model gentlemen, and they're experts at throwing themselves at the female lead.

2. 1v1, male lead undecided.

3. Old-school Mary Sue, cheesy trope-filled romance.

Theme: Cherish love and treat others kindly